Chapter 131: Ten Thousand Lantern Society
"Miss Wei, what's wrong with you?"
Wei Yuxiao was stunned, and she couldn't come back to her senses.
"IāI'm fine."
She smiled reluctantly, she had long known that Li Mingche and Bai Rou were deceiving her, so there was no need to be too surprised at this moment.
"Is Shao Gongzi also here to participate in the Ten Thousand Lantern Festival?"
She saw Shao Yun also holding a wooden card in his hand that was the same as in her hand.
"That's right."
Shao Yun smiled slightly, shook the wooden card, and said, "Miss Wei is also here to participate, why don't you go together?" ā
"Okay."
Wei Yuxiao did not refuse Shao Yun's invitation, she could feel Shao Yun's kindness, not to mention that he had just saved her, and she had a good impression of Shao Yun, so she should not refuse.
So the two of them went together to the middle of the island in the middle of the lake.
Although you can only go to the island in the middle of the lake by paying a hundred yuan and having a wooden card, there are quite a lot of people on the island, and when the two of them appeared, they were just in time for the final riddle guessing.
"Whoever got the wooden plaque is ready to start guessing the lantern riddle soon. Let me now say the rules again. ā
In the center of the riddle is a place that has been set up, and a girl in a red skirt stands on the stage, with colorful lanterns, which makes her particularly beautiful.
"This time, there will be a total of ten people in the Ten Thousand Lanterns to get the wooden card, and these ten people will win here, and the one who wins the first place will win this Ten Thousand Butterfly Lantern, as well as twenty taels of silver!"
"Twenty taels of silver!"
So much!
Wei Yuxiao was taken aback, in Da Zhou, one tael of silver is enough to make a family of four eat and drink for half a month, these twenty taels of silver are too much!
"Well, the rewards are huge."
Shao Jinguan has been clothed and fed since he was a child, and he doesn't attach much importance to these silvers, but they are only twenty taels of silver.
"They are willing."
At the annual Ten Thousand Lantern Festival, these people all earn a lot of money, and twenty taels of silver are not worth mentioning in the eyes of these people.
Wei Yuxiao nodded, but he was not willing. Just wait for the woman to continue: "And the other people who participate will also get a thousand-petal lotus lantern. These lanterns are all from Qin Yuefang, and they will not be made again this year. ā
"And this time, the rules are the same as before, there are only ten lantern riddles in total, and ten people rush to answer, and the one who answers the most correctly is the final winner."
"It's time, please come on stage, get ready to start!"
Wei Yuxiao and Shao Yun had already handed over the wooden cards to the organizers, and they had already stood at the place where they answered the questions.
And the other eight people also stood at the place where they answered the question one after another, and there was only one woman, Wei Yuxiao.
The rest of the people couldn't help but look at Wei Yuxiao more, facing the scrutiny of many people, Wei Yuxiao didn't care much, it seemed that she was once standing on a high place, more people than this looked at her, and in the distance, a tall person walked towards her quickly.
"Miss!"
At this time, Bai Rou and the others finally found Wei Yuxiao, and their hearts suddenly lifted. Li Mingche has told him thousands of times, and Wei Yuxiao's whereabouts must not be leaked. Fortunately, she is still wearing a veil, but people can't see her true face.
"What's wrong with you?"
Wei Yuxiao's head suddenly ached, and he stumbled under his feet, but fortunately, Shao Yun was quick and hurriedly supported him.
"I'm fine, thank you."
She pressed the corner of her forehead, the headache eased a little, and the riddle guessing officially began.
"Ten thousand lanterns will guess the lantern riddle begins!"
"The first riddle: there is no vulgar hand in chess."
"Backgammon."
Everyone didn't react, and Wei Yuxiao opened his mouth and said.
"Congratulations, that's right."
In the next few questions, Wei Yuxiao answered them faster than others.
"Now only one last riddle remains, listen."
In fact, Wei Yuxiao answered six of the nine riddles, and all of them were correct, and Shao Yun also answered two correctly, so even if he didn't answer the last question, Wei Yuxiao was the first winner of the certainty. Wei Yuxiao listened intently to the next riddle, completely unaware of Shao Yun's gaze as he looked at her, becoming more and more appreciative.
"One person is dignified, and two are the same light. The spring is one foot deep, and the point goes to the ice. The two are connected, and they are on one side. Three beams and four pillars, the fire is boiling, except for the double hook, two days are not complete. ā
"The water of Daming Temple is incomparable in the world."
The difficulty of these riddles is also gradually increasing, and as a finale question, it is also the most difficult.
It's a pity that this is not so difficult that Wei Yuxiao will give the answer after a little thought.
This lantern riddle is simple and simple, difficult to say, the "one person" in the riddle buckles "big", "Eryao" buckles "Ming", "ruler-" buckles "temple" (eleven inches), "points to the ice" buckle "water", "two people connected" buckle "day", "do not owe one side" buckle "down", "three beams and four pillars, the fire bakes" buckle "swallow (none)", "remove the double hook, two days are not complete" buckle "than".
"That's right, the mystery is the water of Daming Temple, the world is incomparable."
