The old man opened the note and took a look. His eyes suddenly lit up and he smiled.
He nodded, then picked up a brocade box in his hand, followed the guy down the high platform, and walked towards Shen Ning's direction.
When everyone saw this scene, they immediately let out a "wow" sound, knowing that Shen Ning must have guessed the answer to the riddle, and looked at her with envy.
This old man is a famous wealthy businessman in Kyoto. Every year he holds a grand guessing party, and those who guess correctly are given extremely generous gifts.
From last year to this year, no one has guessed the lantern riddle he made, so the old man threatened from the beginning that whoever guesses the lantern riddle correctly this year will receive a mysterious gift.
The guy led the old man, separated everyone, came to Shen Ning, and said, "This is the answer to the riddle that this girl guessed."
The old man smiled and said: "Little girl, you guessed the answer to the riddle of this four-screen lantern. This is the prize specially prepared by me for this riddle. Please accept it, girl."
Shen Ning smiled and stretched out the brocade box from the old man's hand and said with a smile: "Thank you very much."
Her hand suddenly sank and she almost dropped the box in her hand. Fortunately, Chu Shaobai had quick hands and eyes and caught it.
"Hey, this box is so heavy!" She didn't expect that this brocade box didn't look big, but it contained something unknown, and it turned out to be extremely heavy.
"Ning'er, open it and take a look. What kind of mysterious gift is it and why is it so heavy?" Chu Shaobai also felt strange.
This brocade box looks like it is only about a square foot. Even if the entire box is made of copper and iron, it will never be so heavy.
Shen Ning nodded. She opened the lid of the box and saw an irregular stone placed neatly in the box. It was about the size of a fist and looked dark.
The surrounding crowd had already stretched their necks with curiosity on their faces, ready to see what kind of priceless treasure this mysterious gift was. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be an inconspicuous stone, and they suddenly burst into laughter.
Especially those old scholars who had been ridiculed by Chu Shaobai laughed the loudest.
"Haha, I thought it was something good, but I didn't expect it to be a piece of broken rock!"
"Interesting, really interesting!"
"I really want to congratulate this girl. Congratulations to this girl. I thought I could pick up a treasure, but I didn't expect to find a broken stone. Haha, hahaha!"
These people all showed expressions of gloating.
Shen Ning's face was covered with a mask, and no one could see her expression, but her laughter rang like a silver bell.
"Thank you, old man. This is really a good treasure. It's a pity that most people are ignorant of gold and jade, and actually regard it as a piece of rotten stone. They are really blind."
When the old man heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up: "Girl, do you know what kind of treasure this is? To be honest, I got this stone accidentally. I just knew that it was valuable, but I didn't realize its beauty. , If the girl knows what this is, I hope the girl will tell me."
Shen Ning actually didn't know what kind of treasure this stone was, but she knew that things must turn to their extremes. This stone looked ordinary, but its weight was ten times heavier than a stone of the same volume, so it was definitely not ordinary.
"The Black Iron Cold Stone! This is the Black Iron Cold Stone!" Chu Shaobai took the stone and turned it over and over to study, and suddenly he shouted excitedly.
"Xiao Bai, what is Black Iron Cold Stone?" Shen Ning asked curiously.