Miss Xin of the Xin family sat together with Yu Shu. At first, she was a little shy, but after a while, she revealed her lively nature. She shook her feet in her kingfisher embroidered shoes and complained to Yu Shu in a low voice about the boredom of the Shuang Yang Association, "I found it interesting a few days ago, but it's getting more and more boring recently. On this stage, if it's not fighting, then it's writing and drawing without a sound. Sitting upstairs, there's no one to talk to, and they're not even allowed to doze off. If it weren't for my father coaxing me and saying that he would send me to Taishi Shuang Yang Association, I wouldn't have come."
Xin Liu's words were naive, and Yu Shu laughed to herself. Because Liu Tan was not far away, it was not good for her to say that it was indeed boring to sit upstairs and watch the Shuang Yang Association, but she agreed with her in her heart.
Hearing her mention Taishi Shuang Yang Association, Yu Shu thought of the quota in the hands of the princes. Presumably, the twelfth prince's quota was given to this little girl in front of her.
"I wanted to talk to you two days ago, but I was afraid that you would be like the others, with eyes on the top of your head, and I wouldn't be able to talk to you." When Xin Liu said this, she glanced meaningfully at a place on the east side of the building.
Yu Shu followed her gaze and looked in the direction of Ji Xingxuan. Her eyes flashed, and she turned back and said humorously, "Then you're willing to talk to me today because you found out that my eyes are under my eyebrows?"
Xin Liu chuckled, covered her mouth, and nodded. She did see that Yu Shu did not approach Ji Xingxuan, the "favorite", today, so she thought highly of her and took the initiative to get to know her.
With someone to pass the time, the morning passed quickly. With Yu Shu's ability to deal with people, it was not difficult to coax a young girl to like her. When it was almost noon, Xin Liu reluctantly returned to her seat. She did not know how she persuaded Liu Chan, but during lunch, the ninth prince and the twelfth prince successfully sat at the same table. As for Xin Liu, of course, she followed.
Liu Chan was a young man who had just turned fifteen. He looked fair and clean, and treated people gently and politely. When he smiled, there was a pair of shallow dimples on his cheeks, which easily gave people a good impression.
Liu Chan's birth mother was Concubine Xu, the daughter of a military general. Because she was somewhat favored by the emperor, Liu Chan, who was still young, was able to catch up with this year's Double Yang Gathering and recruit a few subordinates in advance instead of waiting for three years.
Liu Tan cultivated in Longhu Mountain all year round. He did not have a close relationship with his brothers, and Liu Chan did not seem to have a close relationship with any princes. When the two of them sat together, their personalities were congenial, and they even had some things to talk about.
They got along well. Liu and Liu Chan were Liu.
In less than a day, Xin Liu had become familiar with Yu Shu. He dispensed with the formalities and went straight to her "lotus room". "Yu Xi" Liu Liu Qian Liu, and "Dao Shu", and "Xin of Shu". "Liu" This young lady from an aristocratic family had been influenced since she was young. Between the lines, she had unintentionally imparted some general knowledge of the Yi Studies to Yu Shu.
For example, in the capital city, there were five trading centers and twelve aristocratic families, all under the Celestial Commissioner.
The Chief Supervisor of the Celestial Commissioner's surname was Zhu, and he was a junior supervisor. Under the Junior Supervisor were the Left Commander and the Right Commander. Under the two orders. They were the Left Magistrate and the Right Magistrate. Among them, the current Magistrate of the Right, Lady Lu, was the only woman.
The six of them were all high-ranking officials in the Celestial Commissioner Division. Even the Right Judge, who was ranked the lowest among them, was a Celestial Commissioner. He was also a fourth-ranked official in the capital, and the Great Advisor was equivalent to the position of Prime Minister and was known as the Hidden Minister.
Yu Shu was fortunate enough to see her in the Celestial Commissioner's office. She felt that her appearance and demeanor were worthy of being bestowed the title of 'Prince' or 'Prime Minister'. The Right Commander, Lady Lu, was another iron-clad proof that a woman in the imperial court could become an official.
When the meeting was over, Xin Liu said goodbye to Yu Shu and left with Liu Chan.
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Yu Shu and Helanchou followed Liu Tan back to the guesthouse and sat in the meeting hall. Liu Tan had his subordinates give them two lists of candidates that had been sorted out.
"The list in Miss Yu's hands was drawn up according to your requirements. The restrictions on the candidates have been relaxed. Take a look here and see if there are any problems." Liu Tan said.
Yu Shu flipped open the relatively thick list in her hands and saw that the first page indicated that there were a total of ninety-three candidates, which was almost twice the number of candidates from last time. When she looked at it more carefully, she found that the information on these candidates wasn't as detailed as last time. However, for Yu Shu, it was enough to have her birth date and horoscope. Everything else was secondary.
"This is very good. There are no problems." Yu Shu expressed to Liu Tan that she was very satisfied with this revised list. She paused for a moment, and then opened her mouth to request, "Your Highness, can you allow me to stay at home for the next two days to do divination? I will present the list of candidates to you two days later."
"Then aren't you going to the Shuangyang Meeting?" Liu Tan didn't agree and said, "You will be able to see a small half of the candidates on this list at Qiongyu Pavilion in the next two days. If you don't see them in person, how can you judge whether they are good or bad?"
Before the results of the subject of physiognomy were released, Liu Tan was too lazy to care about where Yu Shu fell in love with. However, after the results were released and he saw that she had some skills, he couldn't help but pay attention to her. There was a layer of hope in him, so he couldn't let her do as she pleased.
