It's a few days later, and in the blink of an eye, it's October, Xia Mingming's hope of entering the exam Dayan was officially announced, Yu Shu's life is better, she still sets up a hexagram stall in Qiu Guifang during the day, and the number of guests who come to ask for divination gradually increases.

The fly in the ointment is that she has been very unlucky recently, falling when she goes out, hitting people while walking, and choking on a meal has occurred frequently, which makes her wonder if the cycle of Jingchen Jidu Xing's attack is coming soon.

After saving some money for a while, Yu Shu planned to take a trip to the north of the city, in order to visit a few famous Da Yi Pavilions, try her luck, and see if she could find a few cheap good books to come back to read.

Easy to learn is not better than others, the more comprehensive the subject, the more exquisite, the four links are all right, as far as her current ability is concerned, it is more than enough to set up a stall on the street, but there are too few things that can really be taken on the table.

After decocting Jingchen's medicine early in the morning and watching him drink it, Yu Shu dragged the listless Xia Mingming out of the door, there are two things to do today.

"Why are you pulling me out, I don't want to go out on the street."

Yu Shu ignored her complaints, hired a donkey cart on West Sixth Street, and sent it to Qianyuan Street, diagonally across half of Anling City.

Even so, it took a long time to get to Midtown, and after getting off the car, Yu Shu took the hard-earned money to the coachman. After asking for directions, he took Xia Mingming and walked a hundred steps north, and saw a Tantan Avenue not far ahead, running through the east and west.

The street entrance erects a tall archway of blue gray porphyry, four pillars are straight, there is no word plate on it, one side is painted with the blue sky and white sun, and the other side is painted with the bright moon and sea tide. You need to tilt your neck to your back to see it completely, and the people who pass by, the carriages and horses all make a detour, and there are three or two trappers dressed in neat dark green tooth suits. Wearing a hairpin hat and carrying a short soldier at his waist, he walked back and forth around without smiling.

This is a market on Qianyuan Avenue, as long as you cross this street, it is the north of the city, Yu Shu once heard in the mouth of the young man in Mingyuan Gambling House that "a Qianyuan Road, breaking the north and south." Three religions and nine streams converge in the south of the city, and the glory and wealth gather in the north of the city", now see this street, the battle is not lost five hundred years later, Jinghua, more ancient dynasty atmosphere, when there is a bit of awe, it is the foot of the Son of Heaven, there should be a difference.

"This brother. How do I get to the inn near here? Yu Shu called out to a passer-by who came over and asked.

Xia Mingming didn't pay much attention to what she said when she said "Yi Pavilion", and looked at the market from side to side, and only when Yu Shu led her to the door of a post house and saw the horse feed in the fence, her face changed.

"What are you taking me here for?" Xia Mingming looked at Yu Shu defensively. Trying to break free of her hand.

Yu Shu grabbed her tightly, and while pushing her into the post house, he said, "What else can I do, let you write a letter home." ”

Xia Mingming shook his head into a rattle: "I, I haven't figured out how to tell my family, you give me a few more days." Yes? ”

"I'll just let you stay for the New Year." Yu Shu sneered and mercilessly escorted her inside.

Xia Mingming didn't have much strength, so he was pushed in by her, squeezed a way out of the crowded restaurant, killed in front of the counter, asked Xiao Er for a pen and paper envelope, pulled her to the window seat and pressed it, stuffed the pen into her hand, and bent his fingers to clasp the table and threatened:

"You can think about me now, write it to me when you think about it, wait for me here when you write it, I'll go to other places to do errands, and if I can't see your letter when I come back, I'll let you sleep on the street tonight."

As he spoke, he counted twenty cents from the cloth bag he carried and gave it to her, "If you're hungry, go buy a baked cake to eat, you can run around and try it, see if I will look for you." ”

Dropping these words, Yu Shu didn't care whether Xia Ming was willing or not, so she walked away, leaving her alone to scratch her ears and cheeks.

***

Say a thousand ways and ten thousand, it is better to see with your own eyes, Yu Shu crossed Qianyuan Street, walked around the north of the city, and knew the difference.

