Chapter 155 Yansuo Pond Willow
The wine served on the table has an odd-shaped bottle and a clear liqueur, which is two grades higher than the official reception wine that Wang Zixu is usually familiar with. Two levels higher expresses the importance to Teacher Shi, and only two levels higher expresses the character of the scholar.
When Shi Tonghe saw the wine, he estimated the value in a few seconds, and his expression became much gentler. Wang Zixu caught this and realized that he was a drinker.
And you can drink it.
Knowing how much alcohol the host and guest drink at the wine table is the key to victory. If you and the other party still can't figure it out after three rounds of drinking, it means you are about to get drunk yourself.
In the past, when Wang Zixu participated in unit activities, every time he had a social gathering, the leader would always ask how much alcohol the people brought by the other unit had, and then arrange their troops according to their level.
Some people can talk, and some can drink. If you can drink enough to drink the other person well, if you can talk, you can bring one more. Playing at home, this is the advantage.
This is the drinking method of acquaintances within the system. We all know each other and have been fighting each other for a long time. We know each other’s quantities.
What I’m afraid of is meeting strangers.
Wang Zixu remembers one time when he was soliciting investment. The other party was a joint venture, and they brought two strong Russian men over. Their unit was completely wiped out by the two men. No matter how much you drink, you can't find out the opponent's bottom. The more you drink, the more desperate you become, and you lose momentum.
Therefore, it is very important to find out the drinking capacity of the host and guest, so that the other party can drink well without knocking the other party down. If you have a good drinking capacity, you should take the lead and drink more. If you have a bad drinking capacity, then you should coordinate the attack under the cover of your elder brother.
These are all tricks Zhang Cannian taught him.
Thinking of Zhang Cannian, the prince smiled faintly, and then began to feel bitter: Today, there is a three-party melee, and his side can only take the main attack.
This table is the home court of Nanda, and Nanda has the largest number of people at the table. Wang Zixu hopes that Nanda can focus on Shi Tonghe and his son, so that he and Ning Chunyan can share less firepower.
Unfortunately, things went against expectations. Nanda seemed to be determined to take care of everyone at the table this time, attacking from both ends, toasting Shi Tonghe on the one hand, and persuading Ning Chun Banquet to toast on the other. After eating only a few chopstick dishes, Ning Chunyan's glass had already been filled with wine twice.
There was a stupid young man on the table. Ning Chunyan had just finished drinking half a glass with Shi Tonghe, when Shi Shuqiu raised his glass and strode over to her, saying:
"Sister Xiaochun, let me toast you."
Ning Chun Banquet had not eaten yet, so he put down his chopsticks and asked: "Who did you learn to call me like that?"
"Ah? Shouldn't you call me Miss Xiaochun?"
“Okay, okay, whatever you want,” Ning Chunyan looked at him with a slight frown, “You eat more vegetables, why are you toasting me, are you not afraid of getting drunk?”
Shi Shuqiu "Hehe" smiled: "Sister Xiaochun cares about me. When we go to the table, we are not afraid of getting drunk, but we are afraid of not getting drunk."
Ning Chunyan was angry and funny: "Who cares about you? I care about myself, I I can’t drink anymore.”
Shi Shuqiu smiled: “What are you afraid of? This place is close to Nanjing University, so are you afraid that no one will take care of you?”
Ning Chunyan smiled bitterly: "Who will take care of you?"
"Sister Xiaochun doesn't have a boyfriend yet?"
"This is The secret is not to be revealed,” Ning Chunyan raised his glass, “It’s up to me.”
“No.” Shi Shuqiu stopped her, “Sister Xiaochun, you see, we hit it off right away when we first met. You have the opportunity to have fun today, don’t let the golden bottle stand against the moon. Sister Xiaochun, you should also put down your guard.” Ning Chunyan said: “I really can’t drink it! "
Shi Shuqiu didn't listen to her: "How about I drink two glasses and you drink one? Look, I've brought the wine divider."
He lifted up the wine divider in his hand, and there was at least half a catty in it.
Ning Chun Banquet was speechless. Shi Shuqiu made up his mind to drink her, and now he needed someone to hold him.
Wang Zixu stood up and said, "Master Shi, Chief Editor Ning can only take so much. Otherwise, how about I drink one drink for her and we do it?"
Shi Shuqiu was not very happy: "Two drinks for me, one for her."
“No, no, no, I will do it if you do it.”
