Shang Cheng's wine was also like that for a while, he drank a light of decanting soup and half a cup of hot tea soup, and his stamina went a little way.

At this time, the maids had already put the wine and food at the mercy of the tables, chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep dishes, plates, plates and cups, the fresh and green flowers in the east mountain, and each case was red and green. After the case, there are maids holding pots and standing quietly, and when they see a little drop in the pot, they quietly pour it together; In the corner of the hall, there is a singer stroking the piano and making a pipe, and the clear and soft tone is like a small stream between the bamboos; The sandwich wall connects the firewood house in the inconspicuous corner outside the atrium, and the warm breeze is constantly circling between the walls, and the hall is not cold or hot like a spring in March, but it is not smelling the slightest smell of fireworks......

However, all this could not hide the embarrassment and embarrassment of everyone at the banquet. The host invited to drink, the guests raised their glasses, and in addition, they each buried their heads in a mouthful of chewing dishes, and the banquet was very quiet. It's so quiet that it doesn't look like a candlelight feast for friends and friends.

Chen Pu knew that he had probably made things go wrong again. She didn't point out that Tian Qingshan was Tian Xiu, she originally wanted to make a big joke with Shang Cheng and tease him, but she inadvertently embarrassed Li Mu and Tian Xiu. She really wanted to resolve the current coldness, but she didn't know where to start at all, so she had to pick it up again and again, toasting her master, friends, comrades, and sisters......

At this time, Nanyang should have come out to live the atmosphere of the banquet for her sister. That's what she's good at. She is known for her excellent calligraphy skills and has long been a clear celebrity. She is also good at tea art and dancing, and she is also from a noble background, which is an attractive place. In the past few years, she held a banquet in Zhuangzi outside the city every quarter, and I don't know how many literati and artists have attracted it. It stands to reason that if she comes out at this time to interject and talk about a few words to provoke a topic that everyone cares about, Li Mu or Tian Xiu will not give her a little thin noodles. But it's also strange that tonight's Princess Nanyang is abnormal, sitting there silently and quietly, as if she is a child being taught in front of the teacher.

Li Mu, who was on the first seat, had a faint smile on his face, kept raising Zhan Yinghe, bowed his head and sipped his head to eat food, but he didn't talk much.

He is Nanyang and Chen Pu's teacher, although he has not taught them for a long time, he sees the old man at the age of three and knows them very well. Princess Nanyang is affectionate and sexual, and treating people and things is either great love or great hatred, and she often goes from one extreme to the other end of the world; Princess Changsha is usually very quiet, but in front of the people close to her, she always shows her naughty side, and sometimes she will tease others, but because she can't grasp the depth and shallowness, it is inevitable that she can't make people cry and laugh. So he knew very well that what Chen Pu did today was an unintentional mistake. If there were no others in the hall, everyone would laugh and reveal the matter. But today is different, there is also an inexplicable Shangzhu Guoying County Uncle during the banquet, who knows that this person is a temperament? In case any sentence is not suitable, the general overturns the table on the spot, then how will this night's banquet end? So he made up his mind to eat more and talk less. He raised the lamp with Chen Pu again and again. He felt that he was now doing the same tedious and tedious actions, day after day, year after year, like those brass brass in the timers he had made with his own hands......

Shang Cheng didn't dare to dip in liquor anymore, so he only drank imitation of the Sanle pulp in the former Tang Dynasty. This fruit brew has a sour taste, just like vinegar with alcohol, which is just used by him to relieve hangover.

