At breakfast, Yu Xiaoxiu yawned again and again. Yesterday, Yu Shu taught him to play the game of "bombarding foreigners with cannons". He was addicted to it as soon as he played it. Urged by Yu Shu to finish his homework, he continued to pester her to play with him. It wasn't until the third watch that Doctor He woke up and found that the lights in their room were on that he knocked on their window to urge them to go to sleep.
"Here, eat this. You're not allowed to sleep during the teacher's lecture." After the meal, Yu Shu poured a Millennium Pill for him. "If you're really sleepy, wait for lunch, then go find your Academician Song and borrow his room to sleep for a while. Do you hear me?"
"Yes, Aunt Huei, Uncle He, Sister, I'm going to school." Yu Xiaoxiu nodded honestly. He took the bag of books and a small bag of snacks from Yun Dou and walked out the door with a yawn.
He Fangzhi then went to the clinic. Yu Shu sat with Zhao Hui for a while and then returned to her room. She didn't plan to go out today, nor did she plan to go to Wang Ji Tower. She thought that if she met Xue Rui today, she wouldn't be able to stop herself from giving him a dirty look.
In her previous life, Yu Shu lived to the age of twenty or twenty-nine. She didn't think she was an innocent girl who would kill herself after being kissed. However, as a girl, she still had to have some self-awareness. It was Xue Rui's drunken behavior yesterday, so she didn't bother to pursue it. If he dared to mess around with her like this when he was awake, she definitely wouldn't let him go. No matter if he was Brother Xue or Brother Cao, no one could take advantage of her.
What's more, she wasn't sure if Xue Rui would remember kissing her after he woke up. It would be fine if he didn't remember, but if he remembered, how awkward it would be when they met.
She'd better hide for two days.
Yu Shu rubbed her lips with the back of her hand, and a look of regret flashed in her eyes. Who knew that he would be so unreasonable when he was drunk? The next time she met him drunk, How far away she must be from him.
After calming down, Yu Shu carried Kim Bao, who had been chirping around the table leg for a long time, to the windowsill. Goldie rubbed its claws a few times and found a comfortable position to bask in the sun. It no longer made any noise.
Yu Shu spread out the paper. She placed the abacus and the little booklet she had used to record her algebra formulas. She held a charcoal pen in her hand and listed the eight positions of Qimen Dun Jia on the paper — Rest, Life, Shang, Du, Jing, Death, Shock, and Open. As well as the first algebra chant that Daoist Qing Zheng had imparted to her, the Eight Gates Life and Death Art.
It could be said that without the Eight Gates Life and Death Art, he would not be able to survive. She would not have been able to deduce the Law of Clear Rain and the Law of Calamity. The Eight Gates of Life and Death each controlled good or bad luck, good or bad fortune, and the four seasons and eight directions. Using the Eight Gates of Life and Death Art well, she could use the four pillars and eight characters of the person seeking divination to add the corresponding hours and other divinations to generally deduce the relevant positions and time. Her Law of Clear Rain and the Law of Calamity were built on this foundation, materializing a prediction in a certain direction.
The Law of Clear Rain was simpler than the Law of Calamity. It was because the weather was only cloudy, sunny, rainy, and snowy, but the range of calamities was huge. It could be disease, prison, blood, money, lawsuits, quarrels, bereavement, getting lost, fire, flood, or even encountering natural disasters. All these calamities required a large amount of evidence. Only then could she figure out a relatively accurate "range of values" and use it to determine which calamity the "exact value" she calculated using the Law of Calamity was within the "range of values" of the calamity.
Her Law of Calamity was much more complete than it was half a year ago, but it was still not comprehensive enough. There were two main loopholes. First, the judgment of calamities was too general and easy to confuse. For example, she had boarded the merchant ship of the Thai Heng Chamber of Commerce to enter the capital and encountered a massacre on the way. At that time, she had used the Law of Calamity to divine Yu Xiaoxiu's eight characters and concluded that it was a "flood disaster". However, this matter was clearly stained with blood and had a fatal disaster. It wasn't just a flood disaster.
Second, although she could accurately determine when the calamity would occur, she couldn't accurately determine the cause of the calamity. The information about the calamity was incomplete, so it wasn't easy to avoid it. Although she had the initiative, she was still in a passive position. The Law of Calamity couldn't be used to its greatest effect.
For example, when they were still living in Huixing Street with Jing Chen, there was one time when Jing Chen's Ketu Star acted up. Yu Shu had predicted that Yu Xiaoxiu would have a bloody disaster the next day, but she didn't know the cause. She could only remind Yu Xiaoxiu not to touch knives or go into the kitchen. As a result, Yu Xiaoxiu was almost shot in the head by an arrow during riding and archery class. Luckily, the arrow brushed past his face. This was the disadvantage of incomplete information.
These two points allowed Yu Shu to see the shortcomings of the Law of Calamity. At the same time, it gave her new inspiration. Some time ago, she was considering whether to start researching a new law, but she didn't have a specific direction and didn't know where to start.
After thinking about it, she felt that instead of finding another way, it would be better to fill the half-filled bottle of water in her hand and not let it sway. This meant that she was prepared to find a way to make up for the inadequacies of the Law of the Time of Calamity, so that she could not only "know" about calamity, but also "avoid calamity" very effectively, instead of leaving it to fate.
