After breakfast, Yu Shu asked Xiao Er to lead her to the back kitchen, found a free man, decocted the medicine bag that Jing Chen grabbed yesterday, and brought it back upstairs after it was ready.

Jingchen lay on the sleep collapse in the living room, and sat up when Yu Shu entered the door, Yu Shu brought the hot medicine bowl, and asked Yu Xiaoxiu to move a chair, sit next to him, and watch him drink medicine.

"Drink it hot, and be careful not to burn your mouth."

Nodding, Jingchen stirred the spoon in the bowl, and drank it in one gulp, and the strong medicinal smell rushed into his mouth.

"Is it bitter?" Yu Shu took the empty medicine bowl and handed him a hand towel to wipe his mouth.

Jingchen shook his head.

Yu Shu sniffed and said with a smile: "Liar, this medicine smells bitter to death, yesterday I saw a watermelon seller on the street, I'll go out to buy one later, let's kill and eat." What is a watermelon? It's such a big one, with green skin and green clothes, red inside, and black seeds, and sweet water. ”

He turned his head again and asked Yu Xiaoxiu: "Has Xiaoxiu ever eaten watermelon?" ”

"Nope." When Yu Xiaoxiu heard Yu Shu tell the story, he felt that his mouth was dry, and he scratched his head and said, "I just saw people eat it." ”

Yu Shu said: "Then I'll buy one now, take it back and ask Xiao Er to put it in the well first, just wait for Ming Ming to wake up and eat together." ”

Jingchen's eyes moved, he remembered something, and reached out to pull Yu Shu's sleeve, Yu Shu habitually stretched out his hand and asked him with his eyes.

Jingchen wrote in her palm: 'You want to marry Miss Xia, right? ’

It was still the same question yesterday, and after a night, it was brought up again by Jing Chen, Yu Shu had a headache, said something in his heart, and said to Jing Chen:

"Did Xiao Xiu tell you that between men and women, if they have skin to skin, they will get married?"

Jingchen looked at Yu Xiaoxiu, who was standing awkwardly, and nodded hesitantly.

Yu Shu put his face on the board and taught seriously:

"I'm telling you, what he said is not right, the marriage of men and women, first of all, the two sides are willing to be happy, and then the words of the matchmaker can talk about marriage, there is no love between men and women between me and Mingming, and there is no matchmaker, I can't say it, I am now in the same room with her, it is because of the situation, I am innocent, even if there are some rudenesses, it is not out of love, and there is no place to go over, not to talk about marriage, understand?"

Jingchen was puzzled for a moment, and nodded as if he understood whether he understood or not, what Xiaoyu said, he couldn't understand very well, but he knew that she wouldn't marry Miss Xia.

Yu Shu saw Jing Chen's eyebrows move, and smiled, his eyebrows were clear, and he was dazzling, and said inexplicably: "What are you laughing at?" ”

Jing Chen's face was dazed for a while, did he smile?

"Oh, that's right," Yu Shu suddenly remembered, stretched out a finger, and told Jingchen seriously: "In the future, except for my words, no matter what others say to you, you don't be gullible, so as not to be bluffed, remember?" ”

Jing Chen looked at her intently, confirmed the meaning of her words, and nodded obediently.

Yu Xiaoxiu hugged Jinbao and secretly rolled his eyes on the side, don't think that he doesn't know what to say, isn't the "other person" in his sister's mouth just him.

Seeing Jingchen's docile appearance, Yu Shu's heart itched, and he reached out and wanted to rub his head, but he felt that it was inappropriate to lift it halfway, no matter how he said it, he was a peer, and when he looked back, Jingchen remembered that he had not to turn his face with her, so he fell on his shoulder and patted it:

"Just remember, you lie down and rest, and I'll go out and buy and sell you delicious food."

The four of them stayed in the inn for five days, and after recuperating their spirits, Yu Shu found a dart bureau in the city, inquired about the way to the capital, paid a deposit of thirty taels of silver, and hired a carriage to take them to the capital.

Prepare dry food and clothes, divination before leaving, and the next morning, they set off on the road to Beijing, to the capital of the Da'an Dynasty, Anling City.

Because of the shadow left by traveling with the caravan before, Yu Shu deliberately found a dart bureau to spend a high price to escort him this time, four people went on the road, as brothers, relatives and friends, and there were three dart masters with him, the grid carried swords and weapons, one person drove a car, two people followed on horseback, food and accommodation on the road, and the cost of the peers was Yu Shu.

The dart master of the dart bureau is very experienced, not only recognize the road, but also find affordable restaurants and inns along the way, Yu Shu thought about settling down in Jingchen as soon as possible, so he did not stop more on the road, they hurried during the day, and stayed at dusk, and finally arrived in the capital area after half a month.

Close to the boundary of Beijing, the towns are gradually dense, the farmland is vast, and the people encountered on the way, dressed differently from the south, have a straight accent, and are more brisk than the Wu language.

Half a day of resumption, finally outside the gate of the capital, in the middle of August, at noon, as soon as the curtains were lifted, there was a rush of heat rushing in, Yu Shu looked at the travelers waiting in line outside the car to enter the city, and said to the dart master outside the car:

"Yu Gongzi, you have to get out of the car before you can enter the city, do you think you will come down first?"

"Okay."

Yu Shu and Xia Mingming each packed their bags and asked Yu Xiaoxiu to help Jingchen get out of the car, and the dart master who drove the car drove the car to park elsewhere, leaving the two roots behind Yu Shu and them, and sent them into the city.

There is a ten-zhang long queue in front of the city gate, the voices of the people are boiling, Yu Shu raised his head, into the eyes of a grandiose, the huge wall of three zhang high is like a long dragon lying horizontally, the east and west do not see the head and tail, the city gate head of the arch antlers is engraved with three vermilion characters - "Wanxing Gate".