Now, his wine has also woken up for five or six minutes, seeing that the two guests are polite and smiling, and the two hosts are either silent or unable to speak, so they picked up the lamp and compared it to Li Mu and Tian Xiu, took a sip and put down the lamp, and asked Li Mu: "I heard from someone before, Mr. Dingyi has been married at the foot of Taibai Mountain all these years?" ”

Shang Cheng is a general and a real knight, and he can't help but speak Li Mu. Li Mu stopped holding the bamboo chopsticks and returned the salute, with a humble smile on his face, and said, "I don't dare to be Ying Bo's evaluation." Over the years, I have indeed been concentrating on the Tao at the foot of Taibai Mountain, and I have gained a little. This time, his smile was genuine. Uncle Ying's evaluation of him is too high, so high that he can't accept it. The word "knot" comes from Tao Yuanming's "Drinking" in the Jin Dynasty, and the original sentence is "Knot Lu is in the human realm, and there is no noise of cars and horses", which faintly elevates Li Mu's identity to the status of a great hermit; also responded to the fact that Li Mu was recruited by the imperial court this time and had "chariots and horses" one by one, which shows that this is not Li Mu's residence where he left Taibai Mountain for the glory and wealth given by the imperial court, but it was really a last resort; This further reflects Li Mu's moral cultivation and talent, which are unforgettable, otherwise he would have "settled", how could there still be "noisy cars"?

In fact, Shang Cheng's mouth popped out of a "knot", but he was unintentional. He really didn't know how to describe Li Mu's cultivation, and he happened to remember Tao Yuanming's poems, so he casually pinched out two words. He didn't know if he was right to say this, and he was a little afraid of laughing generously. Seeing Li Mu smiling so happily, he knew that his horse was in the right position, so he said again: "Taibai Mountain is a good place. The highest mountain in the Central Plains, the main peak is almost 4,000 meters...... It seems to be the place where Zhang Guolao ascended to the immortals in the Eight Immortals, right? ”

Li Mu was a little ignorant of what he was doing. Taibai Mountain is the highest mountain in the Central Plains, where does this start; "Four thousand meters" is even more cloudy, foggy, and confused, and I can barely hear that "meter" is about a certain measure similar to "size"; Zhang Guolao seems to be a figure who later became an immortal, but he doesn't know what the origin is. His knowledge in miscellaneous studies was limited, so he looked at Tian Xiu with his eyes.

Tian Xiu groaned and said, "Zhang Guolao? Ying Bo pointed out, I'm afraid it's Zhang Guo, the Taoist of Tang Xuanzong, right? Is that the one who wrote the "Taishang Nine Heart Seal Sutra"? There are also four volumes of the "Treatise on the Daoist Body", two of which seem to be forgeries by later generations under their names. ”

"That's him." Shang Cheng said. He definitely can't recite Zhang Guo's works casually like Tian Xiu, but he has a vague impression that Zhang Guo is a native of the Tang Dynasty.

Tian Xiu ignored him and continued: "...... This should not be the man to whom Ying Bo was refer. I remember that there is a record in the "Grass Copy of the Grass Copy" of Fang Huang, a native of Xiangzhou in the previous dynasty, that Zhang Guo died in Jiaocheng in the first year of Tang Dezongzhen. Fang Huang's "Grass Copy" was written in the seventh year of Tang Xianzong's Yuanhe, which was only a few spring and autumn periods and only a dozen years long, so it should be credible. Therefore, what Ying Bo said about Zhang Guo's ascension is pure nonsense. After speaking, he lowered his head and picked up the vegetables. She was not angry that Shang Cheng would not distinguish between male and female and ask about her whereabouts everywhere, so she specially cut a paragraph into two paragraphs, waiting for Shang Cheng to bump into him so that he would lose face. This is because Shang Cheng is kind to her, so she said it very vaguely.

Shang Cheng's face was a little red, and he didn't know how to answer. He could hear that there was a thorn in Tian Xiu's words. He was attracted by the articles in "Qingshan Manuscript" and wanted to get acquainted with Tian Qingshan, so he asked around; The bookstore owners who were found by him actually didn't know Tian Xiu themselves, but they had only heard that the book was written by Mr. Qingshan, and everyone explained the doctrine to him, which led him astray. He never thought that Tian Qingshan would be a woman, let alone that he would actually have the opportunity to know her a long time ago. However, now that he knows that Tian Xiu is Tian Qingshan, he has no idea of making friends, after all, he is a woman. It is not a problem for Li Dingyi to know Li Dingyi, who is a reckless man in his own army, and at most he is belittled by a few words of vassal elegance behind his back; But if you entangle Tian Qing, it will be a big problem, it is light to say that you are greedy and lustful, maybe the whole Shilin will spit on herself. He doesn't have anything to do, and he can't take a basin and slam it on his head, right?

