As soon as Xie Qingyu came back, she didn't follow them, but turned around and returned to yesterday's room, and after today, she can be regarded as having a basic understanding of Gusu City.

Although she still looked shopping with Xie Youran and her group on the surface, she learned a lot of things just by listening to the conversations of passers-by, so she ignored Xie Youruo's words, and listened attentively to the people in the restaurant.

Although most of the time, it is discussing the gossip about who is better looking at Xie Youran, but there is also some useful information, such as which lady is good at in the exam subjects.

After returning to the wing, Xie Qingyu was practicing calligraphy seriously, she had always felt that her regular script was not bad, but today I heard that calligraphy seems to be the main test of cursive, she was a little unable to write cursive before, so she could only pray that when the time came to take the exam, let her draw a simple one.

Xie Qingyu had just finished practicing writing and was about to fall asleep in his clothes, but the voice of Yahuan not far away came.

"Miss Whisper, Miss Whisper."

Xie Qingyu had just taken off his coat, did he hear it, the sound of the maid ring outside the door, and he didn't know what was going on in the middle of the night, Xie Qingyu immediately hurriedly put on his coat and opened the door.

"What's the matter?" Xie asked lightly.

"Miss Light Rumor, Miss Youran said that I asked me to inform you, the prefect's mansion specially sent a message to all the ladies who came to Gusu for the exam today, and a banquet will be held in the Sanchuan Hall in Gusu City three days later."

Xie Qingyu understood when he heard this, it must be that the prefect knew that several young ladies of the Xie family lived in Gusu Lu's house, and it must have been when they went out to play today that they sent the invitation over, and when Xie leisurely went back, he saw the invitation, so he specially asked Lu Zhuyue to send a girl to inform her.

"Alright, I see, you go down." After Xie Qingyu said this, the girl turned around and left, and she didn't stay for a moment.

Xie Qingyu immediately took off her coat again and went to bed, but she did not fall asleep immediately.

She had heard about this before, every time before the second round of the female official election, the prefect of Gusu City would give a banquet to all the people who passed the literary examination in the sixteen cities, one of which was to let the famous ladies of the family know each other, and the other was to see who was more capable of preparing for the female officer.

And behind these young ladies of the family, they basically represent their own families, and they are the most pillar power centers in the entire Jiangnan.

Thinking like this, Xie Qingyu fell asleep unconsciously.

In the past few days, she has been seriously staying in her room, seriously preparing for the Jiucai exam.

And there must be many young ladies from the family who went this time, and this banquet is probably not so simple.

Time passed quickly, and in a blink of an eye, it was the day when the prefect held a banquet.

Xie Youran sent someone to remind Xie Qingyu early on, he must dress up to attend today, although the Xie family is second to none in Jiangning, but looking at the entire Jiangnan, there are many families, and there are many branches derived from Yanjing, for a while, it can be said that there are many stars, and you must not let others look at the jokes of the Xie family.

Xie Qingyu changed into the gorgeous clothes prepared for him by his mother before, this was what his mother let her wear on more important occasions, and wearing it today can be regarded as not losing the face of Jiangning's Xie family.

By the time she walked to Qixia Pavilion, Xie Youran and the others were already waiting for her at the door.

Xie Youruo looked at the Xie light rumor from this model, and there was also a wave of jealousy and anger in his heart, sure enough, it was a fox, and her mother was carved out of an embryo.

Today's Xie Qingyu is wearing a moon-white embroidered gold peony pattern bright satin trimmed shirt, covered with red peony flower cicada wing yarn, the breeze blows, the light yarn flies, the whole person exudes a faint aura, the black and thick hair is pulled into a simple hibiscus Guiyun bun, and an elegant jade jade flower is put on, the face of the slightly powdered Dai is lined with a white complexion, the eyebrows are like Yuandai, and a pair of beautiful peach blossom eyes are like water waves, which makes people can't help but sink into it.

Xie Youran looked at her sister, and she was also surprised, she knew that Xie Qingyu was a beauty, but she never thought that she was becoming more and more slender.

"Some of them were really big and had a whole bunch of us waiting here." Xie Youruo was already very angry because he was waiting for Xie Qingyu, but now when he saw Xie Qingyu's foxy appearance, he was even more angry, and immediately sneered.

"Sister Youran, I'm sorry, the rumors have just been delayed on the road." Xie Qingyu also knew that she was a little late today, but she couldn't compare with Xie Youran and Xie Youruo, they had a maid ring to serve by their side, and they had to do everything by themselves, just the bun she had to do for a long time before it finally took shape.

"It's okay, let's go quickly, it's just that Zhuyue wants to wait for me and join us." Xie Youran listened to Xie Qingyu's words, but he didn't care, but turned his head to look at Lu Zhuyue and smiled slightly apologetically.

"Look at what you said, what else do you and me have to share between you and me." Lu Zhuyue was also amazed by Xie Qing's rumors, and suddenly heard Xie Youran call his name, so he said.

