The First Happy King of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty

Chapter 598 Lu Dongzan's Last Struggle

According to Li Muyun's opinion, it's best to enter the palace now. Anyway, the palace is so big, there is no need to worry about finding a place to rest, but the girl in Changle told about what happened to Old Wei, which immediately aroused Li Chengqian's interest.

Coupled with Changle who watched the excitement and was not afraid of big things, the siblings hit it off and pulled Li Muyun to the direction of the so-called arena.

Li Muyun knew that he didn't have much ink in his stomach, and a rookie like him could not participate in such a competition in the literary world, but he couldn't bear the stubbornness of the brother and sister, so he had no choice but to follow in the end.

When they arrived at the place Wei Zheng mentioned, Li Muyun discovered that the arena that Wei Zheng mentioned was not actually a stage built on an open space, and then someone punched and kicked on it, and then acted like lying on a nail board and smashing a big stone on the chest. In the end, they shouted: Those who have money will hold a money market, and those who have no money will hold a personal market.

In fact, the so-called arena is nothing more than erecting a few cloth sails with words written all over it in a corner, and then the ring master sits under the flag and settles down. Those who know are fighting, and those who don’t know will be almost as blind as fortune-telling.

And when Li Muyun squeezed into the crowd and saw the champion and the content on the canvases, he suddenly felt dumbfounded, and at the same time felt that the road to the enemy was narrow.

I saw that the main challenger was none other than Lu Dongzan, the Tubo envoy, and this guy was smarter this time, and the topic he used for the challenge was not a literature topic, and I don’t know if he was stimulated by it in the Tai Chi Hall some time ago. s reason.

Chang Le didn't know Lu Dongzan well. After being surrounded by several casual guards and pushing through the crowd, the little girl focused all her attention on the cloth sails. Ah, no wonder Master Wei lost."

Standing on the side, Li Chengqian also said with emotion: "Yes, this, this is simply difficult for others."

"Come on, is there anyone who comes up to challenge, as long as you can solve these three problems, our Tubo Prime Minister will give you a great gift."

"I have long heard that there are countless strange things about capable people in the Tang Dynasty. Could it be that no one can solve these three problems?"

"Tang people are incompetent! They are very good at bragging, and when they encounter problems, they are all cowardly."

Li Chengqian and his sister had just finished expressing their emotions when several Tubo people circled around the open space in the middle of the arena and started yelling in a mess, their tone full of ridicule and sarcasm.

Lu Dongzan, on the other hand, sat firmly on the Diaoyutai, just sitting in the so-called position of the ring leader, indifferent to the actions of his opponents.

Many people around the audience were filled with righteous indignation after hearing what the Tubo people said, and wanted to go up and teach them a lesson, but in the end they were all held back by their companions. After all, the Tubo people are notoriously tough, and if they go up rashly, they will be beaten back. shame.

In addition, the Tubo people put on Wen Lei, if they were defeated by force, they would give others a handle instead, and they could not be regarded as heroes.

Li Muyun squinted his eyes slightly, and looked at the few Tibetan men who walked steadily in the open space, and faintly found that these people seemed to be much stronger than the ones he killed last time. If they really fought without weapons, they might have to suffer some injuries. kill them.

And just when Li Muyun was thinking about whether to take action to kill those guys who were talking nonsense, Chang Le beside him couldn't bear it anymore and stood up, pointing at Lu Dong and praising: "Hey, what's your name."

Lu Dongzan watched his nose with his eyes, and his nose watched his heart. He was sitting there in a daze. When he heard Chang Le's voice, he was slightly surprised. Princess Changle! Is the princess going to answer the question?"

"Uh..." Changle didn't expect that the Tubo man could reveal his identity in one breath, and he was stunned when he heard this.

The people watching all around froze for a moment, then there was an uproar, and they all clamored, basically calling for Changle to teach these Tubo fans a lesson.

Although Changle has a noble status, but how has he ever experienced such a scene, he was suddenly extremely embarrassed, and his pretty face turned red instantly. Of course, it was more because of being squeezed by Lu Dongzan.

She just stood up in a moment of anger, and never thought of answering the question. Now that Lu Dongzan is holding her back, if she doesn't answer, she will lose her status. The result of answering wrong is the same as not answering. There is a dilemma. He couldn't help but look back at Li Muyun behind him.

