95 Monks (Second watch of the night)

The young maid and the nanny brought back the ashes from the burnt paper, which were then handed off to Gu Jinyu.

You could see a few words in the freshly burnt paper ash, but barely, just enough for Gu Jinyu to recognize it was her question, but not nearly enough to reconstruct the complete problem-solving process.

Of course, Gu Jinyu wouldn't have guessed it was Xiao Jingkong who reduced it to ashes. She assumed that she had carelessly left her test paper in the pile of spiritual money and it was consequently burnt to nothingness alongside it.

At that thought, she got a dreadful pain in her chest, feeling as if she was going to spit blood and faint on the spot!

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It was still early after their meal, so Gu Jiao decided to take a walk on her newly purchased mountainside.