Emperor Shunzhi smiled: "Hehe, Mr. Watanabe is very anxious?" You are prepared for a surprise attack, and we are unprepared to entertain guests. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThese royal relatives and ministers of the imperial family are all reading sage books, and military generals lead troops to fight, and if you let them solve the problem, it's like suddenly letting a private school gentleman become a general, isn't this embarrassing for us? When it comes to talents, we in the Qing Dynasty have people who are proficient in numbers, both in the government and the opposition, but let me find it, are you willing to wait? This imperial nephew of mine has learned a little bit of the multiplication you mentioned, or let him play with you? As he spoke, he pointed to Xuan'er, who was smiling on the field and not a little nervous at all.

Only then did the three envoys discover the "little little Xuan'er", and the daring lover had already found the person who counted the problem.

"Hey!" The envoy of Watanabe gasped, this emperor of the Qing Dynasty is not easy to mess with, let a child play with us, and he didn't take us seriously after a long time! But if the words have already been spoken, it is not easy to take them back, otherwise it will be laughed at, and His Majesty's subjects will not be able to disgrace the Emperor in this way.

"Alright then, this envoy is starting to come up with the question, this kid listens. The request is to give an answer within a quarter of an hour, no pen, no consultation with others, understand the request? ”

"Wait a minute, did Mr. Envoy's question come out on the spot or was it prepared in advance?" Xuan'er questioned.

"Of course it's from the spot, is there any problem?"

"You mean you don't have an answer either?"

"Of course, if you have an answer to the question on the spot, isn't that prepared in advance? If you have the answer, I'll figure out the result, right? ”

"That's not good, I have the answer, you calculate the result? If you say that the answer I calculated is also your result, aren't you taking advantage of it and saving effort? ”

"Wow!" The Minister of Civil and Military Affairs on the Qing side applauded Xuan'er, stretched out his thumb and said, "Okay!" Xuan Shizi has a kind! I heard something wrong at once. ”

Watanabe was a little embarrassed, and even he felt that he was a bit of a bully. Hurry up and say, "What do the children say?" ”

"I suggest that an envoy from a country who does not participate in the competition be invited to answer the question, and the two of us will answer it together, who will answer quickly and accurately who will be the winner, how?"

This time it was everyone who applauded. Watanabe's premise is unfair!

"Well, then, why don't you invite Mr. Shahrukh, the envoy of India, to come up with the question?"

"You and the envoy of India are not close relatives, are you? No relatives? Xuan'er questioned. The people in the audience began to laugh, because Xuan'er's words were very humorous, and the Indian envoy and the Japanese envoy were in-laws, which was too funny.

The envoys of Watanabe were about to go berserk, but they couldn't lose their manners, shook their heads and said, "I don't know the Indian envoys, but I heard that others are very smart, which one is the Indian envoy?" Please come to the front?

Immediately, a tall, middle-aged man with a brown-red face came to the front, and said angrily in Chinese: "Mr. Watanabe, don't talk nonsense, start the question immediately." You two listen up......"

"Wait! What does Shah Rukh envoy mean? Before the question is asked, you squeeze your eyes with the Watanabe envoy? You don't deserve to ask the question, or the envoy Watanabe should make the question, since it's embarrassing for me, I don't need you to come up with the answer. I went back and took the Watanabe envoy three questions, how about it? ”

"Shhh The Watanabe envoy never dreamed that the Qing Emperor would find such a difficult child, and it seemed that he was not more than ten years old. Since it has reached this point, there is no turning back from the bow, so I can only go up: "Just do what the child says!" Listen, kid, what is three hundred and seventy-four times four hundred and sixty-eight? Children? A quarter of an hour, be sure to hurry. ”

As soon as Watanabe's words fell, Xuan'er replied crisply, "One hundred and seventy-five thousand and thirty-two!" ”

The room was full of surprise! Even Watanabe's speed of solving the question is not so fast!

The eunuch next to him was busy writing down the exam questions of the Watanabe envoy and the number of Xuan Shizi. Because it's too late to figure out the answer.

William spoke: "I'll come up with the second question, what is eight hundred and fifty-three times nineteen thousand five?" ”

Xuan'er immediately became angry, pointed at William and scolded: "You stinky Laipi! Okay, it's a three-digit number multiplied by a three-digit number, and nineteen thousand five is a few digits? Are you brain-dead? "It's a foreign word. Everyone laughed even more, bullying children is too obvious, right?

William's white face turned purple all of a sudden, he didn't expect this seven or eight-year-old kid's brain to react so quickly. I thought he was putting out the fire at that time. Hurriedly said: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I forgot the digits." ”

Xuan'er smiled: "I accept your apology, but your five-figure figure is not difficult for me, and the number is 16,133,500." What are the number of questions you got on the spot? ”

The eunuch hurriedly wrote it down again. The envoys of these countries are more treacherous than foxes, and if they can't beat them, they will be tricked.

