Yun Hua Yi Zi, who was famous in the capital twenty years ago, was Yu Shu's senior fellow apprentice. This knowledge was so shocking that it took Xue Rui a while to accept it.
Yu Shu was not as calm as him. They were silent for a while, and Xue Rui asked first,
"How can you be sure that it is him? Your master has never mentioned your senior fellow apprentice's name. Did you make a mistake? "
Yu Shu asked, "Do you know why I left my hometown and took Xiaoxiu from Jiangnan to the capital?"
"To get rid of the Ji family and to stand out?"
At that time, the Ji family was very powerful in Yiyang. In order to redress Zhao Hui's grievances, Yu Shu went to court and exposed that the Ji family used fake life slips in the Dayi Exchange House to murder others. Therefore, she completely offended the Ji family. As an insider, Xue Rui knew that Yu Shu left Yiyang City after that and came to Anling to seek a way out.
"Not necessarily. Another reason why I came to the capital was that I was entrusted by my master. I suspect that Yun Hua also came to the capital for the imperial examination because of this entrustment. He deliberately approached Princess Luyue."
Xue Rui's expression turned serious, and he sat up straight before he asked, "What's the request?"
Ever since Yu Shu came to this dynasty, there were two things that she had hidden the most, and they were things that she planned to let rot in her stomach. The first was that she had reincarnated in another person's body, and the second was Daoist Qing Zheng's request that day.
She once swore in front of Qing Zheng that she would help him find the Book of Fantasy Goddesses and destroy it in her lifetime, and she would not learn the skills in that book.
Qing Zheng had told her that the book was in the hands of the Great Advisor. She only knew who the Great Advisor of the Celestial Commissioner was after she stayed in Anling City. He was one of the most important ministers under the emperor's command. He was a big shot that she couldn't even reach.
If she wanted to obtain the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book' from his hands, without absolute certainty, Yu Shu did not dare to act rashly.
Now that she understood the secrets of Yun Hua Yi's son in the past, Yu Shu felt as if she could see how she would walk down his old path. She could not help but be vigilant, and she became even more determined in her thoughts.
He couldn't let anyone know about Qing Zheng's request.
Even Xue Rui couldn't do it because she couldn't trust him completely, unless …
"Big Brother, I will only tell you this secret if you swear not to reveal it to a third person."
Being stared at by Yu Shu without blinking, Xue Rui's mood was a little strange. He could feel the distrust that she was revealing at this moment. Normally, he should feel unhappy, but in fact, he felt a little happy.
Because she was planning to share her secret with him, and he was the first person she had ever told about it.
Even though she said that she didn't trust him, it was clear that she trusted him.
The girl that he loved, most of the time, was so cunning that it made people's teeth itch, but sometimes, she was simple and straightforward, making people love her.
"I, Xue Chengbi, swear here today, with my life as a guarantee, if I mention the secret of Yu Shu to anyone else, I will die a horrible death, and become a dog in the six realms of reincarnation."
It was a true oath. After he finished speaking, he looked at Yu Shu's tense face, and suddenly smiled. He reached out his hand and gently pinched her cheek, saying,
"Can you say it now?"
Yu Shu looked at him deeply, and slowly said, "Master wants me to find the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book' … and destroy it."
"…" Xue Rui was shocked speechless for a moment.
He didn't know much about the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book', but he also heard from Yu Shu that it was from this book that the 'Great An Calamity' was mentioned. One could imagine how many secrets related to national affairs were hidden in this book, and it could easily take people's lives.
Yu Shu wanted to destroy this book. Just this act alone was tantamount to a traitor.
Now Xue Rui knew why Yu Shu solemnly asked him to swear. If he dared to reveal such a purpose, he would be "dead".
"So I think that Yun Hua was also commissioned to destroy the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book' like me, but he was seen through in the end, so he died here. In addition to his age, and you told me that he already had a wife in his hometown, all these circumstances made me think that he was the big brother that my master mentioned. "
Yu Shu told Xue Rui everything about her conjecture, and she wasn't vigilant at all.
"It's very possible," Xue Rui said hesitantly. "But based on these few things, I can't be very sure that it's him. Did your master mention any other characteristics of your senior brother?"
Yu Shu shook her head. "No, my master never told me much about him. He only revealed a few words after drinking, and I remembered it."
Although there was no conclusive evidence, Yu Shu's intuition told her that Yun Hua was Qing Zheng's big disciple. It couldn't be wrong.
"If he is really your senior brother, why don't you use your strange skill of predicting the fate of people to trace back and see if he died because of the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book'?" Xue Rui suggested.
Yu Shu frowned and said, "Big brother, you don't know. My rule of the time of calamity can indeed predict the cause of death, but there are three conditions that cannot be omitted. First, I must know the person's birthday. Second, I must know the time of death. Third, there must be a similar disaster as a primer. The first two conditions are easy to satisfy, but the last one is difficult. If he really died because of that book, it would be unprecedented. I can't predict it. "
Xue Rui sighed regretfully. He felt that it was normal that Yu Shu couldn't predict it. If she could really know all the deaths in the world, she would be a living Yama King.
"Then what do you plan to do? Do you really want to follow your master's instructions and destroy that book?" Xue Rui asked tentatively.
There was a little confusion and hesitation on Yu Shu's face, but it soon disappeared. She said calmly, "It's still too early to say anything.
It's not too late to make a decision after I figure out what is hidden in the 'Mystic Maiden's Six Rens Book'. "
She did promise Qing Zheng to help him destroy that book, but before everything else, she had to live according to her own wishes.
Xue Rui didn't say anything. He just looked at her resolute expression with an inexplicable look in his eyes.
