Chapter 11: The Uninvited Guest
In the Lang court, Ximen Hua, Wu Suan, and Sai Qian continued:
"Alas...... The princes are not able to make a living, when will it be a head? ”
Ximenhua sighed, Wu Xuan disagreed:
"The division and unity of the world is a doom of heaven, and it cannot be violated. As mortals, we have spent our lives learning and applying what we have learned to be the right way, and we must not go against the sky and move against the trend. ”
"Master Wu Shu helped people build boats and armor, isn't it a disaster for the people, so it is not against the trend?" Ximenhua asked rhetorically.
"If the old man doesn't build the boat armor, no one else will build the boat armor? Will there be no more wars in the world? No, it is also offensive and defensive, and one eliminates the other. This is true of the Hai Dynasty, this is the case of the Chen Dynasty, and the same is true of the Hao Dynasty. Liang's vitality is about to run out, and the time is not far off. ”
Ximenhua and Wu Suan have different political opinions and have their own emphasis, and after talking for a while, Wu Suan suddenly lost color:
"Oh, how did the old man forget about this son."
Turning his gaze to Baili Yan, Wu Shu cut a knife from the piece of meat in the wooden plate of the Xi case, took off the piece of meat and handed it to Bai Li Yan:
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World does not eat meat?"
"I'm not hungry in this world, old gentleman, please use it slowly."
"Hehaha...... The children can be taught. The old man dares to ask His Royal Highness, which is more important than the hatred of the country and the family, can you think of a good answer to the old man. ”
Bai Liyan suddenly felt inexplicable, why did this old man suddenly ask about this, could it be that Bai Liyan's life experience just now, he wanted to deliberately test himself? Thinking of this, Bai Liyan pondered for a moment and said:
"The enmity of parents is not shared, and it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge for ten years. However, the danger of the family and the country is tied to the overnight, no country is no home, no home is rootless, the hatred of the country is greater than the family feud, and the country cannot be misled because of the family feud and harms the people, I don't know if the master can be satisfied. ”
"Hehaha...... Children can be taught, and children can be taught. Come on, come on, Ximen Deacon, Saiqian, I'll wait for a drink. ”
Wu Xuan only cared about laughing and drinking, and completely ignored Bailiyan, and Bailiyan wondered in his heart. I'm here to buy books, why did I get involved with this old guy for some reason.
While pondering, Wu Suan asked Ximenhua:
"Simon Deacon, what do you think of this son?"
"The future is immeasurable."
"Oh, what about you, what do you think?"
Wu Suan asked Sai Qian again, and Sai Qian picked up the knife to cut the meat and said:
"Try it and you'll find out."
The voice fell, and Sai Qian looked at Bailiyan:
"His Royal Highness, if you want to borrow the blood of the prince, can the prince give it will!"
As soon as Sai Qian said this, Bailiyan was stunned: "Obediently, you guys are crazy, I'm here to buy books, it's just a matter of making me happy, and I want to bleed."
Secretly said in his heart, Bailiyan looked at He Kuan, He Kuan shook his head at himself, he had no intention of stopping it, it seemed that He Kuan already knew the origin of these two, he didn't stop it, obviously He Kuan wanted to accept it himself.
Thinking of this, Baili Yan said:
"I don't know what this master means, can you make it clear."
"I only ask the prince if he wants to give the blood, and the other sons don't need to ask more."
"Anyway, how does the master take blood."
"Your Highness can stretch out your right thumb."
Bai Liyan complied and stretched out his right thumb. I saw Sai Qian holding his thumb, and the meat cleaver cut a hole in his thumb horizontally, and blood dripped to the ground along the wound, Bai Liyan's face was slightly bitter, but he didn't make a sound. The three of them watched the whole process, but no one stopped them, and Bailiyan became more and more puzzled.
After a short while, Sai Qian took out a gourd, sprinkled some yellow powder from it and smeared it on the wound, then tied a strip of cloth and sat back in his place.
At this time, Ximenhua and Wu Shudao:
"Master Wu Shu, what do you think?"
"Those who want to achieve great things must be wise and reasonable, so as to obtain the true meaning. What happens to this son depends on his creation. Ximen Deacon, the letter you promised should be given to His Royal Highness. ”
"Well, okay."
