Lin Fu reported to Xue Rui. When they heard about the troublemaker, the people at the table in the elegant room became excited instead. Moreover, it was the Lantern Festival today, so they needed lanterns and riddles to satisfy their cravings. Liu Jiong joked, so Xue Rui simply asked Lin Fu to fetch a dozen lanterns for him to write the riddles.
Liu Jiong was not an idiot. He could see that the troublemaker had some skill. It was fine if he came up with the riddles, but if he failed, then he would lose face. Thus, he thought of a way to drag this table of people down with him without losing face, "What's the point of me coming up with the riddles alone? How about this, each of us come up with a riddle and send it to the front. Let's see who can control the situation. How about it?"
The rest of the people were itching for a fight, so they all agreed. Feng Zhaomiao's voice was the loudest, urging the servants to prepare pen and paper. Only one voice said differently, "It's not fun just like this. How about we make a bet? It's more interesting to win or lose."
The group of men and women turned to look at Princess Xi Wen and asked, "What bet?"
Xi Wen tapped her smooth chin with her finger and looked at the table of people. She smiled and said, "If the riddles are answered by the person in front, then they lose. If the riddles baffle the person in front, then they win. The winner can pick anyone at this table and ask that person to do something. No matter what it is, they must agree."
Xie Miaoyun clapped his hands and said, "This is interesting."
Yu Shu's eyelids twitched. She didn't know why, but she felt that these two girls were targeting her.
Everyone looked at each other and then shifted their gaze to the Ninth Prince and Xue Rui, waiting for their opinion.
The Ninth Prince said, "There's nothing else, just one thing. Don't go overboard."
Xue Rui nodded and said, "No matter who wins or loses, don't hurt our friendship."
Faced with the advice of her two brothers, Xi Wen obediently said, "Ninth Brother, Brother Rui, don't worry. We know what to do. We had the servants prepare the table for food and wine, as well as the lanterns and ink. Feng Zhaomiao couldn't wait any longer. He grabbed one and started writing. Yu Shu glanced at him and saw that he wrote," A sparrow, flying on the table, holding its tail, jumping into the river, hitting something. " After thinking about it, Yu Shu smiled. This was too simple. It was a spoon.
Feng Zhaomiao turned around and saw her looking at him. "Why don't you take a guess?"
"I don't know." Yu Shu shook her head, not wanting to dampen his enthusiasm. She turned to look at the lady next to her, the one who accompanied Qi Mingxiu.
There were only a few simple words written on the lantern: 'Qi Liang's rivers and mountains – a man's name.
Yu Shu doesn't know about this. She is not good at history. She only knows about the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. She can't even remember the period of Qi and Liang dynasties, let alone guess the person.
This young lady's handwriting was beautiful. This lantern with square holes and bamboo joints was already very beautiful. Coupled with her good handwriting, it looked even more exquisite when it was dotted with wax and glittered with golden light.
Xue Rui finished writing a riddle. He raised his head and saw Yu Shu looking around. He asked her, "Why aren't you writing?"
Yu Shu said embarrassedly, "My handwriting is terrible. I've ruined the lantern."
Xue Rui smiled and gestured at her. "Come, I'll write for you."
Yu Shu left her seat and went to his side. She took a lantern from Xiao Qing and handed it to him.
Xue Rui dipped the brush in ink and asked, "What do you want to write?"
Yu Shu thought for a moment. She bent down slightly and said softly, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine – write one word."
Xue Rui raised the brush and paused for a moment. Then, he wrote vertically on the lantern. It was a simple line of numbers, but he wrote it with a bit of elegance.
"What about the answer to the riddle?" Yu Shu asked. "Should I write it on the lantern?"
Xue Rui turned the lantern upside down. He pointed to a groove at the bottom for her to see. "Write it on a piece of paper. Hide it here. You can check it when you solve the riddle."
Yu Shu looked at the hole and rubbed her chin. An idea flashed in her mind. She smiled at him and said, "I'll write the answer myself."
Xue Rui gave the lantern to her. Yu Shu took it to a small table at the side. She tore a piece of paper and wrote the answer to the riddle. Then, she turned her head and waved at Lin Fu to call him over. She covered his mouth and whispered a few words in his ear before handing the lantern to him. At this time, everyone had finished the riddle. Yu Shu's lantern was the last to be given out. When she returned to her seat, she heard someone ask, "What did you write in the lotus room?"
Yu Shu looked up and saw that it was Royal Princess Xi Wen asking the question. She said, "A word riddle."
"Let's hear it. Let's all guess first."
Yu Shu honestly said, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine."
Everyone at the table heard it and started guessing. After a moment, Xie Miaoyun smiled. "It's a word, 'mouth,' right?"
Feng Zhaomiao couldn't guess it, so she curiously asked, "What do you mean?"
"So stupid," Xi Wen tenderly said, "Aren't there only eight missing? Only eight missing, isn't it just a word, 'mouth'?"