Ning Chunyan said, “How about you two have a drink, I will drink so much. It’s already a good deal for you to honor two people, okay?”
Shi Shuqiu became angry: "Then I have to drink two glasses."
Without saying a word, he raised his head and drank the glass in his hand, saying: "One glass."
After saying that, he added another glass of wine and was about to drink it when Wang Zixu caught him. hand: "No, drink slowly."
Shi Shuqiu said: "Let go."
Wang Zixu said: "In this case, I will drink two glasses too."
After that, he raised his glass and drank two glasses directly.
After two glasses of wine, the world suddenly became strange and bizarre.
He didn’t see Shi Shuqiu’s expression clearly. He only noticed that he returned to his seat and ate his food. Ning Chunyan came over and whispered, “Are you okay?”
Wang Zixuyao Ning Chunyan stared at him twice and shook his head: "No. You drink quite a lot."
“I don’t get on my face easily when I drink. But I don’t drink much. Now I feel like I’m going to die.”
“You don’t feel it? Are you pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger?”
How can Wang Zixu pretend to be a pig and eat a tiger? In fact, he can’t even stare at the turntable on the round table. The turntable spins and he faints.
The hot air on the table began to evaporate and met the cold air from the air conditioner at mid-to-high altitude, increasing the humidity in the room. He felt as if he was in a rain forest. The soft seats were like being trapped in the seats of a Huey helicopter. The propellers made the seats vibrate. He passed through one big tree after another, drumming. Point, electric guitar... Some people are born to wave flags, red, blue and white...
"You plan to take the graduate entrance examination for Professor Zhong, right?"
The big tree next to you spoke.
Wang Zixu took a closer look and saw that it was not the Viet Cong, but Huang Xinghuo.
The prince nodded vaguely: "Yes."
"Are you interested in ancient literature?"
“Well, I feel like I don’t understand enough in this aspect, so I would like to make up for it.”
Huang Xinghuo smiled and said, “Your thinking is wrong. What you mean is, you In terms of modern and contemporary literature, do you know more fully than ancient literature? ”
Wang Zixu was stunned: “Well, I need to know more fully”
"Then you should choose the direction of modern literature," Huang Xinghuo said. "The postgraduate stage is not a general education. You should not learn to make up for your shortcomings. You should delve deeper."
Wang Zixu said with a hint of drunkenness: "I think the main thing is modern and contemporary literature..."
"No interest?"
"No, there is nothing to explore." Wang Zixu said, "The main thing is that I am also a writer. When I study modern and contemporary times, I always feel... a feeling of inbreeding."
Huang Xinghuo laughed.
Wang Zixu said again: "Professor Huang, I think your interpretation of the little prince is very good."
After a pause, he said again: "Follow me. My thoughts coincide with each other, and even go beyond it. ”
His evaluation can be said to be the highest evaluation for reviewers, but it is a pity that everyone does not know that he is the little prince. Ning Chunyan said from the side:
"Isn't that natural? Professor Huang has been studying the little prince for a long time. He has been studying the little prince since he became popular. Isn't it normal to exceed your understanding? Don't become an editor and think you are the authority on the issue of studying the little prince. You still need to learn more in this regard."
Wang Zixu was speechless for a moment, and then said: "I'm sorry, yes. I’m blind to the truth.”
Professor Huang looked at him with a smile: “Which part do you think is good?”
“I think what you said about the stream of consciousness technique at the end is something I haven’t heard before. I went back and checked it with the book, and it was exactly what you said...”
Wang Zixu and Huang Xinghuo were very engaged in chatting. Huang Xinghuo is very knowledgeable, and his insights can always open Wang Zixu's horizons and let him know more interpretation methods, and Wang Zixu's questions can just scratch Huang Xinghuo's itch, and he can use this to expand and express more fresh and interesting viewpoints.
When Wang Zixu came back to his senses, he suddenly discovered that Ning Chunyan had run to Shi Tonghe's side without looking for a while, holding a wine glass in his hand, as if he wanted to toast.
He thought to himself that it was not good, so he quickly ran over and got closer to listen to what they were talking about.
It turns out that after just two glasses of wine, Wang Zixu was already a little confused, but Ning Chunyan still remembered the purpose of coming here. He wanted to find Shi Tonghe to help Wang Zixu have one or two connections, so he ran to toast Shi Tonghe alone, but was pestered by Shi Shuqiu again.
