The next day, Yu Shu went to the Taishi Library. When she saw Situ Qinglan, she took out her purse and gave her a white crystal gourd pendant the day before.
Situ Qinglan was surprised, "For me?"
"Yes, I saw that you liked it last time, so I left one for you after I raised it."
Situ Qinglan played with it for a while. After hesitating, she handed it back to her, "I can't accept such an expensive thing."
Yu Shu saw that Situ Qinglan didn't accept it even though she liked it. She thought that Situ Qinglan didn't know that Mr. Fang had asked her for it, so she pushed her hand back with a smile and said,
"I'm willing to give it to you, not to please you. I just treat you as a friend. If you don't accept it, it means that you look down on me."
Hearing this, Situ Qinglan knew that she couldn't refuse anymore. She accepted it with a little embarrassment, but she felt very happy in her heart.
One had to know that although Yu Shu was two years younger than her, she was very famous in Taishi Shuyuan. It was not that no one wanted to get close to her, but she did not like to talk to others. To be able to be on good terms with her and be seen as a friend by her, who could say that it was not something to be proud of?
"By the way, have you heard?" Situ Qinglan pulled Yu Shu to sit down on the mat and whispered to her,
"Zhan Xueyuan has passed the Level Seven assessment. She can go to the Taishi Library at the beginning of next month."
Hearing this, Yu Shu's eyes flashed. She remembered Zhan Xueyuan's identity as a target.
"Since she is working for the Celestial Commissioner, does she still have to study in the Taishi Library in the future?"
"Of course. She is a new student this year. She has to stay here for at least three years before she can leave, unless she wants to stay in the Level Seven position for the rest of her life."
Yu Shu nodded and said nothing. Situ Qinglan was puzzled. She thought that Yu Shu and Zhan Xueyuan didn't like each other. Even if she wasn't angry after hearing this news, she wouldn't be so cold.
What she didn't know was that Yu Shu felt sorry for Zhan Xueyuan for being her substitute, so she didn't want to bother about what had happened before.
After Fang Zijing's morning class, Yu Shu declined Situ Qinglan's proposal to go to Tibet with her.
"There was an astrology class a few days ago, and I had a few questions that I wanted to ask Academician Jing."
Yu Shu wasn't joking. She was really going to Jing Chen's place. However, it wasn't to ask questions, but to gather information.
As one of the 18 academicians, Jing Chen had a dedicated lecture room. It was a teahouse on a rockery at the corner of the garden.
Yu Shu didn't know if Jing Chen had classes today, but she knew that he would most likely stay in the study if she had classes.
As expected, when she was halfway up the stone stairs, she heard voices in the teahouse.
"If it wasn't for Academician Jing's care these days, I wouldn't have been able to pass the assessment smoothly. You must accept this gift of thanks, otherwise I won't be able to trouble you in the future.
"Put it there."
"Academician Jing, I'm going to invite you to a banquet in a restaurant the night after tomorrow. I've also put the invitation here. You must come."
It was a man and a woman talking in the teahouse. Yu Shu knew who they were the moment she heard them. She walked over unhurriedly and looked inside. She saw Jing Chen sitting there and Zhan Xueyuan standing there. There was a vertical brocade box on the table in the middle. There was a red piece of paper on the box, which was probably an invitation.
It was a familiar scene, but Yu Shu didn't even frown. She didn't care what they were talking about. She stood outside the teahouse and said,
"I'm Yu Shu. Nice to meet you."
Two pairs of eyes looked at her at the same time. Jing Chen was stunned at first, but then a faint smile appeared on his fair face. He looked a little nervous.
When Zhan Xueyuan saw Yu Shu, she was filled with hatred and fear. The blush on her face faded in the blink of an eye. She thought of the two slaps she had hidden. In the end, she didn't dare to confront Yu Shu face to face. She turned around and said goodbye to Jing Chen, then walked out. When she passed by Yu Shu, she bluffed and glared at her.
Yu Shu did not pay attention to her. She waited until her footsteps were far away before she entered the teahouse.
"Xiaoyu, I knew you'd come today." Jing Chenbu didn't move from his seat just now. He stood up from behind the desk, his feet wearing silk stockings and stepping on the ginger mat. He looked at Yu Shu, looking as if he wanted to go forward but was hesitant to do so.
"From your tone, can you predict whether I'll come or not?" There were only two of them in the room. Yu Shu sneered. She carried her book box and found a clean cushion on the ground.
"I burned three turtle shells last night. The divination said that I could see you today. I was thinking that if you don't come today, I'll go to see you tomorrow."
Jing Chen's tone was as clear as ever, without a single trace of impurity. His words were always so sincere, straightforward, and straightforward. It was very easy for people to let go of their worries.
If Yu Shu hadn't given up on him at the observatory that night, she would have been soft-hearted.
"I'm here today because I have something to ask. Jing Chen, let's have a good talk about the Fate Breaker." If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for me at ianawr. Your support is my greatest motivation. PS: (Thank you for the gifts and tickets ~ Who wants Kim Bao to appear? Come and claim it. It's beside Yu Shu's pillow. Go get it yourself.) During the month that Yu Shu stayed at the Building of Forgetfulness, she copied down all the key information about the deaths that the Supreme Court had accumulated over the decades. She sorted them according to the cause of death and bound them together into a book. She also gave this book an exaggerated and vivid name, "Book of Life and Death".
