Chapter 93 Couplet
In addition, you can also filter again according to the part of speech of the text - for example, the word "lonely" must correspond to an adjective, and the word "window" must correspond to a noun.
In this case, the amount of calculation can be greatly reduced.
Gu Xu looked around, looking at the lonely and dilapidated courtyard, thinking of the Qingzhou Lu family that had disappeared in the long river of history, and an answer suddenly emerged in his mind.
He took out the charcoal pen he carried with him from his pocket and wrote a line of words on the paper——
"Today is desolate and cold."
After he finished writing the last word, the piece of paper in his hand instantly turned into golden flakes of light, like fireflies on a summer night, glowing in the howling cold wind. danced gracefully, then disappeared.
Seeing such a scene, Chu Fengge beside him was stunned for two seconds. He did not expect that Gu Xu could solve this couplet so easily.
Chu Fengge couldn't help but secretly complained: My subordinates are so useless. It takes several days to write a poem - if they all have Gu Xu's quick thinking, Why should I worry about not becoming the most dazzling genius in Luo Jing City?
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At the same time, in a corner of the small courtyard that was difficult to detect, the spirit of the "Jinghong Pen" was hiding behind a pillar, quietly peeking at Gu Xu's couplets.
Although she was far away from Gu Xu, what Gu Xu wrote on the paper could be clearly reflected in her eyes.
"In ancient times, I was lonely and cold, and I was a widow with an empty window." This is the first couplet written by Lu Shiyao many years ago.
The second couplet of the calligraphy and inkstone pair at that time was "Today's handsome and beautiful woman is alone."
The couplet of calligraphy and inkstone is very symmetrical in meaning, but the wording is a little less neat - "empty widowhood" versus "accompanying Lingding" seems a bit far-fetched.
On the contrary, Gu Xu's couplet is neater in meter, but less symmetrical in overall meaning.
I can barely pass the level.
"The desolate and cold situation... Is he talking about the Lu family in Qingzhou today?" The little girl with disheveled hair held her knees in her hands and thought to herself in a trance.
According to legend, after the spirit of the "Twelve Weapons" recognizes its owner, it will become more and more similar to its owner.
And this little girl has obviously inherited Lu Shiyao's habit of wandering in a daze.
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Then, Gu Xu took off the second note from another lantern.
The note still reads a couplet: "The phoenix falls on the phoenix tree and the phoenix falls on the phoenix tree."
Chu Fengge silently glanced at the content on the note and said nothing.
Writing couplets is obviously not something he is good at.
In order to prevent himself from being embarrassed in front of Gu Xu again, he decided to remain silent.
Gu Xu was also meditating quietly.
He had already seen at a glance that this couplet was not simple.
Because it is a "palindromic couplet", it can be read forward or backward, and the content and meaning remain unchanged.
“The word games Miss Lu and her maid played back then were really fancy!” Gu Xu sighed silently in his heart.
Then he picked up the pen and wrote the answer on the paper:
"The best combination of pearls."
The note soon turned into fragments of light, dissipating in the dim In the small courtyard.
The "Jinghong Pen" weapon spirit blinked behind the pillar.
She didn’t expect Gu Xu to be so fast.
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In the following time, Gu Xu took off the strips of paper hanging on the lantern one by one, and wrote one sentence after another on them with charcoal pen.
Although he is busy with practice on weekdays, he rarely plays these games of writing and ink.
But for things like pairs, the ultimate test is cultural accumulation.
As long as you have enough material in your mind, you can still cobble together a decent second line, even if you can't write that kind of flash of inspiration.
Gu Xu, who has the talent of [Educated Knowledge and Strong Memory], lacks the most important thing, which is the accumulation of knowledge.
