The oath of rebirth not to be a concubine

Chapter 38 Riddles
This feeling made people very irritable, so I simply took two quick steps and walked beside Ji Yunchang, but seeing him with deep brows and eyes, he was thinking about something, and my heart became even more irritable.

As we walked forward, we occasionally looked up to see the lantern riddles, which may be related to the entrance of Huajie. The riddles in this area are very simple, such as guessing a word horizontally and vertically, or whether the day, month, and month are not today, in short, it is easy to solve .

We walked a long way, and saw talented scholars who looked like literati and poets gathered together, discussing something in twos and threes.

The Seventh Prince became interested, stopped under a lotus leaf red light, and said softly, "One side is red, the other side is green, one side is happy with wind, and the other side is happy with rain, type a word. Hey! This is interesting, hey, old eight, come here Guess what that word is!"

The Eighth Prince Helian Yunzhang smiled, paced over to glance at the lanterns, and said, "The answer to this riddle is autumn. Fire is red, and grass is green. Fire is strong when it meets wind, and grass is strong when it rains. Together, it is natural." It’s just a word for autumn.”

As he said that, he pulled the red thread with his long hand, and unfolded the red paper inside to see, it really was a character of autumn.

"Hey, interesting." Helian Yunze became interested, and walked to another hibiscus lamp to look at it.

"Let's talk together, the flowering time is very short, and the flowering period is not seen every day." He thought for a while, and finally shook his head and said, "I really can't guess what the word is, old man, why don't you come here?" .”

Helian Yunzhao smiled and said, "Seventh Brother, this is not about guessing characters, it's about guessing plants. If it's good, it should be talking about epiphyllum."

After finishing speaking, he fished again with his long hand and opened the note, but it was short-lived.

The Seventh Prince thought for a while, and said, "Hey, old man, this mystery is wrong. The first two sentences are not bad. Epiphyllum is indeed short-lived, and the last sentence is wrong. I remember Doctor Tan from the Royal Hospital said , he has read an ancient collection, which says that epiphyllum has fruit!"

Helian Yunzhao nodded, "That's right, epiphyllum has fruit. It's just that this epiphyllum fruit is very hard to find, and three thousand epiphyllum plants may not bear a single fruit. Looking at the apocalypse for hundreds of years, can we have Has anyone seen epiphyllum fruit?"

The Seventh Prince nodded, "That's right, if you haven't seen it, it's the same as if you haven't seen it, so this mystery is also correct."

Helian Yunzhao smiled slightly, and the Seventh Prince turned to look at me and Ji Yunchang, and said, "You two, why are you holding your breath like this? It's a busy day, so come and guess a few. Hey, Yunchang, Come and guess this."

I looked up and saw that what Helian Yunze was referring to was a seven-cornered exquisite lamp. It said, no one has planted this flower since ancient times, and it will bloom before the middle of winter. It is strange to have no roots and no leaves. The spring breeze blows back to the sky .The riddle prompt is to guess one thing.

Ji Yunchang thought for a while and said, "It should be snowflakes."

The Seventh Prince broke the red rope, and the answer turned out to be Snowflakes.He laughed, and said, "Girl of the Su family, next time, it's your turn to guess. Come on, let me pick one for you, um... just this one." He pointed to a magnolia lamp.

I looked up and saw that the riddle read, "I was born in a wealthy family since I was a child, and I often went in and out to enjoy the glory. Long live also passed on the imperial decree to be a flower hunter for generations to come..." The hint of the riddle is to guess something.

This... I thought about it for a long time, but finally shook my head and said, "This Qingmu can't figure it out."

The Seventh Prince laughed, and said, "Baby, the girl of the Su family can't guess, this, I think you should guess."

Helian Yunzhang also shook his head and said, "Don't be embarrassed, I can't guess this. Yun Chang, why don't you try?"

Ji Yunchang thought for a while, seemed to frowned, shook his head and said, "I can't guess it either."

"Ha, since we can't even guess it, let's take a look at the answer." The Seventh Prince pulled the piece of paper and opened it. We all looked at it together, but there were two large characters written on it - honey.

A few of us were taken aback, and then we all laughed.

Isn't it just bees?Cicadas are born in cocoons, insects are born in eggs, only bees are born in hives, and they love nectar the most. Long live will naturally drink two bowls of honey water. Explore the flowers.

The Seventh Prince smiled and said, "I didn't expect this riddle to be so bluffing, but after thinking about it, it turns out to be so simple."

Yes, after reading the answer, I think it is very simple, but I just can't turn the corner.

The Seventh Prince laughed and said, "Su Yatou, it doesn't matter if everyone hasn't guessed this one, you can just guess one more, hey, just the tiger lamp."

I looked in the direction he pointed, and saw that it said, three autumn leaves can be untied, and February flowers can be bloomed. Crossing the river with a thousand layers of waves, and entering a bamboo with ten thousand poles.The hint of the riddle is also a thing.

This is so simple, I immediately said, "The answer to this riddle is the wind."

Blowing all things, falling yellow leaves, blooming spring flowers, besides the wind, there is nothing else that has this power.

The Seventh Prince revealed the answer to the mystery, nodded and said, "Well, it really is the wind." After speaking, he rolled up the note in his hand, looked left and right, turned around suddenly, and found that we were all looking at him.

