Chapter 44: The Lantern Riddle 2

  Nangong Suzi and the eldest sister both picked from the top layer, and after taking a look, they confirmed that they couldn't guess, so they took it down to give to each other.

  Of course, Big Sister couldn't guess it, and it seemed meaningless. When she was putting it away, she suddenly thought that she should ask Xiao Yao about it.

  Carefree, can you guess this lantern riddle?

  "Agreed!" Xiao Yao replied.

  "Let's change it then!" The big sister wanted to exchange it, since she knew herself, so just put it back.

  It's not just because others might know, but more importantly, in case the other person chooses this one, wouldn't that mean you'd have one more correct answer, and of course, you want to give the ones you don't know to others, so you can also eliminate the things you don't know.

  "It's fine, just this one is enough, yeah, just this one!!" He said with a carefree smile, but his smile seemed to have some other meaning.

  "But..." The young lady didn't notice this and hesitated for a moment before speaking.

  "Alright, Big Sister! Let's make up!" Xiao Yao pulled Big Sister to reconcile with the Nan Gong sisters.

  "But..." The young lady wanted to say something, but was stopped by Xiao Yao.

  "Don't be like that!"

  "But..."

  "But trust me, it won't go wrong!!"

  “？？”

  ……

  On one side, Xiao Yao and Da Jie were eating snacks while standing in front of the riddle wall, waiting for the Nan Gong sisters to finish solving the lantern riddles.

  "Will this be okay?" The young lady asked with a bit of concern.

  "Don't worry!" Xiang continued eating and waiting.

  Soon, the Nan Gong sisters arrived. They saw that Xiao Yao and the others were waiting for them and didn't find it strange. After all, Xiao Yao and the others had left first, so they should be able to choose first.

  They may not know that the waiting time for the two of them is not short, it can be said to be gone and back, if they knew, they would definitely think that the two of them are too casual and look down on themselves.

  Or rather, the two of them had simply given up on the idea.

  "Give us your lantern riddles!" Nangong Suzhen said directly after coming over.

  "Here! Yours?" The young lady handed over the lantern riddle strip while also coming to take away the strips from Nangong Suzhen and the others.

  "Do you want me to list them one by one? It doesn't matter!"

  Nangong Suzi found that Big Sister only gave herself one lantern riddle, unlike her giving them all at once. At this time, she still thought Big Sister was giving them one by one.

  "In the garden, flowers turn to ash, the sun sets in the west. Tears of longing, heart already broken, empty listening to horse hooves returning. Autumn moon, residual red glow flying. Write a word......" Nangong Suzi furrowed her brow, looking at the riddle she was thinking of the answer.

  The other South Palace misses simply gave up and looked at Third Miss South Palace.

  "'Su' character! Su who has woken up!!" Nangong San Niangzi replied after thinking for a long time.

  The elder sister tore off the answer corresponding to the riddle on the wall, took a look, and said: "Not bad, Su Su is indeed the number one talented woman in Qingyun State. Such a difficult question was guessed at once!"

  As for Nangong San's young lady, the eldest sister will certainly praise her. She wants to get close to her and even directly calls her a nickname with a thick skin.

  "Miss Mo Yu, please don't call me Su Su..." Nangong San corrected.

  "Okay, Su Su, everything will be done according to your wishes, Su Su..."

  “……”

  "Cough, cough! It's our turn now! As April approaches the beginning of May, the window paper is torn and re-pasted. My husband has been in the capital for three whole years, not even sending a letter with half a word! He prescribed four kinds of medicine..." Xiangyao began to recite.

  "Pinellia, Bupleurum, Angelica and White Chervil!" Big Sister said.

  "What?" Nangong Suzhen looked at the two of them, she clearly knew that this answer was given by Xiao Yao, but somehow didn't notice how the two were exchanging information.

  Could it be that this little home is still transmitting sound?

  How is this possible? This is a skill that's very difficult to master. Even I still have some difficulty with it, how can he be better than me?

  While Nangong Suzi was thinking about the problem, the Nangong sisters had already revealed the answer, and it turned out to be consistent.

  "Unexpectedly, Miss Mo Yu is so knowledgeable about medicinal materials, I admire her!" Nangong Suzi said while speaking, but her eyes were staring at Xiao Yao, which clearly meant - I know it's you.

  "It's nothing!" The young lady completely ignored her opponent's attitude and happily accepted the praise.

  "Next one! Heart's monkey and horse? Guess a word......" Xiao Yao read this out with some hesitation, it was clear that this lantern riddle had some difficulty for him.

  "Hmm! Let me see if you can still guess this one? The previous one was just a warm-up, I thought you were well-versed in history but not familiar with medicinal materials."

  Even my three younger sisters can't handle this, let alone you!!

  "Awesome! Awesome Chongyang's awesome!!" The young lady said shortly after passing by.

  "What? You guessed it?! Is this a wild guess?!!" Nangong Suzi looked at her in surprise and suspicion, thinking that someone must have made a wild guess.

  "What's heavy? What do you mean?" Miss Sangong III looked puzzled.

