Chapter 181: Inside Story
"Xuan'er, do you dare to help me choose three cups?"
Everyone's eyes turned and fell on the girl covered with green veil, and they only noticed this well-known figure in the Taishi Academy, but they heard her fall softly:
"Why don't you dare, Your Highness wait a minute. ^^Press Ctrl+D to quickly collect "Please see the novel network"
Liu Hao smiled loudly, looking at the girl who walked forward and circled around the table with wine, with a lot of love in her eyes, and she didn't hide it.
Feng Zhaomiao muttered indignantly: "Fair." β
Liu Hao said: "What's unfair. β
Feng Zhaomiao couldn't control her mouth: "Miss Ji is a well-known scholar under the physiognomy of Taishi Shuyuan, of course it is much easier to pick these glasses of wine." Brother Rui came today to deal with us, but he just brought someone casually, and he didn't have any skills, isn't it unfair? β
Yu Shu touched her nose, was she shot while lying down?
"Oh?" Liu Hao turned his head, from entering the door to the present, he looked at Yu Shu for the first time, swept it over, and returned to Xue Rui:
"Chengbi, you say?"
"Gambling is gambling, what can I say." Xue Rui turned around, lowered his head and said softly in a volume that only the two of them could hear: "I'm sorry to involve you." β
Yu Shu shook her head, she was more concerned about how Xue Rui planned to get down this step now.
Xue Rui saw that there was no dissatisfaction in her expression, he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, his face was much more relaxed, he glanced at the six glasses of wine on the table, his eyes flashed without a trace, and asked Yu Shu:
"Do you dare to pick up three glasses for me?"
"Don't dare." Yu Shu replied honestly, she came to do arithmetic today, but she didn't plan to gamble on luck, in case she was unlucky enough to pick that cup of poisonous wine and let Xue Rui drink three long and two short, she wouldn't be responsible.
The crowd listened to them with their ears pricked up. Listen to Yu Shu's shortness of breath and understand, everyone is ridiculous, how can it be a loser at this time, right?
Compared with the shame of others, Xue Rui smiled instead, and his face was more relaxed: "If you don't dare, you don't dare, then I'll choose myself." β
Yu Shu saw that he wanted to go up to get the wine himself, and he looked like he was forced to go to Liangshan and was generous and righteous, so he hesitated instantly, and he hadn't made up his mind yet. He reached out and grabbed him by the sleeve:
"Wait, I'll help you choose."
After saying that, she regretted it, there is a prince at the head, can she mix it blindly?
Thinking that Xue Rui would refuse, he didn't know that he looked back at her, but nodded and said, "Okay." You help me choose. β
"...... bastard, you can't excuse yourself again!"
Yu Shu secretly glared at Xue Rui, and it was her who was difficult to ride a tiger this time. I had no choice but to step forward, pretending to cover half of my face with one hand so as not to be recognized, and standing at the table with six glasses of wineβ
Dry stare.
What to do? How to pick?
At this time, Ji Xingxuan had already picked up the first glass of wine. walked back in front of Liu Hao, under the watchful eye of everyone. Liu Hao opened the tea lid, raised his head and drank it all without looking at it, wiped the corners of his mouth, and smiled at Xue Rui:
"Non-toxic."
Ji Xingxuan walked back, circled around the table twice, chose a glass of wine faster than just now, and brought it back to Liu Hao.
"Non-toxic." Liu Hao signaled the empty cup to Xue Rui, and the corner of his eyes was already in hand, "If there is another cup of non-toxic, I will win." β
Remove three cups of non-toxic. Of the remaining three cups, one must be poisonous.
Seeing Ji Xingxuan walk back to the table, Feng Zhaomiao, who was anxious, couldn't help but urge Yu Shu, who was still standing stupidly in front of the table:
"Lotus girl. You're picky, if you don't pick it, it's gone! β
Xue Rui reached out and patted him on the shoulder. Restraining him from yelling, he turned his back on Yu Shu and said:
"Don't worry, you pick slowly, and then serve it to me when you're ready."
