Wu Dawei ...... Why don't you say your name is Octavian! ”

When Zhang Shou heard this word, it was obviously different from the original pronunciation, so he definitely didn't mishear the surname, and almost subconsciously complained. When he found that the young man in front of him suddenly widened his eyes, he saw that Chen Yongshou's face was full of confusion, so he simply joked with a smile: "If you are Octavian, then I am Caesar!" ”

"You know Caesar and Octavian!" The blonde boy was surprised and delighted, his eyes were shining, "No wonder they told me that you could translate those books!" The Buddha is above, you are indeed a real bachelor! ”

If God knew that you were a believer chanting the Buddha in the land of the East, he would definitely kill you! It is said that this must be when the boy was learning Chinese on the boat, and others taught him, maybe the people who taught him will think that the God of the church is the Buddha of the West, this translation is correct, but they don't know that this is simply a divine operation......

Zhang Shou was angry and funny, and immediately laughed: "I'm a bachelor, but I don't have the ability to know the languages of various countries, so don't count on me as a translator!" I just know who Caesar and Octavian were. You are young, but your ambitions are quite ambitious, why, this is to revive the Roman Empire that Augustus once created? ”

"Wait a minute, wait a minute, you said slow down, I didn't understand......"

The blonde boy finally showed a bitter look, and quickly bowed and begged Zhang Shou to pause, and this time, his voice was not as eloquent as it was at the beginning. Obviously, some of the words he had rehearsed well in advance, but now he has not said them, and it also shows the lack of Chinese listening and speaking.

However, as a person who learned Chinese during the period of drifting across the ocean, Zhang Shou felt that this kid was good enough. You know, as one of the most difficult languages in the world to learn, even the most receptive teenagers, it is really not easy to learn the pronunciation of words in a short period of time.

Of course, the most important thing is that the person who taught him was not full of Cantonese or other dialects, which is really commendable! If this young man just opened his mouth full of Cantonese or local dialect somewhere along the coast, then he must be full of black lines!

Although Chen Yongshou didn't understand the conversation between Zhang Shou and the blonde boy at all, he could at least hear that Zhang Shou had a certain degree of understanding of the country or history where the boy lived. He knew very well that he had brought people here on a spur of the moment, and it was absolutely impossible for Zhang Shou to have any contact with the people in the fleet, so it was very shocking.

He thought that the emperor had revealed that Zhang Shou had obviously had other unknown gentlemen in addition to Ge Yong's teacher, and these gentlemen should have traveled overseas, so the things taught to Zhang Shou were very novel, so Zhang Shou would occasionally teach some foreign history that no one else knew about in the Banshan Hall and the Jiuzhang Hall.

Now the two names from the mouths of Zhang Shou and the blonde boy obviously belong to the category of foreign history, which proves what the emperor said.

Therefore, seeing that the blonde boy who called himself Wu Dawei was obviously a little flustered because he couldn't keep up with what he heard, although Zhang Shou stopped talking with a smile, he didn't explain it specifically, Chen Yongshou shouted with a straight face: "Master Zhang is a busy man, how can I have time to learn to talk with you!" Well, all in all, it is your luck that you can set foot on the land of Daming alive, and then you will do it yourself! ”

After speaking, Chen Yongshou arched his hand at Zhang Shou and said: "Master Zhang, you try to use this kid, if it doesn't work, throw him to the mine!" He ate and drank at sea for nothing, and took a boat for more than half a year, plus the expenses of walking from Guangzhou to the capital for several months, which was enough for him to dig a lifetime of mines! ”

Zhang Shou glared at the blonde boy with a straight face after seeing Chen Yongshou put down his words, and then turned his head and left, and the kid who seemed to be a little out of the way just now was instantly like earth, fully showing that the person was indeed still a child, he couldn't help but sigh, and after Chen Yongshou disappeared outside the door, he coughed lightly.