Li Mu also heard Tian Xiu's words hidden in the front, and couldn't help but laugh in his heart. But Shang Chengcai flattered him, and he had a little good impression, and he was too embarrassed to teach him, so he relieved him and said: "Listening to what Uncle Ying said, it seems that he is no stranger to Taibai Mountain. Have you been there before? ”

"Walk through it." Shang Cheng said. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He now thinks that Li Mu is a really good person, much better than Tian Qingshan's small-bellied guy. This man is worth associating!

Li Mu glared at Shang Cheng waiting for his next step. But Shang Chengcheng stopped talking after saying a word, which made him a little unable to get off the stage. He kindly handed over the ladder, Shang Yingbo should always say a few more things about the benefits of Taibai Mountain, and then echo a few words on the side, don't you expose this embarrassing thing? Why is Uncle Ying so stupid, and he can finish with a sentence of "go through once"?

Tian Xiu originally wanted to teach Shang Cheng a small lesson, but who knew that she would embarrass the teacher, so she had no choice but to pick up the conversation and then relieve the teacher: "This time I went to Chang'an in a hurry, and I couldn't spare time to enjoy the Taibai winter scene." However, the last time I went to visit the teacher, the scenery in the mountains is rare to see elsewhere. In particular, the ridge that is as sharp as a blade, and the heavenly river that is displayed in a chaotic stone, can be called 'the beautiful scenery of the world'. ”

Chen Pu saw that everyone was talking word by word, whether it was hidden or not, the atmosphere in the banquet was always gradually lively, so he asked happily: "What does Shihe look like?" ”

"I can't say well." Tian Xiu said, "The teacher has been there for several years, and it must be more touching." ”

Li Mu finally got out of trouble. He smiled and said, "The origin of the stone river has long been unscrupulous. The river is dozens of zhang wide, nearly several miles long, rushing down from the peak beam, like the Milky Way landing. The boulders between the rivers are either as big as a poor bucket, or as small as a mountain plate, sharp and rugged and miscellaneous. The riverbed is also accompanied by gravel on all sides, the big one is like a strong cow and a crouching tiger, and the small one is not as starry as the night sky, either near or far, or sparse or dense. Looking at this magnificence from the bottom of the mountain, the vast and vast and misty, the straight people muttered that the earth was too wide one day and one day, and it was so much? ”

Except for Shang Cheng, everyone else here is learning to read ancient books since enlightenment, Li Mu casually is a gorgeous rhetoric, everyone is fascinated by it, and the spectacular atmosphere of Taibai Mountain and Shihe described in the chapter makes them yearn for it. Only Shang Cheng seemed to understand it, and he was frowning his brows and pondering what the words "good and good" were, and what they meant, so he heard Tian Xiu ask him: "Uncle Ying has also been to Taibai Mountain, and he must have seen Shihe." You even know the extraordinary thing like Zhang Guo Dengxian, you must also know the origin of this stone river, right? ”

He replied casually: "That's a Quaternary glacial remnant." ”

This is really a shocking statement. Chen Pu and Tian Xiu looked at each other, one stunned and the other flustered, not knowing what to say. Mr. Dingyi is a well-known figure in the world, actuarial science and geography, just said that the origin of the stone river can not be verified, Shang Chengcheng concluded what kind of ruins of the river, is it that this Shangzhu country should be a county in addition to leading troops to fight, also have the ability to penetrate the world? Only Nanyang lowered his eyebrows and lowered his eyes, his expression was calm, and there was absolutely no surprise on his face, everything should be like this! Although Mr. Dingyi is her teacher, how can the teacher be on the same topic as Mr. Yu Missing!