Yu Shu could see that Liu Tan still didn't trust her abilities. In order to buy more time to calculate this list, she couldn't show any fear in front of him. Thus, she smiled confidently at him and said, "Your Highness, you may not know this, but I know the art of physiognomy. I don't need to look at a person's face like most people. As long as the horoscope is accurate, I will be able to see through it. It doesn't matter whether I see the person or not."
Liu Tan was still hesitating, so Helanchou chose this time to help Yu Shu say a few words, "The world is big, and everyone has their own strengths. There are many schools of thought that different paths can lead to the same goal. Since Miss Yu is confident, there is no need for Your Highness to restrict her. "
After listening to Helanchou's advice, Liu Tan looked at Yu Shu again. He saw that she seemed to have a card up her sleeve and didn't look like she was going to slack off. In the end, he nodded and agreed.
"You don't need to go with me for the next two days."
After getting Liu Tan's permission, Yu Shu looked gratefully at Helanchou, who smiled back.
The three of them sat for a while longer before Yu Shu said goodbye and left as usual.
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By the time Yu Shu returned home, Zhao Hui and her husband had already moved to the courtyard on the west side, which was the place where Jing Chen had lived before. They had only moved to a different room, but the empty main room had already been tidied up. The bed and bedding had all been changed, and they were just waiting for the day that Old Matriarch He would come to the capital.
For the next two days, Yu Shu stayed at home and didn't do anything else. After getting up early and eating breakfast, she buried her head in front of her desk. Her left hand held an abacus while her right hand held a pen. Other than drinking water and going to the toilet, she didn't leave her chair. Even for lunch and dinner, Yun Dou picked up the dishes and brought them to her.
In order to catch up, she didn't go to sleep until late at night. At dawn, she got up again and continued to study the list in her hands.
Yu Shu also took the exam for the strange arts. Speaking of which, the topic was very different. She still remembered it vividly. Last year, Prince Xiang traveled far to the capital and on his way back, he lost a precious painting scroll. He couldn't find it, so the Celestial Commissioner called for the Dayan examinees to help find it.
Thinking back, Yu Shu ran a lot of errands for this exam. In the end, she had to rely on Xue Rui's face to meet Prince Xiang at Dingbo Hall. She begged for an incomplete eight characters that only had the year and month of birth.
She used the rules of the time of calamity to calculate carefully, racking her brain to find a result. Who would have thought that she would make a mistake, causing her to work for nothing. It was exactly like Wen Shao 'an's maxim of "drawing water with a wicker basket".
But until the last moment, Yu Shu didn't give up on the strange arts. She first begged for Prince Xiang's "worry" character, then went to the Ren Training Hall to find Wen Shao 'an to calculate her character. When she returned home, she deduced the incomplete eight characters several times. In the end, she was forced to come up with an unimaginable solution and didn't hand in a blank paper.
Thinking of her answer, Yu Shu felt that it was ridiculous. Therefore, when she saw her name in the list of candidates that Liu Tan had given her, she decisively skipped over it. It wasn't that she wasn't curious about whether or not she could pass the exam, but that her eight characters didn't correspond to her fate. It was simply impossible to accurately predict, and thus, she couldn't use the Laws of Calamity to calculate.
She could calculate others, but not herself. This was one of Yu Shu's biggest regrets.
After a brief recollection, Yu Shu turned her attention back to the list in her hands. Flipping to the last few pages, she wasn't surprised to see Wen Shao 'an's name. But the simple words below his name made Yu Shu secretly shocked.
The seventh generation descendant of the Wen Chen clan.
There was Xia Jiang in the south, and Wen Chen in the north. The poor youth in the Ren Training Hall who needed to rely on others to survive was actually the head of the Yi school in the north, the descendant of the Wen Chen clan?
Wen Shao 'an's impoverished appearance appeared in Yu Shu's mind. Then she recalled the descendants of the Xia Jiang clan in the south, Xia Jiangying and Xia Jiangmin, the two pampered sisters. It was hard not to suspect that there was a wrong person on the list.
But Wen Shao 'an also had the characteristics of a descendant of the Wen Chen clan. First, he had the ability to calculate characters.
There weren't many people in the world who didn't know that in the north and south, Xia Jiang knew about "dreams" and Wen Chen comprehending "characters". This was a special skill that these two great families of Yi school each mastered. One was related to "dreams", the other was related to "characters".
Because she knew Wen Shao 'an, Yu Shu paid more attention to Wen Shao' an. She wrote down his horoscope and calculated his fortune on the day the results were released. Sure enough, he was very smooth that day and had the tendency to be on the list.
Yu Shu didn't have extra time to think about where Wen Shao 'an got Prince Xiang's handwriting and calculated it. Because there were still more than a dozen people's horoscope that she hadn't calculated, she quickly shifted her attention.
It wasn't until midnight that Yu Shu finished counting the names of all the examinees who had participated in the Da Yin Qi Technique. Unfortunately, she wasn't as lucky as the previous time when three out of twenty-one people had passed. This time, there were only four people among the seventy odd people who had passed the exam. There wasn't much room to pick and choose.
Yu Shu compared their "Disaster Value" and ranked them in order. She crossed out the last candidate and looked at the remaining three people for a while.
"Miss, it's late. You should go to bed." Yun Dou yawned and rubbed her sleepy eyes. She poured a cup of tea for Yu Shu and reminded her that it was late.
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