Zhong Qing didn't know why she was so interested in Ye Qing, but she knew very well in her heart that whenever she bathed, she would always remember his words lightly, especially when she slid her whole body with the so-called soap he made with her own hands, Zhong Qing would always raise her slender neck, and close her eyes a little nervously in her heart, as if her every move in the bath was seen by Ye Qing.

She rarely has that kind of unsightly dream, and since Ye Qing held her hand tightly, she has been awakened from her dreams several times, like an endless abyss-like dream, often making her fall into melancholy when she is slightly dewed in the early morning.

With Bai Chun and Yan Chengcheng, accompanied by the palace maid, when the painting boat began to return along the original road, the three of them climbed to the second floor of the painting boat again.

Compared with the lively atmosphere just now, the atmosphere on the second floor of the painting boat at this time is slightly more depressing.

The sound of the silk and bamboo orchestra became fainter and fainter, and the dancing of the mermaid beauty began to slow down like a butterfly.

Zhu Xi's questioning of the Yuan You armillary instrument made Ye Qing just look at him coldly with a wine glass, as if he was questioned by Zhu Xi, and he had nothing to say.

Lu Zuqian, who was slightly smug next to him, gradually began to gloat with a smile.

Lu Zujian and the others, including King Xin and Xin Qiji, faced Zhu Xi's questioning of Ye Qing, but they lowered their heads at this moment, as if there was a beautiful woman in the wine glass in their hands, which made them extremely interested, so they didn't bother to pay attention to Zhu Xi's questioning of Ye Qing at all.

Slowly put down the wine glass in his hand, and sighed that he was not able to participate in the imperial examination, Ye Qing, said lightly: "Someone once said: The things of the world are not as auspicious as those who hear and see, and those who see are not as good as those who live in them. Only by practicing it can we become the greatest and most powerful exposer, which can expose all the deception and self-deception in this world. Just like a pear in your hand, you can't tell what it tastes like, even if its shape makes you hate it and make you like it, you can't know what it tastes like until you taste it yourself. Mr. Zhu, can you restore a Yuanyou armillary sphere image according to the minutes I left behind in Longtu Pavilion? So as to prove that it is just an ornament, a trick to deceive the Holy Lord and the Emperor? ”

Seeing Zhu Xi's lips move, Ye Qing did not give him a chance to speak, but continued: "If you don't restore one yourself, you have to prove that the Yuan You Armillary Instrument I restored, because the size does not match what Su Song made back then, it is an ornament, is Mr. Zhu a little irresponsible in his judgment?" ”

"Then Ye Xiaoyou, can you tell the old man first, why is the Yuan You armillary sphere elephant you restored so much larger than the size restored by Su Song back then?" Zhu Xi took out the minutes he had written down in his arms, and pointed out in Ye Qingzhen's words that he included some places that he thought were fraudulent and suspected of corruption.

Ye Qing looked at Zhu Xi's serious appearance, looked around, and when he saw Yan Tingcheng, Bai Chun and Princess Xin, he wanted to get up, but it was not appropriate to think about it, so he beckoned to the palace maid and eunuch in the middle, pointed to the feet of the two and said, "Take off your shoes." ”

"Ah......?" The palace maid and the eunuch hurriedly put their feet into the hem of the robe and skirt, and involuntarily looked at King Xin.

"Just listen to Lord Ye." The king of faith is single-minded and dual-minded.

Although he had been looking at the wine in the cup, as if he hadn't noticed the argument between Zhu Xi and Ye Qing at all, as soon as Ye Qing spoke, King Xin could stare at the wine glass in his hand, like a palace maid and a eunuch ordering.

"One person can take one off." Ye Qing looked at the palace maid and the eunuch, each took off one of his shoes, and when he was about to drag the other, he stopped him.

Then Ye Qing got up from behind the table and took the shoes in the hands of the palace maid and the eunuch who looked a little embarrassed.

