The third prince hurriedly left the palace, originally with a sense of indignation, but when he saw a blonde boy with a completely different hair and skin color and appearance from the people of his country, he was excitedly calculating arithmetic problems, he threw his original purpose out of the clouds. When Zhang Shou dragged the person away from the blackboard without saying anything, he stepped forward to take a closer look at the hasty deduction.

After reading it, he turned to Zhang Shou and asked, "Teacher, he doesn't seem to have mastered all the theorems of those triangles?" ”

"Euclid's Στοιχε?? α, in their country, that's the domain that only scholars delve into, and he's still too young. What's more, the book that prevailed there was a Latin version, and although there were some similarities to the language he could speak and write, but, at his age, he probably hadn't learned it yet. As far as the two he used before, they were already good. ”

Seeing that Lu Saburo immediately looked at the blonde boy with a rather playful gaze, and the blonde boy was full of emptiness, Zhang Shou said with a smile: "A long time ago, Latin was actually just a small local dialect on the Italian Peninsula where he was located, but later it was said that the Roman Empire of this language was strong and dominated one side, and this became the common language of the West. ”

Later, the Roman Empire, though divided into East and West, remained a monolith, and Latin gradually divided into two different forms, written and oral. Let's put it this way, it is the same as the words spoken in the mouths of ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty and now are completely different from the words used in the articles and classics. ”

As soon as he explained this, whether it was the Third Prince, Lu Saburo, or others, they naturally nodded their heads to indicate that they had understood. At this time, Zhang Shoufang glanced at the blonde boy, and his smile suddenly deepened.

"In today's West, learned princes and nobles and their religious people learn Latin, because it is the language that must be proficient in the passage of small nations, and this is mostly done by a gentleman who is proficient in Latin. However, ordinary small nobles, or ordinary wealthy people from well-to-do families, may not be willing to spend a large sum of money to invite such a Mr. Xixi for the outer room. ”

In order to make it easier to understand, Zhang Shou changed the tutor to Mr. Xixi, so as soon as these words came out, a large number of people around him nodded in seconds. There are not only real rich sons like Lu Sanlang who didn't like to study since he was a child, but Mr. Xixi has never been missing, there are also most poor people like Jiuzhangtang Zhusheng, and there are even children like Ji Jiu and Zhang Datou, who were once very marginalized in the family.

Therefore, there is no single Mr. Xixi, who goes to study from his family or even other people's families with other brothers, or even studies with his favored brothers in the family, and even invites Mr. Xixi when he is prominent in the family, and he can't afford it after he is down...... When there are more people, there are many situations, but at this time, most people are no longer the initial picky when they look at the blonde boy.

There are even people who are not afraid of exposing their ugliness and sighed there: "Ask a Xixi to teach a person specially, this has to be the treatment of the most favored child in the family, of course don't even think about it." A relative of my family used to raise two outer rooms outside, and he was usually spoiled by something, and it is said that he also gave birth to two sons, but the fierce wife in his family said that he moved the elders and cut off his money! ”

"Now, he has no money, and his two outer chambers saw that he had no money, so they all rolled up and ran away, but the child was sent back, and the result was raised with the son of the servant and maid. Not to mention reading, it's like a servant at all. ”

There is the first and the second, because I heard Zhang Shou just say to the blonde boy that he would not send people to mine, plus His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also came, and the people who figured out Zhang Shou's mind couldn't help but speak for others, and the people who really sympathized with this foreign boy also helped to speak, as for those who were purely watching the fun, they were even more tragic stories about the sons of the outer room one by one.

And because of these guys who were observant and beating the side drum, Lu Sanlang thought that he had also been scolded by the two brothers as a stupid and stupid fat pig, and he was not as good as a servant at home, he couldn't help but glance at the blonde boy with some sympathy, wondering if this kid would also be rejected by the eldest wife and brother in the family, so he took the risk and got on the boat.

Even the third prince thought of the time when he was oppressed by the eldest prince and the second prince, but if it weren't for that, he and the fourth brother would not have been fortunate enough to be under the nose of his father when he was taken to the Qianqing Palace, but he was relieved. At that moment, he nodded and said, "Listening to what the teacher said, Latin is the same as Yayan, and it's not his fault that he doesn't understand Latin." ”

However, under the gaze of many sympathetic or pitiful, contemptuous or contemptuous eyes, the blonde young man who was in the outer room had a hundred and eleven question marks in his heart at this time.

