"I take the liberty of asking, have you ever entered the Xiangwang Mansion?"

"I didn't go."

Hearing this, Yu Shu thought to herself, if she didn't understand it wrong, the person in front of her said "didn't go", not just that he didn't go today, but that he didn't go to the palace at all, this is strange, on the third day of the exam, why was he so unhurried, didn't he take the test in this subject?

Then the fox asked, "Why don't you go?" ”

Wen Shaoan put down his wine glass, continued to read, didn't bother to look up, and said, "You can't enter the door, it's useless to go." ”

Yu Shu felt that his words were a bit interesting, people had only been to the door of the Xiangwang Mansion before they knew that it was not easy to enter, but he seemed to know that he couldn't enter the Dao early on, and there must be a basis for such foresight.

She was about to ask another question, when someone suddenly called behind her:

"Wen Shao'an!"

Yu Shu turned his head and saw two young men in jackets coming up from the staircase and striding towards their table, with unkind faces.

"Wen Shao'an, you open-mouthed liar, refund me five taels of silver, saying that I can enter the Xiangwang Mansion today, and let me wait for a morning!"

As soon as he heard this, Yu Shu twisted his face to the young man at the same table, what did you say, this person is a liar?

"It's only morning, what are you anxious about," Wen Shaoan frowned, and said to the visitor: "Isn't there still an afternoon, I said that if you can enter, you can enter." ”

"I don't care, you return my money!" One person stepped forward and couldn't help but pull Wen Shaoan's clothes, his face was full of annoyance, obviously a morning's empty waiting, a white joy, polished his patience.

Wen Shaoan sneered: "Do you have to come to me for Xiangzi, am I begging you, ridiculous, like a fool like you, even if you can enter the gate of the palace, this subject is destined to be at the bottom." ”

"You

The corners of Yu Shu's forehead twitched, this kid spoke, isn't he looking for a fight Sure enough, the man who collected debts was tall and strong, impulsive, and without thinking about it, he swung his fist at Wen Shaoan and threw him to the ground, and knocked over the stool with a bang.

There was a commotion all around, but no one stepped forward to dissuade him, Wen Shaoan was pressed to the ground, punched twice in a row, and saw blood on his face, and there were even people faintly cheering and cheering around.

Yu Shu frowned, and said in her heart that she knew each other, she didn't look like a liar, but like a person with real skills, hesitated for a moment, then shouted, threw a cup on the ground, and interrupted the dispute-

"Stop!"

The beating stopped, turned his face to look at Yu Shu, and said without a good face: "Who are you?" ”

Yu Shu first showed a smile, and said in a good voice: "I am the eldest brother of the same township with him, how much money does he owe you, I will pay it back, do you dissipate your anger?" ”

The man hesitated for a moment and looked at Yu Shu suspiciously: "You and this kid are fellow villagers?" Why haven't I seen you? ”

Yu Shu nodded, and without much explanation, he took out the money bag, poured all the silver pieces and silver horns in it on the wine table, counted them with his hand, picked up two and pointed to a small pile on the table, and motioned for the man to take it.

The man beat Wen Shao'an, and he was angry, and when he saw that someone was paying for him, he lost Wen Shao'an, stepped forward and grabbed the silver that Yu Shu took out, snorted coldly at Wen Shao'an on the ground, and said:

"If you dare to lie to Lao Tzu next time, I will beat you."

After that, he took the people with him and left, leaving behind the discussion of a teahouse.

Those who learn to change are not as knowledgeable as the literati, three teachings and nine streams, uneven, like such a ferocious and unreasonable, there are many people.

Wen Shaoan was still lying on the ground, Yu Shu stepped forward, bent down and saw that he had a pair of eyes open, so he didn't stretch out his hand to help him, but just asked kindly: "Brother Wen, you are seriously injured, can you get up?" ”

Wen Shaoan glanced at Yu Shu, slowly sat up from the ground, wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth, and said:

"Nosy."

Yu Shu smiled secretly, she was kind enough to become a donkey's liver and lungs, and when she saw him stagger to his feet, he walked to the table and sat down, and she also sat back.

Wen Shaoan picked up the flask and poured a glass, drank it all, coughed twice, and said to Yu Shu: "I don't have the money to pay you back." ”

Yu Shu said: "This matter is not in a hurry, what happened just now, why did he say that you lied to him?" ”

Wen Shaoan shook his head, didn't want to say more, but poured another glass of wine and handed it to her, "I don't have the money to pay you back, you write a word, I'll help you take a look at the fortune, and I will take you five taels of silver."

Word measurement? Yu Shu was a little surprised, word measurement is a very common means of divination, many gentlemen who set up stalls on the streets of Qiu Kwai Fong will do this trick, she still thinks that this Wen Shao'an has some thaumaturgy or the like, is it that she has lost her eyes?

Yu Shu suspiciously dipped her fingers in the glass of wine, thought about it, and wrote down the word "today" on the table.

"The writing is really ugly," Wen Shaoan first laughed, staring at the word "today", with a flash of inspiration in his eyes, he wiped it off the table with a middle hand, leaving a puddle of water stains, and looked up to Yu Shu and said:

"You have not been going well recently, what you ask for is often in vain, although there are nobles, but they are blocked and helpless, after all, it is a bamboo basket to draw water, I advise you not to waste your efforts, and give up early for wisdom."

The layman looks at the excitement, the insider knows the doorway, listening to his assertion, Yu Shu's heart jumped, and after a little scrutiny, he felt that his first two sentences were extremely accurate, she had not been in line with the past two days, and the failure of what she asked for should be said that she had not been able to enter the Xiangwang Mansion several times, as for the nobleman, it should mean Xue Rui Yes, these points have made him right.

