It is said that Pei Jing took the time to come to Zhao Hui's house, and mentioned that Xue Rui went to the Taiheng Chamber of Commerce to inquire about their residence a few days ago, at that time Xue Rui claimed to be Cao Zixin, Pei Jingyin had seen him once, and did not suspect that it was a fake name, and then asked Xue Rui what kind of livelihood he made in the capital, He Langzhong and Zhao Hui couldn't tell, just when Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu came back, they found the house and asked.

Yu Shu knew that Xue Rui wanted to conceal his identity, so he didn't mention that he was an official eunuch, and said vaguely: "It seems that he is also in business, but I haven't asked carefully."

Pei Jing knew about Jing Chen's departure, and was entrusted by He Langzhong and his wife, and said to Yu Shu: "Several shops under my name have all said hello, if anyone sees a character who looks like Jing Gongzi walking around on the street, he will come to inform you in the morning."

Yu Shu thanked: "Uncle Lao Pei has bothered a lot."

Yu Shu was pulled by Zhao Hui and said a few words, asked her where she was uncomfortable, checked He Langzhong's pulse, and let her go back to the house to drink medicine, leaving Yu Xiaoxiu to sit with a few adults.

Back in the room, Yu Shu didn't delay much, sat at the desk and took a pen and paper, abacus, and began to study the eight characters of the prince of Xiang obtained today.

Yu Shu's current idea is very simple, she can't find it all, she can calculate how much it is, even if she answers the time when King Xiang lost it tomorrow, and she doesn't know the location, it is better than handing in a blank paper.

She inquired in the Peiren Hall, although there are 100 yuan for each subject, there may not be 100 people in the exam, in other words, the best are admitted, but there is no merit, Si Tianjian will never go to take the second number, and he has to make up a hundred. The screening of this 100 yuan is very strict, often in a subject of astrology, there are twenty or thirty people in the examination, and the places at the back are empty, and they will not be allowed to fill the number indiscriminately, so the maximum number of 500 teachers every year, only 100 people, and the big easy division, it is even more rare.

If you hand over a blank scroll, or make up a number of numbers, it will be a dead end.

Yu Shu was bored, and anyone who came in quietly didn't know what to do, Zhao Hui told Kidney Bean to warm the stove in Yu Shu's room, and take care of her back and forth, so as not to sit for a long time and freeze her.

When it was dark, Zhao Hui personally came over to take charge of the lamp, stared at Yu Shu eating and drinking medicine, walked around the house, and went out to let people hug a mattress, and temporarily nailed a "curtain" outside the window facing the desk to block the wind.

Yu Shu went to the toilet several times, muttering a few times in his mouth, and once he forgot to bring toilet paper, he had no choice but to squat in the pit and shout for help, which made Zhao Hui cry and laugh.

It wasn't until the third watch gong was struck on the street outside that Yu Shu put down his pen, opened his sore eyes, and his fingers blackly picked up a few pieces of marked straw paper on the table, and frowned when he checked the big and small disasters calculated on them.

"What's the matter, am I missing?"

Cautiously, she speculated on the disaster of the four months on the way back to Beijing from August to August this year, in case there was any omission, enough to do more than 120 calculations, and then add more calculations, but the disasters in the past four months showed that the king of Xiang only had two minor illnesses, a water disaster, and a small blood light, and there was no sign of similar wealth and property, showing when the king of Xiang lost something, what was going on

Could it be that the thing was lost after returning to Beijing?

Yu Shu thought about it for a while, and then calculated it, planning to include Layue.

Another hour passed like this, and when the gong sounded at the fourth watch, she put down her pen again, and checked the dense data copied line by line with her fingers, and gradually hung her brow.

Or not

Don't believe in evil, Yu Shu collected all the messy straw paper on the table, checked them one by one, for more than 130 days, not a day, to make sure that she didn't miss a single day.

This can make Yu Shu worried, her law of calamity, until today, when it has not worked, what is wrong with this, but it can't be calculated?

Yu Shu knocked her forehead with one hand, her scalp was itchy, she meditated hard, and before she knew it, the sky was getting brighter outside, and the residual wax on the candlestick was extinguished with a "poof", she raised her head suddenly, grinned, and laughed twice, I don't know how penetrating this crazy red-eyed appearance is.

I didn't sleep all night, and it was dawn, but Yu Shu went out with the bookcase in good spirits, and got into the carriage waiting outside the door, Xue Rui didn't come, only asked the coachman to bring the word, and asked her to hand in the papers, and then come out of Taichengsi and go to another place to meet him, without explaining where it was.

Xue Rui's carriage was warmer than the sedan chair, Yu Shu didn't get frozen all the way, got out of the car and wrapped his padded jacket tightly, and followed the flow of people into the women's examination room.

The process of entering the venue will not be repeated, the same open-air venue as the examination of Yili, densely packed with tables and chairs, only half full, after the bell rang, Yu Shu quickly grinded Mozi, on the examination paper issued by Si Tianjian, answered stroke by stroke, and marked the name of the place of origin on the side, stained with cinnabar mud and pressed the handprint, and handed in the paper early.

Yu Shu didn't go out of his way to find where Ji Xingxuan was sitting today, he handed in the papers and left with the servants, bowed his head and divided the Taicheng Division, stood outside the gate, let out a long breath of turbidity, and his mood suddenly relaxed a lot.

In any case, this subject is finally over, and whether she is in the middle or not, next, just wait for the last subject of arithmetic, her absolute strength

Yu Shu was ruthless in her heart, she was very aggrieved in this thaumaturgy subject, and she was depressed and silent, and made up her mind that she would never leave a back hand in arithmetic, and she was determined to win the top three

The snow on the road melted, and there were ice slags everywhere, Yu Shu picked up the clean road, walked to the side of the street, got into the carriage, and said to the coachman: "Go find your Uncle Xue."

