Chapter 52 Chapter 52 Guess a Riddle
The sound of footsteps interrupted the quarrel of several people. Two servants carried a small square table and eight-immortal chairs and placed them in the shade in front of the corridor. A maid with double buns helped the bride in a red wedding dress through the corridor and sat down in front of the corridor.
There was hot tea on the table, but the bride was still wearing the red veil and said nothing.
Li Xuan asked, "Girl, you threw five hydrangeas. Do you want all five of us to be your husbands?"
The guard at the side pointed a big stick at Li Xuan and said, "How dare you!"
Li Xuan quickly ran behind the tallest Yu Xiangwen and urged, "Xiangwen, you go ahead. You're the first one the girl likes, so maybe she'll listen to you."
Yu Xiangwen raised his hands in surrender: "I was tied up the longest. Maybe she hates me."
Yin Yan: “…”
At this time, the bride waved her hand, and the maid beside her coughed and said, "It's like this. My young lady has spotted five young talents in the crowd. She thinks you all look very compatible, but she can't decide who to marry. Therefore, five of you need to accept the challenge, and finally pass the test. The one who stands out from the five can become our young lady's husband."
The tour guide who had disappeared in the crowd when the bouquet was tossed just now came out again holding a small red flag.
She smiled and said, "During the Autumn Lantern Festival, there are hidden shops that have prepared a variety of interesting festival activities. The five of you need to identify the hidden shops in the street market and complete the corresponding tasks. If you succeed in the challenge, you will receive the special flower paper of the Autumn Lantern Festival. The person who gets the most flower paper in the end will be the winner."
Lu Min asked: "What are the tasks?"
The tour guide smiled and said, “You need to explore on your own.”
Bai Lili thought for a moment and said, "How do I find a hidden store? Is there any sign?"
Tour guide: "It depends on your observation skills."
Everyone: “…”
The tour guide added with a smile: "If you really can't find the hidden store, you can also ask passers-by on the street. Maybe you can get some clues."
Li Xuan: "Just ask randomly?"
The tour guide nodded: "Yes!"
Social phobia Yin Yan was the first to leave after hearing this. He asked the last question: "When does the challenge end?"
This time the tour guide answered directly: "Everyone, bring your flower notes and gather here at twilight hour."
Yin Yan had acted in a costume drama before, so he remembered the time conversion between ancient and modern times. He asked the tour guide for confirmation: "Five o'clock in the afternoon?"
The tour guide applauded: "This young man is very smart. I can give you a clue to a hidden shop."
Bai Lili, who also knew the time but didn't speak, asked in surprise: "Is this also possible?"
Yin Yan got a clue from the tour guide: lanterns.
The five people are now competitors. After being driven out of the small attic, they scattered and each went to find a hidden shop to complete the task as quickly as possible and get as much flower paper as possible.
The young lady's family was a wealthy local merchant. When the maid drove them out, she gave each of them a hundred copper coins and said that when they came back with the flowered paper, they would receive a generous reward regardless of whether they won or not.
After traveling and throwing the ball, it was already past noon. Yin Yan had a hundred copper coins in his pocket and his stomach growled. He was hungry.
He said to the accompanying camera: "I'm going to find something to eat first."
As he said that, he walked straight towards a pancake shop on the street. When he was grabbing the hydrangea, he faintly smelled the fragrance of pancakes. If he hadn't triggered the bride NPC's task, he would have wanted to sneak out and buy a pancake to try.
When Yin Yan got closer, he saw the words "Dalang Shaobing" written on the cloth hanging next to the Shaobing cart.
Yin Yan: “…”
Yin Yan: "Brother, how much is a sesame seed bun?"
The cake seller said enthusiastically, "Ten cents each."
Yin Yan turned to the camera and complained quietly: "Why are they more expensive than Wu Dalang's cakes?"
He stared at the cake for a while, feeling embarrassed to bargain, but decided to buy one to try.
