The previous group was so outstanding that Miss Wang was incredibly nervous at this moment. She wasn't someone with scholarly knowledge; she could recognize some characters, but that was all. At this time, she was afraid of embarrassing Mr. Zhao. She glanced at Mr. Zhao, who seemed to encourage her with his eyes, and with that, she gathered her courage and opened the slip of paper.
Seeing the characters on the paper, she smiled. Luckily, it wasn't like the previous couplet, which she couldn't handle; it was just a riddle, and she thought she could manage that.
So she confidently said, "This is a riddle: 'Fallen leaves in autumn, bloom in February. Waves of a thousand feet cross the river, entering bamboo, slanting ten thousand rods.' Guess a character; I guess it's the character for 'wind'."
