It was so simple?
All the contestants knew Big Thunder was good. He was the first runner-up last year. With last year’s champion, an old professor, not coming, many people believed that Big Thunder would likely become the champion. The couplets he gave would be extraordinary. But when they heard it, they were extremely puzzled. This wasn’t just simple; it was overly simple, right?
Dú lan méi hua sao là xue (opening a path through Spring’s snow to view the plum blossom)?
Anyone present could match it!
After Big Thunder finished his question, he smiled without a word.
Zhang Ye narrowed his eyes and came up with a second half, “Xì nì shan shì wu liú xi (the stream flows through the glorious mountains in a sidelong glance).”
With this, the judges also did not understand. The both of them had come up with an extremely simple couplet, making them have doubts.
Big Thunder chuckled, “Little Zhang, this time you answered wrongly. Do you think my couplet is so simple?” Seeing Zhang Ye fall for his trick, he was very pleased, “My first half has another way of reading it.”
Zhang Ye answered with a chuckle, “What a coincidence. My second half has another way of reading it, too.”
Seeing how Zhang Ye was unwilling to repent, Big Thunder decided to serve him the death sentence as he dissected, “My first half is dú lan méi hua sao là xue . The first sound of each word matches to do-re-mi-fa-so-la-ti, the seven tones!”