Chapter 461: A Long, Long, Long Time Ago
"What are you kidding? With such a wide range of values, who can do it in an instant?" Everyone looks at me, I look at you, and they all think that Jiang Changan is talking about fantasy, joking nonsense.
Xia Leling put down the pen and paper she had just picked up when she heard this, and listened quietly and carefully to what this fast method was, others didn't believe it but she believed it, he said that if there is, there must be.
Jiang Changan said with a smile: "The interesting thing about this question is not arithmetic, but a change in the way of thinking, simplifying the cumbersome ideas, in fact, everyone just needs to think that this competition is a knockout competition, two people will face off, and one person will be eliminated in each game, until the first place is finally selected, that is, five hundred and eleven disciples will be eliminated, and five hundred and eleven games will be compared." ”
There was a sudden silence in the lobby.
Suddenly, a voice shouted, "I've figured it out, it's five hundred and eleven!
Everyone was stunned by this answer, and suddenly they felt their brains suddenly open, and they were enlightened, and their mouths were suddenly opened.
The fat scribe did not have the slightest displeasure on his face, and his fierce and vicious appearance was also swept away, and he said with satisfaction: "The next word awakens the dreamer, and suddenly he is enlightened, and he is wise at the step, and he is puzzled and convinced." ”
Qingzhu behind the bead curtain said with a smile: "Princess, this Jiang Gongzi is really a god, the slave has never seen such a person, and he can come up with such a method." ”
Xia Leling didn't speak, but the joy on her face couldn't be hidden.
Xia Qi, who had been sitting upright for a long time, stood up and said with a smile: "Jiang Gongzi is really smart, Xiao Wang just has a few puzzles here, and I hope that Jiang Gongzi can give an answer, so as to solve the confusion in my heart......"
Hearing this, everyone hurriedly straightened their expressions, and immediately understood, the next step is the main show!
Xia Leling was slightly stunned, and was about to help Jiang Chang'an with a few words, Xia Qi's first question had already been said: "Mr. Jiang, don't worry, you are not here today for any major national policy, you are just guessing the right pair, for the sake of fairness, this king will not ask Jiang Gongzi some difficult questions about national affairs." As an alchemist, Mr. Jiang started with medicine - the lotus flower in his chest, and he had a big heart. The sky is clear and the night is bright, and you are just entering the realm. Immortality, eternal well-being. ”
Everyone looked at each other, not understanding what His Royal Highness King Ming's intentions were, but when he shook his head, Jiang Changan had already spoken: "Every four words of His Royal Highness King Ming is a riddle, and each sentence is the name of a medicine, and the riddles are - andrographis, Yuanzhi, starry, shengdi, evergreen, and millennium. ”
Xia Qi smiled slightly: "There are big fish in the East China Sea, headless and tailless, lost their backbones, and went to the bottom." ”
Jiang Changan held a cup of new tea that had just been renewed by Nangong Dance, and said lightly: "Out of the East China Sea, into the West Mountain, write the time, and draw the time." The riddle of His Royal Highness King Ming and the riddle of mine are the same word - day. ”
Xia Qi's eyes flashed with a light of refusal to admit defeat, and said seriously: "Jiang Changan is okay, you have answered all these riddles of Xiao Wang, and this king has one last question." ”
"The house is divided into two houses, and five men and two women are in charge. The two families are in chaos, and they will fight until the Qingming side!"
Xia Qidao: "Jiang Chang'an, this king knows that you will definitely be able to guess this last question, but this king wants you to make up a riddle as well, just like the couplet you just got right, if you can't do it, this question can be regarded as your loss......"
Jiang Changan chuckled: "The ancients left a bridge, and there were more and less on the other, less than more, and more than less." ”
When the words fell, Xia Qi's face was expressionless and he stared at Jiang Changan, while Jiang Changan's eyes fell on the tea.
Everyone didn't dare to make one without permission, and even their eyes were reluctant to blink, lest they fall into any wonderful scene.
They didn't know who had won, Xia Qiyi asked three questions in a row, and before many people could react, Jiang Changan had already answered three in an instant, and no one knew what the third mystery was.
Now the Qingzhu behind Xia Leling had a worried look in his eyes, and his voice was like a worm and a fly, and he asked carefully: "Princess, Gongzi Jiang...... Is that right?"
Xia Leling clenched her fists excitedly, as if she was whispering to herself: "He answered!
The air was silent for a long time.
A commander in armor behind Xia Qi thought that he had a chance to perform, and shouted angrily: "Jiang Chang'an, you are bold! What kind of thing dare you speak to His Royal Highness King Ming like this?"
