The old pedant wiped the sweat from his head, and like a buffalo who was still unwilling to have a horn missing in the battle, his eyes widened, and he squeezed a few words out of his teeth: "Come on, boy!"

"Okay, now I'll ask you what kind of water has no fish, what fire has no smoke, what tree has no leaves, what flower has no branches?" asked the boy with a smile. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

"This ...... This is simply unreasonable, no, very wrong, you are all sideways, how can the old man answer with you. The old pedant was so angry that his beard was crooked.

The young man laughed and said, "Isn't it true that what is written in the Four Books and Five Classics is the side door?" Anyway, the answer has already been written on the paper, and it is buckled on this stone tablet, if you open the note for a while, I am here to tell you nothing, then I will pay you back twice the silver!"

The old pedant, like a toad with puffed out cheeks, said loudly: "There are fish in every water, and there must be smoke in every fire, and there is no tree without leaves, let alone flowers without branches!

"Fart, it stinks, it stinks! Now I'm going to say it, you can sniff if I'm farting." The boy said with a smug face.

As soon as these words came out, everyone present burst into laughter, even Ye Cheng, Zhong Qing and others couldn't help laughing, only Hu Sanxiao stared at the young man in a daze, and his eyes didn't seem to even blink.

"Well, you say, I'll see what you can come up with!" said the old pedant, angrily.

The young man smiled slightly and said: "The answer is actually simple, there are no fish in this well water, of course there is no smoke in the fireflies, how can there be leaves in dead trees, and snowflakes naturally have no branches." ”

The young man said, turned over the note in front of him, and it was clearly written in black and white, which was no different from what the young man said.

At this time, everyone couldn't help but applaud together, and Ye Cheng also secretly exclaimed in his heart: "What a young man, although some swords go off the rails, what he said is not unreasonable, and it is difficult to refute. ”

The old pedant's eyes suddenly lost a little light, and he got up and wanted to leave, but was pressed down by everyone, and one of the farmers shouted: "Mr. Zhao, this is not right, you are willing to lose the bet, you are also a famous private school gentleman in our ten miles and eight towns, and you will not rely on a child's account in front of our big guys!"

"That's it, that's it, you can't pay the bill!" said the farmer, and the people behind him also coaxed.

The old scholar surnamed Zhao had a face like ashes, and knew that he couldn't get through the tricks, so he groped out some small pieces of silver from his arms, spread them in his hand and counted them twice, and then threw them on the stone slab and said, "Give it to you, it's all for you! This year's book is considered a vain teaching!"

The young man looked up to the sky and laughed, swiped his forearm, put the silver in his pocket, and arched his hand: "Concession, concession!" Mr. Zhao, I clearly said at the beginning that you had to bet on one or two games, but you had to bet on ten or two games, how could this be blamed on me. Besides, you are full of confidence, and you have to ask me to choose the method and topic of the competition, isn't this asking for trouble?"

Old Zhao stood up abruptly angrily, snorted and walked away, walking not far and almost tripping to the ground, of course, attracting a laugh behind him.

"I'm really lucky today, I've earned so much, I can have meat to eat when I go home!" the young man smiled and was about to leave, but suddenly heard a woman's crisp voice.

"This little brother walks slowly. ”

The young man was quite surprised, and looked up, but saw a girl in a pink shirt, beautiful as a hibiscus and eyes like a meteor, looking at him with a smile.

"Didn't you ask me to invite you to a drink, girl?" the boy smiled again.

The girl who spoke was none other than Zhong Qing. At that moment, I saw Zhong Qing rubbing a few times on the stone bench, and sat down unhurriedly and said: "There is no need to eat and drink, but just now I saw that the little brother was quick to think, and the little woman was itchy for a while, and she also wanted to compete with the little brother, I don't know if you dare?"

Ye Cheng never thought that Zhong Qing would come out at this time, and wanted to stop it, but it was too late.

