After the father-in-law received the money, he brought a red-clothed lama with boundless power to the palace, he could pinch and calculate, and he could kill people invisibly, and even knew astronomy and geography, and praised this lama as having heaven and no earth.

When the long-term monk heard it, it was bad, if it was such a powerful opponent, then he would go and play dumb riddles with him now, and there was a chance that he would lose.

If you usually play dumb riddles with him, you will lose if you lose, at most you will not be able to get over your face, and now in front of the emperor, if you lose, it is likely that this head will be gone, not only that, everyone in this prison temple will not be able to raise their heads and be human beings in the future.

The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable it became, and his eyes couldn't help but turn red.

The old sheep tongue took advantage of the fact that the long-term monk had not yet come, and whispered to Zhang Haogu: "Wait a while, the old monk will come, and you will play dumb riddles with him." ”

Zhang Haogu gasped in fright and said, "Don't, I don't know how to play dumb riddles at all, you can go by yourself." ”

The old sheep's tongue said angrily: "If I lose, the two of us will die, if you lose, I have another chance, if you don't want to die here, just listen to me!" ”

Zhang Haogu knew that what the old sheep's tongue said was right, and secretly complained in his heart, he knew that there would be such a thing today, and he should not have read the Four Books and Five Classics in the first place, but should have read more Buddhist scriptures.

The long-term monk came to the main hall, knelt down and bowed, and then stood up and looked at the two people carefully.

He recognized Zhang Haogu's official uniform at a glance, and as for this white-haired red-clothed lama, he was an extraordinary person at first glance.

The long-term monk should not be cowardly, and his neck shrinking was seen by the old sheep's tongue.

The old sheep's tongue thought to himself: Hehe, this is good, the old monk was scared as soon as he came, okay, as long as he was afraid, he had a great chance of winning.

But be careful to sail the boat for ten thousand years, you can't go on the first game, you have to let Zhang Haogu go first, if you win this game, then you will naturally be happy, if he loses, he will go out again.

After making up his mind, the old sheep tongue stepped forward and said: "Your Majesty, I observed the face of this long-term abbot below, and found that he was a high-ranking monk who had attained the Tao, and he was also a cultivator below, so I really didn't want to fight with him, so it was better to let Zhang Zhixian fight for me, and when he usually chatted with me, I also taught him a lot of dumb riddles, and I believe he can deal with it." ”

When the long-term monk heard this, he almost stopped crying.

He thought to himself: This lama is so powerful, he doesn't even bother to do it with himself, and assigns the magistrate who usually chats with him and learns to play dumb riddles to deal with him, how confident he must be.

"Oh? Zhang Haogu, you can also play pantomime? Good, good, so you two can get started. The emperor said.

Zhang Haogu stood up stubbornly and said to the long-term monk: "Master, you can come up with a dumb riddle first." ”

The long-term monk did not speak, but solemnly stretched out a finger.

Zhang Haogu thought to himself: It's over, I'm dead, what does his finger mean? I don't understand it at all.

He secretly glanced at the old sheep's tongue with his eyes, and the old sheep's tongue had no choice but to slowly stretch out a finger.

What he meant was that since he didn't understand what the other party meant, it was better to learn his tricks first, so that he wouldn't be exposed all at once.

But Zhang Haogu misunderstood, he thought: Oh, so that's the case, the long-term monk stretched out a finger, and the old sheep's tongue also stretched out a finger, then these are two fingers, I understand.

He cleverly stretched out two fingers.

He was stunned for a moment, thought for a moment, and then nodded slowly.

Hey, this time the old sheep's tongue is also happy, Zhang Haogu is right.

Although he didn't understand what it meant, Zhang Haogu also knew that he had answered correctly, and he couldn't help but feel fluttering in his heart.

Soon, the long-term monk made a move.

He held out three fingers.

Zhang Haogu wanted to stretch out four fingers, but when he thought about it, this was not right, as soon as I stretched out four fingers, he stretched five more, and I lost, I don't have six fingers, and the other hand is not good-looking.

In that case, why don't I just stretch out five fingers.

That's what he did.

The long-term monk's face changed greatly, and he seemed to be a little overwhelmed.

But he still barely managed to hold his mind and patted his heart.

Zhang Haogu thought: I understand, this monk said that his heart hurts, alas, it's no wonder, playing dumb riddles in front of the emperor, can you not be scared of heartache?

Not to mention that his heart hurts, I still have a terrible headache.

Thinking so, he patted himself on the head.

The long-term monk's face turned green, he turned around and knelt down in front of the emperor and said: "Long live, the lama is really a master, I didn't expect that the Zhang Zhixian he taught was so powerful, the poor monk lost, and he was convinced." ”

Zhang Haogu and the old sheep's tongue were so happy that they almost hugged each other and laughed.

The emperor had been watching just now, but he could see what they meant by these actions.

Now that he heard the long-term monk say that he had lost, he hurriedly asked: "Get up, this is just a joke, I won't punish you, but you can tell me how you lost?" ”

The long-term monk wiped the cold sweat on his head and said: "Long live, I stretched out a finger to say, don't be complacent and don't think I'm a bully, I have a Buddha bow, Zhang Zhixian stretched out two fingers and said that I can't fight him, because he has two holy protections, I thought about it and stretched out three fingers and said, the three emperors rule the world, he stretched out five fingers and said, the five emperors are kings." I had no choice but to pat my heart and say, the Buddha sits in my heart, and the world does not touch me. But he patted his head and said that there was a blue sky on his head, and he called it Qiankunming. ”

Zhang Haogu listened to the long-term words, and was surprised and delighted.

I was shocked that the dumb riddle was so profound, and it was not what I thought at all.

I'm really lucky, the blind cat met the dead mouse, and by mistake, he was able to win this long-term old monk.

After listening to the long-term explanation, the emperor nodded, looked at Zhang Haogu with satisfaction and said, "Zhang Aiqing, I didn't expect you to be so proficient in dumb riddles, very good, very good." ”

After receiving the emperor's praise, Zhang Haogu was so happy that he almost forgot where he was.

Fortunately, the old sheep's tongue was clever, and he immediately said, "Thank you for the compliment." ”

Zhang Haogu knelt on the ground at this time, kowtowed a few times and said, "Thank you, Long live the lord." ”

Du Guiren saw that his plan did not work, and his face was a little ugly.

She glanced at the old sheep's tongue and said, "Oh, the concubine has always wanted to see the lama make a move, but who knew that this time he gave the credit to Zhang Zhixian." ”

How shrewd the old sheep's tongue was, he had already seen just now that Du Guiren was trying to find a way to make it difficult for him.

He thought about it, he must not let this woman who tells right and wrong stay with the emperor anymore, otherwise he will feel better in the future.

He pretended to pinch his fingers and said, "Oh, it's not good! ”

He was so startled, but Zhang Haogu was startled.

The emperor also looked at him suspiciously and asked, "Lama, what do you mean by this?" ”

The old sheep's tongue raised his head and said, "Just now I sensed that the disaster star in the sky has moved, and I want the great country of the cholera emperor!" ”

(To be continued.) )