travel through the past to be emperor

Chapter 41
When Zhao Fei and his party reached the place where they guessed the lantern riddles, there were already a sea of ​​people.

"I don't know how good you are at lantern riddles, Mr. Qing?" Zhao Fei looked at Mr. Qing and smiled.

In fact, it's a little rude for Mr. Qing not to mention his name, but everyone has their own personality, Zhao Fei doesn't care.

Originally, we met people all the way by chance, so why do we have to chop chickens and ducks, burn incense and candles to find a big peach tree and perform a marriage in a peach garden?

So Zhao Fei also called Qing Gongzi, Qing Gongzi. He was not used to it at first, but now he called him quite fluently.

Faced with Zhao Fei's question, Young Master Qing just smiled, and then casually walked to a lantern on the side of the road. The question maker standing by the lantern immediately cupped his hands at Young Master Qing, and said with a smile, "This young master wants to guess the riddle." ?”

"Naturally, we have to guess the riddle." Mr. Qing said.

The person who wrote the question smiled, took out a piece of paper from a box on one side, paused slightly, and read aloud: "The young master invites you. The grass sprouts from overlapping peaks and mountains. Please type a word."

"The overlapping of peaks and ridges is a double mountain, and the overlapping of two mountains is a word for 'out', and grass sprouting means sprouting on grass, which is the beginning of a word for grass, and the combination of two mountains is a word for 'zhuo', this gentleman, I don’t know if I’m right or not.” Young Master Qing thought over the riddle for a while, and gave the answer while talking in a soothing tone.

There was a smile on the face of the person who made the question, and he looked at Young Master Qing with admiration, and said: "This young man is very talented. Not only did he guess correctly, but it was even more difficult to explain the process of solving the riddle clearly. This puzzle boy has solved it."

"Sir, it's highly praised." Young Master Qing smiled.

The person who made the question smiled, then took out a jar of chrysanthemums from behind, and said, "My lord, the rule of the lantern riddle party is to give away famous flowers after solving the riddles. Although my chrysanthemums are not famous flowers, they are quite Yanyan, as long as this young master answers a riddle, this pot of chrysanthemums will be given to young master."

"I dare not, chrysanthemums are noble things, and their value cannot be measured by ordinary money," Young Master Qing said, "However, guessing riddles is also something I like, so please come up with a question, sir."

The author of the question nodded, took out another piece of paper from the box beside him, and advocated loudly: "The grass is withered, type a word."

"Fang grass is withering," Young Master Qing read a sentence, and then said with a smile: "Sir, this one is intentionally giving me a present, the word is 'fang'."

"Master, you are right." The question maker chuckled, and handed the chrysanthemum to Young Master Qing's hand.

Young Master Qing was also polite, thanked the author of the question, and took the pot of chrysanthemums.

It was only at this time that Chu Xuan came to his senses, and said: "That's right, the fragrant grass is withered, and the cursive initials of the character 'Fang' are withered, isn't it just the character 'Fang'?"

"You just know." Zhao Fei couldn't help but look at Chu Xuan. This guy is indeed a simple-minded creature with well-developed limbs. He waited for a long time for someone to give the answer before he realized it.

"Hehe." Chu Xuan said with a smile, "Young Master, I don't know. I have never guessed the lantern riddles correctly before. This time, I was able to solve it myself without someone's explanation. It is really a great improvement."

Looking at Chu Xuan who is so self-aware, Zhao Fei was also a little speechless. He didn't say much at the moment, but just smiled and said: "Congratulations, Mr. Qing, for being the first, but it is eye-catching."

"There are some trivial skills that can't be ignored. Mr. Zhao must be a master of this. I wonder if I can let my younger brother take a look." Mr. Qing said modestly.

People have talked about this, if I don't make a move, wouldn't I lose face, besides, guessing lantern riddles is actually very simple.

