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He waved his hand, beckoned Lao Tie over, and said in a deep voice: "Bring me some tea."
Lao Tie nodded and walked out with a slight limp.
The room was silent for a while. King Xia was staring at her with burning eyes. Qiaochu didn't dare to provoke the Ninth Master too much. It was no fun to provoke him, so she closed her eyes and just took a rest.
After a while, a voice was heard, and it seemed that the old man had come back.
After a long while, the anxious voices of the beauties could be heard again.
"I don't know how much time has passed, why hasn't anyone come in to assign poetry topics?"
"Yeah, how much time is left?"
Qiaochu became more and more suspicious. He opened his eyes and looked at the incense burner. There was smoke from the burner and the air was filled with fragrance. The sandalwood was newly lit by the female official when everyone entered the room. If you estimate it a little, you can roughly know how much time has passed.
According to the Yuncang calendar, eight ke is one hour. For ordinary incense sticks, three sticks of incense is about one ke. However, the sandalwood in front of me is thick and about three times the size of ordinary incense sticks, which means that one stick of incense is one ke. My friend has just changed the incense once, which means that more than one ke has passed.
Qiaochu was startled. It was almost 2:15 pm. The ceremonial officer repeatedly emphasized that the second round of the competition would start at 3:15 pm, but there was still no sign of the first round of questions. What was Emperor Rongrui up to
She was lost in thought when someone suddenly pushed the door open. They were three female ceremonial officials.
"Please Master Jiu and the girls follow me."
At first they were nervous about the test questions, then they were terrified while waiting, but now they were overjoyed when they heard it, thinking that the competition must be about to begin, and they followed the female official out one after another.
Not far away, the ladies stopped in front of a room. Several women were talking quietly, four of them were in pairs, and no one paid attention to Qiaochu, who didn't care. He looked around carefully, and his eyes were immediately fixed on the window paper.
At this time, a female official opened the door and everyone went in.
Qiaochu and King Xia were walking at the end. King Xia asked in a low voice, "What is that?"
Qiaochu frowned slightly. Did this Jiu Ye really not know the test questions, or was he just pretending? She had no time to care. She only heard someone exclaiming.
Indeed, what is this thing in front of me
Apart from the dim light in the room, the layout and furnishings of this room are exactly the same as the previous room! There are also tables, incense burners, and bookshelves in the room. The bookshelves extend in an orderly manner all the way to another small door at the end of the room.
Qiaochu was just being surprised when she suddenly saw a faint light coming from the second row of bookshelves. She was about to check, but she noticed that the incense stick in the burner had burned down to the size of a finger.
The time is almost up!
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Text 019 Lost in the first game
Something flashed through her mind quickly, and she suddenly thought of a similar but strange thing about the two rooms.
When she entered the first room, she felt that there was something strange in the room, but she couldn't tell what was wrong. Now seeing this similar room, she thought she knew.
Just as her eyes fell to the back of the bookshelf - at the end of the room, someone gasped, "Ah, what's going on?"
Before that, she clearly heard a muffled sound, and the light and shadow in front of her disappeared instantly, and the room was full of darkness. The door was locked from the outside!
Qiaochu clenched her hands. When she was outside, she noticed that this room had black window paper so the light was much dimmer than the previous room. Once the door was closed, all the light was blocked out.
Along with the knocks on the door and the push on the window, the sound of nailing wood could be heard outside the window. The women kept shouting in fear, "Someone is nailing the window, and the door is locked!"
"Where's Master Jiu?"
"Master Jiu, help me."
In the darkness, the man didn't make a sound.
Qiaochu's heart trembled slightly. Just as he was about to walk deeper into the bookshelf, he felt that he seemed to have overlooked something important.
She had internal injuries, and in a panic, a bloody smell kept gushing out of her throat. Her body suddenly became unstable, but she was immediately supported by a pair of warm big hands. She was startled, and in the darkness, a faint fragrance filled her nose.
"Qiaochu, let me see how far you can go."
The deep male voice, is it the Ninth Master Xia Wang
It sounds similar, but it's not.
He was clearly targeting her, so how could he help her? The darkness all around made her feel a little lost. She held the man's hand and tried to calm her chaotic mind.
Suddenly, the man's fingertips pressed on her palm. She seemed slightly startled, and she laughed at herself, thinking that a princess's hands really shouldn't be so rough.
At this moment, my mind gradually became clear, and some words echoed in my mind again.
—From this moment on, the competition begins. Please note that the competition is divided into three rounds, and the selection will be made in each round, and so on. In the first round, two girls from each group will enter the next round. This is the Chen hour, and the second round of the competition will start at 3:30 in the Chen hour.
She shuddered. Could it be that the original words of the ceremonial officer implied that meaning
There was no time for her to hesitate, she whispered in the northern dialect: "Qiaorong, don't come to me if you don't want to be finished in the first round."
As she spoke, she quickly broke away from King Xia. Amid the woman's chaotic voice, someone gently touched her hand and sneered, "Qiaochu, what do you mean by this?"
The person who responded with the same dialect was Qiaorong.
The windows and doors were constantly being nailed with wood. The women around them were crying and shouting. The room was filled with noise. No one paid attention to them, and there was no way out! Even if they had a weapon in their hands, they could not break open the doors and windows.
Qiao Chuxun grabbed Qiao Rong and whispered, "If I'm not mistaken, Emperor Dongling wants me to lose in the first game with you!"
Qiao Rong was shocked, "What did you say?"
