Chapter 692: Garden Party

Seeing the ice lanterns in the Xiaoyao Palace, the screams of the concubines began. Some of them just don't believe that these dreamlike and beautiful scenery are made www.biquge.info of ice, and when you touch them with your hands, they are cold and cold, definitely not jade, not crystal, glass and agate, just ice!

They don't know why the lamp that is sealed inside doesn't have flickering flames, and why it doesn't go out if it doesn't breathe. In fact, these lights are all charged holiday lanterns, without sockets, and there are wires connected together, but they have been hung between the forks of the trees, and it is night, so they will be ignored if they do not think carefully. Candle lamps are very fond of extinguishing and will also bake ice.

After watching all kinds of ice lanterns for a while, Prince Xuan led all the concubines to the slide and taught them to play on the slide. At first, I was trembling, but then I became addicted. Screams and happy laughter followed. They have been in the deep palace for a long time, and they take the emperor's happiness as their life goal every day, depressed, lonely, and helpless, where did they think that they could have the joy of tonight? He played, laughed, and screamed desperately, forgetting all the unpleasantness.

The prince was afraid that there would be a weak physical strength among them, so he asked the two Fujin to quickly take the concubines back to the Xiaoyao Palace to warm up.

These concubines haven't had enough fun, they are all young women, and the oldest is only twenty-two or three years old. The young woman is also playful, and she looks reluctant to give up when she is invited to rest.

The next thing is the entertainment, which is held in the main hall of the Xiaoyao Palace. For example, setting bamboo rings, touching noses, throwing sticks, playing checkers, and guessing lantern riddles. The first one to proceed is nose touching. A picture of Yun'er is an exaggerated caricature: an old lady who teaches Mama to dress up, a big face, a very exaggerated big garlic nose, a red rosacea nose with a few freckles and pockmarks, an open mouth and a smile, only one front tooth. The concubines were about to die of laughter when they saw this painting.

The portrait is attached to one of the walls in the main hall of the Joyful Palace. There are older grandmothers to explain to the concubines how to play this game: each person can touch it three times, to blindfold it, walk ten steps away, there is a eunuch father-in-law to shout the direction, or it is possible to deviate from the track and run to the side, touch the gong to congratulate, and then give a medal to receive the prize. The prize is claimed on the left wall, not far from the playing field.

The first person to touch his nose was the mother of the second prince Fuquan, Concubine Ke, who looked determined to win, and after the mother tied the blindfolded black cloth, she walked forward, and after three steps, she deviated from the direction and walked to the left, and the concubines laughed loudly and shouted: "Hi! What's the turn? ”

So Concubine Ke hurried back and went to the front right. The concubines screamed and laughed. A grandmother brought Concubine Ke back, sent her to the portrait of the comic, and whispered, "Niangniang can touch it." ”

Concubine Ke's hand groped for the portrait, measuring the bottom edge very carefully, and finally put her index finger in one place and did not move, that is, to make sure that this was the nose. Mama took away the blindfolded cloth, and Concubine Ke was stunned: How could it touch the door of her head?

Then the concubines laughed and screamed.

Mama said, "Niangniang, you can touch it twice." ”

"Huh? There's still a chance, this time the palace must be right. "This time it's much stronger than last time, and it's on my face. But she was not discouraged at all, and finally hit the target for the third time. The eunuch sounded the gong with a "bang", and the grandmother who handed out the medals quietly gave her two medals, and there was no problem with this kind of fraud. Concubine Ke happily took the award. It was a three-inch-tall plastic doll, a pencil with a green pole, and a pencil sharpener.

Concubine Tong was the second to play. She learned the lesson of Concubine Ke and never deviated from her goal. I actually hit it three times. He got a pearl hairpin, a delicate purse, and a glass ball in a small box, larger than a cow's eye, and inside was a beautiful lotus flower, pink flowers, emerald green lotus leaves, and a small frog on the lotus leaf. As if Concubine Tong liked something, she hugged her tightly in her arms.

The concubines have never played such an interesting game, and when they asked if Chen Fujin of Rui Wangye brought it back from a foreign land, they were all happy like children, none of them were not awarded, that is, they did not touch their noses, and the grandmother who handed out the medals would also give one for personal gain. These people take face very seriously.

The next show is a set of bamboo hoops. A person is given five bamboo hoops the size of a trumpet bandage, and you can throw any prize ten steps away, whichever you want, and the prize that is yours will be yours. It seems very simple, but when the strength is big, the bamboo circle will fly to the back of the prize, and the momentum will naturally not be able to set it if the strength is small. When the bamboo ring in his hand adapted, the bamboo ring was gone.

Concubine Tong had two of the five bamboo traps, but the grandmother who handed out the medals cheated and gave her one more. These grandmothers were deliberately given more on the orders of the two Fujin.