"Uh...haha!" He smiled awkwardly, "I'll stop guessing, let me study the art of war, but this lantern riddle..."

Helian Yunzhang ignored him, and pointed directly at a dragon and tiger leaping lamp and said, "Brother Seven, you can just guess that one."

We looked in that direction, and there were only three words on the riddle on the lamp: "Knife out of its sheath."

The answer hint is to guess a word.

This is not difficult, I thought the Seventh Prince should be able to guess who knows that he frowned and thought hard for a long time, but he couldn't figure out why.

I was standing closest to him, so I had no choice but to remind me in a low voice, "Think about it, what should you do first before the knife is unsheathed?"

He thought for a while, and seemed to understand, and said loudly, "I know, the answer to this mystery is the enemy! Before drawing the knife out of its sheath, you must first see who is the enemy!"

Pfft, I almost spat out a mouthful of blood, and hurriedly said, "Wrong, wrong, these are two words. The answer to this riddle is to guess one word. Think again, what do you use to draw your sword?"

He thought about it seriously this time, and said with a sure face, "Well, I understand, the answer to this riddle is hands, definitely hands, it can't be wrong!"

I was speechless for a moment, feeling a flock of black birds flying over my head.

Strength is strength!Before the knife is out of the sheath, isn't it using strength?

Helian Yunmao suppressed a smile, and unfolded the answer to the mystery. "Strength," a large character, penetrated the back of the paper.

The Seventh Prince was a little discouraged, and said, "Look, let me just say that I don't want to guess. You guys have to let me guess. The answer to this mystery is far from what I thought."

Ji Yunchang said softly, "Eighth Prince, don't be unhappy. As you said, guessing lantern riddles is just for entertainment. If you focus too much on the results, it will be boring."

He Lian Yunzhang also said, "Yes, Brother Seven, there are no rules and regulations for this crossword puzzle. Some of them are literal meanings, and some of them are simple riddles with a layer of deception. Just look at the two gates over there. .”

He pointed to the two square-cornered fringed lamps and said, "The surface of the lamp is a hook with a heart and a moon with three stars. Literally, it is a curved hook with three stars on it. The combination of the three stars is a heart."

"There is also the one next to it. It needs half of what is written on it, and half of it is left. What is needed is rain on the top, and the bottom is field. It is half of a word. When combined, isn't it the word thunder?"

"Oh!" The Seventh Prince seemed to have an epiphany, nodded and said, "I understand. So, the answer to the half-sweet and half-spicy Zihe Lantern over there is Ci!

The one next to it says, one big and two small, the answer prompts to guess a word of Jiuye Deng, the answer is Nai!The answer to the palace lantern that says up and down is the card!The answer to the half-green and half-purple palace lantern is Su.Am I right? ? "

Helian Yunmao hurriedly nodded and praised, "Of course it is absolutely right! Seventh brother is really smart."

"That's it!" The Seventh Prince raised his eyebrows and swished his folding fan, fluttering...

It is unitary time, the sky is bright and the moon is high, and there are occasional stars twinkling. The moon is sixteen round on the fifteenth day. Yesterday I ate yuan lantern dinner at home. Today, there are many people who go out to enjoy the moon.After a while, the crowd was full of people.

The two princes didn't bring any attendants, and they were tall men, while Lu Zhu and I were small and short, mixed in the crowd, being squeezed and swaying.

Although Ji Yunchang is not tall, he seems to have an aura of his own. The crowd is always squeezed to the distance of half an arm's width from him and stops moving forward. He seems to have noticed this situation and protects Luzhu and me in front. , protected at the back.

After walking for a while, the lanterns above our heads became more and more colorful, but because there were too many people around, we didn't have the time to look and guess, so we walked along with others.

It was almost time for a cup of tea, and there was a chorus of gongs and drums playing in front of it. Because it was quite noisy, I couldn't hear what was said in front of me. I could only vaguely hear that the competition of talent and something started. It must be the start of the oiran competition.

This oiran competition is actually quite particular, and there are actually one, two, three levels of screening, from the primary selection of talent to the selection of beauty, and finally the winner is selected based on everyone's liking.

This was originally fair, but since a few years ago, Huajie has adopted an unheard of rule, which is...

Every year, there are two women who don't need to participate in the screening, as long as the voice is high, they can directly participate in the oiran competition.

I just took advantage of this loophole and asked Li Jiu to publicize how beautiful the peonies and red leaves in Yinhonglou are, which created a relatively large momentum and avoided the possibility of her being eliminated in the screening.

Taking a step back, even if she didn't win the championship in the last round, she would sing a cappella behind the scenes for more than a month, such an appearance would be enough to attract attention.

It was still early before the final oiran competition, and there were too many people, so we found a larger teahouse, thinking of going in to drink some tea first, and then come out after the crowd dispersed.

The seventh prince went in first, followed by the eighth prince. When I stepped into the threshold of the teahouse, I saw a person looking around from a distance. This person was clean and dressed in common clothes. It was actually Li Jiu.

He seemed to see me at the same time, his face was happy, but I was surprised.

Don't come here to call your benefactor...

(End of this chapter)