The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 510

Chapter 510: 256 Three Hairpin Flowers (First Update)_2

Chapter 510: 256 Three Hairpin Flowers (First Update)_2

“But…” The girl in the purple dress stamped her foot, huffing as she sat back down in her chair.

After the girl in purple made the first attempt, several other plucky daughters of wealthy families tried to challenge the newly crowned scholar. All of them ended up facing defeat without exception.

Next came a particularly tough challenge. She didn’t ask Xiao Liulang to match rhyming couplets or compose a poem but instead asked him to recite a passage from “Turn Left” backwards.

She had presented the formidable challenge to Xiao Liulang, armed with the book “Turn Left”, containing over ninety thousand words. To recite any part of it while pointing to it, let alone backwards, one really has to know the book by heart to an incredible degree.

This was terribly harsh!

The people initially found great amusement in the situation but now began to sympathize with the poor scholar.

An official from the Ministry of Rites was sweating profusely. He had said before that the challenge should have rules, like only asking to compose verses or rhyme couplets, not off-topic questions like this. Wasn’t this just deliberately setting him up for embarrassment?

Only those who had studied extensively could understand just how difficult this question was. However, common people didn’t understand, and would only think, “Isn’t he the top scholar? Why can’t he even recite a passage from a book?”

The rich young lady from upstairs said with a bright smile, “You can’t answer it, can you? Scholar, your safflower is mine now!”

Without showing any haste or panic, Xiao Liulang began, “Feather white, analyze with Xu Shengzi Wang makes Chu, winter…”

The rich young woman was startled, her eyes fixated on the book in her hand, he… he didn’t mispronounce a single word!

“I concede,” Xiao Liulang politely yet somewhat distantly shifted his gaze away.

“Next?”

He asked.

The room was silent, everyone was still under the shocking spell of his fluent recitation of the “Turn Left” passage. For a while, no one dared to step forward to face embarrassment.

Xiao Liulang’s gaze fell on Gu Jiao’s face, with an enviable hint of warmth in his eyes, “Miss, please state your question.” _{free𝑤ebnovel.com}

Oh, it’s her turn?

Gu Jiao was dumbstruck.

Everyone else had recited poetry, but she didn’t know how to do so.

Actually, she did, but she had been too busy staring at the handsome man earlier, so she hadn’t been able to think of anything.

Gu Jiao blinked her eyes, her eyeballs rolling around, “Um… ‘The white sun sets behind the mountains?'”

Everyone stumbled!

No, miss, what kind of question is that? Even a three-year-old can answer that! The top scholar can even recite “Turn Left” backwards!

Xiao Liulang hummed in thought, gazing at her intently, and said seriously, “I don’t know. I lose.”

Everyone: “…….”

No way, top scholar, you can’t even answer this?

Everyone was at a loss for words until another rich young woman stepped forward and said something that most people couldn’t understand.

Xiao Liulang gave her a cold look and responded in a language that most people didn’t understand either.

The girl who had previously worn purple was totally confused, “Sister? What were they talking about?”

The young nun raised an eyebrow, “The girl just used the language of Chen Country to say ‘The white sun sets behind the mountains’ to the top scholar.”

“Ah?” The girl in purple was startled.

The young nun slowly said, “Then the top scholar responded with ‘Kuanghe river flows into the sea’ in five different languages of Chen, Liang, Zhao, Jin, and Yan countries.”

Did that girl genuinely believe that the top scholar couldn’t match the couplets? That she could take advantage of this apparent error, positioning herself as superior to the young woman in green, thinking that the top scholar would spare her a second glance?

But she ended up getting a severe humiliation.

He knew everyone else’s questions, but would not answer yours.

Winning the world, just to lose to you.

Most people were not clear about what was happening, but they saw the girl who had been speaking in a gibberish language turn beet red all of a sudden.

What the nun said was passed on by the maids, and then everyone finally understood what was happening.