Let's say that everyone arrived at Woyun Garden and prepared to start the banquet. After everyone sat down, the proprietor Zhao Shiweng gave an order, and the servants immediately came in with vegetables and fish in their hands, and cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks, geese, fish, shrimps, and crabs were all available, and a table was fully placed.

When the dishes were served, a few maids who hired Tingting came up, divided the hot wine into a small pot, and one stood behind each person, pouring wine one by one.

The table in front of me is full of deliciousness, stewed soft, fried crispy, steamed fat, boiled fragrant, and accompanied by the mellow mash of fine wine.

After eating the big dishes, the servants and others rolled in like the wind, first removed the leftovers, and then brought the hot soup on top, asked the adults to wash their hands and rinse their mouths, clean up and stop, and replaced them with four kinds of seasonal vegetables and four side dishes, rearranged the wine cups and chopsticks, and brought up the hot wine.

Let's say that the people at this table are all from Kejia, and it is natural that there will be some elegant orders on the wine table, which are nothing more than poetry couplets, and there are always allusions in the Four Books and the Five Classics. A glass of wine is punished for not making a sentence or a bad sentence. Although Li Xianzhi's poetry level is not good, he is from eight strands, and he can always cope with it. After a few laps, everyone drank a lot, but Huang Jingfang and Liu Ruozai made sentences and couplets well, and only congratulated two glasses.

Zhang Fengyi said with a smile: "Brother Huang is from Hanlin in the end, Brother Liu always moves the Beijing Division, we can't wait, if we go on again, we have to get drunk first." With that, everyone laughed.

Huang Jingfang smiled: "According to Brother Zhang's wishes, what do you want?" ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "Today is the Lantern Festival, and guessing the lantern riddles is really fun." ”

Chen Shiqi said: "I have been waiting for the eight shares I have learned since childhood, except for articles, I have not stored many other things in my stomach, where can I find these many lantern riddles to guess?" ”

Zhao Shiweng said: "There is a back door in this garden, it is facing the street, the lanterns on the street have already hung out, and the two little guys went out with pen and ink, and copied some of the lantern riddles they picked up, let's guess and play." And he commanded him to do it.

Li Xianzhi said: "Brother Shi Weng is slow, the little guys go to the street to copy, it must be informal, and if you copy it back, I'm afraid few of you can get into the eyes of everyone here." Besides, even if there is a good one, there is only a riddle, there is no riddle, you guess this is reasonable, he guesses so well-founded, and there is no judgment when it comes to disputes, isn't it boring? Why don't you change your way of playing, wait for the wine to be good, and then go to the street together to enjoy the lanterns and guess the riddles? ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone applauded. Zhao Shiweng said: "In this case, I will make an idea." With that, he turned back to his subordinates and said, "Fetch the dice pot!" Then he went on to say to everyone: "Let's do the champion order, it just so happens that the two brothers Liu and Shi are going to enter the field, and they will also use this to ask for a mouth." ”

The crowd applauded. After a while, the servant took the dice basin and six wine glasses, arranged them in turn, and filled each with wine.

The so-called champion order is that each person throws the dice once in turn, throws four points, is called the "champion", and drinks the largest cup. The remaining one, two, three, five, six are down in order, and six points are the smallest.

Zhao Shiweng pushed the dice pot in front of Liu Ruozai and said, "This order should be taken first by the second brother Liu and Shi. ”

The two of them didn't shirk it, Liu Ruozai grabbed the dice first and threw it into the dice pot, only to see the dice dripping and turning around, and it happened to fall on four o'clock, won the champion, and ate a big cup. Everyone clapped their hands and laughed: "Brother Liu is really the champion, and he won the champion only once." ”

After laughing for a while, they took turns in turn, and each person made a champion order, until dusk, and everyone won several times. Counted, sure enough, Liu Ruozai had the most. Strange to say, the dice seemed to recognize people, and Shi Kefa didn't hit once, so he thought it was ominous.

