Yu Shu had been sitting in the teahouse for about 15 minutes when Xue Rui's carriage appeared on the street. She put down the silver and ran downstairs to his carriage. Xue Rui was still alone in the carriage.
"How was it? Did you get anything?" Xue Rui asked.
"En, I was able to see the past examination questions. My confidence has increased. I told Feng gongzi to come back tomorrow." Yu Shu nodded. She did not tell him about the file in her bosom. She thought that she would come back tomorrow and sneak it back.
Xue Rui said: "I have business to attend to tomorrow and cannot accompany you. I will send a sedan chair to the south of the city to pick you up."
"There's no need to go through so much trouble. I'll do it myself. I know the way and I know the people. Are you still afraid that I'll get lost?" Yu Shu looked at Xue Rui and suddenly realized that he had changed his clothes. She clearly remembered that he was wearing an ink-colored shirt in the morning, but now, he was wearing a cyan shirt. The shiny silver hooked belt on his waist had also been replaced by a black leather belt.
She pointed at him and teased: "You change two or three sets of clothes a day. Don't you find it troublesome?"
Xue Rui looked down at himself. He cleared his throat and explained as if nothing had happened: "The one in the morning was dirty. I had to go home again."
As he spoke, he picked up the teapot and poured a cup of water for her. He changed the topic: "Try it. This is the tea you praised last time. I brought a bag with me. You can take it home later."
"Alright." Yu Shu did not know how precious the tea leaves were. She took the teacup after she responded and took two small sips. However, the tip of her nose caught a whiff of an elegant fragrance that was different from the fragrance of tea. It was a strange smell that she did not know. She took another sip and smelled the smell. She realized that this strange fragrance was not the smell of tea but the smell of the cup. In other words, it was the smell of Xue Rui's hands.
She slowly drank the tea and raised her eyes to secretly size up Xue Rui … It wasn't difficult to notice that not only had his clothes changed, even his hair seemed to have been combed again. The hairpin was not the same as the one she saw during the day.
Lowering her eyes, Yu Shu's mouth twitched slightly behind the cup.
When Yu Shu returned home, Yu Xiaoxiu and Jing Chen were both there. After thinking about it, she felt that it was necessary to tell Jing Chen that she had seen the Yellowfrost Stone today … So, while she was cooking dinner, she asked Yu Xiaoxiu to go to the kitchen to make a fire to boil water. Then, she pulled Jing Chen back into the house and closed the door. She turned around and stretched out two index fingers to Jing Chen: "Jing Chen, now I have good news and bad news for you. Which one do you want to hear first?"
Jing Chen looked at her index fingers and pointed to the left. "Alright."
Yu Shu put away the finger and said with a smile, "I found the location of the Adversity Blocking Stone you gave me."
Jing Chen was surprised at first, but he was not in a hurry to inquire about its whereabouts. Instead, he pointed to her right index finger that was still standing upright: "What about the bad one?"
Yu Shu's face suddenly fell: "That stone is in the hands of someone else. They may not give it back to us."
Jing Chen said: "Who has it?"
"You don't know …" Yu Shu crossed her arms and leaned against the door. She said with a worried voice: "I think the other party should recognize that your Adversity Blocking Stone is a good thing, so she carries it with her. But I have some conflicts with that person. If I really ask for it, she will not return it. You have to think of a way."
"There is such a person?" Jing Chen frowned. "What should we do?"
"Who are you asking …" Yu Shu couldn't help but laugh. Looking at his serious expression, she couldn't help but tease him. She pulled his wide sleeves and said with a frown, "Didn't you tell me last time that if I have any troubles, I will tell you? You also said that you will help me think of ideas. Then, you should help me solve my troubles and think of a way to get the Disaster Blocking Stone back."
Hearing this, Jing Chen's eyes changed. He nodded and said seriously, "Then don't be anxious. Let me think about it.
"Alright." Yu Shu lowered her head and smiled secretly. She was really curious about what ideas he would come up with.
Jing Chen didn't think for long and had an idea: "You ask that person to come out. After explaining, if he is not willing to return it, I will take action and take back the Adversity Blocking Stone."
"Is it not good?"
Yu Shu's eyes twitched. How is this bad idea good? "This is robbery. If we are reported to the court, we will have to go to jail."
Jing Chen said, "It is originally ours. It is just returning it to its rightful owner."
Yu Shu said, "That is right, but empty words must be believed. Today, we ran in front of someone and said that the stone is ours and asked for it. Tomorrow, someone ran in front of us and said that the stone is his. Do we still have to give it to him? "
Jing Chen thought about it and felt that it was reasonable. His expression was slightly depressed.
Yu Shu patted his arm and comforted him, "It is okay. We will think of other ways. Let's eat first. Anyway, now we know where the Adversity Blocking Stone is. It is better than not knowing anything."
"En."
After dinner, Yu Shu boiled half a pot of hot water and washed the dishes. After washing up early, she went into the house and took out the examination files that she accidentally brought out from the Imperial Historian's Library and continued to read.
