Xue Tui was born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang Province.
He has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. He could read at the age of three, compose poems at the age of five, speak well at the age of ten, and was admitted to the Juren Examination at the age of twelve.
What is the concept of lifting people up in Zhaoshi? To make an analogy, it is roughly the current 985... In other words, he had already been admitted to a prestigious university when we were just entering junior high school.
However, as the saying goes... things are unpredictable.
Before the age of 30, Xue Tui went to Spring Festival five times. As a result, not only did he win the top prize, he was not even nominated for the apricot list.
As he got older and failed the exams more and more often, the voices of praise and envy around him gradually turned into ridicule and ridicule.
Generally speaking, if a person has not seen his talent for a long time, his character will be easily distorted; after all, there are only a few people who can adjust their mentality, and Xue Tui is obviously not one of them.
His character began to become surly, and he became alienated from his former friends...
He stayed behind closed doors all day long, studying hard day and night, until he was thirty years old. In 2006, he made up his mind to go to the capital to take the examination for the last time.
Who knows, this time... he still missed.
And when he returned home, he discovered that in the past few months when he went to Beijing to take the exam, his parents had contracted sudden illness and died one after another; his wife did not write a letter in order not to disturb his exam. Tell him.
The double blow of defeat and bereavement left Xue Tui in a state of despair, and he himself became seriously ill. After recovering from the illness, he stayed at home for another three years... During this period, his family's money was gradually emptied.
There is no other way, people have to eat; if they want to eat, they have to find a way to earn a living.
But Xue Tui can't do anything but write and write, and can't do any physical work. So he thought: I am a master of civil engineering, so I can go to the county to be a master, right?
There is a problem, a big problem...
Who is your Xue Tui? The "child prodigy" in the village has been what other parents call "other people's children" since childhood. Then think about how many scholars in the village hate you?
As for the scholars, most of them have rich and powerful families. It is possible that some of their ancestors were officials. It is also possible that some "poor students" at the same level as Xue Tui are now officials themselves. ...Can those people give you Xue Tui a good look?
After more than a month, after looking for many people, relying on many connections, and spending the last bit of money, Xue Tui finally understood one thing: He couldn't stay in his hometown any longer.
In order to support himself, his wife and children, Xue Tui had no choice but to sell his ancestral property, drag his family with him, and flee to another country. After many twists and turns, he finally arrived in Luoyang.
It was here that he met the noble person in his life, the boss who never returned to the building. Who was this boss... We will talk about it later, but let’s talk about Xue Tui first.
Xue Tui, who first arrived in Luoyang, made a living selling calligraphy and paintings in the market, but his business was not good.However, gangsters often come to his door to blackmail him, and sometimes he can't earn a penny for several days in a row.
That year, their family almost relied on the scattered income from his wife’s laundry and sewing. Not to mention the adults, even the children were hungry and well-fed. At that time, Xue Tui would often think: His wife was once a well-matched lady in his family, and now she has fallen into this situation with him. He is really sorry for her.
It was also during those most difficult days that Xue Tui's character underwent another transformation - he became smooth.
Since her wife, a woman who had never washed a bowl before she was twenty-five years old, can now work until her hands are full of holes and calluses, then why can’t Xue Tui throw away his costly arrogance? And self-esteem?
It was from then on that he began to write some erotic poems that he thought were vulgar, and draw some erotic beauties that were more in line with public aesthetics... He gave up his personal pursuit and Put the quality of life of your family first and use this as motivation to entertain your talents.
That kind of life came to an end until one day, when he was spotted by the boss of Buguilou and invited him to be the guest of the "Zhixian Pavilion".
It is not difficult to see from Xue Tui's experience for most of his life that he is not a sour scholar who is unsophisticated; although his character has a arrogant side, he can also make concessions in appropriate situations.
To sum it up with a popular saying nowadays - I am an old hermaphrodite.
At the moment, his words of "easy as a piece of cake" to Huang Donglai and Sun Yixie are undoubtedly putting high hats on these two people. In this way, even if he comes up with the whole super problem in a while , it’s hard for the other party to make excuses.
Of course, Sun and Huang are not so easy to fool... As far as your Xue Tui's ability to support fire is concerned, it is nothing compared to Sun Yixie.
Huang Donglai is being irritated by Brother Sun all day long, how can he still not see what you, Xue Tui, want to do at the moment?
"Haha...it's hard to say." After thinking for a moment, Huang Donglai responded with a smile, "We still have to see what questions Mr. Xue asked before we can make a judgment."
p>"Ha!" Sun Yixie, who had just shown his face, was feeling proud at this moment. Hearing this, he touched Huang Donglai's arm with his elbow and said with a smile, "Hey, Brother Huang, this is not like you. Aren’t you the most daring to make judgments?”
