Chapter 24 If you want to eat, you must take the test
No wonder Ning Chen was surprised, the price was actually a bit too expensive.
Three hundred taels!
Ning Chen can have a meal at Lanxiang Pavilion and spend at most twenty or thirty taels on a banquet.
But here, Ning Chen ordered seven or eight ordinary dishes, and the wine was ordinary sake.
In an ordinary restaurant in Fengjing City, this table costs at most half a tael of silver.
The waiter saw that Ning Chen was anxious, but he was not angry. He objected to Ning Chen and asked, "Are you new here?"
"Just arrived today."
What about the new guy? The new guy can’t be the boss, right?
Hearing that Ning Chen was new here, the waiter patiently explained: "Sir, I don't know something. In Yunshan Academy, the prices of all dishes are linked to knowledge."
"Is there any other way to say this?"
This was the first time Ning Chen heard this statement.
But let's just be knowledgeable. I have finally entered the ninth level of Confucianism.
Ning Chen told the waiter about the fact that he had entered the ninth level of Confucianism and Taoism.
However, the waiter was just slightly polite, and then continued to explain: "Sir, the knowledge I am talking about is not Confucianism and Taoism. It is true talent.
At Yunshan Academy, talented people can eat and drink for free.
Those without talent will have trouble making progress except by paying a lot of money."
Translated, it means that Yunshan Academy has no shortage of high-quality Confucianism cultivators.
But just because you have good taste does not mean you have culture.
This is just like in Tsinghua University, there is no shortage of number one scholars.
Just because you are the top pick, doesn't mean you are awesome.
"Just tell me directly, how do you plan to test this talent?" Ning Chen was too lazy to listen to the waiter and continued to talk, so he simply asked.
The waiter pointed to a couplet hanging above the dish and said: "Sir, all the shops in the academy will use couplets to assess talents this month. As long as the gentleman says a suitable second couplet, the meal will be corresponding."
of relief.”
"These Confucian people really like these fancy things."
With some emotion in his heart, Ning Chen followed his gaze and looked at the first couplet.
There is no need to drink soup when the wine is hot.
"What the hell?" Ning Chen glanced at it and couldn't help but frown.
Ning Chenxing copied poems.
After all, after reading books for so many years, I have memorized too many famous articles and sentences.
But Ning Chen has never dabbled in couplets.
In addition to knowing that the number of words in the couplets must be the same, Ning Chen only knew that there was an even difference between them.
As for what is flat and which is square, Ning Chen doesn't even know.
"Sir, do you have a second line?" the waiter asked Ning Chen.
Ning Chen thought for a moment and said simply: "I have money."
Ning Chen just thought that he suffered the loss of being uneducated.
You can't go out in despair, you still have to face it.
But the waiter obviously didn't have such awareness.
Hearing Ning Chen say this, his face changed on the spot: "Sir, even if you have money, you still have to give me a second line. Even if this second line is not neat and tidy, it is still necessary."
When Ning Chen heard this, he said: "What do you mean by this, if I don't give a second line, I will spend my money and have nothing to eat?"
The waiter nodded and said to Ning Chen seriously: "I'm afraid that's the case."
"And it's not just the small shop, but all the shops in Yunshan Academy. I'm afraid I won't be able to get a bite of food from you sir."
"Damn, what a bunch of idiots."
After hearing the waiter's idiotic answer, Ning Cheng could only scold them in his heart.
"Sir, if there is no second line, please leave." The waiter said to Ning Chen.
Ning Chen really didn't expect that Yunshan Academy would be so extreme.
But Ning Chen specializes in treating all kinds of dissatisfaction.
"It's not that I don't have a second line, I think such a simple top line is an insult to my talent.
I don't want to waste my talents on such vulgar couplets.
Look at the messy stuff written in the first couplet. It’s full of market sentiment, but there’s not even a hint of our academy there.”
Ning Chen put it straight on the record, looking like a proud scholar.
When the waiter heard what Ning Chen said, he dwarfed unconsciously.
Both his tone and attitude were respectful.
"This couplet was written by our boss. When the boss made this couplet, he did not consider the issue of market sentiment. What the gentleman said does seem to make sense."
In Yunshan Academy, the status of scholars is absolutely lofty.
Therefore, in Xiao Er's view, Ning Chen, a top-notch Confucianism cultivator, should not be without talent in the first place.
Now that he heard what Ning Chen said, he felt that it was very reasonable.
"Let's do this, I'll make a couplet and ask your boss to do it. If he can match, I will give you three hundred taels of silver with both hands. If he can't match, he will give me three hundred taels." Ning Chen said to him.
The waiter said.
The waiter looked troubled after hearing Ning Chen's words: "Sir, this store has never had such a precedent."
"Isn't that enough? If you think it's less, and he's right, I'll give you three thousand taels. If you're not right, he'll still give me three hundred taels."
Looking at the embarrassed waiter, Ning Chen said to him: "You don't have to be embarrassed. You can ask your boss directly about this. See if he agrees? Or you can tell him directly that I allow him to call friends.
As long as he can match my second line, I will give you three thousand taels."
"Sir, wait a moment, I'm going to find the boss."
After the waiter left, Ning Chen began to search for several eternal absolutes that he remembered in his mind.
Ning Chen didn't believe it anymore. He couldn't win the three hundred taels with the few eternal absolutes he had memorized.
I can't do the second couplet, but I can't do the first couplet, haha, you can't.
As for whether the boss here will agree, Ning Chen is not worried at all.
These scholars are most afraid of excitement.
If Ning Chen despises him so much, he will definitely challenge him.
Sure enough, not long after, the waiter appeared in front of Ning Chen with a menacing boss.
This boss is also dressed as a Confucian scholar. Although he is the boss here, he is full of bookishness.
This is a true bookishness, not a hypocritical thing like Bai Renyuan's.
This boss really doesn't take making money seriously. He just wants to use his restaurant to get to know the truly talented people in the academy.
In fact, most of the restaurants in Yunshan Academy have this purpose.
Making money is not what they pursue, getting to know and associate with truly talented people is their goal.
But being looked down upon is absolutely not okay.
"Student, Li Ziqiu, may I ask you your surname?" Li Ziqiu asked Ning Chen by the way after announcing his family name.
"When you can solve my first couplet, I will tell you my name." Ning Chen continued to stimulate Li Ziqiu.
Li Ziqiu, who was aroused to be competitive, said on the spot: "Okay. When I show you your second line, you are no longer worthy of letting me know your name."
Ning Chen smiled slightly: "No problem. But have I told you about my trip to your home? If I don't tell you, you have to give me three hundred taels?"
Li Ziqiu said: "I told you. But I'm not giving you three hundred taels. I'm sorry. I'll give you three thousand taels anyway."
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