Text 020 The same room
"There's no time. Hold on to me. If you believe in me, follow me."
"Why are you helping me?"
"You'll find out. Now shut up."
Qiao Rong gritted her teeth, supported Qiao Chu, and then chuckled, "Sister Qiao Chu, is your old illness acting up?"
"My dear, there's no need to smile so hard. If anything happens to me, you're doomed to fail."
"You!" Qiao Rong was furious, but she held back her anger and asked, "Where are you going?"
"There's a small door behind the bookshelf. Let's go out from there first."
Qiao Rong sneered, "When it got dark just now, those women got confused. Do you think I'm the same as them? The layout of this house is exactly the same as the previous one. I've been in that house for quite some time, so how could I not remember that there is a door behind this bookshelf?"
"But what does it matter if there is a door? The door is made of copper and iron, and there is a huge pillow lock on the door. That kind of lock is extremely strong, and an ordinary sword can't cut it open."
Qiaochu chuckled, "You looked carefully, but did you ever think that this lock was used in a strange way?"
"Strange?"
"Locks are mostly used outside the door. We can just use bolts to lock the room. Why do these two houses use locks instead of bolts? Isn't this redundant?"
Qiaorong was slightly shocked and blurted out: "It is indeed strange, why—"
Qiaochu interrupted her, "Qiaorong, stop, this is the second bookshelf, take out the thing stuck in the third book from the left, quickly!"
Qiaorong frowned, reached out to the shelf, and touched a bunch of copper spoons.
She suddenly realized something, and in surprise, she asked in a trembling voice: "Qiaochu, is this key used to open the pillow lock?"
Qiaochu lowered his voice and said, "I'm not sure, but it's very possible. Let's go over and give it a try."
"How do you know the key is here?"
"From one room to another, the layout and furnishings are exactly the same. If they are really exactly the same, why should the competition be held in the second room? So the second room must be different from the first room. Otherwise, is there any point in doing this?"
"When you first looked at this room, you thought it looked the same as the first room. But I looked for differences. In addition, the room was very dim, and the first row of bookshelves was intentionally designed to be a few inches lower than the second row. I soon saw the light in the second row coming from the third book from the left. It seemed to be a string of copper keys."
"At this time, something unexpected happened. The front door and windows were nailed shut with wooden bars from the outside. This made me think of the strange pillow lock on the small door behind the bookshelf."
Qiaorong breathed rapidly and said in a choked voice, "Try to get out of the nailed-down room. Is this the first test question for Emperor Dongling?"
Qiaochu said in a serious tone, "I'm afraid it's not just that. Forget about it, let's go and unlock the door, there's not much time left."
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Text 021 No title is better than a title
The two came to the small iron door behind the bookshelf. Qiaorong held the copper key and said anxiously, "Qiaochu, there are three keys. Which one is it?"
"try."
The first and second ones both failed.
Qiao Rong's hands trembled slightly, and Qiao Chu touched his heart, "If you are afraid, give it to me."
Qiaorong gritted her teeth and fumbled to insert the key.
With a "click", the two were overjoyed. In order to prevent others from hearing the noise, Qiaorong tiptoed to open the door.
Qiaochu was about to follow him out when she suddenly heard Qiaorong's sweet laughter gently bulging in her eardrums: "Sister Qiaochu, thank you, you can stay here."
A force pushed towards his heart, but Qiaochu didn't dodge it. He whispered, "Sister, why do you think I asked you to join me in this? Is the first round really over? Are you sure you can handle the next situation?"
Qiao Rong was startled, remembering that the ceremonial officer had said that in the first round of competition, each group could only allow two people to qualify, and there was no problem with the quota.
However, maybe the game would be over once they got out of this door. If she let Qiaochu out, she would definitely be a strong opponent in the second round. But if it was as Qiaochu said, she would think about it, grit her teeth, and pull Qiaochu out.
The two of them closed the door, closing the darkness in the room. The sun was shining outside.
Qiaochu sighed slightly. It turned out that the densely packed bookshelves had this use. The moment the door was opened, the light was blocked out. Someone left without the people inside knowing.
"Qiaochu, what should we do now?"
Qiao Rong's voice was panicked and confused. Qiao Chu looked and saw that there was an oval corridor behind the house, a waterside pavilion in the middle, and dozens of rooms built along the pavilion. Except for the room they came out of, which had black window paper and no lock on the door, the other ten or so houses looked exactly the same, and each of them had a pillow lock on the door.
Qiaochu glanced at the key in Qiaorong's hand, and now he felt more confident. He said, "Do you remember what the ceremonial officer said? They never mentioned how the first round of competition would be conducted, but they repeatedly emphasized the time for the second round of competition to start, and said that the emperor would wait in the courtyard for the girl who won the first round."
Qiaorong frowned, and then said in a daze, "The start of the second round means the end of the first round. What you mean is that they actually hinted at the questions of the first round a long time ago. As long as we get to the emperor's courtyard before the start of the second round, we will win?"
"But the question is - where is this yard?"
Qiaochu's eyes moved slightly, and he said, "We are now at the back of the house. Isn't the yard at the front door of any room? It is also the place we passed when we came here."
Qiao Rong was overjoyed, but soon smiled bitterly and shook her head, "Qiao Chu, I understand what you said. The front door of the dark room we just came out of was nailed shut. Apart from this dark room, we can go back to the front yard by entering any of the remaining rooms."
“It seems easy, but we can’t