Do you know the long song of laughter?

Chapter 72 Who are you looking down on?

"Set up a quiz booth?"

Sheng Changbai and others looked at Li An in surprise.

"That's right." Li An smiled and nodded.

Sheng Changbai frowned and said: "The quiz booths were actually set up by some famous and wealthy families in Yangzhou. Firstly, they were able to join in the fun, and secondly, they could also increase their reputation. If the questions you asked were too easy, I'm afraid you would Being laughed at.”

"Don't worry, the lantern riddles I created will be difficult for anyone to guess." Li An said to himself.

"Oh?" Gu Tingye became interested when he heard this and smiled: "Zi Qian, I also like guessing riddles. How about you come up with a riddle for us to guess?"

"Do you really want to guess?" Li An said with a strange expression.

"Come on, come up with a question. I want to see how difficult it is. I can pass the first three floors of the most difficult Nine-Storied Tower of Xiangguo Temple in Bianjing. I still don't believe your riddle can be difficult for me." Gu Tingye was full of confidence. road.

"What is the Jiuzhong Tower?" Li An asked in surprise.

He knew the Daxiangguo Temple, because it was a royal temple of the Song Dynasty and was very popular.

In "Water Margin", one of the four famous works of later generations, Lu Zhishen uprooted willows in Daxiangguo Temple.

However, the most famous thing about Daxiangguo Temple is not the effectiveness of worshiping Buddha inside, but because Daxiangguo Temple was the largest trading market in Bianjing at that time.

It is recorded in "Tokyo Menghualu": ​​Every month, on the first, fifteenth and eighth days of the lunar month, it is open to the public five times, allowing ordinary people to go to the temple for transactions.

Every time the market opens, there is a huge flow of people and it is very lively.

Even Li An often hears people talking about how lively the Daxiangguo Temple is.

He was not unfamiliar with Daxiangguo Temple, but he was a little curious about the Jiuzhonglou mentioned by Gu Tingye.

"I know something about this."

Sheng Changbai said: "Jiuzhonglou is a guessing stall that exists every time the market opens in Daxiangguo Temple. There are nine questions in total. This stall has been established for decades, and no one has answered them all correctly. Therefore, it is also called Jiuzhong by many people. "The building means that the topic is very difficult, just like climbing a building."

"So difficult? Who is the person who came up with the question?" Li An was a little surprised when he heard this.

Bianjing was the most prosperous place in the Song Dynasty and the place with the most talents.

It’s incredible that no one has cleared a stall after it has been established for decades.

"I don't know who the person who asked the questions is, but the reason why no one has answered all the questions correctly in Jiuzhonglou has something to do with his rules. According to the rules, only people under the age of twenty can participate, and when answering the questions, they cannot be with each other. Anyone can negotiate, and each question is limited to half a stick of incense time." Gu Tingye said.

Li An was stunned when he heard this. He thought there were other time travelers in this world, otherwise how could no one have passed the level.

With these restrictions, it's normal.

But even so, no one has been able to pass the level in decades, which is pretty impressive.

"For such a difficult question, it is really admirable that Zhong Huai can answer three questions correctly." Li An praised.

"Uh…"

Gu Tingye blushed a little and said: "The first three questions in Jiuzhonglou are not difficult, they are just orthodox guessing. Although the riddles are much more difficult than ordinary ones, there are still a lot of correct answers. The really difficult ones are the last six questions, to be precise, the last one Three questions. The first four to six questions in Jiuzhonglou are all scripture questions, while questions seven to nine are all pairs. As far as I know, there are only three people who have answered the eighth question correctly. One of them took the imperial examination last year. The student's name is Su Shi. He was not famous at first, but because he answered eight questions correctly, he became famous in Bianjing overnight."

The sutra-sticking question is actually somewhat similar to the sky question in later generations.

The questions are all excerpts from some partial collections of classics and history. There will be a missing paragraph in the middle, and you only need to fill it in.

Questions like this will also appear in the provincial examinations of the imperial examination.

You read that right, there were fill-in-the-blank questions in the ancient imperial examinations.

When Li An heard that the next three questions were correct pairs, he suddenly realized that it was no wonder that no one had answered correctly. If there were some more difficult pairs and there was a time limit of half a stick of incense, it would be really difficult to answer them correctly.

When he heard the name Gu Tingye said later, Li An lost his composure and exclaimed: "The Su Shi you are talking about is named Zizhan?"

"Do you know him?" Gu Tingye said in surprise.

"Uh... I know a little bit about it." This is Su Dongpo, how could he not recognize him.

Three of the eight great masters of the Tang and Song dynasties were father and son. The most famous among them was Su Shi, who was a household name.

He had known that Fan Zhongyan existed in this time and space before, and had thought that some other celebrities might also exist, but when he heard Su Shi's name, he was still excited.

When Gu Tingye heard this, he didn't think much about it. After thinking for a while, he said, "I don't know what his nickname is. But last year, he and his younger brother took part in the imperial examination for the first time. Both brothers passed the examination and were passed down as legends."

With the same name and two brothers making the list together, it can’t be wrong.

Li An was very excited when he thought that he would have the opportunity to see Su Shi in the future.

"Stop talking about this, can you quickly come up with the question?" Gu Tingye urged.

"Brother Gu, what's the problem?"

Just then Ru Lan and Mo Lan walked in, followed by the waiter who was delivering drinks and food.

"It's nothing. Zi Qian said he was going to set up a lantern riddle guessing booth at the Shangyuan Festival, so I wanted him to come up with a riddle for me to guess." Gu Tingye said with a smile.

"Oh?" Mo Lan smiled and said, "I also like to guess riddles. I wonder if I can join in the fun."

"I want to participate too." Ru Lan shouted immediately when she heard that Mo Lan wanted to participate.

"Okay, since you all want to participate, I will make a simple one." Li An smiled.

"No, who are you looking down on? If we get the answer right later, won't you say it's because the question is too easy? Just answer the most difficult one. In this way, we can add some bonus. If we guess it, you will punish yourself. One drink. If neither I nor Zicheng gets it right, we will punish ourselves with one drink. The three girls are juniors, so forget it. How about it?" Gu Tingye suggested.

"alright."

Seeing that no one objected, Li An nodded and said, "Why do you keep cutting the cloth?"

“What cloth keeps cutting?”

Everyone was stunned when they heard this. How could there be any kind of cloth that could not be cut?

Li An looked at everyone and smiled secretly in his heart.

Normal riddles, if others don't tell them, should not be difficult for Sheng Changbai with his intelligence.

But what I came up with was a brain teaser. The ancients had never played this game before, and they couldn't turn the corner at all.

"Is it because the scissors are rusty and keep cutting?" Gu Tingye guessed.

"wrong."

Before Li An opened his mouth, Sheng Changbai shook his head and said, "What Zi Qian is talking about cutting cloth constantly has nothing to do with scissors."

"Zicheng is right, it has nothing to do with scissors." Li An smiled.

Everyone was silent again after hearing this, but there was no good answer in their hearts.

Even if you don't have to be blinded, there is no cloth in the world that can never be cut.

"There is a kind of soft armor in the army called gold silk soft armor. It is made of extremely fine wire. Is this what you are talking about?" Gu Tingye said a little uncertainly.

Mo Lan's eyes lit up and she praised: "Second Brother Gu is smart, it must be this."

"No!" Li An shook his head.

"Uh..." Mo Lan was a little embarrassed when he heard this, and then said unconvinced: "Did Brother Ziqian deliberately come up with an unsolvable question to trick us? There is no such thing as endless cutting of cloth in this world."

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