By the time Xiao Fan and Zhao Pan'er returned to Yiyuan Pavilion again, the cultural gathering organized by Tiantianju had reached its final stage.

"Everyone, there is one more thing to trouble you about today's literary gathering, that is, please select the three second couplets that you think are the best among these second couplets. We will give these three scribe cards of our store."

At this time, Zhao Pan'er looked generous and cheerful, not at all embarrassed or shy just now.

Everyone took the registration book handed over by Zhao Pan'er and began to criticize it.

"Hey, what do you think of what I wrote: 'A good person will give birth to a good person, and a good person will give birth to a good person'?" A scholar said excitedly when he saw his second line.

"It's not that good. Let's not talk about the artistic conception. Your upper and lower couplets are the same, and the antitheses are not good either. How can you be so embarrassed to take advantage of them?" the bad friend next to him laughed and mocked.

"You still have the nerve to criticize me, but what did you write?" Seeing his bad friend mocking him, he was very dissatisfied.

"Mine is 'Military Wu Guanle, Optimistic Wu Zhongjun'. How does it compare to yours?"

"I don't think it's very good. Your word "Guan" is not straight and straight. The second line is still three flat."

After some discussion, although strictly speaking all the second lines here have some problems, everyone present finally selected three relatively good second lines.

Only Xiao Fan knew that, strictly speaking, this first couplet was absolute, and no one could come up with a perfect second couplet for hundreds of years.

After the top three were selected, someone suddenly shouted: "No, there is still one person who didn't give the second line."

After thinking about it, many classmates and scholars all looked at Xiao Fan: "Brother Zhongping, it seems you didn't give me the second line, right?"

"That's right, I heard that you came up with the first couplet. You're just embarrassing us and you didn't come up with the second couplet yourself. Isn't that inappropriate?"

When Xiao Fan saw it, he realized that he had offended the public. After all, he had published such a first couplet, which caused so many people to rack their brains and couldn't come up with a perfect second couplet, so he wanted to see what the person who wrote the first couplet could do.

Here's a link like this.

"Everyone, actually I can't write a perfect second line, I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed."

"Then you have to come up with one for us to see!"

"Okay, then I will show my shame. I heard that there is Yunyin Temple over there on Jiangnan West Road. My next couplet is 'The monk travels to Yunyin Temple, the temple hides and the monk wanders around'. What do you think?" Xiao Fan asked.

"Hmm... the second couplet has three levels, and the parallelism is a bit inappropriate, but the artistic conception is excellent." Zou Fuzi commented.

"That's what the teacher said." Xiao Fan cupped his hands and said.

"Since you have selected the three couplets, our store will now give this scribe card to these three."

Two of the three winners were unknown to Xiao Fan before, but what surprised Xiao Fan the most was that Ouyang Xu actually wrote a good second line, which was recognized by everyone and became one of the three.

On the contrary, Master Zou and other masters in the academy, although they were all well-read in poetry and books, were very knowledgeable, they usually mainly studied articles and were not proficient in poetry. They also did not study much about couplets, so the second couplets they gave were not very good.

Zhao Pan'er called the waiter who was holding the brocade plate and personally handed the carefully carved sandalwood scribe's card to the three of them.

"This is our natural scholar card. Not only does this card enjoy the benefits of a gold card, but it can only be obtained by the scholars selected by the literary meeting once a month in the future. In the future, only one scholar will be selected at each time."

Zhao Pan'er knew that since Tianranju wanted to use elegance as its selling point, it would be a good choice to hold a grand literary party every month. Although the cultural party was not profitable and the cost was not low, it was very necessary to do it.

The three people who got the card were also very happy. Although they didn't care much about the benefits such as discounts and free drinks and food, this thing can be regarded as a status symbol, and only one card will be issued every month in the future. Isn't this even more important?

Does it appear that the cards in their hands are valuable?

"Everyone, I have one more thing to tell you," Zhao Pan'er glanced around and said, "On holiday in five days, Tiantianju will hold a grand Flower Moon Banquet in Yiyuan Pavilion. In addition to the best wine and food, Leying

Everyone’s performance will also bring you the ultimate visual enjoyment.”

"For this first Flower Moon Banquet, we will invite twelve of Qiantang's most respected literati to participate."

"Who knows, which twelve scholar-bureaucrats have this honor?"

"Yeah, who on earth has such a good taste!"

"Tomorrow there will be twelve Hua Yue notes sent out. Who will win them? We will know after tomorrow." Xiao Fan stood up and cupped his hands.

With the end of the cultural conference, many people who had tasted the natural cuisine chose to apply for VIP cards before leaving, and many of them were gold cards.

After all, these literati are not short of money. For example, Master Wang, although he seems to be just a pedantic scholar, he can sell dozens of pieces of calligraphy. Even if he does not count the academy's rates, his income is not that of ordinary people.

Comparable.

For these literati who often hang out with their friends, the Yuan Pavilion where they live naturally is elegant, the food and wine are delicious, and the performances are good. Such a good place will definitely come often in the future, so it is natural to get a VIP card.

After a busy day, and after seeing off the last batch of guests and closing time, Zhao Paner greeted Xiao Fan, Sun Sanniang, and Song Yinzhang together.

"Can you guess how much we collected today?" Zhao Pan'er looked at the few people with a smile and said mysteriously.

"How much?" Sun Sanniang had been busy in the kitchen all day. She was already lying on the table tired, but she immediately became energetic after hearing Zhao Pan'er's words.

"A total of one thousand six hundred and eighty!" Zhao Pan'er said happily.

"How much?" Sun Sanniang was stunned. This was far beyond her common sense.

"Why, how come there are so many?" Song Yinzhang was also confused. Although she was not short of money, she had never seen so much money.

"Tell me, how much money does the VIP card cost?" Xiao Fan said directly.

When Zhao Pan'er heard this, she curled her lips and rolled her eyes at Xiao Fan. She finally showed off in front of her sisters, but was ruthlessly exposed by him.

"The total amount of VIP card money is almost more than 1,500 yuan. Excluding the wages of the guys and the bonuses for the Leying sisters, we can only say that we did not lose money today." Zhao Pan'er suddenly felt a lot weaker.

"Ah?" Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang were also discouraged and lay on the table.

"Pan'er is teasing you!" Xiao Fan looked at them like this and said with a smile: "Have you forgotten that we are offering a 30% discount on the entire opening today? And the cultural party did not cost a penny, but the cost is not small. This

In the future, business will definitely not be as good as it is today, but it will definitely be no problem to make twenty or thirty pounds a day."

"Twenty or thirty guan?" Sun Sanniang and Song Yinzhang were shocked again. If this was the case, they would not be able to earn tens of thousands of guan this year?

"Don't listen to his nonsense. Who can be sure about this business? You may make money today and lose money tomorrow. I don't know Yin Zhang. How can you still be unclear, Sanniang?" Zhao Pan'er saw it clearly.

After Zhao Pan'er said this, Sun Sanniang calmed down completely. After all, when she and Pan'er opened the tea shop together, they sometimes lost money and sometimes made profits.

But after all, today's income was still more than 1,600 yuan, and several people were still shocked. If Jia Quan hadn't called Jia San to drive two carriages, they wouldn't have been able to get the money back.

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