“Get out~” Huang Donglai had nothing to say politely when talking to Sun Yixie, “Let’s forget it. "What the hell are you trying to do here? Are you full of fish?"
"Heh..." Sun Yi smiled jokingly, "Okay, don't say anything anymore." , I’ll let you go to the next level, and I’ll watch you perform, Brother Huang.”
The conversation between these two people is full of swear words, and it is very natural for them to say it, and it doesn’t sound like anything. It feels inconsistent, but if you think about it carefully, the information leaked between the lines shows that they are already very aware of what Xue Tui is doing, and they even have some suggestions.The meaning of scolding Sophora japonica is in it.
Xue Tui listened and was secretly shocked...
He had met many so-called "young heroes" in the past years in Bugui Tower, but these ten Most of the young people in their twenties and twenties are too public and upright, and they always like to talk big and talk about things... As long as they compliment them a little, they will easily fall into the trap.
But the two boys in front of them not only have certain abilities, but also are quite experienced in dealing with people - they basically don’t pretend to be unsure, and even when they are praised, they always leave words in their responses. Take a retreat.
Xue Tui had never seen such a young man in his life, which made him very interested.
…………
After a while, Xue Tui led the two of them to a study room on the second floor; the room was surrounded by bookshelves, except for books. , there are also many antique calligraphy and paintings, potted plant ornaments on display; there is a table on the south side of the room, and paper, ink, pen and inkstone have been prepared on the table.
As soon as the three of them arrived in the room and before they could stand still, Xue Tui suddenly turned around and said: "You two gentlemen, I will get straight to the point..." He wanted to kill one of these two people. Caught off guard, "Today's 'glance', please look here..."
At this point, he pointed at the book on the third floor of the bookshelf next to him like a big sleeve. Same thing.
That’s right, the so-called “one glance” actually means “recognizing objects”.
Of course, something that can be used to test others cannot be something very common, it must be a rarity, and it is a rarity that is very rare or even unique in the entire country - so "at a glance" "In this level, the first test is to test your eyesight, but the main test is to test your knowledge.
At this moment, what Xue Tui showed Sun Yixie and Huang Dong to see was one of their many collections from the owner of Buguilou.
Who knows... As soon as he finished speaking, before he could put on a provocative expression, Huang Donglai looked at the thing and said, "Isn't this a telescope?"
This As soon as he said this, Xue Tui almost spat out a mouthful of old blood...
The level of "One glance" can be said to be the most difficult of the three levels; "One level" can also be passed by guessing, and "One word" "The judgment is somewhat subjective, but the answers "at a glance" are the kind of "you know it if you know it, and you can't guess it if you don't know it."
Furthermore, today Xue Tui specially chose a rare thing that his boss had just acquired from an overseas country not long ago. It can be said that not many people in the whole country know what it is; he did not expect that... the other party He just glanced at it from a distance, and directly reported the name of this thing without even coming over to confirm.
"Young Master Huang...have you seen this before?" Xue Tui blurted out in surprise.
Can Huang Donglai be so tricked by him? If we continue to talk about this topic, what can Brother Huang answer? Are you telling him that you are a time traveler? Or fabricate a story that he has been to the Netherlands in this universe?
"Well...heh..." Huang Donglai laughed dryly, cupped his fists and said, "I apologize for the inconvenience of telling Mr. Huang."
There is nothing wrong with this. People are not obligated to answer such questions that may involve personal privacy; there are also such rules in the world. There are some things that you should If you don't want to say it, don't talk nonsense. Just make it clear from the beginning that "it's inconvenient to tell you." It doesn't count as losing the other person's face.
"Oh...heh, it was Xue who was rude." Xue Tui quickly realized that he was asking Tulu. He smiled, bowed, and quickly changed the subject, " Well, since the level of 'One glance' is not difficult for you two, let's start the third level of 'One word' directly."
According to the requirements of passing the level of "One glance", it is not only necessary. To name an item, you also need to talk about its general function; however, Xue Tui did not make any mentally retarded request such as "Please tell Mr. Huang what the use of a telescope is." After all, the "telescope" has all its functions. It's included in the name, so it's not necessary.
In this way, Sun and Huang passed the second level effortlessly.
But for the third level of "One Word", they were still quite panicked... because according to their speculation, this level was likely to require them to have a serious "competition for literary talent"; they had just The established "well-informed" persona is likely to disappear at this stage and be replaced by the "Zhangyu" persona.