Wei Shu

Chapter 253
"I'm not cold."

Cheng Yuanniang's voice soon started to sound.

She turned to look at Cai Lian, with a faint smile on her lips. Her expression and tone were the same as before, and the strange expression just now seemed to have never appeared on her face before.

However, for some reason, Cai Lian felt a little scared, and a chill ran down her back.

She didn't dare to look at the smiling face anymore, she just lowered her head and said yes. What she saw out of the corner of her eye was a skirt of sky-blue embroidered silver thread bamboo solid gauze. The skirt passed by her body, and then What came was a familiar chuckle:

"Why are you still standing there stupidly? Let's go."

Before she finished speaking, the fluttering skirt was already out of sight.

When the master and the servant returned to the small study, Master Wu still had not arrived. It was not until he had finished grinding half a pond of ink in the snow, and Cai Lian brought the heated small hand stove that Master Wu arrived belatedly.

She was about half a moment late, which she had never been before.

Naturally, the girls did not dare to say anything. They all stood up and saluted. After returning the salute, Master Wu put the book box in his hand on the table, but did not open the box and unfold the books. Instead, he stared at something in the void. Here, the expression on his face looked a little solemn.

The solemnity quickly spread throughout the room, and for a while, the small study became silent. Even the most arrogant Cheng Yuejiao felt a little strange.

"I just received the news from White Stone Academy." A few breaths later, Master Wu's solemn voice sounded, like a stone falling into the water, breaking the dead silence in the room:
"This year's academy entrance examination has been advanced."

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"You must have heard about the advance of the college entrance examination, right?"

Two days later, in the deserted courtyard of the Lu Mansion, drizzle spread across the sky and the earth, turning the autumn grass in the garden yellow and cooling Lu Shen's voice.

Wei Shu was looking at the newly acquired waist card, pressed the button several times repeatedly, inspected all the details, and said leisurely:

"Of course I've heard that this year's entrance exam has been moved up a month, and is scheduled for the day of light snow. The ladies are working hard to study hard."

She put her new waistband into her sleeves, raised her eyes and looked at Lu Shen, with a satisfied smile on her face:
"Yes, the materials are indeed of the best quality. Mr. Xiao Lu is a trustworthy person. Thank you very much."

Lu Shen laughed "ha" and said, "You can use it as you please."

Wei Shu picked up the rough porcelain tea cup in front of her and took a sip of tea. She frowned suddenly and tilted the tea cup to the light to look at:

"What kind of tea are you talking about? Why does it smell burnt?"

"Chenghui Sanwen, good Zhuyeqing." Lu Shen smiled as his hospitable host, and pointed to a corner of the desk.

Only then did Wei Shu see that there was a piece of yellow waxy reed leaves spread out in the corner of the desk, and a handful of black and smudgy things were piled up on it. Even with superhuman senses, I can only detect a hint of tea in the taste.

There is only a hint of it, and it is far from the word "tea fragrance".

"Let's change the water." Wei Shu frowned and pushed the tea cup away.

Lu Shen looked at her steadily for a moment, then a look of helplessness suddenly appeared on his face. He flicked his sleeves, stood up and walked out.

The small furnace for boiling water was placed under the window. There were still a few remaining eaves to protect the place from the rain, but there was no need to worry about the fire being extinguished.

Wei Shu's eyes swept across the slender figure, and said in a rambling voice, "What's so important about the advance of the college entrance examination? Why did you mention this when you came here? Is there a problem?" "It's not too particular, it's just It’s just the first time in decades. As for the problem, it does exist.”

Lu Shen's voice came through the window, cool and clear.

Wei Shu raised her eyebrows and said, "Could it be that the Joint Investigation Department took action? There are new clues in that murder case, so the exam was mentioned on Xiaoxue's day?"

Lu Shen smiled "haha" again, his voice getting colder and colder:

"Even the secret arrester with the best martial arts skills in the world didn't find any useful clues. How can those... people from the Joint Investigation Department find out anything?"

Holding a large pottery cup in one hand, he strode into the room, held the cup in front of Wei Shu and said, "Please."

The slightly aggravated tone and movements did not attract Wei Shu's attention. She waved her hands casually and continued the topic:
"Tell me why. I don't think you will bring up this topic for no reason."

Lu Shen's eyes were fixed on her, and he always felt that the woman in front of him had a beautiful face, a good painting and a good poem, but she really shouldn't have the sitting posture and stern look of a big horse with a golden sword, let alone compare her with that of a beautiful woman. A piece of wood that is still taller than a person is held in his hand and thrown up and down.

"Can the door panel down below be put down first?" After a while, Lu Shen finally said.

This door panel fell off in the morning, and he took a lot of effort to lean it against the corner of the wall. He planned to have someone repair it later. Who would have thought that the hero would grab this thing in his hand as soon as he entered the house, so He kept throwing it up and down like a toy, not even stopping when he was checking his waist card just now.

He really cares about the door panel of his house.

"There are only two boards left on the door of this house. I think they...haven't reached the end of their lives."

Lu Shen said again, with a solemn expression on his face.

Wei Shu looked at him and then at the wooden board, the expression on her face stiffened little by little.

She really didn't know it was a door panel. When she entered the room, she just thought it was strange that it appeared in Lu Shen's study, so she took it casually. She never expected that this thing was related to the face of a fifth-grade official.

Is she trying to play with Mr. Xiao Lu’s face in disguise?
"Uh, I'm sorry." Wei Shu smiled, carefully put down the door panel, and adjusted the position against the wall to prevent it from slipping.

The worry on Lu Shen's face finally faded away, and he looked calm and calm again. He lifted his robe and sat down opposite the desk, saying:
"The advancement of the entrance examination does have a deeper meaning. As far as I know, the Jin Kingdom's secret envoys have already set off, and they should be in the capital during Xiaoxue's days."

Wei Shu listened with an unmoved face, without any ups and downs in her heart.

The alliance between Jin and Song was expected, but this was the first time she heard about the visit of the Jin Kingdom's secret envoy.

This is actually what the question should mean.The Song and Jin Dynasties jointly resisted the Liao Dynasty, so it was naturally impossible to communicate openly and openly in front of the Liao people, so secret visits by envoys were indispensable.

But, what does this have to do with the entrance examination of Baishi Academy?
Wei Shu didn't ask this question, but just stared at Lu Shen, waiting for his next words.

Lu Shen did not show off, and quickly said: "I heard that the Jin people have long admired the prosperous poetry and etiquette of our Song Dynasty, and wholeheartedly imitated our strategy of governing the country by educating all people in the Song Dynasty. They also had the intention to build a women's academy. But they didn't know this. What is the difference between a women's academy and an ordinary academy, so I made a request to the official..."

"They are going to Baishi Academy to observe?" Wei Shu immediately took up the topic.

She didn't look surprised, but there was an imperceptible disappointment in her eyes.

(End of this chapter)