Yu Shu sat in the carriage and happily took the letter from Xue Rui's hand. She opened it and said to him, "You really have a way to find out."
A few days ago, she learned about Xue Rui's situation from Liu Tan and made up her mind to help him solve the case. Therefore, she let go of her worries and asked him to investigate the birth dates of the new female students this year. She wanted to use the law of the time of disaster to find out the girl who was going to be killed in Xia Jiangmin's dream.
The birth dates of the girls from aristocratic families were not easily revealed. Fortunately, Xue Rui really had a way to find out in just three days.
Xue Rui had been kept in suspense by Yu Shu for a few days. In order to find out the birthdays of those young ladies, he had indeed gone through a lot of trouble. Now that he heard her praise him, he didn't feel anything special about it. He rubbed his forehead, leaned against the wall of the carriage and said to her, "What exactly do you want these for?"
Yu Shu could not tell Xue Rui about Xia Jiangmin's secret. She had thought about how to explain it in the past two days, so she kept the letter that was filled with the eight characters of her birth into her bosom pocket. She told him in all seriousness, "If I said that I observed the stars at night and noticed that another life was going to be lost in the Taishi Library, would you believe me?"
Xue Rui looked at her and did not believe her at all, "Don't fool me. Tell me the truth."
If she had the ability to determine people's life and death, why did she go to Taishi Library to study? If she said it, she would have been promoted by the Celestial Commissioner.
"Hehe," Yu Shu laughed dryly and said, "Actually, I am not sure. It is just a guess. From the looks of it, Miss Cao's death was not successfully blamed on Jing Chen. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that he was framed. I assume that the real culprit was unwilling. Otherwise, why would Ji Xingxuan, who was his accomplice, get close to Jing Chen? I believe that they will continue to act. The worst case scenario is that more people from the Taishi Library will be killed, so I want to start from this point. Although I don't have the ability to predict a person's death date, I have the ability to predict a disaster from the eight characters of the Eight Trigrams. Who knows, we might be able to gain some insight. That's what I meant. "
Her words, at first glance, sounded reasonable, but there was no lack of forced. It wasn't that Xue Rui didn't hear it. He had high expectations of her previously, so he was inevitably disappointed now. However, he didn't expect that she was trying to cover up something else.
"Then why do you only want me to investigate the birthdays of the new girls?" Xue Rui still had doubts.
Yu Shu said matter-of-factly, "There are nearly two hundred students in the Taishi Library. Most of the female students who have interacted with Jing Chen are new students this year. Isn't Miss Cao the same? If the murderer is looking for another target, there's a high chance that he'll start with this group of people. "
In fact, Xia Jiangmin's dream clearly told her that the girl who was pushed down the stairs was a new student wearing a pink uniform.
Xue Rui thought for a while and felt that Yu Shu's words were not reliable. However, looking at her positive expression, it was not good for him to question her again, so he could only let her be.
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Back to the Wangji Building. Yu Shu went into the study and took out the more than ten copies of the eight characters she had and started to calculate.
During lunch, Xue Rui went upstairs to see her. Seeing that she was focused on some kind of speculation, he shook his head and went downstairs.
Probably because she had seen the strange painting in the morning, Yu Shu's calculation was surprisingly smooth, and she got twice the result with half the effort. Before dusk, she had calculated the disaster times of the twelve female students in her hands, except for Cao Youling and herself, in the past half month.
In the end, only one person attracted Yu Shu's attention, and unexpectedly, she knew this person.
In terms of the disaster times, on the twentieth of this month, this girl would have a fatal disaster. Originally, Yu Shu wasn't sure whether this person would die or not, but with Xia Jiangmin's dream, it was no accident that the girl who was pushed down the stairs was her.
"April 20th … 20th," Yu Shu muttered to herself for a while, and suddenly remembered. April 20th was the day when Liu Tan held a banquet in Xuanchun Garden!
Yu Shu suddenly stood up, pushed the chair away, and gathered the scattered papers on the table together. She told Xiaodie, who was serving tea, to burn it later, and hurried downstairs to discuss with Xue Rui.
Xue Rui did not go out today, and he was downstairs reading the statements of the people involved in the case. Seeing Yu Shu push the door open and come in with a heavy face, he couldn't help but feel nervous, and blurted out: "How is it, did you calculate anything?"
Yu Shu closed the door tightly, walked over and sat down next to him, hesitating about how to explain to him.
Originally, Xue Rui didn't have any hope, but seeing her like this, he didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "If you want to say it, then say it. Why are you so quiet, making me anxious?"
Yu Shu said with a complicated expression: "Finally, I calculated that a female student will have an accident, and the date is on the day of the Ninth Prince's banquet."
Xue Rui suddenly frowned: "Is it accurate?"
Yu Shu nodded, and told him half the truth and half the lie: "From her birthday, there will be a fatal disaster, but I don't know if it has anything to do with the murder in the study garden."
Xue Rui thought for a long time, and didn't say anything.
Yu Shu tilted her head and looked at his solemn expression. After a while, she tentatively suggested: "In my opinion, when that day comes, we might as well keep an eye on her and wait for the rabbit to come to us. Perhaps we'll be able to uncover the murderer."
By doing this, she was clearly using Qin Yuerou as bait in an attempt to fish out the shark behind the murder case. This action was inhumane and righteous, so she thought it over and over again before saying it. She was afraid Xue Rui would object.
If Yu Shu could think of this, Xue Rui naturally also thought of this point. Just as he was hesitating, she brought it up first. He turned his head to look at her, and if he looked carefully, it wasn't hard to see the apprehension in her eyes. His mind changed, and his expression softened. He said to her: "For now, we can only do this."
For such a big matter, he, as a man, should be the one to worry about it. There was no need for her to carefully put herself in a dilemma.
Seeing that he didn't object, Yu Shu relaxed and said: "Then let's plan it out. When that day comes, we'll keep an eye on her. Regardless of whether she has anything to do with Miss Cao's death or not, we can't let another person die."
Xue Rui nodded in agreement. He then asked: "You still haven't said which family's young miss is going to have an accident?"
"Ai." Yu Shu smiled bitterly: "I also recognize this person. At the end of last month, I held a banquet at Forgotten Machine Restaurant. You've seen that Miss Qin who came with Xin Liu, right? It's her."
That's right, the unlucky person she calculated was going to have a fatal disaster. It was Qin Yuerou.
Xue Rui thought back and had a bit of an impression of Qin Yuerou. He also thought of the Qin Clan, so he told Yu Shu about the Qin Clan's background.
After the two of them discussed it, they came to a decision. Finally, they weren't like headless flies in a panic.
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