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Chapter 26 Guessing and solving puzzles

The diners in the restaurant listened to the food and drink, sat quietly and looked at the stairs on the third floor. Qian Xiaoxing also squeezed on the railings on the second floor and looked at the third floor. He thought he would have to make a question later.

The three of them walked into the private room on the third floor and disappeared. Soon, a big man in green walked out of the private room, raised his eyes and glanced at the audience and said, "Miss Nightingale has asked the question. The first question is guessing riddles. The answer is an idiom. The riddle is here."

The man in green shook a piece of white silk and wrote two words on it. The first one was "x" and the second one was "two". After lifting it up, he showed it to everyone in the audience from left to right.

After Qian Xiaoxing read the riddle, he felt a headache. There was such a strange riddle. According to modern understanding, it seemed to be multiplied by two. However, there was no multiplication symbol in ancient times. Is this fork representing a wrong meaning? Is it still clueless after thinking about it?

Everyone in the hotel lowered their heads and thoughts. Occasionally, a few people whispered to each other, but no one answered. Time passed by little, and Qian Xiaoxing thought a lot, but still had no definite answer. Suddenly, someone on the first floor of the hotel shouted: "I'm a ge, I don't believe it, I can't guess it." He took off his clothes and threw them on the table, and his whole body was suddenly naked, looking like he was desperately trying to do it.

Qian Xiaoxing smiled when he saw this. Does this person think that his mind will be enlightened after taking off his clothes? But suddenly, a flash of inspiration seemed to have thoughts about the riddle. After thinking for a moment, he immediately got an answer.

"I guessed it!" Qian Xiaoxing raised his hand and shouted loudly. Suddenly, the people around him looked at him and immediately started to discuss it. Some said, "Miss Nightingale's riddle has been a long time since no one has guessed it. Today I finally saw someone who can enter the next level."

Some said contemptuously: "I don't think I can guess correctly, I'm just talking nonsense."

Some said enviously: "That kid is going to see the Nightingale, it's so amazing."

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The man in Qingyi on the third floor waved to Qian Xiaoxing and signaled him to come up. When Qian Xiaoxing came to the stairs on the third floor, he asked: "What is your answer?"

Qian Xiaoxing shook the paper fan in his hand and said, "Fengyue Wubian." It turned out that Qian Xiaoxing saw that the man took off his clothes and immediately had a thought. The word Fengyue left the border, which was x-second, which fits the idiom Fengyue Wubian.

"He answered correctly, Hong Xing invites him in." The voice of Nightingale came from the third floor.

Hong Xing made way and made a gesture of invitation. Qian Xiaoxing was not polite and walked in. He saw that in the private room at the door of the third floor, the woman was sitting at the table drinking tea, but she was still wearing a hat on her head. When he saw Qian Xiaoxing, he raised his head slightly. Behind the white gauze, there were only a pair of bright eyes that appeared and disappeared from time to time.

Nightingale held a tea bowl in her hand and took a sip behind the white veil. Another man in green who was standing behind Nightingale, named Hong Wang, said to Qian Xiaoxing: "Sit down!"

Qian Xiaoxing was a little dissatisfied with Hong Wang's attitude, but the beauty was inconvenient to attack. She just sat down and said, "Miss Nightingale, I suddenly felt very thirsty. Can I give you a cup of tea?"

Obviously, Qian Xiaoxing hesitated when he saw Nightingale. In the past, the people who came and went either respectfully or obediently, but no one has ever dared to ask for tea like Qian Xiaoxing.

"Or why don't you give me your drink, I won't dislike it." Qian Xiaoxing teased.

Nightingale didn't expect that the person who guessed the right question was a slick person, but he ignored it and turned to Hong Wang and said, "You go down and get a cup of tea. Remember, you need to be polite to talk to people in the future."

Hong Wang didn't expect Qian Xiaoxing to make him run errands with just one word. Although he was angry, he did not dare to disobey Nightingale's words. He leaned over and replied helplessly: "Yes."

Hong Xing was still guarding the stairs on the third floor. At this time, Qian Xiaoxing and Nightingale were left in the room. Qian Xiaoxing folded the paper fan and said, "Miss Nightingale, can't you take off your hat?"

"It seems that you are the first time here. You don't know my rules yet. As long as you can answer the second question, I will take off my hat and meet you. In the past six months, only three people answered the first question, but the second question has never been answered correctly." Nightingale said.

Qian Xiaoxing was disgusted when he heard this. It was so complicated to meet him. Thinking about the family's sank fish and geese, Si Yingying and Yi Hongyue, who were shy about the flowers and the moon, what kind of beauties have never met, and let alone meet him, he even went up. Now, it's so difficult to meet him here, and I can't help but feel a little disgusted. I was just a little curious about the question on the second question, and asked: "Miss Nightingale, what will happen if I can't answer it?"

