If you don't count, you will die

To be honest, Mo Mo didn't know if Lin Mu was in the Palace of Thousands of Machines, but after getting along for more than a month, he didn't know where else to find him besides the Palace of Thousands of Machines.

Then the Hall of Thousand Machines was empty, and Lin Mu was not there.

Once again, he had no choice but to go back to the Hall of Observation. Now that he has a lifespan of more than ten years, he is not too eager to go to divination to continue his life. Instead, he is more inclined to learn the majestic knowledge in the divination system. According to calculations, silence is as small as a flat boat, even if it is a lifetime, it cannot penetrate everything.

But he didn't expect that the imperial examination was not over yet, and the emperor summoned him again.

It is still the emperor's study.

I saw that Dijun was concentrating on looking at the theories submitted by the 36 students, and did not give any reaction to the arrival of silence.

Silence stood there as usual, every time the emperor summoned him, he would be left aside for a long time, I don't know why, maybe he just didn't like him?

Since it's not pleasing to the eye, why call him often?

Or is it because he is afraid of being silent and taking monthly cases for nothing?

Silence stood aside, slowly looking at Dijun's study room, and saw a painting hanging behind Dijun, it should be a new painting not long ago, a boy in a white robe and brocade was squatting by the pond looking at the koi in the pond. It should be a funny painting of a child, but the strange thing is that the facial features of the child are blank. The emperor actually drew a portrait, but hung it up without painting the facial features.

In the lower right corner is written a line of small characters - "Zi was born on the seventh day of July, Qiming 29, and died on March [-], [-], at the age of eight."

Did the child in the painting die at the age of eight?

Silently, he unconsciously looked at the child in the painting and lost his mind, until the emperor interrupted his daze, "Go and find out about Chen Hengzhi's poisoning before the examination."

Shen Mo retracted his thoughts, a little surprised, he thought that the emperor would not care about such things, the biggest possibility was to turn a blind eye, but he did not expect that the emperor not only cared about it, but also handed over the matter to him for investigation.

Seeing that Mo Mo was silent, Di Junzhan finally raised his head from the policy discussion, looked at Mo Mo with sharp eyes and said: "You should already know the usefulness of the black order. I have given you the right, so you have to learn how to use it. You have to learn how to use it. It doesn't matter how extensive the involvement is, you just need to submit the list of involvement to this Lord."

Under the staring eyes of the emperor, Shen Mo had no choice but to kneel down and agree: "It is... I... the next official to accept the order."

"Go back."

"Yes."

After leaving Dijun's study room, Shen Mo went straight to Xuezitang.

Now the 36 candidates are still staying in the student hall, and they will stay until the results are released seven days later. At that time, the emperor will personally bestow the official salary. If there is no accident, these 36 candidates should all find official positions. The difference is only the size of their official positions, or the distribution of regions. Of course, no one would want to leave Jiuzhong, but this is not something they can decide.

Before arriving at the Xuezitang, Shen Mo heard lively shouting and playing. Sure enough, a group of young people of the same age lived together, and it would be much more lively. It seemed that Mo Mo, a 16-year-old but very mature little national teacher, was a little bit Out of place.

This time Shen Mo came alone, but during the palace examination, all 36 students entered the hall after performing etiquette to Shen Mo, so no one did not know him, he stepped into the student hall one moment, and the next moment the students The sound of playing and fighting in the hall immediately disappeared without a trace.

Looking up, several young people aged 36 to [-] in the garden of Xuezitang are quickly standing up, looking at the silence one after another awkwardly. These few people are only a few of the [-] people who seem to be more lively and energetic, and there are many others. The students all stayed quietly in their own rooms and never came out.

Shen Mo didn't have the intention of chatting or communicating with them, so he just asked in a cold voice, "Do you know where the student Chen Hengzhi is?"

As soon as they heard that Shen Mo wanted to find Chen Hengzhi, several people immediately talked to show Shen Mo the way, and even the younger ones wanted to lead Mo Mo, but were immediately stopped by Mo Mo.

Facing the direction they were pointing at, Silence passed through several people and walked over. Before the corner, he looked back, and those people had resumed playing around, but one of them didn't have time to retract the faint smile on his face when he looked over. There is a bit of jealous expression.

Silence raised his eyebrows, and then he walked around the corner. That's right, his current identity is very bluffing. Zhan Tianguo, a national teacher who is less than one person and more than ten thousand people, uses this identity to find Chen Hengzhi. Will think about it.

After experiencing several unpredictable cases that ultimately cost his life, Mo Mo also gradually learned some ways to figure out people's hearts.

The student hall is very spacious, with more than 36 separate wing rooms, which is still more than enough to accommodate these [-] students.

At this time, the door of Chen Hengzhi's room was closed tightly, and there was no movement at all inside. Of course, there were many wing rooms with closed doors around, so I don't know what the students hiding inside were doing.

After thinking about it, Shen Mo simply stepped forward and raised his hand to knock on the door.

"Is Chen Hengzhi here?"

