Diary of my first love

Chapter 26 Who is the champion

Near the end of the report at 8:20, Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yucai came late and almost missed the game. You must know that players who fail to report on time can be directly removed from the game.

The two of them were bending over and gasping for breath. Just now they had really tried their best to catch up with the report. Zhang Yu raised his eyes to Zhang Zhi, and his reproachful eyes seemed to say, "It's all your fault, I was almost late."

Zhang Zhi put a hand on Zhang Yu's chest to help him calm down, his eyes were full of doting, and he said with a smile: "Yes, yes, it's my fault. After the game is over, I invite you to the snack street Would you like to take a stroll?"

"You asked me to go, not me." Zhang Yu's eyes flashed, and he agreed in a very arrogant tone.

"Yes, I took the initiative to invite you to go to compensate you." Although I don't know why Zhang Yu can't take the initiative to go, but if the daughter-in-law wants to go, she must find a good reason for him.

The competition started soon, and the staff tied a number mark on their right arms respectively. The number on Zhang Zhi’s body was 17, while that on Zhang Yu’s was 9. The number represented the relevant competition location, which meant that Their games are far apart.

"Come on, see you at the end!"

"Well, see you at the end." The two said to each other confidently. As for whether they can reach the end point, it is completely out of their consideration. They are both men who want to win the championship, and the small end point will never be theirs. end.

When all the competition personnel and staff arrived at the designated positions, some lanterns that had not been turned on before were all lit up at once, as if a skyrocketing fireworks had been ignited, and the colorful lights scattered towards the surroundings.

The array of lanterns is divided into seven areas, and each area flashes with different colors. The seven colors are like undulating waves gathered together to piece together an extremely beautiful seven-color flower.

The organizer's ingenuity really shocked the audience and the contestants. There was a continuous "wow" sound, and even a little girl spun around happily, exclaiming "This is so beautiful!".

When everyone's enthusiasm subsided a little, a handsome man in a suit appeared on a high platform beside the lantern array, holding a microphone. He should be the host of the competition.

I just heard him say: "The east wind blows flowers and thousands of trees at night. It blows more and falls, and the stars are like rain. BMW carved cars are fragrant all over the road. The sound of the phoenix flute is moving, the light of the jade pot is turning, and the fish and dragon dance all night. Is there any one for the lantern festival tonight? A feeling like this?"

"Yes!" The crowd below responded loudly with red faces, telling their enthusiasm and excitement.

"Although everyone is definitely eager to see the start of the competition, as a responsible host, I still want to introduce our sponsor of this competition. It is one of the top [-] societies in the country, the ancient arts and crafts association of our school. This All the lanterns used in this competition were made and sponsored by the association."

As soon as the host said this, there were "wow" surprises below.

"Is our school club so awesome?" "What if I join!" "I just want to ask about his lanterns, do you sell them?"

When everyone's voice subsided, the host said again: "It seems that everyone likes our Ancient Arts and Crafts Association very much. Don't worry. After the competition is over, the Ancient Arts and Crafts Association will start recruiting new people on the host stage. Welcome! Everyone is welcome to sign up!"

"Not much to say, let's go back to the competition. This competition is sponsored by the Ancient Arts and Crafts Association. Competitors can get the corresponding lantern if they answer a riddle correctly. The more answers they get, the more they get. The final champion will get A custom-made lantern opportunity sponsored by the Ancient Arts and Crafts Association."

"The reward is very rich, isn't it? If I don't know how to answer lantern riddles, I'd like to try it out." There was a laugh of understanding from everyone below.

"The rules of the competition are very simple. The contestants start from the starting point corresponding to the number. There are nine lanterns along the way. After opening the kit, they can only move forward after answering the questions inside. The contestant who reaches the finish line first and correctly answers the final dragon and phoenix lantern question is the winner. If no one can answer the dragon and phoenix lantern question, then whoever reaches the finish line faster will be the champion."

"I announce next, the game begins."

At the start of the game, the audience burst into thunderous cheers, and Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yu entered the lantern array immediately like everyone else.

After walking ten meters, I saw the first lantern, which was an exquisite lotus lantern, with blue fireworks burning in the center of the lotus, which was very beautiful. Under the lantern, a woman dressed in Hanfu with fluttering sleeves rushed He nodded and smiled, presumably he was the corresponding staff member, Zhang Yu nodded to her, and went down to the kit under the lantern.

The kit also looks very delicate, with the corresponding lotus pattern embroidered on it, it should be incense, and there is a nice fragrance on it.

Regardless of that, Zhang Yu took out the riddle inside, it was a small circled note, and when it was spread out, it was a beautiful flower paper. All this made Zhang Yu admire the Ancient Arts and Crafts Association.

