While An Huai and the four people were nervously calculating, Chai Yan's table was in a similar situation.
Guan Maochun looked extremely serious. He clapped his fingers and muttered something in his mouth: "One hundred cents can buy five bottles. After drinking, I will have five empty bottles and five corks left... Then take
Four empty bottles can be exchanged for two new bottles, and four bottle corks can also be exchanged for one new bottle, so a total of three bottles have been exchanged... Well, five plus three equals eight bottles...
"
Cheng Jiu was interrupted by Guan Maochun's voice and was unhappy at the time: "Can you please stop affecting others?"
Guan Maochun was suddenly stunned, and then stared at Cheng Jiu with dissatisfaction: "It's all your fault, I have to settle the matter again!"
Yuanyuan felt that these two people were too noisy, so he simply covered his ears and closed his eyes, trying not to be affected by them and calculating carefully.
Only Chai Yan had a leisurely expression and drank tea in an unhurried manner.
Hanuo and Sang Mu were sitting at a table in the back row...
Sang Mu calculated for a while and then gave up. He waved his hand and said, "No, no, this question is too convoluted. I almost lost my mind! Hanuo, have you figured it out? How many bottles can you drink?"
"What's the matter? I don't have such leisure time!" Hanuo stared at the host on the stage with dissatisfaction and complained in a low voice: "I don't know where he found these messy questions.
....."
Sang Mu turned around and said, "Why is it so messed up? I think these questions today are quite interesting!"
Hanuo immediately glanced at Sang Mu with a displeased look.
Sang Mu was immediately happy, but he did not answer Hanuo's words and continued to count the wine bottles and corks.
Soon, the time for burning incense came, and both tables, Chai Yan and An Huai, handed in their answer sheets before the incense burned out.
However, this time it was different from the previous questions. The presenter did not announce the answer first, but showed two answer sheets at the same time.
"Everyone, Mr. An Huai said it was fifteen bottles... Mr. Chai said it was twenty bottles..."
Immediately, the host said: "Can both parties please explain how they arrived at their answers..."
Having said this, the host looked at the tables of Chai Yan and An Huai, smiled and asked, "I wonder which table would like to explain first?"
Chai Yan turned to look at An Huai and said loudly: "Mr. An Huai, you come first..."
An Huai thought that he would come first, so he said to Bai Yucheng, "Mr. Bai, I'm sorry to bother you!"
Bai Yucheng cupped his hands for a moment, then stood up and said: "We have just calculated repeatedly, and we are sure and certain that one hundred pennies can only buy fifteen bottles at most..."
The gifted person answered: "Please explain the steps in detail..."
Bai Yucheng thought for a while and said: "First, buy five bottles of new wine with one hundred cents. After drinking it, there will be five corks and five empty bottles; then we will exchange the four corks for one bottle.
New wine, and four empty bottles in exchange for two new bottles of wine. After drinking all of these, there will be four corks and four empty bottles left again..."
Bai Yucheng paused deliberately, and the host immediately nodded and answered: "Well, not bad, please continue..."
"Next, exchange these four bottle corks for a new bottle of wine, and exchange the four empty bottles for two bottles of beer. After drinking, we will get three corks and three empty bottles; then use these two empty bottles to exchange
A new bottle of wine, and after drinking it we have four corks and two empties..."
Bai Yucheng paused again, and after the person nodded to indicate that everything was correct so far, he said: "Then, exchange four bottle corks for a new bottle of wine, and two empty bottles for a new bottle of wine. After drinking,
What is left are two empty bottles and two bottle corks; finally we exchange the two empty bottles for a new bottle of wine, and after drinking we are left with three corks and one empty bottle!”
"At this time, we can no longer exchange. Taking into account all the drinks we have had before, five plus three plus three, plus one plus two plus one, we have a total of fifteen bottles!"
After saying this, Bai Yucheng looked at the gift man quietly, waiting for his answer.
At this time, some people in the hall had probably figured out the logic and nodded, saying that the answer of fifteen bottles was correct, and there would definitely be three corks and one empty bottle left that could not be used.
The host smiled and nodded, indicating that Bai Yucheng could return to his seat.
After taking Bai Yucheng back to sit down, he said politely: "Mr. An Huai, why don't we first listen to how Mr. Chai arrived at the result of twenty bottles, okay?"
"Okay!" Mr. An Huai agreed readily, thinking that I would like to hear how you changed it!
Just now when Bai Yucheng explained the steps in detail, he calculated it over and over in his mind, but he couldn't get the result of twenty bottles.
Chai Yanxiao asked Guan Maochun: "Xiaoguan, let me give you a chance to shine, will you go?"
Guan Maochun was so frightened that he hurriedly waved his hands and shook his head: "Sir, please stop joking and let me go."
"What about you, Xiaojiu?" Chai Yan asked Cheng Jiu again.
Cheng Jiudao: "Sir, please don't make fun of us."
Chai Yan had no choice but to shrug and said: "You don't want to and he doesn't want to either. I have no choice but to do it myself..."
With that said, Chai Yan stood up and walked towards the side steps. Everyone understood at a glance that he was going to go up to the stage to talk.
After a while, Chai Yan stood next to the gift man, looking at the guests in the audience with a smile.
The host signaled everyone to be quiet, and then politely said: "Master Chai, please..."
Chai Yan secretly took a breath and said loudly: "Before I explain, I have to remind everyone of one thing... Usually when we go out to drink and eat, we can order first and pay later!"
"Nonsense, who doesn't order first and pay later..."
An Huai's words to himself stopped abruptly, because he understood something instantly, and his heart couldn't help but "thump".
Bai Yucheng, who was standing next to him, turned pale and kept shouting "Oops" in his heart!
At this time, Chai Yan had already said in a loud voice: "Everyone, if there is such an interesting wine shop in Yaozhou City, just remember the method I said, and you will definitely be able to drink twenty bottles for one hundred coins!"
"Sir, tell me what you can do, we are so worried..."
"Yeah, I'm so anxious..."
Someone in the audience immediately shouted.
Chai Yan grinned and said loudly: "My method is to serve twenty bottles of new wine at one time, and then you can pay the bill after drinking..."
Hearing this, a voice from the audience asked: "Sir, twenty bottles cost four hundred cents! You only have one hundred cents, which is not enough money!"
Chai Yan clapped his hands, pointed at the man and said, "You're right, I don't have enough money. I only have one hundred coins on me, what should I do?"
"Don't you want to get credit, sir?" Someone joked, causing laughter in the hall.
Chai Yan was not angry, and said with a smile: "Of course not, please listen to what I am going on..."
Chai Yan asked loudly: "I just drank twenty bottles, and there are twenty empty bottles in my hand, so the empty bottles can be exchanged for ten new bottles of wine, right?"
"Yes!" everyone in the hall replied in unison.
Chai Yan was very satisfied with the atmosphere and immediately asked: "I still have twenty corks, which means I can exchange for five bottles of new wine, right?"
"Yes!" Everyone in the hall replied in unison, their voices a little louder than before.
Chai Yan raised a finger and said in a loud voice: "I still have one hundred cents, which can buy five bottles of new wine, right?"
"Yes!" The third reply was deafening.
Chai Yan smiled broadly, looked at everyone and said: "The fifteen bottles exchanged plus the five bottles bought for one hundred coins, the total is twenty bottles! I only need to return all twenty bottles of new wine to the owner of the wine shop.
Isn’t it that we don’t owe each other anything?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a large number of people in the audience were stunned...
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of exclamation and praise from the audience.
Among them, Sang Mu's grandson Sha'er Zidan could not help but shake his head and muttered with admiration: "It's amazing..."