Only when you have enough food can you have the energy to work.
Just as Yin Yan was about to pay, a hand passed over him and paid twenty copper coins: "Two cakes, please."
The cake seller was afraid that the man would go back on his word, so he took the copper coins and said happily, "Okay!"
Yin Yan turned around and saw Bai Lili standing behind him: "Sister Bai."
Bai Lili took the Dalang sesame cake, handed one to Yin Yan, and said with a smile: "Xiao Yan, do you want to form an alliance?"
"Alliance?" The money had been paid, so Yin Yan had no choice but to accept the cake and walked to the corner with Bai Lili.
Bai Lili sneakily pulled him to squat behind a tea stall and explained: "Although the challenge task needs to be completed by yourself, we can share the information of hidden shops with each other, which saves time in finding shops. How about it, do you want to do it?"
Yin Yan looked down at the bite-sized cake in his hand, swallowed it and said, "...Okay."
Bai Lili rubbed Yin Yan's head with a smile: "Good brother."
"The visual sense of kidnapping a child"
"Xiao Yan is so well behaved!!!"
"It feels like I could be cheated out of a lollipop"
"Now you've been tricked by a sesame seed cake, haven't you?"
"It's so funny. In Brother Yu's live broadcast room, he shook off Brother Xuan and turned around to walk towards Xiaoyan. I suspect he also wants to form an alliance with Xiaoyan."
"I'm too late. My wife has run away with someone else."
"What wife? At present, Yin Yan is the only one who has the clue. Isn't it normal to look for him?"
"Lu Min asked an NPC for clues, but he was treated as a pervert and was almost taken away by the soldiers. Now he turned around to look for Xiaoyan hhh"
"Our sister Bai was smart. She was the first to leave on her own initiative, making people think that she didn't pay attention to Xiaoyan. But she turned around and hid in a corner to follow us."
…
Yin Yan told Bai Lili the clue he had obtained. Every household on the street had lanterns hanging. After the two of them discussed it, they thought that the lanterns mentioned should be a shop that specialized in selling lanterns.
One of them was walking on the main road, while the other was walking on the side road. Halfway through the journey, they met Li Xuan. Yin Yan slowed down his pace, and Li Xuan walked up to him: "How about it, Xiaoyan, do you want to cooperate with me?"
Yin Yan: "Sharing store clues?"
Li Xuan nodded: "Brother just walked and asked as much as twenty people, my mouth is dry, and I got two clues, two for one, do you want to exchange?"
Yin Yan was shocked: "Brother, you are awesome."
Glancing at Bai Lili in the corner, Yin Yan still declined Li Xuan's offer: "Brother Xuan, let me think about it again."
Li Xuan didn't force it. He patted Yin Yan's shoulder and turned away. After walking two steps, he suddenly turned back and said, "Don't follow me."
Yin Yan: “…”
After the people had gone far away, Bai Lili appeared. She quickly said to Yin Yan, "You go find the lantern shop first. I'll follow Brother Xuan. We can exchange information when we meet later."
Yin Yan: “…Okay.”
Before Yin Yan finished speaking, Bai Lili had already left with her photographer. The vigilant figures walking along the path seemed like the reincarnation of ancient spies.
Yin Yan: “…”
It turns out that everyone's desire to win is so strong.
He also quickened his pace to look for the stall selling lanterns, and soon found it. Just as he expected, the lantern shop was a hidden shop, and the task inside was also very routine - guessing lantern riddles.
The challenge is considered successful if you can solve ten riddles within one minute.
The shop owner added: "It costs ten copper coins to complete the challenge."
Yin Yan's mouth suddenly opened wide.
No wonder the little maid gave them copper coins. It turned out that they were not for their food.
Ten riddles in one minute. Even though Yin Yan had played the riddle game many times before, he didn't dare to say that he could solve them within the specified time.
Now that he was here, he decided to give it a try.
After handing over ten copper coins, Yin Yan nodded to the owner, and saw the owner took out a mobile phone from his sleeve and turned on the timer.
