Chapter 189 It’s a mechanism!
"It's not just that one lantern!"

Probably to confirm his guess, the scholar who had spoken earlier turned around and walked back to where the lanterns were hung.
Pick out all the lanterns with strange patterns and put them together one by one in order:

"Look, everyone. Putting the patterns on these lanterns together, they form a complete imperial emblem!"

"This……"

The scholars standing nearby looked over and cried out in surprise:

"That's really it!"

The patterns on the lanterns looked fragmented, and some were even upside down and rotated at various angles.

No wonder no one realized at first that they could actually be pieced together to form a complete royal emblem.

"Please look again."

Zheng Qiaozhang continued:
"According to the order in which these lanterns are placed, their answers can actually form a sentence."

"The courtyard is two stones to the right of the door. Tap it to open the door."

He read the words on the lanterns one by one, and everyone was shocked again:

"This is too well hidden! Who could have thought of this?"

"If this brother hadn't mentioned it to me, I would have never discovered it in my lifetime!"

Tianshengchao's top students, who had never played a secret room escape game, exclaimed:

“But I still don’t understand how this door can be opened?

There was clearly no one at the door just now. If the people in the inner courtyard opened the door from behind, how did they know that the stone had been taken?"

"Yup!"

The topic immediately turned to an issue that Yun Chuhuan had been particularly concerned about before.

He pulled Yunshu's cloak:
"How come this door really grew legs and ran away?"

"Shhh."

His eyes slowly fell on the man who was walking back and forth between the door and the outside, wearing a falcon mask on his face.

Yun Shu's gaze also followed the other person's movement:

"This person might know."

"Who?"

Yun Chuhuan was still looking curiously at the "door that had grown legs", and subconsciously thought that the person Yun Shu was talking about was Zheng Qiaozhang.

He turned his head and saw Zheng Qiaozhang hesitated for a moment, then shook his head helplessly:

"I am ashamed. After that brother's reminder, I barely figured out the real answer to the riddle on the lantern, but I still can't figure out how the door opened by itself."

When he shook his head, the pressure naturally returned to Emperor Xuanwu.

Emperor Xuanwu: “…”

He doesn't even know this!
When the kid was busy with Xianting's affairs, he kept it a secret all day long and didn't reveal anything to him.

Or maybe Xianting was about to open recently, and she wanted to use the opportunity of the poetry gathering to "promote" Xianting, so she came to him and told him about it in general.
But he only told him the effects of these mechanisms, but did not tell him the principles behind them.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have made this trip in person today out of curiosity!
If I had known this earlier, I should have caught that brat and questioned him thoroughly.

Feeling the gazes coming from all directions, Emperor Xuanwu pursed his lips, stood proudly with his hands behind his back, and said nothing.

Everyone looked at each other, unsure for a moment whether this person didn't know or just didn't bother to talk to them.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, the figure wearing the hawk mask came back from the inner courtyard to the front courtyard, and broke the deadlock as soon as he spoke - "The switch of this door does not need someone to push it manually!"

When the young man's clear and familiar voice came out, Yun Shu's eyebrows raised immediately.
Even Ji Yongxing and the others revealed his identity with some uncertainty—

"You are...Princess Sheng'an's cousin, Tang Muzhi?"

There were quite a few young tribute scholars in the Tiansheng Dynasty, but there were only a handful of them who were as young as Tang Muzhi.

The children of prominent families in the capital who took the imperial examination at the same time as him had often heard about the deeds of Tang Muzhi, the "other people's child", and were naturally very familiar with him.

With just one sentence, his identity was basically confirmed.

"Princess Sheng An is your cousin, and Miss Tang is your sister.

I guess Mr. Tang must have known about the peculiarities of this garden before, right?"

Someone in the crowd couldn't help but say sourly:

"He obviously already knew how to open this door, but he let someone else get there first. Mr. Tang's efforts in self-cultivation are truly admirable."

"Princess Sheng Ann has a noble character and has made great efforts to ensure a fair imperial examination. You have all witnessed this firsthand.

Even the current emperor has personally praised this.”

I didn't expect that just by wearing a mask and a cloak, these young masters from noble families who usually hide their true colors would be revealed.

Tang Muzhi's tone, which had originally seemed a little excited because he had discovered the mechanism, instantly faded:

"Now that this brother has determined that I am already familiar with everything in this garden, is he doubting Princess Saint Ann's injustice, or is he questioning Your Majesty?"

"When did I say that?"

Instead of being sarcastic, he was accused of such a serious crime. How could that person dare to accept it?

He immediately denied it awkwardly:
"I just said that casually."

"You can eat randomly, but you can't talk nonsense."

When it comes to Yunshu's reputation, Tang Muzhi refuses to give in:

"If I remember correctly, the teacher must have taught me to be cautious in what I say and do when I first entered the academy!"

"..."

"Okay, okay, let's not talk about this for now."

There were also people nearby who were not interested in the dispute and helped to resolve the situation:
"Master Tang just said that this door doesn't need anyone to push it by hand. What does that mean?"

“It’s a mechanism.”

It would be bad if something went wrong at Princess Saint Ann's first poetry reading.

Seeing that the man had shut up because he knew he was in the wrong, Tang Muzhi didn't stare at him anymore. He just glanced at him lightly and brought the topic back to the mechanism of the "automatic door".

"Everyone please follow me over here."

He led everyone, including Emperor Xuanwu, through the archway and walked to the inner courtyard.
Tang Muzhi pushed aside the ingeniously arranged green plants behind the door, revealing the gear set hidden underneath.

"Please look, everyone, the place below is connected to the stone in the front yard.

When the stone was photographed, our eyes might not see any changes, but in fact the mechanism under the stone was triggered, which in turn drove the chain here to rotate, and then..."

He explained to everyone the principle that he had finally understood after running back and forth around the wooden archway for more than ten times.
At the end, even someone as calm as Tang Muzhi couldn't help but sigh:
“Princess Saint Ann’s design is truly exquisite and amazing!”

There is another chapter being coded, it will probably be very late today_(:зゝ∠)_