Liu Hao turned his head to look at him, and saw that he looked calm, without the slightest worry, and felt a little strange, but he couldn't grasp the point.
Xue Rui clasped his arms in both hands, glanced sideways at Liu Hao, and a smile of unknown meaning appeared in the corners of his eyes.
In this round of betting, he wins and wins, and loses and wins, but it costs some money to lose.
"Hey, what is she doing here?" Feng Zhaomiao was surprised, and Xue Rui turned his gaze to the table again, and saw Yu Shu, who had been standing stupidly for a long time, groping around on his body, picking out a few copper plates out of nowhere, picking up his skirt and squatting on the ground and throwing them, clanging and clanging.
Ji Xingxuan also noticed Yu Shu's movements, and there was suspicion in her eyes, she knew that there was a kind of divination technique in the Dao, which was to use copper plates to occupy the records, but that technique had long been lost, and how could it be used by a young girl.
Ji Xingxuan was so distracted, she could only start over again with her eyes closed for a while, then walked around the table again, about four or five laps later, stopped, took a fancy to a glass, stretched out her hand, heard a muttering in her ear, and in a blink of an eye, she was taken preemptively and took the glass of wine she saw.
That's not all, the owner of the hands chose two cups one after another, as if scrambling, and before she could react, he took away three teacupsβ
At this point, there is only one cup left on the table.
"Extreme East, Extreme West, Official Eye..."Yu Shu thought silently, confirming that he had not taken the wrong cup, and turned around and walked towards Xue Rui, holding three cups of tea in his hand.
Everyone in the Huaixian Hall was dumbfounded, who thought that she would grind and chirp for a long time, and she actually picked three cups back, and she could almost predict that one of these three cups was going to be finished, and those who had a good relationship with Xue Rui were all in a cold sweat, looking at Yu Shu, who was regarded as child's play, and his face was not good.
Xue Rui helped Yu Shu take the cup, and couldn't laugh at her rash behavior, although he was ready to drink rat poison once, but he still didn't want to drink it if he couldn't drink it.
"Let's see if it's poisonous." Yu Shu urged, but she didn't know that her words were very weird.
Ji Xingxuan didn't take the last glass of wine on the table, and retreated to Liu Hao's side, since the other party chose three glasses, then she didn't need to choose again, she only knew that Lu Dao Yu Shu had a glass of wine in her hand that was non-toxic, but she wasn't sure if the other two glasses were available, so she paid attention to it with others.
This concern doesn't matter, Yu Shu was holding a cup in her hand, forgetting to cover it, and happened to be looked at by Ji Xingxuan, she hadn't paid much attention to this girl who was walking with Xue Rui before, so when she saw it, she frowned and thought about it, and recognized Yu Shu's face. It was the young man dressed up that he had seen beside Xia Jiangmin.
It's her?
Seeing the person escorting Xia Jiangmin into Beijing appear next to Xue Rui, Ji Xingxuan couldn't help but have some doubts about Yu Shu's identity, but he didn't call it out on the spot, but waited and watched.
Xue Rui got the cup, didn't hesitate, drank a cup, smacked his lips, didn't say anything, picked up the cup, and drank it in one go. He picked up another cup, and at this time the group of people in the hall were already nervous, and they were afraid that he would go down with this glass of wine, and he lay on the ground with his stomach in his arms, foaming at the mouth and fainting.
Even Yu Shu, who was picking wine, looked at Xue Rui nervously. She was a dead horse as a live horse doctor just now, and she really couldn't do anything, so she thought of using Liuyao to ask about the matter in front of her. I don't know if it's useful or not, if Xue Rui really wants to drink something, it is estimated that it will not be enough to pay for selling her.
Xue Rui raised his head and poured the third glass of wine under the gaze of everyone. Yu Shu looked at his crisp appearance, and his mood suddenly became a little strange. Did he trust her too much, or did he trust himself too much?
