Shen Man originally wanted to ask Lime to go out together, but the little master held her chest and told her that she would definitely not go out today. Shen Man was surprised by her resolute attitude, and finally Lime explained awkwardly, it turned out that she had calculated a hexagram with a turtle shell, and if she went out today, she would definitely be a murderer, and it would be a big murderer.

Although Shen Man muttered in her heart about her ability to tell hexagrams, because she knew that the ability to use turtle shells to tell hexagrams was learned from Lian Yi halfway through the soft grinding and hard bubbles of the lime, but since people were so persistent, she was in a hurry to sign up, so she didn't force it.

Changing into ordinary clothes, Shen Man also specially painted charcoal ash on Bai Jie's face, tied his hair with a coarse cloth hairband, and went out only when he was satisfied.

Today, she has only one task, that is, to go to the yamen who hosts the Yin-Yang Dao exam to register. This time, the registration location is set up in the Kyoto Public Security Yamen in the capital, and the person in charge of counting the candidates is Jingzhao Yin Fengsheng.

Shen Manzhong had already taken the letter of recommendation he had asked for from Concubine Ning in his arms, and when he really arrived at Jingzhao Mansion, he knew what it meant to be crowded with people, and he was struggling. There were five teams of people lined up at the gate of the small Jingzhao Mansion, from the gate to the end of the street. The street at the entrance of Jingzhao Mansion is not spacious, so the street is completely blocked.

Shen Man had just lined up in the line, and in a blink of an eye, there were no less than ten people lined up around and behind her in this short period of effort. Shen Man had a headache, and secretly thought that this exam was extremely difficult, and ordinary people couldn't apply for it, why were there still so many people in line? And looking at their clothes and demeanor, they don't look like the legendary everyone, can ordinary people also apply for the exam?

The sun was getting higher, and Shen Man was already numb from his legs, but there was still no end in sight to this long procession. Just as I was thinking about whether I could get there today, I heard someone around me suddenly whispering. Shen Man followed the direction they were looking at, only to see a delicate sedan chair coming in from behind one of the teams on the very edge.

The sedan chairs were all sturdy men, wearing brocade robes, not like ordinary family members. Shen Man vaguely felt that the clothes of these people were a little familiar, could the people in this sedan chair be ......

Before she could think about it, the sedan chair had already quickly arrived at the gate of Jing Zhaoyin. Jing Zhaoyin was not at the door, and he had always been a master supervising. Seeing this sedan chair, the master took the initiative to inquire. Seeing that they had a few words of conversation, the master bowed his head and took the letter handed out of the sedan chair, if there was no mistake, the letter must also be a letter of recommendation.

The people around Shen Man began to talk, and Shen Man learned that this exam could also be queued on behalf of others. Most of the owners of the recommendation letters are wandering around, and as long as the hour is almost up, they can come back and hand in the recommendation letter in person. There are few people who wait in line as honestly as Shen Man.

And the person who cut the queue in a sedan chair must not be an ordinary dignitary, and the recommendation letter he got must be superior.

Shen Man pinched the recommendation letter he had just asked for in his hand and was a little helpless, because Ning Guifei didn't want people to find out, and she also wanted to keep a low profile, so she only wanted a recommendation letter from the last onmyoji. Pinching a random person around is higher than her own reputation, so she has fallen behind from the beginning of the registration queue.

Just thinking about this, the sedan chair passed by Shen Man leisurely again. The small sedan chair was lifted steadily, but a breeze rolled up the corner of the sedan chair curtain, and intentionally or unintentionally, Shen Man glimpsed the person sitting in the sedan chair.

It's her?

The person in the sedan chair was looking down at the plaything in the palm of his hand, which was a crystal clear white jade, with golden dots in the shape of stars on it, exactly seven. This jade is a very valuable seven-star jade.

She also seemed to sense the gaze here, and turned her head to look at Shen Man, but was blocked by a tall man in the team beside her.

Shen Man lowered his head and avoided it, she didn't expect to meet her here. As far as Shen Man knew, she had never studied Yin-Yang Dao, but why did she come to take the registration exam?

Pinching the phoenix lin pendant on his waist, Shen Man's heart fluctuated.

But at this moment, a girl wearing coarse cloth clothes with a dark face leaned over, patted Shen Man's shoulder and said, "Are you here to take the exam or to line up for others?" ”

Shen Man was stunned for a moment, then asked with a smile, "Do you think I'm here for the exam or for someone to line up?" ”

The girl smiled, but when she laughed, she dropped an earth-colored lump on her face, revealing the white skin inside. But the girl was oblivious, and continued, "I can't see that, that's why I asked you." ”

Shen Man held back a smile, "What about you, are you here for the exam or are you here to queue?" ”

The other party immediately said, "I'm here to line up." ”

Shen Man was bored in line, and when she heard someone chatting with her, she talked a lot. While chatting, I suddenly saw the girl shouting, "What are you doing!" Then he rushed out of the line in a frenzy and went in one direction.

Shen Man looked in the direction she ran away, but saw a teenage girl sitting on the ground, struggling to get up and chase someone, regardless of the pain. And the people around her turned a blind eye to it, as if they didn't see it.

It's no wonder that it can take a long time, whether you're standing in line for the test yourself or for someone else. There are only three days left, and if you chase the thief for that little girl, I am afraid that you will have to work all day in vain, so no one will care.

But the girl Shen Man met just now ran away without thinking about it, Shen Man hesitated for a moment, stuffed his recommendation letter and walked out of the team, and came to the little girl to ask, "Little sister, how are you, are you injured?" ”

The little girl hesitated a little when she saw her coming, "Brother, aren't you going to continue queuing?" ”

Although Shen Man specially wore a men's dress today, he also wiped his face with ashes. But she was so delicate that anyone with experience would have been able to identify her gender, but the little girl was so young that she did not recognize her as a woman or a man.

