The next day, the moon rose.

I couldn't wait to come to Taishi Mansion to find Yin Gao, but when I walked into the stargazing courtyard last night, I unexpectedly met Shi Mo in a cyan witch robe.

Shi Mo stood beside the white sand pool with his hands in his hands, and the white sand in the pool, which was as fine as snow chips, and his head of gray hair were covered with a layer of silver-white hazy halo under the moonlight. He looked up at the sky, and I looked at him from afar. For a moment, the misty moonlight and the silence around me made me feel that this white-haired old man in witch clothes seemed to be really having a conversation with the eternal Haotian that no mortal could hear.

"What's your name?" Shi Mo sensed my presence and glanced sideways at me.

I stood there and bowed, and replied, "The Master called me Ah Shi." ”

"Ah Shi...... Can you have a surname? ”

Surname...... I thought of someone in my mind, but then I shook my head and said, "No." ”

"And where are you from? Who is the birth mother? Shi Mo turned and stood face to face with me across the clear light, the moonlight casting a long shadow behind him.

"The little girl is from Qin, and her biological mother is the concubine of a wealthy family in Jingyang City. As Taishi expected, Ah Shi is not the daughter of the Shi clan, but just a pariah with no identity. "Why is Shi Mo asking about my background at this time? Could it be that he was born from a humble background and was not even qualified to compete with his disciples? I was already prejudiced against Shi Mo, so my tone was naturally a little offended in anger.

Shi Mo didn't blame me for being disrespectful, he just raised his sleeve and beckoned to me: "You come closer, let me see you." ”

I took a long breath and took a few steps forward.

"What year were you born?" Shi Mo looked at me in a daze, and his two thin shriveled lips seemed to tremble slightly.

"Twenty-four years of the king." I replied neither humbly nor arrogantly.

"But at the end of the year?"

"Exactly."

"Snowy?"

"A-Niang once said that on the night of the little girl's birth, the snow covered the sky." In the face of Shi Mo's questioning, I gradually became suspicious in my heart, but I still answered all his questions honestly.

"Heavy snowfall...... Good, good. Shi Mo laughed dumbly at my answer, he looked up at the sky above him and paced left and right for two steps, and then strode up to me, "You look up, let me look into your eyes again." ”

I raised my head as I said, and I was greeted by Shi Mo's eyes that were so cold that they seemed to freeze everything. In these eyes, there was eagerness and consternation, helplessness and sorrow that I couldn't understand. In the moonlight, he stared at my pupils, but the focus of his gaze seemed to pass through me, landing on a distant place that I couldn't see.

What is he looking at? What did he see in my eyes?

"Taishi?" I frowned slightly.

Shi Mo was suffocated, and the whole person suddenly regained his clarity: "Yin Gao is waiting for you at the stargazing platform outside the city, you can go quickly!" He left me silently and turned and walked towards the main house. I hurriedly turned around and chased after me, and he raised his hand to keep me three feet away: "If you lose the competition in five days, you will never want to step into my Jin Kingdom half a step again!" He glared at me, and that angry look seemed to reproach me for why I appeared in the Jin Kingdom, in front of him.

I looked at his back, raised my hand and touched the bone ring on my arm, Master, Master, did he drive you away like this in the first place? Five days later, I will ask him Cai Mo to lower his noble head for you!

Shi Mo slammed the door of the main house shut, I took one last look at the closed door, turned around and strode out of the Taishi Mansion.

In order to avoid unnecessary trouble, since I arrived in Xinjiang, I will wear a bamboo hat without a shirt every night when I go in and out. Although others can't see my eyes, Yin Gao can see it clearly last night. Shi Mo appeared here tonight, obviously for my eyes. But why was his reaction so strange? Is there a secret hidden behind my different pupils that I don't know?

In the next few days, I slept in Zhao's Mansion during the day, and at night I went to the Xingtai outside the city to meet Yin Gao.

The shirtless put away all the women's clothes that Beru had given me, and replaced them with the husks for horseback riding and the plain dark clothes worn by men. In his opinion, my current goal is not to become a witch in Taishi Mansion, but to become a disciple of Taishi Mo, and dressing up as a man will make everything much smoother in the future.