Watanabe tried to find a crack in the ground to get into. The first question is made by himself, and the answer has already been calculated, and the second question is William's hard plug, where can he answer it? I had to echo Xuan'er and said: "Mr. William's arithmetic problem is violated, but the child answers it, it should be regarded as the answer to a question." So let me ask the third question, what is nine hundred and ninety-nine times eight hundred and eighty-eight? ”

As soon as Watanabe's words fell, Xuan'er's childish voice sounded again: "Eighty-eight hundred seventy-seven thousand one hundred and twelve!" ”

No one in the audience made a sound, they were all surprised and admired.

Xuan'er said, "Do the two envoys have an answer?" ”

"We, we're just testing children, and we've forgotten to count ourselves." Watanabe's words are really true. Not to mention, this Mr. Watanabe's studious spirit is still commendable, and he humbly asked Xuan'er: "Which master did the child learn from in arithmetic?" ”

"Well, I don't have any comment. Please also ask Mr. Watanabe to verify that my answer is correct or not on the spot, otherwise I won't answer in vain? Three please! The three of you don't need to do mental calculations, because I have already calculated it, so I can use my pen to calculate whether my answer is correct or not, after all, you are testing me. Hurriedly! Don't waste everyone's time. ”

The Watanabe envoy hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the child is right, I will calculate, and I can save time by using a pen to calculate." After that, he hurriedly calculated on a blank piece of paper with a quill used by Westerners, and after counting twice, it was Xuan'er's answer, and his nose began to sweat.

There are also envoys who can write down and quietly come up with answers.

The envoy Watanabe said: "Your Majesty, the Emperor of the Great Qing Kingdom, I have counted it three times, and the child's answer is right. Envoys from other countries in the crowd also raised their hands, and asked the interpreter to say to Emperor Shunzhi that Xuan'er was right. The emperor let out a long breath and wanted to announce the end of the numbers game.

At this moment, Xuan'er spoke: "Our Qing Dynasty is a state of etiquette, and we pay attention to 'coming and not being rude', a few envoys have passed Xuan'er's test, and Xuan'er also has to test a few envoy gentlemen." Don't worry, I won't take the exam too hard, it's too difficult, in case you can't answer, I'm embarrassed, right? If you all answer correctly, we will count it as a tie and you will continue to take the test again. If you get both questions right, I'll be right, of course I'll win. How is it? ”

"Hey, there's still such a competition? Two adults answer the child's simple question and answer it correctly to a draw, is there any face? But if you don't answer, it's "indecent manner", at least three adults bullying a child together, so let's answer.

"A few people have listened to the question, the first question is, how much is a pound of cucumber?"

William's eyes were about to burst, and he pounded the table and shouted, "Is this an arithmetic problem?" The price of cucumbers is subject to change! It's expensive in the spring, it's cheap in the summer, I don't like to eat cucumbers, I don't know how much! "Let's go, let's go," said a whole bunch of them.

Xuan'er ignored him at all, and asked Watanabe with a smile: "Mr. Watanabe's answer is ......"

Watanabe said with great self-suff: "Children, we are doing arithmetic problems, how do we connect with cucumbers?" All of you here are high-ranking people, who can study the price of cucumbers? ”

"I just asked you to do the math, and I didn't let you do market research, so you said would you answer?"

"Can this also be an arithmetic problem? Ask the children to give their answers. ”

"If you give an answer, will you still answer it?" Xuan'er didn't give an inch.

"If the child can give the right answer, we will throw in the towel." The envoy of Watanabe thought that this little boy was making up the exam questions, and there must be no answer to the question like this.

"Okay, did you hear that? Did the envoys hear it too? ”

"I heard you!" Everyone replied in unison, and interest followed.

"Mr. Watanabe, you speak Chinese so well, you must have lived in the Qing Dynasty for a long time, or you have been studying Chinese for a long time, you know the connotation of Chinese, every word has many meanings, I ask you how much is a pound of cucumber, not to ask you the price of cucumber at the moment, nor how much is a pound, but a conversion question. How many taels is a pound? How much is a tael? It's not hard to calculate, right? ”

The officials of the Qing Dynasty applauded Xuan'er warmly, and Watanabe's sweat came down: he didn't think about it at all! It's such a simple conversion question that you can't answer, and it's three times three! Shame on everyone to Java!

"My second question is......" Xuan'er stretched out the index and middle fingers of her right hand, "what is this?" ”

William preemptively replied, "Two."

"Wrong! Mr. William didn't understand my question, and I asked what it was and not how many. ”

William was so angry that his face kept changing. This man is really impulsive:

"You say, what do you say?"

"Again, did you answer the answer when I said it? The three of you are dozens of years old, and you can't answer such a simple question? Xuan'er laughed at the three envoys fiercely, and it was Watanabe who blushed first, and the other two didn't react to what Xuan'er was talking about.

