Li Yi stopped abruptly, and the little maid just wanted to catch up with him quickly, and bumped into him unexpectedly.
He rubbed his chest in pain, and when he looked up, he found that my uncle turned his head and looked in the direction of the crowd.
"One hundred taels?"
The number Li Yi muttered in his mouth, if he heard correctly just now, the two people who were talking on the periphery of the crowd said these three words just now.
For Li Yi at present, anything related to money is a sensitive word, and there is no way to escape his ears with a distance of several feet.
Originally, he didn't intend to watch the excitement, but immediately walked towards the crowd quickly.
"Dare to ask the two brothers, I don't know what happened here, why are you all gathered here?" Li Yi first performed a peer salute to the two who spoke just now, and then asked with a smile.
The two were having a good time chatting, and they were naturally displeased when someone interrupted them, but when they turned their heads and saw that the person standing in front of them seemed to be also a scholar, the displeasure disappeared immediately, and one of them replied with a smile: " Brother, I don’t know, today several poetry clubs in Qing’an Prefecture, in this Drunken Fragrance Building, are competing with each other based on poetry and prose, and the winner will be able to participate in the Mid-Autumn Festival Poetry Club held tomorrow... I’m afraid it won’t be long before they will be There will be good works handed down."
No matter how you look at Li Yi's clothes, he looks like a scholar. Perhaps because of this reason, the two men in Confucian shirts are also quite warm towards him.
Li Yi has no interest in poetry clubs and poetry clubs. This man talked for a long time, but he still didn't get to the point. Li Yi decided to remind him a little.
With a smile on his face, he pretended to ask casually: "The one hundred taels of silver you two brothers just said..."
"Oh, the one hundred taels of silver is the lottery of this competition, and it will be given to the winning poetry club at the end." The other person was stunned for a moment, and then he opened his mouth to explain.
For scholars like them, the focus should be on this competition of poetry and prose. Money is something outside of the body, and the one hundred taels of silver is not the focus of their attention.
Scholars should regard money as dung.
However, as a pseudo-scholar, this is the focus of Li Yi's attention.
One hundred taels of silver, you can take it away if you win. In this way, will the rent of the shop be settled soon
This one hundred taels of silver was clearly tailor-made for him.
"Thank you two brothers!" Li Yi smiled and cupped his hands to the two, then glanced at the little maid standing behind him: "Xiaohuan, let's go in!"
Xiaohuan nodded, and followed Li Yi, as if I would be where my uncle was.
"Brother stay behind!"
Li Yi just took two steps when a voice suddenly came from behind him.
He turned his head and looked at the young scholar just now suspiciously, "What else is there, brother?"
"I don't know if you have an invitation card, brother?"
"Invitation?"
The expression on Li Yi's face froze, "What invitation?"
The young scholar explained: "The Drunken Fragrance Tower has been booked today, and you can only enter with an invitation card, so we will be turned away."
"So, we can't go in?" Li Yi said with a look of disappointment.
He seemed to see the one hundred taels of silver in his hand, and it flew out of his arms again.
"That's not necessarily the case." The scholar pointed to the front and said, "You can go in without an invitation, but you need to guess the lantern riddles they posed correctly."
Seeing this man speak slowly, Li Yi felt a little depressed in his heart. The mother-in-law is not like a man, so she finishes quickly when she has something to say, and only half a sentence at a time, which is easy to be misunderstood by others...
"In that case, let's go in after guessing the lantern riddles."
Guessing riddles, Li Yi has been playing since he was a child, and he has a lot more experience than these ancients, so he doesn't need to cheat at all.
The two people looked at each other, smiled wryly one after another and said: "These lantern riddles are unsolved puzzles in the Shangyuan Festival last year. If they were so easy to guess, I wouldn't be waiting outside the door."
"Guess whether you can guess it or not, you will know once you try it." Li Yi smiled, and walked to the front holding Xiaohuan's hand.
At the front of the crowd, people were arguing endlessly around a few red lanterns. There was a white cloth strip hanging from the bottom of the lanterns, with enigmas written on it.
"The white snake crosses the river with a red sun above its head."
Li Yi looked at the cloth strips under the lantern, the expression on his face remained unchanged, but his heart was already cursing.
What kind of riddle is this? There is no hint, nor is it an anagram or a guess. How can people guess
Isn't this deliberately making things difficult for people!
Someone at the side guessed that the answer was "ship", and someone guessed "Dan", but none of the servants standing at the side responded, obviously none of their guesses were the correct answer.
Li Yi originally wanted to rely on his ingenuity to guess riddles, but now he can't count on it, and honest cheating is the right way.
With a thought, a thick book of ancient and modern lantern riddles came to mind.
Li Yi still doesn't believe it. This complete set of lantern riddles, which is as thick as an encyclopedia dictionary, would not have this broken lantern riddle.
Search according to the first word, "white", "snake"..., "White snake crossing the river, with a red sun above its head", found it!
In just a dozen seconds, a smile appeared on Li Yi's face.
He waved to the boy, and when he came over, he smiled and said, "The white snake crosses the river with a red sun above its head. The answer to this lantern riddle is "oil lamp."
The crowd around were stunned for a moment, and then they immediately burst into an uproar.
"What kind of oil lamp, even if you are blind, you have to be blind."
"Yes, what is the relationship between the white snake, the red sun and the oil lamp!"
"Get out of the way quickly, don't get in the way!"
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If a few people say something, they are very rude. They have racked their brains for so long and haven't guessed it right. Why are you a newcomer joining in the fun.
"My lord, the answer to this lantern riddle is the oil lamp." The boy was stunned for a moment, and then he bowed and said immediately with a surprised expression on his face.
"What!"
"I guessed it right!"
"Why an oil lamp?"
"I see!"
"The wick is the white snake, and the flame...isn't the red sun!"
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The riddle of this lantern riddle is actually very common, but because there is no hint, the range of guessing is too wide. If there is no flash of inspiration, it is difficult to think of the oil lamp.
And when Li Yi told the answer to the mystery, someone soon figured it out. It turned out that the answer was so simple. ring.
The two scholars who talked with Li Yi just now looked at this scene with a little dumbfounded. It is unimaginable that he really guessed it!
"Can I go in now?" Li Yi asked looking at the boy.
"My lord, please!"
The boy hastily stretched out his hand as an invitation gesture.
Li Yi waved to the girl behind him: "Xiaohuan, let's go in."
The little girl nodded immediately, my uncle is really good, he even guessed the lantern riddles that so many people couldn't guess, Xiaohuan saw the oil lamp every night, and didn't think about it!
There was a lovely smile on his face, and when he was about to follow Li Yi in, the young man quickly chased him up, stopped in front of the two of them, and said with embarrassment: "My lord, you can only go in alone."
"Why?" Li Yi looked at him and asked with a frown.
When Xiaohuan heard this, she immediately tightened the corner of Li Yi's clothes with some worry... Xiaohuan didn't want to be separated from my uncle.
"Because the young master only solved one lantern riddle, according to our rules, you can only go in alone." The servant explained patiently.