Perhaps because of the first question, the riddle is not difficult, and the question is "88, type one character." Zhang Yu wrote down the character "米" without thinking, handed it to the woman in Hanfu for review, and then went straight to the depths.

The following riddles were not too difficult for Zhang Yu. Some asked: The monkey stood lightly on the top of the tree and named a fruit, which is naturally a lychee; The body is naturally hard.Although you can't speak, you must respond to what you say. If you use something, this is an inkstone again, and you have passed five questions in this way.

After that, the style of the questions changed, instead of riddles, they became couplets.The hanging lanterns are also more atmospheric, and a red background and black characters hang on the left side, asking for the second line.

Couplets are not a good pair. Generally, the number of words is equal, the parts of speech are opposite, the rhythm is matched, the level is relative, and the content needs to be related, and the top and bottom are connected, but they cannot be repeated.

Compared with the previous riddles, the couplets are much more difficult.The first couplet that Zhang Yu encountered was a couplet, which, as the name suggests, uses the radicals of a character to create a couplet.

The first couplet is: Tianxiakou, Tianshangkou, aiming to swallow Wu.The mouth of the world is Tun, the mouth of heaven is Wu, and together they are Tun Wu.

Zhang Yu pondered for a long time, and kept trying to figure it out, before he wrote the second couplet: the king among the people, the king around the people, and he intends to take full responsibility. (From Zhu Yuanzhang and military advisor Liu Bowen)

Because the couplet is not like a riddle and has a fixed answer, from the sixth round onwards, the answers must be submitted to the judges for review, and the half-vote pass can continue. The time is limited to 3 minutes, and 3 minutes is the fixed time for each contestant to review the answer. Do not count toward final grade.

While waiting, Zhang Yu looked at the lanterns on the left and right. Most of the people were still struggling in the riddle area of ​​the first five levels. Only a few people reached the sixth level. As for the higher levels, Zhang Yu hadn’t seen them yet.Because the contestants answer a question correctly, the corresponding lantern will be turned off, so the answer is easy to see.

Zhang Yu felt at ease, and saw a staff member coming from a distance to inform Zhang Yu's person in charge of the review situation. Although he was confident in his answer, Zhang Yu was still a little nervous and clenched his hands tightly.

"May I pass?" Zhang Yu asked.

"You can continue to move forward." The woman in Hanfu made an inviting gesture to Zhang Yu, leading him to the seventh pass.

The title of the seventh level is "Golden thread willow by the Jinshui River, and the golden thread willow pierces the mouth of the goldfish". This is a thimble couplet. There are hosta flowers outside the jade railings, and the hosta flowers are placed with jade human heads."

The eighth couplet is a couplet with the same rhyme, which is equivalent to using today's homonym pairs. The first couplet is "No mountain is as good as Wushan", and Zhang Yu is right: "How can the water be as clear as the river."

The ninth couplet is even more amazing. It has something to do with the same characters and different pronunciations. Zhang Yu also thought hard, and suddenly thought of a word that just matched.The first couplet is the sea water towards (chao) towards (zhaozhaochao) towards (zhaochaozhao), because the ancient word Chao has the meaning of "tide water", so the upper line actually uses a word Chao to reflect the ebb and flow of sea water .

Zhang Yu's second line is "floating cloud long (zhang) long long (changchangzhang) long long (changzhangchang) disappearing", the long part here means "often", and the cloud responds to water, and the impermanence of cloud and water The ups and downs of life.This is really an absolute that can be passed down through the ages.

Zhang Yu asked himself that if he hadn't had such a flash of inspiration just now, he would not be right for this couplet.

After passing the ninth level, it is the big dragon and phoenix lantern in the center of the lantern array. Both lanterns are hung high on flagpoles. Bright; the colorful tail feathers of the phoenix spread out like a fan, with small electronic lights inlaid on it, which flickered like a burning fire, fully displaying the bright and gorgeous phoenix.

There was a person under the dragon lantern looking at Zhang Yu with a smile, it was Zhang Zhi.

"When did you come?" Zhang Yu asked.

"Just a little earlier than you."

"Really?"

"Of course." Zhang Zhi said with certainty.

"Come on, I'll pull you up." Zhang Zhi stretched out his hand towards Zhang Yu. There was a platform where the dragon and phoenix lantern stood, and there were steps on the left and right, but walking on steps was not cool at all.

Zhang Yu stared at Zhang Zhi's hand for a few seconds, then looked up and saw Zhang Yu's eyes full of encouragement, his heart moved, he put his hand on Zhang Zhi's hand, and stepped on the stage with his feet.