The young man looked at Zhong Qing for a while, looked at him from top to bottom, and then laughed and said, "I said this sister, don't be joking, no one can compare to me in this guessing riddle on the Three Buddha Islands." I think you're a human being, and I don't want to bully you. ”

The young man said, got up and wanted to leave again, but Zhong Qing stopped him again: "How many silver taels do you have now?"

The boy was very surprised, and realized that the girl opposite seemed to be serious. So he said, "There are eighty taels in total!"

Zhong Qing shook his head and sighed: "Alas, I still guess how many there are, it turns out that it is only eighty taels, so let's do it, if you dare to compete with me, if you lose, you will still lose ten taels to me as you did just now, and if this girl loses, double it will be given to you!"

"Twenty taels?"

Not only the young man, but even Ye Cheng and other onlookers were taken aback, these twenty taels are not a small number, and some farmers can't earn so much in a year of hard work.

I saw that the young man was surprised and itched by Zhong Qing's excitement, but he still had an extra heart, and immediately stretched out his hand and said: "Oh, don't boast first, you are a girl's family, can you have so much money on you? ”

Zhong Qing smiled slightly, slowly took off a beautifully embroidered rucksack from his body, opened it and put it on the slate, and suddenly the golden light was dazzling.

"It's a golden leaf! That's a hundred taels!" exclaimed the crowd.

Zhong Qing thought that the croppers on these islands had really never seen the world, so he couldn't help but say slowly: "Hundreds of taels? The gold leaves in this backpack are a total of two thousand three hundred taels, which is a lot." ”

The young man's eyes seemed to fall on this stone slab and crawl into the gold leaf, and he swallowed a mouthful of spit and said, "Two thousand...... Two thousand three hundred taels?"

Zhong Qing smiled: "Yes, so we have to play, anyway, people are here, when this girl is happy to play and then leave, everything I just said counts, and if I lose at that time, I won't miss you." ”

"Okay, since my sister has this Yaxing, my younger brother and I will accompany you, you can draw a way!" the young man said.

"You definitely can't do poetry and songs, and there are no tools for piano, chess, calligraphy and painting at the moment, so just according to what I just said, just guess the riddle!" Zhong Qing seemed to be confident.

Ye Cheng on the side was also a little confused, and said in his heart: "Qing'er, what's the matter, so many silver taels are put out, isn't it eye-catching, and besides, why does she have to compete with this young man?"

Ye Cheng wanted to look at Zhong Qing, but Zhong Qing just smiled at Ye Cheng, as if to make him feel relieved.

"Okay, sister, it's really refreshing, then you can ask the question first!" said the young man.

Zhong Qing was not polite at the moment, and said loudly: "The sunset is fragrant, so you don't have to be a little bit of mortal heart??; When the furnace is extinguished, make sure to bolt the horse. What kind of business is this???

The young man had never heard this, and he couldn't help scratching his head. After a while, it was really hard to guess, thinking that it would be ten taels of silver, and I would give her one later, and if I couldn't answer, I could earn another ten taels. So he said: "I don't know this, you just say it." ”

Zhong Qing smiled and said: "You don't know that it's so simple? This sunset fragrance is gone, and when you go to the mortal heart, it is naturally the word 'bald', and the fire in the furnace is removed, and the addition of a horse is naturally the word 'donkey', isn't the bald donkey a monk?"

When the young man heard this, he couldn't help but stroke his palms and laugh: "Interesting, interesting!"

At that moment, it was the young man's turn to ask the question, and I saw the young man think for a moment and say: "Although it is one thing, it is dark and dark, short and long, hot and cold. I don't say what I fought, you might guess?"

Zhong Qing shook his head and pretended to sigh: "If I can come up with a clever topic, don't take it out again and be laughing and generous." There is yin and yang, hot and cold, what is the word 'Ming'?"

The young man saw that Zhong Qing answered correctly so easily, so he had no choice but to let him do the question again.

"Black is not, white is not, red and yellow are not. It seems to be half like a fox and a wolf dog. Neither domestic animals nor wild animals. There are poems, words, and Analects. There is a blur between the east and the west, north and south. May I ask what it is?" Zhong Qing said without thinking.

