Who is Yu Shu looking for in the Taishi Academy? That can only be Feng Zhaomiao, as far as she knows, the little son of General Feng's family has a good relationship with Liu Jiong, the son of the Xiang Wang, and it should not be a problem to help her build a line with the Xiang Wangfu.

Although he doesn't like to owe favors, Yu Shu has never been ambiguous when he should be thick-skinned, not to mention that this is the right thing.

Yu Shu reported the name of a "lotus room" to the doorman of Taishi Shuyuan, and asked someone to come in and find Feng Zhaomiao.

As soon as she heard that there was a young man named "Lian Fang" outside the library who was looking for him, she immediately thought that it was Yu Shu, and didn't let her wait outside, so she hurriedly followed the doorman to find out, and when she saw that it was indeed Yu Shu, she smiled and greeted her.

"What kind of wind is it today, you are coming to me?"

Feng Zhaomiao is not unfamiliar with Yu Shu, and there is still some cordiality in his words, one is the relationship with Xue Rui, and the other is the last time he was in the library building, Yu Shu had no intention of waking up with a word, so that he no longer had to worry about whether to join the army or learn easily.

"If you don't go to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, I have something to ask for," Yu Shu smiled at him, "Have you heard about the exam questions for thaumaturgy?" ”

Feng Zhaomiao nodded, although he didn't participate in this year's Dayan, he had heard about the exam: "I heard, didn't you ask you to help the prince find something?" ”

"Exactly," Yu Shu didn't go around the bend, and directly explained his intentions, "I want to ask you to help me set up a line, see if I can give the housekeeper of Xiangwang Mansion a benefit, let me go in in advance to inquire about the news, there are only ten days to solve the problem, I don't want to sit and wait for a waste of time." ”

Yu Shu could see that Feng Zhaomiao, who could sneak into the library with her to flip through the scrolls, was not a pedantic person, so he blatantly asked him to help open the back door.

Sure enough, Feng Zhaomiao listened to her request, and did not show disdain or reluctance, but just looked at Yu Shu with some confusion, and said, "Shouldn't you come to me for this matter, is it faster to go directly to Brother Rui for help?" ”

Yu Shu's eyebrows moved, and he excused, "Isn't he away from Beijing and hasn't come back yet." ”

Don't say that Xue Rui is not there, even if someone else is there, she will not go to him.

"He's back," Feng Zhaomiao said in a shocking voice, "Why don't you know the truth?" Brother Rui went back to Beijing with the prince of Xiang, and he has been back for several days, he said a while ago that he was a tolerance, but in fact, he was assigned to welcome the king of Xiang back to Beijing, and I went to Shangshu Mansion to find him the day before yesterday. ”

Yu Shu was stunned, Xue Rui has already returned?

Feng Zhaomiao didn't know when Yu Shu didn't know, and continued to say to her: "This time you should really go to Brother Rui for help, at most I can let you enter the Xiangwang Mansion, I heard that the prince is sick, and you may not be able to see people when you go, but you go to Brother Rui, he can let you see the prince in person and find out more about the inside story." ”

Yu Shuhu asked: "How can you say this, what is the connection between Brother Xue and the palace?" ”

Feng Zhaomiao let out a "ha" with a strange expression: "You don't know what to do?" Princess Xiang is the beloved daughter of Xue Laoshangshu and the aunt of Brother Rui, what do you call this implication. ”

Yu Shu's face suddenly turned pale, "So that's the case." ”

After making trouble for a long time, the famous Xiang prince turned out to be Xue Rui's uncle!

Feng Zhaomiao looked at Yu Shu's face, obviously he didn't know what to say, which made him very confused, that time Brother Rui specially confessed to him, saying that this Lianfang girl was the sister he recognized, let him take care of it, obviously not an ordinary friend, how could she take such a big thing in the exam, she didn't go to Brother Rui, but came to him?

"Lianfang girl, is it inconvenient for you to go to the Xue Mansion to find someone, or will I accompany you on a trip?" Feng Zhaomiao has a good impression of Yu Shu, and aside from Xue Rui's entrustment, he is quite willing to help her.

Yu Shu came back to her senses, her mood was very delicate at the moment, she thought that Xue Rui was still outside Beijing, how could she think that someone would have come back a long time ago, but she didn't get any news, was he too busy to forget her, or did he understand what she said that night, and never saw her again?

Selfishly, she didn't want to lose Xue Rui's friend, but thinking about it, she knew that it was unlikely, if it was her, if she was rejected, she would not be so generous, then it was very likely that Xue Rui had figured it out and planned to break it off with her.

Yu Shu had some plans in his heart, so he stopped thinking about asking Feng Zhaomiao for help, shook his head at him and said, "No need, I'll just go by myself, thank you for telling me this." ”

She came to Feng Zhaomiao, there was a lot of Xue Rui's face, but Xue Rui had nothing to do with her, not even a friend, so she had no position to ask Feng Zhaomiao for help, which was inappropriate.

Yu Shu ignored the trace of depression in his heart and told himself that it was good.

Feng Zhaomiao smiled: "What's polite, how did you get here, do you want me to let the carriage take you there?" ”

Yu Shu said: "I sit in a sedan chair, so it won't be troublesome, you can get busy, and I'll see you another day." ”

Saying goodbye to Feng Zhaomiao, Yu Shu walked to the street and sat in a sedan chair, without turning anywhere, and went directly to Xiangwang's Mansion.

