Chapter Twenty-Three: The Contest of Wisdom
Chen Xiaomo stopped talking, only to see him pick up a rag from the table, dip some ink in the inkstone, and then draw a thick straight line on the two opposite sides of the regular hexagon, which just covered the two opposite sides of the regular hexagon, and the regular hexagon also became two isosceles triangles.
"Childe is really smart, I think it took me two days and two nights to figure out the answer, but I didn't expect Childe to understand the mystery in less than a stick of incense, which is really admirable to the little woman. The woman in purple exclaimed. She changed her words and said, "I don't know if Childe can go so smoothly in the future." ”
Chen Xiaomo answered the first question, and he couldn't help but feel a little excited, but seeing that the woman in purple looked determined to win, his face was full of gloom.
"It's an arithmetic problem. I don't know how many things there are, two of three or three, three of five, two of seven or seven, and the geometry of things?" the woman in purple chuckled, as if she was very confident in this question.
"The answer is twenty-three!" Just when everyone was confused, Chen Xiaomo said his answer.
The purple-clothed woman's face changed, and she looked at the inconspicuous young man in front of her again, only to see that he was not dressed in cloth and did not look like a scholar, but his thinking was very agile, and his knowledge was so profound, it was really strange!
"Hmph, congratulations," the woman in purple said with a displeased face, "and one more correct question." Then, the woman in purple muttered in a low voice: "No, Uncle Zhisu obviously said that he is the only one in the world who knows how to solve this problem, how did this kid do it?"
"Brother Mo, you are so powerful, you actually answered two questions correctly in a row. Li Zhi congratulated. To say that Li Zhi usually reads a lot, but he has no clue about the two questions of Fang Cai.
"Don't get too excited, the next third question will definitely make you think of it. The woman in purple cleared her throat and said loudly: "On a street, there are five houses side by side, sprayed with five colors, and people from different countries live in each house, each drinking different drinks, eating different varieties of food, and raising different pets, so the question is: Who raises fish?"
"Hey, I said this girl, what are you talking about in such a general way, how can we answer?" Li Zhi said urgently.
"Don't worry, I have a hint. The people of the Ming Kingdom live in red houses. The people of the Great Compassion Country have dogs. The people of the orc country drink tea. The green house is on the left side of the white house, and the owner of the green house drinks coffee. People who eat food of the first species raise birds. The owner of the yellow house eats food B. People who live in the middle house drink milk. The people of the Land of Snow live in the first room. The person who eats C food lives next door to the person who has a cat. The man who keeps the horse lives next door to the person who eats the food B. Those who eat food drink alcohol, and Westerners eat food of food E. The people of Snow Country live next door to the Blue House. The person who eats C food has a neighbor who drinks water. The woman in purple smiled slightly and said, "This is the hint I gave, please answer!" After speaking, the woman in purple waved her hand, and several housekeepers carried out a wooden board with a large white paper pasted on it, and this long and difficult question was written on the paper.
After reading this question, Chen Xiaomo closed his eyes and began to do mental arithmetic. This mental arithmetic skill was cultivated by Chen Xiaomo since elementary school, and now he is handy. And Li Zhi next to Chen Xiaomo, the three great talents of Xuanfu, and those elegant people also thought without distraction, some used pens to draw on paper, and some simply scribbled on the ground with branches.
The corners of the purple-clothed woman's mouth lifted lightly, and she said proudly: "I don't think there are many people in the world who can answer this intelligence question." As soon as her words fell, she heard a voice say, "I know the answer!" The surroundings became more silent, and everyone looked surprised, and they all moved their eyes to one person, who was Chen Xiaomo.
I saw Chen Xiaomo meet the eyes of the woman in purple, and said unhurriedly: "The answer is that Westerners raise fish, right?"
But the woman in purple looked at Chen Xiaomo with wide eyes, she couldn't believe that the question she had been thinking about for many days without success was actually thought out by the young man in front of her in such a short period of time. ”
"How did you come up with this?" asked the woman in purple.
"The girl already knows the answer, so why bother asking me. Chen Xiaomo smiled and said, "Let's ask the girl to release her first." ”
This woman in purple has always claimed to be smart, but now how can she be willing to bow her head to others? She rolled her eyes at the moment, and said coquettishly: "No, answer me two more questions, just two questions, if the answer is correct, I will release the person." ”
"Didn't you just say that you only answered three questions?" Chen Xiaomo asked.
"I don't care, whatever I say!" said the woman in purple.
Chen Xiaomo was embarrassed to deal with a girl, so he had to give up.
"I don't believe it, you can also answer this question!" The woman in purple held the belief that she would win, and said slowly: "People have seven emotions, joy, anger, sorrow, fear, love, evil, and desire.
"So what is the correct answer?" Chen Xiaomo asked.
"There is no correct answer to this question, if your answer is the same as mine, you will pass it. With that, the woman in purple took out a folded piece of paper from her waist, and her choice was already written on the paper.
"You're too strong to be difficult, aren't you? This is answering a question, it's obviously trying your luck!" Li Zhi said indignantly.
