The two finally entered the capital in the evening, and the sunset reflected the capital in an orange color, which looked exceptionally peaceful and beautiful.

"This is the capital, it's the first time I've been here, Brother Chen should have been here many times, right?" Lu Xiucai asked, he always thought that Chen Ziang's background was so mysterious, he must also be from the capital.

"No, you guessed wrong" Chen Ziang smiled and shook his head, Lu Xiucai would never guess where he came from.

The two rode to an inn, only to be told that it was fully booked, and that all the inns in the capital were full.

Chen Ziang had no choice but to take out the gold and silver and smashed out the two guest rooms with money, and the innkeeper's eyes were smiling, as if he were treating his own wife respectfully.

At night, Chen Ziang wanted to take Lu Xiucai around to open his horizons, but he still chose to concentrate on reading in the guest room, and Chen Ziang took him out to hang out by himself.

The capital is worthy of the feet of the Son of Heaven, both the economy and the development are extraordinarily prosperous, Chen Ziang found that the lights along the way are bright, many shops still have many customers at night, and the lantern festival seems to be still held by the river.

Flower lantern: made of bamboo strips, with a layer of colorful paper pasted on the outside, and a lantern riddle is written on the paper, and the lantern shines on the colored paper to look particularly beautiful.

Riverside, red, blue, green, pink..... All kinds of lanterns are lit, just like the wild flowers blooming all over the mountains in spring.

Chen Ziang walked leisurely, looking at the couples who seemed to be coming and going, he couldn't help but feel lonely in his heart, and secretly sighed, "I didn't expect to be abused by Huilan in the inn, but I was still abused when I arrived in the capital."

So he no longer looked at passers-by, but focused on the lantern, which is not only beautiful, but also has some interesting anagrams, but these anagrams are inevitably too pediatric, such as: like a bird and not a bird, with wings and no hair, an ugly face, and a love of night travel, which is clearly a bat; Lady and lady, like a box. Unicorn scissors, eight hairpins, this is talking about praying mantis.

Chen Ziang couldn't help but sigh: "This lantern riddle is inevitably too simple, right?" ”

This sound seems to have annoyed a young man, who is the organizer of this lantern riddle and the son of Kong Shangshu in the capital, one of the most promising candidates to win the imperial examination.

Kong Jian walked to Chen Ziang's side, and said politely, "Listen to Brother Ren talking to himself, it seems that this riddle can't get into the eyes of Brother Tai?" ”

Chen Ziang said unceremoniously, "That's right"

"I don't know what Brother Tai is called?"

"My surname is Chen"

"Brother Chen, the riddles I have here are all carefully selected, since you don't think you can get into your eyes, it's better for you to test me with a few riddles, if I answer it, please take back what you just said" Kong Jian smiled with sarcasm, as if he was laughing at Chen Ziang's incompetence.

"Okay," Chen Ziang thought for a while and said, "General Zhu built the city to surround himself, General Paper surrounded it on all sides, General Tie passed through the city, and General Mu guarded the back door."

Kong Jian frowned and thought about it for a long time without coming up with it, and finally shook his head, "I can't guess this question, and I ask Brother Chen to tell me the answer to the riddle."

Chen Ziang pointed to the lantern beside him, "Oh, that's it"

Kong Jian suddenly realized that Chen Ziang's lantern riddle was talking about the structure of the lantern, and he couldn't think of it for a long time.

Kong Jian was a little reluctant to go, and said stubbornly, "Come again"

Chen Ziang smiled knowingly, "Listen, the flowers bloom in the wall and the wall is red, if you want to go to pick flowers, the road is not passable, and the road is open to flowers and thanks, a joy and an empty space"

Kong Jian pondered for a long time this time, but still didn't come up with the answer to the riddle, so he asked stubbornly, "I can't guess, I don't know what this mystery is?" ”

Chen Ziang smiled: "The answer to this lantern riddle is also a lantern!" ”

"What?" Kong Jian didn't react, why was the question just now a lantern, and this question was also a lantern.

"You see, the flowers bloom inside the wall and the red outside the wall, which means that the lantern is brighter outside after it is lit, and the second sentence wants to go to pick flowers, the road is different because there is a layer of colored paper and bamboo in the middle, and the road to the flowers and thank you means that after you take off the colored paper and bamboo shroud, the lights inside will be blown out by the wind, so it will be a joy and an empty one!" Chen Ziang said with a light smile.

Kong Jian said unconvinced, "If you say one more, I don't believe I can't answer."

"Okay" Chen Ziang wanted to make him die, so he thought about it again and said, "You beat me and I know, there are people behind me, my heart is like a mirror, and I have a way to go."

Kong Jian thought about answering everything, but the so-called concern is chaotic, he didn't come up with it for a long time, but he really wanted to know the riddle, and finally said helplessly, "Brother Chen, I don't know what the riddle is?" ”

Chen Zi looked up to the sky and laughed "hahahaha"

"I don't know what Brother Chen is laughing at?" Kong Jian wondered.

"Because the answer to this lantern riddle is still a lantern!" Chen Ziang thought that Kong Jian would think of it once after learning a lesson, but he didn't expect that he would lose three times because of the same mystery.

But this is not to blame him, because people have inertial thinking, Kong Jian must have thought that the answers to the previous two lantern riddles were lanterns, how could it be that this time it was still a lantern? But he didn't expect that the riddle was still a lantern.

There were a lot of people gathered around the two to watch the excitement, and people all looked at Chen Ziang with appreciation, who could make the son of Shangshu deflated one after another, I'm afraid there are not many people in the entire capital, right?

Kong Jian was extremely depressed, but he still wanted to win back a city, "What's the point of a reader guessing lantern riddles, why don't we pair them?" It just so happens that I have a good right here, and I haven't had a good answer for the second half of the sentence after thinking about it for a long time, I hope Brother Chen can solve my doubts today."

"Okay," Chen Ziang said with interest, he preferred pairs to lantern riddles.

"The green water is worry-free, but the face is wrinkled by the wind," said the face proudly.

It means that a pool of pond water is anthropomorphized, and the green water is not sorrowful, and only when the wind blows through everything will wrinkle the face, and the image is vivid.

Chen Ziang said without thinking, "Qingshan Yuan is not old, it is snow-white"

"Good!" The people who ate melons at the scene exclaimed, and they were amazed by this absolute.

Kong Jian was stunned, he didn't expect his pair to be answered perfectly, is there really such a smart person in the world?

Chen Ziang then said, "It's my turn next, smoke along the eaves of the smoke swallow eyes"

These seven words are all one sound, but they depict a beautiful scene, and the green smoke blurs Chunyan's eyes along the gorgeous eaves.

Kong Jian was sweating, he wanted to win back a city, but it was too difficult, and after thinking for a long time, he sighed, "I can't answer, but!" Can you answer such a good sentence? ”

Chen Ziang smiled indifferently and said, "The fog covers the black house, and there is no fog."

Everyone was in an uproar.