Chapter 316 - Compete with Zhang Ye in couplets? (2/2)
Chen Feng was angered, but still put on a smile, “Sure, I would love to try out Miss Rao’s cooking to see if it’s really as good as Old Lu says.”
Rao Aimin sneered, “We’ll see about that. It’s still too early to say.”
Lu Yuhu and Chen Feng couldn’t help but laugh. Compete with a random tenant of yours? What’s there to even compete! Does he even know how a couplet looks like and how to match it correctly?
Compete with Zhang Ye in literature?
Compete with Zhang Ye in couplets?
When Chenchen saw this, she let out a Hur Hur.
Zhang Ye looked at the pretentious Chen Feng and completely lacked the interest. What’s there to even compete, wouldn’t he just be bullying him? “Landlord Auntie, let’s forget it.”
Rao Aimin stared at him and switched her crossed legs, “Don’t talk nonsense!”
Chenchen also stirred him up in an encouraging manner. “Zhang Ye, you can do it.”
What do you mean I can do it? Zhang Ye’s bitter smile remained. Compete with an amateur in literature? He couldn’t even get interested. “Alright, then I just need to match the correct couplet?”
Lu Yuhu said with a smile, “Right, come on bro.”
Eh, Zhang Ye?
This name sounded familiar.
But Lu Yuhu and Chen Feng paid no attention and just looked on with smiles on their faces.
Zhang Ye walked over to the table to take a look.
1st Verse: Qián baguà, kun baguà, babaliùshísì guà, guà guà qiánkun yi dìng
(Divination lot, Qian. Divination lot, Kun, 8 by 8, a total of 64 divinations*. The rules of the Universe are set).
Zhang Ye’s face showed no expression, as if he was indifferent about everything. He knew that Chen Feng was just trying to find a topic to chat about with Rao Aimin. This was probably Lu Yuhu’s idea, so they thought up of a Divination couplet as the first half of a verse. Zhang Ye did not even think before trying to pick up a brush, but realized that there was no brush.
“Use mine.” Chenchen pa.s.sed him a pencil.
Zhang Ye took it from her and then proceeded to write below the first half, “Luán jiu sheng, fèng jiu sheng, jiujiubashíyi sheng, sheng sheng luánfèng hé míng. (The 9 cries of the Luan (Simurgh**), the 9 cries of the Feng (Phoenix), 9 by 9, a total of 81 cries. The melody of man and woman’s union).” These couplets basically also existed in his previous world too.
When the second half of the verse was matched,
Lu Yuhu was stunned!
Chen Feng was also stunned for a moment, “This….” He had earlier said that he had no matching second verse to his first verse, but how could that be? Of course he actually had a second verse, but it couldn’t be more matching than what was written by the young man before him. His opponent’s second verse was much better than his and it looked like he did not even needed to think to come up with such a verse!
What was going on?
What kind of a person was this tenant?
Rao Aimin smiled, “Is the match acceptable?”
Lu Yuhu coughed, “Senior Sis, your tenant…..”
Chen Feng did not concede and said to Zhang Ye, “Yóu xihú tí xihú xi hú diào xi hú xi hu xi hú (Touring the West Lake, holding a pewter flask, the pewter flask falls into the West Lake, a pity for the pewter flask).” This was not a couplet that he thought of, but one that he had asked from his teacher. These were the couplets that his teacher had not been able to match or match well. So he had brought them out now since he had been bragging so much earlier. He did not want to lose face in front of his friend and Rao Aimin.
Zhang Ye said with annoyance, “Yóu xishan ná yishan yishan luò xishan xi shàn yishan (Touring the West Mountains, holding some clothes, the clothes fall off the mountains, a pity for the clothes).”
Lu Yuhu exclaimed, “Great match!”
Chen Feng’s expression changed. “Kaikou biàn xiào, xiào gu xiào jin fánshì fùzhiyixiào (Beginning with laughter, past laughter, present laughter, everything can be faced with just laughter).”
Zhang Ye replied listlessly, “Dà dù néng róng, róng tian róng de yu ji hé s...o...b..�róng (Magnanimity can contain, contain the skies, contain the earth, so what can’t it contain)?”
Chen Feng face darkened, “Bái shé guò jiang, tóu ding yi lún hóng rì (A White Snake crosses the river, a red sun overhead)!”
Zhang Ye yawned, “Qing lóng guà bì, shen pi wàn dian jin xing (An Azure Dragon hangs on the wall, multiple golden stars it wore).”
Holy sh*t! That was a riddle type couplet! His first verse referred to an oil lamp, yet his opponent also answered with a riddle type couplet verse — A scale!
By now, Chen Feng was dumbfounded!
Lu Yuhu was also stunned!
Zhang Ye was feeling sleepy and said, “Is that about it?”
Yet Chen Feng was still unwilling to cede. He clenched his teeth and said, “Kàn wo fei wo, wo kàn wo, wo ye fei wo (I am not me when you look at me, when I look at myself, I am not myself either)!”
Zhang Ye wasn’t too happy by now, didn’t you say we would be doing just one couplet? Is there an end to this? So he immediately answered back, “Zhuang shuí xiàng shuí, shuí zhuang shuí, shuí jiù xiàng shuí (You look like who you impersonate, whoever impersonates whoever, whoever will become whoever)!”
It might seem like this second verse was referring to acting, saying that acting makes you become another person.
But when dissected further, why does it feel like this second verse was used to scold someone!
Who’s acting now?!
Chen Feng’s face almost turned green!
But Rao Aimin was tickled, “What’s the matter? Do you still want to compete?”
Chen Feng did not say anything. Compete? Compete your sister! This person right here had matched them, and not only matched them with perfection, but he had also used it to sarcastically scold him! Even a fool could see that between the two of them, their literary skills belonged to two different realms!
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