Broken mountains and rivers: Sushou restores the universe

Chapter 23 Guessing the Riddle
However, Wei Ying also knew that it would be extremely impolite for people to take off their masks, so she suppressed the curiosity in her heart, looked at the bamboo slips in the man's hands, and asked with a smile, "Brother, what riddle are you guessing?" , can you show me?"

The man smiled lightly, handed the bamboo slips to Wei Ying, and responded warmly: "Okay, take a look."

Wei Ying took the bamboo slips and looked down by the light of the lantern hanging on the booth, and saw four lines of characters engraved on the bamboo slips: "The upper half is removed, the lower half is now, compared to two halves, and there is no lower half." .”

Wei Ying frowned slightly, looked at the four sentences on the bamboo slips thoughtfully, and muttered in a low voice: "Is this an anagram?"

The man replied: "That's right, it says type one word, but I haven't guessed which word it is yet. Little brother, do you know what it is?"

Wei Ying held the bamboo slip in one hand, and scratched in the air with the other. After a long time, she jumped up and said, "I guessed it, it's a bear character, right?"

As she spoke, she handed the bamboo slips back to the man in brocade clothes, and said with a smile, "Brother, take a look again, is it the word 'bear'?"

The man in brocade clothes took the bamboo slips, put the word 'bear' that Wei Ying said into these four sentences, and found that it was as expected.He chuckled and said, "It should be, thank you, little brother."

After all, the man handed the bamboo slips to the boss behind the stall, and said with a smile: "Boss, I guessed it, but is it the word 'bear'?"

"My lord, wait a moment, let me see the answer to the riddle." The vendor took the bamboo slip handed over by the man in brocade clothes, and gently twirled the bamboo slip, and the bamboo slip was split into two in an instant.He took out a small folded slip of paper from the interface of the bamboo slips, opened it to have a look, and replied with a smile: "Master, you guessed it right, it is the word bear. Then this piece of jade pendant is your reward."

The man in brocade clothes chuckled, took the jade pendant handed over by the vendor, and said with a smile, "Thank you."

Wei Ying looked curiously at the bamboo slip that was split in two in the vendor's hand, and said, "So there is an answer in that bamboo slip, so everyone can know the answer? How can you play this guessing game?"

The man in brocade clothes chuckled and shook his head, "We can't open the bamboo slips, and we don't have to open them ourselves. We can only guess it and show it to the boss. It's fair to us."

Wei Ying's eyes rolled around, she tiptoed to the man's ear, and said in a low voice: "There are so many people here, in fact, we can secretly open it and have a look!"

The man chuckled, lowered his voice and replied, "If the bamboo slips are opened, they can't be put back together."

"Oh, that's right." Wei Ying chuckled, she looked down at the many gadgets on the table, and asked casually, "Then I have to guess one too, boss, how do you play this guessing game?"

At this time, the vendor owner was watching the answer for others, and he didn't hear Wei Ying's words for a while, so he naturally wouldn't answer her.Wei Ying waited for a while without waiting for an answer, so she looked up at the vendor and called out, "Boss..."

At this time, the man in brocade clothes interrupted Wei Ying in a warm voice, and he explained softly: "Little brother, if you want to guess the riddle, you need to give the boss two dollars. If you guess the riddle correctly, you can get a reward. If you guess wrong Or you can’t get anything if you can’t guess. The items on the table have different values. The riddles on the cheap ones are easier, and the riddles on the more expensive ones are more difficult. I think this jade pendant is good, so I will I chose a difficult one, and I almost didn't guess it."

(End of this chapter)