The road surface in the north of the city is repaired to be twice as wide as the south of the city, the street comes and goes, more is to ride a horse and sit in a sedan chair, the horse is green and yellow and white is not the same color, the sedan chair is a red top green cover parallel bar lifting, the beak is painted gold, the tassel hangs, the lacquer color on the window lattice, and the auspicious pattern is embroidered on the curtain.

As for the pedestrians, they are well-dressed and well-behaved, and they can't hear firewood, rice, oil, and salt when they talk about things. Maybe you pass by a sedan chair casually, and there is a big man sitting in it.

There is not a single beggar on the street, let alone a disheveled person, Yu Shu is wearing a foot-length robe today, with a waist and wrists, and a hairpin on his head, a standard Yike dress, but when he saw that a small guy who was leading a horse was covered with bright satin, her cloth was cold unconsciously.

Yu Shu walked this street market, the roadside pavement was neat, either red tile and powder wall, or blue brick and white ground, there were almost no wandering vendors on the street, not as noisy as the shouting and selling in the south of the city, a little less noisy, a little more peaceful, and even the Taoist temple ringing bells outside a few streets could be heard.

Across the street, between the north and the south, Yu Shu felt something, and secretly ordered herself to be cautious in her words and deeds, she has been in a lot of trouble recently, and she can't help but go out, so she can only try to avoid getting into trouble.

Yu Shu found the "Xianghe Yi Pavilion" according to the place she heard before she came, the Yi Pavilion in the north of the city is not as good as the south of the city like to "get together", one is a family, of course, there are places like Qiu Kwai Fong and Vientiane Street, but there are often many people there, with her current situation, it is not suitable to go.

Yu Shu now regrets that she lost the Yellow Frost Stone that Jingchen gave her, if there was that stone that blocked the misfortune, she wouldn't have to be so careful to guard against it, and she would be worried all day long.

The reason why she was in a hurry to get rid of Xia Mingming was because of this consideration, the last time Jingchen's Ji Duxing attacked, Xia Mingming almost died on the boat, this time I don't know how much trouble is waiting ahead, and she can't take care of her all day long, send her home as soon as possible, and save her from suffering in the future.

If you want to enter the bookstore of Xianghe Yi Pavilion, you need to pay twenty taels of silver first, Yu Shu gritted his teeth and handed it over, took the bookbook that had been changed into the back hall, and saw the bookshelves and bookcases full of eyes. Immediately, I felt that the twenty taels of silver were not in vain, and this place was suitable for people like her who copied books and read them.

The book pavilion of the Great Easy Pavilion usually does not allow people to enter and exit casually, and the corresponding thing is that if you spend money to enter, you can copy it casually, but you are not allowed to take the book away, or you can only spend money to buy it, which is the same as the rules of the three Great Easy Pavilions in Yiyang City.

On a good note, refreshments are also available. Although it is a small portion, it is enough to relieve hunger and survive lunch.

After soaking in the library for a long time, Yu Shu watched the sunset shine into the window, so he sorted out the passages that had been copied and copied. packed up and left, planning to go to the post house to pick up Xia Mingming.

When he walked to the door of the Yi Pavilion and saw two sedan chairs parked outside, blocking the door of the steps, Yu Shu moved to the side, wanting to wait for others to go first.

The two young ladies walked down from the sedan chair one after the other, with slender figures, and they both used fans to cover half of their faces, which made Yu Shu curious to look at them more and look at them exactly like them.

Appropriately cut goose yellow silk with narrow sleeves pinching the waist. Under a floral pleated long skirt, covered with a light fluttering gauze dress, hanging eight treasures exquisite beads around the waist, sachet incense strings, the fan handle pendant red pampas spikes, one of the fan embroidered fish wearing lotus, one embroidered with butterfly love flowers.

Sensing Yu Shu's gaze, the young lady who was a butterfly love flower glared at her. Yu Shu received this unkind gaze, and hurriedly turned his head and pretended to be a passerby, because he was afraid that he would meet some unreasonable young lady and be treated as a prodigal son on the street.