Generally speaking, a lantern riddle has three elements: the face, the riddle, and the answer.Riddles generally consist of refined phrases, rhymes, verses, or words.The riddle provides the boundary conditions for solving the riddle and limits the scope of the answer.There is a certain logical relationship between the answer and the face of the riddle.The answer should "button" the riddle, that is, the connotation of the answer should be able to include the connotation of the riddle.Some riddles are also marked with riddles to limit the relationship or method between the answer and the face of the riddle.

The method of guessing lantern riddles is nothing but the orientation method, loss and subtraction method, separation method, inclusion method, displacement method, positive deduction method, reverse deduction method, induction method and the like.

These are all gadgets, just like Mr. Qing said, they are small and small!
Zhao Fei is definitely not good at studying, but he has a lot of interest in things other than studying. Although he doesn't dabble in guessing lantern riddles much, he can barely be regarded as a master in this field.

What's more, if there is any master in this kind of roadside stall, you can know the level of this place just by looking at the two puzzles posed by the person who made the question just now.

At that moment, Zhao Fei didn't hesitate, and went directly to a lantern, and the person who made the question immediately greeted him, and both sides cupped their hands.

The person who wrote the question said, "Third girl, type one word."

"Lan." Zhao Fei was not interested in deciphering it, so he gave the answer directly.

The person who wrote the question nodded, and said again: "Be more open-minded when you are in the early stage, type one."

"Officer." Zhao Fei said, and then signaled the person who made the question to continue to make a question. Mr. Renqing just solved two puzzles at once, he can't be worse than others, can't he.

The author of the question smiled slightly: "It seems that the young master is a master in this way. I have a pot of peonies. If the young master can solve the three puzzles again, I would like to give the peony as a gift."

"Then thank you in advance, sir." Zhao Fei smiled confidently: "Please ask the question, sir."

In a short while, a circle of people gradually surrounded the surrounding area, which greatly demonstrated the onlooker spirit of the people of Chang'an. If there is excitement, people will naturally go to watch.

Being watched by everyone like this, Zhao Fei also became a little excited. Zhao Fei still had a little smoldering in his bones, but now that he was surrounded by people, this smoldering immediately turned into an open burning.

"Questions quickly" "Questions quickly"

Following the booing of the audience, the questioner waved his hand, and then said loudly: "I am full of crossword puzzles here, the first one, the spring rain falls on the field."

"'Chunyu' means 'water', and 'field' means 'ten' in the middle of the word 'tian'. This character is for 'juice'." Zhao Fei imitated Mr. Qing, and at the same time solved the puzzle, he also told the process of solving the puzzle .

"Good solution, young master will solve one more."

Just like listening to cross talk or something, someone above said that the show must be supported by someone below, in order for this show to be good, this is the situation now, Zhao Fei is naturally the protagonist among the protagonists, and the onlookers will automatically turn into supporting roles.

The person who made the question was also very excited. Those who solved the puzzle had to compete, and those who made the question also had to compete. Today, even if all my puzzles were guessed correctly, so many people watched, and I became famous in this circle. .

Everyone likes to be famous, whether they sleep or not, they like to go out. Wherever they go, someone will point and say, "Look, what is that person's name, who is that, and what does he do."

So the person who wrote the question rushed around and cupped his hands, and said: "Madam is not here for company, so I still type one word."

When the riddle of the question maker came out, not only Zhao Fei and the others were solving the riddle, but also the surrounding audience were also discussing in low voices, like the two people closest to Zhao Fei were playing their mouths there.

"My wife is not here to keep me company, what's the meaning of this word?"

"It sounds difficult, let me think about it."

"Cut, if you don't know it, you won't. Think carefully about what you say, and you won't be afraid of being struck by lightning when you go out."

"Such a difficult lantern riddle, of course you have to think carefully about it, don't tell me you can't do it."

"I do not know."

"Then what are you talking about?"

"I won't, but my son will."

"How do you know that Mr. Ren can do it? If I ask him, he won't either."

"Didn't you see Mr. Ren's confident smile?"

My confident smile?

Zhao Fei agreed silently, he did smile just now, but it wasn't a smile with confidence, but he felt that what the two passers-by said was really amusing, of course, these words must not be said.

