Yi Li took the exam for three days, and the fifth year of junior high school was a subject of feng shui, Yu Shu didn't plan to go, but sorted out what she had learned and heard for most of the year at home, and prepared for the exam of thaumaturgy.

Thaumaturgy, as the name suggests, since it can be called strange, it must be a rare or even rare easy technique, like the strange door technique usually used by Yi Ke, Jiazi Nayin, etc., can not be called strange, but like the chess spirit scripture, Zhou Gong interpretation of dreams and other more partial divination techniques, it can be regarded as "thaumaturgy".

However, in the subject of thaumaturgy, the scope of the exam is not limited to the content of which thaumaturgy is specific, and the questions are often based on current affairs, focusing more on application, and the questions are often tricky.

For example, Yu Shu has seen it in the Dayan dossier over the years, there is a test question that asks the candidates to divinate the top three in the imperial examination of the year, and the five days are limited, so that the candidates can go home to answer, and when the five days arrive, they will go to the Taicheng Division to submit the papers.

This form similar to an open-book exam has both advantages and disadvantages for Yu Shu, the advantage is that she is good at the application of easy learning, and the disadvantage is that it is cheaper for those candidates who have a "back door", such as Ji Xingxuan and others, the family is a family of easy learners, and there are elders who know how to learn easy arts, and they help go out behind their backs to make plans, which is not considered cheating.

In other words, this subject is the most unfair of the six subjects of Dayan, and the one with the most greasy, and the candidates are not fighting for knowledge, but for family background.

Because of this, there are very few Yike who take this subject exam, most of them have some family backgrounds, and they can get a place in this subject in exchange for the title of Yishi and act as a façade.

However, there are many people with real talent and real learning, like Yunhua Yizi, who was born out of thin air, won the first place in this thaumaturgy subject, and he just pressed those children of the family under his feet, and he was not allowed to show his head, which is called a spirit!

Because of the leakage of the astrological subject, Yu Shu does not plan to take the test again, and now among the six subjects, she has the greatest grasp of thaumaturgy and arithmetic, and arithmetic is a special subject, and she is also titled, and she can't pass the top three, which is equal to the white exam.

In this way, if she wants to enter the Taishi Academy, she must win the subject of thaumaturgy, and at the very least, she must enter the 100 yuan, otherwise she will not even be able to get the title of Yi Shi.

This Dayan tried to hide the dragon and crouching tiger, who guaranteed that there would not be another Yi Zi operator, she was not completely sure that arithmetic could enter the top three, in case she took the fourth or fifth exam, and took the title of a big arithmetic in vain, not even a Yi Shi, then she couldn't enter the gate of Taishi Library.

There are things that give Yu Shu a headache these days, but there are also things that make her happy-

Since Huang Shuangshi returned to her hands, the successive disasters around her have shown signs of abating, and after a few days, Yu Shu found that sometimes she didn't need to deliberately dodge, and those small disasters that had been predicted earlier were inadvertently resolved.

For example, half a month ago, even if she would be sick on the first day of junior high school, she did suffer from a morning of freezing in the examination room, but when she got home, drank a bowl of ginger soup, and slept under the quilt, there was nothing to do.

Another example is that she calculated that she would break her fortune in the third year of junior high school, but as a result, she went to Changchun Street that day to see the killer, and got drunk in the restaurant, and the money bag fell on the table, but Jingchen saw it, and in the end she didn't even lose a copper plate.

Another example, she got up this morning to cook and tripped at the kitchen door, and when she got up and went into the kitchen to add firewood, the pot hanging on the door fell down with a "clang".

Such an immediate effect made Yu Shu pleasantly surprised, and repeatedly sighed that Huang Shuangshi was really a good baby, she really didn't know the goods before, and she didn't suffer at all if she exchanged the exam paper of Yi Zi.

Yu Shu took the talisman made of yellow frost stone for two days, and hung it up for Yu Xiaoxiu in front of Jing Chen, and didn't hide it from him, Jing Chen didn't say anything, but Yu Xiaoxiu had vaguely heard them talk about this stone before, and knew that Lu Dao was a treasure, Yu Shu hung it on him in front of him, and he took it off and stuffed it for her.

As an elder sister, everything is close to the younger brother first, and the younger brother is naturally devoted to his sister, in Yu Xiaoxiu's heart, Yu Shu is good, he is good.

Yu Shu said all the soft and hard words, Yu Xiaoxiu still refused to wear this talisman, he couldn't, he didn't dare to do too much in front of Jing Chen, but in private, he knocked Yu Xiaoxiu a few chestnuts, and hung him around his neck.

Yu Xiu finally succumbed to Yu Shu's violence and reluctantly took it.

"What are you pouting, it's not for you, wait for me to take the exam in a few days, and you will take it off for me." Yu Shu rubbed Yu Xiaoxiu's head and said angrily: "I don't know how to be good to you, it's true." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu snorted, touched the talisman in his collar, and asked Yu Shu, "Sister, when will Brother Xue come back?" ”

As soon as Yu Shu heard the words "Brother Xue" at first glance, she was silent, and the vague back of Xue Rui when she left that night, as well as the slight drop on her shoulder, was strange in her heart, she would rather him turn his face with her now, than such an unclear attitude.

Who knows whether he understood or didn't listen to her confession after listening to her confession, she didn't have any bottom in her heart about Xue Rui.

"I don't know if he promised to take you for a horseback ride, and he should come to you when he comes back." Yu Shu perfunctorily looked at Yu Xiaoxiu, but in his heart he thought that Xue Rui had better forget about it, otherwise the two of them would not know how embarrassing it would be when they met.

"Oh."

"I'm hungry, sister, let's go cook, let's eat egg cakes tonight." In winter, ordinary people don't have anything to eat, the best is a meal of meat, and then fish and eggs.

