Mei Xiaohan felt that the child in front of him was not simple, but he dared to act boldly, so he laughed and said: "It seems that you are quite adventurous!" ”

"I'll ask you a few questions, and if you can answer them, you'll have the choice of what you want here."

The young man's eyes widened, expressing disbelief, and said, "What does Master Mei say?" ”

Mei Xiaohan smiled and said, "Words count!" ”

So Mei Xiaohan gave him a math problem, which should be a very common problem in the eyes of modern middle school students, but it is still a little difficult for these children who have never been to school.

Mei Xiaohan said: "One person bought 5 cucumbers." 9 eggs, 3 bundles of greens, 4 garlic, a bag of vinegar, soy sauce, salt, and 2 catties of water chestnuts, how much did this person spend in total? Cucumber: 1 fast one, egg: 5 cents a piece, green vegetables: 2 fast 3 bundles, garlic: 5 cents a piece, vinegar: 2 fast five day bag of soy sauce: one piece of five five bags of salt: two pieces of a bag of water chestnut: 3 fast one catty"

Mei Xiaohan originally thought that this question would be a teenager, but she didn't expect the teenager to answer it quickly.

"Looks like you're pretty smart!"

The boy said: "My father was a businessman, and he taught me to be careful since I was a child, and I have read nine chapters of arithmetic. ”

The author of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" is no longer available. It is generally believed that it has undergone additions and revisions from generation to generation, and gradually became the definitive version today, and Zhang Cang and Geng Shouchang of the Western Han Dynasty have made additions and sortings, and it has generally become a definitive version at that time. The last book was written in the early Eastern Han Dynasty at the latest, and most of the ones that are circulating today are in the fourth year of Emperor Jingyuan of Wei Yuan (263) during the Three Kingdoms period, and Liu Hui made annotations for the "Nine Chapters".

It is the first mathematical treatise of Han Chinese scholars in ancient times, and it is the most important of the "Ten Books of Calculation", which was written around the first century AD.

The content of "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic" is very rich, the whole book adopts the form of a collection of questions, and contains 246 application problems related to production and life practice, among which each question has a question (question), an answer (answer), a technique (the steps to solve the problem, but there is no proof), some are one question and one technique, and some are multiple questions and one technique or one question and multiple techniques. These problems are subordinated to the nine chapters of Fangtian, Corn, Decay, Shaoguang, Shanggong, Average Loss, Surplus Deficiency, Equation and Pythagorean according to their nature and solution.

The offspring of a businessman must have a different mind. It seems that both ancient and modern people are Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

Mei Xiaohan suddenly became interested in this child, one because of his arithmetic ability, and the other because of his courage.

"You're special, but I like you a lot!"

After Mei Xiaohan's words, the young man knelt on the ground and said, "I am willing to follow Master Mei!" ”

At a young age, he speaks appropriately and quite decently, which is really rare.

Although Mei Xiaohan left school early, she has never let go of studying, she used to study for further education, but now she studies and reads more to increase her knowledge and pay more attention to reality. Therefore, he has read a lot of Tang poems and Song Ci, and he will also memorize a lot of famous Tang poems and Song Ci.

"What Tang poems have you read?"

Speaking of the Tang Dynasty, everyone is most familiar with Li Bai, and even elementary school students know that Li Bai is a drunkard.

His very famous silent night poem: The bright moonlight in front of the bed is suspected to be frost on the ground. Raise your head to look at the bright moon and bow your head to think of your hometown. Even uneducated people will say a few words.

Li Bai is so famous that he can be said to be the representative of the entire Tang Dynasty.

If Li Bai is the representative of the Tang Dynasty, then the representative of the Song Dynasty is Su Dongpo. But at this time, there is still a long time before Su Dongpo was born, and if Mei Xiaohan recites Su Dongpo's poems, it will be considered original.

The demeanor of the Tang Dynasty and the style of the Northern Song Dynasty are most vividly displayed in Li Bai and Su Dongpo.

In terms of pursuing freedom and being heroic and uninhibited, Li Bai and Su Dongpo do have many similarities. However, a careful comparison will show that the personalities and attitudes of the two are significantly different.

Li Bai has a real wild aura on his body. In his consciousness, it seems that everything is at his fingertips, and he is full of a high degree of self-confidence, or rather conceit, in himself.