"If you don't want to become a miner, David Wu ...... Well, I don't want to ask you what your name is, after all, faraway Florence or Pisa has nothing to do with me...... Shouldn't you tell me that you can really read that car of books? Don't be in a hurry to nod your head, know that even though I haven't been to your hometown, there are some things I still know. ”

Zhang Shou deliberately slowed down his speech this time, and tried not to use any idioms, seeing that the blonde boy Wu Dawei was listening and trying to understand his words, he asked the most important question after a pause.

"For example, the writing of a book is not the same as your everyday writing. If I'm not mistaken, this should be...... Latino, do you really know each other? ”

Zhang Shou spit out such a word representing Latin in a very non-standard Italian, and then he saw the blonde boy's eyes widen suddenly, and he followed suit, as if he was scratching his head with a little weakness.

"I haven't learned Latino yet...... But I can understand part of it, because the text I usually read and write seems to be related to Latino! Anyway, I must know more than the people on the ship, and the interpreters! ”

Seeing people staring at themselves nervously, with a look of my ability, I definitely can do it, man, you have to believe my confident expression, Zhang Shou held his hands and didn't speak, just looked at the other party calmly, and suddenly burst out with an unrelated question: "You just said that you are fifteen years old this year?" I don't think it's that big, right? ”

The blonde boy was stunned for a moment, and then hurriedly explained: "I'm really fifteen, really!" Isn't it your rule to be one year older during the Chinese New Year? It's December now, and the New Year is coming soon, so I can certainly say I'm fifteen! ”

Zhang Shou suddenly laughed dumbly. The age of Chinese people is indeed often imaginary, so for children whose birthdays are at the end of the year, then after the New Year, the number he reports can even be directly two years older. But even if he did this subtraction, he still felt that the young man in front of him might not even be thirteen years old.

However, seeing the deliberate sincerity and innocence in the eyes, he didn't bother to ask any more. Italian is derived from Latin, and it is true that there is such a saying, but as far as he knows, there are many differences in both words and grammar. Of course, this difference is much smaller than that between English and Latin.

But this does not mean that anyone who knows Italian will be able to read Latin easily! But now, instead of counting on those interpreters, it is indeed better to count on this blonde boy who has traveled to Daming!

Therefore, Zhang Shou did not waste time, but got up and walked to the bookshelf in the school hall, and when Chen Yongshou left to find someone for the first time, he took Lu Sanlang and others to sort out the cart of books on the shelf, and deliberately selected one. Of course, since this batch of books was not a parchment, it was also a book of some years, so he deliberately put on a pair of thin silk gloves.

It was such a simple action, but the blonde boy stared intently for a long time, and finally when the book was delivered to him, he stretched out his hands without saying a word. However, he didn't answer the book, but stared directly at the glove in Zhang Shou's hand, and the look was clearly saying, I want it too!

Zhang Shou couldn't help but be amused by this unmistakable request. He smiled, and instead of taking off the gloves in his hand, he returned to his desk, pulled out the top of the three-compartment chest of drawers on the side, and took out another pair of silk gloves. When he got up again and came to the blonde boy, he handed the gloves over.

This time, the blonde boy snatched the glove in his hand almost quickly, flipped it over and over for a while, and while putting it on, he exclaimed with envy: "I actually use silk to make gloves, I am so rich here!" In our place, women who have no money will save money to make handkerchiefs in silk and take them out to show when they go out, and the richest women, they will make dresses and clothes out of silk. ”

"Especially the patterned silks, even if they are covered with gold coins, they can't be bought, they have to be piled up."

When he said these two words, the blonde boy who was trying to put on the silk gloves made a very exaggerated gesture, as if it was enough to say that a mountain of gold coins was enough, and for this, Zhang Shou just smiled, and then he mouthed at the person Nunu, and motioned for the little guy to open the book and take a look.

Seeing that his words obviously did not achieve the purpose of attracting Zhang Shou's attention, the blonde boy could only bow his head and flip through the book. However, his eyes seemed to be focused on the beautiful italic text, but in fact he was dual-minded, racking his brains to find a way out.

