Because of Jing Chen's performance, Yu Shu was too embarrassed to ask him to "sit in" again … So she taught him and Yu Xiaoxiu together. The three of them spent the whole afternoon around an abacus.
Jing Chen understood it immediately. By the time Xia Mingming walked in from the outside with an umbrella, he was already able to calculate the abacus correctly. On the other hand, Yu Xiaoxiu, who shared the abacus with him, was several steps behind him.
"I'm back." Xia Mingming's face was still sullen, but she didn't deliberately ignore him like she did in the morning. She greeted him in a muffled voice.
"Hmm." Yu Shu looked at the umbrella in her hand and thought that this girl wasn't stupid. She didn't get wet in the rain and still bought an umbrella.
Xia Mingming quickly glanced at Yu Shu and sat down at the empty seat at the table. She looked at Yu Xiaoxiu, who was working on the abacus, and picked up the paper on which Jing Chen had memorized the abacus. She looked at it and said in surprise, "This is … ancient script? Who wrote it? " Her eyes skipped from Yu Shu to Yu Xiaoxiu's face and finally fell on Jing Chen's face. She asked in surprise, "You wrote it? Why do you know how to write ancient script? " She had seen Yu Shu's' dog crawl 'calligraphy many times. The strength of the writing didn't seem like it could be written by someone of Yu Xiaoxiu's age. Thinking about it, it could only be Jing Chen.
In the face of this question, Jing Chen did not respond. She neither nodded nor shook her head. Just as Xia Mingming was about to ask again, Yu Shu pulled the paper out of her hand and angrily interrupted, "Why not? I know how to write. Alright, I'm hungry. Let's go downstairs and eat."
Then she urged the three of them to go downstairs. She walked at the back and folded the words written by Jing Chen and stuffed them into her arms. It was not difficult for Yu Shu to find out that Jing Chen's handwriting was good because of Xia Mingming's shout just now. Maybe it would reveal his origin.
Yu Shu didn't intend to let Xia Mingming know Jing Chen's origin, including the fact that he was actually a Taoist. It had nothing to do with trust. She just felt that the fewer people knew about Jing Chen, the better.
Therefore, Xia Mingming knew that Yu Shu knew Jing Chen before in Feng Mansion, but he couldn't get any information from Yu Shu. He only knew that they were old friends.
After the meal, the four of them returned to their respective rooms. Xia Mingming walked behind Yu Shu and entered the house. Once the door was closed, he could not help but ask, "Who exactly is Jing Chen? "Where did Jing Chen come from?" Yu Shu pretended to be deaf and mute, trying to bluff her way through like before. However, Xia Mingming was not so easy to fool this time. He took a few steps forward and blocked her way. "Don't play dumb with me. Who exactly is Jing Chen? He knows how to write ancient script. As far as I know, only the Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain can use this script. Is he from Longhu Mountain? No, he is a Taoist priest!? "
Xia Mingming was stunned by his own guess. If Jing Chen was really a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, combined with his current experience, the situation was not trivial.
Hearing Xia Mingming's accurate guess, Yu Shu scolded in her heart, "Why didn't I see her so smart usually?"
She replied, "How could it be? He is from Jintong."
"Don't fool me!" Xia Mingming was a little excited and said, "Do you know that if he is really a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, you should immediately send a letter to his sect and ask someone to pick him up! Send him to the Taoist temple in the capital first, find someone to treat his wounds, and wait for his sect to pick him up. What do you mean by keeping him here? When his sect comes to find him and finds out that you have hidden him, you will get yourself into trouble, do you know that? " Xia Mingming firmly believed that Jing Chen was a Taoist priest from Longhu Mountain, and subconsciously thought that Yu Shu's sheltering of Jing Chen was her selfishness.
The people of this dynasty had a deep-rooted respect for Taoists, especially for Taoists who came from a treasured place like Mount Longhu. From Xia Mingming's point of view, Yu Shu's failure to report what she knew was a form of disrespect and neglect. If others found out about it, it would be disastrous.
Yu Shu was annoyed by her argument. If she could send Jing Chen back, did she think she didn't want to? But now, she didn't even know why Jing Chen was plotted against. If she pushed him out rashly, it might put him in danger again. Moreover, with Jing Chen's inexplicable constitution, how could she just push him to an outsider?
Thinking of this, Yu Shu pulled a long face and said to Xia Mingming gloomily, "I know better than you what kind of person Jing Chen is. I don't need you to tell me what to do. Just take care of yourself and don't try to catch mice."
Hearing this, Xia Mingming's face turned red with anger, and her chest heaved up and down. She said in a low voice, "You treat my good intentions as ill intent! Do what you want, I don't care! "After saying this, she ran into the house and covered herself with the quilt.
Yu Shu looked into the house helplessly. Of course, she knew that Xia Mingming was thinking for her, but there were some things that she couldn't say clearly to her. This was the only way she could stop her from asking too much.
Xia Mingming lay on the bed, grabbing the pillow angrily and feeling wronged. Ashu provoked her yesterday. Today, she was outside for a whole day. She finally came to her senses and knew that Ashu was doing it for her own good. When she came back tonight, she wanted to reconcile with Ashu, but who would have thought that it would make things even more awkward.
It's all that Jing Chen's fault!