This matter was easy to say, but it was quite tricky to do. Yu Shu only had a little clue at the moment. When she was preparing for the Dayan Examination, she frequently came into contact with the method of Na Yin. The so-called Na Yin used sixty years as a cycle, from the five elements of heaven and earth to the five tones of human voice. It was a method of numeric deduction and the syllables used to calculate. It was often used by Yi Ke for divination. The advantage was that the Na Yin contained a lot of material information.
Yu Shu's initial idea was to start with the eight doors that contained a lot of good and bad information. Using the Na Yin method that contained a lot of material information, she could accurately calculate the information related to the calamity. Take Yu Xiaoxiu's case as an example. If she could get information about the "arrow" from the Na Yin, she could help Yu Xiaoxiu avoid riding and archery lessons in advance. Another example would be when she was in danger on the boat. If she could get information about "people" or "Bi" or "Qiu" from the Na Yin, she could be on guard against Bi Qing or Qiu Biao in advance, and not be deceived by Bi Qing.
Of course, this was just an idea. Yu Shu didn't have full confidence, but she was full of energy and was prepared to spend a lot of time and money on it.
First, she had to go to the Great Change Hall to buy a few books. She wasn't very proficient in the Na Yin method, and because she didn't have a teacher to guide her, learning it was a bit more difficult. She planned to ask Jing Chen later. If he was good at this, she could ask him for advice, saving her the trouble of visiting the Great Change Master.
Next, she wanted to change all the tools she used, inside and out. Before, she didn't have enough money, so she used a compass, divination stick, Bagua book, hourglass, star chart, and other things. They were all second-hand choices, so these tools weren't of much use. She could only rely on divination to calculate. In fact, for the traders, a good tool could not only make up for their lack of experience, it could also make the results of their divination more accurate. There was even a set of fifty-year-old gold-threaded nanmu divination sticks. Because of the spiritual nature of heaven and earth, they could be used for divination with a fifty percent accuracy rate, which could help the traders make decisions.
Now, Yu Shu had a small amount of assets. Other than the two thousand silver from the Ji family, the Emperor rewarded her yesterday with a hundred mu of fertile land. She could sit back and enjoy the fruits of others' labor. She also had a hundred taels of gold as a trump card, which was enough for her to change from a bird gun to a cannon.
After that, she had to improve her food and clothing. Anyone who wanted to become a Great Change Master had to treat themselves well. There was a wonderful saying, the body was the capital of everything.
Yu Shu knew that with her current body, her fate, bone structure, aptitude, essence, and even her luck, they were all very bad. The only good thing about her was her brain. She was born with it, but that didn't mean she couldn't change it.
This fate didn't belong to her, so she didn't need to care about it. However, if her bone structure was bad, her comprehension would be bad. This could be improved by reading more books and using her brain. Yesterday, the Emperor rewarded her with the Dragon Horse River Diagram. It was said that reading it every day was beneficial.
Aptitude was related to talent and intelligence. Needless to say, her intelligence was good, but talent was a bit more uncertain. For example, Jing Chen, when she chose to buy a haunted house, he could tell that the fengshui was wrong with just a glance. That was called talent. Of course, she didn't have this kind of ability, but the calculation ability she accumulated in her previous life could be considered a kind of 'talent' in this life.
As for the vital essence, Yu Shu had heard from He Fangzhi that it was a person's own vital essence. Without vital essence, a person would die, but a person with abundant vital essence would live a long and healthy life, and be immune to all kinds of diseases. To maintain essence, first of all, good living habits, getting up and going to bed on time, not indulging in debauchery. Secondly, it was to rely on food. Just look at the rich and powerful families, which didn't try their best to eat carefully? For example, the prescription of the Eternal Elixir given by Jing Chen was a kind of elixir for maintenance. There were also all kinds of delicacies in Wangji Building, which could play the role of food nourishment. Yu Shu also thought of the Eight Treasure Koi in the pond of the Ji family's ancestral house.
Finally, she had to talk about luck. This thing came and went without a trace, but it could often affect a person's fate at the critical moment. However, Yu Shu's luck was very bad. This kind of thing that came and went without a trace could not be improved by herself. The only way was to rely on external objects, such as the Adversity Blocking Stone.
Look at how many brocade pouches, amulets, and jade objects they wore were used for protection. Just take Xue Rui for example. Yu Shu noticed that the violet jade bat-shaped pendant that Xue Rui frequently wore seemed to be inconspicuous, yet it was actually a precious treasure, and if he were to really exchange it for money, there would probably be no one that would be able to afford it.
Yu Shucai received a piece of Fortune Mountain Auspicious Jade as a reward from the Emperor. She was going to take it out and bring it with her. There were also the five treasures of the qilin and auspicious beasts. She also wanted to place them in her usual room. In addition, when the Supreme Court's case was over, she wanted to find a way to get some good jades and make her own Feng Shui pond.
In her previous life, when Yu Shu had money, she would choose to do investment. There was no business that would make a lot of money, but there was a way to make money. Because it was a society that recognized money and not people, human relationships were thinner than paper. She had to take care of her younger brother Yu Lei and live a good life, so making money became her first priority.
Being born in the Da An Dynasty, a world where Yi Xue ran rampant, Yu Shu discovered very early on that if she wanted to live a good life, this supreme knowledge was more important than money. If she learned it, not only would she be able to understand the fate of others, she would also be able to control her own fate. Just thinking about it made her blood boil. For Yu Shu, who was very competitive, this kind of temptation had already far surpassed money.
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