I'm actually a little curious, Zhao Wuxian and I have only met each other twice in the Qin Kingdom, and he knows that I can build songs and know how to make medicine and wine, but why am I so sure that I can fight Yin Gao and Luan Tao in astrology, divination, and soul calculation?

I calmly told the doubts in my heart to the untwiled, but the unscrupulous only told me mysteriously, intuition.

Well, my gut feeling is going to lose, his gut feeling is going to win, it's kind of a tie.

Everything depends on tomorrow's competition!

That night, I waited for dawn with my eyes almost open. As soon as the rooster crowed, he hurriedly got up to fetch water and freshen up, and properly dressed himself up as a handsome young man. I couldn't wait for the maidservant to bring me breakfast, so I ate a few mouthfuls of dry food, drank a bowl of well water, and trotted to Berlu's yard.

When he walked outside the Beru Courtyard, he found that the guards and maidservants who were usually guarding the door were gone, and he took two more steps inside, and suddenly heard an unfamiliar voice from the main house.

"Xun Ji told me before, you brought a Qin girl into the mansion, I didn't think it was a big deal, you can take it and keep it or give it away later. But what about you? You sent someone to Taishi's mansion, are you forcing Taishi to take her as an apprentice? Ridiculous! Ridiculous! You're so daring! ”

Who's talking in the room?! Could it be Zhao Ying? The head of the four secretaries of the Jin Kingdom, Zhao Ying, who is famous all over the world!

In the past few years, I have seen his name countless times in the secret reports between Qin and Jin, and each time, the name Zhao Ying is associated with toughness, wisdom, bravery, and victory. I was overjoyed when a person who had been written on a book suddenly appeared in front of me. But soon, the initial excitement turned into guilt and apology. Inside the house, Bolu was scolded by Zhao Ying like a storm because of my rude request in front of Shi Mo.

"Why are you not like me at all, how can you let me trust the Zhao family's inheritance to you after a hundred years!"

"Father, husband, he was also confused for a while, so he fell in love with the Qin girl."

"You've let me down so much!"

I didn't dare and couldn't break in at this time, so I had to kneel outside the door and wait for them to come out.

"Come with me today to make amends to Taishi, a few days ago, Zhiyao sent some people to your eldest brother, and that Qin girl asked Xun Ji to send Zhiyao there!" After Zhao Yan finished speaking, he opened the door and walked out, saw me kneeling at the door and said, "I don't know each other, don't you all want to retreat?" What are you still doing on your knees! ”

"Qin Nu Ashi, meet the prime minister!" I bowed down and bowed.

"That's you...... Keep your head up! Zhao Ying's voice was like a frozen river in winter, cold and piercing, making people tremble.

I slowly raised my head and looked at the powerful old man in front of me with courage. There is no brocade clothes and jade belts, no golden crowns and gorgeous shoes, Zhao Ying only wears an inky white edge deep coat with a bronze long sword, he is tall, his waist is straight, and he does not look like a sixty-year-old man at all. The square face is high, the long eyebrows are in the sideburns, and the eyes are obviously clouded with a layer of time, but they are still bright, and Ling Ran is cold.

"It's a pity for this look. Xun Ji, find someone to send her to the place where Nule lives. Two days later, you personally sent someone to Zhifu, saying that it was a birthday gift from me to your brother! ”

"No!" Xun Ji looked docile and virtuous, and replied with her head bowed.

"Please allow the little girl to participate in today's competition." I straightened up and said in a loud voice.

"W-bold!" Zhao Ying's eyes widened, and he pressed his sword with his right hand and scolded, "No matter what I promise you, I can't do anything here." ”

"Father, this Qin girl is a guest I invited, you can't ......" Bo Lu trembled and spoke, but was pulled by Xun Ji.

I took a deep breath and said in a deep voice: "The prince has never made any promises to the little girl, and this competition is an agreement between Taishi and the little girl. If the prime minister leaves the little girl in the house at this moment, after half an hour, he may have to send someone to pick him up, which is really too troublesome. ”

Zhao Ying listened to my words as if he had heard a very funny joke, and he looked up and laughed, but Beru looked at me with a pale face and horror.

Zhao Ying smiled, turned his head to the guards beside him and said, "Take her, if Taishi doesn't ask later, just cut off her head and throw it into the muddy water to feed the fish!" ”

"No!" The guard lifted me from the ground with one hand and shouted, "Go! ”

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