Yu Shu left from Taichengsi, did not go home directly, but asked the sedan chair man to send her to the Peiren Pavilion, which is a place for the eight thousand candidates of Dayan to talk about, there is no lack of ears and eyes, about this thaumaturgy, she wants to hear other people's opinions, and then decide how to act next.

When she came to the front of the Peiren Pavilion building, some candidates had already come back in the building, discussing the matter of the relics of the King of Xiang, Yu Shu picked a tea house in the crowd, ordered a pot of oolong tea, and heard people say that there are many people, there are always some good and capable people, and they do not hesitate to show their tongues-

"This ten-day period, not long, not short, we only need to find out the whereabouts of the relics of the King of Xiang within these ten days, and do not need to look for it, wait for ten days to go to the Taicheng Division to hand in the papers, and then down, it is the matter of the Xiangwang Mansion and the Si Tianjian, before the list in April next year, they will send people to look around according to the answers we have on the roll, and if the lost property can be recovered, the person who took the high school entrance examination will be selected in one fell swoop." Yu Shu nodded secretly, she didn't understand the process of the exam, as soon as she heard them, she had a count, it turned out that this question didn't need them to find things back to count, they only needed to deduce the whereabouts of the lost items within ten days.

"I want you to say, what will this Hunan prince lose? It can be used as a question for this year's Dayan exam. ”

"To be able to move the public like this, it must be a priceless treasure, such as a golden horse and a jade car, which we ordinary people have never seen anyway."

"No, it can't be such a big treasure, I think it should be a small thing, maybe a jade pendant, a painting."

"Makes sense, makes sense!"

When this person exited, the upstairs and downstairs in the teahouse responded, but some people preferred to sing the opposite, humming and laughing: "Who said that it must be a dead thing, maybe it is a living thing, maybe a bird, a cat, maybe this Xiang prince is still a big living person!" ”

Everyone in the teahouse looked at each other, whispers sounded everywhere, Yu Shu touched his chin, felt that this person's guess was interesting, paid attention, sat and waited for half an hour, and inquired about the location of the Xiangwang Mansion by the way, and it was almost noon, seeing that there were no other useful remarks, he paid for the tea and got up to leave

It was expected that on this first day, there would be congestion in front of the Xiangwang Mansion, and there were many visitors, so Yu Shu didn't go to get together and went back to Zhao Hui's house.

Zhao Hui looked forward to it in the front hall for a morning, and when she saw her coming back, she hurriedly asked, "How is it, how did you do in the exam today?" ”

"I haven't taken the exam yet, I only have a question today," Yu Shu told Zhao Hui about the exam questions of thaumaturgy, and said: "I'll think about the method of divination first, and then see how I go to Xiangwangfu tomorrow to meet and ask how the situation is." ”

Zhao Hui didn't understand this, so she could only say okay, so she called the maid to go to the kitchen and brought the ginseng wine and pigeon soup that had been stewed this morning, stared at her and ate two bowls, and then let her go back to the room.

Yu Shu went back to the room and put down the bookcase, took off his hat, tidied up his hair, and went to the kitchen to see that Jingchen's medicine was decocted, and then brought it to him.

Told by He Langzhong not to move for two days, Jingchen only got out of bed this morning, couldn't practice swords, just sat in the house and read, Yu Shu came to deliver medicine, heard the content of her exam, Jing Chen watched her talk about how difficult this question was, how difficult it was to solve, but her face didn't show much panic and distress, so she didn't worry about her much, and said: "Since it has ten days, you can use it for yourself, you don't have to come to see me every day, I will take the decoction on time." ”

Yu Shu motioned for him to drink the medicine first, and joked with him for a long time: "Jingchen, you quickly recover your memory, maybe you will be able to remember the past within ten days, and then you will use your Longhu Mountain's Taoist secret method, pinch your fingers, and you will be able to know where the prince of Lu Dao lost the treasure, and then tell me, hehe." ”

Seeing that she didn't have a proper line, Jing Chen smiled, nodded and said, "Okay, if I can pinch my fingers, I will definitely help you." ”

The two didn't talk much, Yu Shu left with the empty medicine bowl and went back to the room to study countermeasures.

Sitting at the desk, Yu Shu played with the waist card he received from Tai Chengsi this morning, this question of finding things is not difficult, neither due to good luck nor to the future, ordinary Qimen technique, Jiazi Nayin, there is no corresponding divination method at all, however, this question is a little interesting to her.

When it comes to how to solve the problem, the first thing she thinks of is the law of disaster, and she thinks like this: King Xiang lost his treasure, which should be regarded as a kind of disaster, similar to breaking wealth. If you use the law of disaster to calculate the eight characters and four pillars of the King of Xiang, you should be able to find clues from it, at least you can determine when he lost the treasure, and then know where the King of Xiang was at that time and what he was doing, and basically you can determine where the treasure was lost. If that's the case, it's too easy for her.

But the problem is that she can't be sure that what King Xiang loses will always stay where it was lost, there are two possibilities, first, the treasure is found and taken away by others, and second, the treasure will "go" by itself.

Just as the candidates in the Peiren Pavilion guessed, maybe this treasure is a dead thing or a living thing, whether it is big or small, if it is a small dead thing, it is naturally the best, but if it is a living thing, it will give her a headache.

