Section 11: Simple Questions

Boss Zhao guessed well, Linglong and Xiyun do have unknown secrets, but no one can guess what the truth is without saying that the parties involved in this matter can guess what the truth is. Besides, even if you guess it, who can change the fate of the two weak women in this troubled world, at least the current Jiang Tian can't even change Xiyun alone.

The ancients heard the chickens dancing, but whether it was a teahouse or a brothel, there was no habit of opening the door early in the morning, and Jiang Tian was the same, but although he did not open the door to do business, he still got up on time at about seven o'clock, these days of ancient life made him develop the habit of going to bed early and getting up early, don't look at it every night at nine or ten o'clock to open the door, but for a person in the twenty-first century, sleeping at this time is already a rare normal routine. Don't look at him getting up early, there are people who are earlier than him, that is Xi Yun, she is the first to get up every day, and then consciously makes breakfast for the old and the young. This job was originally Jiang Tian's, but she snatched it up, so Jiang Tian, who was bored every morning, did a few times and forgot that most of the broadcast gymnastics was all morning exercises.

Breakfast is very simple, two plates of pickles plus three bowls of brown rice porridge and a few multigrain steamed buns, which belong to the standard green and healthy food in later generations, and it is considered the ordinary diet of ordinary people in this era. At this time, Xi Yun would pick up the steamed bun and hand it to Jiang Tian without saying a word, until Jiang Tian took it and took a bite, and then he ate it with a smile. This girl rarely speaks, and always uses body language to communicate with people, but fortunately, the meaning she wants to express is very simple, nothing more than daily activities such as eating and drinking, and there is no need for people to guess. Sometimes Jiang Tian also secretly wonders if he has become dislike to communicate with others because he suddenly suffered an accident when he was young and lived in a green building? This made Jiang Tian unsure what she was thinking in her heart, whether she really wanted to be dragged out of the Red Mansion by herself so stubbornly and live such a dull life. So today, Jiang Tian decided to find a chance to have a good chat with her before opening the door.

It's a pity that as soon as I finished breakfast here, I heard someone shouting loudly at the back door: "Brother Jiang! Brother Jiang is available? ”

As soon as he heard this voice, he knew who came to the door, and Boss Zhao smiled slightly: "You go and open the door, Xi Yun and I will take care of the store today." ”

Jiang Tian thought to himself that these three people belonged to night owls, and they would never come when they entered the house, but he had no way to refuse people thousands of miles away, so he had to walk to the door and open the door to welcome the guests.

He decided not to go around in circles with the couple: "The three of them got up early in the morning to visit, but what's the matter?" ”

Or Liu pervert took the lead in the courtyard and patted Jiang Tian on the shoulder with a big grin: "Brother Jiang, I have done your little brother with my heart, and now that my brother is in trouble, you can't see death and not save it, right?" ”

What's so strict? Jiang Tian said that his heart was furious, he already knew the background of this person's life, and thought to himself, what can I do if you are not even?

Tian Xuhai Tian Gongzi knew that the other party had understood the wrong meaning as soon as he saw Jiang Tian's expression, so he hurriedly stood up and played a round: "Don't worry, don't worry, let's sit down and talk." ”

It turned out that yesterday when Jiang Tian was searching his intestines and scraping his belly to arrange a cross talk joke, Liu Pervert found the old bustard who leaned on the Red Mansion with a familiar way, and his mouth was: "Jiang Gongzi is my friend, and in the future, Miss Xiyun's body fee will be reduced to ten taels of silver per month, and I will give you another hundred taels for a year." Otherwise, you won't give me face, and if you don't give me face, then I'll sue my brothers that you won't come to play here! ”

Mother Chen naturally knew that these gentlemen were her own God of Wealth, and she couldn't offend these noble sons for a maid, so of course she agreed, but after Linglong heard about it, she directly issued a blockade order to Brother Serang and said: "He doesn't want to see me again in the future!" ”

Jiang Tian couldn't laugh or cry when he heard it, and said in his heart You are really straightforward, this is a big living person, how can it be as simple as renting out an object in your mouth? Is it that the big beauty of the family doesn't see you anymore, so find me a way? But what can I do? Xi Yun, who brought them tea and served the guests, happened to hear the words in front of her, and her hand obviously paused when placing the teacups, but she didn't see any expression on her face, and she didn't know whether she was happy or annoyed. Jiang Tian naturally saw her expression in his eyes, and the doubts in his heart increased again.