Li Mu's eyebrows furrowed. He is completely different from what Tian Xiu has learned, Tian Xiu has long been proficient in miscellaneous news, but he is good at art. Although he didn't understand what Shang Cheng said, he could see that Shang Cheng's words were not nonsense, but had their origins. Linked to the Taibai Mountain that Shang Cheng said just now is the main peak of the highest mountain in the Central Plains of nearly 4,000 meters, the two correspond to each other, and he was immediately a little moved. He arched his hand on the seat and said: "Ask again: there is a sharp ridge like a blade on Taibai Mountain, sharp and abrupt; There are several ice pools in the mountains, each dozens of zhang wide and hundreds of feet deep, and the water in the pond has not dried up for thousands of years, according to what Shang Gong has seen, and this is also ......" He really couldn't remember what Shang Cheng just said was.

Shang Cheng felt a headache when he heard him speak, and seeing that he was a little stammered, he helped him finish his words: "It's a Quaternary glacier." One by one, you're right, those are glacial relics. The horn peaks, the blade ridges, the stone rivers, and the few on the mountains, I remember, seem to be seven or eight, and the seven moraine lakes are all glacial landforms caused by glacial movements. ”

Li Mu seemed to have a toothache, and took a breath of cool air. He is a native of Chang'an, and there are people in the family who are in business, so his family is very good, and he often travels when he is young, and he has almost walked around Chang'an, of course, he knows that the situation up and down Taibai Mountain is different from everywhere near and far. A few years ago, the reason why he resigned and returned to his hometown to live in seclusion at the foot of Taibai Mountain was that on the one hand, he wanted to study knowledge, and on the other hand, he wanted to find out why the shape of Taibai Mountain was different from Zhongnan Mountain and Qinling Mountains. But after years of meditating, I didn't have a clear idea. How do you know that as soon as I returned to Beijing, I met a strange Shangzhu country in the disciple's mansion, and like him, I also researched and discussed all kinds of unusual things about Taibai Mountain, and I felt like a confidant.

He sat upright in his chair, and then arched his hand and said, "Ask Shang Gong again, what is this Quaternary glacier?" ”

Shang Cheng frowned. He didn't learn this, and the little bit of superficial geographical knowledge in his head was not only scattered, but he didn't know whether it was right or wrong, and where he could teach others. He had to say apologetically, "I can't say much either." ”

Li Mu directly regarded his words as humility, and then he didn't want to teach people with "a family with a broom and a thousand gold", so he stood up and saluted respectfully, and said: "Su sincerely asks for advice, and I hope that Mr. can solve Su Yi's confusion for decades." ”

Chen Pu and Tian Xiu were both shocked. They couldn't understand what Li Mu and Shang Cheng said, but they knew very well what kind of person Li Mu was. Li Mu's title of great Confucian is just the praise of others, in fact, the rhetoric of the article is just an ordinary jinshi, but his attainments in arithmetic and astronomy are among the best today. is such a person, suddenly left his seat to give Shang Cheng a big salute, obviously what Shang Cheng said about glaciers and other absurd and strange things is not nonsense......

Shang Cheng hurriedly got up and returned the salute and said, "It's not that I don't say it, it's that I really don't know." ”

"That Shang Gong has just ...... all kinds of land in Taibai Mountain Earth...... Landform! Li Mu "sighed" a few times, and finally remembered this word. He couldn't help but admire in his heart, "landform", the appearance of geography, is indeed appropriate! “…… Shang Gong knows the origin of various landforms well, so he can't lie to me, right? "I'm afraid that Shang Cheng won't give him all the advice, so he simply buttoned a big hat to Shang Cheng's head first, and if he doesn't point out, you're lying and coaxing, you're a villain!

"I can't really tell." Shang Cheng was also in a hot sweat. He cursed himself in his heart, damn it, this wine is really not to drink too much; Drinking is a mistake! Drink with someone, how did you drink to the Quaternary glacier? "I know something about Taibai Mountain......

