Chapter 3 A Special Contest
Listening to Jones's compliment, "Little Rose" Margaery Tyrelll's eyes curved into a beautiful crescent shape, and the corners of her mouth continued with a shallow smile, "I am also impressed by your robustness, I wonder if Sir Jones would like to compete with the knights of our Riverlands." ”
What he feared the most was still here, it turned out that after Jones Amber entered the school city, swordsmanship or something was wasted, and now he relied on his strong body to repel malnourished thieves and confidence, compared with these knights who have been training (formal knights can generally be called knights), he really has no bottom in his heart.
In his memory, it was normal for him to be seriously injured in martial arts, and it was not uncommon for his life to be lost, and he was ridiculed by others when he died. He didn't want to hand over his bottom in a daze now.
Jones's mind was full of ideas, and he said, "Miss Margaery is disappointed, I'm not a knight, and although my body is very strong, it's my mind that makes me most proud. ”
Margaery's smile became more pronounced at his answer, and as she was about to say something, Jones continued, "If Miss Margaery wants to play a mind game, I'm glad to do so." ”
"Oh, interesting proposition, so what are we bet on?" Margaery's tone was still so confident, and she should be, she had been protected and taught by her scheming grandmother, Lady Olenna Redwin, known as the "Queen of Thorns", since she was a child, and she was not afraid of wisdom.
Before Jones could reply, she kept saying, "If you lose, you swear allegiance to me in the honor of your family, how about it, I don't think a nobleman will refuse two requests from the same lady, right?"
Margaery blocked Jones's path in a few words, and talked about the honor of the family, obviously not giving him any possibility of refusal.
Jones has begun to break out in a cold sweat, this chick is really difficult to deal with, the other party should not intend to target him, but the casual move makes him very embarrassed, who makes him have no confidence in his current martial arts.
"What if you lose?" Jones asked, thinking about what to do.
"You can't ask a girl who is about to marry to follow you," Margaery said with a smile, "but the riches of my Tyrells are known to all the Seven Kingdoms, and I can help you meet any reasonable request when the time comes." ”
"It's not fair, can you do whatever you want if you have money?" said Jones, who was flustered but still smiling, "I have three questions, and as long as Miss Margaery answers one, you will win, how about it?"
"Your offer is very reasonable," said Margaery, who could not ask a question herself, but she had three chances, and she promised to surprise him if she thought she was the only one who had read a lot of books.
At this time, everyone's eyes were all on the two, obviously waiting for the show to be staged, and most of them were not optimistic about Jones, so subduing a northern Yankee should be a topic of conversation for a long time later.
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"Ahem, Miss Margaery, please pay attention, may I ask a hundred objects that cannot be lifted by a man from the north, but there is a woman from the south who can lift it with one hand, what is this object?"
"What is this?"
"Aren't all the men in the north soft eggs?"
"Which woman in the south has so much strength, isn't it the beautiful Brienne?"
Margaery didn't expect the other party to ask such a strange question, and the smile on the corner of her mouth gradually disappeared, and she said thoughtfully, "Is this woman the Seven Gods? ”
The seven gods, in fact, are seven different forms of a god, and they are the main religious beliefs of the Seven Kingdoms, among which there is the form of a woman, and the main belief in the north is the old gods, so it makes sense to say that the women in the south can also say it.
"No, it's just an ordinary woman. Jones smiled and shook his head.
The expression on Margaery's face changed many times, and finally she said helplessly, "I can't answer this question, I don't know what the correct answer is?"
Everyone also looked at Jones with a look of hope, waiting for him to give the correct answer, but he said with a mysterious face: "We are not in a hurry with this question, and I will ask the next question." ”
"Woo~!" everyone heard his answer, they looked very dissatisfied, and suddenly they coaxed again, Jones didn't care about them, now he was scared, he had the opportunity to disgust them, and he wouldn't give up.
"Ahem, the second question, two hunting dogs race, the big dog runs fast, the small dog runs slowly, when the finish line, which dog sweats more?"
"Big dog!" everyone replied almost in unison, Margaery felt that the question might not be so simple, but thinking about it, she might have deliberately made her suspicious say that she was a puppy, so in the end she replied tentatively: "Big dog sweats a lot?"
With a smile on his face, Jones shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, Miss Margaery's answer was wrong, please listen to the third question." ”
At this time, Margaery had been teased by these two questions as if her hair was burning, she didn't know what was wrong with her, she was very impatient, and she wanted to shout loudly so that the other party could immediately say the correct answer, but her good cultivation made her have to remain unhurried.
