Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 306: Riddles (Part )

Luo Yanxing was the fastest and was the first to run under the lantern. He flipped through the note stuck under the lantern and said, "On the day of the opening, in the middle of the day, write a word."

She thought about it and found that her mind was blank. She had no idea what the word was. Her face fell immediately: "It's so difficult. I can't guess it at all."

Last year, when I saw Yuan Qing guessing, and later on Song Ying guessed one even though she couldn’t read, it seemed very easy. Why is it so difficult this year even though she can read?

Erni and the others also looked through the riddles, and were all dumbfounded. They knew every word, but couldn't guess it.

Song Ying came close to Luo Yanxing, looked at the note in her hand, and thought: "The sun in the middle of the door should be the word 'jian', right?"

The clerk next to him came over and nodded with a smile: "It's the word '间', you guessed it right."

The girls were shocked and surprised. Luo Yanxing asked, "Have you ever learned to guess lantern riddles?"

Before Song Ying could answer, Zhou Meiyue asked curiously, "Sister Song Ying is busy memorizing medical books, how can she still have time to learn how to guess lantern riddles?"

Regardless of other times, during the few times they went to the clinic, whenever they had free time, Song Ying would find time to read medical books.

"I haven't learned it, I'm just guessing."

After hearing her answer, Luo Yanxing became even more frustrated. It might as well have been that she had learned it before, otherwise she couldn't have guessed it.

The waiter took down the lantern and handed it to Song Ying, then said to everyone, "There are difficult and easy riddles. If you are not good at guessing riddles, you can look at other ones. Even some of them can be guessed even if you are illiterate."

After hearing what he said, the girls regained their confidence. It was indeed true. Didn’t Song Ying guess it right last year?

Song Ying handed the lantern to Luo Yanxing, but Luo Yanxing waved his hand to refuse: "You keep the one that you guessed correctly. I must guess the one correctly for myself!"

Song Ying then held the lantern himself and said, "Okay! Let's find some simple riddles."

Looking at the girls who were full of fighting spirit, Song Tian and the other two looked at each other. After a while, Luo Erzhu said, "If people who can't read can guess lantern riddles, then can we do it too?"

In the community school, the teacher did not teach them to guess riddles. In their impression, guessing riddles was an elegant activity for educated people. They did not even understand the characters, so naturally they did not dare to guess.

After thinking for a while, Song Tian said: "Let's go find a simple one."

Girls like my cousins who had never been to school could all guess riddles. It would be really embarrassing if they couldn't guess a single riddle.

Song Ying and others were looking for riddles with great interest, so they naturally didn't pay attention to their conversation. They looked through many lanterns but didn't find any simple ones.

Luo Yanxing simply asked the clerk: "Hey, young man, where are the simple lantern riddles you have?"

The clerk shook his head: "I can't tell you that. You have to find it yourself."

"Their boss must have set some rules, so don't make it difficult for him." Song Ying dragged her away, "We have one night, so if we look for it slowly, we will find it eventually! Besides, it's more fun to find it by ourselves and guess it by ourselves."

Thinking that he didn't have to go back tonight, Luo Yanxing was no longer in a hurry, "Okay, we'll look for it slowly."

She pushed aside the lantern beside her, pulled out the note from the bottom, and whispered: "On the fifteenth day of the fifth month, pick a herb."

As soon as the words fell, Song Ying and Lin Wenxuan's voices rang out at the same time: "Banxia!"

“It’s Pinellia!”

Hearing this answer, the other girls gathered around. They had picked a lot of Pinellia ternata, but how did they think it was Pinellia ternata?

After the clerk confirmed that it was correct and handed the lantern to them, the girls became even more curious and asked, "How did you guess?"

“Is there any trick?”

"Sister Song Ying, how did you think it was Pinellia ternata..."

Song Ying was very excited to have guessed two correctly in a row. He felt that he had found some tricks to guess lantern riddles. He immediately shared it with everyone: "May is summer, and the full moon is the middle of a month, so it can be thought of as half of a month, so it is half summer."

Luo Yanxing seemed to understand, "Now that you explain it this way, I can understand why the answer is Pinellia ternata, but I can't guess it myself."

"Just guess what the riddle looks like based on the description. It's okay if you guess wrong," said Song Ying.

"Then I'll try again." As he said that, Luo Yanxing pulled out another piece of paper from under the lantern next to him. He first looked at what he was supposed to guess and guessed herb. Very good, it's not a word puzzle.

Look at the riddle again: replace one thing with another.

"This doesn't describe anything!" Luo Yanxing was confused. She knew the meaning of this idiom, but it didn't fit any herb. No herb would steal things.

Could it be that its medicinal properties steal the medicinal properties of other herbs and replace them with its own?

But she only knew some herbs and didn't understand the combination of the main and the secondary herbs.

She looked at Song Ying and Lin Wenxuan again. It was clear from their expressions that they had already known the answer. She couldn't believe it: "You two guessed it?"

Didn’t Song Ying still learn how to prescribe medicine?

Song Ying and Lin Wenxuan nodded, "It should be horsetail."

Luo Yanxing looked at the clerk and was stunned when she saw him nod and go to get the lantern.

She also knew the horsetail and had a deep impression of it, but the horsetail would not steal things!

"No, how can this be horsetail? Can horsetail steal medicinal properties?"

"Stealing medicinal properties?" Song Ying was stunned by her statement, "Don't think so complicated. A thief is a thief, and what he stole was a beam and wood, so he is a wood thief."

"It's that simple?"

Song Ying nodded.

Luo Yanxing scratched his head in pain: "Now that you explain it this way, I understand it again, but I still can't guess it."

"It's okay, we'll look for it again. There must be an easier way." Song Ying comforted her.

Luo Yanxing was not comforted. She looked at the lantern in Song Ying's hand and said with a sad face: "If I can't guess a single riddle tonight, you can give me a lantern."

"Don't worry, that's not possible. There are so many lanterns on the street, you can definitely guess one!"

Not only Luo Yanxing, but also girls like Erni were a little discouraged. They had the same idea as Luo Yanxing just now. Looking at the riddle, their minds went blank and they didn't think of any herb that fit the description of the riddle.

Comforted by Song Ying, they continued to look at the riddles and found that they had left the word riddle nest and now fell into the herb nest. There were many idioms, such as "Nine times nine return to one", "Nine deaths and one escape", "No successor", "Cuckoo cries blood", "A shrewd and cunning man", etc.

No matter how hard they thought, they couldn't think of any herb that was related to it, but Song Ying and Lin Wenxuan blurted it out without even thinking.

Finally, the clerk, out of pity for them for not being able to guess any of the riddles, or out of fear that Doctors Song Ying and Lin Wenxuan were too aggressive, guessed all the herbal riddles, leaving a large blank. He stepped out and said, "You have to be very familiar with the objects to guess these riddles. Why don't you try to find other riddles about objects?"