Chapter 137: Lantern riddles
"Do you like it, can I buy you one?" Chen Zhao said flatteringly, but the bruises on his face were still too obvious.
"Why are you? And you? Are you not fighting enough?" Tong Yan jumped away in fright, realizing that the person who came was the gangsters who had just fought with them, and felt that the other party was here to seek revenge.
Gu Yan, Geng Zhi, and Lin Yu hurriedly protected Xue Lingling and Tong Yan behind them like a hen protecting a chicken, always on guard against when the other party would make a move.
Boss Zhang hurriedly picked up his daughter and hid far away. The boss of the lantern also knows this Chen Zhao, the black boss of Lijiang, and a few of them come out to mingle and don't know him. And looking at the injury on Chen Zhao's face, there must have been another fight somewhere.
"Brother Chen, I have already paid the protection fee this month. "Boss Zhang thought that Chen Zhao was here to collect protection money.
"I'm not looking for you. Chen Zhao said to Tong Yan, "Do you like it? If you like it, I'll give it to you." ”
"No, I can buy it myself. Chen Zhao's change of attitude made Tong Yan unable to adapt to it, and goosebumps rose.
"Old man, how much is it?" Chen Zhao pointed to the lantern that Tong Yan wanted before and said. Women say no, maybe they can get some goodwill, don't they all say that this lantern festival is the best day for young couples to confess.
"1,1000 pieces. The lantern boss shuddered and stretched out a finger.
"Old man, you rob money, just a broken lamp, you dare to ask for a thousand yuan!" Abin was the first to mutter, how could a broken lamp be more expensive than a set of clothes.
"Brother Bin, I really didn't lie to you, you can go to other stalls and ask if it is all my price, or even more expensive than mine. The lantern boss hurriedly explained.
"Big brother, we didn't bring so much money when we came out today. Abin didn't think that this old man would dare to deceive them, and his men rummaged through their pockets, and there was not enough cash.
"Then find a way to get it. Chen Zhao didn't want to lose face in front of the girl he liked, he just came out of the hospital, and naturally he didn't have any cash in his hand.
"This, Brother Bin, what's the matter?" The people under him are embarrassed, they spend money everywhere as soon as they have money, how can Kari still have money, they eat and drink on weekdays by spending two catties, and spend two catties to get the money. Hua two catties were just beaten into a pig's head by Tong Yan, and he said that he had no face to see people, so he must go to the hospital.
"What else can I do, find a way. "The things that the eldest brother asks for, no matter what, you have to bring them.
"Brother Chen, we have a rule in this lantern fair, this lantern can be bought with money, or you can use a guessing puzzle to win your own designated lantern. In order not to offend Chen Zhao, the lantern boss also wanted to please Chen Zhao.
"Big brother, you can use guessing riddles. Hearing that you can get the lamp without spending money, Abin was very excited.
"Can you also use a guessing puzzle?" If Tong Yan wants to win, it is equivalent to getting a lamp for free, won't it be too much of a loss?
If the guest wins, he has to give it to the guest pricelessly, and as a businessman, of course, he is not willing to do this kind of loss-making business. This is why he didn't say it at the beginning, if it weren't for Chen Zhao, he wouldn't have told others.
"Our lantern festival here has been passed down from ancient times to the present, and in the beginning, the lanterns were won by guessing puzzles. It's just that after all, we are just ordinary people, and we also have to support our families, if everyone uses the way of guessing riddles, then few people will enter this lantern. ”
Of course, this tradition is also preserved, and it can be bought with money or guessed by guessing lantern riddles. Except for the elderly people in Lijiang, few people know about this rule, and the vendors who sell lanterns are also tacitly silent and will not take the initiative to remind others.
"Well, then you can make a riddle. "You don't need to spend money, of course Tong Yan still doesn't want to spend money, and Xue Lingling doesn't want to.
The lantern boss vacated a small piece of space, hung out a few red, lace flow pattern small lanterns, under the lantern hung a head and tail red tongs white muslin, and the tail also with a red rope tied to the circle of small white strips, this is the answer to the riddle, the white cloth also has words written with a black pen, this is the riddle to guess.
Tong Yan was the first to come, pointing to one of them, the lantern boss put the lantern with the lantern riddle selected by Tong Yan in front of them, Tong Yan and the others also saw the words written on the white cloth, and a Chinese character was written at the top of the title. This means that the difficulty level of this puzzle is medium, which is not too difficult.
The topic of this intermediate course is: Bad Movement, Bad Temper, Sudden Attack to Hunt Prey, Shoot a Bird.
"Birds also have bad tempers?" Tong Yan has never seen what is called a bad-tempered and immobile bird, eagle, vulture?
"Is it an eagle?" Chen Zhao was the first to say the answer, and Tong Yangang guessed the same, except for the eagle, the bad temper didn't know what it was.
"Not true. The lantern boss denied this answer, although this anagram is intermediate, but it is also difficult, how can the answer be so simple to come up with?
"A bird with a bad temper and doesn't like to move?" Lin Yu couldn't think of what kind of animal it was for a while, and touched his chin and thought.
"White-shouldered carving. ”
"White-shouldered carving. ”
Two voices sounded at the same time, and the tacit answer was the same, it was Gu Yan and Xue Lingling. The lantern boss was slightly surprised, although this is an intermediate topic, but many people don't know this animal, so they don't know where to start.
"What carving?" Tong Yan had never heard of it, where had Xue Lingling and Gu Yan seen it, and where they had seen it, she also wanted to see it.
"White-shouldered carving, the top of the head and the nape of the neck are yellow, and the tips of the feathers on both sides of the upper back are white. The tail has black and grey transverse spots, proportional to the rest of the dark black body feathers, and its body and underwing feathers are covered with dark longitudinal stripes when flying. With light brown eyes, gray beak, and yellow feet, it is an extremely fierce flying bird. At the same time, it is also a national first-class protected wild animal. --(Learn from Baidu Encyclopedia knowledge)
Geng Zhi gave them a science popularization of the appearance characteristics of the white-shouldered eagle, and in the ears of Tong Yan and Chen Zhao, the white-shouldered eagle in the picture is no different from the eagle.
In the years when Gu Yan was a soldier, field training was indispensable. In order to better adapt to the survival in the wild, Gu Yan has absorbed a lot of wild knowledge, including various bird identification.
To Gu Yan's surprise, Xue Lingling also recognized this bird, which is a national first-class protected animal, which rarely appears in teaching textbooks, and will not be recorded in the existing textbooks issued except for animal illustrated books and wildlife books. Xue Lingling didn't come into contact with this kind of bird.
Xue Lingling actually hit it by mistake, this is a topic that Xiao Zi came up with when he was playing games with Xin Xin, Nangong Xue, and Xiao Zi before, but he didn't expect to encounter the same topic today, and Tong Yan was still in the army training at that time.