Concubine Tong's checkers level is far inferior to that of her son, the Third Prince. Checkers can play two games, and she doesn't win a single game. Mama cheated on two medals, and the prizes she received were all small objects, very cute little things. Concubine Tong received a very delicate handbag and a beautiful glass kitten. I like it very much, Mama gave a convenient bag and put it up, and it was carried by the personal palace maid Mo'er.

The next game item is the shooting of the wedge. 搋, which is the same as "揣", is a small round stick with a length of half a foot, with a round, flat rubber sheet at one end, which will be adsorbed on an upright board like a suction cup when shot. It is necessary to shoot the basket as an arrow like an arrow, and it is not required to hit the center of the circle, and it is considered a hit if it is adsorbed on the board, and one is attached to a medal. The maid girl served ten small picks on a tray, and each lady had ten chances.

The ladies took this little thing they had never seen before, closed one eye, took aim, pulled the bowstring and shot the pinch at the plank like an arrow. I really didn't know that there were so many fun things in Ruiwangfu.

The concubines who got the prizes happily communicated with other concubines one by one about whose prizes were good-looking. Several princes Chitose who were with the emperor saw this venue and came to shoot their sons. It's hard for Mama to say that this is something that women play with. Fortunately, the concubines have all played, so hurry up and avoid it.

People who are usually good at archery do not necessarily stick the hammer to the plank, depending on whether the angle is right, it can be stuck to the plank, and it will fall off if it deviates a little, which has little to do with the size of the strength. These princes Chitose and Grandpa Guo were full of interest, and they all said that Prince Rui would play. The prince said: "This is Chen Fujin's return, and it has nothing to do with this king." ”

Next up is the lantern riddle.

Guessing is a game to test IQ, and Concubine E, who has not appeared, appeared. She doesn't care about playing with children's stuff, and if she wants to play, she has to play to a high level.

These riddles from the house are all from exotic riddle books, there is a guess, some are a little more difficult, and some are not very easy to guess. Most of them are in the vernacular, which makes people feel very shallow. These riddles are hung on a nylon rope, which is a three-inch wide and one-foot long strip of paper written in block letters, and the size of the words is also moderate and eye-catching. Most of these concubines in the palace are literate and should be able to understand.

The first set of riddles, using idioms to answer riddles. Enigma: 1. White-faced traitor; Second, the sun and the moon are dizzy; Three, three inches of golden lotus horizontally; Fourth, if the ends of the world are next to each other; 5. "Stop! "Sixth, the "Moral Chapter" and "Du Gongbu Poetry Collection" have been completed; Seventh, "Lao Tzu Eighty-one Chapters", eighth, "Lisao" poem manuscript belongs to whom; 9. "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"; 10. "The Story of Shizhong Mountain"; 11. "Sun Tzu"; "Xiangshan Dictionary" two and two episodes; 12. If a grandmother doesn't marry a daughter, how can she be hugged by her grandson; 13. Oops, the paint is lost; 14. I didn't say anything after being slapped; Fifteen, seven points shorter; XVI. The Dwarven Kingdom Goes to War; 17. Take care of flowers and trees, do not tie livestock; 18. Everyone has a love for beauty; 19. The warm wind blows the tourists drunk; 20. There are tens of millions of Ande mansions.

These riddles seem to be commonplace, but if you haven't read a book, I'm afraid it's a bit difficult. Twenty riddles have twenty riddles, and they must be idioms. Most of the concubines were a bit blind. I saw Concubine E's confident face, and when she came to the eunuch Bingbi, she asked, "Do you have paper and pen?" ”

"Yes, please sit down and write the answer." Concubine E looked confident, picked up the pen, and wrote the mystery directly:

First, the truth is not hidden; Second, a set of yin and a set of yang; 3. Insignificant; Fourth, the long story is short; 5. Orders and prohibitions; Sixth, a serious book; Seventh, kill Ji Fu; Eighth, the text carries the way; 9. The thing is returned to its original owner; 10. Smugness.

Twenty idioms were guessed by Concubine Dong E, and she guessed them in order, which means that she should leave half of them for others, and she couldn't guess them herself. Wow, ten prizes were taken at once.

"Are there any other riddles?" Concubine E felt a sense of accomplishment, and she was still happy.

Xuan'er walked over with a smile and handed a dozen pieces of paper to Concubine E.

"Lord Xuan, what is this?"

"This is a brain teaser on the other side of the foreign land, you can guess it as a lantern riddle, okay?"

"Okay, okay, this palace loves to guess riddles." Concubine E is indeed very smart, and she can quickly guess the lantern riddles related to poetry and songs, but for the brain teaser of a foreign land, her thinking is far from that of a foreign person. The brain teasers selected by Xuan'er are all very simple and can be guessed by the Qing people, but their concepts are different, and their ways of thinking about problems are also different. The first "riddle" is:

"Winter melon, cucumber, watermelon, and pumpkin can be eaten, but what melon can't be eaten?"

