Wu Jiusi naturally didn't know about the festival between Jiang Shuiyuan and Yan Shutong, so he stepped forward with a smile and introduced, "Professor Liu, who do you see to see you?"

As soon as the words fell, Qiao Yinuo bypassed the crowd like a butterfly, pounced on Liu Seqing's side, and said softly: "Grandpa Liu, I came to see you!

Liu Seqing smiled and patted Qiao Yinuo's shoulder: "It turned out to be Xiao Yinuo, what a surprise! I haven't seen you for a few days, why did you suddenly remember to come to see me, a bad old man?" Then he noticed Jiang Shuiyuan standing at the door, and after a little look, he stood up on the table and asked with a smile: "This kid is ——??"

Before Wu Jiusi could speak, Qiao Yinuo hurriedly replied: "He is the source of the river water!

"Jiang Shuiyuan?" Liu Seqing was stunned for a moment, and then reacted: "Oh, you are Jiang Shuiyuan, I can hear Han Xianru Han Elder Brother Han, Qiao Zhizhi Qiao Elder Brother, and Ji Xunji Elder Brother They have mentioned you more than once, saying that you are a rare young talent in recent years, and you are proficient in Chinese classics, which is second to none among your peers." I'm also very curious, but it's a pity that I didn't expect to meet here today, it seems that tonight's meal is worth it!"

Jiang Shuiyuan was afraid that Liu Seqing would have any bad associations, so he hurriedly explained: "Thank you seniors for your compliments, in fact, I just have a slightly better memory, and I am not a talent." Today is also a coincidence, Senior Sister Qiao Yinuo said that she wanted to have a treat, and she happened to meet Senior Brother Wu Jiusi in the hotel, and then mentioned that Mr. Liu You are upstairs, so I took the liberty to come to visit, please forgive me for the rudeness!"

Liu Seqing said with a smile: "What's rude? Seeing each other is fate, not to mention that the fate between us is more than that." Sit down and talk?"

Wu Jiusi immediately took a chair and put it next to Yan Shutong, and then neatly pressed Jiang Shuiyuan down on the chair, not giving Jiang Shuiyuan a chance to refuse at all: "The opportunity is rare, you have to ask Professor Liu for advice." Professor Liu is a master of Chinese culture, just a few words from you are enough for you to benefit for life!"

Jiang Shuiyuan smiled bitterly in his heart: I don't want to benefit now, I just want to finish eating early and go back to take the exam!

Someone at the table finally came to his senses: "Jiang Shuiyuan? You are the Jiang Shuiyuan who wrote the couplet? You look very young! Have you graduated from high school?"

Jiang Shuiyuan replied truthfully: "Not yet, I'm only in my second year of high school today." ”

"Oh?" the interrogator let out a meaningful sigh, the questioning of which could be heard a light year away.

Qiao Yinuo immediately stepped forward and fought for Jiang Shuiyuan: "Talent is not old, and talent is a hundred years old." There is no necessary connection between talent and age! Some people can write poems at the age of seven and pass them down for centuries; and they can pay homage to each other for 12 years, and their achievements will be immortal. There are also some people who are still in their thirties and forties and fifties and still can't write decent couplets, so they can only rely on questioning young people to find a little sense of pitiful existence. What does this mean? It shows that people are different!"

Jiang Shuiyuan never knew that Qiao Yinuo was so sharp-tongued. The interrogator was also choked up, and it took a long time to say: "Maybe talent has nothing to do with age, but knowledge has to do with age, because knowledge needs time to accumulate——"

Qiao Yinuo did not refute him head-on, but went straight to the point: "Do you know how to recite the "Thirteen Classics"?"

"No...... Well, I'll memorize a little!" he quickly changed his tune. After all, from childhood to adulthood, receiving such a long time of Chinese education, it is somewhat difficult for strong people to memorize the "Thirteen Classics", but who will not memorize a few "Poetry Classics", a few paragraphs of "On Meng"?

Qiao Yinuo didn't bother with him, and then asked, "Do you know how to memorize "Twenty-Four History"?"

The questioner replied aggrievedly: "I don't know how to memorize it, and I guess no one in the world can memorize it, right?"

Qiao Yinuo pointed to the water source of the river: "He will!"

"Will he memorize the twenty-four histories?" The questioner was full of shock and asked in disbelief: "I'm talking about the original text of the "Twenty-four History", not the names and authors of the twenty-four historical books, nor the storybooks like "Five Thousand Years Up and Down"!"

"Of course!" replied Qiao Yinuo as a matter of course.

Not only the interrogators, but the whole table was stunned. Immediately, someone took the school examination in the name of asking for advice: "Jiang Xiaoyou, I am He Yuanyu from the History Department of Fengtian University, studying the history of Chinese and Western transportation. Do you know what the history of transportation between China and the West is? It is not the kind of transportation and post and telecommunications that refers to the communication between China and the West. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan nodded: "I know." In Mr. Fang Hao's words, the history of communication between China and the West is the study of ethnic migration and transplantation, the mixing of bloodlines, languages and customs, the spread of religion, the spread of myths and fables, the borrowing of words, the exchange of science, the influence of art, the translation of writings, the trade of goods, the colonization of organisms, the special travel of land, sea and air, the maintenance and destruction of peace, etc. And then what?"