Fortunately, the two didn't bother with her much, and entered the gate of the Yi Pavilion side by side, and Yu Shu rubbed the fragrance on the tip of his nose and left behind them. I didn't see them just enter the gate of the Yi Pavilion, and a Yi Ke sitting in the hall greeted them, leading them forward, and the two of them disappeared behind the door of the Book Pavilion:

"Is that what Star Swirl is talking about?"

"It's peaceful, yes, look for it. She said it should be right here. ”

***

Xia Mingming didn't write a letter to his family, Yu Shu didn't really throw her on the street and bring her home from the post house, so he didn't pay attention to her again, because he wanted to isolate her for a few days and let her retreat.

At night, Yu Shu couldn't sleep and got up to settle accounts, there were copper plates and silver horns on the desk, Jinbao smelled the smell of money, and tried to climb up to the table from her trouser leg several times, but she pulled it off, and hurriedly swirled around her feet, chirping and screaming, waking up Yu Xiaoxiu, who was sleeping soundly.

"Sister, why haven't you slept yet?" Yu Xiaoxiu rubbed his eyes and poked his head out from behind the screen.

"I'll go to sleep later," Yu Shu saw that he was woken up, bent down and pinched the culprit's Jinbao from the ground, and poked it in the head, "If you make any more noise, you will be locked in a cage." ”

"Wow!" Jinbao didn't intimidate, his limbs scrawled, trying to break free from her grasp and jump onto the table, not giving up the opportunity to get in touch with the pile of silver nuggets and silver horns.

Yu Xiaoxiu came over with Ha Luha and interceded for Jinbao: "You just give it a game and save it from making trouble." ”

Yu Shu is not as accustomed to Jinbao as Yu Xiaoxiu, so he grabbed the bamboo cage on the table and stuffed it in, handed it to Yu Xiaoxiu: "Play with it and don't know where to hide it, what does it want money for, and it can still take out the bamboo and spend it, snort." ”

Yu Xiaoxiu couldn't help, so he had to look at the dejected Jinbao in the cage sympathetically.

"Ahh

An exclamation sounded through the courtyard in the middle of the night, Yu Xiaoxiu was "frightened", Yu Shu frowned, put down the abacus and stood up and walked out, the cry clearly came from Xia Mingming's room.

When he came out of the courtyard, Jing Chen happened to open the door and walked out, Yu Shu saw that he was wearing a single dress, so he waved his hand to him and said, "Don't come out, I." ”

Jingchen now knows that there is a difference between men and women, and he will not break into Xia Mingming's room without Yu Shu saying it, so he stood at the door and did not step forward again, looking at Yu Shu's direction with his eyes, beware of any accidents.

Xia Mingming's door was closed, and there was no other figure in the courtyard, Yu Shu grabbed the shovel placed against the wall and reached out to knock on Xia Mingming's door:

"Mingming, Mingming, what's wrong with you, open the door."

There was no response inside, Yu Shu leaned on the door and listened, smelled the intermittent crying in the house, looked at the closed door, afraid that something would happen to her in the house, in a hurry, he took a shovel and inserted it into the crack of the door, and pried open the latch inside.

The room was dark and hollow, and I could still see the human figure, but I didn't find the thief or thief, Yu Shu lit the lamp in the dark, and saw Xia Mingming sitting on the bed, cloaked in a cloak and crying with his knees in his arms.

Yu Xiaoxiu probed his brain outside the door, and it was difficult to come in.

Yu Shu put down the shovel, walked over and sat down on the edge of the bed, and stretched out his hand to push her: "What's the matter, this is, sleep hysteria, what are you crying about, I don't know if everyone else has to sleep at night." ”

Xia Mingming raised his head when he heard the sound, revealing a sweaty face, and his face was pale under the light, if it weren't for Yu Shu's boldness, he would be scared half to death by her ghostly appearance.

"You-"

"Dead, dead," Xia Mingming's voice twitched, his eyes showing horror.

Yu Shu felt a pang in his heart, remembering Xia Mingming's ability to dream of life and death, and immediately grabbed her shoulder and asked, "Who died, did you have a nightmare?" ”

"Fourth sister, it's my fourth sister."