Walking to Zhu Xi's desk with two shoes in one hand, Ye Qing threw the two shoes to the ground, looked at Zhu Xi with a puzzled look with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Then Mr. Zhu told me, what are these two big and small things?" ”

"Shoes, naturally." Zhu Xi frowned, Ye Qing's move was somewhat disrespectful to him.

"Not really, right?" Ye Qing pulled off the two shoes with his feet, and said with a smile: "Obviously, these two so-called shoes are not the same size, why can they be collectively called shoes?" If it is all shoes in Mr. Zhu's eyes, then the Yuan You armillary sphere image that I restored is only a little larger in size, why is it not the Yuan You armillary sphere image? Double standards are not successful? ”

"Not to be confused." Zhu Xi stared at the two shoes on the ground with a displeased expression, watching Ye Qing beckon, while the harem maid and the eunuch took their shoes on the ground, hurriedly retreated, and continued: "Your so-called Yuan You Armillary Sphere has changed too much. As the saying goes: the top is infinite, Tai Chi, and the bottom is as for the subtlety of a grass, a tree and an insect, and each has its own reason. If you don't read a book, you will lose a book; If there is nothing to be done, there is no reason for one thing; If something is not qualified, there is no reason for a thing. ”

Ye Qing was stunned for a moment, and involuntarily turned his head to look at Bai Chun: "What do you mean?" ”

When Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng looked at Ye Qing's innocent, blank eyes, they had already lowered their heads in embarrassment.

The two of them knew better than anyone that Zhu Xi's last words just now were completely played to the cow, and Ye Qing couldn't understand it at all.

Princess Xin was also stunned, looking at Yan Qingcheng and Bai Chun, facing Ye Qing's gaze of asking for help and hearing the news, when she lowered her head in embarrassment, she whispered in disbelief: "He...... Did he really not understand? ”

"I understand the words, but after you make a sentence, I still want to ask Mr. Zhu, what does this mean?" Ye Qing didn't seem to know what the embarrassment was, and when Yan Qingcheng and Bai Chun were ashamed and couldn't wait to go downstairs, Ye Qing said to Zhu Xi very naturally.

It was not only Zhu Xi who was present, but also King Xin and Xin Qiji, who couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded in the face of Ye Qing's current appearance, this ...... The Longtu Pavilion scholar who restored the image of the Yuan Yu armillary sphere didn't understand what Zhu Xi said just now?

It's no wonder that Zhu Xi would doubt him, looking at his ignorant appearance now, Princess Xin wanted to wonder if the Yuan Yu Heavenly Instrument Elephant of Scholar Ye was fake, not to mention King Xin, Lu Zuqian and others, who didn't really believe in Ye Qing in their hearts.

Zhu Xi's heart first flashed a trace of Ye Qing's idea of making fun of him, but looking at those "sincere" and "honest" eyes, Zhu Xi sighed and continued: "Since the old man was five or six years old, he has been troubled and said: What is the matter beyond the four sides of heaven and earth? Seeing people say that the four directions are boundless, the old man thinks that there must be an end. If this West Lake is similar, there must be something at the end of the West Lake, and the embankment is general. At that time, I almost became sick when I thought about it. I don't know what is at the end of the West Lake? Can Scholar Ye understand what the old man said? ”

At the end, Zhu Xi's tone was full of irony, while Lu Zuqian had already laughed mercilessly, as if he had heard the funniest joke in the world.

Ye Qing continued to listen to Zhu Xi's words, and it was no wonder that he still had all kinds of doubts about the Yuan You armillary sphere, the main of which was the merger and unification of the three instruments of Jianyi, equatorial latitude and longitude and sundial, which were improved by Ye Qing and no longer affected by the shadow of the ring on the instrument, which was one of Zhu Xi's doubts.

