School flower's personal master

Chapter 7864 Guess the Riddle

While the two were talking, other people were also looking for someone to form a team. A few who were confident or really no one wanted to form a team became lone rangers.

The general's attire was taken away by another eunuch, while Lin Yi and others in scholar's attire followed the old eunuch and walked in another direction.

At the entrance of the imperial garden, the old eunuch turned to face the crowd, signaling to stop first: "After entering the imperial garden, please walk around and watch as you please, but don't mess with the things inside, and you can't leave the imperial garden."

"The first round of competition was to guess lantern riddles. Lanterns were hung everywhere in the imperial garden, and each lantern had a lantern riddle, but the lantern riddles were initially covered up. Two or more people must choose a lantern at the same time. , will uncover the mystery of the lantern riddle.”

"The person who guesses the lantern riddles first will get one point, and the one who fails to guess will lose one point! Everyone must challenge at least ten lantern riddles. If there are less than ten riddles, ten points will be deducted directly and double the number of points will be deducted! "

"There are hundreds of nearly a thousand lanterns in the Imperial Garden. For any lantern riddle with an answer, the lantern will be lit, which means that it cannot be challenged. The time to challenge a lantern is a quarter of a stick of incense. If there is no answer after the time limit, it will be regarded as If the challenge fails, all participants will be deducted two points!"

There were murmured exclamations from all around, obviously they did not expect such a punishment measure, although more points would be deducted for failure to answer, but it was stipulated that ten challenges must be completed, which forced people to challenge.

If you don't challenge once, you will be deducted [-] points directly, and then double points will be deducted ten times, which is [-] points, for a total of [-] points!

The problem is... people pretending to be scholars are all people who have to compete in both civil and military competitions. The literary competition is only 25 points. If they directly deduct [-] points, it is estimated that they do not need to participate in the martial arts competition, and they are directly eliminated?
"Okay, that's the end of the rules. Now, please enter one by one, and you can start the competition of guessing lantern riddles right away! If you feel sure, you might as well guess more. There is no upper limit on the chance to challenge!"

After the old eunuch finished speaking, he stepped aside and motioned for everyone to enter.

Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu followed the large army and quickly passed the gate of the imperial garden.

The inside and outside of the courtyard wall are like two worlds. The garden is full of purples and reds, and all kinds of rare flowers and trees compete for beauty.

And there are many beautiful court ladies scattered everywhere, and each of them has a lantern hanging above their heads, but the lanterns are not lit now, and the surface is covered with light veils.

When I first entered the Royal Garden, there were two court ladies distributing plaques.

Anyone who forms a team with two people will get a pair of jade cards. Only with this jade card in hand can they transfer points at critical moments.

After everyone walked into the imperial garden, they dispersed.

However, no one immediately tried to guess the lantern riddles. Although everyone had to challenge the riddles at least ten times, everyone wanted to see the situation first.

For a while, there seemed to be many tourists in the imperial garden, but there was no atmosphere of trying to guess lantern riddles.

Lin Yi was not in a hurry, and walked slowly with Liu Ziyu, intending to follow the situation.

Not far away, the two team members were talking in a low voice, but the voice still reached Lin Yi's ears.

"By the way... I thought of a way to win. The two of us team up to guess lantern riddles. You win five times and I win five times. In this way, we will each get five points and deduct five points. Not only will we use up ten challenge opportunities , our points will not increase or decrease!"

"...Are you sure this is the way to win? It's not the way to die?"

His companion seemed a little speechless: "What if we can't guess it? One person deducts two points? When the time comes, we will lose points together, and then we will be eliminated together?"

Lin Yi couldn't help but smile, the so-called winning method was indeed a bit too naive, it could only be used on the premise that he could definitely guess the lantern riddles.

And you can definitely guess the lantern riddles, why bother to form a team?
"Cousin Zhongda, are you sure about guessing lantern riddles?"

Liu Ziyu's literary talent is actually not bad, but she has never played guessing lantern riddles before, so she is not very confident.

Coupled with the time limit and the competition with others, Liu Ziyu felt that it was difficult for him to perform well.

"Heh... I've played it before, so it should be okay!"

When Lin Yi was young, old man Lin would occasionally take him to the lantern festival and guess lantern riddles together.

At that time, Lin Yi's level was not bad, but I don't know if the lantern riddles in the titled kingdom of Longbang will be more difficult?
Speaking of using lantern riddles as a competition, Lin Yi always felt that it was a bit of a joke.

After all, Shoudao is a cultivation world that mainly focuses on body training. It is a bit funny to think about guessing lantern riddles as a means of competition.

But if you think about it carefully, the environment here is similar to that of the secular world in ancient times, and there is naturally a trend of arty elegance.

It is impossible for counties and states to be all wars, and there must be entertainment in addition to wars.

"That's good! Cousin Zhongda, it's great that you are sure!"

Liu Ziyu breathed a sigh of relief, looked at the two people who were talking not far away, pulled Lin Yi's sleeve and said in a low voice, "Cousin Zhongda, why don't you try to challenge those two first?"

The difficulty of lantern riddles has not yet been tested, and everyone wants others to try it first.

But in fact, if you think about it, it doesn't matter who comes first, no matter how difficult it is, everyone must complete the ten challenges.

In this way, the person who challenges first may have an advantage.

Because in the end, most of the people have finished, and the rest of them can't find someone to challenge them. At that time, they can only bear the punishment of deduction of ten points and double point deduction!
Lin Yi didn't care. He glanced at the two people who spoke just now, and the one who said the method of victory was slightly depressed, probably because he felt that it was a pity that his idea could not be realized.

The other one looked around, as if to see if anyone was ready to challenge, Lin Yi nodded to Liu Ziyu, and the two walked over together.

"Brothers, are you interested in challenging me?"

When they got closer, Lin Yi clasped his fists at them politely and smiled: "It just so happens that there is a lantern here, why don't we try it? Who will give me some advice?"

After seeing that it was Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu who came, the two people's expressions suddenly changed.

They still remember Liu Ziyu's ferocious performance at the reception banquet before.

If you want to refuse, but also because you are afraid of offending Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu, the two looked at each other and could only forcefully smile: "If you don't dare to give advice, let's discuss it."

The one who said the sure victory method obviously had no confidence, so he pushed his companion out as Lin Yi's opponent.

There was a court lady and a lantern beside them, so they chose the nearest challenge without going far.

After the maid confirmed that the two of them wanted to challenge, she reached out and pulled off the veil covering the lantern, revealing the enigma written on the lampshade.

(End of this chapter)