Chapter 18 Advanced Companion Reading Children
A rigorous layout, intriguing and unique birthday contest for pairs, was forced to stop because of a couplet that "only three feet away" thrown by Jiang Zhong when he was warming up. The ladies in the Fan Mansion knew that they were hard to beat and stopped writing, and simply changed the pairing contest to an afternoon garden.
Fan Baotong felt very angry with the couplet on the stone table, but because the words were written by grandpa, he was a little worried after all, and he didn't want to tear it or throw it into the water easily. Therefore, he looked at the couplet for a while, then turned to look at the boy who was talking and laughing with grandpa for a while, and was unable to make up for a moment. At this time, Dong Shiyin called him: "Hulu'er, why are you still dazed there? Let's go to the garden together."
When Fan Baotong heard that it was Sister Dong who called him, she turned anger into joy and responded and followed quickly.
Everyone was visiting the garden and passing by the Octagon Pavilion. Except for Dong Shiyin looking at Fan Baotong with an unknown smile, the other girls couldn't help but quietly glance at Jiang Zhong curiously, wanting to know what the young man who wrote the words "Not afraid of favor and disgrace, no intention to stay or leave" looked like.
Fan Baozhu glanced at him and said, "He is just a good person. How about writing poetry and writing articles?"
Baotan said: "The meaning of the text is to understand it. In addition to understanding the poems and articles, it is still the skill of thinking about sentences. He is good at being a good person, and the others should not be bad either."
Everyone nodded when they heard this, Fan Baotong muttered, but did not refute it. Then he remembered something, and suddenly felt excited and asked, "Is it going to the Chinese Valentine's Day next month?"
Baofeng calculated by counting his fingers and said, "Sure enough, today is the fifth day of the sixth lunar month. Hulu'er, what naughty idea did you think of?"
Zhuang Yuya suddenly continued: "Brother Baotong, don't say it now, let me guess it, see if it's right."
Fan Baotong smiled and nodded with interest, and said, "Sister Zhuang, just guess."
Zhuang Yuya stretched out her jade-like fingers and circled around her face, and said with a smile: "Brother Baotong must want to win the title of poetry at the Qixi Magpie Bridge Poetry Conference."
Fan Baotong waved his hand quickly and said, "Sister Zhuang made fun of me again."
Meng Jian'e smiled beside her and said, "If my little brother really becomes the poet's leader, I will marry the 'Qixi Girl' back home at that time, so I will definitely be happy with my cousin's aunt."
Baofeng smiled and scolded, "My Lady Meng is arrogant again. She is a girl's family and she keeps her marriage next to her mouth all day long, and she is not shy. How old is Bao Tong?
Fan Baotong rarely showed a look of shame when he looked at Dong Shiyin, but Dong Shiyin turned his head and looked in the distance, turning a blind eye to everyone's words.
Fan Baotan said: "Sister Zhuang is not about letting the young man win the title of poetry, but about letting the young man's companion read to win the title of poetry, right?"
Zhuang Yuya smiled and nodded. The girls suddenly realized, Baofeng asked, "Baotong, are you going to make things difficult for Mr. Chen at the Magpie Bridge Poetry Conference?"
"Sister, I'm not a difficult situation, but a test. If my grandfather really wants to arrange him as a companion for me, he can't just make it up with a couplet. There was no such choice before. Therefore, if he wants to join the Fan Mansion as a companion for me or a young man, he must pass my stance before I can recognize him."
Fan Baotong spoke with a stern and righteousness, but his elder sister Fan Baofeng didn't know how to refute it.
"My brother's trick, in this way, the enemy of Young Master Chen is no longer just Ouyang Hanlin and all the sisters in our family, but a talented man from the entire Luzhou City."
Fan Baotong said modestly: "To prove that I did not intend to make things difficult for him, I did not require him to win the title of poetry by Magpie Bridge Poetry, and I can only be ranked among the top three."