Li Muyun originally didn't want to be in the limelight, although he knew the answers to those questions pretty well, but since the little girl in Changle had already appeared, he couldn't just watch like this, and simply squeezed out the crowd to come to the little girl's side, He cupped his hands perfunctorily to Lu Dongzan: "Ge, you are the prime minister of Tubo, what is it to bully a little girl?"

Lu Dongzan saw that Li Muyun's face changed slightly, he suffered a big loss at his hands twice, which almost caused the Tubo Prime Minister to have a psychological shadow. , if shrugging, I'm afraid that this face will be thrown to the whole world.

Thinking of this, Lu Dongzan smiled slightly, clasped his fists in return and said, "It turned out that it was King Xiaoyao who was in front of me, and I was surprised. It's just that the prince seems to have said two things wrong. The first minister's surname is Ge Er, not Ge; Second, the ministers didn't mean to make things difficult for the princess, it's really the rules, since the ring has been set up, the person who comes forward is naturally the challenger."

Seeing Lu Dongzan who was smiling but not smiling, Li Muyun nodded calmly, and said with a click: "Okay, your surname Ge really came prepared, but you are so confident that you will not Lose? You know, there are only three things, if you lose again this time, I'm afraid you won't be able to stay in this Tang Dynasty?"

"It's Geer!" Lu Dongzan tried to correct Li Muyun again.

"Well, I got it!" Li Muyun responded casually, then lowered his head and chatted with Chang Le in a low voice, without paying attention to Lu Dongzan at all.

In all honesty, Li Muyun didn't have any bad feelings towards Lu Dongzan at first, and he even admired him to some extent before he met him. After all, he was the Prime Minister of Tubo, and he was a person who left a lot of money in history.

But since the incident in the restaurant, Li Muyun's disgust toward him has increased greatly, and he only feels that this old boy seems to be too arrogant, if he doesn't step on a few feet, he will be sorry for himself to go through the journey.

Lu Dongzan, who was left aside by Li Muyun and Changle, was very embarrassed. Seeing that the two were chatting, he couldn't help but said narrowly: "Foreign ministers often hear people say that King Xiaoyao and Princess Changle have a good relationship, but this is a ring. Shouldn't we answer the question before we talk."

Li Muyun and Changle looked at each other, blinked slightly, and looked back at Lu Dongzan: "Ge, everything comes first, since Changle is the first to stand up, I naturally can't take her business. Let her come forward in a competition, lest you lose and say that the king is bullying the small."

It has to be said that Li Muyun's bad mouth is really hated. Although Lu Dongzan's words are thorny, they are only fanning the flames. On the surface, there is nothing rude about it.

But Li Muyun is not the case. Leaving aside the fact that he has every surname Ge, just the sentence of using the big to bully the small is obviously taking advantage of Lu Dongzan and elevating himself to a higher level for nothing.

There were many smart people in the surrounding people who heard the words and immediately laughed knowingly. Seeing someone who was at a loss and even explained it, there were countless snickering sounds from all around, which made Lu Dongzan very embarrassed.

However, he had already aroused public outrage, and it was only in the name of the ring that he avoided a vicious fight, so even if he became angry, he had to endure it, glared at Li Muyun, turned to Changle and said: "Since Your Highness appreciates the face, please ask the princess Your Highness choose a question to answer." After speaking, he turned and pointed to the cloth sails behind him.

"Then let's start with the first question!" Chang Le said like a proud swan, pointing to the first canvas.

"Please!" Lu Dongzan made a gesture of please.

In an instant, the whispering voices around were clear, and everyone turned their attention to Chang Le, waiting for her to answer that very weird question.

After a period of precipitation, Chang Le had calmed down, with a noble temperament overwhelming the audience, raised his head and glanced at the topic on the cloth sail again: a piece of pine wood, both ends of the same thickness, how to distinguish the root tip.

This question seems simple, but there is a hidden mystery in it, because it only mentioned the plank section, not how thick or how long the section is. Finger-thick wood, so naturally the growth rings cannot be seen.

But at this time, Changle had already been confessed by Li Muyun, smiled nonchalantly, looked at Lu Dongzan and asked: "Mr. Geer, I wonder how long and thick this piece of wood is?"