Yu Xiaoxiu said: "Then make two more sheets and warm them up tomorrow morning for breakfast." ”

"Okay, let's go, give me a hand."

Since the day Ji Xingxuan lost the Yellow Frost Stone in Changchun Fang, Ji Huaishan has been sending people to inquire about the news in the vicinity, trying to find people out, but in the past seven or eight days, nothing has been found.

Ji Xingxuan lost her beloved thing, and she felt uncomfortable for several days, but she didn't show it in front of Ji Huaishan, she had to participate in the six subjects of the Dayan test, and she needed to work harder than others, and she had lost a lot of weight after passing the two subjects, Ji Huaishan felt sorry for her granddaughter, and told the housekeeper to send supplements to her yard three times a day, in order to make her happy, she spent a lot of money to buy a pair of colorful parrots who could speak and sing, and made gifts for her.

Yesterday, after a feng shui examination, Ji Xingxuan rested at home, waiting for the next subject, and last night stargazing half night got up a little late in the morning, the pair of parrots stood side by side in the birdcage, and in the living room, they could hear their crisp and crisp calls:

"The auspicious stars shine high, the fortune is rolling, the auspicious stars are shining high, the fortune is rolling!"

The stove in the cold room was burning, Ji Xingxuan was served by two maids, freshened up, drank a cup of white fungus silk to remove the bitter taste in his mouth, and went to the living room with the hand stove, and just put it on the table early, a small plate of peeled quail eggs with vegetarian porridge and hot dishes, and a bowl of steaming fresh goat's milk.

As soon as he woke up, Ji Xingxuan had no appetite, drank half a bowl of porridge, rinsed his mouth, and brought a small plate of peeled peanuts to feed the parrot.

The big girl on the side, Yunhe, reminded: "Miss, don't feed too much at once, this bird can't eat it." ”

This Yunhe girl has been serving Ji Xingxuan for three years, she was selected into the Taishi Academy, and after she came to the capital to study, Ji Huaishan assigned to her, she can be literate and martial, do things safely, and she is two years older than Ji Xingxuan, so Ji Xingxuan treats her very differently from other maids, and she can listen to her words.

"Hmm." Ji Xingxuan handed the plate to Yun He, and was about to go to the study to read the book, when he heard someone gasping outside the door curtain and reported:

"Miss, Miss, the adults asked the little one to call you to the front yard, someone from Yiyang City is coming."

When Ji Xingxuan heard this, he hurriedly motioned to the maid to roll up the blinds to let people outside, and asked, "Who is here?" ”

"It's the third master, the second young master, and my uncle's family are here, I heard that Aunt Ma has been promoted and is going to Beijing to be an official!" The errand boy replied excitedly.

"Really? My little aunt is here too? Ji Xingxuan stood up, and on his unveiled plain makeup, he clearly showed joy, and turned his head to Yun He and said:

"Go and pick up the cloak and go with me to the front yard.

"Yes." Seeing that she was energetic again, Yun He responded with a smile, ran into the house and picked out a velvet core cloak with a blue hibiscus face, draped her on her body, arranged her hair, helped her out of the house, and hurried to the vestibule.

A pair of parrots in the cage saw that everyone was gone, and there were no peanuts to eat, so they flapped their wings and kicked over the small saucer on the bamboo pole with a "clank", and the millet particles in it were scattered and fell

"Miss auspicious, Miss auspicious!"

On the seventh day of the first month, Yu Shu went to Taichengsi in the morning to read the notice, the day of the astrological examination is set on the ninth day of this month, and there is a subject of physiognomy behind it.

On the way back, she deliberately passed by Qiu Kwai Fong and went to the Fu'an Dart Bureau to take a look, Zhao Qinghui was out of the dart, and his uncle Boss Zhou was there.

Seeing Yu Shu coming to the door, he warmly invited him to the tea room, lit the fire and put the tea on the stove, and the two sat and chatted for a while.

This is Yu Shu's first serious business in Qiu Kwai Fang, the red envelope of twenty taels per month is not a lot, but there is nothing to do, the dart bureau rarely looks for her, she decided to take the test last month, and said hello to Boss Zhou, at that time Boss Zhou also politely took fifty taels as a gift, which was rejected by Yu Shu.

The Fu'an Dart Bureau has been smooth and smooth recently, Yu Shu sat for a while and then got up to say goodbye, Boss Zhou knew that she was going to prepare for the exam, so he didn't leave her to eat, saying that he would wait for her to finish the exam, and then invite her to eat and drink.

Yu Shu walked back to Huixing Street, it was almost noon, Jingchen was home alone, she was thinking about whether to buy food or cook food at noon, when she heard someone shouting behind her:

"Little brother, go slowly, can I ask you about something?"

Yu Shu turned around, and saw a carriage stopped at the street not far away, the coachman was waving at her, the other party spoke with a southern accent, she listened to it cordially, and took the initiative to step forward.

The coachman smiled at her and said, "Let me ask for directions, how to go to Xingjie this time?" ”

Yu Shu pointed to the street behind him and said, "That's it." ”

"Thank you."

"You're welcome."

Yu Shu saw that there was nothing wrong with her, so he turned around and left, behind him listening to the coachman report back to the car:

"Master, this is Huixing Street, the road is narrow, and the car can't get in, do you think it's small to go inside and inquire first?"

"No need, let's get out of the car and walk."

Yu Shu was only a little familiar with the sound in the car at first, and walked out of the car for more than ten steps before he looked back curiously.

I saw two men and a woman coming down from the carriage with their backs to her, but the round-faced woman who was being carefully helped out of the carriage by a man was not Zhao Hui who hadn't seen her for half a year!