"So what, I'll have the final say here!" The woman in purple pointed at Chen Xiaomo and said: "If you are afraid, you can just leave, for the sake of you answering the three questions correctly, I can make an exception and let you go, but the three big bullshit talents are not so lucky!"
Everyone thought that Chen Xiaomo was going to give up, and Li Zhi also packed up his baggage and prepared to leave with Chen Xiaomo, but he didn't expect Chen Xiaomo to shake his head and say, "That's it, I'll gamble with you!" After that, Chen Xiaomo walked to the table and wrote a word on the paper with a brush, but during the writing process, he covered the word with his hand, so others were not allowed to see it.
After writing, Chen Xiaomo gently folded the paper and said, "My choice is here, it will not change again, the girl can show your answer." ”
"Sorrow comes from it, and it cannot be stopped. Life is not satisfactory ten **, so it is often accompanied by sorrow. All I chose to worry. After that, the woman in purple opened the paper in her hand, and sure enough, there was a word 'worry' written on it.
Then, everyone turned their eyes to Chen Xiaomo, only to see that Chen Xiaomo actually had a sad look. Cai Yuzhang said with a sad face: "It's over, it seems that we can't escape this catastrophe." ”
Jia Yunzhe shook his head and said: "This is only a one-in-seven probability, and it is normal to choose the wrong one." ”
Only Wang Lichuan looked unappreciative, "Hmph, this bastard boy wants to save us for a while, but he can't save us for a while, isn't this torturing me?
Chen Xiaomo slowly opened the white paper, and the word 'worry' was written on the paper. "It is difficult to stand up consciously, and I am often afraid of worry and humiliation. Away from worries is like a long line, thousands of miles haunt my heart. Gu Dafei's life is still a life of sorrow. What you have experienced, what you have said. The experience of the past 20 years is in my heart, and only this word 'worry' is the most indestructible. ”
Jia Yunzhe finally relaxed, walked over and patted Chen Xiaomo's shoulder, and said, "Little brother, you really scared me to death." Chen Xiaomo ignored him, this little word 'worry' didn't know how much pain he contained, and even his thoughts drifted to the distant sky.
The woman in purple couldn't believe her eyes, but the same word 'worry' on the two blank sheets of paper was ironclad proof.
"Brother Mo, you and this girl really have a good heart!" Li Zhi said with a wicked smile on the side.
"If you talk nonsense, I'll cut out your tongue." The woman in purple said angrily, and then glared at Li Zhi fiercely, Li Zhi was so frightened that he didn't dare to say another half a word.
"Girl, please ask the last question. Chen Xiaomo said in a low voice.
The woman in purple thought for a long time, and finally made up her mind, and said slowly: "This is the last question, the question is very short, you can listen well." Ask, 'What goes up the mountain with eight legs in the morning and three legs down the mountain in the evening?'" As soon as the purple-clothed woman's voice fell, everyone began to meditate again.
Ten minutes passed.
Twenty minutes passed.
Thirty minutes passed.
But no one, including Chen Xiaomo, came up with an answer. The woman in purple said impatiently, "How is it, is there a result?"
"I'm sorry, I really can't think of this question, and I ask the girl to teach me. Chen Xiaomo said modestly.
"Don't talk nonsense, come, tie this kid up for me first!" As soon as the woman in purple finished speaking, two family members came up and tied up Chen Xiaomo.
Without waiting for everyone to react, the woman in purple said again: "Hurry up and finish shaving the hair of these scholars, and then shave these three shitty talents into bald heads, drag them out and beat them up." Then, she pointed at Chen Xiaomo and said, "Pick up this kid's clothes for me and hang them on the beams of the house, this girl is going to give him some color today!"
"Girl, spare your life!" The three talented men were dragged out by the family while shouting, and Chen Xiaomo was also dropped on the beam, and only a pair of thin white shorts were left on his body.
"You crazy girl dare to tease me like this, put me down!" Chen Xiaomo shouted. He struggled, his body bobbing back and forth in the air.
"You brought it on yourself, and you can't blame others. After saying that, the woman in purple took out a leather whip from behind her and snorted coldly: "Let you go against me!"
The woman in purple was about to have a seizure, and suddenly stopped, only to see her jump up from the ground, this jump was more than two meters high, and when she fell, there was an extra thing in her hand. Chen Xiaomo looked at it fixedly, wasn't this the psychic jade on his neck?
I only heard the woman in purple say contemptuously: "I didn't expect that you, a poor boy, also have such a piece of beautiful jade on your body." ”
"That's my family heirloom, you put it down for me!" Chen Xiaomo shouted loudly, but there was nothing he could do about it while others were hanging in the air.
"Who is rare about your broken jade!" The woman in purple glanced at it, and threw the half-heart-shaped psychic jade into the pile of clothes that Chen Xiaomo had taken off. Then, she pulled the leather whip in her hand vigorously, and said angrily: "Let you taste the taste of my leather whip!" Then she heard Chen Xiaomo cry out in pain, and in an instant, there were two more blood marks on his body.
The woman in purple raised her leather whip high, and was about to hit it a few more times, but she saw a black light in the sky, and the sound of a fierce roar, from far and near, had fallen beside the woman in purple in a blink of an eye.