As soon as Shen Mo finished speaking, the door opened in front of him. Chen Hengzhi, who was about the same size as Mo Mo, looked a little surprised after seeing Mo Mo, and immediately let Mo Mo go in.

"National Master? Why are you here! Please hurry up."

Silently, he skipped Chen Hengzhi and walked in. The room is very simple, just a couch and a table, and there are no extra items.

At this time, there were many books scattered on the table, most of them were opened, and the paper spread out on the side was filled with densely packed small characters. This person actually studied so hard after the palace examination.

Chen Hengzhi saw that Mo Mo sat on the only chair as soon as he came in, and asked a little awkwardly: "Master Guoshi is here this time, what's the matter?"

Mo Mo retracted his gaze from looking around, glanced at the round-faced boy who had returned to normal in front of him, and asked, "What happened to you on the day of the imperial examination?"

Hearing this sentence, Chen Hengzhi's white dough-like face flushed a little, as if he was extremely embarrassed, and said: "Hengzhi, Hengzhi came to Jiuchong for the first time, and the dishes in Xuezitang are extremely rich. I ate too much before the imperial examination, maybe my stomach couldn't adapt to too much greasy food for a while, so... I had a stomachache. I haven't thanked my lord for this matter. You are going to miss this imperial examination!"

Silently listening to Chen Hengzhi calling himself "I" and Hengzhi for a while, he was a little dizzy, and didn't want to listen to his cumbersome thanks, so he waved his hand to interrupt him and asked: "Are you from Guanquan?" The son of a well-known jade merchant, although Guanquan is not comparable to Jiuzhong, it is also a well-known and wealthy place. The son of a merchant is not so greedy because of some food in Xuezitang. In front of me, you'd better not tell lies. "

Chen Hengzhi's red doughy face immediately turned pale, and he was so frightened that he lifted his robe and knelt down in front of Shen Mo, hurriedly denying: "Master of the State! Every sentence of Hengzhi is true and there is no falsehood, Hengzhi... Hengzhi should be It's really because of being too greedy that I got a stomachache... and Hengzhi has never eaten such a rich dish as in Xuezitang!"

Mo Mo's eyes stared straight at Chen Hengzhi through the black veil, in Chen Hengzhi's eyes, it was this mysterious master of the State Teacher who remained silent for a while, perhaps thinking about how to punish him, and his heart became more and more serious. Terrified, I only feel pain in my heart and feel uncomfortable.

After a while, Shen Mo said in a flat tone: "I see, you get up."

As he spoke, he picked up a piece of white paper from the table and handed it to Chen Hengzhi, "Write your birthday on it."

Although Chen Hengzhi was puzzled, he took it immediately, and dipped in the ink he had sharpened before the silence came, and wrote it stroke by stroke. He wrote it very carefully, as if writing a birth date was as important to him as a palace test.

Shen Shen added another sentence: "You can write well, without any falsehood."

Chen Hengzhi nodded immediately, "Don't worry, my lord, Hengzhi will not dare to deceive you in the slightest."

Shen Mo put away the paper on which Chen Hengzhi's birthday was written, and left without saying a word, leaving Chen Hengzhi standing there hesitantly, no one could have guessed that Shen Mo came here and took away his birthday horoscope. what for.

When he first got the fortune-telling system, Shen Mo's deduction was extremely troublesome and complicated, and he often looked far away. Now, the more he learns the divination techniques in the fortune-telling system, the more enlightened he feels.

Of course, this is also due to those hexagrams of the dead and several times of fascination.

Back at the Temple of Observation, Shen Mo spread out the piece of paper, took out Hao Su, and prepared to use it to do some calculations, but he couldn't concentrate all the time.

He was holding Hao Su, his thoughts were flying, sometimes he thought of Lin Mu who hadn't seen him for a long time, and sometimes he thought of Chen Hengzhi whom he had just met, and Chen Hengzhi always thought that his stomach trouble before the palace exam was just because he ate badly.

In the end, Silence thought of the painting hanging in Dijun's study. For some reason, that painting seemed to have a great influence on him. The child without facial features somehow gave him a sense of familiarity, but he is a modern person, so what? Would you know a dead child?

It is written on the painting, "Zi was born on the seventh day of the seventh month of Qiming 29, and died on March [-], [-]th of Qiming". It has been eight years since he died. Eight years ago, the emperor had not yet ascended the throne, and the Kingdom of War Heaven had not yet existed.

I don't know what the relationship between the child and Dijun Zhan is. I think that I went to the study a few times before and saw Dijun painting. It should be this child who has no facial features.

While thinking this way, Shen Mo held Hao Su in his hand and couldn't help but draw a few times. For a moment, Hao Su's luster flourished, and then Shen Shen held Hao Su lying on the table unconscious.

Zi was born on the seventh day of the seventh month of Qiming 29, and died on March [-], [-], at the age of eight...

Died in the [-]th year of Qiming...

Eight years old...

Silence only felt that someone kept repeating this sentence in his mind all the time, but he didn't check it for a while and went away in a daze.

For a moment, his consciousness was shaken, and when the party was born and died, he went back to many years ago.

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