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Chapter 743 Capital Lantern Festival

The two finally entered the capital city in the evening. The sunset glow reflected the capital city in an orange color, which looked extraordinarily peaceful and beautiful.

"This is the capital city. This is my first time here. Brother Chen must have been here many times, right?" Lu Xiucai asked. He always thought that Chen Ziang's background was so mysterious that he must have come from the capital city.

"No, you guessed wrong." Chen Ziang smiled and shook his head, Lu Xiucai would never guess where he came from.

The two rode horses to an inn, but were told that it was full, and all the inns in the capital were full.

Chen Ziang had no choice but to take out gold and silver, and used the money to buy two guest rooms. The innkeeper's eyes were slit with laughter, as if he was treating his own mother respectfully.

At night, Chen Ziang originally wanted to take Lu Xiucai around to broaden his horizons, but he still chose to stay in the guest room and read a book. Chen Ziang couldn't help him, so he went out for a stroll.

The capital is worthy of being under the foot of the Son of Heaven, both economically and economically, it is exceptionally prosperous. Chen Ziang found that the lights were brightly lit along the way, many shops still had many customers at night, and there seemed to be a lantern festival held by the river.

Lanterns: made of bamboo strips, with a layer of colorful paper on the outside. Lantern riddles are written on the paper. The colored paper looks particularly beautiful when the lights shine on it.

Along the river, red, blue, green and pink lanterns of all colors are lit, just like wild flowers of all colors blooming all over the mountains and plains in spring.

Chen Ziang walked leisurely in the courtyard, looking at the couples who seemed to come and go around him, he couldn't help feeling lonely in his heart, and secretly sighed, "I didn't expect to be abused by Huilan's big mouth in the inn. abused"

So he stopped looking at passers-by, and instead focused on the lantern. Not only was it beautiful, it also had some interesting word puzzles on it, but these word puzzles were a little too childish, for example: Like a bird but not like a bird. The bird has wings and is hairless, with an ugly face, and loves to travel at night, which is clearly a bat; the lady, the lady, is like a box.Qilin scissors, eight hairpins, this is the mantis.

Chen Ziang couldn't help sighing, "Isn't this lantern riddle too simple?"

This sound seems to have annoyed a young man. This young man is the host of this lantern riddle, and he is also the son of Kong Shangshu in the capital. He is one of the most promising candidates to win the imperial examination.

Kong Jian walked to Chen Zi'ang's side, and said politely, "Just now I heard my brother talking to himself, it seems that this lantern riddle can't get into your eyes?"

Chen Ziang said bluntly, "That's right."

"I don't know what to call Xiongtai?"

"My surname is Chen"

"Brother Chen, all the lantern riddles here are carefully selected. Since you don't think they can catch your eyes, why don't you give me a few lantern riddles to test me. If I can answer, please take back what you just said." Kong Jian smiled. sarcasm, as if laughing at Chen Ziang's overreaching.

"Okay." Chen Ziang thought for a while and said, "General Bamboo built a city to surround himself, General Paper surrounded him on all sides, General Iron passed through the city, and General Wood guarded the back door."

Kong Jian frowned and thought about it for a long time, but finally shook his head, "I can't guess this question, so please tell Brother Chen the answer."

Chen Ziang pointed to the lantern beside him, "Here, that's it."

Kong Jian suddenly realized that Chen Ziang's lantern riddle was about the structure of the lantern, and he laughed at himself for not being able to figure it out for a long time.

Kong Jian felt a little embarrassed, and said stubbornly, "Come again"

Chen Ziang smiled knowingly, "Listen, the flowers are blooming inside the wall and red outside the wall. There is no way to go to pick flowers, but there is a way to get flowers and thank them. One joy is nothing."

Kong Jian pondered for a long time this time, but he still couldn't figure out the answer, so he asked bravely, "I can't guess, I don't know what the answer is?"

Chen Ziang laughed, "The answer to this lantern riddle is also a lantern!"

"What?" Kong Jian didn't react, why was the question just now a lantern, and this question is also a lantern.

"Look, the flowers inside the wall are red outside the wall, which means that the outside is brighter after the lantern is lit, and the second sentence wants to pick flowers. The road is different because there is a layer of colored paper and bamboo in the middle. It means that after you take off the colored paper and the bamboo cover, the lights inside will be blown out by the wind, so all the joy will be in vain!" Chen Ziang said with a light smile.

Kong Jian said unconvinced, "Tell me one more thing, I don't believe I can't answer it."

"Okay." In order to make him give up, Chen Ziang thought for a while and said, "You hit me and I know, there are people picking behind you, my heart is as bright as a mirror, and it is a road for me."

Kong Jian wanted to answer everything, but as the so-called caring is confusing, he couldn't figure it out after thinking for a long time, but he really wanted to know the answer, and finally said helplessly, "Brother Chen, I don't know what the answer is?"

Chen Ziang looked up to the sky and laughed, "Hahahahaha"

"I don't know what Brother Chen is laughing at?" Kong Jian wondered.

"Because the answer to this lantern riddle is still a lantern!" Chen Ziang thought that Kong Jian would think of it once after learning his lesson, but he didn't expect him to lose for the same riddle three times.

But this is not his fault, because people have inertial thinking, Kong Jian must have thought that the answers to the previous two lantern riddles were all lanterns, how could it be lanterns this time?But he didn't expect that the answer to the riddle was still the lantern.

A lot of spectators gathered around the two of them, and they all looked at Chen Ziang with admiration. There are probably not many people in the entire capital who can make the son of Shangshu suffer one after another.

Kong Jian was extremely frustrated, but he still wanted to make a comeback. "What's the point of a scholar guessing lantern riddles? Why don't we come up with a pair? It just so happens that I have a good pair here, but I haven't got a good answer to the second half of the sentence after thinking about it for a long time." , I hope Brother Chen can clear up my doubts for me today."

"Okay." Chen Ziang said with great interest, he prefers pairs to lantern riddles.

"Green water is not worry-free, but the face is wrinkled by the wind," Kong Jian said proudly.

It means to anthropomorphize a pool of water. The green water has no worries at all, and only the wind blows over everything will wrinkle the face, and the image is vivid.

Chen Ziang said without thinking, "Qingshan is not old, but has a white head."

"Okay!" The people who ate melons exclaimed, and they were all amazed by this absolute.

Kong Jian was stunned, he didn't expect his pair to be answered perfectly, is there really such a smart person in the world?

Chen Ziang went on to say, "It's up to me next, Yanyanyan Yanyan"

These seven characters all have the same sound, but they depict a beautiful scene. The green smoke blurs Chunyan's eyes along the gorgeous eaves.

Kong Jian was sweating all over his face. He wanted to win back but it was too difficult. After thinking for a long time, he sighed, "I can't answer it, but! How can you answer such a good sentence?"

Chen Ziang smiled lightly and said, "The fog covers the black house, and there is nothing in the fog."

Everyone was in an uproar.

(End of this chapter)