Midsummer, June 14th.

Early in the morning, Ji Ning prepared a generous gift, brought a thick stack of manuscripts, and then took a carriage to the half-mountain residence of the Guozijian in Jinling City.

The autumn test is in August, and there are less than two months left, and Ji Ning no longer drags on, copying the Analects and the Mean a hundred times, and will focus more on making the final sprint for the autumn test in the future.

All the way, I entered the mid-mountain residence and entered Shen Kang's large and narrow study.

In the study, Shen Kang, as usual, carefully and carefully examined Ji Ning's manuscript.

After the inspection, Ji Ning thanked Shen Kang for punishing him for copying the Analects and the Mean, giving him a deep understanding of the Analects and the Mean, and allowing him to understand many truths from it.

Shen Kang bowed slightly, accepted Ji Ning's thanks, and then said encouragingly: "In the past six months, you have been studying hard, and your academic progress is relatively fast, and the old man is very pleased. However, you still lack some heat to participate in the autumn exam, and I hope you will continue to work hard and study harder. ”

"Yongning obeys the order and will live up to Master Tai's expectations." Ji Ning arched his hand and said.

Shen Kang said again: "In the future, you will continue to look for the old man every five days." If you have an important and urgent problem, you can also find an old man temporarily. ”

"Thank you, Master." Ji Ning bowed happily.

More than an hour later, Ji Ning came out of Shen Kang's study and prepared to go back.

He pondered a question about Shangshu in his heart, and was walking down a corridor.

Suddenly, a white figure burst out from the side, blocking his path and startling him.

When he came back to his senses and looked at it, he couldn't help but smile a little.

"What are you laughing at?!" The other party snorted fiercely.

Ji Ning was not angry, and looked at the other party with a light smile, he hadn't seen him for more than half a year, and the daughter of this tomboy couldn't hide it anymore.

I saw that the other party was taller than the last time they met, and they were already slim, and their delicate faces had been opened, and they were even more beautiful and moving, especially a pair of beautiful eyes like two pools of autumn water.

Of course, this is not the most obvious change, the most obvious change is that her original flat chest has a small scale, and she can't hide her summer clothes.

This made him sigh in his heart, sure enough, the eighteenth year of the female college has changed, and in less than a year, the tomboy has become a little beauty.

"What are you looking at?" Zhao Yuanxuan felt Ji Ning's gaze sweep over the parts that had bothered her the most recently, and couldn't help but threaten with murderous eyes, "Look at this son gouging out your eyes again!" ”

Ji Ning retracted his gaze, Jun had a calm smile on his face, shook the paper folding fan in his hand, opened the paper fan, and shook it twice unhurriedly before he smiled: "Who is Ji Mou?" It turned out to be a simple question that took a year to answer the little fool. ”

When Zhao Yuanxuan heard this, he was immediately half angry, he hadn't seen him for half a year, this hateful guy was still so angry, and his mouth was still so poisonous.

"Hmph, Shao Se!" Zhao Yuanxuan suppressed his anger, raised his beautiful face, looked disdainful and arrogant, and snorted coldly, "Such a simple question, this son disdains to answer!" ”

Ji Ning wanted to tease Zhao Yuanxuan again, but then he was worried that this little girl would not be able to bear it, and she was hit like last time and disappeared for more than half a year.

"Hehe, okay. I'm sure you don't bother to answer. He rephrased.

Zhao Yuanxuan snorted: "What?!" It was meant to be! The first piece of Confucius is called Wen Wang Cao! ”

"Not bad." Ji Ning said with a smile.

Zhao Yuanxuan unceremoniously boasted: "This son is extremely smart, he has five cars and eight talents......

Ji Ning was embarrassed, directly ignored Zhao Yuanxuan's boasting, and said: "It's not good to stand in the corridor and talk in the way, let's talk in a different place." ”

"Why ......" Zhao Yuanxuan subconsciously objected, but halfway through speaking, he swallowed it back and said arrogantly with a pretty face, "I will reward you with two faces, and I will talk in a different place." ”

Ji Ning smiled faintly and arched his hand and said, "Thank you." ”

Zhao Yuanxuan knew that Ji Ning was deliberately sarcastic about her, but she pretended not to know, and said arrogantly: "It's good to know." ”

With that, she turned and walked down the hallway.

Ji Ning and Zhao Yuanxuan were both familiar with the Mid-Mountain Residence, and the servants inside were also familiar with them, so the two naturally walked into a reception room and sat down, and immediately a servant brought fragrant tea and pastries.

After taking a sip of tea, Zhao Yuanxuan pretended not to care and said, "I heard that you are going to participate in this year's autumn exam?" ”

"Not bad." Ji Ning nodded and said, "How do you know?" ”

Zhao Yuanxuan glanced at Ji Ning and said mockingly: "Since the beginning of this year, you have studied hard behind closed doors, you have not participated in a single party and banquet, and you have almost disappeared, who doesn't know that you are going to take this year's autumn exam?" The whole Jinling City knows it! Do you think it's confidential? ”

"Not really." Ji Ning shook his head with a faint smile and said, "It's just that I didn't expect so many people to care about Ji." ”

"They care about you? Hehe, it's really going to put gold on your face! Zhao Yuanxuan said ridiculously.

After a pause, her tone changed, and she waved her little hand that was as white as frost and said, "Forget it, it's okay if you don't know, so as not to mess up your heart." ”

"What the hell is going on? Could it be that there are rumors in Jinling City that are unfavorable to Ji? Ji Ning frowned slightly and said, and then bowed to Zhao Yuanxuan, "Please tell me truthfully." ”

Zhao Yuanxuan hesitated for a moment and said, "Okay, this son will tell you." Anyway, you will know sooner or later, and if you know sooner, you may be able to correct your mentality in time. ”

"Now Jinling City is discussing that it is true that you will participate in this year's autumn exam, but it is full of malice." Zhao Yuanxuan continued, "They say that it is difficult for you to live up to your fame. said that although you have the reputation of a talented man, but you have never participated in the imperial examination, and even the fame of Xiucai is obtained from the shadow, which shows that you are very weak-hearted. Especially if you have been hiding at home for half a year. ”

At the end, she said: "You must not take these rumors seriously, it is estimated that someone is jealous of you and deliberately spreads these rumors to disturb your mood and affect your autumn exam." ”

"Thanks for the reminder." Ji Ning arched his hand and said, "Don't worry, Ji's state of mind is not so impetuous." ”

Compared with facing Zhang Hong's huge crisis, the rumors of ulterior motives are nothing at all, and he doesn't care at all.

Zhao Yuanxuan has been paying attention to Ji Ning's expression, and seeing that Ji Ning has always looked calm, he nodded secretly in his heart, this is the Ji Ning she knows. If Ji Ning became angry, she looked down on her.

"Do you need Ben Gongzi to help you find out who spread these ill-intentioned rumors?" She asked.

Ji Ning shook his head indifferently and said, "Thank you, but you don't have to." Ji doesn't care. ”