"Red lady? What is this, is it poetry? Xiaobei blinked curiously.

Qing'er glanced at her and said, "Have you ever seen a poem with three words?" ”

After being said by Qing'er, Xiaobei stuck out his tongue embarrassedly, and lowered his head to play with the rabbit lantern in his hand.

Ning Xiang looked at the small piece of paper in her hand again and said, "Is this the lantern riddle that Wang Gongzi said?" ”

Listening to Ning Xiang's words, several people reflected, Wang Xiang nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, it is the lantern riddle, among the 80,000 lanterns in this lantern market, there are 1,200 lanterns hanging such a small bag, each bag contains a different lantern riddle, at the beginning of the tomorrow yen lantern market, whoever can find out the most lantern riddles and guess the most lantern riddles will be rewarded by the prince's mansion." ”

1,200 lanterns hung with a bag of lanterns, that is, 1,200 different lantern riddles, this number is really amazing, lantern riddles only began to rise in the Tang Dynasty, and now it is only 11 years of Zhenguan, so the number of lantern riddles is not much, almost all of them are riddles mentioned in some ancient books, literati playing lantern riddles is actually a way to show knowledge, read more books and naturally guess out, and like Wang Xiang himself came up with very few lantern riddles, even if he reads more books, he may not be able to guess it.

As soon as he heard that it was a lantern riddle, Xiaobei suddenly became excited, raised his head to look at Ning Xiang and asked, "Sister Ning Xiang, is the lantern riddle in your hand?" Red lady, going up to a tall building, her heart hurts, and tears flow...... Did my sister guess it? ”

Everyone was very interested in guessing the lantern riddles, and Qing'er and Xiaoyun also frowned and thought.

After almost half a pillar of incense, Ning Xiang said softly: "Is the mystery of this lantern riddle a candle?" ”

Wang Xiang was stunned when he heard this. Guessed so quickly? Although this lantern riddle is not very difficult. But it is indeed not easy to guess the answer to the riddle so quickly with only one sentence and twelve words. There are many types of riddles, guess the word, guess the person, guess the object...... If there is no hint, it is not easy to guess it quickly, at least many riddles Wang Xiang can't guess if he doesn't look at the hint, and even some riddles are still confused when they see the hints, and only when they see the riddle will they suddenly realize.

Seeing that Wang Xiang did not speak. Xiao Bei hurriedly said: "Wang Gongzi, is Sister Ning Xiang right?" ”

Wang Xiang nodded and praised: "Miss Ning Xiang is really exquisite, she guessed it so quickly." ”

"It's really a candle, Sister Ning Xiang guessed right!" Xiaobei looked surprised and excited: "But why candles?" ”

Ning Xiang's face was slightly red, and she explained: "Actually, I just happened to accidentally see the candle in the lantern and guessed it. ”

After listening to Ning Xiang's words, Xiaobei looked at the candle inside the lantern curiously, the red candle was placed in the center of the lantern, and the flame danced like a beautiful woman in red, the wick was lit, and the melted wax droplets slowly dripped down. Isn't it true of the sentence "my heart hurts, tears flow".

"Giggles. It's funny. Xiaobei understood the meaning of the riddle and clapped his hands excitedly.

The movement here quickly attracted the attention of the surrounding people, and when they saw that it was actually the four masters of the Yipin Theater, Hua Dan and Jiayuan Hou, they were even more exclaimed, and they heard Wang Xiang say about the small tips and lantern riddles, and the onlookers were immediately excited to pick up among the lanterns.

Xiaobei was a little worried: "Prince Wang, they won't pick up all the lanterns with lantern riddles." ”

Wang Xiang said with a smile: "Don't worry, 80,000 lanterns, you can't pick them until tomorrow, besides, this lantern riddle was originally prepared for everyone, and it doesn't count if you pick it out, you have to guess it." ”

After a while, some people found the lantern with a small bag and let out an exclamation, which attracted the attention of many people, so everyone gathered around and frowned at the newly discovered lantern riddle and thought about it.

Later, more and more people found lantern riddles, the lantern riddles that had just been discovered have not been guessed, new lantern riddles have appeared, the atmosphere in the lantern market is becoming more and more enthusiastic, Ning Xiang and Xiaobei and others have also joined the ranks of looking for lantern riddles.

Wandering around the lamp market alone for a while, I finally found Xiao Lori and Ju Yiya between a bunch of lanterns, the two of them held the lanterns in one hand, and the food from the vendors in the lamp market in the other, and had a lot of fun, when I saw Wang Xiang, the little Lori immediately ran over with a smile and said excitedly: "Brother-in-law, the light market we run is really lively, you see, this is not yet the Lantern Festival, there are so many people!" ”

"yes." Ju Yiya also said happily: "There are a lot of delicious foods, do you want to eat them!" ”

Wang Xiang stretched out his mouth and took a bite of the skewers in Ju Yiya's hand, spicy and spicy, I don't know what it is, since Dengxian Lou launched a hot pot such as skewers of incense, this way of eating quickly became popular in Chang'an. The method is simple, the taste is fragrant, the shrewd hawker will learn the practice of Dengxian Lou to string the ingredients into a string, put it in the fragrant ingredients and stew, some people want to eat and pay to take it away, it is convenient and fast, when encountering the assembly, put a stall selling skewers for a day's income can be worth more than ten days of income in ordinary times, so from a few days ago when the lamp market began to arrange, there were already vendors selling skewers to set up stalls here.

In addition to the vendors who sell skewers, what noodles, ravioli, cooking cakes...... There are everything, and there are people looking for a place with a lot of people in the lamp market to set up a scene and juggle, and the folk shadow puppet show has gradually increased.

Seeing that there was a vendor selling food or a juggler every few steps in the lamp market, Wang Xiang couldn't help but sigh that the Tang Dynasty was stronger than later generations, and there was no chengguan to drive the people. Although there were soldiers patrolling the city in the Lantern Market, they were only responsible for the safety of Chang'an, and would not drive away the vendors and jugglers.

Accompanied Xiao Lori and Ju Yiya for a long time, almost all over the light market, Ju Yiya's belly is round, I really don't know how her slender body can accommodate so much food, little Lori is not much better, eating a mouthful of dregs, greasy, but I don't realize it, I don't care about the image of a lady at all. Just looking at their appearance, others will never believe that these two crazy girls actually have the identity of princesses.

"Brother-in-law, I can't walk anymore." Little Lori pouted and dragged Wang Xiang's hand slowly, and she didn't know where to throw the lantern in her hand.

"I know I'm tired." Not to mention her, Wang Xiang felt that his legs were a little sore. It's Ju Yiya, who doesn't seem to be tired at all after shopping for so long, still holding a lantern in one hand and a skewer in the other.

"When we're tired, let's go back."

"Hmm." Little Lori nodded obediently: "Brother-in-law carried me back." ”

(To be continued.) )