After swallowing the last sip of wine, Xue Rui wiped the wine stains from the corners of his mouth, looked at Yu Shu with his eyes, his eyes gradually condensed, revealing a strange look, as if he could see the uneasiness in her expression, and said hoarsely in a voice washed by the wine:
"I don't have anything to do, you picked it very accurately."
Yu Shu sighed, so dangerous.
Liu Hao, who had been staring at Xue Rui, stiffened his face. Strode forward, picked up the remaining cup, and lifted the lid of the tea. I put it under my nose and sniffed it, and there was a faint smell mixed with the aroma of the wine. made his face suddenly turn ugly.
Ji Xingxuan frowned slightly, looking at Yu Shu with a happy face, and couldn't help but wonder if she was lucky, or if she would really use that thaumaturgy.
Seeing this scene, everyone knew it, and each of them brushed a cold sweat, and Xue Kuangxu, who came to the door with Liu Hao, secretly clenched his fists.
Feng Zhaomiao stammered and grabbed Xue Rui's arm, "Rui, Brother Rui, you're okay, right?" β
Xue Rui shook his head, looked at the back of the Seventh Prince in front of him, and asked, "Your Highness still has a glass of wine to drink, do you admit defeat now, or do you personally check the authenticity?" β
Liu Hao turned his changing face behind the crowd, and then turned around, his face was already as usual:
"What do you want?"
This sentence is a disguised admission of defeat and the bet at the beginning.
Xue Rui said: "But ask for the roots of your ears to be pure, and don't entangle them anymore." β
This was said very face-saving to Liu Hao, but among the insiders present, there were a few people who couldn't hear the severance in Xue Rui's words, two years ago, who in Anling City didn't know that the eldest prince of the Xue family and the seventh prince wore the same pair of pants.
"Good, good," Liu Hao couldn't laugh, his fingers loosened, and the cup containing rat poison fell to the ground, splashing three feet of hops, making everyone's hearts tighten, afraid that he would attack at this time.
However, Liu Hao did not lose his temper, he just glanced at Xue Rui deeply, and then brushed his sleeves and left, Ji Xingxuan glanced at Yu Shu again, and left without saying a word.
"Your Highness!" Xue Kuangxu shouted, turned his head and said to Xue Rui angrily: "You have offended the Seventh Prince now, are you happy?" β
Xue Rui's eyes flashed, "My business, when will it be your turn to take care of it." β
Xue Kuangxu was deflated, but he didn't dare to talk back, he snorted lightly to chase Liu Hao, as soon as this group of uninvited guests left, the atmosphere in the Huaixian Hall improved significantly.
Liu Jiong, the son of the King of Xiang, was ashamed because he privately arranged for Xue Rui to meet Liu Hao, and looked at Xue Rui without saying anything, with a hint of flattery on his face.
Xue Rui was in a good mood at this time, too lazy to bother with him, sighed on his face, and waved his hand: "Forget it this time." β
Yu Shu was still thinking about the glance that Ji Xingxuan glanced at her before leaving, knowing that he was recognized, and was thinking about how Ji Xingxuan would think about her identity, so he listened to a gentle voice and asked with curiosity:
"Lianfang girl, is the divination technique you just used a long-lost six-line method?"
The person who asked this question was the young woman who was sitting next to Liu Jiong before, and it seemed that she was also a female student of Taishi Shuyuan.
Only then did everyone think of the inconspicuous one next to Xue Rui, if they really want to talk about it, the bet just now, not only did the Seventh Prince lose the bet, but Ji Xingxuan also lost the game, not as good as the little-known "Lotus House Girl" in front of him.
When you think about it, it makes people interested.