What are these people talking about? What is an Elder Woman? Is it his titular mother, the father's official wife? Is the Son of the Outer Chambers talking about him? The eldest woman oppressed the son of the outer chamber and treated him as a servant, did she mean that the mother treated him as a servant?

But his mother was very kind to him, but the mother who gave birth to him was rude, and he remembered that when he lived with her as a child, he would be beaten at every turn. However, this kind of thing is also common in Florence, where many illegitimate children are not recognized by the family, and can only live with their low-status mothers, or even abandoned and live on the streets.

Of course, the illegitimate children of the great nobles did not have to worry, their mothers would receive a large amount of alimony and even a large ornate house, and then raise their sons carefully so that they would still have a dependency in the future after their appearance was old.

Thinking of this, the blonde boy narrowed his eyes slightly, and instead of speaking casually, he tried to capture more information from the words of these people—compared to the captains and sailors he had spent time with on the ship, the status of these people was really much higher at the moment. Whoever knows Latin and Στοιχε?? α's Bachelor Zhang, or the prince, are all big shots.

And Zhang Shou did not stop everyone's various brain supplements, but let everyone's gossip come to an end temporarily, and then he continued: "However, whether he has learned Latin or not, it doesn't matter, I just casually flipped through those books, and found that not all of them are arithmetic classics, and some of them may be very old dictionaries. ”

What the dictionary means, the blonde boy didn't understand, and the others were a little confused. At this time, the third prince, who had completely forgotten his true intention, was the first to ask: "Teacher, is the so-called dictionary a book similar to "Shuowen Jie Zi"? ”

Zhang Shou couldn't help but want to pat his head. Although it has been so long, he still can't forget some of the idiomatic expressions he used to use in the past. He shook his head, and then said in a deep voice: "I'm not talking about a book that explains the meaning of words like "Shuowen Jie Zi", but a comparative dictionary between the two languages. ”

Without Zhang Shou's analogy, Lu Sanlang, who reacted very quickly, immediately slapped his face: "Doesn't that mean that we can translate those sutras according to the dictionary...... Wait, no, if those books had Chinese characters, the captain would have found out a long time ago! What are the two languages? ”

"I don't know." Zhang Shou shrugged his shoulders, and when he saw a large number of people dumbfounded, he spread his hands and said, "Even if it is a comparative dictionary of two languages, this is also my guess, because of this comparison of the neatly arranged columns on the left and right, of course I can't help but guess in this direction." ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Shou instructed Lu Sanlang: "You go to my school hall, enter the third floor of the second bookshelf on the left side of the door, the first stack of books on the left hand, you can take one down casually." By the way, remember to take a pair of gloves in the drawer and put them on when you pick up the book. Those are some years old books, and I have been adrift at sea again, and I can't help tossing. ”

Seeing that the little fat man immediately turned around and ran away with the agility that his fat body should not have, Zhang Shou left a large number of big-eyed and small-eyed people, turned around and came to the blackboard, wiped off the blonde boy's problem-solving process just now, and then picked up the pen to start solving the problem.

As the lines of words were left on the blackboard, the students of Jiuzhangtang below were all intent, and the three princes watched intently, confirming the problem-solving process in their hearts.

As for the blonde boy who was still thinking about Zhang Shou's comparison and dictionary before, he suddenly forgot that his mine crisis had just been resolved, and he only cared about watching the process of solving the problem.

Moreover, he not only looked, but also thought while watching, when he found that one of Zhang Shou's equations seemed to be taken for granted, he even subconsciously wanted to ask, only to see Zhang Shou suddenly stop writing, and then click on this one.

This is evident in Euclid's Στοιχε?? α", there are also corresponding theorems, and you will know after you have learned them. ”

Hearing that there were no doubts and objections behind him, he continued to write, and after writing the solution of one problem, he also wrote the whole solution of the other problem. And when he finished solving these two questions, he heard Lu Sanlang's fiery voice: "I've brought it all!" ”

After taking a sentence, Zhang Shou suddenly had a little bad premonition. Sure enough, as soon as he turned around, he saw that the fat Lu Sanlang was holding a large stack of books at this time, not to mention seven or eight books. Dare to ask people to pick a random one, but the person brought all the stacks of books he mentioned!