Nightingale replied, "I can't answer, I will give you ten taels of gold."

"Okay, please give a question!" Qian Xiaoxing was ready, and this business without any money was naturally going to be done.

The nightingale's clear voice said, "Please use one to ten to make a five-character poem, with a total of four sentences, and the order of one to ten cannot be messed up."

Qian Xiaoxing sniffed when he heard this. There were twenty words in total, including ten numbers. This was too difficult. He immediately mobilized such ancient poems from his mind. Yixi remembered that there was a poem: one piece, two piece, three piece, four piece, five piece, six piece, seven piece, eight piece, nine piece, ten piece, eleven piece, and they were all gone into the grass. Unfortunately, this poem was seven-character, which did not meet the requirements of the title.

At this time, Hong Wang brought the tea and was already unhappy. Qian Xiaoxing actually designed to let him serve tea and water to him. He put it in front of Qian Xiaoxing without saying a word, "bang" and stood behind Nightingale again angrily.

Qian Xiaoxing saw the tea spilled on the table, shook his head secretly, slowly picked up the tea and took a sip, and immediately shouted: "It's so hot! I'm very thirsty now, and I actually asked Hot Tea and I to quench my thirst."

Nightingale saw that although Hong Wang was still not polite, after all, he was his subordinate and could not favor the other party again and again, so she asked, "What do you want?"

Qian Xiaoxing put down the tea bowl and said, "Why don't you change the bowl of herbal tea for me, or wait until the tea is cold, and after I drink the tea, you can answer the five-character poem you said."

Seeing Qian Xiaoxing say this, Nightingale couldn't help but want to know the answer, so she immediately said to Hong Wang: "Why are you talking to you before? Let's be polite in the future. Why are you disobedient? Go and change the cup of herbal tea for this young master, it's fast!"

Hong Wangqi clenched his fists tightly, but he did not dare to disobey, so he had to pick up the tea bowl and go downstairs to change it.

When Nightingale saw Hong Wang leaving, she said to Qian Xiaoxing: "Are you satisfied? I really don't like such a petty man."

Qian Xiaoxing smiled and said, "I actually don't like such self-righteous women."

Nightingale was obviously stunned after hearing this, but she still asked in a gentle tone: "Why am I self-righteous?"

"If you sleep with you for one night and have to answer two questions correctly, then it's just a matter of saying that, but when you meet you, you need to answer two questions correctly. Are you wrong? Just a look at you and you will have to be so expensive. Do you think you are the only beauties in the world!" Qian Xiaoxing said bluntly.

No matter how good Nightingale is in cultivation, she couldn't help hearing Qian Xiaoxing say this. Fortunately, the white veil covered her face, otherwise her face would be full of anger and she immediately said: "Okay, you disciple, I tell you, even if you answer the second question, I won't see you anymore. You will disappear from my eyes immediately!"

Qian Xiaoxing laughed twice and replied, "You think I don't care. If I don't see you, I'll say goodbye!"

After saying that, Qian Xiaoxing stood up and was about to go out, but he saw Hong Wang walking in with a teacup. When Hong Wang saw Qian Xiaoxing leaving, he thought he could not answer the second question. Thinking that Qian Xiaoxing was teasing him in front, he said, "I thought he was a talent, but he turned out to be a waste!"

Qian Xiaoxing laughed. He was really thirsty at this time. He took a tea bowl from Hong Wang and drank it. He put it back in Hong Wang and said, "Thank you for your tea. Whether I am a talent or a waste, it's not your business."

Nightingale was also angry after hearing this. She was humiliated by Qian Xiaoxing but could not take revenge. So she said, "You said before that you can answer the second question after drinking tea. Now that you drink it, just talk about it, otherwise you will be a hypocritical villain and a fool."

Qian Xiaoxing turned around and said, "Miss Nightingale, I don't want to meet you anymore, so I don't want to answer this question. However, if I answered correctly, you can give me ten taels of gold, including the first question, and a total of twenty taels, I can consider it."

Nightingale chuckled and answered correctly: "I thought you were so noble. It seems that men either like women or money, or they can't escape the vulgarity. Twenty taels of gold, I promise you, you can tell the answer."

When Qian Xiaoxing saw that Nightingale said she was a vulgar, she didn't refute it. She was a vulgar person and didn't think it was wrong. When he heard Nightingale say that there was a gold reward, of course he would not be able to get along with the money. So he came to the window and waved to Nightingale and said, "Miss Nightingale, please come and see the scenery outside."