His arrogant personality makes him have far more fantasies than reality in his attitude towards life. And these can make his poems full of romanticism, but they can't achieve his fame.

Li Bai is a man with great political ambitions. He naively and fanatically pursued his ideals, and wrote hard to write "I am born to be useful", "There will be a time when the wind and waves will be long, and the clouds and sails will be in the sea", "I hate to hang a long rope in the blue sky, and tie this to the white sun of the west", which strongly showed the urgency and urgency of pursuing fame.

The poet of the Tang Dynasty had a positive and enterprising attitude towards life, which was idealized in him. As a person with a strong sense of fame, he was neither willing to take the road of entering the imperial examination, nor did he want to join the army, but only pinned his hopes on the meeting of the wind and clouds, and always fantasized about "leveling the princes", "one Kuang world" and "standing up to the prime minister", and after establishing a world-famous career, he retired and returned to the rivers and lakes.

Naïve and fanatical ideals and unrealistic actions led to Li Bai's pursuit of life and his inability to make a difference in politics after all.

On the one hand, Li Bai "bought the boat for wine and Baiyunbian", free and arrogant; On the other hand, he "raised a glass to eliminate sorrow and sorrow", and his worries were vast and irresolvable. Behind the joy and wandering, it is difficult to hide a heart full of pain and loss.

"Don't be too white to dream of the sun, but also have fun with the talent on the pool." Su Dongpo does not appreciate Li Bai's surrealist outlook on life. He also often calls himself a "madman", although he is also a talented man and pursues freedom, but Su Dongpo takes a completely different path from Li Bai.

Although Li Bai and Su Dongpo also did not meet each other, Su Dongpo was more determined and forbearant than Li Bai.

Su Dongpo honestly participated in the imperial examination and finally became an important minister of the imperial court. Under the layers of constraints, "a belly is out of place", but he can never leave behind the sense of responsibility of the scholar doctor who "the king's life is heavy, and the courtiers are here".

Even if he was repeatedly rejected, attacked, and belittled later, he never had the cry of "An Neng broke his eyebrows and bent his waist to the powerful" in the buried, but did what he could, and did many practical things that were beneficial to the society and the people.

is also in pursuit of freedom, Su Dongpo is more able to let go of fame and focus on life than Li Bai.

In order to dispel his sorrows, Li Bai chose to wander freely, but while traveling through the great rivers and mountains, "the floating clouds can cover the sun, and Chang'an does not make people sad."

It is precisely because of the inability to truly let go of the heart that throughout his life, he is in a state of sorrow and indignation. And Su Dongpo can be at peace and enjoy himself with what he encounters, reflect freedom on reality, and settle in the bits and pieces of life. Hangzhou, Mizhou, Huangzhou, Huizhou, Danzhou...... Although the state of life at the end of the world is not what he wants, every corner has left his chic and comfortable figure.

Li Bai and Su Dongpo, two people with different styles, have one thing in common, that is, they like to drink very much. But compared to Li Bai, Mei Xiaohan prefers Su Dongpo.

Compared with Su Dongpo, Li Bai seems more debauched, like a child who will never grow up, the world that Li Bai fantasizes about does not exist in reality, and what he thinks is too practical. But Mei Xiaohan is different, he is a very practical person, he hopes to be able to grasp what he can grasp and fight for what he can.

It's just that he seems to have heard the first storm again:

"Don't listen to the sound of the forest beating the leaves, why not chant and walk slowly. Bamboo cane shoes are lighter than horses, who is afraid? A cloud of smoke and rain is Ren Ping's life.

The steep spring breeze blows the wine and wakes up, slightly cold, and the mountain is obliquely shining but welcomes. Looking back at the bleak place, there is no wind and rain and no sunshine. ”

Only Su Dongpo has such a state of mind, and at this moment, this state of mind that is neither windy nor sunny makes him quite infected.

Because when a person gradually grows up and faces more and more things, he can no longer think about "walking at the end of the world and being at ease". Because from this moment on, Mei Xiaohan is no longer a person, behind him is a large family, a village, and a whole city.

He is the backer of this village, he is the backer of this city, he can't fall, so he must stand firmer.