That's enough! Li Mu immediately turned his sorrow into joy, directly picked up a bottle of Huo's liquor, poured one for Shang Cheng full, and then poured it for himself, picked up the lamp and said: "This lamp is a general who respects the general, and the generals sent troops and horses to the country. However, the power of the general, the sonic shock of the river and the fame of the Beihai, and the banner under his command to raise the snow......" is another large eulogy of essays. He did it purely on purpose. He had already seen that Shang Cheng was not familiar with the slightly more quaint rhetoric at all, and often had to frown and think about a word for a long time, so he specially concocted such an article that even he didn't know what to do to teach him to be confused, and then persuade him to drink when he was confused.

“…… Because of this, Su Bucai, please be the general's life. I don't dare to say anything else, but General Zhuang is prestigious! ”

A sonorous article came to an end, and Li Mu solemnly held it up.

Shang Cheng had already been dizzy when he heard it, and when he saw him serving wine, he hurriedly picked up the lamp, raised his head and drank it, and saw that Li Mu was about to come over with a clay bottle and pour it for himself, so he hurriedly waved his hand to stop it, and said anxiously: "No need to pour it again!" I recruit, I recruit all! I can't recruit it? ”

Li Mu raised his head and laughed: "Zida is really a wonderful person!" Haha, wonderful man! Chen Pu and Tian Xiu looked at each other. There was originally a little mustard on the banquet, but it also drifted away with Shang Cheng's joke.

Shang Cheng said: "Since Mr. Dingyi ......"

"I don't dare to take the word sir. You can call me one. Li Mu interrupted him.

“…… This is the origin of the horn peak and the blade ridge. Shang Cheng dipped his hand in some wine, casually drew the simple shape of the glacier on the table, and then kept wiping and smearing, relaying the little bit of glacier movement and characteristics he knew. How did the horn peaks come about, how did the blade ridges form, what about the cirque and glacial troughs, and the glacial accumulation landforms...... The Chen sisters and Tian Xiu, who gathered in front of the case, all seemed to understand what they didn't understand. But Li Mu has been on Taibai Mountain for a few years, and these landforms are very clear, comparing the truth of Shang Cheng with what he has seen and heard, and he immediately keeps nodding his head one by one, right and wrong, at least this truth can sweep away all his doubts.

He dragged the chair of Nanyang next to him, sat down and said, "I heard just now that this Quaternary glacier occurred 40,000 years ago......

"It's not." Shang Cheng shook his head and interrupted him. How could Quaternary glaciers occur tens of thousands of years ago? "The glacial remnants of Taibai Mountain were left from about 40,000 to 10,000 years ago, but this is only the closest ice age to us in the Quaternary glaciers. Quaternary glaciers were first seen at least a few million years ago, and they were divided into several glacial and interglacial periods......" he dipped in wine and wrote "glacial period" and "interglacial period" on his desk.

Chen Pu and Nanyang both felt incredible when they heard this number. But Li Mu and Tian Xiu felt that they could barely understand. At least they can find the corresponding theory—there is a cloud in the ancient book "vicissitudes of life", which is about slow and huge changes. Li Mu was even more proficient in astronomy, and when observing celestial phenomena, he found many places that were not in harmony with the astronomical records of the ancients. Although the changes were so subtle that ordinary people could hardly notice them, he still wondered if the stars in the sky were moving, and the celestial phenomena themselves had also changed. This point is similar to the million-year changes that Shang Cheng said, and they are all appalling......

Thinking of the stars and celestial phenomena, he suddenly remembered a puzzled point when he read the "Astronomical Chronicles" of the past dynasties, and asked, "Zida, I still have something unclear. "Huainanzi" said, 'There is a black in the day', what does this mean? Afraid that Shang Cheng wouldn't understand, he also wrote these five words on the table with wine.

Shang Cheng shook his head. There is a crow in the sun, who knows what it means?

"There is also a record in the "Five Elements Chronicles" of the "Book of Han", "In the first year of Heping, March has not been, the sunrise is yellow, there is black gas as big as money, and it is in the center of the sun", what does it mean?"

Shang Cheng still shook his head. He was a graduate student in the Department of Philosophy, not a graduate student in the Department of Astronomy, so how did he know what it was like to have black gas in the sun. Maybe it's the sun and his old man is angry? Yes, there is only a dark spot on the sun's face, which should not be angry, but has a spot. It's easy to do, use the spot cream.

