It was Chinese New Year's Eve when everyone rushed back to Xiaopei, and it was also a happy thing to celebrate the New Year with all the ministers.

In the blink of an eye, it is the fifteenth festival, Pei County is dressed up in a new way, showing its prosperity,

At the beginning of night, Peixian has been dressed up as a fairy tale world with brilliant lights, and the night is very quiet, but soon the silent night is broken by noisy voices, and the crowds of people on the streets begin to gather, like an ocean, covering the whole city in a blink of an eye.

Wives and husbands of families brought their children and mothers to the streets to enjoy the lanterns.

The lights of the four cities in the southeast, northwest and northwest are bright, as if it were daytime, and every store has gone to great lengths to decorate the lanterns, not for anything else, just for the people to stay in front of the store for a moment.

The crowd on the street is like a tide, if it was before, the first choice of Xiaopei people is, of course, the city market, but now there is no city market, they can go in addition to the four cities, there is also the square in front of the government, which undoubtedly gives them more choices, such a choice naturally makes the previously crowded streets much smoother.

The streets are full of children running around with lanterns laughing and laughing, and the young girls in the flower season come out hand in hand to enjoy the colorful lanterns, and there will naturally be no shortage of young men around them, if there are already women with male companions, if not, they will naturally be invited by men to travel together.

"Hey, have you heard, Jiang Mansion has invited a team of entertainers to play a hundred operas to perform in front of the mansion, let's go quickly." Suddenly, there was a commotion among the crowd and they all headed towards the east of the city.

"This brother, I don't know where Jiang Mansion is?" A young man asked.

"It's just east of the city." The man glanced at the young man in front of him and said with a smile: "This little brother, I heard that your accent is a foreigner. I don't know, no wonder, this Jiang Mansion is one of the richest families in our Xiaopei. This year, I spent a lot of money to invite a hundred operas. Speaking of this, he praised it: "It's really a big deal."

The young man nodded, and the man from before left. The subordinates on the side went up to compliment and said, "Childe, it seems that this year's lottery by Liu Yuanjun is the first prize of my Liu Mansion." ”

"Let's go, let's go back." The young Jiang Chong is dashing, handsome and dignified, he is a beautiful young man, looking at the flow of people rushing towards the east of the city, a smile hangs on the corner of his mouth. Only then did he move his legs and walk towards the east of the city.

Soon Jiang Chong returned to Jiang's mansion, and there were dragon dancers, tricks, stilts, and clouds and fog among the hundreds of opera artists in front of the house, attracting many people to watch, applauding, and applauding endlessly, but it was only a moment before being blocked by a sea of people. Jiang Chong, who saw everything in front of him, walked towards the mansion with a smile, after all, Liu Yuanjun had set up the first place this time, as long as he won the first prize, his family and the government would jointly set up a money bank. For such a temptation, which of Xiao Pei's clans is not grinding fists, he is ready to report this matter to his father as soon as possible. Report on today's grand event.

It's just that when his footsteps were about to enter the mansion gate, he found that there was a commotion in the flow of people. In a moment, a large crowd of people left, and Jiang Chong was shocked. Hurriedly walked towards the crowd in the distance, stopped a passerby, bowed his hand, and asked: "This old brother, this hundred operas are so lively, I don't know if you are not here to watch, where are you going to see the excitement?" ”

The man looked at Jiang Chong and said: "This son doesn't know, I heard that Liu Yuanjun has fun with the people, especially in front of the yamen to set up red, yellow and blue three-color lantern riddles, this red, yellow and blue are divided into three grades, red is the most difficult, yellow is slightly inferior, blue is the easiest, guess the blue will be rewarded with two brocade horses and two hundred taels of gold, if you can answer the yellow puzzle correctly, you will be rewarded with three brocades, three hundred gold, if you can guess the red, you will be rewarded with five brocades, five hundred gold. There was a look of greed in his eyes, and he said: "Liu Yuanjun is so generous, I want to see if there is anyone who has guessed all the three-color lantern riddles, if they are all right, it is one thousand gold, ten brocades." In the end, he was extremely excited, after all, such a huge amount of money was something he couldn't imagine.

Is Liu Yuanjun asking for a thousand dollars to buy horse bones? Jiang Chong's heart was suddenly shocked, how could his family's hundred dramas be able to defeat the king with a lot of money, and the key was that even if he wanted to concoct it in the same way, he didn't know what this lantern riddle was, so he hurriedly asked for advice, and said: "Such an old brother, do you know what this lantern riddle is?" ”

"I don't know about this." The man shook his head and said embarrassedly, "It's the first time I've heard of it, and I don't know what it is." Speaking of this, he smiled and said: "But since you want to guess it, it must be related to guessing riddles." ”

Jiang Chong nodded, that is, he guessed the riddle, but he wanted to go and see what this riddle was. Thinking about it, he said to the man: "Brother, let's go and see how Liu Yuanjun's puzzle is." ”

Saying that the group came to the front of the mansion, they saw that the front of the door was full of all kinds of lanterns, jade rabbit lanterns, peony lanterns, giant ship lanterns, maid lamps and so on, all kinds of lanterns were beautiful, lifelike, beautiful under the illumination of the lights, and the ambilight was even more dazzling.

In the midst of everyone's pushing, Jiang Chong finally squeezed into the crowd with all his strength, only to see a middle-aged man in the crowd placing a short table, hanging a three-color lantern first, blue is the tiger descending lamp, yellow is the birthday star offering peach lantern, and red is the Ziya fishing lantern.