Liu Ruozai explained: "It's just a thing to eat and drink, and it shouldn't be real." After a while, it was the time to hold the lamp, and the wine was over. The servants came up again and removed the wine vessels, and brought fragrant tea and snacks to eat. After eating a few bites, Zhang Fengyi said: "It's not early, let's go to the street to enjoy the lanterns, it's better than chatting here." ”

Only then did everyone remember, and they all said yes, so they abandoned the teacup, and were about to go out through the back door as soon as they hugged it. Zhao Shiweng stopped: "It's not in a hurry, besides, the street outside the back door is small, and there are not many good things." It's better to go to the outer city, where the market is bustling and extremely interesting. ”

Everyone agreed again, so they came to the front door again, went out, and each called his family to set up a car. In a short time, the cars were all set, and everyone bent their necks and got into the cars. Li Xian got into Zhang Fengyi's car and went to the outer city together. Before arriving at Zhengyangmen, it was already crowded and couldn't walk, so a group of people got out of the car one after another, and asked the coachman to drive the car into the quiet alley and wait.

As soon as the cold wind blew, several people had already woken up for five minutes, and wanted to follow the flow of people and squeeze outside the Zhengyang Gate. After Zhengyang Gate, it is Zhengyang Street. At this time, the streets were already full of lights and crowds. Under the strings of lanterns, there are stalls selling wine and food, playing and singing, and there are people playing lions and setting off fireworks in the middle of the street.

Although the west wind is tight, it has a hot atmosphere. A few adults disappeared in the flow of people, forgetting about guessing lantern riddles, and turned like a few rural farmers who had never entered the city, looking at everything fresh, and had to surround and look around for a long time. It was noisy in the middle of the night, and he didn't go out of two miles away.

At this time, I suddenly saw an alley stretching horizontally to Zhengyang Street, which was very wide. Inside, there are high poles on both sides of the gate of a small house, and two big red lanterns are hung on the poles, and some big red notes are neatly pasted on the lanterns, and there are rare handwriting on them.

Zhang Fengyi looked at it first and said, "Bachelor Zhou is setting up a lantern riddle ring here again, why don't you go and take a look?" ”

When everyone heard this, they looked into the alley together, and there were many people dressed as scholars, either gathering to discuss, or bowing their heads and chanting, or looking at the notes on the lamp.

Those who read books, when they see an opportunity to show their talents and learn, will give birth to a little competitiveness. So several people went inside together.

Speaking of this Bachelor Zhou, except for Li Xianzhi, the rest of these Beijing officials are naturally unknown. Since the Zhongjin Shi, he has been promoted to editing, editing, and serving, and now he has become a bachelor, and he is very talented. Because he was immersed in the sea of books and was not good at camping, he did not let go of a foreign errand and stayed in this poor yamen to study books and govern history. In addition to studying, the best is this lantern riddle, every year during the Lantern Festival, there will always be a lantern riddle here, provoking a group of readers to flock here, and then it becomes a grand event.

Li Xianzhi followed the crowd inside, because they came late, many of the easier ones had been shot, and the rest were mostly difficult and dangerous. He was not good at this in the first place, and it was really difficult to guess when he looked at it.

At this time, I heard Huang Jingfang say: "This one, I have already shot." He took it off as he spoke. Several people gathered around and stepped forward, taking a closer look through the light, only to see the riddle written on the face: "The conference is in Mengjin." The word "Mencius". ”

Zhang Fengyi said: "Brother Huang and Mo Yanming, wait for me to guess." The crowd groaned for a long time, guessing that he could not come out. Liu Ruozai said: "If there is no limit to this 'two words', you can guess the 'King of Martial Arts'." It's really hard to guess if it's limited to two words. ”

Huang Jingfang said with a smile: "These two words are also sentences. ”

It turned out that there was a rule for the bachelor to put the lantern riddle in the ring this week, that is, a table and chair were placed under the lantern, and the guest had a shot, so he tore off the riddle and wrote the riddle on it, and then the next person took it back. If it's right, you'll send out the color, and if it's wrong, you'll rewrite the riddle and stick it out.

Let's say that Huang Jingfang said, sat down and wrote the answer to the mystery below: "Recruitment." (Uttering from "Mencius, Gongsun Chouxia")

Li Xianzhi and others, together with the people on both sides of the riddle, praised Huang Jingfang's quick thinking.

At this time, the next person came over to send the lantern riddle inside, Huang Jingfang said: "A few of us are still interested, wait for a few more shots, and send them in together." ”

When the man heard this, he turned to greet the others.