At breakfast the next day, Xia Mingming became taciturn again. She ignored everyone except Jing Chen, who was stared at by her for no reason. Yu Xiaoxiu looked at her strangely. After Xia Mingming left, he asked Jing Chen, "Brother Jing … How did you offend her?" Jing Chen shook his head blankly. He didn't remember any communication between him and Xia Mingming.
After a night, Yu Shu's mood wasn't bad. After breakfast, she took Yu Xiaoxiu out. As usual, she left Kim Bao to accompany Jing Chen. There was also an abacus to relieve his boredom.
When they reached the street, Yu Xiaoxiu saw Yu Shu leading him in the opposite direction of Huixing Street. He asked, "Where are we going?" "To find a way to make money." Yu Shu's idea was very simple. There must be a place similar to Yiyang City's Wanxiang Street in the capital. There were many people who went there to seek fortune-telling. She planned to find a place and set up a fortune-telling stall to tell people's horoscope. Starting from a business that didn't require any capital, she could at least take care of food and clothing first.
Setting up a fortune-telling stall was not just to make a living. After the incident of the merchant ship being robbed, Yu Shu found that there were many shortcomings in her Law of Time of Calamity. She needed a lot of experience to enrich it. For example, the flood disaster didn't just refer to drowning or sinking the ship. There were other possibilities. Practice was the fastest way to accumulate experience.
Learning was to review the old and learn the new. The emphasis was on consolidation. Yu Shu had always been very clear that it was easy to learn from Qing Zheng. From the beginning, she took a shortcut. Her starting point was much higher than others, but her foundation was also weaker than others. For example, the day before yesterday, she was almost cheated when she bought a house. It was because her foundation wasn't solid. Otherwise, she could have found something wrong with some clues.
She swallowed a lot of knowledge without digesting it. If she kept eating, it would be useless.
It rained yesterday, so it was very cool today. Yu Shu and Yu Xiaoxiu asked along the way. After walking for an hour, they found a place called "Autumn Osmanthus Square" in the south of the city. It was one of the trading shops and traders in Anling City.
Trading shops of various sizes were located on three streets nearby. At first glance, there were many patterns of Eight Diagrams and Yin Yang. There was a memorial arch in the middle of the street. The uneven buildings were a little old, and the bricks and tiles were a little old. This place was not as neat as Yiyang City's Wanxiang Street, but there were many passers-by. In addition to the trading shops, there were restaurants, restaurants, tea houses, and gambling houses on the street.
On both sides of the street, there was no lack of people who set up stalls to do fortune-telling. There were also some peddlers who sold small items. As long as they took a second glance at them, they would surround them. There were too many people, so Yu Shu protected her money bag and held Yu Xiaoxiu's hand tightly. She was afraid that they would get lost.
By the roadside, there were a few stalls that sold soybean flour cakes. The cakes were coated with frosting and smelled fragrant and sweet. They were palm-sized and sold for ten copper coins each, which wasn't considered expensive. Yu Shu had someone pack up three pieces and shared one with Yu Xiaoxiu. She planned to bring the other two back for Jing Chen and Xia Mingming to try.
In order to find out the market, Yu Shu visited almost all the trading shops on the street. Generally, the Fengshui ornaments were thirty to fifty percent more expensive than in Yiyang. It was not surprising. The population of the capital was ten times that of Yiyang, so there were more rich people.
On the street, she pretended to be a customer seeking fortune-telling. She asked a few stalls and didn't hesitate to spend one tael to find out the standard of the traders here. The result made Yu Shu feel rather complicated. There were people who put up flags on the street. There were people who were just there to make up the numbers, but there were also people with real skills. In terms of standard, they were almost the same as the old man who told her fortune when she and Zhao Hui went to the Three Purities Meeting.
The Master Yi, who was respected in Yiyang City, was only at the level of a street fortune-teller. It was really ironic.
On the other hand, this was indeed the capital. It was a place where traders from all over the world gathered. There were many talented people, and those who wanted to fight for a position here were not ordinary people.
Thinking back to the past, Qingyang and Yunhua exchanged sons. Their names shook the capital, and no one could surpass them in a hundred years. Even the Emperor had to treat them with courtesy. How amazing and incomparably glorious they must be!
Yu Shu looked at the endless stream of people on the street. Hearing the voices of people asking for fortune and smelling the faint fragrance of sandalwood, she suddenly felt her blood boil. She was not willing to be mediocre in this life!
Yu Xiaoxiu looked at Yu Shu, whose eyes were shining for some reason. He only felt that his sister suddenly became spirited. Just as he was about to ask, he was pulled by Yu Shu, "Xiaoxiu, let's go. Let's go back."
She wanted to go back and properly plan how to put down roots in this Autumn Osmanthus Lane and take her first step in a solid manner.
The siblings turned around and entered the alley behind them. Not long after they left, two horses entered the street one after the other. Wherever they passed, the passersby would make way for them. When they turned their heads to look, they saw the two young masters on the horses. One was handsome and the other was as beautiful as jade. They were both dragons and phoenixes among men.
The people on the horses talked as if there was no one around, "You said you would bring me here to drink good wine. Is this the place?" On the carmine horse, the young man dressed in a golden pine green robe had a faint smile on his face. His voice was unhurried, and the hair on his forehead covered a small scar that was half an inch long.
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