As soon as Dean Yue's words came out, the students in the academy immediately began to weigh the pros and cons.
They wanted Chen Zhongqian to leave, which was true, but they also didn't want to involve themselves in it.
If you lose, you have to apologize to Chen Zhongqian. If word spreads, you will lose face. Even if you win and successfully drive Chen Zhongqian out of the academy, that is what everyone wants to see. Why should you take the risk yourself?
Wei Feng saw that Chen Zhongqian was calm and composed, and knew that he was capable. At this moment, he also hoped to see this competition go on successfully, so as to make these arrogant scholars remember it.
He also knew what these people were thinking about. There was no substantial benefit, so it would be difficult for anyone to voluntarily come out to compete with Chen Zhongqian.
"I have heard about the reputation of Yueshan Academy for a long time. I am lucky to see this competition with my own eyes today. However, this dry competition is not interesting. Wei Mou took out one hundred taels of silver for everyone to compete in the ring. For each person competing, twenty will be added.
Two, the winner gets all the money, is anyone interested?"
In other words, if the first person to compete with Chen Zhongqian wins, he can take away the one hundred taels of silver. If he loses, he only needs to apologize to Chen Zhongqian.
The second one becomes one hundred and twenty taels, and so on. According to Dean Yue's rules, Chen Zhongqian can lose three times. When he loses, the silver goes to the winner, and Wei Feng will continue to take out one hundred taels.
Note, until all those who are willing to compete have finished competing.
Wei Feng's proposal immediately made this competition very interesting. Scholars pride themselves on being noble, but they also need money to study. At least one hundred taels of silver is required. No one in the academy is not interested.
If there are rewards, other students in the academy will be more active. The competition was decided. Dean Yue immediately asked people to prepare the venue. At the same time, he ordered the gentlemen of the academy to go to the library to take out books and randomly browse the test questions.
Let the two people in the competition compete to answer questions, and three out of five games will win.
This is actually very disadvantageous for Chen Zhongqian, because others only need to compete with him for five games, but he has to sit there and answer questions all the time.
But once he wins, no one in the academy will dare to say anything wrong about him. People need to pay a price to gain the deepest admiration and fear from others.
While preparing, Lin Joy took out a handkerchief to wipe his sweat, "Are you worried? Are you afraid of losing?"
Chen Zhongqian looked at her, "What about you, are you afraid that I will lose? If I lose, you will be embarrassed with me."
"What's the matter? This competition is inherently unfair. If you lose, I'll take you home, but we won't be embarrassed."
Chen Zhongqian smiled and nodded, "Watch carefully there."
The first person to compete with Chen Zhongqian was Liu Xun. At this time, he was nervous and looking forward to it. The one hundred taels of silver was also very important to him.
He watched Lin Joy wipe Chen Zhongqian's sweat thoughtfully, and then remembered that Lin Joy had just ridiculed him because of Chen Zhongqian, and he had accumulated a lot of resentment in his heart. He wanted to defeat Chen Zhongqian in public.
At the beginning of the test, there are five questions in each round. The content and form of the questions are random. Wherever you turn, there may be poetry recitation, pair matching, poetry based on the questions, and on-site essay writing on a certain point of view.
The questions are actually very difficult.
The books selected by Dean Yue are all those that can be circulated in the market and are not from Yueshan Academy's collection. They are relatively fair to everyone.
In other words, as long as you work hard enough and read enough books, you will have an advantage in this competition.
The first competition went very smoothly, and the questions drawn were relatively common. Chen Zhongqian could answer them, and so could Liu Xun. However, every time Liu Xun answered, he was a little slower than Chen Zhongqian, so Chen Zhongqian won.
After five rounds, Liu Xun was defeated miserably, but he was very unconvinced by the defeat, because he knew all the questions.
"Dean, I request another trial."
Dean Yue said, "Why do we need to compete again?"
"Students know the question just now, but they are not prepared. I hope the dean can give me another chance." He said these words with great courage, hoping to beat Chen Zhongqian even once.
Dean Yue smiled and said, "If you lose, you lose. If you overturn the results of the competition at will, what is the meaning of this competition? Who is next?"
Because the questions in the first test were very common, and Liu Xun lost because he was too slow, the other students were very confident in themselves at the moment. As long as they answered faster, they would definitely win.
Wei Feng had just asked his entourage to go to the bank to get some silver. Chen Zhongqian won a round, and another twenty taels of silver were placed on the small table in the middle. Now it was one hundred and twenty taels.
The second person to compete in the ring will appear soon, some people are preparing to enter the third one, and some people want to wait until later, so that the bonus will be more generous.
The questions in the second round were also very common. Students who could get into Yueshan Academy could answer them, but just like before, that person was just a little slower than Chen Zhongqian, so he still failed miserably.
But this makes other people more confident and feel that they can definitely do it.
People are like this. They always like to point fingers at others from God's perspective. They always feel that they can do better if they do it themselves, but in the end they find that they may not be as good as others.
Chen Zhongqian won ten games in a row on such simple questions, and the prize money had become three hundred taels, but the morale of the students in the academy was not as good as it was at the beginning.
They just couldn't understand why they lost to Chen Zhongqian even though they were very common questions.
This competition was suddenly set, and the questions were randomly read from the book. There was absolutely no possibility of cheating. Why? Is it possible that Chen Zhongqian knew the questions in advance?
After thinking about various possibilities, no one thought that Chen Zhongqian's knowledge itself was very solid. He could answer questions fluently without even thinking, while other students needed to spend time recalling the content in the book.
Dean Yue asked for a long time before someone was willing to come out to compete. Chen Zhongqian still looked so calm, making it difficult for people to understand what he was thinking.
There were five questions. Chen Zhongqian won two questions in a row, but failed in the next two questions, allowing his opponent to win.
The student was extremely happy, as if he had seen victory right in front of him. Then he was given an extremely simple question and recited a very common poem. Before he even opened his mouth, Chen Zhongqian had already recited two lines.
Chen Zhongqian won the fifth question and the eleventh game.
Although Chen Zhongqian won, the other students saw hope again and were almost close. As long as that person just won the last question, the three hundred taels of silver would be his, so there was a chance.
The loser was so angry that he was scratching the wall, and the others regained their morale and raised their hands to fight.
The corners of Chen Zhongqian's mouth curved. Lin Xixi didn't miss his expression and couldn't help but complain in her heart. He was so evil. He was so evil.