Mu Zhongqing and his family squeezed their way in, lost in the multitude of colorful lanterns. They started to guess the lantern riddles.
The riddles at the Lantern Riddle Conference were mostly created by the magistrate's military advisers, and some were from the students of Tianfeng Academy in Lin'an Prefecture. They were full of literary color, exquisite in words and profound in meaning. Of course, there were also some popular and down-to-earth riddles created by the merchants sponsoring the conference, but these were derided by the literati as 'vulgar'.
Therefore, no one paid attention to the lanterns presented by the merchants. Those literati who were prepared to participate in the riddle meeting gathered before the riddles set out by the magistrate, lost in thought, trying to solve the riddles from this top figure in Lin'an Prefecture and hoping to create a sensation!