When the words fell, Ximen Hua stood up and turned to Bailiyan:
"His Royal Highness, please come with me!"
"Where is the West Gate Academy?"
"Take the book with the old man."
Bailiyan stood up and followed Ximenhua to get the book, and Wu Suan and Saiqian continued to drink rice wine and eat meat.
When walking to the school hall in the hospital, Ximenhua and Baili Yan said:
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World, wait a while, and the old man will come when he goes."
"Simon Deacon, please."
Bai Liyan saluted respectfully, and then watched the Ximen Academy go to the school. When he walked away, Bai Liyan asked He Kuan beside him:
"Uncle He, who are the two of you?"
"His Royal Highness the Prince doesn't know, the old man in yellow is not only a well-known master of the Gonggong School, but also a master of gunnery under the Yuke Sect, and he once single-handedly fought a hundred people with one gun and one gun without defeat."
"The Gonggong faction, the royal guest! What is the Gong Gong faction, and what is the royal guest. ”
"The Ligong faction is a great faction of hidden craftsmen, who are good at casting and smelting instruments, attacking and defending cities, and prospecting for treasures. The royal guest is also called the chivalrous, the chivalrous in the market, the royal guest is the gate of the chivalry, but all the royal guest masters, are called masters, and Sai Qian is the master of the gunnery in the royal guest. ”
"I see, then just now, Master Wu Shu, why did Yuke Saiqian cut off the thumb of this son?"
"This ...... The old man doesn't know, but there should be no malice. ”
He Kuan didn't know Wu Shu and Sai Qian's intentions, and Baili Yan didn't know four or six.
Soon after he was young, Ximenhua walked out of the school, holding a stack of books in his left hand, and holding a little girl in pink who was about the same age as Bailiyan in his right hand.
"Your Royal Highness, all the seven volumes of the "Literature of the Nations" are here, hand over the gold and silver to the bookmaker, and the palace of the prince can take it."
"Dare to ask the Simon Academy, why is this book not for sale?"
"This book is a grand masterpiece, the engraving is not easy, the printed copy is scarce, each volume is priceless, and I hope that the future generations will cherish it."
"Xie Ximen has been taught by the Academy, and this son should cherish it."
Ximenhua's meaning is very simple, it is not easy to print books, especially this set of large books with hundreds of pages, a set of engraving plates can not print much, so the number of such large books is very small, and the number is even less when it is distributed to each of the same books and the libraries and well-known private schools of various countries.
Subject to the limitations of the current printing technology, the engraving plates are still woodcut engravings, and there has not yet been copper engraving printing, let alone movable type printing, which means that the cost, cycle, and working hours of the whole woodcut printing are very long, and the life is very short.
So the thicker the book, the more expensive it is. Not selling to individuals and people who don't cherish it, of course, has become an inevitable rule.
Ximen Hua handed over the "Wenfan of the Nations" to He Kuan, and then took the hand of the girl on the side and introduced:
"His Royal Highness the Prince, this is the old man's granddaughter Ximen Yunfang, Yunfang, I haven't seen His Royal Highness the Prince."
Ximen Hua signaled, and Ximen Yunfang stepped forward and saluted:
"The little woman, Ximen Yunfang, has seen His Royal Highness the Prince."
"Oh...... Miss Simon is excused. ”
Bailiyan was flattered and hurried to return the gift.
I really don't know which one Ximenhua sang about, and he also pulled his granddaughter out, did he want to climb the high branches? No, I can't.
I am a declining aristocratic son, or the second son, I can neither be a king nor protect myself in the future, Ximenhua wants to be behind his legs so early, or is it a common phenomenon in this year?
While thinking about it, a loud call suddenly came from behind him:
"Miss Yunfang, Miss Yunfang is here!"
The voice was very loud, and everyone followed the prestige, only to see that where the door of the inner courtyard entered, a young man of 145 years with a sword under his waist and a bear, wearing a strong and stubborn momentum. Behind the young man was a column of fifty people in the palace forbidden army, and Bai Liyan recognized this person at a glance, it was the third son of the King of Jin, Ji Chang.
Ji Chang, sixteen years old, the third son of the King of Jin, Bai Li Yan memory, and his palace through the palace through the palace children's book has four years of intersection, Xi Chang in the age of fourteen, was put into the army experience, this person has a flamboyant personality, once led the cavalry from the crops to trample and gallop, whipping the people, it can be seen how arrogant it is.