When everyone thought of the grand scene of the Magpie Bridge Poetry Festival in previous years, they had just seen Jiang Zhongwen's extraordinary spirit, and they didn't dare to make a conclusion. When the Magpie Bridge Poetry Festival, there will be many talented men who will fully demonstrate their lives to attract beautiful women. They will discuss the tension, which is no less than the scientific examination.
Dong Shiyin, who had been silent, said: "I still remember the unique skill of Meng Yatou's killing hundreds of lamps with one sword on the Chinese Valentine's Day last year."
Zhuang Yuya said: "It's just that when the Chinese Valentine's Day is the time when the woman 'begged for good luck', Meng Yatou's sword was so bold that she didn't see her."
Meng Jian'e looked dissatisfied and immediately retorted: "Sister Zhuang is just a slogan for laymen. Don't you know that sword skills are at its peak, just like compositions. There is both the opening and closing of Kun to the Peng to strike the nine heavens, and the soft and delicate spring water passing through the stone. The wonderful and cleverness of the things can only be understood but not expressed in words."
Zhuang Yuya smiled and said, "You can tell many truths."
Baofeng also said: "Although we have many sisters, only sister Jian'e is the only one who can be literary and martial. In the future, she may be able to be a female general."
Baotan said: "Don't talk about our families, even the entire Liang Kingdom, I have only heard of Princess Hongyu and Jian'e."
Meng Jian'e was originally proud. When she heard Baotan compare her to Princess Hongyu, she hurriedly said, "Don't praise me for being a second sister. How can I compare with Princess Hongyu?"
When it comes to Princess Hongyu, even Dong Shiyin has no stingy respect on her face. When Emperor Liang brought the nine-year-old Princess Hongyu to visit Chen, Emperor Chen made a comment that "I should have a daughter like Liang Hongyu", which shows her amazing talent.
The girls said that they had long been away from the Octagonal Pavilion. In the Octagonal Pavilion, Jiang Zhong and Old Master Fan were indeed talking about the matter of joining the mansion to read. However, Old Master Fan felt that the couplet was quite good, and had changed his idea of letting Jiang Zhong be his companion to read, but instead asked him to be Fan Baotong's young gentleman.
"It's so aggrieved to be a companion to study with the talent of a young master. Now I'll ask Mr. Chen to be my grandson to be my grandson, and please don't refuse."
When Jiang Zhong heard that he wanted to be the private tutor of the playboy Second Young Master, he subconsciously wanted to refuse, because of a self-protection mentality of "the heavier the position, the greater the responsibility". Moreover, the so-called young man is actually just a "high-level companionship student". However, seeing the sincerity and expectation of Mr. Fan's face, it was not easy to say anything about rejection, and said, "You must first pass the second Young Master Fan's exam."
Mr. Fan said: "I have decided on this matter with his father, but I can't help him. But for you to get along with me in the future, Mr. Chen can only take care of him a little more."
This matter was decided, and after a while, Mr. Fan finally mentioned the couplet: "It's strange to say that it's the meaning in his heart. It's just that I can't say that it's such a simple word. On the contrary, Mr. Chen said something to me and had a meal. He saw my thoughts. Once he wrote it out, he couldn't say anything."
Jiang Zhongxin thought: "Although he is a businessman who controls the wealth of the sky and shoulders the inheritance of giant family businesses, he falls in love with the white clouds in the sky. This abnormality is destined to be such a contradiction. The heart is in the form of a body and the body is in the cage. How can he return to nature?"
Jiang Zhong said: "The more things that are within reach but are always difficult to do, the more obsessions will be."
At this point, it was just a tacit understanding. Mr. Fan said, "I have been in business for many years, and the words "payment is paid" are engraved in my bones. Now Mr. Xiao Chen gives me a couplet, but I don't have any gold or silver. I can't repay you, so I bought a set of boxing books I had from a master and had hidden for many years to give to Mr. Xiao Chen?"
Jiang Zhong, who was confused about the golden martial spirit, naturally would not refuse.
Chapter completed!