Lu Bing smiled slightly. The riddle was very simple, and Xiuying was not surprised to be able to guess it.
"Actually, I can guess this too." Yang Sen winked when he saw that Lu Bing had guessed it all at once.
Lu Bing ignored him and continued to look at the third mystery: "A bird flies on the table, pinches its tail, and jumps into the river."
Lu Bing was stunned, Yang Sen noticed, and laughed and said, "How is it? You can't guess it, right?"
Lu Bing reacted immediately and couldn't help laughing.
Lu Bing touched Xiuying's head with satisfaction. The old man smiled when he saw the situation and said, "Your girl is not easy. I just think about it for a while and I will understand."
"Why, brother-in-law, you guessed it!" Yang Sen was surprised, and then fell frustrated and said nothing.
These two riddles are actually very simple, but they play a trick.
Lantern riddles are generally related to the lantern they are in. A little hint will be given on the lantern to let the person guessing the riddle know the direction, or the approximate range, or the type of answer.
The first lantern is a picture of a scholar, so the riddle is a pair of poems.
The second lantern and the third lantern are both animal drawings.
The second riddle: "A knife, drifting along the water, with eyes, no eyebrows." The answer is "fish".
The riddle of the third riddle is: "A bird flies to the table, pinches its tail, and jumps out of the river." Then according to the inertial thinking developed by the two previous riddles, the third lantern is also the animal picture, so the first The three riddles must be related to animals.
But in fact, this is a trick played by the old man.
If this riddle is figured out alone, many people will be able to guess it.
But put it together with the first two, plus the mystery face is "bird", "pinching the tail" and "jumping down the river", most people will be misled by the second riddle's answer "fish" , Will desperately find answers in animals, even birds, or fish.
In fact, the answer to the third riddle is "spoon"—in fact, no one said that the answer must have something to do with the pattern on the lantern, right
Lu Bing looked at Xiuying approvingly. It was not surprising that Xiuying could guess the second one, but it was not easy to get out of the old man's "trap" and guess the third one.
Yang Sen sighed, it turned out that he was really stupid.
Lu Bing looked at the first three and felt a little bit in his heart.
Lu Bing raised his head, saw five lanterns still hanging, and said: "Lao Zhang, right?"
The old man nodded and took the fourth lantern. It was a big palace lantern. The above question had already been written, but neither Xiuying nor Yang Sen said it.
I saw the word "test mouse" written on it.
Lu Bing thought for a while, and knew why Yang Sen and Xiuying couldn't guess.
This palace lantern only traces a few gold threads, and does not have a special pattern, but the mystery is a "mouse test", which is still related to animals.
Yang Sen couldn't guess it, probably because he was confused by these seemingly connected but unconnected topics, and he knew too little about poetry.
Xiuying couldn't guess it because she knew less about literature.
Lu Bing smiled slightly and said: "The answer to the mystery is'Bu Operator'"
The old man laughed loudly when he heard it.
Xiuying said anxiously: "Don't laugh, just say right first."
The old man looked at Lu Bing's chest, stroked his beard and said, "Take the lantern away!"
At this time, there were more than a dozen people watching. Seeing Lu Bing guessed it, some people couldn't help but cheer.
Xiuying also jumped and jumped happily, but Yang Sen and Lian Qiu both suddenly realized.
"Father, what is'Bu Suanzi'?" Xiuying asked.
"It's the brand name," Lian Qiu took Xiuying's little hand and answered for Lu Bing.
"The brand name? No wonder I don't know." Xiuying smiled comfortably.
"You, let you start learning when you go back." Lian Qiu nodded Xiuying's forehead.
While the mothers were laughing and laughing, Lu Bing had already taken the fifth lantern and opened up the fifth mystery.
The fifth lantern is a tower lamp, and the fifth riddle is not a riddle, but a test of miscellaneous learning.
In order to be an official, most people studied the four books and five classics in order to be an official, so they rarely read some essays.
However, this hit Lu Bing's hands.
Lu Bing has loved reading books that have increased his knowledge since he was a child, and Lao Xing Wang is also a very educated person, and he has a good understanding of Taoism, witch doctors, and so on. Therefore, there are countless books in King Xing's Mansion, among which all kinds of strange stories, legends, and strange things attract Lu Bing the most.
And this fifth question happened to be in the knowledge that Lu Bing had understood.
The title of the fifth question is: "Guess the origin of lantern riddles."
Lu Bing sorted out his memories and said, "According to legend, a long time ago, there was a rich man with a wealth of waists. He was called the "Laughing Tiger". He always looked at people. One year when the Spring Festival was approaching, two people came to borrow money from him for the New Year The gorgeously dressed Li Cai stepped into the door, smiled and greeted him with a smile, and readily lent him a dozen silver. Wang Shao, who was right behind Li Cai, dressed in tatters, wanted to borrow some food from him, and smiled at him. At a glance, Ling Jiading blasted him out."
When Xiuying heard that her father Lu Bing was about to tell a story, she was busy listening attentively. Hearing this, she couldn't help but angrily said, "This smiling tiger is so bad, it's really a snob."
Lu Bing smiled and said, "In this world, most people recognize people by their faces."
Xiuying snorted, but wanted to hear the story, and said: "Father, tell me, what happened to the smiling tiger?"
Lu Bing smiled and continued: "The more Wang Shao thinks about it, the more angry he gets. He wants to get this tone anyway. The Lantern Festival is here, and Wang Shao hit a big red lantern and came to the door of Smiling Tiger. The red light wrote specially. A poem goes like this:'The pointy body is as thin as silver, and it is not half a cent on the scale. The eyes grow to the bottom, but only recognize clothes but not people.' Smiling tiger looked at it, his eyes widened with anger. Wang Shao smiled. Said: "Master, don't get angry, these four poems of mine are a mystery, and the answer is'needles'. "The smiling tiger thought for a while. Although these few words are mocking him for being snobbery, it is really hard to say anything about the image of the needle.
Xiuying clapped her hands in applause, and said, "That's right, it's good to be angry with that smiling tiger."
"After the news spread, people heard it and applauded. By the Lantern Festival of the second year, many people wrote riddles on the lanterns for the lantern viewers to guess the riddles for fun..."
As Lu Bing was answering the question, in the dark corner, several people in black were peering from a distance.
"When will it be shot?"
"There are too many people around them at this time, it's not easy to start."
"My lord said, it's hard for them to come out once. They must seize the opportunity!"
"Sure to die!"
Several people in black shouted in unison!