Chapter 25: Anagrams
The lively streets are full of people, and on both sides of the street there are twist sellers, scallion pancakes, and candy pinching people...... The aroma is overwhelming!
And the two young people on the street, shuttling between the various stalls, one with a white face and a smart black face, with an obvious moon scar on his forehead. That's right, these two are Qiu Mingyang and Bao Zheng who came here to hang out. The two of them buy strings of sugar gourds from time to time, and buy a baked cake from time to time, like two children who have not grown up yet, but the two of them are happy!
Suddenly, Qiu Mingyang saw a large circle of people in front of him, very lively, and thought that there was nothing to do left and right anyway, Qiu Mingyang planned to take a look, and Bao Zheng naturally followed!
As soon as he entered the circle, Qiu Mingyang saw one of the young men wearing a gray-blue simple robe, standing in the middle of the circle surrounded by the crowd, the young man had an average face, and there were several pieces of paper covered with cloth hanging there behind him, I don't know what it was! Qiu Mingyang only listened to the young man start to talk endlessly, and he didn't bother!
"Ladies and gentlemen, everyone be quiet! Now that the Mid-Autumn Festival is approaching, the villain is not named Zheng San, please come up with three anagrams, and have fun with everyone today! Anyone who can solve a puzzle will receive three taels of silver, and those who can solve two will receive five taels of silver, and those who can solve all three will receive ten taels of silver! As soon as the young man's voice fell, a riot broke out in the crowd, you must know that ten taels of silver was not a small amount in the Song Dynasty, and a family of four could manage food and clothing for a few years if they were frugal! Especially now that it is the reign of Emperor Injong, it belongs to the prosperous era, the silver has not depreciated, and the purchasing power is amazing. That's why the people of the crowd were so riotous when they heard that they could solve three puzzles and get ten taels of silver!
"What are you doing in a daze? Get the puzzle out! I, Li Tianfeng, the first genius in Luzhou, have solved your puzzle today! A white-faced scholar looked like a fan, holding a fan, and said disdainfully.
"I said Li Pubao, it's you again, you're bragging here, the last bet is not over, who said that if you lose, you will learn to bark a dog, you are running here again to talk big, be careful that you blow the cow to the sky! Ha ha! Obviously, someone in the crowd knew this Li Tianfeng, and stood up and disdainfully told this Li Tianfeng's ugly thing!
"Last time I was out of play, that doesn't count, let's compare another day, I have other things to do today, so I'll quit first!" The person named Li Tianfeng, when he heard his ugly story, he no longer thought about solving the anagram, said a face-saving word, and fled in disgrace!
Everyone saw Li Tianfeng walking away in disdain, and "cut" with disdain, Qiu Mingyang looked at Li Tianfeng's back and shook his head!
"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, don't be arguing, let's guess the word puzzle!" Then Zheng San came out to play the round.
"Yes, yes, yes! Don't let that mess with our Yaxing, take out the anagrams! A scholar in the crowd answered.
"Ladies and gentlemen, young masters, and fellow villagers, if you want to guess my anagram, it's not for nothing, you need to pay three copper plates to guess!" That Zheng San said slyly.
"What? You still have to collect money to guess, what are you breaking the rules, I think you are clearly here to cheat money! One of them pointed his finger at Zheng San and said angrily.
"This uncle, you can't say that, I can't do it in vain! Who would do this kind of thing, you have to be able to guess that I have a lot of money! For the sake of justice, I have written down the answers to the mystery on the following paper, so don't worry! Zheng San heard someone say that he cheated money, and hurriedly explained.
"Okay, he doesn't guess, let's guess! You grinding and chirping, don't hurry up and take out the anagram! One of them said impatiently.
"Okay, okay, everyone, please look at the first question!" As he spoke, Zheng San took off the first piece of white cloth, only to see that there were four big characters written on it: "January 7th"!
Qiu Mingyang looked at these four words, and the corners of his mouth showed an imperceptible smile, because of this kind of anagram, he has been bored since he was a child, and he often likes to watch brain teasers and some anagrams and the like, this anagram is really a bit pediatric for him, so he smiled!
But it's a bit pediatric for him, not so much for anyone else. Sure enough, most of them were embarrassed and meditated, and the chaotic scene just now was quiet at this moment! Qiu Mingyang knew the mystery for a long time, so he took a look at Bao Zheng who came with him, and found that Bao Zheng had a confident smile on his face, and he seemed to be in his chest!
"Brother Bao, I see that you seem to have guessed the answer to the riddle!" Qiu Mingyang couldn't help but ask Bao Zheng beside him.
"Brother Qiu, aren't you the same?" Bao Zheng smiled at Qiu Mingyang's eyes.
Qiu Mingyang was shocked when he heard Bao Zheng say this! secretly said in his heart, Bao Zheng is really as careful as silk, and he actually realized that he had guessed the answer to the riddle, and he deserved to be a master of solving the case!
Before the two of them could elaborate, someone in front of them had already stood up to guess the riddle!
"Everyone, I've guessed it, the riddle is a 'Ming' word, tomorrow's Ming!" One of the scholars, dressed as a scholar, said happily.
"This son, the mystery is not 'Ming', you guessed wrong!" That Zheng San smiled when he heard the scholar and said.
"How could it be wrong?" The scholar thought he had guessed, and his smug smile came to an abrupt end when he heard the riddle wrong!
"Whether anyone guesses the mystery or not, I will disclose it at the end, and then Childe will know it at a glance!" That Zheng San seemed to be very confident in his anagram and grinned.
Qiu Mingyang turned his head to look at Bao Zheng, Bao Zheng was also looking at Qiu Mingyang at the moment, the two looked at each other and smiled as if they had said yes, and they had a tacit understanding!
"Brother Bao, why don't you solve that anagram!" Qiu Mingyang stretched out his right hand in front of him, and then said politely to Bao Zheng.
"How can this work? Or Brother Qiu, please! Bao Zheng waved his hand and excused.
Then the two excused each other, Qiu Mingyang saw that he didn't want to continue in the stalemate, so he stood up, maybe let others crack the anagram for a while, then how to make money!
"Zheng San is right? I've solved the anagram, please bring pen and paper! Qiu Mingyang said to Zheng San, who was triumphant.
"Oh, Childe has already guessed it, that's no problem, I already have the pen and paper!" That Zheng San obviously didn't take Qiu Mingyang in his eyes, and he still thought that his anagram had eaten the people present to death.
Qiu Mingyang didn't care, took the brush, dipped it in ink, and wrote the word "fat" on the paper!
When Zheng San saw the word "fat", his face turned extremely ugly from a spring breeze, and some smart people on the lookers saw the riddle written by Qiu Mingyang, patted his forehead, and suddenly realized!