  "They must be blind, let me take a look at the answer... This... " Nangong Suxin went to reveal the answer, and the answer was indeed - heavy!!"

  "What's going on?" asked Nan Gong San Niang again.

  "'Heavy' character heart is Shen, in the heavenly stems and earthly branches Shen is the monkey, that is the ape, this is the heart ape; 'heavy' character can be split into 'thousand miles', thousand miles knock on the horse, this is exactly the 'mind horse'!" Big sister said, "Su Su, don't be discouraged, you're already very good!"

  The Nangong sisters fell silent, looking at the eldest sister and Xiao Yao for various reasons.

  "Alright, let's continue!" said Nangong Suzhen, gritting her teeth.

  "What's the point of continuing? We've already won!" said Xiao Yao at this time.

  "What's gotten into you? You've only guessed two of our lantern riddles, there are more to come, don't think you've won for sure!!" Nan Gong Su Xin said with a bad tone.

  "It's not that we will win, but we have already won!" Xiangyang said again.

  "What do you mean? You've only answered two lantern riddles, and we've also answered one. It's just the beginning, hurry up and give us the rest of the lantern riddles!!" Nan Gong Su Xin said impatiently.

  "It's all gone!" said Xiangyang with a wave of his hand.

  "What does 'nothing' mean?" asked Nangong Suzhen.

  "There's no more, just no more, there won't be any other lantern riddles! We only have one lantern riddle!! Now, we got two right, you guys only got one right, so we win!!" Xīaoyáo said with a smile.

  The Nangong sisters fell silent for a moment, some people didn't understand at first, but soon realized that this kid was playing tricks.

  The big sister seems to be confused by her own carefree attitude, and she doesn't even know how she won...

  Nangong Suzi now understood why Xīao Yī had repeatedly confirmed his own rules earlier, it was to catch loopholes here!!

  "Despicable!! Is it fun for you to win like this?!" Nangong Suzhen looked at Xiao Yao, condemning him.

  "It's a win either way, doesn't matter if it makes sense or not, the outcome is still the same..."

  "Hum!! You shameless little scoundrel, I really want to split you in two with one sword!!" Nangong Suzhen glared at Xiao Yao fiercely.

  "Did we win?" Little Miss asked at this time.

  "No!"

  "Hmm!"

  Both sides said at the same time, of course, the answers given are completely different!!

  "I'm a bit confused, but if Xiang says we won, then I guess we did! Su Su, let's go get some midnight snacks, Wan Hua Lou still has seats available." The older sister said to the third miss of Nan Gong.

  "...... Miss, Wan Hua Lou is a brothel..." Xiao Yao reminded her.

  "I know, I'm a regular there!" The young lady said nonchalantly.

  "Big sister, if you're going on a date, you shouldn't go to that kind of place. Women don't like it when 'men' go there, and they definitely won't go with 'men' together! Alright, let me put it simply: if you were dating Miss Three, would you like it if a group of men went along and got intimate with her?" Xīao Yáo said as soon as he saw Big Sister's confused expression.

  "Of course I don't like it, she's mine! Oh right, in that case it's indeed not possible. Then where shall we go?"

  "Now, at this time, normal restaurants have closed, but there are still many roadside stalls. In the west of the city, there is a very famous roasted mutton restaurant, you guys go try it..." said Xiao Yao.

  "Alright, it's settled then!" The young lady nodded and then went to pull Nan Gong San.

  "Admit defeat, you big-headed ghosts!! We acknowledge that you've won?" Nangong Suzhi slapped away the little miss's hand and said in a bad mood.

  These two people are actually talking to themselves and completely ignoring these people!!

  "Nangong Suzi, I'm willing to bet and admit defeat!" said the eldest sister.

  "We've lost, you may be shameless, but we're magnanimous and won't bother with the likes of you two!" said Nangong Suzhen, while at this time, Third Miss Nangong was hiding behind Nangong Suzhen's back, as if Eldest Miss was a bad person.

  "What do you mean by blocking me?" the young lady asked.

  "It's nothing! We previously agreed to have a midnight snack with Sanmei and you, but we didn't say the location would be chosen by you, nor did we say she would be alone with you." Nangong Suxin said with a smile.

  "What's that supposed to mean?" The big sister frowned and said unpleasantly.

  "It means we get to choose where to go, and we'll have a midnight snack together!!" said Nangong Suzhen with a smile.

  "My goodness! You're shameless, even more so than a rogue!!" The young lady exclaimed in anger, she had also figured it out, but didn't think that Nangong Suzi would really be like this.

  "......, Young Miss, why say I'm more shameless than you..." Xiao Yao looked very innocent.

  "Does it still need to be said? Because you're so shameless!!"

  At this moment, the two voices were synchronized, and both Dà Jiě (Big Sister) and Nángōng Sùxīn said the same words at the same time. After finishing speaking, they looked at each other, seemingly sharing a sense of "great minds think alike".

  At this moment, they suddenly felt that each other wasn't so annoying after all, but rather quite pleasing to the eye!!

  At the same time, the three Miss Nan Gong and her sisters nodded in agreement in their hearts. This little housekeeper is shameless enough.