"Uncle, do you want to listen?"

Seeing Zhuge Liang's thoughtful eyes looking over there, Zhang Xingyi asked in a low voice.

Zhuge Liang shook his head, "Forget it, it's not too early, let's go to the city and have a look." ”

Zhang Xingyi nodded, "It's okay." ”

Out of the gate of the ancestral hall, Zhuge Liang only saw that there were a lot more pedestrians outside than just now, and there were several temporary stalls outside the ancestral hall.

There are wooden weapons selling toys in the stalls, which are deliberately made to look like in biographies, which attracts many children and babies to look straight and refuse to move.

More often than not, there are small food stalls, with large cauldrons set on special stoves, and the stall owner picks up a few pieces of coal and puts them in, and in a short time, the white soup in the pot is tumbling, and the lamb bones sink and float in it.

I don't know how it tastes, but the aroma is appealing.

There was also a stack of baked cakes on the stand.

If you are really hungry, a bowl of bone broth and a cake will go down, and your stomach will be comfortable.

"The shopkeeper is dressed a little strangely."

Zhuge Liang saw the stall owner wearing a white coat on his chest, and said casually.

"That's a cook from a workshop or a ranch canteen, how can ordinary people be willing to use coal like this? It's only in the winter that you can use it. There are also those lamb bones and cakes, which are all leftovers from the canteen, and they are taken out and sold at this time. ”

Zhang Xingyi, who knew the way of this, replied.

Zhuge Liang listened, and his face twitched: Profiteer!

Many people gather in front of the stall, holding a big bowl in one hand and a flatbread in the other, and take a bite to snort and drink, with a satisfied face, and can fill their stomachs and save money.

After eating and drinking, I took out a few coins and threw them away.

The helper next to the stall owner hurriedly took the bowl and rinsed it, then put it in the boiling water on the side and soaked it, and after a while, he took it out again and continued to use it for the next person.

Zhuge Liang walked slowly on the artificial stone avenue in Nanxiang, looking at the pedestrians coming and going, all of them were walking in high spirits, although he didn't know what self-confidence and hope for the future were, but he knew that the people here seemed to have more spirit than elsewhere.

Because even if I don't know them, I can feel a kind of upward spirit from them.

He looked left and right, and always felt that there was an indescribable strangeness in this place.

Before he could figure it out, he saw a few babies running past him laughing and playing, and one of them didn't pay attention and hit the body of the guard next to him, the guard didn't feel it, but the baby was knocked to the ground by the shock.

When Zhuge Liang saw it, he wanted to reach out to pull someone, but he didn't expect that the baby was solid, and he got up as soon as he got up, and immediately bowed and saluted, "I'm sorry!" ”

The prime minister's eyes lit up, and he said in his heart that this baby doesn't seem to be from a rich family, but he didn't expect it to be so polite?

He was about to speak, but the baby's face didn't let him see clearly, so he just ran away.

The prime minister of the Han Dynasty stretched out his hands in the air, and only felt the gust of wind brought by the baby when he ran......

There were no fallen leaves, but there was one more thing on the ground.

Zhuge Liang picked it up curiously, and found that the small thing in this square was folded with paper, folded quite carefully, and there were incomprehensible symbols drawn on it.

He carefully opened the paper square, and saw that the paper was full of these strange symbols.

"What is this?"

Zhuge Liang's face was a little dignified, although he couldn't understand it, but the symbols on it looked very regular, and it seemed to be a kind of text?

"Oh, this is the arithmetic symbol taught in the school, only the people in the school, the soldiers of Nanxiang, and the stewards of Nanxiang can understand it, and some of the employees can also understand it."

Zhang Xingyi explained indifferently, "The arithmetic they learn is not quite the same as what ordinary people learn. It's strange that they can read other people's arithmetic, but others can't understand theirs. ”

When Zhuge Liang heard this, his expression was shocked, "Wouldn't that be a secret ...... in the army?"