Shen Man looked at her reddened forehead and bloodstained arms and said, "It's not too late for me to send you to the hospital and then go to the queue." ”

"But ......"

"What did the thief rob you?" Shen Man asked.

The little girl whispered, "Recommendation." ”

Sure enough,

Shen Man saw that this little girl was young, and she would definitely not come here for the exam, so she would queue up for others to get a commission. But now that the recommendation letter has been lost, I don't know how upset she will be.

Now I can only hope that the girl can chase down the thief and retrieve the letter of recommendation.

"Brother, leave me alone, you can go and chase that thief, I'll stay here and wait for you!" The little girl suddenly grabbed Shen Man's sleeve and looked at her with blank eyes pleading.

Shen Man sighed and said, "Okay, I'll chase it for you, but you have to stay here and don't move, and I'll send you back when I find the recommendation." ”

"Well, good!" The little girl nodded earnestly.

"Then lend me your headband." Shen Man took the little girl's hairband, got up and completely broke away from the queue, and chased in the direction that the girl was tracking.

But just by crossing one street, I don't know where the two men are. Shen Man pinched the headband, saw a stall telling fortunes on the street, walked over and bought a turtle shell, then burned the little girl's hairband, and threw the ashes into a basin next to it, the turtle shell floated on the surface of the water, and gradually sank into the basin, and the ashes actually piled up in a direction along the lines on the turtle shell in the water.

"Thank you." Shen Man said these two words to the stall owner, and continued to chase without looking back. Leaving a stunned stall owner, he muttered, "Could it be that what I just saw was the rumored 'Beidou Exploration'?" But shouldn't this skill take a lot of time to complete, and who is that person sacred? ”

Rushing through another street, Shen Man suddenly stopped when he passed an alley, and then turned into the alley. This alley turned out to be a dead end, and the main road outside the alley was full of people, but inside the alley was dark and desolate.

The girl who had just talked to Shen Man was blocked at the entrance of the alley, and Shen Man didn't have to think about it to know who she was blocking.

"Damn thief, hand over what you stole quickly!" The girl pinched her waist and scolded.

The "little thief" in her mouth is a seven-foot thin and tall person, with thief eyebrows and rat eyes, if according to physiognomy, he is born to be a thief, unless he is reincarnated as a man, it will be difficult to make a difference in this life.

Originally, he fled with a weak heart, but when he saw that a young girl was chasing after him, and he had been forced to the entrance of the alley, the thief became bold.

"You give me a little nosy!"

"Don't say it, I'm in charge of this matter!" The girl did not back down at all, but took a step forward.

Shen Man hid at the entrance of the alley, thinking about how to resolve the dilemma in front of him. At this moment, I heard the sound of fierce fighting in the alley. Shen Man was startled, and planned to pick up the wooden stick casually and rush regardless of it, but he saw that the thin and tall man was lying on the ground, his face was bruised, and all he had left was humming.

Shen Man stood on the spot, staring at the girl with wide eyes. Could it be that this girl is a hidden martial arts master?

The girl walked over slowly, still holding the mutilated letter of recommendation in her hand, and when she saw Shen Man's eyes lit up, she muttered, "Why did you chase after you?" You see, this guy was about to stuff this letter of recommendation into his mouth in a hurry, but fortunately I grabbed it. Where is that little sister, let's go to her and return the letter of recommendation. ”

Shen Man suddenly grabbed her wrist, the other party's face turned weirdly red, and he stammered, "You, what are you doing?" ”

Shen Man slowly took out the letter of recommendation from her hand, glanced at his tone and said helplessly, "You see, the signature of this letter of recommendation is gone." ”

"Huh?" The girl took the letter of recommendation and looked at it again, and said in great frustration, "Then what to do, I'll pick at the thief's mouth, and maybe I can find the broken part and stick it back." ”

Shen Man pressed her shoulder and said, "Don't pick it, it's useless to pick it back, the recommendation letter can't have missing or glued traces, otherwise it's a fraud." ”

The girl was a little gloomy.

Shen Man comforted, "We will send this little thief to the government, and then go to that little sister to find another way." ”

The girl's fist clenched, "I heard that these things happen every year, these thieves can sell them for a high price if they steal the recommendation letter and sell it, so they don't care whether these candidates are betting their lives on this exam!" ”

Shen Man felt that this girl was like a firework that would explode at any time, and asked cautiously, "The name of the recommended person will be written on the recommendation letter, and it is useless for them to steal it, so why steal it?" ”

The girl glanced at Shen Man, and said, "Now many onmyoji don't do their jobs, and they want to take advantage of the Yin-Yang Dao exam every year to make a fortune, but there will be restrictions on each person who recommends them, so they thought of a way, first write a blank recommender's recommendation letter, and then the one with the highest price will get it, and whoever gets it will take it back to fill in whom, this blank recommendation letter is called 'white letter', which is the highest price." The next is the 'black letter', although the name of this kind of recommendation letter is written, but because of the use of special ink, its ink can be disposed of in a special way, but this method is troublesome and expensive, so some people have no choice but to choose. ”

Shen Man sniffed the residue of the recommendation letter, "No wonder this letter has a strange smell, it must be what you call a 'black letter'." ”

"It's disgusting!" The girl stomped her feet, very angry.

"Let's go back to the little girl first, and only when we meet her can we know what to do next." Shen Mandao.

"Okay."

"By the way, I want to ask you something," Shen Man followed her, saying as he walked, "Do you know martial arts?" ”

The girl didn't look back and said, "I-no-yes." ”