With Si Lingxi's cry of "I win!", they heard Li Hanyu calling from outside. "Is Lu Zheng here?"
"Huh?" Shen Ying froze and looked at Lu Zheng. "It's Sister Li!"
"This is bad!" The moment Lu Zheng heard Li Hanyu's voice, he knew something was wrong. "Today is the day of the County Exam!"
"The County Exam? Today?" Shen Ying gasped softly. "Did something happen to Brother Zhu again?"
"I don't know either, but..."
Lu Zheng nodded helplessly, and Shen Ying hurriedly transmitted her voice outside. "Lu Lang is home. Sister Li, come in quickly!"
In just two breaths, Tao Qing led Li Hanyu into Peach Blossom Manor.
Li Hanyu said urgently to Lu Zheng, "Lu Zheng, Brother Zhu has suddenly disappeared!"
"He disappeared again?"
Li Hanyu nodded hurriedly. "Yesterday, he went to meet his fellow students from the prefectural academy. He said they would have one final discussion of the classics. Since they were all scholars, I didn't follow him. But he still hadn't returned by nightfall. When I went looking for him, I discovered that he and another candidate had both vanished. I searched all night without finding a trace of him. Then I remembered that Lu Zheng had the Treasure Mirror, so I rushed here."
Shen Ying could not help frowning in reproach. "Why did you only come now, Sister? The exam should be starting soon, shouldn't it?"
"I hadn't wanted to trouble Lu Zheng. I never expected that I still wouldn't be able to find him." Li Hanyu looked somewhat embarrassed, then hurriedly said, "There's still half an hour until the exam."
Shen Ying asked, "Where is He Dingshan?"
Li Hanyu said somewhat awkwardly, "The two of us were staying in Yizhou, so we didn't bring him along."
Lu Zheng understood at once. Of course, the