Chapter Ninety-Nine: Qingfeng
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"Wow, young master, look there! It's so beautiful!" Suddenly, the little girl exclaimed, waking Zhang Xuan up from her artistic conception.
Zhang Xuan looked in the direction pointed by the little girl, and saw that not far away, on the high platform that was surrounded by three circles inside and three circles, there was a huge red lantern hanging in the sky, almost one zhang high and two meters wide, with the story of Chang'e running to the moon painted on it, and I don't know how many candles were spent inside, and the entire lantern was illuminated red, and it could be seen for ten miles.
Moreover, the lantern is not static, and during the rotation, one after another the picture scrolls continue to be seen, from Houyi to the sun until Chang'e runs to the moon, which has achieved the effect of a comic book in later generations.
But the most surprising thing is not here, but a row of high shelves erected on the high platform, surrounded by a circle of 100 candles, and inside are hung seven rows of well-made jewelry of various colors, shining under the reflection of the candle flame!
The bottom three rows are just small pendants carved from ordinary jade, and the value will not exceed one or two silver, and the middle three rows are bracelets, hairpins, necklaces, earrings and other gold, silver and jade conventional jewelry, which are worth about three taels to ten taels!
In the top row, there are only three chats, but they are glamorous, and they are three sets of heads.
A pair of green phoenix dotted emerald heads, a pair of jade-inlaid gold phoenix heads, and a pair of pearl steps shaking heads, all of them are worth a lot of money, and the gold (one thousand taels of silver) is not exchanged!
"Let's go, let's see!" Looking at the little girl's longing gaze, Zhang Xuan took the little girl's hand and came to the periphery of the crowd.
"Young master, forget it, I won't be able to catch up with the poetry meeting later!" The little girl knew the severity and grabbed Zhang Xuandao.
"It's okay, it's in time!" Zhang Xuan smiled at the little girl, and used his skills to separate the crowd in front of him, and took the little girl to the front row.
"Yan Niang, this is what I won, I'll put it on for you?" At this time, a young scholar was holding a butterfly hosta and said to a twenty-eight-year-old girl.
"Oh, put it ......on, put it on," the crowd coaxed.
Although the girl is not a national beauty, she is also a small jasper, usually raised in the deep boudoir, and how can she have experienced such a battle, so she is so ashamed that she hides her face and trots out.
"Hurry up and chase it!"
"Yan Niang!" The scholar was stunned for a moment, until he was pushed by the person next to him, and then he woke up like a dream and chased him out.
Surrounded by a group of young men and women, looking at this scene, the women were all envious, and the men were all eager to try!
"Hehe, all the talented and beautiful people, the old decrepit family jewelry shopkeeper is blessed and courteous, today's family jewelry is a big reward, as long as you have the ability, you can pick the jewelry on the wooden shelf behind the old man!" On the high platform, a fifty-year-old man said with a smile.
The old man is a little blessed, and with a kind smile, he can win people's favor.
"The rules may have been known to the distinguished guests who came earlier, but in order to take care of the friends who came later, the old man will repeat the rules again!"
"Seeing that there is no incense burner in front of the old man, there is a special incense stick here, each incense is divided into three sections equally with cinnabar, and the time for a stick of incense to burn out is exactly a quarter of an hour. ”
"Then we look at the eight circles of riddles set up by our family jewelry, there are a total of 8864 lamps in each circle, each lamp has a pre-written riddle, you need to enter from the first circle, and then in turn solve the riddle of the three lamps pointed out by our family jewelry sitting, and finally come out of the eighth circle, and the one who takes no more than a quarter of an hour is the winner. ”
"Among them, one-third of the incense burner can choose one of the three sets of head faces in the top row, two-thirds of the incense burn can choose one of the jewelry in the middle three rows, and more than two-thirds can only choose one of the pendants in the lower three rows!
After hearing this, Zhang Xuan was surprised in his heart, this family of jewelry is very good at doing business!
Originally, there was no large-scale lantern festival like the Lantern Festival in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and playing with lights was just carried out among families and children.
The family jewel did the opposite, first hanging a huge dynamic lantern to attract a crowd from afar.
Then he formed a circle of fire with candles, which was filled with valuable jewelry, which created an effect no less than that of today's spotlights, and attracted the attention of many young girls like Boa.
In the end, there was a test to win jewelry, and firmly grasped the psychology of the men present who were eager to behave in front of their female companions.
Moreover, its test is also an extraordinary design, a quarter of an hour to answer twenty-four riddles, without a little haste but not good, to avoid a big loss. There are sixty-four riddles in each circle, and you can choose any three answers, which also eliminates the possibility of someone cheating. The lantern riddle is written in advance, which shows the fairness of the family jewelry, and will not suddenly increase the difficulty because you answer it quickly.
Not only that, but the eight huge lantern circles surrounded by more than 500 lanterns are a beautiful scenery in themselves.
And through this activity, it has greatly increased the fame of his family jewelry, I believe that everyone present will be deeply impressed by it, plus word of mouth, it is difficult to become famous for family jewelry!
However, people are really willing, just to build such a stage has to cost a lot, and those jewels add up to three thousand taels. Although that head is not a complete set of gifts as Zhang Xuan thought, but only one of its parts, it is worth tens or even hundreds of taels of silver.
"Of course, in order to prevent someone from deliberately making trouble and disturbing your Yaxing, participants in the test need to pay one or two silver as a deposit first, and after customs clearance, not only can they choose any jewel according to the time limit, but we will also return this deposit!" the old man continued.
It means that the deposit of the two pieces of silver will be confiscated if the customs is not cleared.
As soon as these words came out, those young people who were eager to try but lacked confidence retreated, and if they could not pass the test, they would have to lose one or two pieces of silver, not to mention the embarrassment! You must know that these two pieces of silver are not a small number, and they are enough for a family of three to live nourishingly for more than a month.
