Chapter 38: The Lantern Riddle

This feeling is extremely irritating, I simply took two quick steps and walked beside Ji Yunchang, but I saw that his eyebrows were deep, and I didn't know what to think, and my heart was even more irritable.

We walked forward, occasionally looked up to see the lantern riddle, maybe is the relationship between the entrance of the flower street, the mystery of this piece is very simple, what a horizontal and vertical guess a word, or the sun, the moon, the moon is not today, in short, it is very easy to solve.

We walked a long way forward, and we saw talented people who looked like literati and rioters gathered around, discussing something in twos and threes.

The Seven Princes became interested, stopped under a lotus leaf red lamp, and said lightly, "One side is red, the other side is green, one side is happy, one side is happy, one side is happy, one side is happy, one side is happy, one word." Hey! This is interesting, hey, eight, come and guess what kind of word this is! ”

The Eighth Prince, Helian Yunnuma, smiled, paced over and glanced at the lanterns, and said, "The answer to this mystery is an autumn." The fire is red, the grass is green, the fire is strong when it meets the wind, and the grass thrives when it rains. Together, it is naturally an autumn character. ”

As he spoke, he scooped up with his long hand, tore off the red line, and unfolded the red paper inside to see, and sure enough, it was an autumn character.

"Hey, interesting." Helian Yunze became interested, and walked to a hibiscus lamp to look.

"Together, the flowering time is very short, and the flowering period is observed every day, and the flowers do not bear fruit." He thought about it, and finally shook his head and said, "I really can't guess what the word is, eight, or you should come." ”

Helian Yunnuma smiled and said, "Seventh brother, this is not a word guess, this is a plant guess." If it's good, it's probably an epiphany. ”

After speaking, he took another scoop with his long hand and opened the note, but it was an epiphany.

The Seventh Prince thought for a while, and said, "Hey, the eighth child, this mystery is not right, the first two sentences are okay, the epiphany is indeed a short flowering period, and the latter sentence is not right, I remember that the imperial doctor Tan of the Imperial Hospital said that he had read an ancient book, which said that the epiphany is fruitful!" ”

Helian Yunnuma nodded, "That's right, epiphany has fruit." It's just that this epiphany fruit is particularly difficult to find, and three thousand epiphany plants may not produce a single fruit. ”

The Seventh Prince nodded, "It's also true, I haven't seen it, and it's the same as not, so this mystery is right." ”

Helian Yunnuma smiled slightly, and the Seventh Prince turned to look at me and Ji Yunchang, and said, "You two, why are you so calm, it's lively today, so let's come and guess a few." Hey, Yun Chang, you can come and guess this. ”

I raised my eyes to see that Helian Yunze was referring to a seven-pointed exquisite lamp, which said that this flower has not been planted since ancient times, and it will bloom in the middle of winter. It's strange to have no roots and no leaves, and the spring breeze blows back to the sky. The riddle hint is to guess something.

Ji Yun often thought about it and said, "It should be a snowflake." ”

The Seven Princes pulled the red rope off, and the mystery was indeed a snowflake. He laughed and said, "Su family girl, next, it's your turn, come, I'll pick one for you, huh...... That's it," he said, pointing to a magnolia lamp.

I looked up and saw that the riddle on it read, "Born in a rich family since childhood, I often go in and out to enjoy glory. Long live has also passed on the holy decree, and generations of children and grandchildren have been doing flower exploration...... "The riddle hint is to guess a thing."

This...... I thought about it for a long time, but after all, I shook my head and said, "I can't guess this." ”

The Seventh Prince laughed and said, "Eighth child, the girl of the Su family can't guess it, this, I think it's better for you to guess." ”

Helian Yunnuma also shook his head and said, "Starling, don't be embarrassed, I can't guess this." Yun Chang, why don't you try it? ”

Ji Yunchang thought about it, seemed to frown, shook his head and said, "I can't guess either." ”

"Ha, since we can't guess it, let's take a look at the mystery." The Seventh Prince dragged the piece of paper and opened it, and we all looked at it, but saw two big words written in it - honey

A few of us laughed, and then, we all laughed.

Aren't they bees? Cicadas are born in cocoons, insects are born in eggs, only bees are born in the hive, and love nectar the most, long live will naturally drink two bowls of honey water, the offspring of bees are still bees, naturally take nectar from flowers, do flower exploration.

The Seventh Prince smiled, "I didn't expect this mystery to be so bluffing, and when I think about it, it's so simple." ”

Yes, after reading the mystery, I think it's very simple, but I just can't turn the corner.

The Seventh Prince laughed and said, "Su girl, if you don't guess this, it won't be counted, you can guess another one, hey, it's just that tiger lantern." ”

I followed the direction he pointed out and saw that it was written, "Three autumn leaves will bloom in February." Thousands of waves across the river, into the bamboo ten thousand poles oblique. The riddle hint is also a hit.

This is simple, I immediately said, "The answer to this mystery is the wind." ”

Blowing everything, falling yellow leaves, opening spring, in addition to the wind, what else has this power.

