There they would pass the time testing each other's memories by quoting a sentence from the classics to see if the other could say from which book, which chapter and which page it came; the winner would drink tea before the other. Often they were so overcome with merriment that they spilt the tea down themselves.
兩人就在歸來堂中互比記憶力為趣，互考某句經文出於何書何章何頁，決定飲茶先後，經常嬉鬧到將茶灑到身上。