While the two of them were talking, everyone else was looking for people to form a team. Some of them were very confident or because no one wanted to form a team, so they became lone rangers.
The ones in military general attire were taken away by another eunuch, while Lin Yi and others in scholar attire followed the old eunuch from before and walked in another direction.
When he arrived at the entrance of the Imperial Garden, the old eunuch turned to everyone and signaled to stop: "After entering the Imperial Garden, please walk around and enjoy it as you like, but do not touch the things inside, and you are not allowed to leave the Imperial Garden."
"The first round of the competition is to guess lantern riddles. There are lanterns hung everywhere in the imperial garden. Each lantern has a riddle, but the riddles are initially covered up. Two or more people must choose a lantern at the same time. , will reveal the riddle of the lantern riddle.”
"The person who guesses the lantern riddle correctly first gets one point, and the person who fails to guess it loses one point! Everyone must challenge at least ten lantern riddles. If there are less than ten, ten points will be deducted directly, and double the points for the missing number will be deducted! "
"There are hundreds of nearly a thousand lanterns in the Royal Garden. Any lantern riddle that has the answer will light up the lantern, which means it cannot be challenged. The time to challenge a lantern is one quarter of a stick of incense. If the answer is exceeded, it will be regarded as a failure. If the challenge fails, two points will be deducted from everyone who participated in the challenge!"
There were low exclamations all around, obviously they did not expect such a punishment measure. Of course, there will be more points deducted if you can't answer the answer, but it is stipulated that ten challenges must be completed, which forces people to challenge.
If you don't challenge once, you will be deducted ten points directly, and then double points will be deducted ten times, which is twenty points, for a total of thirty points!
The problem is... people who pretend to be scholars are all people who compete in civil and military competitions. The civil competition only has 25 points. If 30 points are directly deducted, it is estimated that the martial arts competition will not need to participate, and it will be directly eliminated?
"Okay, that's it for the rules. Now please enter in order and you can start to compete in guessing lantern riddles right away! If you feel confident, you might as well guess more. There is no upper limit on the challenge opportunities!"
After the old eunuch finished speaking, he stepped aside and motioned for everyone to come in.
Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu followed the large army and quickly passed the gate of the Royal Garden.
The inside and outside of the courtyard wall are like two worlds. The garden is colorful with all kinds of rare flowers and trees, which is so beautiful.
There are many beautiful palace maids scattered everywhere, and a lantern is hanging above each person's side. However, the lanterns are not lit now, and the surface is covered with gauze.
When we first entered the Imperial Garden, there were two palace ladies handing out signs.
Anyone who forms a team with two people will get a pair of jade cards. With these jade cards in hand, they can transfer points at critical moments.
After everyone entered the imperial garden, they dispersed.
However, no one immediately tried to guess the lantern riddles. Although everyone had to challenge it at least ten times, everyone wanted to see the situation first.
For a time, there seemed to be many tourists in the Imperial Garden, but there was no atmosphere like trying to guess lantern riddles.
Lin Yi was not in a hurry, and walked slowly with Liu Ziyu, intending to follow to see the situation.
Not far away, two people in the team were talking quietly, but their voices still reached the ears of Lin Yi and the two of them.
"By the way... I thought of a sure-win method. The two of us form a team to guess lantern riddles. You win five times and I win five times. In this way, each of us gets five points and deducts five points. Not only do we use up ten challenge opportunities
, our points will not increase or decrease!”
"...Are you sure this is a sure way to win? Not a way to commit suicide?"
His companion seemed a little speechless: "What if none of us can guess it? Two points will be deducted for each person? Then we will lose the points and be eliminated together?"
Lin Yi couldn't help but smile. The so-called sure-win method was indeed a bit too naive. It could only be used based on the premise that he could definitely guess the lantern riddles.
And you can definitely guess the lantern riddles, so why bother forming a team?
"Cousin Zhongda, are you confident in guessing lantern riddles?"
Liu Ziyu's literary talent is actually quite good, but she has never played lantern riddles before, so she is not very confident.
Coupled with the time limit and competing with others, she was inevitably nervous. Liu Ziyu felt that it was difficult for her to perform well.
"Ha... I've played it before, it should be okay!"
When Lin Yi was young, Mr. Lin would occasionally take him to lantern festivals and guess lantern riddles together.
At that time, Lin Yi's level was pretty good, but he didn't know if the lantern riddles of the Dragon Kingdom Titled Kingdom would be more difficult?
Speaking of guessing lantern riddles as a competition, Lin Yi always felt it was a bit childish.
After all, Soejima is a world where physical training is the main focus, and it's a bit funny to think that he actually uses lantern riddle guessing as a means of competition.
But if you think about it carefully, the environment here is similar to the ancient secular world, and naturally there is a trend of arty fashion.
There can't be all wars between counties and kingdoms, there must also be entertainment besides 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 talking not far away, pulled Lin Yi's sleeves and whispered: "Cousin Zhongda, why don't you go and challenge those two first?"
The difficulty of the lantern riddles has not been tested yet, and everyone wants others to try it first.
But actually, if you think about it clearly, it doesn't matter who comes first and who comes last. Regardless of the difficulty, everyone must complete the ten challenges.
Calculated this way, the person who challenges first might still have an advantage.
Because in the end, most people have finished, and the remaining people can't find anyone to challenge them. At that time, they can only bear the penalty of ten points and double point deduction!
Lin Yi didn't care. He glanced at the two people who had just spoken. The one who said the sure-win method had a slightly depressed face. He probably 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 giving it a challenge?"
When they got closer, Lin Yi politely clasped his fists and smiled at them: "There happens to be a lantern here, why don't we give it a try? Who can give me some advice?"
After the two people saw clearly that the visitors were Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu, their expressions suddenly changed.
They still clearly remember Liu Ziyu's ferocious performance at the reception banquet.
You may want to refuse, but you are afraid of offending Lin Yi and Liu Ziyu. The two looked at each other and could only smile reluctantly: "If you don't take advice seriously, let's discuss it."
The one who said the winning method obviously didn't have much confidence, so he pushed his companions to be Lin Yi's opponents.
There was a palace maid and a lantern next to them, so they didn't have to go far and just chose the nearest challenge.
After the palace maid confirmed that the two of them wanted to challenge, she reached out and pulled down the gauze covering the lantern, revealing the riddle written on the lampshade.