Live as the emperor

Chapter 111 Drinking and guessing
From this day on, Chen Guang would attend the morning court every day and participate in government affairs. After returning from the court, he would also practice swordsmanship in the yard. As time went by, his swordsmanship became more and more proficient.

One month after Chen Ang's birthday, all the tea leaves from the tea factory were sent to Prince Jin's mansion. In addition to a batch to the palace, a batch was also sent to each prince's mansion. I kept a little for myself and divided it up. I took some out to see the market reaction, but it was out of stock, so I had to give up.

From autumn to winter, this winter is much warmer than last year, and there are not many snowy days. In this weather, reading and writing in a room with a soup pot and making a pot of tea is really a fairy Ordinary day.

Winter passed slowly like this. After a winter of nourishment, Chen Guang even had the illusion that he had turned white.

The Lantern Festival seems to be a grander festival than the Chinese New Year. On this day, the capital is full of lanterns, appreciating lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles.

As soon as it was dark, Min'er and Zhou Zhiruo couldn't wait to drag Chen Guang out of the East Palace, their new residence, to the outside of the imperial city. This day is not just a royal noble like him, even the emperor himself may Will go out of the palace to have fun with the people.

On this day, the curfew will be postponed until midnight, as will the closing of the city gates, so you can revel in the next few hours.

When Chen Guang went out this time, in addition to Min'er and Zhou Zhiruo, there were also 20 people including Wu Xin and his friends. They were scattered around Chen Guang, protecting the safety of the three people anytime and anywhere.

After coming out of the palace and walking not far to the west, there is an inland river. This is the cultural street of the capital. There are people selling pens, inks, paper and inkstones, music, chess, calligraphy and painting, people who sell their crafts but not their body, and people who sell their bodies but not their art. , and everything is sold on this street.In the 21st century, this kind of place would be called a scenic belt along the river.

The streets were crowded with people, and all kinds of snacks were available. Min'er was a snack foodie, and seeing these things, she couldn't move at all, so she had to buy everything she wanted to eat.

Here, you can see lantern riddles hanging on lanterns anytime and anywhere.

Taking advantage of Min'er's time to buy marinated eggs, Chen Guang found a lantern riddle to read.

"No one has planted this flower since ancient times. It will bloom before the middle of winter. It is so strange to have no roots and leaves. It will be blown back to the sky when the spring breeze blows."

Hey, isn't this just a snowflake? Chen Guang smiled slightly, and wrote on it with the pen next to him.

He put down his pen, and someone came by next to him. Seeing that the mystery was solved first, he looked at it and walked away.

Most of these lantern riddles are hung by nearby businesses, and the lamps have their business logos on them. Presumably this is the most primitive billboard, and it is also interactive.

Just walk all the way, guess lantern riddles all the way, and eat snacks all the way.After a while, they came to Liufang Bridge.

Liufang Bridge is a famous scenic spot in the capital, and it is also a paradise for literati and poets to recite poems and write poems.In the special festival of Lantern Festival, this place is even more a focus.

Liufang Bridge, as the name suggests, is a bridge, a very wide bridge.

The bridge was full of people, men, women, old and young, stretching under the bridge.

Chen Guang and the others squeezed onto the bridge with difficulty.

In the middle of the bridge, there is an open space. In the middle of the open space is an Eight Immortals table with eight bowls of wine on it.

At the table stood an old man with a goatee, and at this moment, he was shouting loudly.

"Old rules, there are a total of nine riddles here. If anyone can answer it, I will drink this bowl of wine. If you can't answer it, you will drink the wine by yourself."

"Okay, Mrs. Wei is still as bold as ever. This bowl of wine is worth at least half a catty. If someone guesses it all, then you will be drunk here tonight. If your wife doesn't come to invite you back, are you I want to sleep all night at Liufang Bridge."

Immediately, some acquaintances in the crowd came to make fun of him.

This man named Master Wei must have done many such things, and everyone who hangs around here often knows him.

Mrs. Wei said with a smile, "It took me a long time to figure out these nine riddles. I am very confident that no one can answer them within a quarter of the time it takes to stick an incense stick."

Since you want to play, there must be rules. There are nine bowls of wine on the table, and there is a lantern riddle under each bowl of wine. No one can see the riddle, unless you take the initiative to serve the wine. In this way, although you can see the question, but if If the answer is not given, the bowl of wine will be drunk. If the answer is given, Master Wei will drink the wine.

This aroused Chen Guang's interest. There is no doubt that this should be a thing created by a few literati and people who like to drink, because no matter right or wrong, there are always people who want to drink.

"I'd like to see how many riddles you come up with this year." One person, presumably a regular customer, directly picked up a bowl of wine and took out the lantern riddles under the wine.

Born in a wealthy family since childhood, he often went in and out to enjoy the glory.Long live also passed down the imperial decree to be a flower hunter from generation to generation.

It's a riddle, a poem, under the bowl of wine, and it sounds pretty good.

This person read out the poem, and Chen Guangming also brought it into the live broadcast room.

"Come on, brothers, it's time to use your brains, guess the riddle, guess the riddle."

Millions of netizens in the live broadcast room started a big discussion with great interest.

At the scene, the brother who got the riddle frowned. It was obvious that the riddle was not so difficult to guess.

Anyway, Chen Guang had no idea at all, just after reading the first two sentences, he thought the answer was the emperor, obviously, since he was born in a rich family, which emperor was not born in a rich family?But in the last two sentences, I am confused. No matter how much the emperor's descendants are mixed up, they will not become Tanhua.

Ever since the man took the lantern riddle, Mr. Wei lit a piece of incense in front of him. The time for a quarter stick of incense was very short. Chen Guang compared it with the time display in the live broadcast room, and it was estimated that it was only 5 minutes. It is not easy to figure out a riddle in 5 minutes.

Fortunately, Chen Guang is not fighting alone. Although the wisdom of one person is limited, what if the wisdom of a million people?
"Isn't the answer to this riddle the emperor?" Some netizens went with Chen Guangxiang.

"Obviously not. Although the first two sentences make sense, the latter two sentences are obviously wrong."

"what is that……"

There was a heated discussion in the live broadcast room, and after a while, someone in the live broadcast room sent Chen Guang the answers and ideas for solving the problems.

Seeing that the incense was about to burn out, Master Wei kindly reminded: "There is not much time left, if you can't figure it out, you have to drink."

He was very proud. After all, he came up with this question himself, and it stumped others. Doesn't it seem that he is a bit smarter than others?

The person who got the topic was naturally anxious, but it was useless to be anxious, if he couldn't figure it out, he couldn't figure it out.

Seeing that the time was approaching, he said helplessly, "I can't guess."

He was about to drink, but saw someone beside him said: "I seem to have guessed it, why don't I try it?"

(End of this chapter)