diskusbooks Chapter 143: That's the problem you mentioned? Who are you looking down on?
Chapter 143: That's the problem you mentioned? Who are you looking down on?
When Shi Wenzong saw Emperor Yan put away the banknotes, he felt a pang of pain in his heart. He had to pay back the borrowed banknotes! It would be fine if he didn't lose, but he did! That's a full 200,000 taels.
He suppressed the pain in his heart, gathered his thoughts, and said to Jiang Fan with a smile: "Eighth Prince, can we fight now?"
Jiang Fan looked at him with interest, shrugged and said, "Shi Jijiu, please go ahead, I will continue..."
He looked calm and confident. Shi Wenzong, Ye Ren, Fan Xian and others all curled their lips in disdain when they saw this expression.
They wanted to see how long Jiang Fan could remain so confident. Shi Wenzong had taken great pains to deal with Jiang Fan, and it was hard to find any fault with him.
He will make Jiang Fan cry later!
"Okay... then I'll ask the question!" Shi Wenzong smiled coldly, took out a piece of paper from his pocket, took a step forward and said:
"I just happened to learn these ten ancient Chinese characters. After consulting the classics, I finally understood their pronunciation and meaning! If Your Highness can recognize half of them, I will lose..."
He asked someone to come and help open the paper, and ten huge traditional Chinese characters appeared inside.
The moment they saw these words, everyone was shocked, and they looked at Shi Wenzong with contempt and a hint of anger.
Almost everyone present did not recognize these ten so-called ancient characters, and these people were all court officials, who were all well-read people.
Even they didn't recognize it, which shows how rare this word is. Even the court officials who specialized in studying ancient books would not recognize more than three characters.
So, let alone Jiang Fan, who they considered a waste. This guy was not exposing Jiang Fan as a waste.
He simply wanted to frame Jiang Fan, and make him into a waste even if he was not a waste.
When Emperor Yan saw what Shi Wenzong took out, his face suddenly turned dark! How could he not see what Shi Wenzong and the others were planning?
This is because they think he is suspicious, so they think he is easy to fool! If he didn't think it through, he might really believe these people's tricks!
He looked at Jiang Fan with mixed feelings. He was afraid that this time his son would lose one hundred thousand taels!
Shi Wenzong saw the performance of the people around him, and a look of pride appeared on his face. He was very satisfied with his method this time! Even the court officials were stumped, let alone Jiang Fan!
Anyway, as long as Jiang Fan makes a fool of himself, no matter if he is a waste or not, Emperor Yan will probably feel disgusted with Jiang Fan because of his son's embarrassment, and will have a preconceived notion that Jiang Fan is a waste!
He turned to look at Jiang Fan and said jokingly, "Eighth Prince, please..."
Following his voice, everyone looked at Jiang Fan, with pity, sympathy, and a hint of indescribable complexity in their eyes! Of course, there were also people who just wanted to watch the fun!
I was secretly complaining in my heart, this Eighth Prince was so young and arrogant, now he has been slapped in the face!
If he fails to recognize her, not only will he lose face, but he will also lose face for Emperor Yan!
Who made this guy act so arrogant just now, as if he was the best in the world and had to fight a group of people alone?
He was defeated in the first game. Just thinking about that scene, it was as if he looked like a king, but in reality he was not even as good as a bronze player!
Jiang Fan looked at Shi Wenzon, who had a smug look on his face, then looked at the words he turned over to him, and was stunned where he stood.
This is fucking funny!
He thought Shi Wenzong would come up with a very difficult task to stump him, but this fellow actually used a few prosperous Chinese characters to test him. Did he think he was mentally retarded?
He was secretly complaining in his heart and really wanted to scold Shi Wenzong, "I'm giving you a chance, but couldn't you be more useful? At least use a few uncommon characters."
It’s so simple to create a few obscure traditional Chinese characters, who are you looking down on?
Three months after traveling to this world, Jiang Fan had gotten to know this world's civilization system. It was the same as his original world, even the rare characters and traditional Chinese characters were the same!
Because there was a language reform several hundred years ago, some of the prosperous characters were simplified because they were too complicated!
Now, what Shi Wenzong took out for him to recognize were ten rarely used traditional Chinese characters in simplified fonts.
Because it is not often used, not many people know its traditional Chinese version.
Shi Wenzong might still think that he has mastered a lot of great knowledge and is still complacent, but he doesn't know that Jiang Fan had nothing to do in his previous life because of a song about rare characters, so he studied ancient characters.
So, Shi Wenzong used traditional Chinese characters to test him, which made Jiang Fan feel that this guy was a bit stupid!
Shi Wenzong had no idea what Jiang Fan was thinking. Seeing Jiang Fan's dazed look, he thought that Jiang Fan was stumped, and the pride on his face became even stronger.
Ye Ren, Fan Xian, Huang Zhenren and other court officials who were attached to the prince were also overjoyed when they saw this scene.
A great victory! Jiang Fan obviously didn't recognize this word.
After all, few of them could recognize all the characters, let alone Jiang Fan, a kid whom they considered to be a waste.
But if they knew what Jiang Fan was thinking, they would probably vomit several liters of blood and die on the spot.
"Eighth Prince, it's okay if you don't know the characters. After all, there aren't many characters you can recognize... It's okay, it's not shameful!"
Seeing Jiang Fan's dazed look, Shi Wenzong spoke with both pride and mockery in his voice.
However, as soon as he said this, Jiang Fan looked up at him as if he was an idiot, and said with a face full of joking: "The problem you are talking about? That's it..."
When Jiang Fan said this and expressed this expression, everyone at the scene was stunned. Everyone stared at Jiang Fan in a daze, and it took them a long time to come back to their senses.
What is the Eighth Prince talking about? He actually said with a disdainful tone that this is it? Does he know what he is talking about? This is it!
This is a word that even most court officials find difficult to understand. This guy actually looks down on someone. Is he serious?
Or is this guy just pretending and trying to hold on secretly?
Shi Wenzong came back to his senses from his daze and said sarcastically, "That's right, that's it, Eighth Prince, answer it! If you can't answer it, you lose..."
He still feels that Jiang Fan is just pretending and trying to avoid the question!
Hearing this, Jiang Fan smiled and pointed at the first word and said, "This word is pronounced as luo... It's the same as "luo", which means to expose, without covering. This one is pronounced as juan... It has four meanings, one, to remove, two, to show, three, to clean... And this word..."
From the moment Jiang Fan read out the first word and explained its meaning one by one, everyone stood there in a daze, staring at Jiang Fan in amazement, their eyes filled with shock and disbelief.
Everyone thought they had seen it wrong. Those who couldn't read felt that Jiang Fan was talking nonsense. However, Jiang Fan's confident, calm and composed demeanor made them feel that Jiang Fan was not wrong.
Those who knew some of the characters saw that Jiang Fan not only read out the pronunciation accurately, but also explained the meaning clearly, even all ten characters. Everyone looked at Jiang Fan in horror, thinking they were dreaming.
Is this really the useless prince that Ye Ren and the others thought he was? He can recognize even such a difficult traditional Chinese character without any difficulty. Could this guy be fake?