The lantern riddle festival is set up at the stargazing platform in the center of Ganquan City, and four rows of lanterns are hanging on the stargazing platform at this time. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The first row is the twelve divisions of flowers, peonies, orchids, plum blossoms, chrysanthemums, osmanthus, lotus, peonies, begonias, narcissus, plums, azaleas, and magnolias. Each one is very exquisitely made, and the twelve lanterns compete like twelve famous flowers, looking lifelike.

The second row is the 12 zodiac signs, Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Sheep, Monkey, Rooster, Dog, and Pig. Some are cute, some are fierce, some are funny, and they are extremely delicate and vivid.

In the third row are the seven fairies with fluttering clothes, which are beautiful.

The fourth row is a huge dragon Tengxiang cloud lantern, with clear golden scales and strong dragon claws, especially a pair of golden glass eyes, which seem to be staring intently at a certain place.

In the center of the observatory stood a middle-aged man of moderate stature, who was speaking an impassioned opening speech.

There are three men sitting in front of the stargazing platform, who are the judges of the lantern riddle competition, and are also responsible for supervising whether the people on the field are cheating, and some are disqualified from guessing the riddle.

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, there was a round of applause and noise from the audience, announcing the official start of the Lantern Festival riddle meeting in Ganquan County Chengrui and the sixteenth year.

There is no need to register, and everyone can participate, regardless of gender, old and young.

The person who can guess all the riddles correctly in the shortest time wins, and is the winner.

Thinking of the lottery that the leader might get, Xu Xiangwan's heart suddenly surged.

In terms of knowledge, she may not be as good as Goro, but when it comes to guessing riddles, it is not necessarily. Of course, if the puzzle contains knowledge such as historical allusions, Xu Xiangwan can only say that there is nothing he can do.

Thinking of this, Xu Xiangwan called Shangwulang, Shen Qianyu, Wuwu and Xiao Jiuwu to go to the stargazing platform together, one more person has one more chance to win, isn't it?

Each lantern is hung with a brocade bag, the brocade bag is filled with the same riddle, the mystery needs to be written on the rice paper prepared by the participants, the order of guessing the riddle must be consistent with the order of the lantern, can not jump.

Each participant must guess the riddle individually, and write down a riddle and give it to the maid waiting on the stargazing platform to see, if the riddle is wrong, it will be eliminated.

For the rich prize of the lantern riddle competition, many people walked up to the stargazing platform at first, but as the difficulty increased, many people were invited to go down before they could guess the lantern riddles in the first row.

After the lantern riddle festival began, people walked up to the stargazing platform one after another, but most of them came down again after a short time.

Of course, it's more about watching the lively people. After all, there are a minority of people who have studied, and most of them don't know a single big word, and they can't even write their own names, so naturally there is no way to participate in the lantern riddle conference.

In addition to Zhang and Xu Qiuyi, only the two little servants brought by Shen Qianyu stood under the stargazing platform.

After two incense sticks, Xiao Jiu was invited.

Seeing Xiao Jiu pouting and returning to him, Xu Qiuyi laughed: "How many did Xiao Jiu guess right?"

Xiao Jiu replied depressedly: "I guessed nine correctly, and I don't know two of the words on the tenth riddle." I was the first to come down. ”

After hearing this, Zhang couldn't help but laugh, reached out and touched Xiao Jiu's head, and encouraged: "Don't be afraid, our Xiao Jiu is still young, and when our Xiao Jiu enters school, we will be able to win the first place." ”

Hearing this, Xiao Jiu raised his smile again, nodded heavily, and said, "Mother is right, when Xiao Jiu enters school, he will definitely be better than them." ”

At Xiao Jiu's age, it is already very good to be able to guess nine lantern riddles correctly, you must know that the lantern riddles in this lantern riddle conference are not easier to guess than the lantern riddles of ordinary stalls, and the more difficult it is to come.

At this time, Xu Xiangwan was guessing the tiger lanterns in the second row, and the inscription "The sunset incense is not a little bit of mortal heart; the furnace is out of the fire and the horse is firmly bolted." This is a couplet as the title, and the upper and lower couplets are typed with one word respectively.

Xu Xiangwan thought about it for a long time in his heart, and finally wrote the words "bald" and "donkey" on rice paper, and finally pursed his lips and smiled, this lantern riddle is really damaged.

All the riddles in the lantern riddle tournament are limited to half an hour to be solved, and even if all the riddles are solved in more than half an hour, it can only be judged as a failure of the challenge.

Seeing that it was about to be half an hour, Xu Xiangwan only solved the tenth in the second row, and the eleventh was an allusion to tell, she had never seen it, and naturally she would not solve it, so she had to put down the pen and paper and take the initiative to jump off the stargazing platform.

As a result, Xu Xiangwan and his entourage, only Wuwu, Shen Qianyu and Wulang remained on the stargazing platform.

The weather was cold at night, but the streets were crowded with people, the atmosphere was hot, and everyone was huddled together, but they didn't feel how cold it was.

"Mother, if you are tired of standing, how about we find a food stall to sit and drink a bowl of hot soup first?" Although Xu Xiangwan is heading for the leader, she also has self-knowledge, she may be good at medicine refining and has the strength to fight, if you really talk about learning, just compared with Goro, she is already out of reach.

Zhang shook his head and said with a smile: "I didn't stand for long, so I'm not tired." ”

"Sister, how many puzzles have you solved? None of those puzzles are simple, and there are many rare words, I have never seen them. Xiao Jiu saw that Xu Xiangwan had also come down, and he had the meaning of being a sister and brother in distress, so he stepped forward and hugged Xu Xiangwan's arm.

Xu Xiangwan smiled: "I have solved twenty-two, and twenty-three is an allusion that I haven't seen." What about you?"

Xiao Jiu touched his head, his eyes rolled, and he changed the topic: "Sister, which one do you say is the most powerful compared with Brother Wuwu and Brother Qianyu?"

"Of course, our brother is the most powerful. It's not that Xu Xiangwan doesn't believe in Wuwu, but he feels that Wuwu will definitely not be able to catch up with Wulang in terms of learning, because he has never participated in the imperial examination in his previous life or in this life.

As for Shen Qianyu, she didn't think about him at all, okay?

After listening to Xu Xiangwan's assertion full of confidence in Wulang, Zhang and the others all laughed.

Let's say that on the stargazing platform, Shen Qianyu was frowning, staring at the riddle in his hand taken out of the last lantern bag in the third row.

"This son, it's been half an hour since you went to the stargazing platform, please put down your pen and paper. The maid standing next to Shen Qianyu finally reminded her.

Shen Qianyu put down the pen depressedly, just in time to see Gorou write the last stroke, and Wuwu stood with his chest in his hands.

After Shen Qianyu was invited off the stargazing platform, there were only three people left on the stage, and no one in the audience tried on the stage anymore.

"Black is not white, red and yellow are not, and foxes, cats and dogs are like neither domestic animals nor wild animals; there are poems and words, and there are also words in the Analects, and there are also blurred between east and west, north and south, although it is a short piece, it is a wonderful text, and if you play a word, isn't it just a riddle?" Shen Qianyu patted his head in annoyance, and secretly scolded himself for why he didn't come up with the answer to the riddle earlier.

The riddles of all three were presented to the three judges in front of them.

After the three judges had discussed, the person in the middle marked the serial number on the back of the note, and then placed the three riddles in order in the golden red cloth tray brought by the maid.

The maid came to the center of the table with the tray and handed it to the man who had just said the opening words.

Only one of the three got the last puzzle right. The man took out a small note with "One" written on it from the tray and unfolded it in his hand. (To be continued.) )