The Seventh Prince opened the riddle and nodded, "Well, it's really the wind." With that, he rolled the note in his hand, looked left and right, and turned back sharply to find that we were all looking at him.

"Uh...... Hehe! He smiled awkwardly, "I won't guess, let me study the military book, this riddle ......"

Helian Yunnuma ignored him, and directly pointed to a dragon and tiger leaping lamp and said, "Seventh brother, just guess that one." ”

We looked in that direction, and there were only three words on the riddle on the lamp: "The knife is out of the sheath." ”

The puzzle hint is to guess a word.

This is not difficult, I thought that the Seventh Prince should be able to guess who knows that he frowned and thought about it for a long time, and he couldn't figure out why.

I stood closest to him, so I whispered, "Think about it, before the knife is unsheathed, what should you do first?" ”

He thought about it, seemed to understand, and said loudly, "I know, this mystery is the enemy!" Before the knife is unsheathed, you must first see who the enemy is! ”

Poof, I almost missed a mouthful of blood, and quickly said, "Wrong, wrong, these are two words." The answer to this riddle is to guess a word, and if you think about it again, what are you going to use when you draw a knife? ”

He thought about it very seriously this time, and said with an affirmative face, "Well, I understand, this mystery is the hand, it is definitely the hand, it can't be wrong!" ”

I was speechless for a moment, and I felt a flock of black birds flying overhead.

Force, it's force! Didn't the knife use strength before it was unsheathed?

Helian Yunnuma couldn't help but laugh and unfolded the mystery, force, a big word, force through the back of the paper.

The Seventh Prince was a little discouraged, and said, "Look, I'll just say I don't guess, you have to let me guess, this mystery is 108,000 miles away from what I thought." ”

Ji Yunchang said lightly, "Don't be unhappy with the Eighth Prince, as you said, this guessing lantern riddle is just an entertainment, and too much attention to the result is boring." ”

Helian Yunnuma also said: "Yes, Brother Seven, this anagram, there are no rules and regulations to talk about, some are literal, and some are simple riddles, and there is a layer of blindfolding, just look at the two gates over there." ”

He pointed to the two square corner tassel lamps and said, "That lamp is a hook of the heart moon with three stars, literally, it is a curved hook, and the three stars on it are not a heart word when connected." ”

"And the one next to it, it says, you need half of it, leave half of it. The top of the need is rain, and the bottom of the left is the field, half of the word, together, isn't it a thunder word? ”

"Oh!" The Seventh Prince seemed to have an epiphany, nodded and said, "I understand." In this way, the one over there, half sweet and half spicy, the riddle is the word!

The one next to it reads, one big and two small, the nine-leaf lamp that the riddle prompts to guess a word, and the riddle is Nai! The palace lantern that says the top and bottom is written, and the riddle is the card! The riddle of the palace lantern that is written with half blue and half purple is Su. Am I right!? ”

Helian Yunnuma nodded hurriedly and praised: "Naturally, it's very right!" The seventh brother is really smart. ”

"That's it!" The Seven Princes raised their eyebrows, stretched out their folding fans, and fluttered......

It is already unitary, the moon is high in the sky, there are occasional stars twinkling, the moon of fifteen is sixteen round, yesterday were at home to eat Yuan Lantern night dinner, today there are a lot of people who come out to enjoy the moon in the street. After a while, it was crowded with people.

The two princes did not bring attendants, and they were tall men, but Lu Zhu and I were small and short, and we were squeezed and swayed in the crowd.

Although Ji Yunchang is not tall, he seems to have his own aura, and the crowd always crowds until it is half an arm's width away from him, and he seems to have discovered this situation, protecting me and Luzhu in front and behind.

After walking forward for a while, the lanterns above our heads became more and more varied, but because there were too many people around, we didn't have the heart to look and guess, so we went with the people.

There is almost a cup of tea, and the gongs and drums in front of it are played in unison, because it is more noisy, and I can't hear what I said before, but I only vaguely hear it, compared to the talent, the beginning or something, presumably the Oiran competition has begun.

This Oiran Competition, in fact, is quite particular, and it is even divided into one, two and three layers of screening, from the primary selection of talents to the selection of beauty, and finally it is to select the winner according to the preference of everyone.

This was originally very fair, but since a few years ago, Flower Street has an unheard rule, that is......

There can be two women per year, and they can participate directly in the Oiran competition without participating in the screening, as long as the demand is high.

I took advantage of this loophole and let Li Jiu trumpet how the peonies and red leaves of the Yin Red Mansion were, which caused a relatively large momentum, and also avoided the possibility of her being eliminated in the screening.

Taking 10,000 steps back, even if she didn't win the championship in the last round, she sang behind the scenes for more than a month, such an appearance is eye-catching enough.

It was still early for the final Oiran competition, and there were too many people, so we found a larger teahouse, thinking that we would go in first and have some tea, and wait for some to disperse before coming out.

The Seven Princes were the first, followed by the Eighth Prince, and when I entered the threshold of the teahouse, I saw a person looking at him from a distance, this person looked clean, wearing a cloth robe, and it was Li Jiu.

As if he saw me at the same time, his face was happy, but I was shocked.

Don't you come here and shout for Eungong......