Nightingale stood up in confusion and walked to the window with Qian Xiaoxing. It was already dark. She stood on the third floor and looked at Yidu City. In the thin black fog, black tiled houses continued endlessly. Only some people were not asleep yet, and the lights were still dotted.

Qian Xiaoxing cleared his throat, pointed out the window with a paper fan and said, "Looking at two or three miles, there are four or five roads."

Nightingale looked out the window, nodded and asked, "What else?"

Qian Xiaoxing pointed to the tall black buildings in the night and said, "Six or seven tall buildings, eighty or ninety lights."

After reading the four lines of poetry, Nightingale was also a little surprised. Unexpectedly, the man in front of her really made this five-character poem, and it was very suitable for the situation. She asked curiously: "Can you add hundreds of millions and do a few more sentences?"

"Yes, add ten taels of gold!" Qian Xiaoxing said bluntly.

Nightingale laughed and said, "I am really a wealthy fan. I only have two sentences to this, and I will give you five taels at most."

"Five liang is enough, we ordinary people have to make a long time." Qian Xiaoxing then pointed to the sky with a fan and said, "The Milky Way is a hundred miles wide, and there are tens of millions of stars."

The nightingale looked into the sky and said in confusion: "Why didn't I see the stars?"

"Oh, a dark cloud just drifted past, it just blocked it, it must be like this." Qian Xiaoxing immediately defended.

When Nightingale saw Qian Xiaoxing lying, she shook her head secretly. The man was really strange and asked, "Who are you?"

Qian Xiaoxing stretched out his hand and said, "Answer a question, five taels of gold."

When Nightingale heard this, she was a little angry. She slowly walked back to the table and sat down, and said to Qian Xiaoxing: "Now I have a total of twenty-five taels of gold left for you, but if you want to get twenty-five taels, you must answer another question."

After hearing this, Qian Xiaoxing cursed: "You, why don't you keep your word? There is such a naughty woman there."

"The money is in my hands, and the rules are for me. If you don't want money, just leave." Nightingale was angry when Qian Xiaoxing said it.

"A woman with no credit," Qian Xiaoxing said angrily: "I will believe you again, let me tell you, what's the question?"

Nightingale didn't argue with Qian Xiaoxing, and asked: "Guess who I am?"

When Qian Xiaoxing heard this, the topic was quite interesting. The identity of this woman really made Qian Xiaoxing a little confused, so he also came to the table to sit down and looked at the Nightingale straight.

Nightingale said to Qian Xiaoxing: "What do you think? Tell me the answer."

"You ask me to guess you, of course you have to take a closer look at you." Qian Xiaoxing opened the fan and shook it gently, and his mind was analyzing the woman's origin. Is it a brothel woman? Obviously not. If it is a brothel, there is no need to go to a restaurant to ask these questions. Isn't it better to be in a brothel?

Which lady is that? Qian Xiaoxing thought about it. He looked at the two bodyguards with a strong back and a bear-back, which was not something that ordinary people could find. Moreover, when the woman spoke, she seemed to have a condescending momentum. Such a tone was beyond the reach of an ordinary lady.

In view of this, Qian Xiaoxing immediately thought of the answer, thought for a while and said, "Nightinging, I have guessed your identity very much."

The Nightingale slowly drank tea and said, "Then tell me."

"Since you like guessing riddles so much, I also come up with a riddle. My answer is in the answer," Qian Xiaoxing said to Nightingale: "The riddle is: North and south come to gather."

After hearing this, Nightingale thought for a while and said to Hong Xing, "Give him twenty-five taels of gold."

Hong Xing took out the gold from his arms and handed it to Qian Xiaoxing. Qian Xiaoxing took the heavy gold and said happily: "Thank you Miss Nightingale for the reward, so I will say goodbye."

Qian Xiaoxing turned around and walked out of the door. Hong Wang asked in the room: "Miss, what is the answer to the riddle he gave?"

Nightingale replied: "His riddle is: North and south come to gather one side. Go up and south and go north, take the top and bottom of the character "Ke", and then add a square shape, that is, the word "mouth", what is it?"

Hong Wang thought for a while and replied, "Miss, is it the word "gong?"

"Yes, he guessed that we were from the palace, but he actually knew that we were from the palace and dared to ask me for gold. He was really bold." Nightingale cursed.

Hong Wang suggested: "Do I want me to repair him and take the gold back?"

Nightingale immediately replied, "No one is allowed to touch him without my instructions. Send someone to watch him, see what he is from, and find out for me as soon as possible."

"Yes!" Hong Xing and Hongwang leaned over and replied.

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