My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 916

[Chapter 890 Chapter 901: Being bullied (first update, please subscribe)]

Because guessing lantern riddles has become a must, all the scholars in the hall started guessing.

According to the rules, if you can’t guess the riddle, you have to put it back, and you can’t reveal the riddle to others, so be careful of cheating.

Only after guessing the lantern riddle can the answer be revealed.

Rules are dead, people are alive.

Logically speaking, several people can discuss it and let the first person guess first. If he fails to guess, he can secretly tell the riddle to the others, and then everyone can figure it out together and guess again to earn fifty taels for sure.

But human nature is sometimes like this. If you can’t guess the riddle yourself, you don’t want others to know or guess it. Doesn’t that make you look incompetent?

So a quarter of an hour passed, and only one person in the hall guessed the riddle correctly and won fifty taels of silver.

This stimulates some people. The more they fail to guess, the more they want to guess again. They feel that they are a little closer every time and they fail to guess right every time.

When I finally guessed and found out that my pocket was empty and there was no more money, I suddenly realized that I had been deceived, but there was nothing I could do about it.

Maybe this is the mentality of gamblers!

In the private room, people were watching the lantern riddles guessing one after another, and several people were overjoyed. The owner of Quzhuang said: “Congratulations to Shopkeeper Hu! Just look at this posture, just the admission fee and the light fee, tonight Juxian Tower I’m going to make a lot of money!”

Shopkeeper Hu waved his hand, “It’s just a small amount of money!”

He is not being modest, because this amount of money is really just a small amount of money for him, and he will make more than that tonight!

At this time, the bald waiter had also come to the box from the hall, waiting to listen to Shopkeeper Hu’s instructions.

“Shopkeeper Hu, can you let him go down?”

“Okay!”

Just as the bald waiter was about to leave, Shopkeeper Hu quickly stopped him: “By the way, let him guess five first, and then…”

“… …”

The bald waiter nodded repeatedly and then went down.

…

At this moment, a huge black shadow came to the door.

“Dad, Piao Piao is being bullied!”

“…”

As soon as the voice came out, the room fell silent for an instant.

Naturally, it was Liu Piaopiao who spoke. At this moment, she bit her lip, trying to make a cute and coy voice. However, her voice was rough, so when the sound came out, it was visually and auditory. It was really scary, and several people in the room were shocked.

“Piaopiao, say hello first!”

Magistrate Liu glared at her.

“Oh.”

Liu Piaopiao agreed and said, “My little girl Piaopiao, I have met the prince, Master Qu and shopkeeper Hu!”

Prince Yu nodded and said with a smile: “Piaopiao, tell me who bullied you “

Liu Piaopiao suddenly became energetic: “It’s a smelly old man! He took away all the five lanterns I prepared! I was so angry that I wanted to chase him, but he ran away!

” This…”

Prince Yu was stunned. Which woman would dare to put five lanterns on the Lantern Festival? Sure enough, the sturdy Piaopiao didn’t need to explain to anyone…

“Stupid!”

It was Magistrate Liu who came out and scolded: “Look at you, I told you to prepare more lanterns, but you just didn’t listen! If you are going to go Ten or twenty lanterns, can an old man pick them up?”

“Dad is right.”

Liu Piaopiao nodded, but she was still angry: “I don’t care, that old man picked up all my lanterns, and I didn’t even have a chance. If you find a good man, dad will teach him a lesson!”

“What nonsense! Why bother with an old man? Can he help you find a good man?”

He pointed downstairs, “Look, Piao Piao. How about that person?”

“Which one?”

Liu Piaopiao drooled when she saw Jing Zhe’s handsome face: “Dad, I think my ideal husband has appeared…”

“… …”

“Okay, since Piaopiao is satisfied, I will wait for shopkeeper Hu to use some tricks later, and then I can recruit him to our Liu family!”

“

What other tricks are needed?”

Fangguang: “When I go over and tell you, how dare he disobey me based on my appearance and family background? Besides, I, Liu Piaopiao, don’t bother to use other means to get a man!”

“…”

Regarding her Confidence, Prince Yu and others were amazed, and they were already looking forward to seeing what kind of sparks would happen when Jing Zhe and Liu Piaopiao met!

“Nonsense!”

Magistrate Liu glared at Liu Piaopiao: “He has a wife. If he doesn’t use any means, how could he obey?”

“Have a wife? Why did dad introduce someone with a wife to me…”

Liu Piaopiao He muttered dissatisfiedly, but when he thought of Jing Zhe’s somewhat evil appearance, he suddenly felt that it didn’t seem to matter.

Then I looked down the window and saw Zhang Xiaoyu standing with Jing Zhe, who looked so well matched.

“Is that her? Look at how small and fleshless she is. She’s far behind compared to me!”

Then he waved his hand, “Forget it, I’d better listen to dad and let Shopkeeper Hu give him some tricks! Hmm? …After all, it

’s

the parents’ orders and the matchmaker’s words. Dad has the final say in this matter!

”

It was a bit depressing…

Because

to participate in the poetry meeting, you had to guess lantern riddles. It didn’t take long. Basically everyone in the hall guessed a lantern riddle, but very few guessed it correctly.

Seeing this scene, Zhou Ziqiong breathed a sigh of relief.

In fact, this cooperation with Juxianlou was negotiated by her father Zhou Gui and shopkeeper Hu. Just like Zhou Gui took it upon himself to buy so much cotton from King Jin last time, Zhou Ziqiong also opposed it this time.

In her opinion, although these lantern riddles were provided by her Zhou family and were quite difficult, the answer was given to Juxian Tower. Who made them the organizers?

If Juxian Tower wants to do something about it, Zhoujia Bufang will suffer heavy losses!

After all, if you guess a lantern riddle correctly, Juxianlou and Zhoujiabufang will have to spend twenty-five taels of silver. Ten is two hundred and fifty taels, and two hundred is five thousand taels!

However, after hearing this, Zhou Gui smiled and said that Zhou Ziqiong was worrying too much.

Because in this case, the losses borne by Juxian Tower are as big as theirs. No matter how stupid Juxian Tower is, they can’t do such a stupid thing that hurts the enemy a thousand times and hurts themselves an equal thousand, right?

Zhou Ziqiong reminded Zhou Gui that if Juxian Tower really wanted to do something, the Zhou family would be the only ones who would pay in the end. As for Juxian Tower, how could they pay?

But Zhou Gui still doesn’t believe it, because Juxian Tower can do this, and so can the Zhou family. How dare Juxian Tower?

Just like the last time she bought cotton, Zhou Ziqiong was no match for her father Zhou Gui. In the end, she had no choice but to pray in her heart that no accident would happen.

But now that the lantern riddle guessing was coming to an end, and nothing seemed to happen, she couldn’t help but breathed a sigh of relief: It seems that I really thought too much?

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Thank you to Taoyuan Shu Yujing for the 100 starting coin reward, and thank you to Jun Mengchenyan for the 4,000 starting coin reward. Long time no see!

(End of chapter)