Zhao Yuanrong left Tianxianglou, she got on the horse directly, and several attendants behind her also got on the horse to follow him.

"Childe, did you capture that person alive?" A female dead man asked.

Zhao Yuanrong waved his hand and said: "There is no need to come back alive, try to send someone to follow him and see where he goes, you must not let him have any contact with the people in the palace, you go first, I can go back to the residence by myself!" ”

"Yes!" Several female dead soldiers, after receiving the order, only Zhao Yuanrong remained at the door of Tianxiang Building, at this time it was close to the second watch, even the night market in the area of Chongwenmen, at this time it was almost closed, only Tianxiang Building was still brilliant in the lamp wall, Zhao Yuanrong looked at it for a long time, he looked back at the lights, and finally she squinted and looked, but still went in the direction of the street.

At this time, in the Tianxiang Building, Ji Ning, Tang Xie and others were already standing on the platform on the first floor, and the last step after the election of the Oiran was about to be carried out, which was to write the names of all the people who threw flowers in the slips of paper according to their shares, and put these notes into the big cylinder to draw lots.

Because it involves more than 2,000 pieces of paper, things are also very troublesome, you need to cut them in advance, and you have to use a pen to record your name, especially if you give 20,000 taels of silver at a time like Ji Ning, you have to write 2,000 notes at a time, which is enough to exhaust the people of Tianxianglou to death.

Ji Ning originally had a lot of ways to save the steps of drawing lots, but he didn't want to get involved, because he himself was also a candidate, and the probability of being selected in the end was very high.

Especially those who envy and hate him, they will think that he has ulterior motives.

In the end, Ji Ning could only look at the people in Tianxianglou, as if they were playing a monkey show, and wrote the notes one by one and sent them into the big cylinder, which looked like a bath bucket for a certain girl to bathe, and was temporarily transformed to catch lots.

It was Ji Ning's turn to write Ji Ning, as well as the mysterious old scholar, in order to be simple, Ji Ning's directly drew a circle inside, while the old scholar's drew a cross, which also greatly saved the time and steps of writing a note.

In the process of writing, it is necessary to compare and calculate, almost all the guests present have become supervisors, and everyone is staring at the following, after all, most of the guests present have voted for Liu Ruyi's flowers, although most of them have only voted for one or two, but now they are not willing to be pulled out by Ji Ning Liu Ru is first place.

"It's done, you guys check it, but there's a problem?" When Tianxianglou completed the preparations before the lot, almost half an hour later, the guests in Tianxianglou not only did not decrease, but seemed to increase.

After Ru Niang finished speaking, she felt that it was actually a very unreliable thing to check again, after all, there were so many notes, and it was very unrealistic to open them one by one to read them again.

Everyone was staring at the wooden barrel of drawing lots below, but only Ji Ning, who was looking at those people in Tianxianglou intentionally or unintentionally, because Ji Ning knew that this drawing of lots was definitely not carried out from a fair point of view.

According to probability, his probability of winning the lottery is indeed the highest, because he votes for the most flowers, and he has the most notes in it, and he is the easiest to be caught.

But realistically, this is a private lot, and there must be a small note in someone's hand, and when the results are announced, what is announced is not the note taken out of the cylinder, but the small note in the person's hand.

And this person, Ji Ning's analysis is very likely to be Ru Niang, because all Hu Siqing today is presided over by Ru Niang.

"Let's get started!" Ru Niang wiped her sweat and said, Ji Ning noticed a small detail, Ru Niang's left hand has been holding a handkerchief, but at this time she wanted to wipe the sweat, but she used her right hand, obviously his left hand not only pinched the handkerchief, but also used the handkerchief to hide the note.

Ji Ning said: "I gave out 20,000 taels, and today's lot should be drawn by Zai Xia himself, right?" ”

Ru Niang immediately became a little nervous and said: "No, this is our Tianxianglou's matter, you are just a guest of our Tianxianglou, this kind of thing, you should avoid it." Ji Jieyuan, don't forget that you are also a candidate for the selection, if you insist on drawing lots, even if you win, others will think that victory is not martial, right? ”

Ru Niang still has some experience in dealing with the world, and after she said this, sure enough, many people present stood on her side and supported this statement.

Ji Ning nodded with a smile and said, "Okay, let's start!" ”

Tang Xie waved his hand and said, "Slow, how can you ensure that the current lot drawing is fair?" ”

Ru Niang said: "We did it under the supervision of everyone, so many pairs of eyes watching, is there anything wrong?" What does Tang Gongzi mean is that there are so many people present, and their eyes are blind? Don't think that if you give out 20,000 taels of silver, you can't afford to lose! ”

Tang Xie was annoyed in his heart, and was about to say something but was pulled by Ji Ning's sleeve, Ji Ning signaled him not to say more, but Ji Ning's face was confident.

Ru Niang was about to walk in front of the cylinder, but Ji Ning deliberately approached Ru Niang, grabbed the handkerchief of Ru Niang's left hand, Ru Niang grabbed the handkerchief very tightly, this accident, the body naturally fell forward, in the case of losing balance, she subconsciously wanted to use her hand to help the person next to her, fortunately there was a guy from Tianxianglou next to him to support, and after she stood firm, patted the dust on her body, but saw the handkerchief fall to the ground, she quickly picked it up, and after making sure that there was no problem, she had palpitations and walked in the direction of the cylinder.

"Ru Niang should be careful!" Tang Xie sneered.

Ru Niang glanced at Tang Xie angrily, and then put her hand into the cylinder, her hand stirred up in it a few times, and then she took out her hand, and there was a small round paper ball in her hand.

"Okay, it's this son's selection, you can open it!" Ru Niang handed the paper ball to the literate guy next to her.

The guy opened it in front of everyone, just when everyone thought that it should be the name of a certain son, but when the guy showed the paper ball to everyone, it was not words at all, but a huge circle.

The names of most of the people present were written on them, but only Ji Ning and the old scholar were represented by special imprints.

The circle is indicating that it is Ji Ning.

"Huh? This...... How is this possible...... "Ru Niang didn't understand what was going on at this time, obviously she had a paper ball with a fork in her hand, but how did she go in and fish out a circle of paper balls?

"What? Isn't that right? Tang Xie came out and said, "Our brother Yongning invested 20,000 taels of silver at a time and achieved this result, which is well deserved, wouldn't it be that Tianxianglou thinks that Miss Liu can still be cultivated for a few years, so she wants to cheat?" ”