Li Mu's academic attitude is rigorous, and there is nothing to say. But he is not a nerd who studies hard, he has been an official in the court for ten years, although he has not learned much in the officialdom, but he still has the means. At the moment, I didn't say anything more, got up and picked up the wine bottle, coughed and prepared to make another great Fu of the Han Dynasty......

Shang Cheng's head was still dizzy, how could he dare to teach him to write another article, not to mention that Li Mu was still carrying a wine bottle in his hand, obviously he was about to pour wine after piling up the rhetoric. He was afraid of this famous man in the Central Plains, why was he dazzled just now, and he secretly praised this guy for being a good person? But he really didn't know what kind of bird was in the sun, so he had to guess and coax and say, "I think it might be sunspots......

Then he can only explain what a sunspot is, then what a star is, and then what a corona is......

Li Mu couldn't understand the sunspots and stars, and it was strange that he actually accepted the corona's statement. Six years ago, he observed a total solar eclipse in Taibai Mountain, and when the sky and the earth were dark, he was amazed to see the slightest wisps of light on the edge of the sun, and finally understood why the solar eclipse recorded in ancient books sometimes said that "it looks like a soup boiling". Now listening to Shang Chengyi talk about the corona, he immediately understands the reason. He even thought that since Shang Cheng's truth about the corona was right, what about sunspots, was it right or wrong? There is also the statement that the sun is a star, is it true or false? Although he has not yet been able to prove these truths, years of astronomical observations have taught him that at least Shang Cheng's statement that the sun is a star and is the solar system makes him feel very awkward and difficult to accept that the statement that the sun is the center of the solar system is likely to be true. The five stars of gold, wood, water, fire, and earth all revolve around the sun, and this truth must explain the many questions that have arisen in the observation of celestial phenomena from the pre-Qin period to the present......

The more they talked, the more lively they became, Chen Pu, Nanyang and Tian Xiu, but they were all like listening to heavenly books. Fortunately, they also have a lot of topics to talk about. So they sat on the other side of the banquet, got together and muttered about the things they cared about, and left aside Li Mu, the former Shaoqing of the Taishi Bureau, and Shang Cheng, the Shangzhuguo who was very promising to be transferred to Ren Zhengqing of the Taishi Bureau.

This banquet was eaten until the fourth watch, and the guests and hosts dispersed happily.

At the time of parting, Li Mu, whose face was full of purple swelling, took Shang Cheng's hand and repeatedly asked him to talk to the military department as soon as possible, so that this wealthy yamen could approve a sum of money to burn the kind of colored glass that was said to be "colorless and transparent", so that he could make a new "heavenly viewing instrument" according to the method that Shang Cheng told him.

Shang Cheng, who was so drunk that he couldn't even step on the stirrup, promised him with a big tongue, and when the military department opened in the New Year, he would go to find a few Shangshu waiters, and he would have to take out thousands of hundreds of people who would run out one by one, and no one could treat him badly, right?

As for how to burn the glaze, Tian Xiu, who is very accomplished in miscellaneous studies, came up with an idea. She herself remembered the records of various firing glaze since the Han and Tang Dynasties, and there were also government and private workshops in Beijing that were burning this kind of thing, and it was completely possible for the workshops of the Ministry of Industry to do this, as long as the general was willing to play the banner to rub shoulders with the Ministry of Industry.

"No problem!" Shang Cheng was still looking for stirrups with a pair of drunken eyes, and after listening to Tian Xiu's words, he slapped his chest vigorously and said very boldly, "I'll go find the Ministry of Industry!" Chang Wenshi owes me a favor, he dared not let me burn the glass, delaying the good thing of Ding Yi's brother, I will go to his house to make trouble! "He finally climbed on horseback.

Tian Xiu pursed her lips and smiled, and then bowed goodbye to them with Chen Pu and Nanyang.

It wasn't until the two of them walked away that the three women returned to the princess's mansion. They have rarely gotten together over the years, so the topic can't be finished......