Chapter 36, Lantern Riddle (II)
Although Xiao Nan is very interested in the reward of "Yunhu Qingzhai", he is not a person without measure, and he will definitely not come out to steal the limelight of Song Haoting at this time, after all the riddle lights on the first floor are solved, everyone's eyes quickly moved to the lanterns hanging on the second floor, the riddle lights on the second floor are hung higher, and the shopkeeper Zhao has sent someone up when everyone's eyes turn to the second floor, standing on it to take the lantern for the players and the audience below to read the riddle. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The first four lights on the second floor were very smooth, but the kung fu of a cup of tea was solved by Song Haoting and Yang Erlang, although one of the problems was helped by the scribe beside him, but this was not cheating, before the two sides were going to compete, they counted the helpers around them, and after unlocking the four lights, the fifth light was Song Haoting's turn.
The riddle on this lamp is: the lover is gone and never returns, the tears of hatred for half a life, the purple mangs shake July, and the jade grits and the west wind. These four lines of poetry, the last two sentences are very easy to understand, it should be written about the ripe rice in the rice field, plus a July, which can be understood as early rice, but the problem is that the first two sentences are connected together, and the upper and lower couplets are integrated, which makes people scratch their heads.
Song Haoting thought about a cup of tea, but he still didn't know what to do, Song Haoting was stuck, it stands to reason that Yang Erlang should be very happy, but looking at him and the middle-aged scribe, there was no smugness on their faces, both of them wrinkled their brows, obviously trying their best to think.
Song Haoting couldn't think of the answer for a long time, and when he was about to give up, Xiao Nan suddenly took a step forward and spoke first: "May I ask Shopkeeper Zhao, Yang Erlangjun's side can be answered by someone, we are in a group with Senior Brother Song, we should be able to help answer, right?" As soon as she said this, the eyes of many people around her converged on her.
"Of course." Shopkeeper Zhao didn't expect Xiao Nan to stand up suddenly, she glanced at Xiao Nan in surprise and nodded.
"The answer to this mystery is the early rice ear." With the permission of Zhao's shopkeeper, Xiao Nan blurted out her answer, as soon as she said this, many eyes that fell on her suddenly changed from surprise to no, everyone just saw her a little girl who had the courage to stand up, although she was surprised, she didn't have some expectations in her heart, how do you know that this little girl directly abandoned the first two sentences, and only took the last two sentences to answer the question literally, if the riddle is really so easy to guess, how can the reward of "Yunhu Qingzhai" not be taken away for five years?
Lin Zhi and Song Nuo, who were standing behind Xiao Nan, were also stunned, and then looked at the contemptuous eyes of the people around them, and couldn't help but pinch a cold sweat for Xiao Nan, in front of everyone, even if they wanted to pull Xiao Nan back, Yang Erlang sneered even more, and opened his mouth mercilessly: "Hehe, Song Dalang, you still think you invited some masters, but I didn't expect ......"
Xiao Nan turned a blind eye to all this, she looked at Shopkeeper Zhao intently, as if waiting for her to reveal the answer, Shopkeeper Zhao also ignored everything around her, her good-looking eyebrows slightly frowned, quietly glanced at Xiao Nan and asked: "Can you tell me why you chose this answer?" ”
"The beloved is gone and does not return, the good of this union can be used as food here, from ancient times to the present, if there is no food, the people's life is unsustainable, the days are miserable, and everyone will inevitably feel sad and hateful, for this reason, the first two sentences imply the grain, and the last two sentences obviously refer to the ripe ears of rice in July, and the front and back are linked, still referring to the mature early rice." Xiao Nan replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.
As soon as she said this, whether it was Yang Erlang, who was waiting to see the joke with a mocking face, or the surrounding audience were stunned, but soon this stunned turned into shock, Xiao Nan's answer sounded a little far-fetched at first glance, but after careful consideration, she found that these four riddles were connected together, and her answer could be said to be correspondingly far away, which could not be more appropriate. (Note, this couplet is the author's own answer, and the author doesn't quite understand why the beloved is gone, and the tears of hatred are half a life, and the implication is the grain, and the only explanation is that this good is this food)
"This little lady has such a unique opinion, such a keen thinking, that's right, the answer to this couplet is the mature early rice, Yang Erlangjun, do you want to continue to compete?" Shopkeeper Zhao smiled and gave the answer to the mystery that everyone was looking forward to, although the surrounding audience felt that Xiao Nan's explanation was good, but it was not until Shopkeeper Zhao said the mystery that they were really convinced by Xiao Nan's answer.
