Carefree Scholar Chapter 62: Riddles
Li Yi stopped abruptly, and the little maid just thought of catching up with him quickly, and ran into him unpreparedly.
I rubbed my chest with some pain. When I looked up, I found my uncle turned around and looked in the direction of the crowd.
"One hundred taels?"
The number murmured by Li Yi, if he heard it correctly, the two people who were talking outside the crowd had just said these three words.
For the current Li Yi, anything related to money is a sensitive word, and I can't escape his ears at a distance of several feet.
He didn't intend to watch the excitement, so he quickly walked towards the crowd.
"Dare to ask the two brothers, I don't know what happened here, why are you all here?" Li Yi first bowed to the two men who spoke just now, and then smiled and asked.
The two were chatting happily. They were interrupted by others and naturally felt unhappy, but when they turned their heads and saw that the person standing in front of them was also a scholar, the unpleasant color on his face disappeared immediately, and one of them smiled back. Said: "Xiongtai doesn't know anything about it. Today, several poetry clubs in Qing'an Mansion, in this Zuixiang Building, use poetry and essays to argue against each other, and the winner can participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Meeting tomorrow... It won’t be long before great works will spread."
Li Yi's clothes and dressing look like a scholar no matter how you look at it. Perhaps for this reason, the two men in Confucian shirts have a very enthusiastic attitude towards him.
What poetry clubs and poetry clubs are, Li Yi is not interested at all. This man talked for a long time, but still didn't talk about the main point. Li Yi decided to remind him a little.
smiled on his face, pretending to ask casually: "The one hundred taels of silver that the two brothers just said..."
"Oh, those hundred taels of silver is the prize for this competition, and will be given to the winning poetry club in the end." The other person was taken aback for a moment, and then he explained.
For scholars like them, the focus should be on this poem test. Money is something outside of the body, and these hundred taels of silver are not their focus.
A scholar, he should regard money as dung.
However, as a pseudo-reader, this is the focus of Li Yi's attention.
One hundred taels of silver. If you win, you can take it away. In this way, will the rent of the shop be settled soon?
These hundred taels of silver are clearly tailor-made for myself.
"Thank you for the two brothers!" Li Yi smiled and arched his hands at the two, then glanced at the little maid standing behind him: "Little ring, let's go in!"
Xiaohuan nodded, and followed Li Yi, as if I was wherever my uncle was.
"Xiongtai stay!"
Li Yigang took two steps, and a voice suddenly came from behind him.
He turned his head and looked at the young scholar in doubt, "What else is going on in Xiongtai?"
"I wonder if Xiongtai can have invitations?"
"Invitation card?"
The expression on Li Yi's face stagnated, "What invitation?"
The young scholar explained: "The Zuixianglou has been wrapped up today, and you can enter with invitations, so I will be turned away only when I wait."
"So, we can't go in?" Li Yi said disappointedly.
He seemed to see the hundred taels of silver in his hand, flying out of his arms again.
"Not at all." The scholar pointed to the front and said, "You can go in without an invitation, but you need to guess the riddles they made."
Looking at this man talking slowly, Li Yi's heart was a little bit depressed. The mother-in-law doesn’t look like a man, so he should finish talking when he has something to say. It is easy for others to misunderstand. ...
"In that case, guess the riddle before going in."
Guessing riddles is something that Li Yi has played since childhood. He doesn't know much more experience than these ancients, so he doesn't need cheating at all.
The two looked at each other, then smiled bitterly one after another: "These lantern riddles are all unsolved puzzles of last year's Spring Festival. If it is so easy to guess, I will not wait outside the door. Up."
"You can guess it, you will know it by a try." Li Yi smiled, holding Xiaohuan's hand to the front.
At the very front of the crowd, everyone is arguing around several big red lanterns. There is a white cloth strip hanging from the bottom of the lanterns with mystery written on them.
"The white snake crosses the river, and there is a red sun above its head."
Li Yi looked at the cloth strip under the lantern, the expression on his face remained unchanged, but his heart was already cursed.
What kind of riddle is this? There is no hint, and it doesn’t say whether it’s an anagram or a guess. How can people guess it?
Isn't this deliberately making things difficult?
There were people guessing that the answer was "boat", and some people guessing that it was "Dan", but there was no response from the little boy standing beside him. Obviously, none of their guesses were correct.
Li Yi originally wanted to use his ingenuity to guess riddles, but now I can’t count on it, and honest cheating is the right way.
With a thought, a thick book of ancient and modern lantern riddles came to mind.
Li Yi still doesn't believe it, this riddle book with the thickness of an encyclopedia dictionary would not have this broken lantern riddle.
search by the first word, "white", "snake"..., "the white snake crosses the river, and there is a red sun above his head", I found it!
After only ten seconds, a smile appeared on Li Yi's face.
beckoned to the young man, and when he walked over, he smiled and said, "The white snake crosses the river, and there is a round of red sun. The answer to this lantern riddle is "oil lamp."
The surrounding crowd was taken aback for a moment, and then immediately burst into an uproar.
"What kind of oil lamp, even if it is blind, it must be masked."
"It's a pole, what is the relationship between the white snake, the red sun and the oil lamp!"
"Get out of the way when you're blindfolded, don't stand in the way!"
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What a few people said is very rude. They have racked their brains for so long and haven't guessed right. You are a newcomer to join in the fun.
"Master, the riddle of this lantern riddle is the oil lamp." The little boy was taken aback when he heard the words, and then a surprised expression appeared on his face, and he immediately bowed and said~IndoMTL.com~What! "
"You guessed it right!"
"Why is it an oil lamp?"
"I got it!"
"The wick is the white snake, the lamp flame...isn’t it the red sun!"
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The riddle of this lantern riddle is actually very common, but because there is no hint, the range of guesses is too wide. If there is no flash of light, it is difficult to think of the oil lamp.
And when Li Yi said the answer, someone soon figured it out. It turns out that the answer is so simple. Many people immediately thumped their chests and lamented that the book had good luck, but they also regretted it very much. Why didn’t they? Think of this ring.
The two scholars who talked with Li Yi just now looked at this scene with a little dumbfounded, unimaginable, he actually guessed it!
"Can I go in now?" Li Yi asked, looking at the young man.
"Master please!"
The little girl hurriedly reached out in an inviting gesture.
Li Yi beckoned to the girl behind him: "Little ring, let's go in."
The little maid nodded immediately. My uncle is really amazing. He can even guess the lantern riddles that so many people can't guess. Xiaohuan sees the oil lamp every night and never thought of it!
A pleasant smile was on his face, and when he was about to walk in with Li Yi, the young man quickly chased him, stopped in front of the two, and said with embarrassment: "My son, you can only be alone. Go in."
"Why?" Li Yi asked, looking at him with a frown.
After hearing the words, Xiaohuan immediately tightened the corner of Li Yi's clothes with a little worry... Xiaohuan should not separate from his uncle.
"Because the son only solved a riddle, according to our rules, you can only enter by yourself." Xiaosi explained patiently.