At this time, I only heard the middle-aged man next to the lamp say: "As long as you carry the lantern, you can guess the riddle today, and everyone knows the reward for guessing, and there is no lie." If you don't guess correctly, you just need to put the lantern in front of the government as a punishment. ”

Speaking of this, he smiled around and said, "Now let's guess." ”

There was a lot of noise in the crowd, and there was a lot of pushing and concessions, and for a moment I heard a person shouting not far away: "I'll guess." ”

Liu An glanced at this person and said with a smile: "Okay." As he spoke, he took apart the tiger lamp, took out a piece of silk paper, and read: "The guide gathers and sighs and separates." After speaking, he smiled at the man and said, "This mystery is to guess an animal." ”

"Guess an animal?" The man glanced at Liu An, but muttered, "The guides are gathering and sighing apart?" ”

At this time, everyone listened to Liu An's riddle, and their hearts began to liven, but no one could guess it, after all, this riddle was the first time they saw it in their lives, and they couldn't figure out the doorway.

At this time, I only heard Liu An look at the man with a smile: "This son, can you guess?" ”

The man smiled awkwardly, shook his head slightly, and said, "I can't guess." ”

"Then ask the son to leave the lantern in front of the mansion, and then let others guess."

Liu An smiled at the boy, and then looked at everyone: "Who else want to guess?" ”

As soon as his voice fell, the crowd fell silent when it was neutral, and after a while, I saw a man in a Confucian robe walking out with a smile, and said as he walked: "There were two days in ancient times, which were not round and hot, and the people were not happy. There are couples who want to get rid of the harm, and the immortals help and say: 'Take the spirit tree of the East Mountain, and the blood of the tiger of the South Mountain.' ”

The man said here but said with a smile: "The guide is the tiger of the mountain, and the south is difficult to get together, as the so-called mountain does not allow two tigers, but the tiger also has a time to meet, that is the time of mating, but after mating it is separated." Confucius said and said with a smile at the end: "And this lantern is a tiger descending lantern, so the guide gathers and sighs and separates but it is a tiger thing, I don't know if you have ever answered correctly?" The man looked at Liu An with a smug look, full of confidence in his heart.

Everyone listened to what he said, and they all nodded secretly, so there was no reason to believe it, they all looked at Liu An, waiting for the answer to be announced, and they didn't want to wait for everyone to look forward to it, but they heard Liu An smile and said: "It's a pity that this son didn't answer correctly, and please go to the mansion to leave the lantern." ”

Confucian Sheng's expression immediately became ugly, and he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said, "You actually said that I answered wrong? So what do you say the answer is? At the end, he said a little hysterically: "Isn't it that I answered correctly, Liu Yuanjun is unwilling to pay the prize, right?" ”

Liu An's face immediately became ugly, and he snorted coldly: "I naturally can't say the correct answer, if you want to know, just leave the lantern in the mansion and turn it back to take a look, I think there are naturally capable people who can answer." ”

Rusheng snorted coldly and turned to leave, just taking a step, only to hear one person say, "I'll guess." ”

Everyone looked at the man and saw that he was a handsome son, and those who knew him even whispered to his companions: "It turned out to be Jiang Chong, the eldest son of the Jiang family, but I don't know if he can guess it." ”

Everyone looked at Jiang Chong together, only to see him come to Liu An, and said: "Sigh has a 'mouth' and a 'again' to separate it, and after the encounter with difficulties, it will become a pheasant's pheasant." Seeing that everyone didn't understand, he listened carefully to his explanation, and said: "This mystery is to use the riddle to call out the technique to become a fan, take the word 'knowing difficulty' under the prompt of 'gathering', and call out the 'sigh' in 'knowing difficulty' under the prompt of 'separation', so that the riddle 'pheasant' will be obtained." At the end of the speech, he looked at Liu An and said, "I don't know if you can guess right?" ”

Liu An glanced at the riddle and said with a smile: "Congratulations to the son for answering correctly." After speaking, he showed everyone the riddle in his hand, and some people who were close to him hurriedly looked at it, only to see that the answer was indeed a pheasant word for "pheasant", which immediately attracted a cheering voice.

The young man in the Confucian robe before saw that the riddle turned out to be the pheasant character of pheasant, and then he realized that he had answered incorrectly, and glanced at Jiang Chong, then he sighed and walked to the front of the government to put the lantern away.

Seeing that this person answered the answer, Liu An said with a smile: "The lottery money is behind the mansion, I don't know if the son continues to guess?" Or just take the prize money and leave? ”

Jiang Chong has no interest in the lottery money, but is extremely curious about the new thing of the lantern riddle, at this time to hear Liu An say this, is also eager to try, and the people on the side heard Liu An ask this, they have already become restless, some people are even more hurriedly said: "What does it matter if the son guesses again, if the answer is correct, you can also get more money, that is, the answer is wrong, only the two hundred gold should be content." ”

Jiang Chong listened to the sound of discussion behind him, turned around and shook it to the end, and said, "Okay, then as my father said, continue to guess this yellow puzzle." ”

Finally, he bowed his hand to Liu Anluo and said, "Please also ask the steward to turn on the peach lantern of this birthday star, the kid wants to continue to try." ”

Liu An had already looked at the young man correctly for the first question, and when he saw that he was going to continue answering the question, he nodded and smiled: "Since the son wants to continue to challenge, then I will solve the question." After speaking, he turned on the birthday star peach lantern. (To be continued.) )