Faced with this situation, Zhang Shou, who couldn't cry or laugh, didn't bother to say, stepped forward to get the top one, and after flipping through it, he walked up to the blonde boy and shook the book in front of the kid with straight eyes.

"Okay, don't look at it. Take a look at this one, and then tell me if this is a dictionary. If so, is one of the languages Latin, and what is the other? And what kind of book is this, if not a dictionary? ”

This series of questions immediately called the blonde boy back to his soul.

He hurriedly stretched out his hand to take Zhang Shou's book, and after flipping through it, he was sure that this was indeed the same as the book "Στοιχε?? α" is completely different, as if it really is a dictionary. Even if he hadn't really learned Latin, he had at least been exposed to Latin books, and at least he had glanced at them a few times and could recognize them. Therefore, after turning a few pages intently, he looked up with joy.

"That's right, it's a dictionary, a comparative dictionary of Tuscan and Latin! Tuscan is something I can speak and write, so I can read it! ”

The pronunciation of these four words in Tuscany is not unfamiliar to Zhang Shou, who knows a little bit about the geographical and political pattern of Italy - of course, the first time I knew this word was because of the book "The Count of Monte Cristo" that I read in middle school. Because, the famous island of Monte Cristo once belonged to the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy.

For others, however, the pronunciation of the four words Tuscany is completely confusing – not just Tuscany, of course, but even Italy, Spain, Portugal...... These names of countries and places that were once directly marked by Emperor Taizu on the globe and maps are unknown to ordinary people, even the children of official eunuchs, and have no concept.

Only Lu Saburo and the others, who were studying in Ciqing Palace, had been fortunate enough to see the huge ball and the map so large and detailed that it was incredibly detailed, but their understanding of the West was no better than that of the others present. As for Lu Saburo, who is good at mathematics, geography is a mess, and at this time, holding a pile of books, he racked his brains and didn't remember where Tuscany was.

In the midst of an unspeakable silence, the third prince spoke: "Since this is a dictionary and he recognizes it, then, the teacher will leave him to listen in Jiuzhang Hall." After I went back, I told my father, after all, if he wants to translate those classics from Fanbang, his current ability is not enough, and he still needs to learn. ”

This Royal Highness the Crown Prince is really a good person!

Although the words of the third prince only understood most of them, at least the core meaning was understood, and the blonde boy was overjoyed for a while, and he almost jumped up and waved his fist to express his excitement. But immediately after, he heard an opposing voice: "His Royal Highness the Prince, this person is unknown......

Without waiting for the opposing attendant to finish speaking, the third prince said disapprovingly: "It's not for him to study in Ciqing Palace, it's just for him to make up for his arithmetic foundation in the public school to see if he is really talented, what does this have to do with his identity, could it be that he can still find any secrets in this public school?" ”

"Besides, he comes from a small western country tens of thousands of miles away, can he still fight with the Ming Dynasty?"

Zhang Shou saw that the third prince was just a few words and said that the waiter was speechless, although he only showed a little edge, but he still found it quite interesting. At that moment, he nodded with a smile and said, "Since His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said so, let him listen to it in the Jiuzhang Hall for a while." Of course, I wouldn't have slowed down for him. ”

As soon as these words came out, Ji Jiu immediately took the lead and laughed. He is the undisputed class president among first-year freshmen - not because of his top grades, but because he is slick and measured, and everyone feels comfortable with him. So when he laughed, the other people who had been holding back just now couldn't help but laugh too.

And after finalizing this matter, the third prince finally thought of the purpose of his visit, and immediately respectfully invited Zhang Shou back to the school hall in the name of asking for advice. When he got there, he didn't mention last night's incident after all, but said very sincerely: "Teacher, my father suddenly handed you such a tricky matter, and I can't help, if you have anything you want me to do, just ask." ”

Zhang Shou was slightly stunned and laughed: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince really wants to help me, I might as well tell the emperor when I go back, select a group of talents to learn these Fanbang languages and translate more books." Although these small countries are thousands of miles away, you have also seen the boat I demonstrated at the banquet before, if it can really be automatically sailed, tens of thousands of miles away in an instant, it will not be far away! ”

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