Honestly, why had he gone and pawned his jade thumb ring for no reason? If he was short of silver, he could have just had them make up the difference! As long as he failed to answer the couplet, they would gladly pay!
Now the people of Goryeo could only console themselves that there were still two couplets left!
They refused to believe these people could answer those two as well!
After Zhang Hui finished speaking, he returned to his place.
Meanwhile, the other military officer selected, Hong Pan, was pondering what excuse he should use.
"The second couplet uses 'riverside tower' and 'river current.' That suddenly reminds me of a well at my current residence called the Moon-Reflecting Well. The Moon-Reflecting Well reflects the moon's image; the moonlit well endures ten thousand years, the moon's image endures ten thousand years.
"Oh, that seems to match! Surely not? Surely it couldn't be that easy?
"Envoys of Goryeo, say something!"
Hong Pan looked at the Goryeo envoys and urged them to respond.
Hahahaha, they answered the second one too! Wonderful. The Goryeo envoys must be feeling awful now.
Jiang Nuan gloated inwardly.
By now, the Goryeo envoys wanted nothing to do with him. They dearly wanted to declare that it did not match, but unfortunately, however they looked at it, this second line matched the first perfectly.
No, how could they answer it in such a ridiculous way? Were the people of Great Xia really not cheating?
Had someone among them leaked the questions?
But even with leaked questions, they might not have come up with such perfect responses!
No matter how they racked their brains, they could never have imagined that the people of Great Xia had not only cheated by learning the questions beforehand, but had also obtained the