"If your answer is correct, I'll throw in the towel."

"Did you hear that? Okay, I told Mr. William the answer, it's a finger. ”

Everyone was stunned for a moment, and then burst into earth-shattering laughter. The Qing Dynasty, including the emperor, was going to die of laughter, covering his stomach and bending down. The others slapped the table and hit the stool, and smashed their thighs. Those foreigners were stunned, they were not all proficient in Chinese, they were busy asking the translator, and when the translator said, it was broken, and the hat-throwing and whistling were all crazy. Mr. Watanabe's expression was not sure whether to cry or laugh.

"The third question, how many kinds of people are there in this world?"

The prince hurriedly pulled Xuan'er into his arms, he saw William's fists clenched, but don't suddenly hit Xuan'er.

Watanabe's spirit is concentrated, and he has already answered two questions incorrectly, and he can't make any more mistakes. If you make a mistake or can't answer, then you will fail completely, three to zero, and you will be killed by finding a piece of tofu. So he tentatively asked, "Does the child refer to the race or the personality of the crowd?" The ethnicity is black, white and yellow, and there can be acute and chronic according to personality...... A lot, not easy to investigate. ”

"I'm asking about what kind of people there are, not how many races or how many personalities there are."

William, Watanabe, and Matlov couldn't answer even if their brains exploded, mainly because their ideas were too rigid and narrow-minded. So he completely admitted defeat:

"We couldn't answer, we threw in the towel, and the kids won. I simply asked the children to give the answer to this question. ”

"Did you hear that? Mr. Watanabe said that they had admitted defeat, and this attitude was very good and sincere, so I will give the answer to the third question. The answer is twofold. ”

"How come there are only two kinds of people in the world?"

"Men and women. Everywhere you go, there are only men and women. ”

"Wow!" Applause. The emperor was so excited that his face turned red and he lifted Xuan'er up.

"Nope! I don't throw in the towel! The child's second question is not valid! William, accustomed to playing Rippy, waved his fist and shouted loudly;" The second question has no numbers and doesn't count! ”

Xuan'er immediately said, "So does Mr. William rely on me to count by multiplying five digits by three digits?" ”

William was stunned for a moment, blushing and not saying anything, Xuan'er scolded him for Lai Pi's question really can't count. Even if it doesn't count, people will answer it.

Originally, it was time to disperse, but many people still refused to leave, because their interest hooked Xuan'er. The three of Watanabe are not willing to fail, three big men, let a child pout, how can they return to China to see His Majesty the Emperor? Be sure to get some yards back. So he smiled and said, "The children are very knowledgeable, we admire them very much!" Can we continue to learn from each other? ”

"Isn't that okay? I only started reading at the age of three, and now it has only been five years, and Mr. Envoy is at least forty years old, if I have been reading for more than thirty years since I was three years old, how can I be said to be knowledgeable? ”

All the people on the Qing side were highly concentrated, listening to Xuan Shizi and foreign envoys fighting wits and courage. Xuan'er said that, that's right! What is it that a person who is dozens of years old and a person of what age is not bullying?

The Watanabe envoy also realized his mistake, and wanted to get back to the field, so he hurriedly said, "It's better to do this, or the children ask the questions, and we answer, we won't give the children the questions, so it's fair?" ”

Xuan'er touched her chin and thought about it: "Okay, I'll give ten questions, and the three of you will answer them together, whoever can answer will answer it, and the total score will be calculated, and one point for each question." If all the answers are correct, it is a full score, and if the answers are wrong, no points will be scored. ”

The three envoys looked at each other and felt that it was okay and fair.

The Watanabe envoy asked, "Are all the children's questions numerical?" ”

"Not necessarily, didn't you say to learn from each other? Learning is not just about numbers. ”

The Indian envoy Shah Rukh was knocked aside by Xuan'er and cooled for a long time, very unconvinced, thinking to himself what profound problems can a child have? Even fingers are a topic, opportunistic. This envoy is the nephew of the king of India, and he has studied in the royal palace of India for fourteen years. He walked up, saluted Emperor Shunzhi and said, "This envoy also wants to join the children's questions, I don't know if it's possible?" ”

Emperor Shunzhi felt that it was not an official competition, so he said, "Yes." ”

The field was so quiet that you could hear a leaf dropping. Xuan'er thought for a while and asked, "The first question, why does the horse sleep standing up?" Which one answers? ”

Several envoys were stunned, they didn't expect the children to have such a problem. However, this question should indeed be counted within the scope of learning, and it is a matter of common sense. Everyone knows that horses sleep standing up, but why should they sleep standing up? Why don't you sleep lying down, sleeping on your stomach, you have to sleep standing up? And all the horses sleep standing up?

The eunuch hurriedly wrote it down. (To be continued.) )