"It seems that what is going on, I have to go to the Xiangwang Mansion to inquire."

Yu Shu put down his waist card, prepared paper and ink, and listed the things he wanted to inquire about in detail on the paper one by one, preparing in advance for tomorrow's inquiry.

Before going to bed at night, I used six hexagrams to divide two whole hexagrams, one hexagram asked if the exam went well, the hexagram presented Xiaoji, and the brother had water and dead wood in his eyes, and there were signs of noble people, a hexagram asked the Ji family to have something to do with her, and unexpectedly showed a fierce appearance, obviously the Ji family did not plan to let her go, which made Yu Shu bittersweet

The day after Tai Chengsi announced the thaumaturgy examination questions, Yu Shu went to the Xiangwang Mansion early in the morning to line up, as she expected, early in the morning, there was a scene of personal crowding and traffic jams outside the door of the Xiangwang Mansion, and there were guards guarding the gate of the magnificent palace, only a small door was opened in the south corner, and a housekeeper wearing a gauze stood inside the door to receive the candidates who came to visit.

"Don't crowd, line up one by one, the male guest is standing here, the female guest is standing over there, after showing your waist card, leave the post, and wait in front of the door to call your name!"

Under the watchful eye of several guards armed with iron soldiers, the crowd did not dare to stir, and obediently lined up one by one, so that the female Yike was stained, and their number was much smaller than that of the male Yike, and the queue was faster.

Yu Shu took advantage of the chaos to mix in the middle of the female guest team, and waited for half an hour before handing the name post written last night to the housekeeper, and took the opportunity to look twice at the door, and saw that a long table in the porter was full of thick worship posts, and two documents were being copied and sorted.

There are 2,000 candidates who have taken this year's thaumaturgy exam, and it is impossible to let them pour in all of them.

After a while, another corner door opened, and the names of the three men were read aloud, and together with their places of origin, some people rushed forward from the crowd, as if they had won the jackpot, and were inspected by the guards for the waist cards and examination posts, and then led in by the people of the palace.

The three men went in, and after a cup of tea, they came out, and as soon as they came out, they were surrounded by people, scrambling to ask them what they had heard, and they all wanted to find out the news earlier.

But these three people were extremely tight-mouthed, refused to reveal a word, and escaped from the crowd with great effort, and disappeared in a puff of smoke.

Also, the examination room is like a battlefield, either you die or I live, who wants to give others more opportunities, so don't you add to your own blockage?

With these three people as an example, the few groups of people who were led in later, none of them were willing to speak, they all kept their mouths shut and left with their heads bored.

Yu Shu thought that she had come early, she counted the heads, and the frequency of the candidates coming in and out, about one more hour, it would be her turn, so she calmed down and waited, listening to the gossip of the people around her, not all without gain.

waited for a morning, until the palace steward announced that the palace was going to have lunch, and let them come back in the afternoon, during which Yu Shu's name was not called.

This made Yu Shu wonder a little, as if she saw a few people who were behind her when she was queuing in front of her, and they all went in, why didn't it take her turn all morning, was it separated?

Seeing that the palace closed the door, the candidates had to disperse, Yu Shu followed the crowd and went all the way to the Peiren Pavilion to eat.

There is no impermeable wall in the world, not to mention that this wall is not a dense piece, Yu Shu just ate a bowl of three fresh dumplings to his mouth, and there was news leaking out of the Peirenguan teahouse-

It turned out that this morning, the candidates who were called into the palace saw not the prince of Xiang himself, but an old housekeeper who had traveled with him to worship immortals for most of the past six months.

It is said that after the prince of Xiang returned to Beijing, he was ill, unwell, and it was inconvenient to see outsiders, so he asked the old housekeeper to meet the candidates on his behalf and answer their questions.

This is human nature, no one can complain about King Xiang's illness from time to time, but another thing makes a group of low-born Yike want to scold their mother-

"Did you notice this morning, there were some people who came late and didn't even hand over the post, so they were called in."

Hearing this strange situation, a group of people below asked what was going on, Yu Shu sucked the noodles, and also pricked up his ears to listen.

"Hey, it's not that I bribed Steward Zhao of the Xiangwang Mansion and bought the relationship in advance, I tell you, don't believe it, if it goes on like this, if you line up honestly like us, you may not be able to enter the gate of the Xiangwang Mansion the day after tomorrow.

There was a boo below, complaining, you and I scolded the housekeeper who opened the back door, Yu Shu smacked her lips, didn't breathe with them, she had already passed the age of complaining at every turn, lamenting the injustice of the world, what she is thinking about now is how to privately connect with the housekeeper who guards the door, if you bribe money two can make her wait one day less, this deal is still quite cost-effective, don't look at this group of people shouting, really want them to have money and doors, who doesn't want to spend money to take the lead, but this bribery, you have to pay attention to a relationship, There is no way, there is no way, there is no one who is willing to collect money, and there is nowhere to use the money.

After Yu Shu finished eating a bowl of noodles, she thought of someone who could help her enter the gate of the Xiangwang Mansion in advance.

Sitting on a sedan chair on the street opposite the Peiren Hall, the palanquin driver asked, "Girl, are you going home now?" ”

"No, do you know where the Dao Taishi Bookstore is, go there."