"Auntie, you are amazing!" Song Nuo was overjoyed when she saw this, she took a step forward, and as soon as she grabbed Xiao Nan's hand, Xiao Nan smiled at her, indicating that she should be a little restless, Lin Zhi was also very happy, but she acted much more restrained than Song Nuo, only pursed her lips and smiled at Xiao Nan, and quietly gave her a thumbs up.
"Continue, of course." Yang Erlang came back to his senses and took over the words of Zhao's shopkeeper, Xiao Nan was just lucky to answer a question, she was an eleven or twelve-year-old lady who could still beat him and the middle-aged scribes beside him, the game continued, and then Song Haoting and Yang Erlang both answered two questions and then both got stuck, and the remaining four lamps on the second floor were finally solved by Xiao Nan alone.
After solving the riddle on the second floor, Xiao Nan's eyes quickly fell on the third floor, and Shopkeeper Zhao glanced at her quite unexpectedly: "According to the rules, your group has answered four more questions than Yang Erlangjun, that is, you have already won, but you want to continue to solve the riddle?" ”
"Of course, since I heard my senior sister and Senior Brother Song talk about the rewards of your store, my heart can no longer calm down, and now I have walked two-thirds of the way, and there is no reason to stop at this time." Xiao Nan replied with a smile.
"The little lady is so courageous, then go on, Rong Qiao, go up to the third floor to get the lamp and read the couplet." The shopkeeper Zhao praised a sentence, and quickly instructed people to go up to the third floor to read the question, and the riddle of the first lamp was: "Da Fengzi went to Ren, most of the figs were on the side, and the earth bone skin was used for three, and Shi Junzi added one!" ”
As soon as Qiao Rong's voice fell, Xiao Nan's crisp voice had already sounded: "A group of slippery officials." This puzzle is not difficult for many readers on the scene, everyone can come up with the answer after a little thought, and Xiao Nan is only an eleven or twelve-year-old lady, she gave the answer directly without thinking, and this agile talent made the surrounding pedestrians sigh.
Next is the second, third, fourth, fifth, Xiao Nan did not think too much, and soon gave the answer, to the sixth couplet, Xiao Nan couldn't help but be slightly stunned when he heard the title couplet, the riddle of this lamp is: "What is always fresh?" ”
"Sheep and fish, together, are always new fish." Xiao Nan took a slight breath and slowly spit out the answer.
The riddle of the seventh lamp is: "I have a strange beast, can be fat and thin, to the person Ning Xintang, now you Xu smelly, several times into the market, three dynasties are not sold, the head is lost honey locusts, but the face is wrinkled with orange peel, guess an idiom." After this couplet came out, the surrounding audience was dumbfounded, this couplet has no rhyme, and the rules can be found, how can it be an idiom?
"The answer to the mystery should be inexplicable." After half a ring, Xiao Nan opened her mouth with some embarrassment, if she didn't come from the later generations, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to think of the answer to this question even if she wanted to break her head, speaking of which tonight's guessing contest was quite a bit of a victory, but because of this, she looked at this Zhao shopkeeper and became very curious, many of the mysteries in this were made up by later generations, but I don't know where she got it from.
The last few couplets are simply anagrams for later generations, if it weren't for Xiao Nan looking at the shopkeeper Zhao and looking at her eyes without suspicion, only scorching heat and accidents, she wouldn't dare to speak, but for that set of Yan Zhenqing's "Linchuan Collection" and the four treasures of the study, she bit her teeth, her neck was stalked, and she went out hard, a total of sixteen riddle lights, Xiao Nan only spent half an hour to solve them all, and the surrounding audience was stunned for a moment, and soon burst into earth-shattering applause.