After the meal, Yu Shu took the Tenth Princess's horoscope and went upstairs alone.
Xue Rui didn't go up to disturb her. He set up an incense table downstairs, boiled water and brewed tea, and waited quietly for the result.
Upstairs, Yu Shu washed her hands and burned the incense. In order to be accurate, she used the dragon's saliva and even changed it into a soothing white crystal bracelet.
Only Xiao Qing, a maid, was left in the room.
She listed the deceased's birthday on the paper and compared it to the time of death. She traced it back to three years ago — the eleventh year of Zhaoqing, the Year of the Gengchen.
The Tenth Princess's accident happened on the thirteenth day of the first month and she died in the early morning of the fourteenth.
.....
An hour later, Yu Shu had finished calculating the disaster that had occurred during those two days. She put down her brush, and her eyebrows were tightly knitted together. Her eyes were filled with disbelief.
She opened the 'Book of Life and Death' in disbelief and searched it. After several similar cases, she finally confirmed that it was the truth. She was so surprised that she couldn't close her mouth.
The Tenth Princess actually … died like this!?
She still couldn't believe it, so she simply laid out the paper again and calculated the days before the Tenth Princess's death day by day, in order to find the truth.
In the blink of an eye, it was evening. It wasn't until Xiao Qing added a lamp under the window and the fragrance in the room was so strong that people couldn't open their eyes, that Yu Shu looked up from the table with red eyes. There was a thick stack of toilet paper in her hand, and the ink was drying. Her face was indescribably conflicted.
She had thought about the Tenth Princess's death in the past few days, but she never expected it to end like this. How could she talk to Xue Rui?
When Xue Rui found out that the truth that caused him to carry the guilt for three years was actually like this, how would he face it?
Yu Shu sat quietly for a long time, looking at the densely packed numbers and symbols on the paper. She felt an indescribable anger towards the Tenth Princess, who had died before she even met her.
"Whoosh!"
Yu Shu grabbed a stack of paper on the table, crumpled it into a ball, and threw it into the empty basin beside her feet. She only grabbed the last piece in her hand and said coldly to Xiao Qing,
"Take it to the back and burn it."
Xue Rui had boiled a few pots of spring water in the afternoon. Seeing that the sky was dark and Yu Shu hadn't come down yet, he couldn't help but feel a little anxious. He was about to go upstairs to take a look when he saw the door in front of him open and Yu Shu walked in.
Xue Rui immediately stood up, and there was a trace of urgency in his voice that he didn't notice.
"How is it? Have you calculated it?"
"I've calculated it."
Yu Shu's expression was indifferent. She walked over and sat down on the chair opposite him. She picked up the Yixing clay teapot on the tea table and drank a few mouthfuls of warm water without using a cup.
Seeing this, Xue Rui also sat back down and stared at her with his black eyes. Although he didn't urge her to speak, his expression clearly showed that he was anxious to know the answer.
Yu Shu drank the tea and felt a bitterness in her mouth. She poured half the pot of tea into her mouth in one go and put down the teapot with a bang.
"The Tenth Princess wasn't pushed down by anyone. She jumped down from the Sea-view Tower by herself."
Xue Rui blinked a few times, as if he didn't understand.
Yu Shu felt uncomfortable seeing this, so she had to steel her heart and explain clearly, "The Tenth Princess was courting death.
She jumped down from the building and fell into the lake. She didn't fall to her death, but she died of a winter cold. I've calculated it three times, and there's no mistake. It wasn't Jinxun who pushed her down, and no one pushed her. "
At this point, it was impossible for Xue Rui to be unable to understand, and his handsome face gradually froze.
"… Why?"
She didn't know if he was asking Yu Shu or himself.
Why did the Tenth Princess commit suicide by jumping off a building on the day of the appointed marriage, and why did she frame the innocent Xue Jinxun? She didn't tell the truth even before she died.
Why?
Yu Shu shouldn't have known the answer, but she had calculated another bad account and found out an embarrassing truth.
"Not long before the Tenth Princess's accident, she had a love affair. It was a man born in the year of Xinyou, and he looked like a chicken. It wasn't you, big brother."
Xue Rui was born in the year of Renxu, and his name was Xiaogou.
"Not only that, two days before her accident, she committed a vile act. This vile act was also a man named Xiaogou."
Love affair and committing a vile act were two disasters that could easily lead to death.
"Big brother, you don't have to feel guilty. The Tenth Princess was not framed because of you. Otherwise, I have calculated that the fatal love affair should be on you. It can be seen that you were originally a good match for her, but she had distracting thoughts and went astray. "
Yu Shu didn't want to make it too embarrassing, in case Xue Rui found it hard to accept the truth.
But in fact, she had also pondered over the whole matter several times before she finally pieced together the truth with the highest probability of being the truth.
The Tenth Princess should have had an affair with a man named Xiaogou for a long time and was unwilling to marry Xue Rui. However, she didn't dare to openly defy the Emperor's will, so she made such a bad plan.
She took Xue Rui's sister, Xue Jinxun, to the deserted Sea-view Tower alone, and then jumped down from it, creating the illusion that Xue Jinxun was the murderer.
The Tenth Princess probably didn't expect that she would really die. She might have thought that there was a lake downstairs, and falling down was just falling into the water. Someone would definitely save her in time. At most, she would get seriously ill, and then she could accuse Xue Jinxun of hurting her and escape from the marriage.
Who would have thought that she had overestimated her own physique? After a night of catching a cold, she actually passed away.
Therefore, the bitter fruit that Xue Rui and his sister had tasted so far was that they had to bear all the blame for a woman's selfishness.
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