Because the law of time of disaster was still being completed, even if she got the time of life and death, it was impossible to apply the formula directly. If Yu Shu wanted to find the cause of death of the Tenth Princess, she would have to think hard.
The cause of death of the Tenth Princess was strange and complicated. Although she fell from a building, drowned on a cold winter day, and died of typhoid, the whole thing was not an accident. Therefore, it should be attributed to a man-made disaster, not an illness.
Yu Shu preliminarily judged that there was a real murderer in addition to the Tenth Princess and Xue Jinxun in the Sea-viewing Tower that day. He used some means to make the Tenth Princess fall from the building in front of Xue Jinxun, but Xue Jinxun didn't see it.
After making assumptions, she listed all the similar cases in Book of Life and Death for backup.
After doing this, Yu Shu didn't plan to sleep. She found the half box of ambergris from the small bookshelf near the bed and added it to the small copper stove.
After burning the incense, Yu Shu sat down quietly, stretched the paper, hung up the brush, and replaced it with her willow charcoal. She wrote a line of words on the top of the paper. It was Xue Rui's four birthdays.
The last time she predicted the Time of Misfortune for Xue Rui was half a month ago. Using the law of the Time of Misfortune to predict what had happened in the past and what would happen in the future were very different.
As long as she was given the time of her birth, no matter if it was a year or two, or even ten years ago, she could predict what would happen.
However, there was a certain limit to the future disasters. For example, the closer the date, the more realistic it would be, and the further the date, the more illusory it would be. Therefore, she could only predict the future for half a month at a time to ensure accuracy.
Today, Xue Rui was threatened by Princess Xi Wen with the past, which confirmed her prediction that he was going to recruit villains. Moreover, it seemed that Xi Wen had other tricks up her sleeves.
Everything in this world was either a blessing or a curse, and no blessing or disaster was peace. Her law of the Time of Misfortune seemed to only be used for disasters, but in fact, it had already taken half of everything. She predicted a disaster, so no disaster was a blessing.
Whether the conditions Xi Wen proposed to Xue Rui were good or bad, she could tell with a single calculation.
"Let me see what you have in your mind." Yu Shu sneered, and the charcoal pen in her hand calculated quickly. Strings of numbers and symbols that only she could distinguish appeared on the paper, and the simple or complicated conversion was getting further and further away day by day.
Originally, it was aimed at Xi Wen, but now that she calculated, Xue Rui had more than one trouble.
"Quarrel, losing money, hiss —" Yu Shu felt strange. It should be known that Xue Rui's fate was extremely good. It was difficult for him to get a minor illness in half a year, and he did not even lose a penny for two months.
Why did he suddenly have so many troubles recently?
She remembered that last month, she predicted a bloody disaster for him.
Yu Shu pondered for a while, and still felt that the problem was with Xue Rui's current position. What kind of place was the Supreme Court? It was in charge of the harshest prison in the whole of Da 'an. If he often went in and out of the prison, he could still rely on his own luck to suppress it, but after a long time, it was inevitable that he would be disturbed by evil spirits.
"Fortunately, I noticed it early and thought of a way to solve it once and for all."
The fan made of century-old peach wood root and her crystal should be enough to restrain the evil spirits around him.
On one hand, Yu Shu was making plans for Xue Rui, on the other hand, she did not stop writing. When she had calculated to a certain day, she suddenly stopped because she had discovered another disaster.
"Well, this is one..." She quickly took out her handbook of calamities from the drawer, flipped through it twice, and found a value on it. The number she had just calculated was within the range of values.
Yu Shu looked at the date she circled on the paper with a strange expression, and frowned:
"June 6th, Peach Disaster."
June 6th, wasn't it the Gentleman Hibiscus Banquet?
Yu Shu's brain moved, and intuitively linked Xue Rui's Peach Disaster with Princess Xi Wen.
There were good and bad things to do with peach blossoms, but the Peach Disaster specifically referred to those rotten peach blossoms. Because of a certain unsuitable relationship with the opposite sex, it caused disputes or disasters, which was a very bad thing.
"Princess Xi Wen used the cause of the Tenth Princess's death as an exchange to ask Big Brother to agree to her condition, but said that it was not time yet, could it be …"
"Snap!" Yu Shu used force in her hand and broke the three-inch-long charcoal strip. Her face was full of anger:
"Xi Wen, you actually have such a crooked idea!"
With a golden jade hibiscus at the Gentleman Hibiscus Banquet, she could choose her own marriage, and it was a heaven-sent marriage. If Xi Wen got the golden jade hibiscus, she would give it to Xue Rui, and then take advantage of the situation to propose a condition. Was she sure that Xue Rui would not refuse her because of the Tenth Princess?
When she imagined that scene, Yu Shu was actually unable to be sure for a time. If it wasn't for Xue Rui being frank with her today and knowing that she was able to deduce the cause of death of the Tenth Princess, then would he be forced to submit on that day?
The more Yu Shu thought about it, the more upset she became. She rubbed her sore eyebrows, annoyed, and simply threw away the broken willow charcoal strip, hastily cleaned up the paper and ink on the table, washed her hands, and went to rest.
It was late at night, and the sky was about to brighten. Cicadas chirped outside the window, and a little yellow hair slipped along the bed curtain to the side of the pillow, its black eyes flashing.
The figure on the bed turned over and murmured in a low voice:
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