A few days ago, Xie Qingyu mostly lowered her head, and she had never dressed up, she thought it was just a willow posture, and she also told Youruo that such a small role, where is it worthy to compete with Xie Youran.

Now that I look at it, this woman really seems to have hidden some strength, but I don't know if her literary style is the same as her appearance, it is a treasure hidden in it.

Several people are walking towards the Sanchuan Hall again, the Sanchuan Hall is known as the most famous in the south of the Yangtze River, and has always been known as the only hall in the whole Jiangnan, the name of the hall, because it is an extremely elegant place, and the unusual thing can not open the door of the hall.

After a while, the carriage finally stopped.

A few people slowly came down and walked towards the gate of the Sanchuan Hall, at this moment there is already a special slave to accept the invitation, and people who have nothing to do with the exam are not allowed to enter today.

Xie Youran and Lu Zhuyue respectively handed out the invitations they received, and the names of Xie Youruo and Xie Qingyu were also unloaded from Xie Youran's invitations.

Sanchuan Hall, among which there are three main water systems, one should pass through Gusu City, and Gusu has another nickname, Water City.

Moreover, when the three rivers flowed through Gusu, they never caused floods, and the people in Gusu City regarded these three rivers as auspicious flows, so the royal family specially allocated funds to build a guild hall, and named it after Sanchuan.

The nomination of the four characters of the Sanchuan Hall is written by the current emperor himself, and the pen is strong, and you can see the infinite majesty and domineering in the wave.

There is a black lacquer door in the foyer leading to the museum, and two round drum stones decorated with lion reliefs are placed on both sides of the middle door.

When the servant who was guarding the door had read the invitation, he let them in.

Although Xie Qingyu wanted to take a few more glances at the internal structure of the Sanchuan Guild Hall, it was not a good thing to be too curious at the moment, and she didn't know whether it was a blessing or a curse to come this time, so she kept her head down.

But unexpectedly found that the ground of the Sanchuan Hall is also very exquisite, all paved with ash terrazzo bricks and granite steps.

Among them, the beauty of granite and natural appearance are integrated, quite stylish.

Enter the gate, turn the front hall is a long corridor, along the pebble sheep intestine path all the way to the flowers and willows, but see the pavilions and pavilions around, the wild geese swept up in front of a pool of clear blue, the willows along the coast are still around, and the willows hang down in the blue water to reflect the clear shadow.

In the middle of the lake stands a pavilion, and the green tiles are flying. Look again, not far away the rockery strange stone level, the long corridor covered with the long carpet of the hollow valley orchid runs through the entire pavilion, the pavilion is almost covered with carved lattice windows, elegant and exquisite.

Xie Qingyu sighed in her heart, sure enough, it is the first conference hall in Jiangnan, which is integrated into a lot of garden buildings, she has never been to Suzhou Garden in her previous life, and today I saw the scenery of Sanchuan Hall is probably comparable to Suzhou Garden.

The group continued to walk forward, and finally came to a pavilion, which looked extremely noble and handsome from a distance.

In the already very elegant garden, it has added a few elegant atmospheres, and the royal handwriting is really different.

Looking at it from afar, you will know the name of the pavilion pine feng shui pavilion, the ancients have always admired pine, bamboo, plum three kinds of plants, later generations will call these the three friends of the cold year, now the whole banquet is held here, but also the candidate's moral character is respected to the extreme.

When a few people approached, they heard laughter and laughter coming from the cabinet.

Above the Songfeng Shui Pavilion is the main seat, which is the position of the prefect of Gusu City, and there is a slightly smaller position behind it, Xie Qingyu guessed that it should be the position of the prefect's wife.

On both sides of the table are long wooden tables, which stretch all the way down to the table as if there is no end in sight.

In the middle, a red carpet embroidered with a pattern of flowers blooming and wealth is dozens of meters long, stretching down from the stairs, and then when it reaches the flat hall, countless seats extend backwards.

There is a palace lamp placed at the steps of only five meters, all of which have the appearance of hexagonal lifting and carving hollow restraint, and the candles set off during this are all made of plants made of deep sea grass to make oil, and when lit, the air has been filled with a very elegant fragrance.

As soon as Xie Qingyu entered the pavilion, he was also shocked by the momentum in front of him, just looking at the seats on the scene, he already knew the wide range of people attending the banquet today, although the literary test had eliminated many people, but the sixteen cities in the south of the Yangtze River, together with the remaining number of people, were also quite a lot.

The Xie family can't sit in a high position on this occasion, but relying on the power of the Lu family, now the sisters are all seated on Lu Zhuyue's side.

Xie Youran was still a little reluctant to sit and wanted to sit in the position originally arranged, but Xie Youruo was afraid that he would be inferior to others in the eyes of outsiders, so he had to sit beside Lu Zhuyue.