Speaking of this, he suddenly paused, and then said with a smile, "That baby just now, is it from the school?" ”

Zhang Xingyi nodded, "That's right." ”

"It's a bit polite." Zhuge Liang approved, then frowned, and shook the paper in his hand, "It's just that I was a little careless, and I lost such important things, wouldn't it be a bad thing?" ”

"No, it won't." Zhang Xingyi shook his head and smiled, "This paper is full of things, and it is useless to that baby." The paper was folded into this shape, and they simply used it to play with. ”

"Playing?" Zhuge Liang listened, his eyelids jumped, this mulberry paper is sold so expensive in Jincheng, you told me that the baby in Nanxiang actually used it to play? Is...... How unreasonable!

"Nowadays, the paper produced in Nanxiang is no longer old and young. That ......"

Zhang Xingyi subconsciously wanted to say "that guy", but after glancing at Zhuge Liang, he had to change his words and say, "That school is very generous to students, and this pen and paper are issued regularly." ”

"If it's not enough, students will be asked to buy it themselves, but it's not expensive, a worker can buy three or five blank books after a day's work in the workshop, and put them in the pen and ink shop outside, and they can't even buy a copy."

Speaking of this, Zhang Xingyi remembered something and said with a smile, "Speaking of which, this Confucian student from other places, when he heard that there were such good things, many people wanted to enter the school, just to be able to buy cheap books." However, the school rarely recruits Western seats, so no one can succeed. ”

Zhuge Liang's face moved twice when he heard this, so he smiled and didn't speak.

In his heart, he scolded a certain turtle, which is really greedy and can't be greedy: which of the students who came out of the school has not been pinched by him so far?

Not to mention the horse farm Dongfeng Express and the like, even Nanzheng's workshop has to ask the account room from Nanxiang from time to time to come over to check the accounts - the accounts are all students who come out of the school.

It's not that no one has ever thought of poaching people from him, but that kid is just a loach, and he can't slip at all!

As long as you are a student who enters the academy, the first thing you do is sign a contract!

Listening to Ma Yan, this matter started from the first school student, and he didn't give others the slightest chance at all.

So it stands to reason that the school sends books to students, which is also the right thing, but I didn't expect that other people's parents would have to pay for it here, and the key is that others are still grateful to Dade......

This is easy to say, after all, paper is a precious thing at this time, and reading and literacy are even more priceless.

Thinking of this, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty couldn't help but scold the general of the imperial court as a prisoner, it is simply a waste!

When Nanxiang's improved papermaking technology came out, the imperial court also got a copy, but a few years have passed, look at the paper produced in Nanxiang, and then look at the paper produced by the imperial court?

The students here can actually use the paper to play, and they are the prime ministers of the Han Dynasty, and they have to save on the use of paper, is there any reason for this? Is there still a heavenly principle?

The prime minister of the Han Dynasty couldn't help sighing, and the previous thoughts came to his mind again: with this son's ability, if he could be born ten years earlier, the Han Dynasty would have been in the middle of the Dingguan and would march into the Central Plains at any time.

The prime minister of the Han Dynasty thought about things in his heart, walked forward aimlessly, and flew out without paying attention to the paper in his hand.

Zhang Xingyi's face changed greatly when he saw it, and he was about to step forward to pick it up, but unfortunately it was too late.

"What for? You can't litter on the street, don't know? ”

A voice suddenly came, and then a black shadow rushed to everyone from some corner, only to hear a "hiss" sound, and then a small note was handed to the prime minister of the Han Dynasty, "Thirty dollars for the benefit." ”

The prime minister's guard was taken aback, and subconsciously drew his sword.

The black shadow took two steps back vigilantly, and quickly put the whistle in his mouth.

"Don't be busy!" Zhang Xingyi's cold sweat was about to drip down, and he hurriedly stopped, "I admit punishment!" ”

"Punishment? What is the penalty? “

Before Zhuge Liang could understand, he saw the subordinate behind Zhang Xingyi running up and handing over a few copper coins.

The black shadow wearing a black hat and black clothes nodded with satisfaction, and handed the ticket in his hand to the next person, "Take it, don't say that I opened it at random." “

Seeing that the black shadow suddenly disappeared to nowhere, Zhuge Liang was furious, "This soldier of Nanxiang is so bold that he dares to blackmail Ye in broad daylight?" What is the principle of heaven? “