Chapter 17 Ninety-Nine Lantern Array
The two walked on the streets of Gusu City, and Gusu City was so lively. Pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info all kinds of gadgets, lanterns, all kinds of classics, ancient paintings. It has filled the entire Gusu Street. All kinds of cries and sales come and go, a kind of prosperity in the south of the Yangtze River.
The little beggar walked here and there, picking up all kinds of gadgets from time to time to play.
After getting tired of playing, the little beggar said to Lin Fanyun: Brother Lin, let's go see the Lantern Festival, and as he spoke, he pulled Lin Fanyun towards the City God Temple.
All kinds of lanterns light up the night of the City God Temple, and the fortune tellers who measure characters and look at the faces outside the City God Temple are very busy. At this time, the Xiangshi who sold the marriage card also kept writing the marriage card for the person who came to find the marriage first. Lin Fanyun had seen such a scene in Wudang Mountain, he smiled and kept wandering his eyes to look here and there.
In the crowd, there was a well-dressed old man followed by two entourage, and a middle-aged man dressed like a master stood in front of the lantern array and said to everyone: My master is setting up this lantern array, with the intention of recruiting promising people. If anyone guesses the meaning of the lantern riddle, my master will give a thousand gold as a reward.
The old man's words drew applause from the audience.
But there are so many taels of gold that we can't hold it, so my master keeps the gold in one place. If that boy is lucky enough to solve the puzzle. You can go and take your own thousand taels of gold. As he spoke, the master picked up the gong mallet and struck a large gong and shouted: "Guess the lantern riddle now." Guessing lantern riddles was originally a favorite thing of literati and scholars, and there were thousands of gold as rewards. For a while, many people wandered under the lanterns, and the viewers were on the spot.
Striking the gong also attracted the attention of the little beggar, and he pulled Lin Fanyun and said: There are lantern riddles over there, Brother Lin, let's guess the lantern riddles. As he spoke, he ran to the lanterns. Lin Fanyun also followed the little beggar to see the lantern array, and the little beggar saw the words on the lantern and read it: its distance is covered by nine nights, and its open space is shrouded in eight corners. The sun and the moon are bright, and they are like miles. The little beggar touched his head, he seemed to have seen it somewhere, but he couldn't remember it, Lin Fanyun saw that the little beggar was a little bit of a monk who went to ask the little beggar and didn't answer, just pulled him to walk towards other lanterns.
The little beggar Yu Lin Fan wandered in the lantern array, and found that this lantern array was extremely strange, as if it was specially arranged, there were nine rows of lanterns, and there were nine lights in each row, a total of eighty-one. Could it be that this is the legendary Nine-Nine Lantern Array.
The legend of the Nine-Nine Flower Lantern Array is based on the evolution of the Eight Arrays made by Zhuge Liang, and the follow-up Qimen Dunjia Warriors have modified it several times to spread the Nine-Nine Lotus Lantern Array intended to confuse the enemy for defensive purposes. But this array has been lost for a hundred years, but I didn't expect Lin Fanyun and them to bump into each other.
The little beggar was a little secretly proud at this time, and thought to himself, as expected, the master who set up the waiting array must be from the Xuanmen. It turned out that the poem that the little beggar read was not a poem, but the Taoist method of nine returns. Taoism is divided into several schools, Wudang Shan originally belongs to the Taoist Zhongzheng faction, and there is a faction that is proficient in the art of Qimen Dunjia is the Shangqing faction, and many Taoist priests are Lingbao faction with runes. Regardless of the other genres, they are all integrated and absorbed from each other, so there is not much difference. Only the Wudang faction is more different, because the Wudang faction patriarch Zhang Sanfeng once did a Shaolin monk, and also did a disciple of the Shangqing faction, so he absorbed the strengths of the Taoist faction and created precious martial arts treasures such as soft and rigid and immediate, four or two thousand catties. And now it is the descendants of the Shangqing faction who have created such a formation.
The little beggar pulled Lin Fanyun to watch in front of the lanterns that had been wandering in the row, Lin Fanyun saw the little beggar watching carefully, sometimes thinking, sometimes happy, and didn't say much, just followed him all the time.
After the little beggar finished walking the lanterns in the row, he retreated to the third lantern in the aisle and shouted to Lin Fanyun: "Follow the fart, follow me." He began to observe and walked into the second row of lanterns. In this way, the little beggars sometimes walked in rows and sometimes in columns, wandering in the lantern array. Until I walked to the last column, I suddenly said to myself: I see. After hearing this, Lin Fanyun said to the little beggar: What is this.
The little beggar looked at Lin Fanyun, who had always been like a fart, and said, "Brother Lin, let's go have a good meal today?" Before Lin Fanyun could react, the little beggar pulled him to the east until he walked to a luxuriously decorated tavern.
The tavern is called Zuixianlou, and it is the best tavern in Gusu City, and the little beggar walked to the door of the tavern and said: This is it. As he spoke, he entered the Drunken Immortal Building; Lin Fanyun saw the little beggar enter the Drunken Immortal Building, and then got up and shouted; the little brother also followed the little beggar into the Drunken Immortal Building.
At this time, the Drunken Immortal Building was exceptionally silent, and although the huge inner hall was brightly lit, there was not a single guest. After Lin Fanyun saw this, he said to the little beggar; Maybe it's closed, so let's come back tomorrow. As he spoke, he prepared to pick up the little beggar and leave the tavern.
The little beggar broke Lin Fanyun away and shouted at the empty Drunken Immortal Tower: Since you invited us to come, why didn't you show up.
As soon as the little beggar said this, a man came out of the room with a folding fan and applauded and said, "Good, good... Head downstairs. The person who went downstairs was the middle-aged master in front of the light array.
The middle-aged master was amazed when he saw that the person who solved the problem was so young, and said: I didn't expect that the person who could solve my little Zhuge problem was such a young descendant.
The little beggar said disdainfully: What a little Zhuge is, I think it is a little piglet.
Lin Fanyun heard the little beggar say this, and hurriedly apologized to the middle-aged master and said: Senior, don't blame my little brother. The middle-aged master interrupted Lin Fanyun and said: Since the person who can solve the problem is by no means an idle person, my master is invited upstairs.
He didn't let go of the way, saying that the little beggar pushed the master upstairs.
Lin Fanyun wanted to apologize to the master, but he didn't expect the master to say first: Childe, please. Lin Fanyun nodded and clenched his fists and followed him upstairs.
In the upstairs room, an old man about fifty years old man was sitting on the main seat, and the people behind him were pouring wine for him.
The master reported to the master that it was these two who solved the puzzle.
Seeing Lin Fanyun's handsome face, the old man seemed to be childish and said: You broke the riddle.
Lin Fanyun hurriedly explained: No, we didn't solve the riddle.
The old man looked at Lin Fanyun in surprise: Since you didn't solve the riddle, then why did you go back and find it here.
Yes, it's me... Before Lin Fanyun's words could be finished, he was interrupted by the little beggar.
The little beggar immediately sat down on the round stool and said to the master: I solved your riddle.
The old man looked at the dusty little beggar and was particularly surprised, and hurriedly asked: How did you break the riddle?
The little beggar took a roast goose leg on the table and ate it, and said to the old man, "Your puzzle is not difficult at all."