"This ...... yes, what melon can't be eaten? In addition to the eastern, western, southern, and northern four kinds of melons, other kinds can also be eaten, such as bitter gourd, gourd, melon...... How can there be a melon that cannot be eaten? ”

Xuan'er didn't say anything, and if she said it, Concubine E would annoy herself, because the answer was a fool.

The second riddle is: Can you turn ice into water as fast as you can?

Concubine E is a person who does not go out of the door and does not step out of the second door, and is a noble person who can't pick up his shoulders and can't lift his hands, and he only knows that in winter, the water drips into ice outside, who will know how to quickly turn ice into water again, unless he puts ice into the house, but the riddle of people is the fastest speed, and the ice in the house will slowly melt away. This "lantern riddle" can't be answered.

"There are six steamed buns in the basin, and each of the six children gets one, and there is one left in the basin, why?"

There are really a lot of "lantern riddles" that Concubine E can't answer. Other concubines can't answer when they see that the emperor spoils them, so it's normal that they can't answer. But Concubine E felt that if she couldn't answer, it would be too shameless. Isn't it strange to just think about it? The six steamed buns and six children are gone, how can there be left? It's not that Concubine E is not smart, it's that her thinking can't jump out of normal thinking, and the brain teaser is to let you jump out of this trap, but I didn't expect the sixth child to even take the basin away, so simple that it couldn't be simpler.

"What's something you don't have to fight hard?"

Concubine E was entangled again, and she couldn't guess. Usually, the brain reacts quite quickly, and it is not so difficult to write a poem. Don't have to spend effort to play cotton? No, playing cotton can't be called beating cotton. You have to fight, and you don't have to spend your strength and headaches. I had to shake my head and admit defeat. In fact, the so-called "beating" does not necessarily use any tools, but what kind of physical hits, yawning, sneezing, are all called beating.

"You can do it, I can do it, everyone can do it; One person can do it, two people can't do it together, what is this doing? ”

This riddle is even more difficult! If everyone can do it, why can't two people do it together? What the hell are you doing? Concubine E felt that she had never been so stupid! It's reasonable for others to be stupid, isn't it because the emperor spoils himself because he is smart? After being so stupid......

Concubine E wanted to cry very much. Because she saw a lot of gloating eyes, looking at herself with fierce eyes. Can't guess a lantern riddle for such a long time? I had to look at Xuan'er with a distress look. Xuan'er whispered in her ear: "Concubine Niangniang, it's a dream." ”

"Huh?" It's that simple? I can't answer such a riddle, isn't it brain-dead?

Just when Concubine E felt very faceless, the emperor came. Seeing Concubine E's embarrassment, he whispered, "What is Concubine Ai doing?" Why doesn't everyone speak? ”

"Back to the emperor, the concubines are guessing lantern riddles."

"Guess the lantern riddle? Okay, I'll guess too. Who's out of the riddle? ”

"It's Lord Xuan. None of us could have guessed. ”

"Wouldn't it? The questions that Lord Xuan gave to the envoys of various countries are so simple, and it won't be too difficult for you, right? ”

Concubine E blushed and said, "Lord Xuan's lantern riddles are all unexpected. ”

"Xuan'er's nephew, give me a few unexpected lantern riddles."

Xuan'er hurriedly knelt down and said, "Nephew doesn't dare." It is entertaining for my nephew to give you lantern riddles, and if you can't guess it, it's a joke, but if you can't answer the lantern riddles...... Didn't Xuan'er embarrass you? It's a crime of deceit to embarrass you,"

"You're so at such a young age, hehe...... You are not guilty. Out of the lantern riddle! ”

"Huh. What is there that everyone must do seriously every day? ”

"What the imperial nephew said is something that everyone must do every day? Is everyone doing the same thing? ”

"You're right."

"What I do, can the common people in the market do it?"

"Yes, this matter does not include the government."

"It's strange, the emperor and the common people can do the same thing, this ...... I can't guess, it's too puzzling, so the emperor's nephew will say the answer. "The emperor didn't care about any face, and honestly asked Xuan'er for advice.

"It's sleeping."

"Sleep? Ahahahaha......" The emperor laughed incessantly, "interesting, interesting, really unexpected, come again." ”

"Who is afraid to take a bath?"

"This person doesn't like to be clean, right?" yes, I digress. Who? It's not that I don't like to wash, but I don't dare to wash, what are you afraid of in the bath? His thinking was always inseparable from normal thinking, and he asked in a low voice: "This person has a phobia?" ”

"It's a clay figure."

"Hahahaha...... "The emperor couldn't stop laughing." Imperial nephew, you make Uncle Nine so happy! Are there any other riddles? In this way, it is not early today, you write out your lantern riddles out of ten or eight, and I will show them to the Minister of Civil and Military Affairs at the right time to guess and see who is smarter. ”

"Huh." (To be continued.) )