Great Tang’s Talented Little Landlord

For Li Wangyou, these riddles are actually not difficult.

Most of the lantern riddles in the Tang Dynasty are word-guessing puzzles, which is actually a regular pattern. At least compared with the confusing brain teasers of later generations, lantern riddles are much simpler for those who have studied.

The later generations even summed up the method of guessing lantern riddles and summed up 20 rules, such as positive buckle method, reverse buckle method, addition method, loss method, etc., etc.

Li Wangyou strolled to the next lantern, looked up, and the mystery hanging under the lantern was “Feiyan volleyed in the sky, hit a character from the Qin Dynasty.”

He thought for a while. , Immediately tore down the mystery, but was not anxious to find Court Academecian for verification, but continued to wander among the lanterns to guess the riddle. For all the riddles for which he guessed the answer, he gently pulled the riddle face from the lantern, held it in his hand, and prepared to go to the restaurant Court Academecian to check the answer later.

But his behavior is very strange in the eyes of others.

The few Confucian scholars who spoke before saw that Li Wangyou was like playing, and they took down the riddles almost without thinking, and became increasingly dissatisfied.

Someone couldn’t help but say: “This small master, he hasn’t guessed the answer to the riddle, so don’t take away the lantern riddle like this. You are so foolish, how can I try to guess the riddle?”

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“Yes, if everyone is like you, no matter if you guess it or not, they will tear off the riddle like this. How can others guess it?”

“Small master, you Such a nonsense, doesn’t it fail the good intentions of this restaurant owner?”

Faced with the accusations of several scholars, Li Wangyou couldn’t help but feel shocked. Guess your own lantern riddles, how many farts do you care? Has the sense of justice flooded to such an extent? Why don’t you save the earth?

When he looked around, he saw a lot of beautiful young ladies around, all covering their mouths and laughing lightly. When pointing fingers at them, he immediately understood.

The feelings of these goods are the brains of the worms. This is like when the male peacock is in estrus, he needs to display his “feathers” in front of the female peacock for joy.

Unfortunately, I became these “male peacocks” and tried to display their feathers…

Li Wangyou couldn’t help but smile, and laughed very happily: “Everyone , How do you know that I am fooling around? Why cant I have guessed the answers to these lantern riddles?”

His words made the scholars sneer again and again: “What are you kidding? How are these lantern riddles? Can you, the small master, guess it? As far as someone knows, these lantern riddles are all the masters of this restaurant, and the great scholars of the world are invited to write them for them, so that they can have fun with others during the Yuan Festival today. This kind of unruly, doesnt it fail the masters heart?”

“Thats right, look at your small master, who is also a Scholar, so how insulting gentleman? You are also carrying Female family members are traveling, dont be so reckless and lose the face of my Great Tang Scholar.”

“hmph, unknown and incompetent! Do you think this lantern riddle is a game used to play in school? “

Seeing that many people around them cast their gazes, the voices of these people increased, and they seemed to defend the Great Tang Scholar’s character.

Li Er, Empress Zhangsun, Consort Yang, and the beauty boss, naturally also noticed the movement of Li Wangyou, but after hearing the words of the scholars, they all smiled. A look ready to watch the show.

Even Niu Wu, Niu Yong, wanted to come over and scold these Confucian scholars who didn’t know their respect and inferiority, but they were all stopped by Li Er’s eyes.

There are Confucian scholars who dare to reprimand Li Wangyou for being ignorant and incompetent. From Li Er’s point of view, it is really interesting.

Now Li Wangyou is in the Shilin of Chang’an City, and his reputation can become even stronger. Not to mention the poems sung by the prostitutes of Pingkangfang, the articles in “The Inscription of the Shao Shi” are enough to make them famous forever.

If it weren’t for Li Wangyou’s young age and not yet reached the championship, I am afraid he would really be respected as a great scholar in the literary world.

Even so, nowadays, there are often Scholars in Chang’an City who rush to Hu County Dingzhou Village Li Residence. If you want to post your own poems and essays, please Li Wangyou for advice.

For those who came to “Fan”, Li Wangyou all respected and ignored them.

What a joke, he just copied some poems and articles, it’s okay to use it to pretend to be forceful, but pointing and so on is purely inviting humiliation to oneself.

Dont look at Li Wangyou being forced by grandfather to learn ancient poems since he was a child, but if you really want to talk about it, Im afraid that Great Tang has been soaked in essays, poems, policy arguments, laws and regulations, Tie Jing, and ink meanings since childhood. Scholar, you can kill him in seconds.

How can Li Wangyou invite humiliation to oneself, to point out what poetry and article, isn’t that self-exposing short?

Many people have been rejected. Now there are legends in Chang’an City, Count of Hu Li Ziyou, unkind, quite aloof… Regarding this, Li Wangyou can only smile and shake his head. Isn’t it a repercussions for copying the public?

In short, including Li Er, Manchu civil and military, for Li Wangyou’s talents, that is sincerely admired. Even the Aristocratic families like Five surnames Seven Clans have to pinch their noses to admit this.

So in Taiji Palace today, Wang Renyou and Zheng Yuanshou heard that Li Wangyou said the couplet, so the impatient wanted to show it and hit this child by the way. But didn’t expect, even if it was a trail of game words like couplets, it was completely embarrassed by Li Wangyou.

Li Wangyou naturally did not disappoint Li Er. After hearing the words of those scholars, he directly raised the thick pile of lantern riddles in Yang’s hand: “Hehe, since everyone thinks something is a mischief, Then lets see if a certain guess is right.”

After he said that, he walked to Court Academecian at the restaurants door, took a lantern riddle in his hand and handed it over: “Excuse me, I want to guess the lantern riddle. This mystery is that when you wake up naturally, type a word. It is very simple. The combination of’xing’ and’you’ is the word’wake up’, so the answer is naturally the word’xing’. I wonder if it is correct?”

Court Academecian took the riddle and looked it up in the book in his hand before nodded with a smile: “Yes, congratulations to Master, you got it right.”

See Li Wangyou, really guessed it. Now, those scholars could not help but look a little ugly.

One of them was coldly snorted: “hmph, I guessed it by chance. I dont believe it, he took so many riddles, and he guessed all the answers.”

” So, the blind cat encountered the dead mouse that’s all, but it was just a riddle that I guessed right. I didn’t guess it after waiting. I also guessed two riddles just now, nothing unusual.”

There were four or five scholars in this group. They only guessed two lantern riddles, which was not enough, so they kept guessing lantern riddles outside the restaurant.

Court Academecian handed Li Wangyou a small wooden token as a proof of correct answer to the riddle.

Li Wangyou waved his hand: “Dont worry, we will work together for a while, I still have a lot of lantern riddles to guess.”

He picked up another lantern riddle and said: “Smear White, instead of black, type a word. The word’seven’ is painted with’white’ and it becomes the word’zao’.’Soap’ means black, so the answer to this mystery is the word’seven’. Court Academecian, is it correct?”

“Congratulations, Master, I hit again.”

The words of Court Academecian made the faces of the Confucian scholars suddenly look ugly. They looked at each other a few times, and thought All are in doubt. Could it be that he really guessed the thick piles of lantern riddles in this young official?