Cheng Qi carried the box and buckled the door knocker, and after a while, the door opened from the inside, and an old man with a gray head came out: "Xiao Langjun is back." ”

The old man said as he took the box in Cheng Qi's hand. Cheng Qi was accustomed to the days when there were people waiting for him wherever he went—it was really easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it was difficult to go from luxury to thrift—so he naturally handed over the bamboo and rattan box he was carrying. In "his" memory, this old man is also surnamed Cheng, and Cheng Qi calls him the third uncle. The third uncle is from Cheng Qi's grandfather's hometown, and because of some reasons, he has no support, so he defected to Cheng Qi and his grandfather, so he started as a domestic helper, and now he is basically inseparable from their family.

The third uncle followed behind Cheng Qi, and said to himself: "Xiao Langjun, don't you know, I heard that you had an accident in Huzhou, but you died in a hurry." If you don't say it, you don't dare to ask more......"

"Isn't that all right?" Cheng Qi's tone was relaxed and his pace was brisk, as if nothing had happened.

The old family followed behind and continued: "Later, I heard that Xiao Langjun was fine, everyone was really happy. When the lord came back, he also said that Xiao Langjun was righteous and brave, and the people who came to see the master praised Xiao Langjun as a young hero, but the family was very happy. But the master didn't allow everyone to talk about it...... I really don't understand why the old man thinks so. ”

Cheng Qi listened to the chatter of the third uncle, and there seemed to be a kind of kindness in his heart, which seemed to be a kind of love that only his own family had.

Although I haven't been here once, I have old memories of my body. He still found his study with ease.

"I've seen my father." Cheng Qi followed the rules of this era and kowtowed to his "biological father" sitting at the desk. Because Master Cheng is still the teacher of Guangde Zhili Prefecture, he can't easily leave his state and county. So Cheng Qi only saw his father once on the day he woke up, but seeing him again today, the father and son still felt extra cordial.

"What about your mother?"

"Returning to my father. At the invitation of the fourth aunt, my mother went to Putuo Mountain to worship incense. ”

Cheng Liang, who was sitting behind the desk, bowed slightly, and finally put down the scroll in his hand: "If you have an accident this time, you are most worried about your mother, and now that your body is recovering, she should also be relieved." You should be more filial to your mother in the future, and don't worry her too much, this is the filial piety of the son of man. ”

"Yes, my son remembered."

Cheng Liang handed him the book in his hand: "I heard that you haven't been idle these days and have written something." I asked someone to get a copy and read it. ”

Cheng Qi looked fixedly. Sure enough, the book in my father's hand was the first volume of "Smiling Proud Jianghu" that had just been listed in Jiangnan Bookstore. Cheng Qi couldn't help blushing a little, as if a child who had done something wrong had been caught by his parents.

Cheng Liang said: "Although the novelist's words are subtle skills, they see the big from the small, and the words and aspirations of the things are the right way of art and literature." In the past, Zhou had a national style, and the Han Dynasty set up a music house, all of which were based on folk tales to satirize the king. Nowadays, novelists are in vogue in the world, and although you are a reader, it is understandable to pay a little attention to this. Just don't delay your studies and waste the right path, and being a father is not a person who holds the handicapped. ”

Cheng Qi felt a burst of joy in his heart, but he didn't show too arrogant. After agreeing in a proper manner, he listened to Cheng Liang again: "Your cousin sent you a set of encyclopedias, dozens of pounds of things, it is estimated that it is enough for you to read for a while." I asked my family to put it in your study for you, go and take a look, and write a letter back to your sister, the number of courtesies is indispensable. ”

Cheng Qi hurriedly said a perfunctory sentence and then ran back to his study, and sure enough, as soon as he entered the door, he saw a paper package stacked on a low table with four bosses. He hurriedly brought scissors from his desk, and was about to unpack them with great interest. At this time, a young man rushed out of nowhere: "Xiao Langjun, let me come!" ”

Cheng Qi was startled, and when he looked at it, it turned out to be his teenage playmate Wu Liwei. Xiao Wu is the son of the Cheng family, his father's family is the long-term maid of the Cheng family for several lifetimes, and Wu Liwei's mother is also Cheng Qi's nurse.

"Ah Wei, I'm scared to death." Cheng Qi gestured in the air with scissors, and Wu Liwei was a little sneering; "Xiao Langjun, I'll do this kind of rough work."

