Of course it's not difficult. Luojiang County is just a lower county. There are not many scholars and not many people who are literate. On this day, many shops will hang out lanterns for people to guess riddles, in order to celebrate the occasion.
Since there are only a few people in the lanterns, and the difficulty of the lantern riddles is increased, there is no need to play it tonight.
Therefore, the lantern riddles at Dengshan are all progressive. The lantern riddles at the foot of the mountain are not difficult. There are also many proverbs that even if they are illiterate, even if they are read out, smart people can always guess them.
Bai Erlang naturally disdained such lanterns, so the lanterns he chose were those with three or four layers or more and looked better.
The three of them guessed all the way, and they had too many lanterns to hold, so they all gave them to Daji who was walking behind, and they jumped up and down in front of them happily.
Daji:……
After visiting Dengshan Mountain at the back, the three of them figured it out. There were many people watching around Dengshan Mountain, but not many people were guessing.
There are only a few people who look like they are scholars.
Man Bao understood it after taking a closer look. He rolled his eyes and simply stood in front of the lantern mountain. He pointed at a lantern at the bottom of the lantern mountain and asked loudly, "Who wants to guess the lantern riddle? I will read the riddle to him."
listen."
The chorus of "I, me, me" immediately came from the crowd surrounding the lanterns, and there were quite a few people listening to it.
Man Bao smiled slightly and said, "Puffy and fluffy, flying in the sky in March, it looks like snowflakes from a distance, but a ball of velvet up close."
As soon as she finished speaking, someone in the crowd raised his hands and shouted: "Catkins, catkins——"
Manbao smiled slightly, took down the lantern and handed it to him. The little brother squeezed forward, his eyes narrowed with laughter, and he took the lantern and went to the person guarding Dengshan to get the answer to the riddle. As long as it was correct, he would
You can take the lanterns and go.
If not, he has to hang back.
Everyone followed to join in the fun, and when they saw that the answer to the riddle was correct, the young man happily ran away with the lantern, not knowing who to give it to.
Man Bao was immediately surrounded by people, "Little lady, read this."
"Read this too..."
Bai Shan stepped forward to help, "Let me help you read..."
The three of them read lantern riddles to everyone. If they could guess, they would let them guess. If they couldn't guess, they would look at the face of the person who wanted to guess the riddle. If the person's appearance matched the eyes, they would remind them. If they did not, they would remind them.
Just skip those three people.
The people guarding the lantern mountain obviously did not expect that there would be people guarding the lantern mountain to read lantern riddles to people. You must know that in the past years, although there were literate people who helped read the lantern riddles, it was only when they came to guess the lantern riddles that they met someone who wanted it.
Only then can I read one or two.
How can anyone stand in front of the mountain of lanterns and read lantern riddles to people?
But he couldn't stop them because they didn't break the rules.
However, he would occasionally get stuck. For example, if someone clearly didn't guess it, but they saw that the person was good-looking or young, they pointed the person out and guessed it, he would send it back as being against the rules.
Seeing that they had taken away all the first and second floors of Dengshan, and many lanterns were missing from the third and fourth floors, the originally beautiful Dengshan became in shambles. The people guarding Dengshan
I'm dripping with cold sweat. The night is still very long. All the lanterns have been guessed. It would be so embarrassing. If the master knew...
The person keeping the lantern hurriedly stepped forward and said to Man Bao: "Little lady, there is a mountain of lanterns further down. There is also a mountain of lanterns down here. Why don't you all go take a look?"
Man Bao thought about it and thought it was a good idea. The county is so big anyway, and it was a long night, so let's just do good things.
Man Bao grabbed Bai Shan and Bai Erlang and headed towards the last lantern mountain. Everyone immediately followed and surrounded them towards the last lantern mountain.
The originally spacious street suddenly became crowded. The government officials who were patrolling the street noticed the change and quickly grabbed a person who was pushing forward with the crowd and asked, "What are you doing here?"
"Let's go to the next lantern mountain and guess riddles."
"Isn't there Dengshan Mountain above? Why are they all coming here?" People are crowded, what if something happens to them?
"The lamp mountain above has been pretty much guessed, let's guess this one."
The yamen servant looked at him suspiciously, "Are you literate?"
"I can't read, but a literate lady and two young men read lantern riddles for everyone to guess. At the previous lantern mountain, they guessed more than 20 lanterns. Unfortunately, I was slow to speak and grabbed the lanterns.
But no one else."
Yamen: "...Is it because you are slow-minded?"
He let go of the man and squeezed into the crowd. With the power of his clothes and his own efforts, he finally squeezed to the front and saw three very familiar people surrounded by the crowd.
He didn't know why, even though he knew they were friends of the magistrate, he still had some bad premonitions in his heart.
He glanced at the three of them, turned around and squeezed out, found his colleague on duty with him, and said: "Hurry up and tell the county magistrate that his three children are causing trouble..."
This is the most lively street in Luojiang County. The restaurant is in the middle of the street. It's not close, but it's not far either. It can be reached by running in half an hour.
County Magistrate Yang was quiet for a moment after receiving the news, and then asked: "Are there many people guessing the riddle?"
"There are so many that they block the street. People from here can't get through, and people from that side can't get through either."
Magistrate Yang nodded and said with approval: "Not bad. These lanterns have finally come in handy. Go ahead and bring a few more people with you. Block off a passage for one person in the section where they are guessing riddles. Others
, don’t allow people to crowd, be careful of people falling and crowding out the lantern mountain, and for the rest, let them be.”
However, there are only so many people in the county, and it is impossible to crowd out Dengshan.
At most it will be crowded.
The government officials responded and mobilized half of the security forces there. After they finished guessing the lantern, they moved back to the lantern above. The crowd moved with it, and so did the government officials.
Cheers and laughter could be heard from time to time in the crowd, and the government officials who were trying their best to separate a passage for pedestrians felt that this year's Lantern Festival was noisier and noisier than in previous years...
After Manbao and the others walked through all the lantern mountains again and helped people read countless lantern riddles, they were sure that no one could guess the lantern riddles further up and they could no longer see them, so they picked up their lanterns and said goodbye.
Went.
Everyone took another look at Dengshan, which was missing its arms and legs, and left with laughter.
Many people got lanterns, but more people didn't.
After all, there are only so many lantern riddles, and if you react slowly, they will be taken away.
But it is undeniable that there are many more people carrying lanterns on the street. Some children see other people’s children having lanterns but they don’t, so they clamor to buy them...
The adults couldn't resist, so they had to spend money to buy them.
As a result, more and more people were holding lanterns on the street. Looking around, the whole street was filled with little flowing lights, which was so beautiful.