After listening to the answer, He Yuanyu, who is nearly fifty years old, became more amiable: "Xiaoyou has not graduated from high school, and he can read Mr. Fang Hao's "History of Chinese and Western Transportation", which is really amazing! Here's the thing, just now when we were chatting about glass, glass is a very common and cheap ordinary material today, but in ancient times it was a symbol of beauty and expensive. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan nodded: "It is mentioned in Chapter 28 of the Old Testament of Job, written hundreds of years BC, that 'gold and glass are not enough to compare with wisdom'. It can be seen that glass was almost equivalent to gold at that time. ”

"Awesome!" He Yuanyu gave a thumbs up to the source of the river, "Regarding the origin of ancient glass in China, there has always been a great controversy in the academic circles, some people think that it is an independent creation and invention, and some people think that it is influenced by the West. Judging from the current archaeological excavation data, the earliest glass in the West was born in the Lianghe Valley from the 25th to the 23rd century B.C., with a history of at least 4,000 years, while the earliest existing glass in China was unearthed in the tombs of the late Spring and Autumn Period and the early Warring States Period, only about 2,500 years ago. In terms of time, it is significantly later than that of the West, and there is a possibility of being influenced by the West. However, Mr. Wang Guowei once proposed the 'double evidence method', requiring the physical objects under the ground and the testaments on the paper to be interpreted by each other, and it happens that you can recite the "Twenty-four History", so I would like to ask, is there any record of glass in it?"

He Yuanyu's attitude is very sincere, and it can indeed be called "asking for advice". I saw Jiang Shuiyuan contemplating his eyebrows, not saying a word, and there was no movement for a long time. Yan Shutong gloated and said, "Why, such a simple question stumped classmate Jiang, who claimed to have memorized the "Thirteen Classics" and "Twenty-four History"?"

Qiao Yinuo sneered: "People who can't even figure out the year name are not qualified to speak!"

Jiang Shuiyuan rubbed his eyebrows at this time, and said slowly: "This question is simple and simple, but it is indeed difficult to say that it is difficult!"

He Yuanyu said: "Then it's simpler. ”

Jiang Shuiyuan replied: "To put it simply, the word 'glass' first appeared in the Old Tang Book. "Gaozong Benji" records that in the first month of the spring of the second year of the last Yuan Dynasty, "Renxu, the king of Zhihan County offered blue glass", and in the "Biography of Xirong Lie", there is also a record that the king of the Nibora country, Naling Deva, was wearing glass, and the Persian country was rich in glass. This should be regarded as the earliest in the "Twenty-Four History". ”

"But—"

Jiang Shuiyuan did not wait for He Yuanyu to finish speaking, and then continued: "But in fact, this is not the case! Because the word 'glass' appeared relatively late, and it was only after the Wei and Jin dynasties that it appeared in various historical materials. In the earlier Han and Han dynasties, glass was likely to be called 'displacement', for example, in the "School Hunting Fu" included in the "Hanshu Yangxiong Biography", there was "the displacement of the night light of the square vertebrae, and the pearl fetus of the bright moon"; ”

Liu Seqing was also curious: "What about earlier?"

"Earlier, I suspected that the 'Lu Li' during the Warring States Period was the 'Exile' during the Han and Han dynasties, and the two were one and the same. But this is just speculation, based on Wang Yi's comment on the sentence "Chu Ci" 'Xue Li ornament and Lu Li recommends': 'Lu Li, Meiyu also. From this explanation, there is some such possibility. ”

Yan Shutong sneered: "Isn't it very simple? I said it was difficult just now, and I deliberately took Qiao, right?"

Jiang Shuiyuan glanced at Yan Shutong: "The reason why it is difficult to say is because it is difficult to clearly define which name is glass in the literature, including the 'Lu Li', 'Liuli' and 'Liuli' I said, as well as the 'Po Li' which is similar to the current pronunciation, and even the 'glass' itself." For example, the 'glass' and 'Poli' in the Wei, Jin, Sui and Tang dynasties refer not only to the current glass, but also to natural materials such as sapphire, purple gemstone, jade, and yellow essence. In addition, five-color jade, water essence, water jade, medicinal jade, jar jade, fake jade, glass, etc. may also refer to glass. It is almost impossible to find out exactly which words refer to the current glass in terms of when and when, except for the comparison of the unearthed objects, and to explore it purely from historical records! ”

"Awesome!" He Yuanyu praised sincerely: "Originally, I also planned to write a short and quick article to roughly introduce the origin and development of glass in China from the perspective of the history of transportation in China and the West, so as to complete this year's scientific research indicators." After listening to Jiang Xiaoyou, I realized how wrong I was, this is completely a bottomless pit!"

Liu Seqing said: "If you don't want to write, Jiang Xiaoyou can write it! I heard Jiang Xiaoyou just ask for quotations, and there are many new ideas, and the ideas are clear, and it is no problem to write them out and publish them in "Literature and History Knowledge". Jiang Xiaoyou, are you interested in writing it?"

Yan Shutong was so jealous that he almost went crazy: Why is it him again? Although "Knowledge of Literature and History" is only a category C core Chinese journal, it is also a proper Chinese core journal, and with Professor Liu's endorsement, the publication is absolutely nine out of ten. A Chinese core journal class C, how many points will I have to add to the research and job search in the future? How come this pie-in-the-sky good thing has not fallen on my head!

Who knew that Jiang Shuiyuan shook his head: "Thank you Professor Liu for your kindness, it's just that I have to prepare for the college entrance examination, but I'm afraid I won't have time to write." ”

He Yuanyu's eyes widened: "Aren't you only a sophomore in high school?"

Qiao Yinuo replied with a smile on his face: "Although he is only in his second year of high school, he has already won several national and provincial first prizes. Attention, he relied on the first prize of the National Biology Olympiad and the first prize of the New Concept Essay Competition, instead of Chinese studies or something, isn't it amazing?"

In the midst of surprise and praise, Yan Shutong's eyes flashed with an unknown meaning.