Where can you do it, don't you know that the enjoyment of unpacking the express is second only to going to the Qinglou? Cheng Qi said in his heart, he preemptively cut the thin hemp rope on a package short: "This is not a rarity, look, look, look." The Great Encyclopedia of the Emperor and Song Dynasty - Part 1, History and Chronicles. ”

Wu Liwei interjected; "Xiao Langjun, don't you like to read history books the most, this book given to you by the little lady is sent to the heart."

Why does Cheng Qi like this clever young man so much. He picked up the first part of the thick four-volume book, put them aside, and as soon as he turned around, he saw that Wu Liwei had already opened the second package with his hands and feet.

"Ahh He screamed, feeling depressed. But at this point, I have to see what is inside this package.

"Part 3, Gewu and Technology." Wu Liwei touched the gilded imitation Song characters on the thick brown cardboard shell, and his eyes showed endless longing.

The remaining two packages contain the second part of All Things and the Universe and the fourth part of Art and Customs.

Each one has four volumes, Cheng Qi estimated, a book is about equivalent to eight books in later generations, the thickness is about twenty-five centimeters, and the weight of a book is about five catties, which really makes people feel the power of knowledge.

Cheng Qi picked up the first volume of "The First Part of History and Fang Zhi", "The Four Seas Atlas", moved it to the desk and read it curiously.

The concept of the "Encyclopedia of the Emperor and Song Dynasty" first appeared in the 19th year of Song Chunxi, and was compiled by the Fujian Art and Literature Museum with nearly 100 scholars from all over the world, and later the work was handed over to the directors of Luoyang Longmen Bookstore, Di De and Di Luo brothers. Thanks to their efforts, the first edition of the Encyclopedia of the Emperor and Song Dynasty was finally published in four volumes, the first of which collected the political history of Tessy from ancient Persia, ancient Greece and ancient Rome, as well as the oral history of black Africa, which was little known to the Chinese people. The second volume of the museum contains more than 6,000 detailed color books, including almost all the representative flora and fauna seen at that time. Under the core idea of atheism, the third volume of Gewujuan bravely introduces several materialist cosmology since ancient times, and dispels superstitions about astrology. The fourth volume is the Art and Literature Chronicles, which introduces the unique customs of various foreign worlds that the Song people had explored at that time.

The publication of the Encyclopedia of the Emperor and Song Dynasty was the peak of the Song Dynasty Enlightenment, which opened a new window to the world, changed many fictions about the outside of the territory from the braggadocio of a few sailors to easy-to-understand popular science texts, and introduced a lot of knowledge that was monopolized by a few people in the past to young people with a strong desire to learn in a fairly easy way, which played a role in enlightening the young people in the society at that time that could not be ignored.

Since then, the publication of encyclopedias has become the main business of Longmen Books, and today, the encyclopedia has evolved from four to sixteen volumes, and the introduction of the so-called "strange world" has become more and more sophisticated. Taking the first volume as an example, if the introduction of Greece and Rome in the first edition of the Encyclopedia was mainly based on the translation of the Persians and the paraphrasing of the Celestial merchants, this edition of the Encyclopedia is already based on the parchment scrolls of the National Archives of the Eastern Roman Empire, plus the tireless efforts of successive generations of "Western" scholars and the fieldwork and research records of archaeologists.

Cheng Qi is most curious about how this world has changed, and now in front of him is a "complete map of all countries in the world" that occupies almost the entire desk: on this map, the Great Song Empire is the center of the world, the east is the pale blue ocean (Pacific Ocean), and the other side of the ocean along the Andes is a series of colonies of the Song Kingdom. The southern part of the Song Sea is the South China Sea United States, which was formed with sixteen Song feudal states as the core, and the place he remembered as Singapore is now called Lingyamen, which is a small city-state.

Tianzhu is still not unified, but the East Tianzhu Development Company and the West Tianzhu Development Company are marked out in the official script.

To the west of the Great Song Dynasty was the Bactria Empire, whose territory stretched all the way to the so-called Baloch Province. The great Persian lion was the protectorate of the Xia people.

The vast area north of the Caucasus, all the way to the northern shore of the Black Sea, the rich Ukrainian plain, and the fertile plain of Eastern Europe, were the horse grazing lands of the great Liao Empire, which pressed on the heads of the Habsburgs in the posture of Mount Tai and acted as an offshore counterbalance between Byzantium and Ottoman: when the Ottomans were strong, the Liao went to encourage the Armenians and Kurds to rebel. And if the Byzantines recovered and wanted to subdue Anatolia, the Liao would cross the Danube and stab a stick in their chrysanthemums.