After all, the little girl is still an honest child, and she is not called 'surnamed Ge' like Li Muyun, which made Lu Dongzan feel better, with a gloomy expression on his face, he waved to the Tubo guards in the waiting bureau. Immediately lift up a pine section about five feet long and the thickness at both ends.

Everyone around focused their eyes on the pine section. Some people were vaguely discussing what happened to Old Wei just now, but most of them were watching Changle nervously, for fear that she would not be able to answer and repeat the same. Old Wei's mistake.

Li Chengqian was also very worried, he pulled Li Muyun and asked in a low voice: "What did you say to the girl just now? Are you sure?"

"Look carefully, I have to step on that Ge one again today." Li Muyun raised his eyebrows and smiled evilly.

Sure enough, after Changle circled the pine section on the ground twice, he said with a slight smile: "Mr. Geer, if the little girl is not wrong, throw this piece of wood into the water, and the roots can be distinguished immediately. Is this the right answer?"

Wow..., as soon as Chang Le's answer came out, there was an uproar all around, discussing whether the answer was correct or not.

Li Chengqian was even more nervous, he clenched his fists tightly, for fear that his younger sister would give the wrong answer, and it would be a minor embarrassment at that time, the worst would be if his younger sister was bullied.

Only Lu Dongzan took a deep breath after hearing the answer, looked at Li Muyun thoughtfully, then cupped his hands to Changle and said, "Your Highness, the princess, is extremely intelligent, and the ministers admire you." Obviously, Changle's answer is correct .

It's just that the address between the two is really strange, Changle has been calling Lu Dongzan by his husband, but Lu Dongzan has always called Changle by his official title.

Those who are smarter can already hear that Changle means to confine the beating to the folks as a kind of entertainment, while Lu Dongzan insists on linking the matter with the official. Guy has ulterior motives.

Fortunately, Changle gave the correct answer, so that Lu Dongzan's plot failed.

"His Royal Highness, why can the roots and shoots be separated when a pine section is thrown into the water? Can you explain to everyone?" And after Lu Dongzan confirmed the correctness of the answer, some of the surrounding people immediately shouted When I got up, I had a great intention to find out.

Chang Le's eyes shifted, and he smiled sweetly. First, he saluted the people around him, and after returning the salute, he said, "Actually, this problem is very simple. It's just that everyone doesn't notice it. If someone pays attention, they will find that the wood is in the water. The inside is not horizontal, but one end has a deeper draft."

"The reason for this is that the wood density of the root and the tip is different. The wood of the root is denser, while the wood of the treetop is sparse. Compared with each other, the weight of the two is naturally different, so the end with the deep water is naturally the root. "

Everyone originally thought that there would be such a complicated entanglement, but they never expected that it would be so simple, but it was precisely because of the simplicity that everyone admired it.

After all, among so many people present, no one has ever observed the ups and downs of wood in the water, and no one has ever thought about the wooden structure of a tree.

At this moment, Li Chengqian was finally completely relieved, heaved a long sigh of relief, and patted Li Muyun's shoulder vigorously.

The answers to the questions have been revealed, there is no embarrassment, and Changle can come down, it doesn't matter whether you answer the next questions or not, anyway, no one stipulates that you must answer all the questions before you can come down.

But things changed at this moment, and Lu Dongzan seemed not reconciled, so he stopped Chang Le when she was about to leave: "Your Highness, there are two more questions below, don't you plan to try again?" ?”

try again?The second question in the back is to identify suddenness, and the third question is to move a huge boulder. These two questions have their own rules, but they are not so easy to answer.

For the first question, Li Muyun may be able to help, but the second question is very embarrassing. After all, Changle grew up in the deep palace, and Wugu couldn't tell apart everything except rice. This is how she will answer the second question.

Of course, it is also possible that Lu Dongzan will show some precious and rare things, but who can guarantee that things are precious and Changle will definitely be able to see them, not to mention knowing one thing is not enough, at least explain the source of this thing .

As for the third question, moving a heavy object is even more outrageous. Not to mention that you can only use your own strength, the more important thing is that you can only use simple tools. You don’t even have to think about using a horse-drawn thing. Arranging logs is also not good. Under such harsh conditions, the third question is almost unsolvable.

(End of this chapter)