Brother Pervert didn't notice that Jiang Tian's eyes were not on him, and he was still foaming at the mouth and said, "Little brother, I can definitely be regarded as anxious and righteous, right?" Then Brother Xian must help me this time! ”

"How can I help you?"

The pervert made eye contact again, and then the pervert was the first to reluctantly pull out a piece of paper from his sleeve: "Alas...... Yesterday, the saint suddenly said that he wanted to take the exam for the students of the Imperial Academy, and gave everyone an exam question, Brother Xian knew, and asked the younger brother that the place of fireworks in the capital is almost the same, this answer is ......"

Looking at his lewd smile, Jiang Tian didn't have any doubts, you said that the biggest characteristic of the gentleman's son is that he doesn't learn and has no skills, these people are all born with a golden key, especially the identity of the eldest grandson of the pervert doesn't need to be studied at all, anyway, there will be a hereditary title at that time, as long as he is not illiterate and illiterate. So Jiang Tian took the exam paper without politeness, thinking that if it was the eighth share, he would search his memory to see if he could spell out something similar, anyway, if a child like him wrote a splendid article, he would be called a ghost. But when he looked at it himself, he realized that something was wrong.

"This question ......" Jiang Tian glanced at the volume, and then looked up at the two people, except for the pervert who was sneering there, the other two did not show anything abnormal: "You said that this is the question of today's saint?" ”

The servant nodded.

"Alright then, when are you going to get an answer?"

The pervert grinned embarrassedly: "This...... Now is it! ”

"Now?"

Song Yi knew that he should also say something, and he couldn't always let one person be suspicious: "Brother Jiang doesn't know, the saint is going to ask the right question this afternoon, I can't wait!" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Boss Song is also a master here? How do you know I can answer this question? ”

"This is the mistake of Brother Jiang." Tian Xuhai also hurriedly argued: "Although Feng Xingong is quite insightful in the study of things, he is slightly inferior in this mathematical aspect, and there is no reason for the student to catch the knife on his behalf. Besides, Brother Tai can make such an ingenious water purifier, how can he not be proficient in this? I still hope to see that Liu Xiandi's face is barely embarrassing.

Jiang Tian knew that he couldn't dodge, so he had to carefully start the question: the imperial court sent 50,000 elite soldiers to the north and 100,000 people to march north, and it was necessary to store ordnance, grain and grass to cope with the shortage.

Isn't that just a practical problem! If even a primary school student can answer it in the future, but it is enough to embarrass this person here, presumably there are not a few noble children who are similar to those who have been tested in the Imperial Academy, in fact, this question is not difficult, but it involves the application of decimal points, which is definitely a complicated problem for ancient officials who are accustomed to using rough statistics. Jiang Tian looked at their expectant eyes and knew that he couldn't avoid this level today, so he had to turn around and go back to his room, took out a homemade quills and a wooden card to record the flow of accounts, and prepared to start working on the problem. Who knew that when he came back, he saw that the table had been covered with high-quality rice paper, and the three of them were like students receiving tutoring and waiting to see him answer, Jiang Tian didn't think much about it, anyway, the wooden card was too small to calculate, and people even prepared the scratch paper, what else did they pretend. He didn't have time to observe those three people anymore, so he didn't see their surprised eyes, if Jiang Tian wanted to deny that he had anything to do with the emperor at this moment, they would never believe it.

It didn't take a few minutes for Jiang Tian to come up with the answer, and he could eat it for a total of 305.855 days...... Looking at this number, Jiang Tian also felt that it did not conform to the characteristics of this era, so he rounded it up to about 306 days, which is not enough for this army to eat for a year, and this is still a rough calculation, if it is really considered according to the real situation, even if the ration amount remains the same, with the less and less food eaten and the mileage extended, the actual consumption is increasing cumulatively, that is to say, it will not be able to eat for ten months. It is no wonder that the ancients always opposed the expedition, which was indeed quite uneconomical.

