Xia Jiangmin was depressed at this time, after Xia Jiang Helang entered Beijing, she was banned in the annex, and she couldn't go out of the second door and couldn't step out, and finally suffered the New Year, Xia Jiang Helang made a big decree to allow him to see outsiders.

On the ninth day of the first month, she and Ji Xingxuan went out, and secretly summoned their personal maidservants to deliver a letter on Huixing Street, and when they came back, they told her that the family had moved away years ago

The worse news is that they are said to have left Beijing.

There is nowhere to find someone, Xia Jiangmin choked on food for three days after returning home, if it weren't for the fear of being seen by Xia Jianghelang, Ji Xingxuan sent someone to invite her yesterday, she wouldn't have the spirit to go out.

I happened to walk to this street and listened to passers-by talking about the opening of the restaurant in front of me, so I was in a little mood, so I pulled Ji Xingxuan over to join in the fun.

In the private room on the second floor, the two women sat down, looking at the surrounding environment, elegant and pleasant, and they were very satisfied.

"What are your signature dishes here?" Ji Xingxuan asked, she invited Xia Jiangmin to go out today, so naturally she also wanted her to come as a treat.

The guy said: "There are many signature dishes, cold, hot, meat and vegetarian, everything you have eaten outside, we have them in the Wangji Building."

"Hehe, such a big breath," Xia Jiangmin smiled, suddenly interjected, took out a pair of ivory chopsticks on a small shelf, and clicked on the table: "Let me ask you, do you guess the lantern riddle in your restaurant today, and if you answer correctly, you will get free of charge, but really?"

The guy said: "Really, look at the lantern above your head, there are ready-made puzzles on it, but a table can only be answered once, limited to fifty taels of wine and food, if you are right, you will be exempted, and if you are wrong, you will have to settle the bill, hey."

Xia Jiangmin frowned and said, "What if I order too much?"

The guy said: "It doesn't matter if you order more, it's more than fifty taels, each dish is a question, and you will continue to send it if you answer it correctly."

"Interesting," Xia Jiangmin smiled again, turned his head and asked Ji Xingxuan: "How about my sister's guessing riddle?"

"Ten in the **." Ji Xingxuan's expression was calm, as if she didn't know modesty, but she didn't have the slightest arrogance when she said this, as if this was just an ordinary thing.

Xia Jiangmin's eyes lit up, and she said happily: "My sister is amazing, I'm also good at guessing riddles, let's eat it well today" Her eyes flashed, put down her chopsticks and said:

"Xiao Er, pick up twenty of the good dishes in your restaurant first, and don't care what the price is."

The guy saw the two of them dressed, and knew that he was not afraid that they would be rich or noble, and he was not afraid that they would pay the bill later, so he promised: "The little one will report the food, and the girl will wait a minute."

Looking at Xia Jiangmin's excited appearance, Ji Xingxuan frowned slightly and didn't say anything.

Yu Shu returned to the backyard from the front building, knocked on Xue Rui's door, went in and gave a general description of the situation outside, and teased him later:

"I see that a lot of people at this table have ink in their stomachs, so you just wait for a big blood today, and you have to pay a few thousand taels in it."

Xue Rui flipped through the scroll in his hand and said, "The more you lose, the more you will earn in the future."

Yu Shu also knew this reason, so he didn't say anything more, looked at the weight in his hand, and asked curiously, "What are you looking at?"

"The files of Dali Temple over the years," Xue Rui paused, adding, "It's all unjust."

Yu Shu put one hand on his cheek and said with interest: "Don't you say that I almost forgot that you are still a judge, let me ask you, how many cases have you solved so far?"

As soon as Xue Rui heard this, he knew that she was a layman, looked up at her with a smile, and said: "Generally, cases are administered by various yamen and criminal departments, and our Dali Temple is responsible for the trial. Since I entered Dali Temple, I have handled more than 10 cases, but when it comes to solving cases, there are only two. ”

"Huh? You're saying you don't care about solving the case? No, that time there was a death in Taishi Shuyuan, isn't it the case that you Dali Temple went to investigate?" Speaking of this, Yu Shu couldn't help but think of the sisters of the Xia Jiang family again, and felt a little sorry for Xia Jiangying, who died early.

The speaker was unintentional, the listener was intentional, Xue Rui said thoughtfully: "There is also such a situation, every time there is a major case, the emperor will directly assign it to Dali Temple to investigate." Speaking of which, it was the first case I tried, and it was the last one."

At that time, in order to solve Xia Jiangying's case, Xue Rui looked for her twice for three days, and also suspected Xia Mingming, but then somehow lost his voice, and when the case was solved, Xue Rui did not appear in the court, but drank in the tavern opposite and was met by her.

Hearing Xue Rui stop halfway through speaking, her eyes flashed, and she said deliberately: "Isn't that case closed, wasn't the demon who killed Xia Jiangying beheaded after being beheaded?"

Xue Rui nodded slowly: "That's right."

Yu Shu was about to say something more, there was a knock on the door outside, and Lin Fu's voice said: "Gongzi, Shiziye and Feng Gongzi are here, and they have been invited to the elegant room on the second floor of the backyard."

Xue Rui stood up, brushed the hem of his clothes, and said to Yu Shu: "Let's go, go with me to recognize someone and ask for a response."

As soon as Yu Shu heard it, she knew that it was Xue Rui's gang that the princes and nobles had arrived, and she was told by Xue Rui to come to this restaurant to help one reason was to get acquainted with the high-class magnates, and now she will not be stage frightened, so she stood up and followed him.

There are actually two courtyards behind the Wangji Building, one is a building for guests to stay overnight, and there is a small courtyard behind which the maids and men live in a parking and horses.

