After hearing the presenter preparing to pose the question, the hall immediately became much quieter.
After a brief pause, the host asked the question: "This is a crossword puzzle. The puzzle is... bite off the cow's tail in one bite!"
After the ritual man recited the riddle three times, he turned to the young man holding the gong and nodded.
Without hesitation, the young man immediately hit the gong with a gong hammer, and the sound of "boring" resounded throughout the hall.
The polite person said: "Everyone, you can answer! Before the third gong sounds, please be sure to hand over your answers to me."
After that, the host stopped talking and just looked down at the stage with a smile, secretly estimating the time to answer the question.
In fact, as early as when Li Ren read out the riddle, people in the audience had already begun to think about the answer. People at several tables were still whispering to each other and discussing enthusiastically in low voices.
Guan Maochun frowned and thought, while muttering: "Bite off the cow's tail in one bite... Fourth brother, what do you think this word is?"
Cheng Jiu shook his head simply: "You ask me and I ask who, we only know a few words, guess what crossword puzzle!"
Guan Maochun had no choice but to turn his head and look at Chai Yan: "Master Chai, do you know what this word is?"
While asking questions, Cheng Jiu's eyes also shifted to Chai Yan. Although he showed no interest, he still wanted to know the answer to the mystery.
Chai Yan nodded, then turned to Yuanyuan and asked: "Young Master, what about you? Have you thought of it?"
Yuanyuan smiled and said: "Don't think about it, Qiaoer has already solved this puzzle for me..."
Chai Yan also laughed: "Oh, then we are lucky. We got something for nothing on the first question! Haha, okay, okay..."
With that said, Chai Yan took a piece of white paper and spread it out in front of Yuanyuan, then handed the pen to her eyes with both hands straight, and said seriously: "Please, Mr. You!"
Yuan Yuan did not take over the pen, she shook her head slightly and said: "You'd better do it, my handwriting is too ugly..."
Yuanyuan has spent most of her time practicing martial arts since she was a child. Although she can also practice calligraphy on weekdays, she has never practiced calligraphy properly, so she is unwilling to show her handwriting at this time.
Chai Yan said: "Your handwriting is ugly, but mine is good-looking?"
"Bore!"
As soon as Chai Yan finished speaking, he heard another gong ringing from the stage. This was considered the second time.
As soon as the gong sounded, someone from the next table stood up and walked to the stage. This person was Bai Yucheng from An Huai's table.
Bai Yucheng handed a piece of folded paper to the presenter on the stage. When he returned to the table, he couldn't help but glance at Chai Yan. Seeing that they still had a blank sheet of paper spread out on the table without writing, he couldn't help but think:
Can't they guess such a simple crossword puzzle? Then today's quiz is considered solid!
As soon as Bai Yucheng sat down, two people in the back row also came to the stage and handed the papers with the answers into the hands of the presenter.
Upon seeing this, Yuan Yuan touched Chai Yan's arm and urged: "Stop dawdling, the third gong will sound soon..."
Guan Maochun, who was at the same table, also nodded anxiously and said: "Yes, sir, write down the answer to the riddle quickly and I will hand it over right away!"
Chai Yan stopped wasting time, picked up his pen and wrote the word "report" on the paper.
The moment Guan Maochun saw the word "Gao", he was slightly startled, and then he immediately laughed. He erased the lower part of the word "ox" and replaced it with the word "口". Wasn't it just like biting off the cow's tail in one bite!
After Chai Yan finished writing, he put down the pen, folded the paper quickly, handed it to Guan Maochun and said, "Go ahead."
Guan Maochun quickly caught it, walked quickly and handed it into the hands of the gifter.
Before the third gong sounded, the contestants at the six tables all handed over their answers to the host.
Then, the host announced the correct answer to the riddle, and it turned out to be the word "Gao".
After the answer to the riddle is announced, it is time to verify the answers of each table.
"Table No. 1, the answer is correct!"
"Table No. 2, correct."
"Table three...
"Table six, correct!"
"The first question is all correct!"
The host showed the answer sheets handed in to the audience one by one. No contestant from the six tables got the answer wrong.
Cheng Jiu couldn't help but curled his lips and said: "Everything is right...what's the point..."
Chai Yan explained: "The first question should always be easy. After all, you need to warm up at the beginning! Is there any reason to use the most difficult question at the beginning?"
Guan Maochun nodded repeatedly and felt that what he said made sense. Cheng Jiu didn't say anything, but just looked at the gift man to see what the second question he asked was.
The gift man took out the piece of paper taken out of the envelope again and read out the riddle of the second question aloud.
The second question is also a word puzzle, but it is much more difficult than the first question, and the time limit for answering the question has not increased.
When the second gong sounded, that is, halfway through the time, An Huai's table No. 1 and Sha'er Zidan's table No. 5 both handed in their answer sheets. Chai Yan's table was a little slower, but he was in time.
He handed in his answer before the third gong sounded.
As for the other three tables, they either failed to answer the question or exceeded the allotted time. In short, they were eliminated.
After the gift man revealed the correct answer to the second question, he started a new round of verification of the answer sheet.
"Table No. 1, the answer is correct!"
"Table No. 5...wrong answer..."
"Table No. 6, the answer is correct!"
As soon as the results came out, the four people in An Huai's table looked at Chai Yan. Sha'er Zidan was eliminated, and now they were the only two tables left!
Chai Yan and the other three also cast their eyes at An Huai's table, especially Cheng Jiu and Guan Maochun, who looked at them very unfriendly.
Guan Maochun was still worried about the bug, so he said angrily: "Sir, you must answer the next question correctly, and you cannot let him win the box."
Cheng Jiu didn't speak, but his thoughts were the same as Guan Maochun's.
Chai Yan said calmly: "I will do my best!"
At this time, the host on the stage began to heighten the atmosphere: "Everyone, after the two questions, only Mr. An Huai and Mr. Chai are left. Who can win this exquisite silver box? The key lies in this.
On to the third question!”
As soon as he finished speaking, someone in the audience shouted: "Stop talking so much and come up with the questions quickly!"
"Yes, yes, come up with the question quickly..." Immediately, someone came to help.
The host immediately nodded vigorously, smiled and raised his hand to press a few times on everyone, and said loudly: "Okay, okay, here comes the third question..."
With that said, the host turned to An Huai and Chai Yan and said politely: "Master An Huai, Mr. Chai, this question is still a crossword puzzle. Please listen to the puzzle..."
An Huai and Bai Yucheng immediately pricked up their ears, fearing that they would miss it or hear something wrong.
On the other hand, on Chai Yan's side, except for Guan Maochun and Cheng Jiu who had serious expressions, Chai Yan and Yuan still looked relatively relaxed.
"The riddle is: one horizontal and one vertical, one horizontal and one vertical, one horizontal and one vertical; one vertical and one horizontal, one vertical and one horizontal, one vertical and one horizontal!"
After reading the riddle of the third question, a smile appeared on Li Ren's face. He looked up and, as he expected, all the guests in the hall were looking at him blankly...
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PS: Regarding this crossword puzzle of one horizontal and one vertical × 3, one vertical and one horizontal × 3... I wonder if any of you book friends can guess it?