If you want to say that he is accurate, but what is the matter with his last two sentences, the bamboo basket is empty? Which piece does this refer to?

Yu Shu was suspicious, so he asked: "You say that I can fetch water with a bamboo basket, what do you mean?" ”

"How do I know how much you have to do," Wen Shaoan said very irresponsibly, he grabbed the scroll on the table, got up and said to Yu Shu: "You and I don't owe each other now, don't ask me for money again." ”

With that, he went downstairs in a lot of guidance.

Yu Shu looked at his staggering back, thought for a moment, and waited for him to disappear downstairs before getting up and leaving.

Wen Shao'an's assertion did not have much impact on Yu Shu, she was more willing to believe in herself than to believe in others, she was still a stranger she met for the first time.

However, when she returned home, she still temporarily got up and used the six lines to make a divination for herself, asking about the results of this big test.

Although she had used the Six Lines to test herself many times before the Great Yan Test, none of them had been like now, asking directly about the results of the exam, because the Six Lines Judgment Method was not a panacea, and although the accuracy rate far exceeded that of other thaumaturgy, it had one of the biggest drawbacks1

It is that its high accuracy is aimed at what has happened recently, and it can predict recent events strongly, but it is relatively weak in its ability to predict distant events, and there is often a big deviation.

When the Qingzheng Taoist taught her, he once mentioned the face order, saying that the six masters can measure recent events, measure major events, measure things asked, and measure changes.

The results of the Dayan exam will not be announced until April next year, which is beyond the scope of recent events, so she never asks about the results of the exam, because it is not accurate to ask.

Yu Shu's eight characters are useless, she can use the law of disaster to know the blessings and misfortunes of others, but she can't know her own, and all she can rely on is the six judgment methods passed down by Qing Zheng.

Yu Shu used the six lines to predict the results of her Dayan try, but unexpectedly threw two empty hexagrams in a row, the hexagram was disordered, and the Qianzhen phase was cut without a clue, so that she had no way to start arranging the hexagram speculation, let alone confirming, Wen Shaoan's sentence "The bamboo basket is empty" does not refer to the ending of her participation in the Dayan test this time.

put away the copper plate and didn't bother about this matter anymore, Yu Shu only thought that meeting Wen Shaoan in the Peiren Pavilion was a small episode, and he quickly left it behind.

Tomorrow, I have to go to the door of Xiangwangfu to queue up Yu Shu wrote the third letter after dinner, after hesitating, he was ruthless, and sandwiched three silver tickets of one hundred taels in it, which was two hundred taels more than yesterday.

"Chirp," Jin Bao climbed onto the desk and squatted on the edge of the candlestick, holding his paws and calling at Yu Shu twice.

Yu Shuzhong grabbed it lightly with her hand, hooked her fingers on its little tail, and sneered at the corner of her mouth, she didn't believe it, she couldn't enter this Xiangwang Mansion!

"Wow!"

On the fourth day of the first examination of thaumaturgy, Yu Shu was finally able to enter the gate of the Xiangwang Mansion, and the Zhao Guanjia who received the post got her three hundred taels of silver, and her face was finally relaxed, she waited in front of the door for less than half an hour, and someone called her name, and in the envious eyes of everyone, she was led into the palace with two other people.

As Yu Shu thought, she gave less than the one hundred taels of silver she gave yesterday.

After spending four hundred taels of silver to buy tickets, Yu Shu was not in the mood to enjoy the garden view of the palace, so he followed his subordinates to a flower hall and met the old housekeeper of the palace who was meeting guests here.

Knowing that the identity of the old housekeeper who is more than half a hundred years old is not low, the three of them salute and are ushered to the seat, knowing that there is not much time, Yu Shu does not talk nonsense, and the first one asks out loud:

"This exam question is vague, I want to ask, what kind of treasure did the prince lose?"

The old butler had tried to answer this question countless times, and said very casually: "It's a painting." ”

Yu Shu then asked, "What painting?" Which craftsman painted it? ”

The old butler stroked his beard and said, "It's not a masterpiece, it's just an ordinary painting." ”

"Is the painting lost, or stolen?" Yu Shu heard speculation in the Peiren Pavilion, and he was afraid that the painting was stolen by someone, and it was difficult to know his whereabouts.

The old housekeeper shook his head: "I can't tell, I should have lost it." ”

What kind of answer is this, Yu Shu frowned, at this time, the two people who came in together were already dissatisfied with her three questions, and took the opportunity to steal the conversation, and inquired about the story of King Xiang's loss of paintings, the old housekeeper answered them one by one, but there were many places that were "unclear", which made people depressed.

"Okay, that's all I know, a few guests, please come back," the old butler replied about the same, and got up to see off the guests, just past the time of a cup of tea.

Although the other two were not satisfied, they still got up to say goodbye, only Yu Shu waved his hand to the old butler, and finally asked:

"Okay, please ask the prince's birthday, let me go back and test."

Hearing this, the two of them stopped, turned their heads and glanced at Yu Shu in surprise, they didn't want to know the birth date of King Xiang of Lu Dao, but when they asked this, it was disrespectful, and they didn't think that there were really bold people who dared to ask for it.

"This" The old housekeeper's expression was only hesitant, he was not dissatisfied, and he did not reprimand Yu Shu, "The prince is eight characters, it is inconvenient to show it, but I can tell you the date of the prince's birth." ”

After that, he turned around and took the ready-made paper and pen on the table, wrote down the birthday of King Xiang, glanced at the two Yi Ke who were waiting to take advantage with their ears pricked up, and smiled at the corner of his mouth, but handed it to Yu Shu alone.

The two of them looked at it with a long neck, Yu Shu quickly took the strip and folded it, put it in his sleeve, thanked the old housekeeper, ignored the two people, and took the lead out of the house.