Yu Shu and Xue Rui each occupied an elegant room in the backyard for weekday rest, and the rest were used to entertain guests, different private rooms in front of the restaurant, this room has a bed and a quilt - the hall is also more spacious, and it is not a problem to accommodate more than a dozen people.

Xue Rui took Yu Shu up to the second floor, along the fenced corridor to the end, and stopped outside the door of an elegant room, the two guards guarding the door were not people in the Wangji Building, but they recognized Xue Rui, greeted respectfully, and let the door open.

Xue Rui didn't even knock on the door, he pushed it open directly, Yu Shu walked behind him, and there was a silence of laughter inside, followed by a succession of congratulations:

"Congratulations, Brother Rui, your restaurant has finally opened"

"Isn't it, I heard him say two years ago that he wanted to get a good place, but who knows that it will be better until now."

There was no lack of a woman's chuckle in these words, Yu Shu took a step to the side, and saw that in the room, almost all the people present on the brocade table and the big round seat were all she had seen.

Needless to say, the little son of General Feng's family, the one who looks polite is the young master of the Qi scholar family of the Hanlin Academy, the one with slender eyes is the only son of Zhongyongbo, and then there are Liu Jiong, the son of the King of Xiang, and the other three girls, two of whom she had seen in that Dingbo Pavilion, and the other one, if she was not mistaken, it was the county lord of the Xiang Palace, and she had also seen it when she went to ask the King of Xiang the day after the thaumaturgical test.

In addition, there are two people who don't know, a man and a woman, sitting in the middle, especially the mediocre-looking young man who is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and he is sitting on the top of Liu Jiong.

This must be the Nine Emperor Princes, Yu Shu said.

"Hey, isn't this the Lotus Girl?" The first to call out Yu Shu was not Feng Zhaomiao, but it was Liu Jiong, the son of the world, and everyone in the room listened to him, so they turned their attention to Yu Shu who walked in behind Xue Rui, and looked at it one by one.

During the banquet, someone looked moved, and there was no smile on his face for a moment, but he quickly resurfaced.

Xue Rui let Jean protect Yu Shu to the side, and introduced them to the people at the table: "I know everything, so I won't introduce it, it's just that your group of people are full of bad water, and you love right and wrong, let me say a clear word first, this is my sister, when I'm not here, you are here, if you bully her young and tease, don't blame me for settling accounts with you."

His two words sounded like a joke, but everyone present understood the meaning, and asked them to take care of it, and in a blink of an eye, his face became kind to Yu Shu, and he put down the shelf and said hello to her with a smile.

But there are also people who say the opposite, and laugh coquettishly:

"Brother Rui, they all know this girl, but I don't recognize it, I don't know Brother Jiu just after returning to Beijing, you still have to introduce it, which family's daughter is this, it looks a little familiar."

The words are about the Xiwen County Lord of the Xiangwang Mansion, who is tilting his head to look at Yu Shu, with a little white and red face, anyone who looks at it can't help but like it.

Xue Rui looked at her and was thinking about how to say it, but Yu Shu took the words, saluted the strange young man with a smile, and then waved at the county lord Xiwen, and said, "I've seen Your Highness, I've seen the county lord." I'm not a lady of any family, just a flat-headed commoner, the county lord forgot, I once had a relationship with the county lord in the Dingbo Pavilion, my surname is Yu. ”

Yu Shu knew in her heart that this Xiwen County Lord could not know her, but she couldn't pretend not to know the county lord, plus the Nine Emperor Princes sat on the side, and she spoke, it was more appropriate than Xue Rui to speak for her, and others would sell a smile, she would not be so stupid as to think that she could really sit on an equal footing with this group of heavenly pride, and she had to scruple about it.

Xi Wen saw that she had answered, and there was nowhere to say what she was ready to say, so she turned her head and talked to the young lady next to Liu Jiong.

The Nine Emperor Princes seemed to be a man of few words, so he only nodded to Yu Shu, and then shifted his gaze to Xue Rui: "Sit down."

There are still two vacant seats on the table, but they are not together, one is next to the Nine Emperor Princes, and the other is next to Feng Zhaomiao, Xue Rui hesitated to let people add another stool, Feng Zhaomiao had already beckoned to Yu Shu and whispered to her:

"Lotus room, lotus room."

Yu Shu walked over directly and sat down next to him, Xue Rui saw this, and sat down next to the Nine Emperor Princes, looking up, Feng Zhaomiao was covering his mouth with one hand, and he didn't know what Lu Dao was whispering to Yu Shu.

What did Feng Zhaomiao and Yu Shu say, in fact, it was not a big deal, that is, during the thaumaturgy exam, Yu Shu went to the Taishi Academy to find him, and wanted to enter the Xiangwang Mansion through him, but Feng Zhaomiao suggested that he go to Xue Rui, but Yu Shu did not go to that file.

"I'm sorry, if you said that you didn't plan to find Brother Rui that day, I would have taken you directly to Xiangwang's Mansion, and I didn't delay you, right?"

The little son of the Feng family is a person with a temperament, everything that is pleasing to the eye is good, and he doesn't even say a word if he doesn't like it, Yu Shu stole into the library of Taishi Shuyuan with him, and heard Feng Zhaomiao unintentionally mention his heart, so he was relieved casually, and he just solved his knot, and Yu Shu entered his eyes.

Yu Shu listened to Feng Zhaomiao apologize to her for the beginningless and unfinished matter, and felt a little more good in his heart, shook his head, and replied in a low voice like him:

"No, later Brother Xue took me to see Lord Xiang."

"How did you answer that subject?"

The two chatted like this, acquaintances at this table got together, they didn't see each other, some talked and laughed, Xue Rui was pulled and questioned, seeing that Yu Shu was not uncomfortable, he retracted his mind with confidence.