The high table and the jingfu is a group of instruments for measuring the shadow of the sun, which is the innovation of Guo Shoujing, the original eight feet into a four-zhang high watch, the beam is erected on the table, and the shadow of the jingfu is placed on the stone and the shadow of the sun on the jingfu coincides, that is, the time of the local day.

The shadow of the heliocentric measured with this instrument is much more precise than the shadow of the sun measured before, which is a great improvement of Guo Shoujing.

Therefore, changing eight feet to four feet has naturally become another place for Zhu Xi to question.

So when Zhu Xi finished questioning, Xin Qiji looked at Zhu Xi with a little star on his face.

The others were just like Ye Qing's dazed expression when he listened to the book of heaven just now, and they didn't know what Zhu Xi had just said.

So Princess Xin and the others couldn't help but think of what Ye Qing said just now: I understand the words, but after they are connected into sentences...... What does that mean exactly?

In the end, Zhu Xi looked at Ye Qing and continued solemnly: "So, if we follow the Yuan Yu Armillary Instrument Elephant of Ye Scholar, wouldn't we be in the middle of the whirlwind of the heavens?" Huainan two roads, haven't they become the middle of heaven and earth? I'm afraid it's unconvincing, right? ”

"What does Mr. Zhu mean is that he only believes in what he wants to believe, and does not believe in things that are not outside his cognitive scope?" For a while, Ye Qing didn't know how to explain or discuss the so-called autobiographical theory of celestial bodies with him.

"Knowing first, the so-called knowing first, action later. But Lord Ye said that practice brings true knowledge. If you don't know, what can you do? At this time, Zhu Xi also seemed to have entered a situation of discussing academics with Ye Qing, and he didn't know that the painting boat had docked at this time.

"Nothing can be completely certain of what you know before you act. Just like this West Lake, is it possible that when we don't know its depth, we can't sail? Cognition comes from practice, so knowing first and then knowing is obviously deviating from the common sense proposition. If I remember correctly, my husband did not go out of the house for three days, and then he had an epiphany about rain and ......qi. Ye Qing at least knew that Zhu Xi had always admired knowledge before that, but this assertion was completely untenable in later generations, reversing the relationship between primary and secondary.

"Yes, the old man had an epiphany on three days that rain is related to qi, and rain is qi. Could it be that Lord Ye can act first, and he can't know that the rain is angry? With a hint of indescribable sarcasm and contempt at the corner of Zhu Xi's mouth, he asked with a smile.

Without waiting for Ye Qing to answer, Lu Zuqian, King Xin and others next to him couldn't help laughing, obviously in their opinion, Zhu Xi's cognition is much better than Ye Qing's, which is enough to show that Ye Qing's remarks just now are just fallacies.

Bai Chun and Yan Qingcheng listened to everyone's unbridled ridicule of Ye Qing, and at this time, Fang Xin naturally grabbed together, twisting his sleeves, afraid that Ye Qing would suddenly become angry and embarrassed, and then in front of King Xin and Princess Xin, he would do something disrespectful.

Princess Xin was also frowning, in her opinion, she couldn't understand why people, including King Xin, deliberately laughed at Ye Qing loudly.

Didn't they think before they ridiculed and ridiculed Ye Qing, if Ye Qing had no ink on his chest, how could a proud person like Zhu Xi discuss with Ye Qing for most of the day, even if the ship had docked without knowing it?

Ye Qing's gaze slowly swept over everyone, and after everyone's laughter gradually disappeared, he continued to stand in front of Zhu Xi, his hands in his sleeves, not caring about everyone's ridicule at all, and said lightly: "Mr. Zhu actually doesn't have to sit for three days to understand the relationship between rain and qi, as long as the kettle boils water, and looks at how the rising heat forms water droplets on the lid of the kettle, you will know the relationship between rain and qi." Leave. ”

After finishing speaking, Ye Qing saluted the suddenly silent crowd, then took Bai Chun and Yan Chengcheng and bowed slightly to Zhong Qing before leaving the painting boat.