For an illegitimate child, and not an illegitimate child of a nobleman, but the illegitimate child of an ordinary rich man, there is absolutely no governess who teaches all kinds of knowledge, and he is able to read and write, which is already a great blessing, because he grew up with his father, and his father's real wife is also good to him.

Therefore, although he had already made up his mind to learn Latin, it was only in the plan, and he didn't have time at all! But soon, he realized that this book seemed to be the one he had always wanted to read! He tried his best to identify the words in the book, trying his best to discern the meaning, and suddenly forgot that there was a Zhang Shou beside him.

After all, for the old books in the family that are said to be some years old, even if his father has always regarded him as a full member of the family, he has not read much. These old treasures are not like cheap products printed in these years when paper is getting cheaper and cheaper, and books are gradually being able to enter well-off homes, but they are substitutes for parchment books.

So, the gilded and luxurious covers, the thick and crisp paper, which were incomparable to the books he had read before. It is not a collection of poems that moans without disease, nor is it a so-called philosophy with empty content, or a story of a third-rate literati, but real knowledge.

Even if he couldn't read it, or could only understand a little bit of it by the words he had figured out, that didn't stop the blonde boy from greedily continuing to look down. Until...... A hand suddenly obscured his vision, between the book and his eyes.

The blonde boy glared angrily, but when he came into contact with that indifferent look, he suddenly realized his situation.

This is not at home, if his father finds out that he is peeking at his book as a family heirloom, then at most he will be pressed to the ground and beaten severely, but this is in a foreign country, since he sneaked on the boat with a moment of curiosity, hoping to see where the so-called eastern country is, his life can no longer be in his own hands!

Therefore, the blonde boy immediately hid the anger he had just revealed, revealing just the right amount of trepidation. This is also the only way for him to deal with his father, after all, even if he is an illegitimate child, but for a father who has no other children, this trick can often allow him to escape most of the blame, and even win the sympathy and protection of the mother.

If Zhang Shou really only looks so big on the outside, then he may have really been deceived by this little guy, the problem is that he has been a human being in two lives, and he has a deep curiosity about this blonde boy whose background is completely unknown, so of course he will not miss the emotional changes between the other party's flashes after he made this action.

Or rather, he found that the kid's true emotion was not anger or panic, but ...... Chagrin? In other words, even if this book is indeed the rich father of the man, this kid has never read it, even if he is very interested?

So, he asked for a long time, "After reading it for so long, can you tell me, what kind of book is this?" ”

The blonde boy was relieved, he took a light breath, and then held his head high and said, "This is a very famous work in ancient Greece, and it is called Στοιχε??" α！ After saying the word at a very fast pace, he glanced down at Zhang Shou's hand, which was still unmoved, and said in a dull voice, "Many learned people say that it records the truth of the world. ”

"It turned out to be Euclid's Στοιχε?? α。 Zhang Shou spit out a few words calmly, and the young man in front of him showed an obvious stunned expression, and he laughed, "In the Yuan Dynasty more than a hundred years ago, we had a translator here to translate this book, and at that time, many people studied it for the purpose of compiling the calendar. If so, the book is not precious. ”

This time, the blonde boy almost didn't snap his eyes out. Today, the man from the palace, known to others as Gonggong Chen, brought him over and asked him to translate the book, and he realized that he had grasped a life-saving straw. If you don't go to the East, you don't know how big the country is. This oriental country is not only as big as dozens or hundreds of Florences, but probably hundreds or even thousands of them!

He is very interested in everything else, but they don't seem to be interested in his kingdom, and even treat him as a spy who has been mixed in, and he is a useless spy!

If people don't need him to translate these books, he won't even have the opportunity to read them...... Did he lose his life?

Thinking about this joint, the blonde boy suddenly panicked, and hurriedly shouted, "These books are translated from Euclid's original text, and your books are certainly not ...... People who don't understand these things, plus only translate through one script, can easily make mistakes! ”