In the evening, Ji Xingxuan hurriedly returned to Ji's mansion, saw a carriage parked in front of the door, and knew that it was a guest, so he called the housekeeper who was doing things in the vestibule and asked:

"What's the guest?"

"Miss, you're back, it's Academician Zhao from Taishi Shuyuan who is here, and the old man is entertaining in the warm building."

Ji Xingxuan frowned when he heard this, gave the housekeeper a few words, and then walked quickly in the direction of the backyard, came to the warm building, and first let the maid waiting outside the door go in to report, and then carried her skirt into the building.

There were two people sitting in the tea hall, the older one was Ji Huaishan, and the other middle-aged man in a red robe was one of the academicians of Taishi Shuyuan, Zhao Zhixue.

"Uncle Zhao."

Zhao Zhixue said kindly, "Star Swirl, did you just come back from the Academy?" I heard your grandfather say that you always study late these days before going home, although it is good to work hard in the big Yan exam, but don't be tired. ”

"Thank you Uncle for your concern, Star Swirl is fine, I bothered you to talk about business," Ji Xingxuan apologized first, turned his head, and said to Ji Huaishan, who was holding a silver silk fence to make tea:

"Grandfather, I have a friend who wants to borrow our Tiangang Seven Star Ruler, can you accompany me to get it?"

Seeing that her expression was slightly anxious, Ji Huaishan's eyebrows trembled slightly, and he turned his head to Zhao Zhixue and said helplessly: "This child, I am spoiled, and I always borrow valuables casually, I will go with her to get it, you sit and drink tea first, and we will continue to discuss later." ”

Zhao Zhixue said with a smile: "Ji Lao is content, our Liu'er should be as sensible as Star Swirl, I should have snickered in my dreams, you guys go, I'll wait, and I'm not an outsider." ”

Ji Huaishan then got up and went out with Ji Xingxuan, the two left the warm building and went outside, not far from the courtyard, he waved away the subordinates who followed behind him, stopped and asked Ji Xingxuan:

"What's wrong, so panicked?"

There was no one around, but Ji Xingxuan still lowered his voice and said, "The matter of stealing the question seems to be known." ”

Ji Huaishan's face changed suddenly, and he said in a deep voice: "What's the matter?" You say carefully. ”

Ji Xingxuan then hastily told the story of the anonymous letter she received at the entrance of the library after school, took out the letter from her arms, and handed it to Ji Huaishan with both hands:

"You see, the Venerable Master said that she had obtained a twenty-year-old object in the library building, isn't that exactly the Yunhua Yizi examination paper?"

Ji Huaishan put the letter to the lantern where it was hung and took a closer look, but saw that it read:

'Miss Ji is like well, contemptible people from the library to get an old thing twenty years ago, Miss Zhi is very anxious, willing to become the beauty of the person, Miss rest assured, contemptible people have no other intentions, only to ask Miss to have a thing in her hand, if you are interested, then see the letter at noon the next day, about to meet in front of Changchun Fang, Qianyuan Street, one thing for one thing, the best of both worlds, if you don't see it at the time, then the right when you have no intention of exchanging, only this once, expired not waiting, hope to be cautious. ，

Ji Huaishan's face when he saw this letter was not much better than Ji Xingxuan's at that time, which showed that his theft had been leaked.

Although he thought that his hands and feet were clean and that there was no evidence left for the theft, the sudden arrival of such a letter still made him feel like a man on his back and was shocked.

"This man said that he wanted me to exchange it for something, but he did not specify what it was, and he did not specifically explain it, and I thought about it, afraid that what he asked for was this disaster stone." Ji Xingxuan hesitantly rolled up his sleeves, revealing the yellow stone bead on the red rope on his wrist.

Ji Huaishan frowned, and said suspiciously: "I don't even know my grandfather about this little bead, if it weren't for the young eunuch who came back to the mansion as a guest, I met you by chance, and I clicked a few words on you, explaining the purpose of this thing, I may not know that this is a treasure, I didn't let you take it and don't show it easily, have you mentioned it to anyone, saying that you missed your mouth?" ”

"My grandson hasn't mentioned half of it to others, I don't know where this person knows," Ji Xingxuan shook his head, held his wrist, and thought: "But since the other party can see it, it must be someone I know, do you remember that day I went to the library with Liu Er to look for the papers, at that time, I noticed that someone came one step ahead of us, maybe that person really has Yunhua Yizi's exam paper in his hand, grandfather, what do you think should be good?" ”

The ancestor and grandson were silent for a moment, and Ji Huaishan spoke cautiously: "No matter what the origin of this person is, tomorrow you go as promised, I will send a few more guards to follow quietly to find out the identity of this person, if he really has that scroll in his hand——"

His tone was stunned, and his eyes were sharp:

"Make sure you get it."

Ji Xingxuan lowered his head, fiddled with the small beads on his wrist, and said: "Sun Er is worried, this person may also be a candidate for the Dayan exam, since he knows the question, how can he not answer the question during the exam, if that person leaks the question to the person next to him, even if I know the answer, plus Sister Liu'er, there may not be only three in that subject, and there must be four or five first, so what's the point." ”

Ji Huaishan disagreed with this statement, stroked his beard and said:

"You're too worried, this is a big test, whoever gets the exam questions will easily leak it to others, even if you really have that generosity, you have to think about whether you will get into trouble, this person can write anonymously to you, must be a brain, although it is greedy and insufficient, but also know the truth of making the best use of things, and will definitely not do such a foolish thing, you go tomorrow and rest assured, grandfather will definitely not let you lose this disaster stone."