The scenery on the stage is a little different from that of the off stage. Here, the din of the audience outside the stage can't be heard. Looking outside, the lanterns in the distance look very small, but the lights are very bright, strung together one by one. A red line, like a huge red candied haws.

Looking at the sky above from here, it is so far away, the night is like a light veil covering the surrounding fields, the bright Milky Way is dotted with countless stars, and they send a smiling stare from billions of light-years away .The starlight and lights can be seen at this moment, so beautiful.

"Isn't it beautiful?" Zhang Zhi looked up at the stars and asked.

"It's beautiful!" Zhang Yu looked sideways at Zhang Zhi. In his eyes, at a certain moment, Zhang Zhi's eyes were more beautiful than this starry sky. In that dark night, his eyes were filled with the silver-white starlight in the sky. There are things brighter than starlight.

"Ahem, I'm sorry, both of you, are you still continuing the game?" A staff member interrupted them in a "disgusting" manner.

Both of them were a little embarrassed. Looking around, they seemed to be the only two contestants. "Sorry, we thought someone else would come out."

The staff explained: "There are still five people who have reached the ninth level, but they have all given up, so only you two will participate in the final round."

The two nodded noncommittally, "Oh, that's right."

The staff continued to explain responsibly, "After the previous tests, there must be less than two difficult couplets and riddles. So we don't waste time. The last level adopts a one-question system. Whoever answers correctly first will be the last one." champion."

"Please go to the dragon and phoenix lanterns to open the topic."

The two came under the lantern as promised, only to find a small sachet hanging from the tail of the dragon and the phoenix.

A scorching gaze came, and Zhang Yu looked at Zhang Zhi, only to see that he mouthed the word "Come on", nodded, and mouthed "Come on" in return.

The last prompt from the worker Yun came to my ear, "The questions in both hands are the same, whoever answers correctly first wins. Now the competition begins."

At the start of the competition, the two of them did not open the sachet in a hurry like ordinary players. That would not reduce the time, but would only cause them to lose control of their emotions. Instead, they opened the sachet in an orderly manner and spread out the small note inside.

Seeing the content inside, Zhang Yu was a little surprised, because it was not a difficult couplet, but a riddle. After reading it, it should not be difficult.

The riddle is that it can swallow water from two springs, three rivers, four seas and five lakes in one mouthful, and dare to enter thousands of households of people in ten directions (with one daily necessities).This seems a bit too simple, isn't it just a hot water bottle?Zhang Yu was a little hesitant, whether there was any deep meaning, and looked at the riddle carefully again, feeling that there was nothing wrong with his train of thought, so he filled in the original answer after thinking about it.

Zhang Yu wrote the answer and handed it to the staff.

The staff reminded; "There is only one chance. If you make a mistake, the champion will be gone. Are you sure you don't want to think about it?"

"No need!" Anyway, the champion is either me or Zhang Zhi, and if you make a mistake, you will be wrong, Zhang Yu thought optimistically.

"Okay." Seeing that Zhang Yu had made up his mind, the staff stopped persuading him.After reading the answer, without showing it to the judges, he announced happily, "Then you are the champion, congratulations."

"It's me, so don't look any further." How could Zhang Yu see that the champion came too easily, and the last question was too easy.

The staff seemed to see Zhang Yu's suspicion, and explained: "Because we thought that ordinary difficult problems would not be difficult for you, so we simply did the opposite and came up with a simple question to test you smart people. Are you going to complicate simple issues, alas!" The staff looked at Zhang Yu with regret.

It's my fault.Zhang Yu was a little speechless, and the organizer was really hasty enough to come up with such a method, but after thinking about it, this method seems to be very feasible to deal with smart people, so there must be a victim nearby.

When Zhang Yu handed in the paper, Zhang Zhi stopped writing and waited for the announcement of the result with peace of mind.When he heard that the champion was Zhang Yu, a gleam of joy flashed on his face.

Zhang Yu walked up to Zhang Zhi, poked the soft flesh on his waist, "What's the answer you wrote?"

"thermos."

"That's what I wrote too. The organizer is really poisonous. They just randomly ask questions, so we can't measure our strength at all."

Zhang Yu stretched out his hand to the other party, but Zhang Zhi grabbed it tightly, knowing that Zhang Yu was afraid that he would be unhappy, so he comforted him in his own way.But what does it matter if you win the championship?On the contrary, he was even more happy to be comforted by Zhang Yu.

"I won the championship, I invite you to eat at the snack street."

"Okay! But what about when the awards are presented later?"

"Well, let's slip!"

This night, thousands of lights and stars are shining, and small Kongming lanterns fly into the sky, which is another kind of star that carries people's wishes.

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All the couplets and riddles in this chapter are from the Internet