Feng Zhaomiao suddenly understood. The others all nodded. Xi Wen propped up her chin with her hands and said to Yu Shu with pity, "You came up with this too easily. If you lose, you might be punished later."
Yu Shu smiled noncommittally. "If I lose, I lose."
Xi Wen didn't pay attention to her anymore. She turned her head and asked others what they wrote. After asking around, other than Xue Rui, the Ninth Prince, and herself, everyone else at the table was able to guess it. Even Feng Zhaomiao's' spoon 'was guessed, causing him to hang his head in dejection for a while.
After the lantern was delivered, there was no news for a while. They chatted and drank, then guessed some lantern riddles to pass the time.
Lin Fu reported that the two guests who came to cause trouble were none other than Xia Jiangmin and Ji Xingxuan.
In this private room on the second floor, there were two tables filled with all kinds of dishes, filling the air with fragrance. Some of the dishes had already gone cold, some were still steaming, but none of them had been touched.
Xia Jiangmin held a pair of ivory chopsticks and poked at the dish in front of her. She picked up a piece of chopped green onion and put it in her mouth. She took a sip of tea and looked up at Lin Fu, who was standing at the door, and said with a smile, "Shopkeeper, don't stand here. We'll leave after we're full. This is just the beginning, why are you in such a hurry?"
Lin Fu wiped the cold sweat on his forehead and smiled. In his heart, he said a hundred times, "Harmony brings wealth."
Ji Xingxuan gently pulled her sleeve and looked at the dazzling array of dishes on the table. In a low voice, she said, "Min Min, it's enough. We should go back."
"Jiejie, don't be anxious. We have just changed a table of dishes. We haven't paid the bill yet." Xia Jiangmin patted her hand and said to Lin Fu, "Can I trouble shopkeeper to bring more lanterns? After I have guessed these, I will bring your most expensive dishes to the table."
Lin Fu was waiting for her to say this. He quickly called Gui Liu and Gui Qi, who were holding lanterns outside, to bring the dishes to the two.
Xia Jiangmin first took one and looked at it. She said, "This is a spoon."
As she said this, she took a pen and wrote it down. Gui Liu stretched out his hand and touched the bottom of the riddle. When he opened it, he got it.
Then he guessed two more. When he came across a difficult one, he showed it to Ji Xingxuan, "Look, 'Qi Liang Jiang Shan'. What kind of person is this?"
Ji Xingxuan thought for a while and said, "It's Emperor Liang Wu, Xiao Yan."
Xia Jiangmin did not ask her how she solved the riddle. She asked the waiter to take out the riddle. When he saw it, he got it. He said happily, "Jiejie is so smart."
Ji Xingxuan heard her praise but was not happy. She smiled helplessly and wanted to persuade her to go back. But Xia Jiangmin turned her head and looked at the riddle again.
"Eh? This is interesting. Three four five six seven nine, type one word. Jiejie, what do you think it is? "
"… It's the word 'mouth'."
Xia Jiangmin nodded, "That's right. Let's reveal it."
The sky turned dark. A group of men and women were waiting impatiently in the private room behind the building. When the door opened, Lin Fu came in, sweating profusely.
Feng Zhaomiao hurriedly asked, "How was it? Did they stumble?"
Lin Fu nodded and grinned, "There were three questions that they couldn't answer. Coincidentally, the dishes were very expensive. Those two were worried that they did not have money to pay the bill! They couldn't order anymore! "
"Haha!"
Everyone at the table laughed. Liu Jiong winked at Xue Rui and said, "Look, it's my idea that saved you a lot of money. How are you going to thank me?"
"Why are you so happy? You didn't come up with the questions." Xue Rui coldly said. He turned to Lin Fu and asked, "Who didn't answer?"
Lin Fu nodded and said with a red face, "First, there was His Highness Jiu's question."
Liu Jiong clapped, "There was. We didn't answer his question just now."
The Ninth Prince was modest, "It was just a little roundabout. It's not worth anything." He asked Lin Fu curiously, "What about the other two questions?"
Lin Fu bowed to him, "It was Junzhu's question."
Liu Jiong said, "There was this too. Xi Wen, what is the answer to your riddle? Tell us quickly."
"It's just an idiom." Xi Wen put down her chopsticks and wiped the corner of her mouth with a handkerchief. She slowly looked around the crowd and finally looked at Xue Rui, "Just now, you said that there is a prize if you win, right?"
Everyone answered yes. Yu Shu's eyelids twitched again. She heard Xi Wen said softly, "I have nothing else to do. It's just that this afternoon, I saw Brother Rui drinking for others. So, I didn't toast a few times. Now, I will let him have a good toast. Come, bring a jar of the 10-year old Huadiao wine. Let Brother Rui toast to Miss Lianfang."
Yu Shu's face changed slightly. This ordinary Huadiao wine was not strong, but the 10-year old wine was very strong. A whole jar was enough to knock her down. After drinking for a while, she couldn't tell north from south. She was still talking nonsense and embarrassing herself. This girl is so bad!
Xue Rui also frowned and looked at Xi Wen. He didn't know what she was doing today.