Ji Chang broke into the inner courtyard without fear, his eyes swept left and right, and fell to Ximen Yunfang, who was dressed in pink, and a rainbow immediately appeared on his face:
"Miss Yunfang!"
Ji Chang stepped forward quickly, stayed close, but saw Baili Yan:
"Kikuni Proton!" Ji Changyi frowned, with disdain: "Why are you here!" ”
"Ask for a book, that's all. Jin Shizi please, this Shizi left. ”
"Wait!"
Ji Chang blocked Bailiyan's way:
"If it's just for books, why do you want to see Miss Yunfang!"
Ji Chang is violent, even arrogant, Bailiyan is inexplicable, not to mention that as soon as he said the last sentence, you jumped out, Ximen Yunfang is only nine years old, you are a fifteen or sixteen person, thinking about a girl, there is a pedophile.
Even if he thinks so in his heart, but the hero doesn't suffer the loss in front of him, this person is not easy to mess with, he is arrogant and unreasonable, and he can hide. Thinking of this, Bai Liyan carefully dealt with it and said:
"Ximen Deaconate and Miss Yunfang came to deliver the book to this son, that's all."
"If it's not true, my father will condemn the country, hum!" Ji Chang was aggressive, turned around and walked towards Ximenhua.
Ji Chang is a man who is flying and domineering, and the most arrogant of the three sons of the Jin State Lord Ji Wei, if there is a slight disobedience, he will be whipped and served with a military stick. It seems to have a square posture of governing the army, but it is actually an embroidered pillow and a bag of grass.
Ji Chang was last year with the army to the Jin State and Xian State border Chengguan service, just from the capital Pingtang to the Beihai Xian border, often marching and riding horses to be a month younger, back to a month. When he returned to Pingtang City this time, he had only stayed in the army for less than seven or eight months, and his return to the capital must be urgent.
However, as soon as I entered the city, I went straight to the Tongwen Garden, and this "urgent matter" was probably greatly discounted. Or is there a war going to be fought in the border city, and this guy simply became a deserter?
After a while, Bai Liyan and his entourage left quietly after handing over the gold and silver to the bookmaker, and when Xi Chang saw Ximenhua, it was like a changed person, and his face was pleasant, and he didn't see the tiger and wolf's face just now:
"Ximen Deacon, the juniors are courteous here."
"His Royal Highness the Prince of the World is exempt, presumably the Prince of the World is busy with military affairs, and it is not easy to come to the Tongshu Garden. Yun Fang. Ximen Hua motioned to Ximen Yunfang.
"Yun Fang is here, what does grandfather command?"
"Go, let your mother drink tea and pastries, and grandfather will talk to the son."
"Well, Yun Fang will go now."
Ximen Yunfang turned around and left, Ji Chang's eyes almost squeezed out of his sockets, and when Ximen Hua saw this, he immediately interrupted:
"Shizi, please."
"Oh, good ......"
Ji Chang's soul is not kept, obviously the soul has been taken away by Ximen Yunfang.
Walking on the way home with a book in his hand, He Kuan asked Bailiyan:
"Shizi, what Master Wu Shu asked before, why did Shizi answer so well, I don't know if Shizi can explain his doubts."
"Uncle He wants to ask the chickens and rabbits in the same cage, there are people in the door, and there are three questions on the wood."
"Exactly, the old man couldn't understand why His Highness answered so well."
"It's very simple to say, but if you really want to explain the truth, Uncle He may be difficult to understand the mystery for a while."
At best, the topics of Wu Arithmetic are below the difficulty of the second year of junior high school, and they should be mastered in the first year of junior high school or even the sixth grade of primary school.
In ancient times, the princes and nobles had superior conditions, and their children generally received education at an earlier age, beginning to read and write at the age of four or five.
Wu arithmetic questions for eight- or nine-year-old children are obviously deliberately making things difficult, even if they are the children of princes and nobles, they are more exposed to chewing words and how to behave as a person, be an official and be a powerful minister, and there are few opportunities to touch mathematics.
But after parasitism, Bailiyan is different, the former king of science, the undergraduate level of medical university mixed with a mathematics degree, how can this kind of pediatric problem stump him.