Chapter 4: The Last Puzzle
Just as Yang Jin was plotting with the black-clothed brocade man in the teahouse, the lantern festival here was already in a white-hot situation.
If you follow the lantern festival puzzles of previous years, the current lantern festival has already been bored. It's just that this year, the master behind the Lantern Festival has changed the puzzles in the previous Lantern Festival and deliberately added two puzzles.
Now the puzzle has reached the last question, and the candidate for this last question is also required, it must be the person who answered the first four questions correctly, and the other villains who did not guess the first four puzzles can no longer participate in the last puzzle.
When the old man said all the guessing requirements for the last puzzle, most of the young ladies in the audience were dissatisfied, and pointed out that the old man did not tell all the situations at the beginning of the guessing puzzle, and now when it was time for the last puzzle, he came to announce the requirements for guessing the puzzle. This really caused the dissatisfaction of these young ladies and gentlemen.
"Why is it that only those who have guessed correctly in the first place are eligible to participate in the last guessing puzzle? It's not fair. ”
"yes, why are they the only ones who can participate, and we can't? Why didn't you say what you asked before? ”
With a person's dissatisfied voice sounded, there will be a lot of dissatisfaction of Miss Childe, who also did not guess the answer to the riddle in the first four puzzles, looking at the protests of everyone in the audience, the lantern will suddenly become messy, and the old man did not take it to heart.
Since six years ago, at the request of his master, he guessed the lantern riddles on the annual moon festival on Emperor Street.
Even in the face of the constant protests and dissatisfaction of the young ladies in the audience, the old man's face was indifferent.
He glanced at the people in the audience, and then said unhurriedly: "Everyone be quiet, let my old man explain to you." ”
Obviously an old man who is more than fifty years old, but after his voice came down, Jiuhuang could feel the deterrence in the old man's words, and Jiuhuang couldn't help but think that it was really Wolong and Hidden Tiger in Shangjing, but it was a small lantern festival of the Moon Festival, and the old man who presided over the lantern festival on the high platform was a strong person, and Jiuhuang's heart was really unspeakably surprised.
Perhaps intimidated by the intimidation coming from the old man's voice, the crowd that had been noisy because of dissatisfaction began to become quiet.
When everyone in the audience was quiet, the old man slowly spoke, explaining to everyone the requirements of the last guessing puzzle.
"At the beginning of the lantern festival, the old man had already said that this year's lantern festival was different from previous years, and this year's awards were also different from previous years."
As he spoke, the old man looked at the crowd under the stands, took in everyone's expressions, and then began to say: "We have the requirements for the last person to participate in the answer, and we have also chosen according to yourself. ”
"Every puzzle in front of you is made public, let you guess the puzzle yourself, and we are only responsible for selecting the person who meets the riddle, in the face of all the young ladies and young ladies, we are all the same, since the young ladies who can successfully enter the last puzzle, they are all with many of you to come together."
"So why is there such a requirement for the last puzzle, the old man thinks that you ladies and sons should not be arguing about the requirements of the last question here."
The old man's words filled the faces of all the young ladies in the audience with shame. Although the old man did not explicitly say that their knowledge was not as good as that of the few young ladies who could enter the last puzzle, everyone could still hear this in the old man's words.
Seeing that the people in the audience did not feel any dissatisfaction with their words, the old man spoke again: "Of course, we still have a request that has not been said. ”
When the ladies in the audience heard the old man's words, they couldn't help but wonder, what was the last puzzle, and why were there so many requests?
"The time we guess the puzzle is limited to the time of a stick of incense, and I believe that everyone knows these puzzles that everyone has participated in the Lantern Festival for so many years. Then the same goes for our last puzzle, nothing will change. However, the young ladies selected by the puzzle word in our last question still couldn't guess what the riddle was after a stick of incense, and we will set up a time for half a stick of incense for other Miss Childe who was not selected to participate. ”
"Wow"
After the old man's words fell, everyone in the audience who had complained about the guessing requirements of the last puzzle instantly became happy.
Jiuhuang looked at the old man on the stage with deep meaning, so that everyone first secretly satirized the ladies in the audience for not being educated, and then said that after the selected candidates failed to guess the puzzle, everyone could still have the opportunity to guess the final puzzle, which is typical of giving everyone a slap and then giving everyone a sweet date.