For a while, she couldn't think of a way to get back the Yellowfrost Stone. It was more important to do other things first.
Every year, the dossier of the Da Yan Examination had six subjects. Sometimes it was a written test, just like the Yi Li examination, which required people to analyze their theories. Sometimes it was a time test, just like the physiognomy examination, which required the examinees to look at their faces and answer the questions.
Not only did the paper record the questions, but it also included a student's paper. The handwriting was different, and there was a circle on the paper with the word "Middle". Obviously, the owner of the paper was not a top three in every subject, but it was within a hundred yuan.
The file in her hands was from the 18th year of Feng Shun. After calculating, there were two emperors, and it had been almost forty years. No wonder the paper was thin and waxy, and some parts were blurred.
The dossier had a total of twenty to thirty pages. Yu Shu only skimmed through the easy to read part of the book a few times, then flipped to the part that she was interested in. She began to read it carefully.
The questions were of a high standard. Although it wasn't as difficult as the college entrance examination a few hundred years later, the overall level of the questions was balanced. Out of the twenty questions, not a single one was a free pass. Some of the calculations were quite complicated. Even if Yu Shu were to do this paper, she wouldn't be able to finish it without two to four hours, and this was under the condition that the accuracy of the calculations wasn't calculated.
"As expected of the Dayan Examination." Yu Shu looked through a few years' worth of files. She knew that it wasn't easy, so she couldn't help but sigh.
However, there was also something that made her secretly happy. It seemed that the Mathematics exam didn't require the process of solving the problem to be written on the paper. She had seen a few students' exam papers that only had the results written on them, which was exactly what she wanted. Otherwise, she was afraid that if she wrote down the process of solving the problem, the examiner would mistake it as nonsense.
Yu Shu thought that she would try these questions later. She flipped to the next page and saw that it was the Astrology exam, so she paid attention.
This was a subject she had to take. When she was in Yiyang City, Taoist Qing Zheng taught her how to identify the Three Permanents, Four Symbols, and 28 Mansions, and she watched the stars every night until her neck cramped every day. She couldn't let all that hard work go to waste. Even if the Dayan Examination was full of hidden talents, and the chance of getting into the top 100 was not high, she still had to try.
The Fengshun 18th Year Astrology exam was a time test. The file recorded that on the night of the 15th of the twelfth lunar month, 739 candidates gathered at Donghua Pavilion to watch the stars. They recorded for two hours, and 18 officials of the Big Dipper Division under the Celestial Commissioner watched the stars and recorded at the same time. The one who recorded the most stars and recorded the most accurately would be rewarded 100 yuan.
When Yu Shu was in the Dao-Carrying Building, she had read some files from three or four years ago. The Astrology exam questions were generally the same. They learned and applied, and they extracted star news on the spot.
Attached at the back was a student's exam paper that was densely filled with notes. Yu Shu lost interest after reading a few pages. She flipped the page and was about to look for the exam questions of the Magic Arts course when a piece of white paper jumped into her eyes.
In fact, this piece of paper was not white at all. Instead, it looked much younger and cleaner because it was sandwiched in a roll of blurred and withered paper.
On this piece of paper, the handwriting was flowing like the clouds. Compared to the examinee's paper on the previous page, it was much more concise. This was because there was only one line written on it. Yu Shu read it out softly, "There will be a son in this year who will bring great fortune and disaster."
After reading this sentence, Yu Shu made a "hiss" sound and checked this "different" piece of "white paper" over and over again. There were no red marks or red marks on it, and there were no red words. The corners were worn, and there were traces of binding, but it was not in the original exam paper. On the edge, there was a line of small words, which read: Baotai 12th Year Twelfth Month Changzhou Yun Mufeng.
"Eh?" Yu Shu looked at the small words suspiciously. This was clearly a student's exam paper from the early years, but why was it written "Baotai 12th Year"? Wasn't she holding the exam paper from the 18th year of Fengshun?
"Baotai, Baotai, this is the era name of an emperor in the Da 'an." Yu Shu counted with her fingers and determined that this exam paper was from about twenty years ago.
Facing this Baotai exam paper from the Great Yan Examination of the Feng Shun year, Yu Shu made a "hiss" sound and suddenly remembered that during the day in Tibet, Ji Xingxuan and another girl were furtively looking through the second floor. They seemed to be looking for this Great Yan exam paper from the Feng Shun year.
Could it be that what they were looking for was this exam paper in her hands?
Or, to be more precise, what they were looking for was this exam paper from the Baotai year?
Yu Shu narrowed her eyes and looked down at the lonely line of words on the exam paper. Her suspicions grew. Her intuition told her that there must be some secret hidden in this exam paper.
After thinking for a while, Yu Shu separated this unusual exam paper from the other files, carefully folded it in half, put it in a book, and put it in a drawer.
She prepared a brush and ink and wrote on the paper: Baotai 12th Year, Yun Mufeng.
Tomorrow, when she went to Tibet again, she would look through the files from the 12th year of Baotai. She wanted to see which subject this mysterious exam paper in her hands answered.
And this Yun Mufeng, what kind of god was he?
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