Seeing Xue Rui's serious face, Xi Wen blinked innocently, "It's just drinking a jar of wine. It's not too much. I don't think Miss Lianfang's alcohol tolerance is that low. At most, she can go down and rest after getting drunk."
"You — —"
"Isn't there another one? Why are you in such a hurry?" Yu Shu saw that Xue Rui was about to speak, so she interrupted him first. She turned half of her body and asked Lin Fu, who was wiping his sweat, "What about the other one? Whose is it?"
Lin Fu carefully looked at his grandfather and grandmother and squeezed out a smile, "It, it's our Miss Yu's."
As soon as he said this, everyone at the table was surprised and turned to look at Yu Shu. Xue Rui raised his eyebrows in surprise.
"How can it be? Her question is very simple. How can she not solve it?" Xi Wen questioned, her delicate eyebrows furrowed as she looked at Lin Fu and coldly said, "Don't try to fool us just to please your master.
Lin Fu hurriedly lowered his head, "Your Royal Highness is wise. How would this lowly one dare? They really answered our Miss Yu's riddle incorrectly."
Liu Jiong playfully said, "That's strange. I don't think the person outside is useless. Otherwise, how could she solve Brother Rui's riddle but not be able to answer such an easy question?"
Xie Miaoyun gently patted Xi Wen's hand under the table to calm her down. She turned to ask Lin Fu, "Is it the one, two, three, four, five question? What did they answer?"
"This is the answer they wrote." As Lin Fu spoke, he took out a ball of paper from his sleeve. Everyone looked at it and saw that there was a 'mouth' on the paper.
"Since it's a mouth, isn't that right?" Xi Wen said with a bit of anger.
Lin Fu sweated profusely, "But, but the answer to Miss's riddle isn't a 'mouth'. It's, it's a 'tortoise'."
This made everyone puzzled. After thinking about it, the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, didn't have anything to do with the word 'tortoise'.
Xue Rui thoughtfully looked at Yu Shu. When he saw the evil smile on her face, he suddenly realized that it was a 'tortoise'.
Xi Wen saw that the situation had suddenly turned around and her tone became bad. She said to Yu Shu, "You should explain clearly how it's a tortoise. If you can't explain it, then I won't listen to you."
"I didn't say that it was a 'mouth' at all. It was your own guess just now." Yu Shu stood up with a smile and gestured in the air with one hand, "One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, nine, nine, there's only an eight missing. That's right, I forgot to write it. It's not missing eight, it's forgetting eight. Wang Ba, wang ba, isn't that a tortoise?"
"Haha!" With a loud laugh, Feng Zhaomiao momentarily forgot herself and flipped over the stool. With a "plop" sound, she sat on the ground. She still slapped her thigh and laughed, her mouth constantly saying, "Wang Ba, Wang Ba, it's a tortoise!"
The Ninth Prince and the young lady next to him also smiled. The former looked at Yu Shu for the first time, nodded and said, "That's right, it's right."
For a moment, everyone at the table was smiling. Only Xi Wen had a straight face and was sullen.
"Cough, cough, okay, let's talk seriously." Xue Rui cleared his throat and said, "Now she also won a round. Xi Wen, this punishment can be waived."
Everyone looked at Xi Wen, but she lightly snorted and said, "You can't say it like that. Winning is winning, losing is losing. If I win, it's mine. If she wins, it's hers. How can you mix it up?"
Xue Rui originally wanted to give her a way out, but he didn't expect her to be so stubborn. She looked at Liu Jiong and gave him a look. Liu Jiong understood and was about to persuade his stubborn little sister when he heard Yu Shu say, "Your Highness is right. How can winning and losing be mixed up? You fined me that jar of wine, I'll accept it."
Yu Shu got up and left the table. She walked in front of Xue Rui and stretched out her hands. She smiled cutely and said, "Big Brother, toast me a jar of wine."
Xue Rui didn't know what she was planning. He hesitantly picked up the jar of wine on the table and handed it to her. Just as he was about to touch it, she snatched it away.
The next scene made everyone at the table dumbfounded. Yu Shu, a little girl, held the jar of wine, raised her head and gulped it down in one breath. When she came back to her senses, she had already wiped her mouth and turned the empty jar upside down for everyone to see.
Xue Rui was angered by her reckless behavior and smiled. He was about to scold her when he saw Yu Shu burp and mumble, "It's my turn." She drunkenly put down the empty jar and picked up another jar full of wine. She turned around and walked to the other side of the table. She stopped in front of Xi Wen, tilted her neck and burped. She handed it over, narrowed her eyes and said, "Your Highness, it's your turn. It's just drinking a jar of wine, it's not too much."
Everyone was silent.
Understanding what she meant, Xi Wen's face immediately darkened. This girl dared to embarrass her!
The drunk Yu Shu sneered in her heart: Smelly girl, if I don't teach you a lesson today, I'll write my name backwards. Your Highness is a fart. If you annoy her, even your Wangye won't have a good time.
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