You must know that the people who can be called Miss Gongzi in Shangjing are either rich or expensive, how many of them are the children of important ministers in the Celestial Empire, and how many are the young ladies and sons of those big families that even the royal family is afraid of, not to mention the fact that Jiuhuang learned about the Yuexi Festival from the little maid in the sky.
I believe that there are many princesses and princes of the royal family inside, and the people who hold the Lantern Festival dare to do this, aren't they afraid of arousing the hatred of the various families of the Celestial Empire and making them unable to stay in Shangjing?
In other words, what kind of power do the people behind the Lantern Festival have who are not afraid of the forces of the Celestial Empire?
But what Jiuhuang was thinking about was just her own thoughts, and it didn't seem to be anything to the young ladies who were obsessed with guessing the last riddle. Because now, the final puzzle has come out.
The puzzle of the last lantern riddle is not like the previous four puzzles, it is made up of two little guys taking out a picture scroll to unfold, and there is a puzzle on it.
The last puzzle is that on the high lampstand, it is instantly hung with colorful glass lamps, and candles are burning in many glass lamps, illuminating the entire Shangjing City in a dream-like picture.
The old man's voice sounded on the high platform: "The last puzzle is that among these many lantern riddles, there will be the mysterious prize that won the first place today, and the selected young ladies will draw lots, and then come in their own order, standing fifty steps away, and then our special person will take out a special arrow feather to shoot the lantern that they think will be the answer to the riddle, only the lantern to be shot has our mysterious prize, then the lantern will be over, and the person who shot the lantern riddle will be the first place in the lantern festival tonight." , not only can you get the mysterious prize in the lantern, but you can also get the long-lost wooden flute. “
The old man's words sounded on the stage, and the ladies and ladies in the audience were in an uproar again. Of course, no one was saying anything this time.
And Jiuhuang originally solved the first puzzle by her, although she had a tie with the man in the long shirt on the second question, Jiuhuang had already been selected as a candidate who could participate in the last puzzle.
After the old man's words fell, there was a little servant with a small stick holder in his hand, which contained the order of the last guess.
I don't know whether Jiuhuang's luck is too good or too bad, among the nearly ten people, Jiuhuang actually drew the last one to guess the lantern riddle.
After everyone draws lots, the last riddle will officially begin.
The first to guess the lantern riddle was a woman in a goose-yellow brocade dress, the woman stood fifty steps away, looking at the dazzling glass lamp hanging on the high platform, and kept guessing in her heart which one would be the lantern with the prize.
There were several brightly dressed women standing beside her, constantly encouraging the women in yellow.
The woman in yellow faced the encouragement of the good sisters around her and the other young ladies who kept urging her, and finally stopped at a red glass painted with rain butterflies on the board, and under the tense situation, the woman struggled to shoot the bow and arrow in her hand.
Although the bow and arrow used for spotlight are specially made to be light and easy for the woman to pull away, but the bow is lighter, and the arrow feather is also lighter.
In this way, even if the woman pulled out the bow in her hand with all her strength and shot the arrow feather, the arrow feather that she shot fell from mid-air only ten steps away from her.
After the arrow feather fell, a hint of joy flashed in the eyes of the other onlookers who were unable to participate. Because after all the previous selected heats did not get the lamp with the mysterious prize, they would have a chance to participate. A trace of disappointment flashed in the eyes of the woman who saw the arrow feather falling from mid-air, and she was a little unwilling in her heart, but she also left under the voice of the old man, and replaced it with a second person and started to play.
The second one on the stage was a beautiful boy dressed in jade brocade. After seeing the arrow feathers of the woman in yellow falling from mid-air just now, he looked at the glass lamp on the high platform with his eyes like a giant, and the bow and arrow in his hand were held tightly.
At this time, I don't know who started to say, "Hurry up!" The crowd around them began to cheer.
Under everyone's expectation and a little nervousness, the man finally lived up to everyone's expectations and shot the full arrow feather in his hand.
Some of the people who were afraid that the man would be able to find and shoot the lamp containing the mysterious prize, saw that the arrow feather shot by the man was the same as the woman before, and the arrow feather fell from mid-air when it was more than ten steps away.
In an instant, those who were worried couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, and men and women felt a little lost in their hearts. Perhaps the man didn't have much hope for finding the lamp with the mysterious prize in so many glass lamps, so he just smiled disappointedly after the failure, and without waiting for the old man's words, he moved away and waited for the next person who spotted the lantern.