Seeing the first line of the first line, "The trees are thick, the pines, cypresses, sycamores, willows", Gu Xu took up his pen and wrote the second line, "The thin water, the streams, rivers and lakes";
Seeing the first line, "The mountains are overlapping. , winding and winding road", Gu Xu wrote the second couplet "Tree high and low, ding-ding-dong-dong spring";
Seeing the first couplet "Green water is worry-free, but the face is wrinkled by the wind" , Gu Xu took up his pen and wrote the second line: "The green hills are never old, but their heads are white as snow";
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Chu Fengge stood nearby, watching Gu Xu write one line after another, with a particularly complicated mood. At this moment, an idea came to his mind involuntarily: He wanted to ask Gu Xu to write a few lines of poetry for him to use in future battles.
Gu Xu's literary talent is much better than that of his subordinates who eat and drink all day long - the poems he writes will definitely make him draw his sword. The momentum was full before.
However, Chu Fengge quickly drove this absurd idea out of his mind.
After all, Chu Fengge will be the number one person in the world from now on, and Gu Xu will be his opponent that cannot be ignored.
If you let your competitors help you write poems, wouldn't that mean you're admitting defeat to them?
Even if Chu Fengge died, even if his head was cut off with a sword, he would never do such a thing of betrayal.
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Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, there was only one lantern left hanging on the tree.
Gu Xu took a deep breath and took off the last piece of paper from the lantern.
"Let me see what this final couplet is."
He unfolded the note and saw five words written concisely on it:
" "Yansuo Pond Liu."
Chu Fengge also turned his head and took a look, feeling a little surprised.
He thought that the final couplet should be the most complicated and difficult to correct.
I didn’t expect it to be so easy.
"Brother Gu Xian, what do you think of the 'Flower in the Mist'?" He couldn't help but ask.
It is a rare opportunity to show off in front of Gu Xu. Chu Fengge would not let it go easily.
But Gu Xu shook his head gently.
"Master Chu, actually this couplet is far from as simple as you think," Gu Xu said with a slight smile, "In my opinion, it should be the most difficult of all the couplets today."
"The most Difficult?" Chu Fengge didn't believe it.
"You may not have noticed that these five characters contain the five elements 'gold', 'wood', 'water', 'fire' and 'earth' respectively. The second couplet we produced is also consistent with the Such a request."
Chu Fengge snorted and stopped talking.
Gu Xu was also lost in thought.
In his mind, hundreds of common characters including "gold", "wood", "water", "fire" and "earth" quickly emerged, and he quickly arranged and combined them according to the requirements of the parts of speech.
Then he decisively eliminated "potassium sticks to the beaker wall", "sodium sticks to the beaker wall" and so on that are most likely to come to mind as a science and engineering student.
Unconsciously, he felt that he had entered some mysterious state, as if his soul floated out of his body and walked in the palace of words. He saw the words outline the picture, and the words appeared in the picture... …
Finally he wrote on the paper:
“Tears are consumed by the ashes of the tomb.”
The white paper turned into dots of fluorescent light and dissipated into the darkness.
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The "Jinghong Pen" weapon spirit slowly stood up from behind the pillar.
She saw every line that Gu Xu wrote on the paper.
This sentence "Smoke locks the willows in the pond" was a difficult problem she set for the practitioners many years ago. Countless young talents throughout the Daqi Dynasty were helpless about it.
The second couplet given by Lu Shiyao at that time was "Autumn inlaid with maples on the wall of the stream".
The upper and lower couplets are one of spring and one of autumn, combining virtuality and reality. The former is quiet and elegant, while the latter is mellow and profound.
It can be said that the contrast is neat, the artistic conception is harmonious, and it is very talented.
The artistic conception of Gu Xu's sentence "tears burn away in the ashes of withered graves" is completely different from the first couplet.
But when he saw this sentence, Qi Ling couldn't help but think of the desolate cemetery where the bodies of the Lu family were buried, and crystal tears filled the corners of his eyes.
PS: There are many versions of the second line of "Smoke Locking Pond Willow". The "autumn maples on the wall of the stream" mentioned in this article were written by Deng Xize; "tears shed the ashes of withered tombs" was originally written by Pudding - the artistic conception and literary talent of this sentence are far inferior to those of "peaches burning on the Jinjiang embankment" and "lanterns." There are classic pairs like “Heba Pine”, but I personally feel that they should be more appropriate in the plot of this book.
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