"It's hot." Xia Mingming put one hand to his ear to fan the wind, wiped the sweat on his forehead with the other, and complained in his mouth.

Yu Shu took off the hat on her back, buckled it on the top of her head, and said, "Drink saliva when it's hot." ”

Over there, Yu Xiaoxiu unscrewed the water bladder and handed it to Jing Chen, and when he saw Jing Chen waving his hand, he went to drink two large sips to quench his thirst.

"Hey, didn't you say you wouldn't let the car go, so how could they get in?" Xia Mingming pointed ahead and said suspiciously.

Yu Shu looked in the direction of her finger and saw that the guards guarding the city had cleared a road for a carriage to pass, and she didn't think it was strange, there were privileged people everywhere, let alone a place like the capital, which was full of wealth and nobility.

Sure enough, the dart master said: "It must be the official chariots and horses in Anling City, they often come and go, and they all know the guards, how dare they deliberately block it." ”

Xia Mingming put down his hand stupidly and muttered in a low voice.

Their group lined up for almost half an hour before they got to the front, and the guards interrogated them one by one one about where they came from and what they were doing in Beijing.

Walk forward more than a dozen steps, a step out of the city gate hole, the eyes suddenly open up, a large road from south to north, the road surface is spacious, can accommodate three cars in parallel, the stone slab is smooth, the foot is not bumpy, the foot is calm.

On both sides of the road, there are neatly lined up buildings, heavy eaves flying, nail head phosphorus, mostly all kinds of shops, signboard exhibition wind, black, red, brown and green, there are also restaurants hanging pots, incense floating on the street, pedestrians on the road come and go, the clothes are fresh and neat, the demeanor is free and generous, not like the countryside and dirty.

Standing at the feet of this son of heaven, if someone comes from a small town, he will shrink his hand and tail for no reason, Yu Xiaoxiu's eyes widened and he looked left and right in surprise, his mouth was slightly open, full of little hillbilly, Xia Mingming and Jingchen were about to converge a lot, the former was probably here, and the latter was his own bearing.

Only Yu Shu, who was rare, turned his head to talk to the dart master, dragged Yu Xiaoxiu, who couldn't move his feet, found a tea shop on the next street, invited the two dart masters to drink herbal tea, paid the remaining twenty taels of "freight", and inquired about the place in Anling City by the way:

"Second Brother Liu, you see we want to find a place to settle down first, where is there a store in this city with a good environment and a cheap environment?" Yu Shu made an abacus on the road, ate and drank in Kaifeng Mansion, plus the cost of the road, her five hundred taels is now almost halfway there, and there are three hundred taels left, but she has to plan to spend money, and it is best to spare money to buy a private house.

"I remember that there is a Yunlai Inn on West Fourth Street, which has complete food and accommodation, but the cheapest night costs one or two silver." The head of the dart master who was asked by Yu Shu had emotion on his face.

"The cheapest is a tael of silver?" Yu Xiaoxiu said distressedly.

Xia Mingming sneered on the side: "What kind of place do you think this is, can Anling City be compared with other places, it costs twenty or thirty taels to eat a meal in a casual restaurant, and it only costs one or two silver for a night, is it still expensive?" ”

Yu Xiaoxiu glanced at her: "It's not spending your money." "Probably because the first impression was too bad, Yu Xiaoxiu never saw Xia Mingming as a girl, so he didn't have much tolerance.

"Y-huh." Xia Mingming turned her head in shame, if it hadn't been for the accident on the boat and the loss of her belongings, this two halves would not be enough for her to take out the Lu to reward.

Jing Chen looked at the two of them, lifted the teapot and refilled Yu Shu's cup.

Yu Shu pretended not to hear Yu Xiaoxiu and Xia Mingming arguing, and chatted a few more words with the dart master, then they got up to say goodbye and went to the brotherhood who was driving outside the city.

Yu Shu and the others sat in the tea shop and talked.

"Mingming, what are you going to do next?" Yu Shu asked.

Hearing this, Xia Mingming sat up straight sensitively, and said defensively: "Of course it's with you, what's the matter, do you want to get rid of me here?" ”

Yu Shu said: "I mean, aren't you here to go to the test, you don't need to go to the place to inquire first?" ”

Yu Shu didn't know much about the process of the Dayan Exam, but he thought that this kind of exam was similar to the imperial examination, and there should be procedures to be done, Xia Mingming's luggage was all lost on the road, so he waited for reference at that time empty-handed, and knew that it was impossible to think about it with his toes.

Xia Ming saw that Yu Shu didn't intend to abandon her, his face was slightly better, and then he said with a sad face:

"I lost my letter of recommendation, I have to find a Yi Shi to get it first, so I can go to Si Tianjian to register my name, if I don't get the document before October, I will come in vain this trip. In this way, tomorrow the two of us will go to the Chengdong Peiren Hall to inquire and see which Yi Shi's house in the city we are going to visit. ”

Yu Shu took a sip of tea and said, "Since you know the road and know where the road is, just go by yourself, I have something to do tomorrow, so I can't accompany you." ”

Xia Mingming was stunned for a moment, and said, "Is your letter of recommendation still there?" Didn't lose it? ”

Yu Shu shook his head, "I don't have a letter of recommendation." ”

Xia Mingming glared: "Then you won't go with me?" Aren't you going to refer to it? ”

Yu Shu held his chin with one hand, looked at her with a smile, and asked rhetorically:

"When did I say I was going to refer to this year's Dayan exam?"

The fruit has been verified for two days, and it can't be added at night, and the second watch will probably be restored the day after tomorrow.