There were no fewer people in the afternoon than in the morning, and there were a few people who didn't hand in the posts during the day, and they all went to line up again, but they stood for an afternoon, and Yu Shu's name was still not called, but a few people who came from the middle of the center went in early.

As soon as it was dark, the Xiangwang Mansion closed the door again, leaving a sentence before closing the door, which made the angry mouths of a group of candidates who had been waiting for a day in front of the door crooked-

"It's not early, and those who haven't been lined up today, please come back tomorrow to deliver the post."

Yu Shu was silently in the crowd, after listening to the notice, he turned around and left, and the first thing he did when he got home was to take a hundred taels of silver tickets from the cash box, rewrite a prayer post, seal it with hard paper, and stuff the silver ticket into it.

Tomorrow, I will rely on this one hundred taels, and if I can enter the Xiangwang Mansion, I can enter, but if I can't enter, then wait for two more days, so many people will accompany her, and she is not the only one who has been pitted.

On the third day of the first thaumaturgy exam, Yu Shu waited outside the gate of the Xiangwang Mansion before dawn, and as soon as the gate of the palace opened, she squeezed to the front, and all the posts handed over yesterday were invalidated, and she had to queue up again.

Yu Shu made a divination before going out, knowing that something was wrong today, but he didn't think it was such an unpleasant way-

The housekeeper opened the letter and checked it, and when he saw the silver ticket she had sandwiched inside, he hid it in his sleeve without saying a word, and told her without blinking his eyelids that he would go aside and wait for the call.

Yu Shu didn't know if it would be done at this time, so she retreated and waited, not wanting to wait like this, waiting for lunch to eat, and waiting until dusk when the gate of the palace was closed again, and the guests in front of the door came and went, and it was still not her turn to go in.

Before the small corner door closed, Yu Shu squeezed to the front and shouted "Steward Zhao" a few times, the loud voice made everyone around look sideways, but the housekeeper who was in charge of receiving the post didn't even reply, she was pushed by the guards and stopped outside the door.

Yu Shu knew that she had met a guy who didn't look at her face, and it was fake to say that she was not annoyed, and she sent a hundred taels of silver away, and she was in vain, and she was helpless.

This is how the situation is stronger than people, and you have to bow your head.

No wonder some people joke that this thaumaturgy is not a skill, but a family background, and anyone with a little family background has already entered the palace, and the rest of these people can only work hard and see their luck.

Touching the ash of his nose, Yu Shu left the Xiangwang Mansion and went to the Peiren Pavilion again, no way, he couldn't enter the gate of the palace, and he listened to some gossip outside, which was better than nothing.

The Peiren Pavilion did not come in vain, two days passed, and as soon as there were many people who had entered the palace, one or two things came out, and those who heard it were surprised-

First, the "lost property" that the prince of Hunan wants to find is neither a treasure such as a golden horse and a jade chariot, nor a living thing such as a bird or a cat, but an ordinary picture.

That's what some people guessed.

Second, the painting was lost on the way back to Beijing, and it had been kept by the King of Xiang himself until it was lost, but he did not remember when he carelessly lost it.

Some people deduce this - could it be that someone stole it?

Most people think so, even Yu Shu is no exception, since he is a treasure, of course he will take care of it carefully, and if he disappears for no reason, he must have been stolen.

If this is the case, it will be even more difficult to find the object.

Some people were dissatisfied and complained: "This theft should be handed over to the government to investigate, why has it become our exam question this year, we are taking the test of Yi Shi, and we are not arresting quickly, and we are in charge of solving the case." ”

"Yes, yes, this question is not good, not good!"

"Really, it's even more biased than the exam questions of the astrological subject!"

Some people below echoed it, and some people disagreed, and said coldly on the second floor-

"This is the Great Yan Exam, if the question is too simple, wouldn't everyone be able to pass the exam, all of them have become Yi Shi, what else to test, we who learn Yi, we have to be able to know the things before and after life for our life's pursuit, and achieve the great power of Yi Zi, romantic for a hundred years, without this consciousness, you still come to participate in the Great Yan Exam to do something, go back to your hometown as soon as possible."

Hearing this, several candidates who shouted loudly just now that the questions were difficult were red-faced, still ashamed, Yu Shu looked up at this person who was sneering with interest, and saw that it was a young man, no more than seventeen years old, with clear eyebrows and thin lips, and he looked like a ruthless person.

Yu Shu agreed with his remarks, and saw that he spoke loudly and had the heart to talk, so he asked Xiao Er for a pot of wine and served it to the second floor.

The young man was plainly dressed, sitting alone at a table with only a plate of peanuts and a plate of sour radish, a book in his hand, and not even a pot of wine.

"This brother, let's fight a table?" Yu Shu put the wine jug in his hand on the table in front of him and asked with a smile.

The young man looked up from the book, glanced at Yu Shu with a faint expression, and pointed to the opposite side casually: "Sit." ”

Yu Shujing took the empty cup on the table, poured two glasses of wine, handed him a glass, and didn't care whether he was drinking or not, he took a sip of himself first, and took the initiative to talk:

"Under the surname Yu, a single name is a tree, and I dare to ask my brother Taigui's surname."

"Wen Shao'an." This man didn't speak at all.

"Brother Wen," Yu Shu changed his title, obviously a self-acquaintance, "I take the liberty of asking, have you ever entered the palace of Xiangwang?" ”

Wen Shaoan held the roll in one hand, picked up the glass of wine in front of him with the other, raised his head and drank it all, put down the empty cup, lifted his eyelids, and said:

"I didn't go."