"yes, yes, what did you just do that?" Feng Zhaomiao came up excitedly, and said unintentionally: "If you lose the copper plate, you will know the cause and effect of the road, isn't it a trick to deceive people on the rivers and lakes?" β
In the face of everyone's inquiry, Yu Shu smiled silently, and neither concealed nor responded to Liuyao's words. In fact, she couldn't say well, the three glasses of wine just now, it was because of luck, or the six yao played a role, after all, she had never used it in anything.
Xue Rui glared at Feng Zhaomiao and said to Yu Shu: "Don't pay attention to this naughty boy, if you want to be entangled by him, you will have a headache." β
sneered at Liu Jiong again: "I came here today to take her to meet a few Great Yi Masters, but I was disturbed by you and ran away in vain." β
Liu Jiong listened to his words, first smiled at Yu Shu, and then said: "What's this, which Da Yi master does the girl want to meet, I will directly write a letter of recommendation to you, and go to the door to find it." β
Yu Shu was overjoyed, and she didn't squirm, and she reported a few names on the spot, which she heard in Qiu Guifang for a while, a famous master in Anling City.
Liu Jiong didn't say kind words, so he turned his head and asked his subordinates to find letterheads and write them to Yu Shu one by one, so that she could visit her at any time.
This commotion came at noon, and the crowd had long lost their gambling nature, and they didn't eat lunch, so they hastily dispersed and left the Dingbo Pavilion.
said goodbye in front of the door, and got into their own carriage and sedan chair.
In the car, Xue Rui looked at Yu Shu happily holding the letters of recommendation, but he didn't inquire about the meaning of the grievances between him and Liu Hao.
After receiving the letter of recommendation, Yu Shu remembered one more thing, turned his face away, and said to Xue Rui: "It's bad now, I didn't make money from gambling, what do you want me to pay for Xiaoxiu's tuition?" β
Xue Rui poked out a few silver tickets from his arms, dialed two and handed them to her.
Yu Shu looked at the denomination of the first two hundred taels and was surprised: "Borrow me?" β
Xue Rui gave her the silver ticket in his hand, and his tone was brisk:
"No, it's a pay."
Reward her for sparing him from drinking that cup of rat poison.
Today's trip is not in vain, what should be solved has been solved.
***
Liu Jiong didn't go to give it away, he took the female student from the Taishi Shuyuan to the back garden, and retreated from the people, before he took her hand, hugged the person on his lap, wrapped his hand around her waist, and said lazily:
"Miao, do you say Xiao Wang is called thankless?"
Xie Miaoyun touched his cheek and said softly, "The prince is also kind." I don't know what kind of grudge the eldest prince Xue has with the Seventh Prince, it is so difficult to resolve? β
Liu Jiong kissed her on the finger, "I don't know much about them, I heard that it was a woman, who knows if it's true or false." β
Xie Miaoyun didn't ask in detail, and instead cared about something else: "The Seventh Prince brought Ji Xingxuan here, is it really the same as outsiders say, this Ji family is expected to climb to the imperial family?" β
"It used to be hard to say, but now, it's not necessarily."
"Huh? What do you mean by that? β
"It's okay to talk to you, just don't talk to outsiders," Liu Jiong lowered his voice: "I heard my father say before that the emperor intended to point out the four daughters of the Xia Jiang family to the seventh prince as concubines, and the purpose was prepared, but not long ago, Xia Jiangying was tragically killed, and this matter was over." Looking at my cousin today, I should be more interested in this Ji Xingxuan, if you have a heart, you should be closer to her. β
Xie Miaoyun nodded and sat back upright, "I'm curious about that Lianfang girl, where did Senior Prince Xue find such a person, I haven't heard of it before." β
Liu Jiong said: "What's the curiosity, I want to see if she chooses the wine glass is just luck, and you can know what to say if you throw a copper plate." β
"The prince doesn't know that in this Yishu hundred studies, there is a number called Liuyao, which is divination with six copper coins, and the things asked are endless, and they are all right. I saw that the lotus room was used, and it was indeed like this technique, and if it was so, it would not be allowed to be let go no matter what. β()