So there are four people who finally stay in the health hall, namely Zhan Chunsheng, he Xia, Xiaofeng and his grandfather.

Others went to town in donkey carts.

By the time they reached the town, it was already dusk. It was gray and every family was hanging lanterns.

At first glance, it's like coming to the ocean of lanterns. It's spectacular.

People come and go in the street. There are many vendors on the street, including sugar man, sugar painting, sugar gourd and wonton noodle meat buns. In addition, there are all kinds of lanterns.

There are puzzles hidden in almost every lantern. As long as you can guess the puzzle, you can get the lantern for free. If you can't guess it, you can also spend money to buy it.

These are all gimmicks for businesses to do business. The purpose is to attract more guests. In the past, we have met guests who are especially good at guessing lantern riddles. As soon as we guessed one, one person won dozens of lanterns at one go. Later, the merchants learned well, which not only increased the difficulty of the puzzle, but also required each guest to guess at most three lantern riddles.

A Tao and Xiu'er guessed two riddles one after another, but they didn't get it right. In the end, they each paid for a lantern.

Jiang Weiwei asked, "Dad, do you want to guess some riddles?"

Jiang Shuan smiled: "these are things that children like. I won't join in the excitement."

In fact, he had just watched a few riddles quietly, but he couldn't guess any of them. He simply pretended not to be interested, so as not to lose face in front of his daughter.

Luo Dongshu was not afraid of losing face. He excitedly went to guess the lantern riddle. He guessed three in a row and missed one.

In desperation, he can only pay for the lamp.

He bought two lamps at one go, leaving one for himself and the other for Zhuang Zhuang.

Zhuang Zhuang had never played with lanterns before. When he first saw such a beautiful lantern, he was both novel and excited.

Gu Fei asked Jiang Wei.

"Do you have any fancy lanterns?"

Jiang slightly stretched out his hand and pointed to the front: "I like that!"

They looked around and saw an octagonal Glass Palace lamp hanging in front of them.

The lantern is exquisitely made. The lantern can rotate. There is a shadow puppet in each lamp face. As long as the lantern turns, those shadow puppets will follow, just like watching a shadow play.

Because the work of this palace lantern is too exquisite, it can be called unique and has attracted countless eyes. At this time, many people are standing around it.

Everyone wanted to guess the riddle of the palace lantern. Unfortunately, none of them succeeded. Someone who didn't give up asked for the price.

The lantern seller compared the gesture of six: "I bought this lamp at a high price from an old craftsman. It costs at least sixty-six Liang."

Everyone was frightened by the high price and took a breath.

It's too expensive!

At the same time, another pair of young men and women approached the octagonal glass palace lantern.

Among them, the woman still had a big belly. She was obviously pregnant. She took the man's sleeve and spoiled him: "ah Chi, I like this lamp. Please guess its riddle."

The pregnant woman with a big belly is Zhang Xiuzi, who has not been seen for a long time, and the man standing next to her is Wei Chi.

Wei Chi was very impatient, but he had to pretend to be gentle: "well, as long as it's what you want, I'll get it for you."

Zhang Xiuzi blushed and her eyes were full of affection.

This should have been a beautiful picture of Lang Qing and concubine, but Jiang Wei felt very strange.

The riddle is hidden in the lantern and can be taken out with your hand.

Wei Chigang held out his hand, but was stopped by the boss who sold the lamp.

The boss said with a smile, "this octagonal glass palace lantern is different from ordinary lanterns. You have to pay for guessing its riddles. You have to guess ten Wen once. If you guess right, the palace lantern belongs to you. If you guess wrong, you can only say sorry to you."

It's not cheap to guess a lantern riddle for ten Wen.

The octagonal Glass Palace lamp is too beautiful to stand. Even though they know the price is expensive, many people still spend money to guess lantern riddles. Tonight, the boss made a lot of money just by relying on this octagonal Glass Palace lamp.

Wei Chi gave the boss ten copper coins, and then took out a note from the octagonal glass palace lantern. After unfolding the note, he found that there were four lines written in small block letters——

No head on the left

No head on the right

It's not that you don't stand out

Just don't come out

Note at the end, type a word.

Wei Chi was stupid.

What kind of riddle is this?

Many people around him were looking at him, wondering if he could guess the answer.

Zhang Xiuzi asked expectantly, "ah Chi, did you guess?"

Wei Chi struggled for a long time before he squeezed out a sentence: "is this a Tian character?"

The boss selling lanterns smiled: "wrong."

Everyone sighed and guessed wrong.

Many people have tried to guess the riddle tonight, but none of them succeeded.

Zhang Xiuzi was very disappointed: "I guessed wrong. I thought with ah Chi's talent, I would be able to guess right."

She just said this casually and didn't think about it deeply, but Wei Chi listened to it in his heart. She just felt that she was deliberately satirizing him that he didn't have enough talent. She couldn't even guess a riddle.

Wei Chi feels very embarrassed. Even if he doesn't like Zhang Xiuzi from the bottom of his heart, it doesn't mean that he can tolerate Zhang Xiuzi's contempt for him.

He still wanted to guess again, but he knew in his heart that he didn't know the answer at all. Even if he guessed it ten or eight times, he couldn't guess it.

In order to recover his face, Wei Chi opened his mouth and asked, "boss, can you sell this lantern?"

The boss said, "of course you can sell it, but it's more expensive. It costs 66 liang of silver."

Wei Chi was speechless.

In fact, according to the family background of the Wei family, sixty-six liang of silver is not a lot. In addition, he is also the eldest son of the family. Wei Zhang is very tolerant of him and has never wronged him financially, so he doesn't pay attention to the number of sixty-six Liang at all.

But last night, Wei Zhang personally told him that now the Spring Festival Hall has been sealed up, and there is no income at home. We must save some money, otherwise we will have no money to live in the future, and the whole family will have to be hungry.

Wei Chi doesn't want to be hungry, so he can only get rid of the problem of spending money recklessly. Now he has only more than one or two pieces of silver, some copper plates and a silver note of ten Liang silver.

Even if you add up all the money, it's not enough to buy the octagonal Glass Palace lamp in front of you.

Seeing that Wei Chi didn't say a word, the boss knew that he couldn't afford octagonal glass palace lanterns. He was a little disappointed. When he saw that Wei Chi was well dressed, he thought that Wei Chi was a little husband of a rich family and would certainly be able to afford this palace lantern. Unexpectedly, Wei Chi was just an embroidered pillow. He would only force his mouth and have no money in his pocket.

The boss thought a lot, but his face was still smiling: "since Xiao Lang Jun can't guess the riddle, please give me the riddle back. Others are still waiting to guess the riddle."