Farmhouse Green Plum

Chapter 312

"Step on them?" Lin Wenxuan was shocked. "How can I do that? I'm so much bigger than them. What if I get hurt?"

The three boys had already slid down from the tree quickly. Song Tian and Luo Erzhu squatted down beside him skillfully, one on each side. Tian Hu stood behind Lin Wenxuan and supported him. "Don't worry, it won't get damaged."

"No, no!" Lin Wenxuan quickly refused, "You are so small, how can you have the strength for me to step on you?"

"Hey, Brother Lin, just step on it. We are very experienced in this area. We have handled people who are heavier than you before." Song Tian said.

Luo Yanxing climbed up swiftly, found a good position and held out his hand, "Brother Lin, don't worry, they will push from below and we will pull from above, and you will be up in no time."

Lin Wenxuan was very skeptical. The three boys were so much younger than him. Although Erni and the others were of the same age as him, they were all girls. How could it be as easy as Luo Yanxing said?

Seeing him hesitate, Song Ying couldn't help but urge him: "Brother, don't worry, we are really experienced in this area."

Seeing that everyone was looking at him and urging him, Lin Wenxuan had no choice but to choose to believe them.

He carefully placed his foot on Luo Erzhu's shoulder and said, "I'm going to lift my other foot. Can you really do that?"

"Do not worry!"

Tian Hu held his waist to prevent him from losing balance and falling.

Lin Wenxuan closed his eyes, raised his other foot and stepped on Song Tian's shoulder. Just as Tian Hu shouted, his body suddenly jumped up.

"Hurry, put your hands up!" The voices of Luo Yanxing and others above his head were getting closer.

Hearing this, he subconsciously stretched out his hands, and then felt that his hands were grabbed by many hands, but they all grabbed his wrists and forearms, not his palms.

After a burst of upward pull, his palm touched the thicker tree trunk, and before anyone could speak, he grabbed it subconsciously.

Then he found himself hanging on the tree trunk. Fortunately, Luo Yanxing and the others were still holding his wrists and arms, otherwise, with the strength of his hands, he would have fallen down soon.

Before he could figure out what to do next, he felt his butt being pushed. When he turned around, he found Tian Hu's head appeared on the side of his butt.

"Legs, legs, legs! Lift them up quickly..."

After a few breaths, Lin Wenxuan sat on the tree branch. He was a little dazed. He never expected that he would come up like this!

Song Ying took a look and suggested, "Brother, your branch is a bit low, go to the one above."

The branches above are relatively dense, and even people who can't climb trees can hold on to the branches and climb up.

After Lin Wenxuan moved to the seat where Zhou Nanxing had sat before, the others found new seats and sat down.

Song Ying broke off a few branches that were in the way and looked down. He saw a high platform in front of Jin Manlou's gate. Behind and on both sides of the platform were shelves hung with all kinds of lanterns.

In the middle of the platform stood a young man in a red robe and a golden crown. He was the owner of Yulingxuan.

Song Ying was both surprised and amazed. It was said that the opening of Yulingxuan had a significant impact on Jinmanlou's business. Who would have thought that the two businesses had the same owner?

What is this person thinking? Jin Manlou is already the largest gold and silver jewelry store in Qingshui County, and he has to open another one to compete with himself!

After sighing a few times, Song Ying stopped paying attention and looked to the right side of the platform. There were only five people, all wearing round-necked shirts that only people with meritorious service could wear.

On the left, there was a crowd of people standing, some were young gentlemen in gorgeous clothes, and some were scholars in student uniforms.

Among them, Song Ying found several familiar faces, Yuan Qing, Shen Jing, the young master of the Shen family, Shen Yonghui, and the Bai brothers who had fought before. It seemed that they were students of Jiahu Academy.

In front of the crowd on both sides, there was a desk with writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone on it.

Not only her, Luo Yanxing also spotted Yuan Qing and shouted to Yuan Shan below: "Yuan Shan, your brother is on the stage!"

"I saw it!" Yuan Shan was very excited, and she felt more confident when speaking.

"Where, where?" the others asked anxiously. It was hard not to be excited to see someone you knew in such an occasion.

"Stay on the inner left side." Song Ying reminded.

"I saw it too, it really was Brother Yuan Qing!" Song Yuan shouted excitedly.

"Are they competing in guessing riddles?" Erni asked curiously.

Song Ying nodded: "That should be the case. It seems that all the students in Yuan Qing's place are from Jiahu Academy."

"How do you know?" Yuan Shan looked up at her puzzledly.

"Besides your brother, several students from Jiahu Academy that I know are in there."

After she reminded him, Luo Yanxing recognized Shen Yonghui, "The man in front of Yuan Qing is the young man who followed Wu Tixue when he went to the community school to observe the customs last time, right?"

"Yes, he is Shen Yonghui, the grandson of Shen Zhuangyuan, and he also studies at Jiahu Academy."

Hearing this, Yuan Shan remembered that she once worked as a temporary worker in the Shen Mansion, and many students of Jiahu Academy were sons of officials, so it was normal for her to know them.

Below, a middle-aged man dressed as a waiter took a lantern and handed it to the owner in the center of the platform.

The owner of Jin Man Lou pulled out a piece of paper from below and read: "There is a fish in the East China Sea, without a head or a tail. Remove the spine and guess a word."

As soon as he finished speaking, several people in the crowd on the left began to move forward. The first one to come to the desk started writing. The others who knew the answer came over to see if what he wrote was the answer they had in mind.

Obviously, their answers were the same, and they stood up.

On the other hand, the five young men in blue shirts were all very calm. One of the young men looked at the older, calm-looking young man and asked, "Who will answer this question?"

"I have the least knowledge, so please let me do such a simple riddle, brothers." A round-faced young man in a green shirt walked forward, not even bothering to sit down. He picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, bent over slightly, and wrote it with a few strokes.

Then he stepped back with a gentle smile on his face, looking very determined and confident.

The two guys stepped forward and gave their written answers to the host in the middle.

The host looked at it and said with a smile: "They are all correct. The answer is the word sun."

After hearing the answer and thinking back to the riddle, Song Ying suddenly realized that if you remove the head and tail of the word "fish" and then the stroke in the middle, you get the word "sun".

She has begun to get the hang of word puzzles.

To a large extent, guessing riddles requires grasping which parts to keep and which parts to remove, and these must be extracted from the abstract descriptions.

Next, the host of Jin Man Lou started to read out the next riddle, "Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law wear heavy mourning. Guess a colloquialism."

This time, both sides gave their answers quickly: no time.

For the following riddles, both sides were equally matched, as if no riddle could stump them.

Song Ying and others also pieced together the reason for the competition from the words of the onlookers.