The riddle for the third question was "parinirvana," and the answer was an idiom. Jing Zhe guessed "sitting and waiting for death," which was exactly the answer.
At this moment, the crowd fell silent!
If Jing Zhe was able to guess the first two riddles correctly because they were easy, then the third riddle was a bit more difficult. However, Jing Zhe guessed the third riddle at the same speed as he did when he guessed the first two riddles, without slowing down. He guessed the answer with just one glance.
That's pretty impressive.
After comparing them in their minds, they had to admit that if they were to guess, they definitely couldn't do as well as Jing Zhe!
When she looked at Jing Zhe again, her expression became complicated.
Could it be that he's telling the truth?
Is he really the "riddle-solving expert" in their area?
Manager Hu broke out in a cold sweat.
At this moment, he also realized something was wrong. Once is never enough. The fact that Jing Zhe could answer three questions in a row with ease could only mean two things!
Either he's genuinely amazing and just pretending to be weak, or he's just faking it and the reason he can solve the riddles is because someone is working with him from the inside!
Of course, Manager Hu didn't think Jing Zhe was really that awesome!
He only arrived at Juxianlou yesterday, and through several conversations, Manager Hu discovered that Jing Zhe was a bit silly. How could he have come up with such a bad idea to cheat them in such a short time?
If that's the case, then someone is cooperating with him!
So, Manager Hu went to see Zhou Ziqiong.
Then he shook his head, dismissing the idea.
If it were Zhou Ziqiong, why would she have tried so hard to persuade him just now? Especially when Jing Zhe refused to listen to her advice, the look of disappointment in Zhou Ziqiong's eyes couldn't have been faked, which means that the person who tipped him off wasn't Zhou Ziqiong.
Come to think of it, Zhou Ziqiong has always been upright and honest in her business dealings, and she would never stoop to using underhanded tactics. So why would she do this now?
If it wasn't her...
At this moment, Manager Hu turned his head towards the bald waiter.
He was the only one in the entire hall who knew the answer to the riddle, and when the boy in the cotton coat said that the two of them were in cahoots, Manager Hu hadn't paid any attention because it was part of their plan. But now he didn't think so anymore…
The bald waiter had only intended to deceive Jing Zhe and never expected Jing Zhe to guess the riddles correctly. When Jing Zhe guessed three of them in a row, the waiter panicked and broke out in a cold sweat. To Manager Hu, this cold sweat appeared as the nervousness of someone caught red-handed.
Feeling Hu's gaze, the bald waiter inexplicably shivered.
He immediately realized that perhaps Manager Hu suspected him, thinking that he had told Jing Zhe the answer.
What a terrible injustice!
He quickly gave Manager Hu a wronged look, but Manager Hu ignored him: Hehe, after this is all over, we'll know whether you colluded with him or not!
Thinking this, Manager Hu called over another waiter—he no longer trusted the bald waiter, and whispered a few words to him, telling him to tell the man in the cotton coat hiding in the back to be prepared, in case Jing Zhe really colluded with the bald waiter, he could only guess the first two hundred riddles correctly.
As for the three hundred riddles he presented later, he let the man in the cotton coat guess them. In this way, the money he gave to Jing Zhe would be reimbursed by Zhou Ziqiong, so he would still make a profit, just a little less!
He then instructed the waiter to go upstairs again to calm down the Crown Prince and the others.
He felt slightly relieved as he watched the waiter run away.
...
At this point, Jing Zhe began to guess the fourth and fifth riddles.
"Connected in all directions" and "the most difficult meal to cook" are both riddles that require an idiom. Just like the previous three riddles, Jing Zhe guessed them at a glance.
The answers were "perfectly logical" and "to make do with nothing." At this moment, Zhou Ziqiong was the most surprised. She seemed to have figured it out: why did Jing Zhe, who seemed so shrewd, insist on doing something that was sure to lose money?
Zhang Xiaoyu and the others had seemed very anxious to persuade him, but when he actually started guessing, the anxious expression on their faces disappeared, as if it had all been... an act...
Yes, it's acting!
Zhou Ziqiong woke up with a start, overjoyed that Jing Zhe had not been deceived, but then she smiled bitterly: if he was really confident that he could guess these riddles correctly, where would her Zhou family's cloth shop come from to come up with so much silver?
Meanwhile, chaos reigned in the private room upstairs. The Crown Prince of Yu was furious: "What's going on? What's happening?"
"How did he figure it all out?"
"Didn't that guy surnamed Hu say it was foolproof?"
"..."
Prefect Liu and Master Qu were so frightened that they trembled and didn't know what to say. At this moment, the waiter knocked on the door and came in, and told him what Manager Hu had told him. After hearing this, the Prince of Yu's expression softened a little.
"That treacherous lackey! How dare he betray us! I, the young master, will make him wish he were dead!"
"Your Highness, please do not be angry!"
Master Qu advised, "Manager Hu can't be sure whether it's Baldy or Zhou Ziqiong who colluded with him! But don't worry, Your Highness, Manager Hu will at least make some money, but the Zhou family's cloth shop will definitely lose money! Given the Zhou family's current situation, even two thousand taels of silver would be enough to make them suffer!"
Upon hearing this, the Crown Prince of Yu realized that it seemed to make sense. This didn't seem to prevent him from getting Zhou Ziqiong, but while that kid made money, it seemed that his wife would be harder to obtain!
He immediately said with a sinister look, "This brat tried to ruin my plans. Wait until after today, and I'll teach him a lesson he won't forget!"
"Your Highness is right!"
Prefect Liu also said coldly, "As long as he is in Ruzhou, even if he has made money, I can make him return it all!"
"..."
...
"Solving riddles like this is such a waste of time!"
After Jing Zhe finished guessing the fifth riddle, he clapped his hands and said, "This is too much trouble! Take them all down and open them up, I'll guess them all at once!"
"..."
The hall fell silent instantly.
That's outrageous, absolutely outrageous!
He opened all the riddles and tried to guess them together. Who did he think he was?
Do they really think they've forgotten their place just because they guessed five riddles correctly? They were just lucky. If riddles were really that easy to guess, wouldn't they try them anyway?
That's just how people are. They can't guess what's going on, so they want to see Jing Zhe guess. But Jing Zhe guesses too many times, which makes them feel like they've been slapped in the face and outshone by him. So at this moment, they're secretly hoping that Jing Zhe won't guess right again.
Chen Jiannan and the others quickly took down all five hundred riddles. The slips of paper were laid out on the table, a dense pile. The square table was filled with slips of paper in a short time. Just looking at them was dazzling. After looking at them for a while, your brain would explode. How could you guess them quickly?
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