The Little Lucky Girl

Ming Youyou sympathetically said, "The class placement test will be held in half a month. You should try to get into Class B."

Feng Xu felt a chill down his spine, and said timidly, "I see there are a lot of people in Class C who study hard, so I don't think I'll be able to get into the top three."

Lu Tai snorted, "This is the only chance to change classes." Seeing that Feng Xu didn't take it seriously, he reminded him, "The progress of the class will be different in the future, and the homework assigned by the teachers will be different..."

Feng Xu shuddered immediately. That wouldn’t work. He had nowhere to copy the homework.

"Okay, I'll try my best," he said, much more sincerely this time, "and you guys have to help me too."

Zheng Huan and the others nodded, "Sure, no problem. We'll go back to review after dinner."

Feng Xu suddenly felt that the rice in his bowl was no longer fragrant. He looked at Ming Youyou, who was the most carefree, and said enviously, "You are still the best. It doesn't matter whether you study or not. Speaking of which, I want to be a general in the future, and I don't need to take the imperial examination. If I talk to Lord Tao, can he open a back door for me?"

"Please don't do that. You don't know how many tasks Master Tao has left for me."

Ming Youyou then remembered, "Oh, where did I throw it?"

She emptied out everything in her schoolbag and finally found the crumpled piece of paper.

The three of them looked at it and shook their heads, "How much resentment do you have towards it?"

Zheng Huan helped to slowly piece the paper together and asked in confusion, "The instructions on the front are just to write big characters, recite, and explain the meanings, which is similar to our homework. But what do the instructions on the back mean?"

Lu Tai also asked: "Yes, what is the purpose of this 'Collection of Master Ji's Annotations'?"

"Master Tao said that Master Ji's calligraphy is as famous as your grandfather's, but he doesn't like to seek fame. Ahem, anyway, he doesn't like to write for others. So Master Tao wants to collect the homework he annotated for us."

Lu Tai's face turned a little dark. He felt that he had to write a letter to remind his grandfather not to show off his inscriptions for others. Look, they are worthless now.

Zheng Huan suddenly realized, "No wonder you didn't do the homework assigned by other teachers, but you insisted on doing Mr. Ji's."

Ming Youyou chuckled and said, “You said that even Lord Tao likes it, so it must be very good, so I decided to keep the best one for my collection and give the rest to him.”

The three of them gave her a thumbs up and decided to do the same.

"Then what is this 'Tan Su Guan He Ding'?" Feng Xu asked.

"Lord Tao said that Principal Pei always boasted to him that he had a pot of Suguan Heding orchid, which was worth more than a thousand gold coins. Even when Your Majesty wanted it in a roundabout way, he was reluctant to give it to you. But Lord Tao wanted to see it several times but he refused, so he asked me to find a way to see if there is such a flower."

The three shook their heads and sighed, "I feel for Lord Bai Chengtao. He has been planning for a long time to let you go to the academy."

Feng Xu pointed at the last one and asked, "What is this 'Looking for the White-haired Old Man'?"

“Just looking for an old man.”

"Are there no other features? There are so many old men with white hair. How can we find them?"

Ming Youyou scratched his head. "Lord Tao said that he had never seen the old man before. When he entered the court, he had already resigned and retired. It was when Principal Pei let slip when he was drunk that he thought the old man might be in the academy."

The three of them asked curiously, "Did he say who this old man is?"

"I asked him, but he didn't want to say anything. However, his tone was very respectful. He must be an important person."

She thought for a moment and lowered her voice again, "Do you think the person I met that day was this old gentleman?"

Speaking of this, Lu Tai immediately became excited, "I have found out everything. The reason why the student who showed you the way that day was so scared was because there was a ghost in the back mountain."

"It is said that several students saw it. They were reciting their lessons in the back hills, and an old man with a white beard was asking them questions. When they finished reciting the lessons and wanted to thank him, they found that they could not find the old man anywhere."

Lu Tai looked at her and said with a heavy face: "So, you might have seen a ghost."

"Don't talk nonsense." Ming Youyou was so angry that she shouted loudly, but her body unconsciously leaned towards Zheng Huan who was closest to her.

"It's really an academy. Even ghosts are very knowledgeable and can help others recite books." Feng Xu also laughed, "Didn't you eat the fruits given to you the other day? Could they be transformed from stones and leaves? Did you have a stomachache after eating them?"

Ming Youyou ignored him and tried to ask the system quietly, but when she poked it there was no response. Only then did she realize that the system had gone into hibernation.

It was cloudy today, so she didn't get to bask in the sun. The system kept saying that she was too familiar with the books she was memorizing, and her brain waves were not active, so it couldn't charge enough energy...

Ming Youyou immediately stopped thinking about everything else, took out the "Book of Rites" and started to recite it.

The three people next to her looked at each other in bewilderment. Feng Xu stretched out his hand and waved it in front of her eyes, "Are you scared silly?"

Zheng Huan slapped his hand away and said to Ming Youyou, "A gentleman should not talk about strange things. They are just joking with you. If you are really scared, why don't we go to the back mountain together to take a look."

The other two were not afraid of trouble and immediately encouraged him, "Go, go now."

So a few people ran over.

It was dinner time and the road was very quiet. When I reached the back mountain, I didn't see anyone. There were only a few bird calls coming from the silent woods, which sounded eerie.

Ming Youyou said bravely: "I'm not afraid. They are human beings. You will know when you go and see them."

Feng Xu: "Can you please stop pulling Zheng Huan's sleeve when you say this?"

Lu Tai felt uneasy and couldn't help but want to speak, "Maybe they are two hermits who don't want people to know their whereabouts."

Ming Youyou thought of the few words she had heard that day, "Yes, it seems like they are really hiding from someone."

"That's it. We may not be able to see him even if we go there."

After a lot of arguing, they finally found the yard, but there was really no one inside.

Zheng Huan asked Lu Tai and Ming Youyou to stay in the yard, and he and Feng Xu went into the house to check.

After a while, two people came out and shook their heads at them, "There's no one inside either."

"And there's a lot of dust in the room. It doesn't look like anyone has lived there." Feng Xu said, taking a breath.

Ming Youyou's little hand that was holding Lu Tai's arm began to tremble, and then she found that Lu Tai seemed to be shaking even more violently than her.

Zheng Huan patted her head and said, "Don't be afraid. If there is something wrong, the academy will not ignore it. Let's solve it as a case now."

"It's a good idea to think like this." Turning from passive to active, Lu Tai and Feng Xu became bolder. They often borrowed books on solving cases from Luo Xiucai, and occasionally listened to Lord Tao's trials...

Although Lord Tao only handled trivial matters after arriving in Yuqing County, they still learned some basic ideas.

Zheng Huan asked, "When you came here that day, did you notice anything different from now?"