The carriage drove to a bustling street in the north of the city, stopped outside a building, Yu Shu got out of the car, stood on the street with people coming and going, looked up at the two-storey magnificent floor in front of him, the plaque on the door, and had not yet opened the door to do business, she thought to herself that this is the restaurant that Xue Rui mentioned to open before?

"Is it the Lotus Girl?"

Yu Shu's gaze fell, and a man came out in front of the door, medium height, round face, looking thirty years old, smiling honestly.

"It's me."

The man looked at Yu Shu without a trace, and immediately led his hand to the restaurant, and said with a smile: "Little Lin Fu, I've been waiting for the girl for a long time, please come in quickly."

The outside wall tiles of the restaurant are brand new, and the inside is more spacious and bright, the green wall slush, mahogany sandalwood, tables, chairs, vases and vases are all in place, there is no shortage of tea saucers, tea bowls, chopsticks and cages, and there is an eight-foot square counter facing the door, and there is a water spirit of the unicorn auspicious jade beast head, and the back of a slip of the colorful flags and dishes are divided into the north and south, four doors and a cluster, two rows of flowers, birds, grass and carp glass screen shelves are divided in the first floor of the east and west, becoming three bureaus, to the east is the stairs, straight to the second floor, a flower pot every three steps, carrying a small holly, and there is a vertical door to the north, Access to the backyard.

Yu Shu looked up and down, left and right, east and west, north and south, and couldn't help but admire this gentleman who arranged feng shui, it was really a pattern of fortune and treasure, wealth and peace, if she came to clean up, it would definitely not be so thoughtful.

It's not splendid, but it's delicate and pleasant, especially the glass screen, Yu Shu once saw the glass green window in the old lady's room in the Ji family, and knew that the An Dynasty had made glass, but how could Xue Rui be so arrogant, and used a whole twelve glasses to make the screen.

Lin Fu was not in a hurry to take her to see Xue Rui, so he let Yu Shu go around the building and asked him, "What about your host?"

"Rest in the back, you said that I should take the girl to see the floor first, do you want to go up to the second floor to take a look?"

Yu Shu was too lazy to climb the stairs, so he said, "Don't go first, take me to meet your host."

"Yes, girl, please."

Lin Fu took Yu Shu to the backyard, and saw a well-behaved walled building, the same two-story corridor with a corridor, three sides just covered the light in the yard, one side was cool and the other was sunny, it was the trend of yin and yang harmony, and it was in response to the wind and rain.

Walking to a room in the northeast corner, under the porch, Lin Fu knocked on the door and said, "Son, the girl from the lotus room is here."

A voice came from within, "Come in."

Lin Fu pushed the door and invited Yu Shu to go in alone, there was no curtain hanging on the door to block the cold, but the windows were sealed with glass, unlike ordinary people's window paper, which was very warm in the house.

Xue Rui was sitting at a round table under the east window looking at the account, with a cup of tea in his hand, with a fragrant aroma, he was wearing a brown and green silk shirt, only a black suede pair of armor, and a pair of topaz buttons around his neck were very eye-catching.

"Finished the exam?"

"Hmm."

Yu Shu was used to his often changing face, and he didn't bother to pay attention to people when he sent him away last night, but now he gave a smiling face, she figured out whether he was in a good or bad mood, so she stepped forward, sat down opposite him, took an empty cup and poured tea, and said:

"Is this the restaurant you said you were going to open a while ago,] It's quite pompous, yes, tell me in advance on the day it opens, I'll cheer you on."

Xue Rui shook his head and said: "I didn't come to you to cheer, you can take a look at this deed, and if you don't want to put it forward."

Seeing that he took out a piece of paper from the account book and handed it to her, Yu Shu took it and looked at it, his face changed, and he couldn't swallow it in his mouth.

Strictly speaking, this is a contract, a contract for hired workers, hiring her to be the head of this restaurant, responsible for accounting and personnel, clearly marked the price, a month is eighty taels of silver, and the restaurant is half a dividend, about three years, a death contract.

"Why, don't you want to sign? Who swore yesterday that I had something to do, and she was not afraid of anything in a word, which didn't make you stunned? Want to go back?" Xue Rui looked at her with a smile.

Yu Shu is difficult to ride a tiger this time, just looking at Xue Rui's face, the atmosphere in this room, if she dares to say a word, maybe he will turn his face the next moment, so he said stubbornly:

"Didn't you say last time that if I failed the list, I wouldn't be able to enter the Taishi Academy and come to help you again?"

Xue Rui said: "I said so, but I didn't think that you only took the second subject of Yi Li and thaumaturgy, and arithmetic is not among them, Yi Li has so many people who chew words and chew words, you will not be able to enter the list, so even if you are in thaumaturgy, at most you are a Yi Shi, Taishi Shuyuan will not accept you, unless you can be in the top three in arithmetic, there are still some opportunities."

Yu Shu was unconvinced and said: "How do you know that I can't get into the top three."

Xue Rui said unhurriedly: "I heard that several proud disciples of Mr. Han Wenguang's disciples are going to study competitive arithmetic this year, and there is little hope that you will be able to get into the top three."

"Han Wenguang?" Yu Shu heard this name familiar, suddenly thought about it, and gasped: "Is that the old man who taught three operators?"

Xue Rui looked at the dark circles under her two eyes, expected that she hadn't slept all night last night, and sneered: "Who should you be, so don't expect this Taishi Shuyuan, come over honestly to help me do things, and wait until three years later to take the exam."