Chapter Fifty-Nine: The Golden Chamber
The paper was slightly rough to the touch, thinking that it was inferior quality rice paper, and slowly unfolded the rice paper, Su Lan muttered:
"The clear sky and the moon hang on the border, this is ...... "
After thinking for a moment, I saw Su Lan's eyes light up, and said excitedly: "I know, it's Lang Zi." "
The shopkeeper took down the note with the answer written on the lantern, Su Lan stepped forward to take a look, but it was the word Lang, and immediately glanced at Xiao Yueming who was standing beside him, obviously regarded him as his sworn enemy, and thought to himself: "Hmph, the lantern riddle is not difficult for this girl, when I get the last mysterious prize, I will definitely make you look good." "
Although Su Lan was wearing a mask, Xiao Yueming still felt the provocation, and couldn't help but feel a little funny, and congratulated him at the moment: "Brother Su is really only eight buckets high, this esoteric lantern riddle, but after only a few glances, he successfully gave the answer, and I really admire it." "
Xiao Yueming somehow always wanted to tease the "Brother Su" in front of her who had lost his beloved wife and dressed as a man, and looked at her deflated appearance, which made her feel so happy.
Seeing that his rival was so complimentary, Su Lan was also extremely useful, and came to the second lantern with a bold sword, and confidently picked up the note, but it didn't take long for this brow to wrinkle.
Time passed, Xiao Yueming looked at Su Lan, who had been standing still and had been thinking for a long time, and asked, "Brother Su, do you have an answer?"
"Of course, if I think about it a little longer, I can be sure that the answer is not accurate. "
Although Su Lan had a hard mouth at this time, his mind was always empty, and after thinking about it for a long time, he had no clue, and he never knew the essentials, pinching the note in his hand, Su Lan couldn't help but feel a little anxious:
"Why is this broken lantern riddle so difficult to solve, I think the boss doesn't want people to solve it, it's really black-hearted, how can it be good now, you can't show weakness to this dead man, if you let him know, I'm stuck in this second puzzle, maybe he will use some vicious words to sarcastically mock me." "
The surrounding onlookers couldn't wait any longer, and they were all urging impatiently.
Su Lan seemed to be seriously solving the problem, but in fact, his mind was already turning over the river and the sea, thinking about how to deal with it, and after a while, Su Lan's eyes under the mask flashed, and he thought about it.
Coughing lightly twice, Su Lan said indifferently: "Brother Xiao, since this guess is a joint participation of the two of us, this will always let me solve it alone, I'm afraid it's a little inappropriate, it's better to be like this, you and I will work together on the rest of the questions, how about it?"
Helping the rabbit mask that was about to fall off his face and straightening it, Xiao Yueming then spoke: "Naturally, since Brother Su has solved a question before, this question should naturally be answered below." "
Xiao Yueming naturally knew Su Lan's careful thoughts, and then went with the flow and gave her a step down.
Touching the fake beard on the side of his mouth, Su Lan handed the note in his hand to Xiao Yueming, and he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Taking the note, Xiao Yueming glanced at the content written on the note, and the answer was about to come out, and then showed the note in front of everyone, explaining:
"Everyone, please look at this riddle, the human face does not know where to go, the peach blossom is still smiling in the spring breeze, just look at these two sentences, with the usual method of splitting words, it is Duan Ran can not solve, if you want to solve this riddle, you need to start with the allusion of the author of this poem. "
Looking at everyone's puzzled looks, Xiao Yueming continued:
This poem is written by the poet Cui Hu of the previous dynasty, Cui Hu was born in a scholarly family, arrogant personality, usually alone, one day Qingming season, after the end of the exam, then go to the suburbs of the south of the city to play, thirsty on the way, I want to find a family to ask for some water to drink, go around, only to see a peach blossom in the exposed thatched house, Cui Hu to seek, but see a beautiful girl to Cui Hu walking, after inquiry, the girl named Jiang Niang, the two are in their youth, and they are talented women, naturally they are mutual affection. "
Cui Hu left, until the second year, looking at the peach blossoms, Cui Hu couldn't help but touch the scene, hurried to the suburbs in the south of the city, the scenery is still the same, but can not find the trace of the beauty, back home, Jiang Niang's figure has always been around Cui Hu's mind, can't bear the pain of lovesickness, Cui Hu returned to the peach forest thatched house, but only to see a white-haired old man crying sadly, after asking, only to know that the old man is the father of Jiang Niang, it turned out that when Cui Hu left, Jiang Niang thought about it, has become lovesick. "
"Answer with a poem, the first year I met Jiang Niang, I fell in love, but in the second year, the peach blossoms were still the same, but I didn't see Jiang Niang, so it was this word, symbolizing the meaning that the beauty had passed away. "
Hearing this, everyone was silent, secretly regretting the poignant love between Cui Hu and Jiang Niang, and some of the women in the crowd were already pear blossoms with rain, and they were secretly sad.
Su Lanhu's eyes under the mask were already moist, as if because of the touching story of Cui Hu and Jiang Niang, even Xiao Yueming, who was the narrator, looked much more pleasing to the eye, just ask the children of the rivers and lakes, who is not eager to meet a love that can be sung and cried? Although Su Lan is now dressed as a man and walks the rivers and lakes, she is just a sixteen-year-old young girl, and she naturally has many fantasies and expectations for love.
"Okay, good, this rabbit-faced boy, really knowledgeable, this allusion between Cui Hu and Jiang Niang, is not a secret, the scholars and scholars who came here in the past are naturally aware, but like the son, combined with allusions, solve the anagram, but only a few of them. "
The shopkeeper couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and got up and bowed to Xiao Yueming.
Xiao Yueming also returned the salute: "It's just that I usually read some more allusions and miscellaneous talks, and it's a fluke to be able to solve the anagram." "
What Xiao Yueming said is true, in Black Maple Island for many years, in addition to practicing martial arts, he usually reads books, and medical books and miscellaneous talks can be said to be not rejected by those who come, and the more he reads, the more he will naturally understand.
Under the tiger face mask, Su Lan's beautiful eyes rolled her eyes, although she had a little more affection for Xiao Yueming, she couldn't help but say secretly:
"Really, how can this dead man be in the limelight wherever he goes, the White Moon will be like this, and so is guessing a lantern riddle, it's really hateful. "
Xiao Yueming naturally didn't know what Su Lan was thinking, and the two of them then continued to guess the riddle, fortunately, the next anagram was not very difficult, and the two quickly solved the seventh, but Xiao Yueming couldn't think of the answer to the eighth anagram anyway.
Looking at the anagram in her hand, Xiao Yueming shook her head secretly and chose to give up, and she also admired the boss in her heart: "If you want to solve ten puzzles, it's impossible, if you want to solve this riddle, literature and martial arts, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, I'm afraid you have to dabble in everything, it seems that in this river and lake, even if it is these small ways, you can't have the slightest contempt." "
Xiao Yueming and Su Lan solved the seventh anagram, and naturally they could get a prize, the shopkeeper took out a wooden box from the container, Xiao Yueming reached out to catch it, opened the wooden box, and there was a delicate hairpin lying quietly on the red flannel, which was the golden box auspicious cloud hairpin.
The hairpin is mainly light blue, the hairpin head is white cloud-shaped, and the gold edge is wrapped around it, which looks quite good.