The young man couldn't help but feel his head swell, thinking about what such a vague thing could be, he really had no clue, although he was unwilling, but he had to shake his head and admit defeat.

Zhong Qing said proudly: "This is even simpler, nothing can only be 'guessed', a blur turns into a 'riddle', isn't it the word 'guessing riddle' that we have been doing now?"

The young man suddenly realized, and couldn't help but secretly exclaim, but he regretted very much why he couldn't think of this at that time.

Ye Cheng was also impressed by Zhong Qing on the side, thinking that he thought that Qing'er was just a ghost, but he didn't expect that there was still so much knowledge in his stomach, if he let himself guess these riddles, he didn't even want to guess one.

In this way, I saw the two of them going back and forth, worthy of eight rounds, and the young man won the silver taels in the morning, including what he brought, all of which were won by Zhong Qing, and the onlookers were also dumbfounded.

Zhong Wanhou has been in business for generations, and naturally he has a lot of money, so in Zhong Qing's opinion, the eighty taels of silver are simply dispensable, but for the young man, these eighty taels of silver are almost all his savings, so he is naturally distressed and unbearable.

At this time, looking at this young man, he has completely lost the complacency he had just now, like a defeated rooster, dejected. This Zhong Qing smiled and picked up the silver two in front of the young man's eyes and shook it: "These silver two girls don't look at it, if you still want it, come with me." ”

After that, Zhong Qing put away the silver two, separated the crowd, and said to Ye Cheng: "Brother Ye, let's go." ”

Ye Cheng and the others didn't know what the hell Zhong Qing was doing, so they had to follow behind. Seeing this, the young man also hurriedly rushed out of the crowd and followed behind Ye Cheng and the others.

Zhong Qing walked like this, and after a short time he came to a bamboo forest before he stopped, and saw that there was no one else except for a few of them, so he stood still, turned around, and looked at the young man with a smile.

"Sister, don't embarrass me, I'm a peasant boy, it's not easy to make money, this money is still useful, if my sister can pay me back, let me be a cow and a horse." The boy begged.

"It's not necessary to be a cow or a horse, but this silver tael really can't be returned to you in vain, how can there be such a good thing in the world. If you agree, I will exchange this silver tael for a few questions, and for every ten taels of silver you will be repaid, you will have to answer me a question, and eighty taels is eight questions, if I need to ask again, then I will definitely add another silver tael to you, what do you think?" Zhong Qing asked.

The young man thought that this tricky girl was going to have some problems to embarrass himself, but he didn't expect to just ask a few questions, but he was relieved at the moment, took a few deep breaths, and said with a smile: "Don't say eight questions, that is, eighty, eight hundred, I will know everything." ”

"That's good! Let's just say it!" Zhong Qing smiled with a smile.

"Miss Zhong, this first question, can you ask it first?"

Zhong Qing looked back, but saw that the person who spoke turned out to be Hu Sanxiao, only to see that his eyes were dull, as if he had seen a scene that he couldn't believe, his chest rose and fell violently, and he looked very excited. The flower girl next to her looked at the young man in a daze, as if she was crying rather than laughing, and her expression was very weird.

Zhong Qing looked at Ye Cheng, then looked at Hu San and smiled, and said with some hesitation: "That...... All right. ”

At this time, the young man also found that the eyes of the man and woman were so strange that he couldn't help but be a little scared.

"Thank you, Miss Zhong, Hu wants to ask this young man, what is your name, and how old is this year?" Hu San asked with a trembling tone.

"I ...... My surname is Chen, my name is Zongyuan, and I don't ...... I don't know what's wrong?" the boy stammered.

Chen Zongyuan...... Chen Zongyuan...... It's not a win, but how can it be, there are so many people in the world who look so like!" Hu San muttered to himself with a smile.

"Ying'er! you are my Ying'er!" Hua Niang had been watching in a daze just now, when she suddenly jumped and stretched out her arms to pounce on the young man.