"Sleeping with the person you love the most, what's the last thing you do?"
"Huh~!" Everyone had a look of "you know" on their faces, and the women also secretly lowered their heads when they heard it.
Margaery immediately retorted, "Do you want a noble lady to say that kind of thing in public?"
"So this is your answer?" Jones was already in a hurry, so he waited for the other party to nod and get rid of it completely.
"Don't think that you're going to keep me from giving the answer, I'll write it down on paper, and I'll make you pay for your faux pas. Margaery said, covering her hand and writing the wicked words on the paper.
After writing it, he immediately shook it up and handed it to Jones, "That's my answer, Jones Amber, get ready to fulfill your promise!"
Everyone didn't expect Margaery Tyrell to insist on writing it, and they all looked at Jones excitedly, waiting to see the frustrated expression of the Yankees.
However, Jones, who was in the spotlight of everyone, received the paper ball and swept it away, and then held the paper ball again, and said with a smile with a victor's expression: "I'm sorry, Miss Margaery, you answered incorrectly again!"
"Impossible!"
"You're a liar!"
"Coward!"
Seeing that the accusations were getting louder and louder, Jones took the initiative to say: "The old gods are above, I swear I didn't lie." ”
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Apparently no one would lie in God's name, and everyone stopped accusing and turned to whispering.
"What's the correct answer?" Margaery said, the expression on her face was one of pure curiosity, she was the one who wanted to know the answer the most.
At this time, Jones had too much confidence in his heart, he should have escaped a catastrophe, aristocrats have their own rules of the game, and trustworthiness is the basic quality, especially this kind of commitment made in front of the public.
"Honorable Miss Margaery, if you don't mind, I will tell you the correct answer through the letter crow, and the old gods are above, and then you will know the correct answer. Jones looked around at the people around him, there were quite a few people who had just spoken ill of him, although it may just be a matter of habit, but Jones didn't intend to do everything they wanted, so he wouldn't let you know why, and he would kill you.
Sure enough, a grumpy nobleman immediately exclaimed when he heard Jones say this, "You can't do this, you haven't announced the correct answer yet!"
"Yes, I don't think Miss Margaery was wrong!"
"What is the answer to the first question, I'm in a hurry. ”
At this time, the Hundred Flowers Knight looked at the anxious crowd and Jones, who avoided speaking, and took the initiative to say, "Jones, we all understand that knowledge is valuable, so now that you say the answer, every audience has to pay you a golden dragon, how about it?"
"Yes, I'm willing to pay!"
"I do, too!"
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As soon as Jones heard that there was a golden dragon for one person, he was immediately shaken, there were more than fifty people here, which was not a small amount.
"If you insist, I'll accept the deal," Jones nodded, "and the third question, sleeping with the person you love the most, what was the last thing you did?"
"The answer is to close your eyes," Jones said, "and it's clear that you're thinking about your favorite things." ”
"It seems to be true, but close your eyes!"
"It's true that you close your eyes, but why does it feel weird? ”
"I should have thought of it a long time ago, but it's a pity!"
Margaery, who had always been very confident, also blushed, a noble lady wrote such words, and the result was not like that at all, which made her very ashamed, and she said with difficulty, "You are right!"
"The second question, two hounds race, the big dog runs fast, the small dog runs slower, which dog sweats a lot when he reaches the finish line?"
"I'm sorry, but dogs don't sweat. ”
"What? How can a hound not sweat. Apparently no one noticed this, and suddenly the crowd was buzzing again.
"But that's what happened," Jones added.
"Okay, I believe what you say. "Margaery is the quickest to accept, but if she really goes back, she will definitely find the dog to verify it.
"The answer to the first question is eggs, you can't lift such a small object with a hundred people, but any woman can lift it with one hand!"
"How can this be!"
"Then my sword, my shoes, etc. can be the answer to this question!"
"Mr. Jones, you are a skilled language game, I am willing to bet on it!" Margaery smiled when she heard all the answers, and without any look of annoyance, she generously admitted that she had lost to the other party. "I don't know what you're asking for?"
"Maybe I'm missing a companion, not Miss Margaery, of course, but I hope that there will be a master of swordsmanship to protect me and be my teacher for the rest of my journey. Jones thought for a moment and said that in fact, he asked for anything valuable now would only put him at greater risk for the rest of his journey.