Ji Xingxuan wanted to say something more, Ji Huaishan interrupted with a wave of his hand, and handed the letter back to her: "Take it and burn it, I still have something to say to your Uncle Zhao, you go back to the room to rest first, and I will arrange the specific things tomorrow morning."

Ji Xingxuan held the letter in her hand, watched the old man leave, looked up at the stars in the sky, and frowned, she had a vague premonition that things would not go so smoothly.

There are still a few days left in November, and seeing that the Dayan examination is approaching, Yu Shu is reading Yi Li's articles day and night, and he has the strength to sharpen his gun.

Tonight, she turned off the lights early to rest, which made Yu Xiaoxiu, who was finally used to sleeping with the lights on, very strange, and asked Yu Shu on the bed through a screen in the black light:

"Sister, aren't you going to study tonight?"

"Well, I'm going to go out tomorrow and rest early." Yu Shu yawned, turned over, touched the side of the pillow with her hand, grabbed a ball of fluffy Jinbao, and pushed the little thing that had a nest that did not sleep and preferred to be squeezed by the same people to the head of the bed, lest she turn over in a dream in the middle of the night and accidentally press it, and it chirped again to wake everyone up.

Tomorrow she has business to do, and tonight she has to get enough sleep.

"Sister, why haven't you seen Brother Xue come to our house to play these days?" Yu Xiaoxiu pillowed his arm and asked, Xue Rui came to their house a while ago, and deliberately corrected a few words about him, so that he changed his words and no longer called him Brother Cao.

"Be busy, your eldest brother Xue is an official, and he has to go to the yamen every day to do things, where can he have so much free time." Yu Shu closed his eyes, feeling a little sleepy.

"Oh," Yu Xiaoxiu was silent for a while, and then sounded again:

"When he came back, he said that the next time we rest in the library, he will take me to ride a horse, I don't know if he has forgotten it."

Hearing the anticipation in the child's words, Yu Shu lifted an eyelid, "Why do you want to go horseback riding?" Don't you love it? ”

The screen twisted and said: "It's not that I'm among my classmates, it's just that I'm the worst rider, and I'm always laughed at." ”

Yu Shu saw that he was willing to confess, and he was not afraid of hurting his self-esteem, so he chuckled a few times before comforting: "Okay, next time I see him, help you ask, your Brother Xue still counts when he speaks, don't worry, go to sleep quickly." ”

"Oh." Yu Xiaoxiu grinned, lay on the pillow and rubbed it, and fell asleep after a while

It was Yu Shu, because of his few words, and he was no longer sleepy, thinking about when she would also learn to ride a horse, which was much more convenient than taking a sedan chair and a carriage.

However, it seems that a bad horse costs a hundred taels of silver, and the daily forage is more expensive than the food that people eat, and she can't afford to raise it now, and there is no extra place to raise horses in the yard, otherwise she can buy one first.

Fantasizing about the heroic posture of galloping horses one day, Yu Shu gradually fell asleep.

As soon as Yu Xiaoxiu went out the next morning, Yu Shu first changed the medicine on Jing Chen's hand, and then went into the house to get busy.

She sent a letter yesterday and asked Ji Xingxuan to trade on Qianyuan Street at noon, although she didn't really plan to show up, but she was very lucky, and she decided to dress up in disguise if she was recognized by Ji Xingxuan when she met.

Of course, Yi Rong didn't have that ability, but she was unrecognizable in dressing up, Yu Shu still had some methods, she fished out an old dress from the cabinet, cut a few cuts, tore the hem of the clothes, put it on the outside of the cotton jacket, untied her hair, combed her hair crookedly, grabbed it twice, tied it with the strip of cloth torn off her clothes, and looked at it in the mirror.

Satisfied, Yu Shu swaggered out of the room, Jingchen sat in the hall and waited for her, just now I heard her tossing in the house, as soon as he saw her sloppy "virtue", something suddenly flashed in his mind, he was stunned, and his face showed a little dazed:

"How did this happen?"

"Lest people recognize me," Yu Shu replied to him vaguely, went to the kitchen, scraped a layer of soot and slapped it on his face, washed his hands, took a big stride, walked into the big house with his hands on his waist, smiled at Jingchen and said proudly:

"Well, do you recognize me dressed like this?"

Jingchen said honestly: "I can recognize what you are wearing." ”

Yu Shu saw that he was so faceless, he didn't feel angry but was a little happy, snorted twice, went back to the room to get the hat he bought yesterday, walked to Jing Chen, put it on his head, tied the hat strap under his white chin and tied a knot under his white chin, his eyes stayed on his face for a moment, raised his hand to put down the white gauze on the brim of the hat, and covered his handsome face.

took two steps back, looked at it, shook her head and smiled, she wanted to dress him up as a beggar, but there was no way, people were born beautiful, and their temperament was good, even if they were dressed in tatters, they didn't look like an inferior person.

"Alright, let's go." Yu Shu hung the key around his neck and took the door lock.

"You haven't told me where we're going today." Jing Chen gently twisted the overly tight rope tied around his chin and got up and walked towards her.

"Don't worry, I'll tell you on the way."