Since it's a confident smile, then it's better to be confident, Zhao Fei's face straightened, he nodded slightly, and put on a full posture, and then he said leisurely: "'Husband' is composed of 'two people', and if 'people' is not there, it is 'Two', the company of 'er' is 'Yuan', this gentleman, I don't know if I'm right or not."

"Yes, yes, you are really talented." The person who asked the question looked at Zhao Fei with admiration, and then said: "I will ask the last question, and after you finish answering, this pot of peonies will belong to you." .”

As he spoke, the person who made the question raised his hand, and immediately a boy in Tsing Yi brought out a pot of red peonies.

Peonies are inherently rich and honorable. A pot of the most common peonies is worth enough for an ordinary family in Chang'an City to live for half a year. This pot of peonies is even more red, magnificent and expensive.

Looking at the bright red peonies, Zhao Fei was also quite happy. Thinking of Zi Yan who lived in the palace for a long time, this pot of peonies must make the beauty happier. Thinking of this, Zhao Fei's fighting spirit was even more high-spirited.

At that moment, Zhao Fei didn't hesitate, and said, "Mr. please come up with a question."

The author of the question knew that everyone was waiting to see the final show, so he naturally did not hesitate, took out a piece of paper from his cuff, and read: "One does not show up, two does not show up, three does not show up. , Either don’t show up, or don’t show up, type a word.”

After the author of the question finished speaking, before Zhao Fei could speak, the onlookers became reluctant and shouted loudly: "What kind of riddle is this, what kind of word can this be, aren't you trying to embarrass others!"

"I think he is reluctant to part with his pot of peonies."

"Hey, he lost all the face of Chang'an people."

The different voices of the onlookers immediately drowned out the place, and the face of the questioner turned black, looking very angry.

Zhao Fei was also taken aback by this riddle, cupped his hands and said, "Dare to ask sir, is this riddle really a single word?"

Regarding Zhao Fei's question, the author of the question did not dare to be negligent, and he also wanted to explain it, so he said: "This riddle is indeed a word, but I don't know the answer to the riddle. This riddle was given to me by someone else. I can't figure it out, but today I saw the young master's quick thinking, so I couldn't help but come up with this riddle and let the young master read it."

"You don't know the answer to the riddle yourself, so you're too embarrassed to let others guess. I think you're just trying to make things difficult for others, and don't want people to take away your peony." Some onlookers shouted loudly.

"Who said I can't bear peony anymore." The person who wrote the question said angrily, "I put my words here today, even if this young master can't guess the answer, I will still offer you peony."

"This gentleman must not do this." Zhao Fei quickly stopped, saying: "Since it was agreed in advance, it is natural to follow the rules. I don't know if there is a pen and paper here."

"Young master, this is... oh, yes, yes." The questioner first looked at Zhao Fei with some doubts, then suddenly slapped his head, suddenly realized, and quickly offered a pen and paper. As a professional questioner, his hands naturally There is a pen and paper.

Zhao Fei took the pen and paper, pondered for a while, then the pen wandered around, quickly wrote a large character on the paper, and then waved a few small characters and strokes beside him, smiling:
"One "no" comes out, two "no" comes out, and three "no" comes out. It's either not out, or "no", so this character is the word "森" for the forest."

Listening to Zhao Fei's explanation, everyone looked at the big characters Zhao Fei wrote on the paper, and aftertaste in their hearts, isn't it just the word "Sen"?
They all applauded in unison, praising Zhao Fei's talent, Zhao Fei accepted it happily, and suddenly felt that he had done the wrong job.

But the booing of passers-by here was only for a moment, only the sound of a cannon was heard in the distance, and the onlookers ran away, even the Mr. who asked the question stuffed the peony into Zhao Fei's hand, and then ran away like flying .

Holding Peony in his arms, Zhao Fei looked at Mr. Qing and Chu Xuan beside him, and said with an expressionless expression on his face, "What's going on?"

(End of this chapter)