Yin Yan: “…”
It's a bit out of place.
The one-minute timer begins.
Yin Yan immediately flipped through the paper hanging under the lantern. The program crew didn't make it too difficult and the riddles were not that difficult. Yin Yan answered three of them in just ten seconds.
[One dot and one long horizontal line, hidden under a mouth (guess a word)]
Yin Yan tore off the note and gave it to the owner: "Yan."
He continued to turn to the next one, and quickly skipped the one he couldn't think of at the first glance.
After flipping through thirteen pieces of paper and solving the sixth puzzle, Yin Yan chose to take back his previous words.
Who says the program crew doesn’t give up? There are only a few simple ones, and the rest still require time to think about.
[Go with the wind, with the fragrance of books filling your sleeves (two words)]
What.
Yin Yan turned to the next one.
Shop owner: "Countdown 15 seconds."
Yin Yan's forehead began to sweat. There were twenty slips of paper in total, and he had already turned to the seventeenth one, but he was still missing two answers.
Seventeen won’t do, eighteen won’t do, and nineteen won’t do.
[The white dress is full of fragrance, the flower blooms but its name is hidden (guess a flower)]
White in color, rich in fragrance, the flower does not bloom noticeably, its name is hidden… the word “flower” is structured from top to bottom?
Yin Yan's eyes lit up: "Jasmine!"
Shop owner: "Countdown 10 seconds."
Yin Yan felt that this round was over, and he really had no idea about the remaining ones.
The shop owner counted down on the side, and Yin Yan rechecked to see if there were any other puzzles he could solve.
[Go with the wind, with the fragrance of books filling your sleeves (two words)]
He looked at the piece of paper again, his mind filled with the structure of the words, and he couldn't spell out a single one. Just as he was about to put it down, the two answers he had come up with before suddenly flashed through his mind.
"Yan", "Moli", Yin Yan and Bai Lili.
“…3, 2…”
Yin Yanfu was so excited that he tore off the note and held it up excitedly: "Xiang Wen!"
A long voice behind him responded, "Hey."
Yin Yan turned his head with his neck stiff, and saw Yu Xiangwen, dressed in a neat black suit, walking towards him. He curved his eyes and asked him, "Xiao Yan, what do you want to ask me for?"
"Brother Yu?" Yin Yan held the puzzle with Yu Xiangwen's name on it. His heart was still pounding as he raced against time to answer the question. He said weakly, "No... I'm fine."
The store owner applauded him and said, "Congratulations to this young man for succeeding in his first attempt!"
Bai Lili followed behind Yu Xiangwen. When she heard the shop owner's voice, she leaned over and asked, "Xiaoyan, have you succeeded in the challenge?"
For some reason, Yin Yan secretly put the note in his hand into his sleeve and nodded, "Why are Sister Bai and Brother Yu together?"
"I just happened to run into you, and then I saw you guessing riddles here." Seeing Yu Xiangwen talking to the store owner, Bai Lili pulled Yin Yan aside and said, "Brother Xuan went to a chess club, which should be the hidden store. You can see it if you follow the path he just left. I'll finish this first and then come find you."
Yin Yan whispered to Bai Lili: "There are a few riddles that are related to our names. I have already guessed my name, your name, and Brother Yu's name. Sister Bai can try to guess Brother Xuan and..."
Before Yin Yan finished speaking, Yu Xiangwen turned around and said, "Xiao Yan, you just called my name. Is it the answer to the riddle?"
Yin Yan didn't answer. He saw that the owner had replaced the missing notes. The puzzles were disposable and would be replaced after they were used up.
Yu Xiangwen added: "There are other people's names in the riddle."
Yin Yan still didn't answer, but Yu Xiangwen had already seen the answer from his expression. He handed ten coins to the shopkeeper beside him and said, "Start the timer."
Bai Lili immediately got furious and rushed over: "I want to guess first!"
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