"In addition, I would like to tell you another good news, our store will be 20% off tonight, and the jewelry on this wooden shelf can be found in the store, and you can also move to our store to have a look. Hehe!" Looking at the situation below, the old man said again.
This is what I said to those sons who are not short of money, we are not talented enough, and we can still win the favor of our female companions with money!
Seeing that no one came forward for the time being, Zhang Xuan instructed Bao'er, and then directly stepped forward and handed over a tael of silver, and said, "Cheng shopkeeper, Xiaosheng is willing to give it a try!"
"Oh, it's a talented man, the old man has seen the ceremony!" The old man looked at the green shirt on Zhang Xuan's body, and was suddenly shocked, and hurriedly saluted, but he was very happy in his heart. Engaging in this kind of activity, what he is most afraid of is the cold scene, and now that a talented show has come out to cheer, how can he not be happy.
"The old shopkeeper is welcome, Xiaosheng is in a hurry, let's start now!" Zhang Xuan returned the salute.
"Okay, in this way, please ask Xiucai Gong to move in the circle of the elder brother's lamp, the old man is going to light the incense!" After hearing this, the old man did not procrastinate, took out a stick of incense, stretched out his right hand and respectfully asked.
"Young master, come on!" the little girl waved her little fist and cheered up her young master.
Zhang Xuan turned around and smiled confidently at the little girl, then arched his hand towards the old man, and walked into the first light circle, and the group of people below suddenly quieted down and waited with bated breath. The little girl suppressed her excitement and watched with a pair of big black eyes.
"Xiucai is polite!" Seeing Zhang Xuan come in, a middle-aged man sitting inside immediately got up to salute, and then pointed to a lantern and said, "The first one, Tian Seventeen!"
Zhang Xuan bowed his hand in return, looked in the direction he was pointing, and soon found what he said about Tian Seventeen, which was the mark above the lantern.
Then Zhang Xuan moved his gaze to the riddle on the lantern: cut the mess with a quick knife and play an idiom.
"It's easy to solve!" Zhang Xuan thought for a moment and blurted out.
The middle-aged man was startled, looked at Zhang Xuan, and said continuously: "Tian Er, Tian Sanwu!"
Zhang Xuan searched according to his words.
Day 2: Extending in all directions, playing an idiom!
Day 35: Hands in favor, play an idiom!
"Tian Er, extending in all directions! Tian Sanwu, one more move!" Zhang Xuan said confidently
Hearing this, the middle-aged man turned sideways and respectfully pleaded: "Xiucai Gong Dacai, please!"
Zhang Xuan smiled and arched his hand and went to the next place.
This time it was a sixty-year-old man, and after the same salute, the old man casually reported three numbers: "Earth twelve, earth three six, land five six!"
Ground 12: There are holes but no insects, there are nests and no peaks, there are silkworms without silkworms, there are no people with umbrellas, and there is a thing.
Land 36: At the end of the year, there is no shortage of fish and rice, and a word.
Five or six places: Pleasant face, hit a food.
Zhang Xuan looked up at the puzzle, and then said without thinking: "Earth Twelve, it should be a lotus root!"
The ground is three or six, it should be a scale word!
Five or six on the ground, Naiyang spring noodles also!"
"I don't know if what Xiaosheng said is right?"
The old man looked at Zhang Xuan in amazement, until Zhang Xuan reminded him, and then he woke up like a dream and said: "Yes, yes!
Zhang Xuan smiled again and thanked him, and went to the next level.
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"Quick, it's only been less than ten breaths, right!
"Indeed, this show is a good skill. If we can maintain the current speed, we may be able to get to the front of the first row!"
Seeing Zhang Xuan's marching speed, the crowd below was full of discussions, surprise, envy, and so on.
Bao'er was even more full of little stars, proudly swept around the people who praised her, and said proudly in her heart: "That's my young master!"
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"Old shopkeeper, do you think Xiaosheng has cleared the customs?" Zhang Xuan stood in front of the old man and said with a smile.
Looking at the confident and elegant young man in front of him, Cheng Fu felt as if his eyes were shaking, and then he looked at the incense burner in the incense burner, the first section had just burned more than halfway!
"Just one-sixth of the incense, this talented man actually came out, no wonder he won the fame at such a young age, it is really extraordinary!"
"yes, yes, if I am allowed to go up, it will be luck to pass on time!"
Not only was the old man surprised, but the crowd around below was also surprised!
According to the rules, Xiucai Gong can choose any one of the three sets of head noodles. Please!" the old man came back to his senses and bowed in please.
Although he was amazed at Zhang Xuan's speed in solving the riddle, he never intended to repay the debt.
They spent a lot of money to hold this event, in order to start their own popularity, to achieve the purpose of publicity, and now someone has won the first prize at an astonishing speed, causing a sensation, he is too late to be happy, how can he offend a young and promising showman?
"In this way, that little student is welcome!" After Zhang Xuan finished speaking, he took off the Qingfeng headdress in the green phoenix in the envious eyes of hundreds of men and women.
Then he came to the little girl and put it on her head in the surprised eyes of the little girl.
The headdress is made of a beautiful kingfisher's feathers set on a phoenix base made of gold, like a blue phoenix with wings ready to fly, lifelike, and the two tiny rubies decorated with the eyes are the finishing touch!
"Wow!"
At the beginning, everyone was a little upset when they saw that such a precious emerald green phoenix headdress was actually worn on the head of a little girl, but then there seemed to be a high-pitched phoenix chirping sound in their ears, which seemed to be real and illusory. At this time, looking at the little girl wearing the green phoenix headdress, there was no sense of disobedience, as if it should have been like this!
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