"Shut up!" Xia Qi's face was full of anger, but it was not because Jiang Changan answered the riddle.
The Commander fell to his knees in fear, waiting to fall.
Xia Qi said coldly: "Do you know the mistake?"
"Subordinate...... Subordinates know their mistakes!"
"What should be done under military law?"
"Article 4 of the Military Law: If you complain a lot, anger your commander, don't listen to constraints, and teach you to be more difficult to control, this is called forming an army, and the offender will be beheaded. ”
Xia Qi sighed and said: "I think you think about me wholeheartedly, today is in front of the princess, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime cannot be escaped, and I will go down to receive the punishment myself." ”
"Your Highness. ”
The commander was not the slightest dissatisfied, but was grateful, and withdrew from the courtyard after apologizing to Jiang Chang'an.
Xia Qi turned his eyes to everyone and laughed again: "Gongzi Jiang, it's up to you to announce this answer, right?"
Jiang Changan looked at him with interest in his eyes, he was resolute and resolute, and he was both kind and powerful, and Xia Qi was better than his brother Xia Ji in terms of employing people.
"The mystery is a common object, but in the palace, this kind of thing generally does not appear in front of people, and it is understandable that His Royal Highness King Ming did not put it out for a while. ”
Jiang Changan smiled: "Abacus, the riddle is abacus." ”
"Abacus!
"Jiang Gongzi Wisdom ......"
After a question and answer, several people chatted enthusiastically, especially Xia Qi, who was the most disagreeable with Jiang Changan at first, and at some point also sat opposite him and drank at the same table.
The courtyard toasted from time to time to celebrate, and from time to time chanted poems against each other, so it was not lively.
Xia Leling looked at the white clothes in the crowd with a smile, and suddenly asked the little girl beside her, "Ruoruo, can you go out for a walk with your sister?"
Ruoruo looked up at Jiang Chang'an, then at Xia Qi, and nodded: "Hmm." ”
The two walked out of the lobby and came to the pond pontoon, Ruoruo suddenly said: "Sister, that person is so fierce!"
"Do you mean thirteen?" Xia Leling said with a smile, "He was also forced, to implement the new policy, the political dynasty must be more ruthless than some people." ”
Ruoruo tilted his head and said in confusion: "Why are there always so many things that are not forced?" Brother Hua often says that he is forced to be helpless, we have met many people who are more fierce than that person, but those people are gone. ”
Xia Leling understands that if what he says is not there, he is dead.
"Brother Hua said, people live in the world, that is, control and be controlled, people are controlled by many people and many things, and there are few people who can jump out of this control, monks and Taoists are one, but Brother Hua does not want to be a Taoist monk, if you don't understand. ”
Xia Leling thought slightly when he heard this, and said: "What he said is right, you control me, others control you, people under the shroud of power are controlled by desire, and people at the commanding heights of power are controlled by the fear that they may lose power at any time, it is instinct to seek advantage and avoid disadvantage, and greed and desire are also instincts, Taoist monks can escape, not that they really see the avenue, but their mentality of escapism, to escape this control, how can they really see the avenue and hide in the mountains and say 'no dispute with the world'?" If you don't fight, you fight, who can really be the first kind of person in the end?"
"Sister, why do you always talk like this? Can't you make it simpler?" Ruoruo would fall asleep when he heard these words, and he kept yawning and protesting.
Xia Leling said with a smile: "Okay, sister won't talk about it, Ruoruo, can you tell your sister something about what you and Brother Hua have experienced? It's like telling a story, my sister wants to hear it." ”
Since Situ Yuning's words at the alchemy conference have made Xia Leling's desire to understand Jiang Chang'an increase over the years, how could she let go of this opportunity when she met a girl who knew everything?
"Sister wants to hear it, Ruoruo will tell you, but where to start?" Ruoruo touched his chin with his fingertips and thought seriously.
Xia Leling looked at this pure and flawless little girl, and said with a smile: "Ruoruo, let's start with how you met, can you tell my sister, why do you call him Brother Hua? I heard him say that when he first met you in Cangzhou, he was dressed like a beggar, is it because of this that you called him Brother Hua?"
Xia Leling asked casually, Ruoruo shook her head and smiled sweetly: "No." ”
"Isn't it that I met in Cangzhou?" Xia Leling wondered.
Ruoruo suddenly stood on tiptoe and leaned into her ear, and said softly: "Sister, don't tell Brother Zhaohua, Ruoruo has known Brother Zhaohua for a long time......"
"A long time ago?" Xia Leling was stunned.
Ruoruo's mouth showed a smile that Xia Leling couldn't see through, and said with a smile: "Well, a long, long time ago......