The woman smiled slightly, and said to Wei Yuxiao: "Congratulations to this girl, you have answered a total of seven lantern riddles correctly, and you are the final winner." Won ten thousand butterfly lanterns and twenty taels of silver, and asked the girl to leave her name and surname and Mobao. ā
This is a long-standing tradition of the Ten Thousand Lantern Festival, and each year's winner will leave their names and inscriptions on the stone monument. can become the final winner, and the literary style is naturally good, so these are just fame.
The winners of the Ten Thousand Lantern Society in previous years were all great talents, which is why they offered such rich rewards, and the fame brought by these great talents was far more than the twenty taels of silver, so they were not stingy with those silver coins.
But I didn't expect it to be an upset this year, and she was actually a little-known girl, but it may not be a good thing. Instead, people wonder where the divine is and what makes it unexpected.
Wei Yuxiao didn't expect to leave Mobao or something, but it wasn't too embarrassing. She also smiled: "Then I will be ugly." ā
After that, he walked to the table with the prepared pen, ink, paper and inkstone, raised his hand and dropped a poem on the rice paper.
But the payment is "caryophyllus", which she intentionally did. She subconsciously remembered the name Wei Yuxiao before, her keen intuition told her that this was her original name, but now she must not say it, she can't let Bai Rou find out that she has remembered her original name.
The clues found recently told Wei Yuxiao that Bai Rou was deceiving her, and she was afraid that she would remember her past memories, and she was even more afraid that someone would find her, and that someone must be looking for her now.
The name of caryophyllum seems ordinary, but it is a very key clue, jade is stone, and Xiao originally means bamboo, the name Wei Yuxiao is undoubtedly telling her those who are looking for her whereabouts. Those who don't have that mind won't pay attention.
"Shizhu girl, this is your ten thousand butterfly lamps and twenty taels of silver."
Leaving Mobao, Shao Yun also walked to her side, holding a thousand-petal lotus lamp in his hand, the lamp is as its name suggests, the ten thousand butterfly lanterns are painted with colorful butterflies, and there are lifelike butterfly decorations on the lamp, which is worthy of being a butterfly lamp. And the thousand-petal lotus is not really a thousand petals, but a double-petaled lotus, and the lanterns are lifelike, as if it is a real double-petaled lotus.
"Thank you."
Wei Yuxiao was not polite, and directly took the lantern and silver.
"Girl, it's not too early, I'll send you home first."
Twenty taels of silver is a lot of money, Shao Yun can't guarantee that someone doesn't have bad intentions, and besides, Wei Yuxiao's identity is a mystery, and he is worried that someone will get entangled.
"Then it's troublesome for Shao Gongzi."
Wei Yuxiao didn't refuse, she obviously felt that the few people who had just participated in the lantern riddle guessing "extraordinarily" paid attention to her, and there was obvious malice in their eyes.
"In that case, let's leave."
With that, the guards stepped forward. Shao Yun was with a guard, but he was silent all the time, and not many people noticed. At this time, he stood up next to Wei Yuxiao and Shao Yun, and immediately made those people lose their minds.
And Bai Rou and the other guards also tried their best to go to Wei Yuxiao's side, but there were indeed a lot of people, and they couldn't squeeze through.
Seeing Wei Yuxiao and a strange man leaving, Bai Rou's anxious mouth was about to bubble.
"Wait!"
Still, someone stopped them.
"I wonder why this brother stopped us?"
Shao Yun took half a step forward, protected Wei Yuxiao behind him, and raised his eyes to look at the person who stopped them.
A young man in Tsing Yi and ink looked at the twenty-four or five. The facial features are handsome, the eyes reveal a hint of arrogance, the chin is slightly raised, and the face that was originally quite handsome suddenly became a little mean, and the plainness was unpleasant.
"This, Shi Zhu, Shi Maiden."
That person didn't even look at Shao Yun, stared at Wei Yuxiao, and said, "I don't know which family Miss Shi is, but I haven't heard that there is a talented girl named Shi Zhu in Mingnan Mansion." ā
Without waiting for them to speak, Tang Yue said again: "Since Miss Shi has already won the first place, why don't you take off the veil and show your true face?" Could it be that there is a ghost in my heart? ā
Tang Yue didn't believe that a female streamer could still have such talent, it must be cheating!
"Who are you?"
Wei Yuxiao's eyes were cold, and he stood up from behind Shao Yun.
"Contemptible Tang Yue."
Tang Yue is quite a bit high-minded, and no one in Mingnan Mansion knows the name of Tang Yue's great talent. Defeated by a woman today, she is naturally unconvinced.
"I have not heard of your name, so can I think that you are a hypocrite? Even if you can come to the Ten Thousand Lantern Festival, can I suspect that you are replacing someone else? ā
Isn't this the reason, unfounded slander, how could Wei Yuxiao save any face for him.
As early as when Tang Yue asked people to stop Wei Yuxiao and Shao Yun, almost everyone noticed this. Therefore, Wei Yuxiao's rhetorical question was also heard by them, and they immediately burst into laughter.
Tang Yue is indeed a bit talented, but he is arrogant and looks down on people, so he has offended many people, and many people are dissatisfied. If it weren't for his talent, and the Tang clan's power in Mingnan Mansion was not small, and Li Mingche valued him, I am afraid that no one would hold him Tang Yue.
Therefore, seeing him deflated, many people gloated.
And Shao Yun also knew a little about Tang Yue, and when he heard Wei Yuxiao's words, he couldn't help laughing.