Shi Tonghe said: "Ji Xiaolan once said that there are no words in the world's books that cannot match each other. This means that as long as the skill is deep and there is a pair, you can definitely match it. But there are many pairs in the world that are not right. Shuqiu, you think you are invincible in talent and learning. , I will accept you if you can match all the pairs in the world."
Shi Shuqiu smiled and did not answer. Shi Tonghe asked again, and then he smiled and said: "If Ji Xiaolan has the confidence to match, why don't I have the confidence to agree?"
Next to him, Dean Li said: "Young master Shi, what do you mean, your talent and learning are already comparable to Ji Xiaolan's?"
Shi Shuqiu said: "It's not comparable, it's more than."
Everyone was shocked, and then they got excited.
Shi Shuqiu said: "What Ji Xiaolan said is that if you can't get it right, you haven't read enough books. As long as you read enough books, you will definitely be able to get it right. In the past, literati were bored and could only play word games. Now it is the information age. What kind of books can't be found? Being more than an ancient literati like Ji Xiaolan is nothing, I think."
Ning Chunyan couldn't help but say: "Information in the information age is indeed developed, but it is also based on the premise of properly utilizing information advantages. If you just wander in fragments of information, your knowledge will be extensive, but your skills may not be as deep as those of ancient literati, let alone a smart person like Ji Xiaolan."
Shi Shuqiu played with the cup in his hand. Zi, snapped his fingers: "Just in time, I just wanted to toast Sister Xiaochun, but someone disturbed me. How about we make a bet now? Sister Xiaochun, you can come up with an 'absolute', and if I can match, you will have a drink. If I can't match, I will punish myself with three drinks. How about it?"
Shi Tonghe also smiled and said: "This is interesting, but editor-in-chief Ning is a little girl and can't let others drink dryly. If you are the right one, you can also have a drink."
This was regarded as being blocked, Ning Chunyan hurriedly said: "It's not that, it's not that I won't drink with you. I really can't drink well, so I just treat it like a game."
Shi Shuqiu put his hands on his hips: "Okay, you can take the test."
Ning Chunyan took a step back on the surface, but in fact, she had already made a plan in her heart. She was going to do something real and absolutely to kill him and let him drink three glasses of wine. After that, he would definitely not dare to persuade him to drink again.
So she pretended to ponder for a moment, raised her head and said: "Then I will write the first couplet, 'Smoke locks the willows in the pond'."
Upon hearing this first couplet, Wang Zixu's heart suddenly sank, and sure enough, Shi Shuqiu smiled brightly.
But the people below all called it unfair:
"Editor-in-chief Ning was too ruthless. He was absolutely absolute from the very beginning. How could Mr. Shi be right now?" Because the radicals of these five simple characters include the five elements of "fire, metal, water, earth, and wood", and at the same time outline a beautiful and hazy scenery, which is completely natural.
If you want to match the upper line, the second line must also contain five elements of radicals, or other five things that can be juxtaposed and form radicals, such as "five tones". At the same time, the two rhymes must have the same characters, which is extremely difficult, so it is called the eternal absolute, and no one can match the upper and lower lines.
However, in fact, this pair is not absolute, nor did it come from Qianlong.
This pair comes from "The Collection of Zhongzhou Thatched Cottage", written by Chen Zisheng from the Ming Dynasty. In that book alone, the author himself drew up three pairs.
This first couplet has been circulated for many years. Countless literati have challenged and found many second couplets. Now, many netizens have found the second couplets. Funny ones such as:
Yan locks willows on the pond, Ke Jie fried the earth, Shenzhen Teppanyaki, hot pot with bacon, fried Jin Keli, Bancheng Shaoguo wine, Seoul firewood stove, pot cooking wild vegetable soup...
However, although this pair is famous, their origins are not very famous, and the pairing of the second couplet is even more unknown. So Ning Chunyan only knew that this was "absolute", but he didn't know that this "absolute" was actually endless.
Shi Shuqiu smiled and said: "Hey, Sister Xiaochun, we just agreed that if we are matched, you have to have a drink with me."
After hearing what he said, Ning Chunyan suddenly lost confidence after seeing that he was full of confidence.
Shi Shuqiu added: "With such a difficult pair, it's not worth it if I just drink with you like this. How about having a drink?"
The people next to him started making noises. : "Drink the Jiao Cup! Drink the Jiao Cup!"