At this time, Zhao Shiweng said on the side: "There are a few more here, which are also from Mencius and the Analects. ”

Several people looked at the riddle together, namely:

1. The Great Joy of the Hanger (a sentence from the Analects)

2. People (a sentence from Mencius)

3. There is no basis for oral statements (a sentence from Mencius)

4.4 (A sentence from the Analects)

5. The villain takes wealth (a sentence from the Analects)

Sixth, want to follow Cheng Men Lixue (a sentence of the Analects)

7. Tens of millions of mansions (a sentence from Mencius)

8. Flourishing in Silence (A Sentence from the Analects)

9. Supervision license (certificate of admission to the prison student) (a sentence in Mencius)

10. The hard-core second is the boss (a sentence from "Mencius")

11. Zheng (one sentence each from the Analects and the Mean)

There are also twelve of the strangest, the riddle does not have a word, only a small red dot with a red pen, shooting "Mencius" and "Analects" each sentence.

After reading them one by one, Zhao Shiweng said: "Brother Dongya's four books are the most familiar, shoot these together!" ”

Chen Shiqi said on the side: "We are all from Kejia, and there is naturally no one who is unfamiliar with the four books, but Brother Dongya has a little more ingenuity, which is beyond our reach." ”

Huang Jingfang smiled and said: "The princes have praised it. ”

Chen Shiqi said again: "Brother Dongya, wait a while, wait for me to guess first, and leave the rest that I can't guess to you." ”

The crowd was unanimous. Chen Shiqi did not shirk, and first said: "No, I have already shot four or five articles, which are 'not his sin' and 'not his way'." ”

When everyone heard this, they all said "wonderful".

Zhao Shiweng said: "I'm not as good as Brother Pingren, I only shot the sixth, and it should be 'learn and learn'." ”

Liu Ruozai was unwilling to lag behind, and said: "The third and seventh articles should be 'don't believe what you say' and 'Dazai Juhu'."

Li Xian's way: "The first rule should be 'mourning without mourning'." ”

Shi Kefa concluded: "Article 8 should be 'what is said is not the truth'. ”

There were a few left, but no one could guess it, and they all pondered and meditated for a long time.

Huang Jingfang smiled: "In this way, the next person is unique." As he spoke, he took off all the remaining pieces and wrote them out one by one: "Why can it be wasted?"

9. "Changing Millet for Su"

10. "I will take Zhongzi as a giant"

11. "Heaven is mourning", "then its political moves"

12. "Look at its color" and "red is also small"

Fang Yi stopped writing after writing, and everyone praised "wonderful". Liu Ruozai praised: "The rest of the articles are acceptable, but the eleventh article is so obscure and broad, Brother Dongya can shoot it, he is really a great expert!" After praising it, everyone echoed it one after another.

Huang Jingfang said: "Brother Liu, let's praise first, whether you are in the middle or not, you have to ask the master to show me." ”

After guessing on this lamp, I turned to the lamp near the left, and it was already guessed, and there were only seven or eight riddles left, which were different from before, all of them were riddles of "West Chamber":

(In order not to be mixed with the above, it was written in order)

13. Absconding at a loss

14. Robbers feast guests

Fifteen, can't hit the lamp fan

16. Don't forget the Mid-Autumn Festival reunion

17. A touch on the chest can still be saved

18. Silent cheeks

19. Hug and prepare, love and even (two sentences)

After everyone saw it, Huang Jingfang said: "Among us, Brother Zhang is the most romantic, and the mystery of "West Chamber" is naturally all up to you." ”

After that, everyone laughed, Zhang Fengyi did not shirk, picked up the pen, thought for a moment, and wrote it down:

13. Leave this money-losing goods

14. This table is really a rabble

Fifteenth, only allow the heart to dream

16. This section must be remembered

Seventeen, the heart is warm

18. Think slowly with your hands against your teeth

When I wrote Article 19, I paused. After that, Liu Ruozai added with a smile: "This patient should be safe, except for a little sweat." ”

Li Xianzhi said: "Brother Zhang couldn't stop in a fit of rage, guessed all these points, and really lived up to his reputation." ”

Zhang Fengyi said with a smile: "The last point alone is 'wind and sweat', Brother Liu is the real merry!" Before the words fell, everyone burst into laughter.