Liu Pervert licked his lips when he looked at the final answer, Song Yi raised the teacup and took a few sips to hide his shock, as for Tian Xuhai, he was stunned. They weren't frightened by this result, in fact, they had long thought that this kind of simple question would not be difficult for Jiang Tian, but they didn't expect him to calculate so quickly, especially the skillful use of decimal points, which surpassed the gentleman who taught them arithmetic, and I am afraid that only the adults taught by the emperor of the household department can have this speed. Of course, if Jiang Tian had an abacus in front of him, then he could get the exact number by finding a random bookkeeper, but he just wrote a few calculations on paper with a quill pen.

"Okay, it's finally up to the trust......"

Before he finished speaking, Song Yi hurriedly reached out and grabbed the draft: "Brother Jiang, where did you learn such algorithms?" ”

"I've been ...... since I was a child" only said three words, and immediately realized that he had almost said the wrong thing, especially the eyes of this servant had already appeared terrifying: "Foolish brother, when I was studying hard in my hometown, I once met a caravan of Hu people, which I learned from a man with colored eyes. ”

Fortunately, the nonsense was made up in time, otherwise these people would have found out. In fact, they didn't expect to hear the truth so simply, and they even found that the other party had become vigilant, so they diverted the topic and talked about the weather to ease the atmosphere, taking this opportunity Song Yi had already put the draft into his sleeve. Jiang Tian thought to himself, you have already got the answer, why don't you leave yet? Do you think this question is too easy to calculate, I'm sorry for the one hundred taels of silver you gave Chen's mother?

After a few more nonsense words with each other, Tian Xuhai changed his words: "Brother Jiang, the younger brother asked abruptly, although Miss Xiyun is temporarily by Brother Tai's side, how do you plan to settle it?" After all......"

The question was very direct, but he swallowed the second half of the sentence back. In fact, this is exactly where Jiang Tian is in trouble, according to the standards of this era, if she can really redeem herself, then this person belongs to Jiang Tian from a legal point of view, and how to deal with it is all up to the master. But he is a society that has crossed over from a society where basic human rights are equal and slavery has been eliminated, and there is no concept of slavery in his thinking, and he is not willing to treat such a little girl as something to be bought and sold casually. What's even more peculiar is that Xi Yun, as the person concerned, doesn't seem to care about her fate at all, except for being a little overwhelmed on the first day she came here, she is used to the life of the small teahouse with a high degree of adaptability, and she never shows any feelings, let alone ask Jiang Tian how to solve the difficulty of identity, as if nothing exists. Jiang Tian believed that if she suddenly told her one day that she had no money, she still had to go back to Yihong Mansion, and this girl would turn around and leave without saying a word.

"To tell you the truth, I don't actually know if this ending is really correct now, whether leaving that kind of place of smoke and powder can really make her happy, and now there is only one step at a time."

Song Yi groaned a little and then said: "I don't think she is the kind of person who is willing to fall, she should be happy to find a good home, but now she can't be sure that she has really regained her life, so she doesn't dare to show it." In fact, it is not difficult to get him out of citizenship? ”

Hearing him say this, Jiang Tian became interested: "Oh? Does Brother Song Xian have a good plan? ”

Song Yi tried his best to suppress his excitement and said the countermeasures that had been planned a long time ago: "I heard from the ancestor of the family, the saint once studied some things in the Academy of Sciences, but there has been no progress so far, so Long Yan is displeased, and the list is widely published to recruit talents, and Brother Jiang is not willing to be an official, but if you can really solve those problems and make some contributions, and then the ancestors and adults will have an activity, wouldn't it be easy to reward a servant?" ”

"Wonderful! To put it bluntly, isn't she just a servant girl, as long as you can complete the things that Your Majesty explained, how can those adults care about slavery. Liu Pervert wasted no time in echoing this proposal, and the surnamed Tian also nodded on the side.

This statement made Jiang Tian very excited, and the work assigned to the Academy of Sciences must be related to science, and in terms of the technical level of this era, it should not be too far ahead. You might as well try it yourself, in case you can run into a dead mouse, won't Song Yingxing owe him a favor? Then beg him to clear some doors, what's so difficult about filling in an identity certificate for Xiyun?

In fact, he didn't know that the seemingly smart modern people had fallen into the trap of the ancients, and from this point of view, he was not much smarter than the stupid show in his previous life.