Dean Li was very embarrassed, Shi Tonghe said nothing, and Huang Xinghuo, who was sitting at the bottom, turned his head away, obviously disapproving of this nonsense.
Ning Chunyan’s face was full of embarrassment: “You get it right first!”
Shi Shuqiu said calmly: “This couplet, Yan Locks Pond Willow, the radical of the first couplet contains the five elements of ‘gold, wood, water, fire and earth’, so the radical of the second couplet should also contain the five elements.
"So, in the second line, my answer to "Pao Zhen Haicheng Tower" also contains five-star radicals, and the part of speech is the same, perfect.
"But that's not all, I can also go to the previous one, "Lamp Spreading Splendid City", each word also has "gold, wood, water, fire and earth" hidden in it. "
Shi Shuqiu held the wine glass and looked at Ning Chun Banquet playfully: "How is it? bring it on? "
Ning Chunyan bit her lips and felt great regret. Wang Zixu pushed up to her and said to her, "Editor-in-chief Ning is really not a drinker. If you ask her to drink a toast, she will definitely get drunk. "
Shi Shuqiu was a little drunk and said excitedly: "No, no, it's all agreed just now! ”
Wang Zixu said: "How about this, I will drink on her behalf."
Shi Shuqiu raised his chin: "Who are you? Why do you replace her? What qualifications do you have?"
After saying that, the scene was a little cold, and he felt a little gaffe when he thought of saying this, and added: "This is a bet between me and Sister Xiaochun, we are not idle. "Human affairs, go away."
Dean Li said: "Don't say that, he is also very protective of her."
Shi Shuqiu said: "Oh, then I will kill you. Sister Xiaochun, it's okay. If you are drunk, I will ensure that you get home safely. Everyone can testify."
Wang Zixu was about to say something more, but Ning Chunyan took the wine dispenser from his hand and said, "Isn't it just two glasses of wine? Just drink it, who's afraid of who?"
After saying that, she raised her head and drank it all in one gulp. Her face suddenly turned red and her throat rolled a few times before she filled another glass for herself and raised her head to drink it all.
Everyone immediately cheered and the table was steaming.
Shi Shuqiu originally wanted to have a drink with her, but Ning Chun was drinking fast at the banquet, so he was embarrassed to force her. After Ning Chunyan finished drinking, his face became worse and worse. He complained that he was drunk and ran to the bathroom.
Wang Zixu’s face was quite ugly.
Everyone discussed the two pairs for a while, and were about to go back to their seats. Wang Zixu picked up the wine glass left at the Ningchun Banquet, walked behind Shi Shuqiu’s seat, and whispered softly:
"Master Shi "
Shi Shuqiu thought he was going to toast him, so he turned around and said, "Let me have some food first."
He just had a drink and was a little dizzy.
Wang Zixu said: "Master Shi, I'm not very convinced by the two couplets you just said to Chief Ning."
"What?" Shi Shuqiu put down his chopsticks, and Shi Tonghe also turned to look at him.
"Cannons dominate Haicheng Tower and lights shine on Jinxiu City. These two second couplets have been circulated for a long time. You are not right, right?"
Shi Shuqiu sips Mouth: "If we match, we match."
"In that case, I will take over," Wang Zixu said, "I will continue to play with you on behalf of Editor Ning. I don't know how dare Mr. Shi Don't you dare to agree? "
Shi Shuqiu put his hands on the back of the chair: "What do you want to do?"
"Editor Ning was here just now. I can't say. You just said that I was not qualified to drink with you. It seems that we have never drank. Now that she is not here, of course I have to find it myself?"
Wang Zixu smiled and said: "It's the same couplet. Not counting the one you were right about just now, if I match up with one, you can have a drink, how about it?"
Shi Shuqiu wiped his mouth: "Why should I play with you?"
"Then, if I face two, you have a drink." Wang Zixu said.
Shi Shuqiu curled his lips.
“You still don’t dare?” Wang Zixu said, “Then I’ll match three, and you have a drink. If I can’t match two, I’ll drink three.”
Dean Li waved his hand: “Forget it, don’t drink vindictive wine, it will hurt your health.”
Wang Zixu was still laughing: "I don't have fighting spirit, let's just compete normally. Mr. Shi is so talented that he beats Ji Xiaolan in fighting skills. How can he be afraid of this?"
Shi Shuqiu also got drunk and put the cup on the table. : "Okay, you're right, this first couplet doesn't have three lower couplets in total. Can you name three?"
(End of this chapter)