In front of you is a wooden lantern, but not a whole wood carving, a small and delicate one can be carried in the hand, but if you look carefully, you will find that it is made of thousands of small pieces of wooden lintels, each piece of wooden lintels are different, embossed with delicate lines.

When the thousands of wooden lintels are spliced together, they gather into an orchid that will not bloom, and the light slowly shines out from the center of the flower, and the light color is soft and clear.

As soon as this lamp came out, there was a sigh of emotion around him, Rao is a person like Xiao Jiu who has seen the world, and he can't help but feel the essence of his workmanship and the wonder of his thoughts.

"This lantern is called the orchid rhino lantern, which is the proud work of the master of wood in his later years, just because the city lord and the master have an old age, so the master of wood gave this lantern to celebrate the Lantern Festival."

Master Mu came out of the three words, and there was even more buzz in the four places, and Xiao Jiu wrote: "Who is Master Mu?" ”

Ao Xuehua couldn't believe that Xiao Jiu didn't know this person, frowned and said: "The lanterns in Lanyin City are unique in the world, and the Lantern Festival attracts guests from all over the world every year, if it weren't for this, I wouldn't have come here to join in the fun." ”

"And that wood master is known as the world's number one lantern craftsman, otherwise how can he be worthy of the word master. But now he is old, has been retired for many years, those works in the past are all collected by major masters, even if the heavy money may not be loved, originally I came this time, one purpose is to ask for a lamp to take back. Ao Xuehua said frankly: "The day before yesterday, I came to visit and explained my intentions, but he complained that he was making a lamp at hand, and it took a lot of effort, and I am afraid it will be difficult to do so." ”

"Now it seems that this city lord has a very good face, and this lantern is probably what the master made the day before yesterday."

Although Xiao Jiu didn't know what the background of this Ao Xuehua was, she obviously also cultivated a thousand tribulations, and sneaked into the heavily guarded land surnamed Lan, Shangqing Garden, how could such a character be ordinary?

If she came here but couldn't ask for it, it proves how precious and extraordinary this lantern should be.

The master of ceremonies on the stage carefully turned the lantern, but saw that the lantern that was originally just a bud was slowly blooming, like a living thing, and then Xiao Jiu saw clearly that there was no candle flame in the lantern, but there was light slowly overflowing from the stamen, flowing into seven colors, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple, like a dream.

At this time, even the fourth spring of Qingli was praised: "The skill of carpentry ingenuity is probably exhausted so far." ”

When the master of ceremonies heard this compliment, he couldn't help but be interested, and stopped introducing and asked Xiang Qingli in the fourth spring: "Stranger, tell me where the subtlety of this lamp skill is." ”

Qingli four years of spring do not hide private, look at the lamp and say: "This lamp has three wonderful, the first wonder lies in the selection of materials, green pear wood is light and tough, more quiet aroma, with green pear wood as the material, the construction of this lamp can be described as a match made in heaven, this is the first wonderful." ”

"But the aroma of green pear wood is frivolous, the aroma dissipates after a long time, the wood grain decays, it should not be used as a material for lanterns, the wood master grinds rhino horns for paint, draws this dazzling magic pattern, no lamps and candles and self-evident, this is the second wonderful."

"But these two wonderful, compared with the third wonderful, it is not worth mentioning, the wood master has a furrow in his chest, carving out this green pear wood lintel piece by piece, and then drawing a magic pattern fragment on the wooden lintel, to be spliced completely, the magic pattern is started, and it can be turned into a hundred flowers, a turn is a day, such a block of thoughts, the wood master is more beneficial in his later years, it is really emotional."

The people around him couldn't help but be stunned when they saw him tell the details of this lantern, and even the master of ceremonies was dumbfounded, the information he took from the city lord, but it was not as detailed as this man who only glanced at it from a distance, and couldn't help but walk down quickly, with a respectful voice: "I don't know what the relationship between Your Excellency and Master Mu is?" ”

Qingli Sichun smiled and looked at the towering Nine Treasure Lotus Lantern in front of him: "Half teacher and half friend, don't talk about it, but I've seen the lantern, and I have to mention the business." ”

After he reminded the master of ceremonies, he realized that he was a little out of shape, and hurriedly confessed, and said loudly: "This year's Nine Treasures will be far away, start now." ”

When he said this, he saw that the huge lotus lamp slowly opened a door and came out, and it was a white expanse inside, and he couldn't see the situation inside.

Qingli Sichun shrugged his shoulders, glanced back at Xiao Jiu and Ge Sheng, and was the first to step in, while Xingxi followed behind him and picked it up without saying a word.

After seeing this lantern, Xiao Jiu actually had some expectations in his heart, but Ao Xuehua was obviously faster, pulled Xiao Jiu and jumped into the door for the second time.

Ge Sheng looked at the black-clothed mage at hand, although Xiao Jiu's affairs were not very happy, but seeing that those two people took the lead, more and more people walked in, and couldn't help but say to her, "Let's go in too." ”

The black-clad mage nodded slowly.

Ge Sheng saw that the person was halfway in, and hurriedly pulled her in.

As soon as he stepped in, Ge Sheng felt that his body suddenly sank, and when he looked around again, he couldn't help but be stunned, and exclaimed, "Where is this!" ”

Obviously, he entered a lighthouse just now, but after stepping in, he stepped on the white jade-like stone ground, and there was no end in sight in the vast space around him, obviously there were so many people entering before, but at this moment, he only saw him and the black-clothed mage standing here, and a huge rotating lantern stood in the middle of the stone ground.

The surroundings were white like a thick fog, with no end in sight, and he didn't know how far away it was, Ge Sheng thought about giving up the idea of exploring the border, because he still remembered what the master of ceremonies said at that time.

There are only eighty-one places on the first floor that can be climbed.

Ge Sheng approached the lantern and saw a jumping red fire inside, reflecting the jade-like lamppost red, and on the lamppost was Juanxiu's neat handwriting, but it was a lantern riddle.

I saw that it was written:

"It's not the wind or the rain, it's the wet clothes.

Falling into a dream like nine days, seeing and touching but not touching. ”

Ge Sheng scratched his head, it turned out to be a poetic riddle, he only saw a groove under the poem at this time, and at the top of the lamppost, there were dense small squares embedded there, and all kinds of riddles were written.

This is actually a two-step process, guessing the puzzle is the work of one person, but finding the solution to the mystery is the work of another person, and it is possible to complete it with cooperation.

Ge Sheng looked at the riddle again, guessed the answer in his heart, and felt a little proud in his heart, so he asked the black-clothed mage, "What do you think this riddle is?" ”

The black-clothed mage didn't make a sound, just silently stretched out his left hand, and Ge Sheng watched as she slowly opened her right hand, and a white square was impressively held in the palm of her hand.

Yes, that's the answer to this riddle.

Ge Sheng didn't even know when she had found it, but the cube was already in her hands.

The riddle is: "Fog." ”