Confucius traveled eastward, saw two children arguing, and asked why.

One son said: "I go near at the beginning of the sunrise, and I am far away in the middle of the day." ”

A son said: "The beginning of the day is as big as a car cover, and the middle of the day is like a plate, this is not for the far small and the near is big?" ”

Yi'er said: "The beginning of the day is cool and cool, and the middle of the day is like a soup, which is not hot for the near and cold for the far?" ”

Confucius couldn't decide, and the two children smiled and said: "Who knows more about you?" ”

The scorching sun, the sunlight that shone on the distant backs of Wang Datie and the others, almost at the same moment, was also shining on

On the roof of the pergola in the courtyard of the Huang family, more than a dozen children were sitting cross-legged at this time, listening to Huang Jie tell them the allusions of the two children's debate.

After reading the original text, Huang Jie put down the book in his hand, looked at the children, repeated the story in the vernacular, and then asked, "So that you see, is this day near or far?" ”

After a while, the youngest Yang Zaixing raised his hand, Huang Jie signaled him to answer, Xiao Yang Zaixing said: "It must be far away, when I was at home, I saw the sunrise in the east in the morning, and then I went to Dongshan with my father to hunt at night, and saw the sunrise in the east mountain behind the mountain, so I asked my father, where is the sun hidden in the night, and my father does not know." ”

Huang Jie smiled and nodded, but read another ancient passage: "The ancients had a famous person who praised his father, day by day." Over thousands of mountains, across thousands of waters, not self-measured. Drinking the river is insufficient, taking Daze but not coming, and dying on the way. That is to say, in ancient times, there was a god named Kuafu, and he also encountered the problem of whether the sun was far or near, so he went to chase the sun, but he climbed many mountains and crossed many rivers, but he still couldn't catch up, and finally died of thirst in a place called Daze. ”

When the children heard this, they all thought it was interesting, Huang Tietou scratched the beads of sweat on his head and asked: "Young master, how far away is this day, why is it hot in the summer, and the father is also stupid, but he dares to chase the sun, and he deserves to die of thirst." ”

Huang Jie smiled and thought about it, but his heart moved, first remembered the rhetoric and teachings of the old man and the master, and then remembered the statement in the strange dream, after comparing the two, he found that the later life in the strange dream was more reliable.

However, the children didn't know how many things had passed in Huang Jie's mind during the time when he seemed to be slightly stunned, and after Huang Jie thought about it, he smiled and said: "This Taoist saying that heaven and earth are like hanging eggs." The earth is like a chicken, with a diameter of 25,500 miles from east to west, 25,200 miles from north to south, and 800 miles from the height of the sky, like a chicken's shell. ”

Seeing that Huang Jie casually reported such a number, the children naturally believed it and silently wrote it down, anyway, this kind of data is meaningless to a group of children.

But Huang Tietou still scratched his head and said, "Young master, I asked how far away the sun is from us." ”

Huang Jie still replied with a smile: "The world where we live is also called Qiankun, like chickens. The sun is also known as the golden crow, also like a chicken, the distance between the two is about 320 million miles, of which the summer day is the farthest apart, about 330,000 miles, and the winter day is the closest, about 31,500 miles. ”

If someone with some knowledge hears such an answer, they are afraid that they will be so shocked that they will be completely speechless, or they will scold Huang Jie for talking nonsense, but the children all believe it and don't think that the answer given by Huang Jie is too surprising.

Instead, Xiao Yang Zaixing raised his hand again and said, "Young Master, I don't know how big the sun is?" ”

Huang Jie thought about it sideways, but said: "The diameter of the golden crow is about one hundred and nine times the size of Qiankun, that is, multiplying the diameter of Qiankun by one hundred and nine, but you can calculate how much it should be?" ”

The children have a plate in front of them with a thin layer of flour, and after shaking the flour evenly, they use a piece of bamboo scraper to wipe it down, which is a good writing board. ”

Although the other children were slow to calculate, they were not disturbed, they all counted separately, and in the last inspection, they found that only Huang Shi, Huang Qilang and Xiao Yang Zaixing had miscalculated, and the worst was Huang Shi, who actually cheated on the column calculation formula, and copied the answer reported by Huang Yuniu to the horse's mouth.

According to the rules, Huang Jie hit him ten times with a bamboo board, and then hit Seventeen Lang and Xiao Yang Zaixing five times each, and corrected their mistakes, and then said: "This kind of large number can follow the rules of rounding, and it is set at 2.8 million miles." However, if you meet someone more real in the future, you still need to tell him the exact number, but you can write them down? ”

The children all wrote it down, but Xiao Yang Zaixing still raised his hand again and said, "Young Master, why is this sun the farthest away from us in the summer days, but the closest in the winter days?" I can't figure out how the sun is hot like a fire, it should be close to the heat, and it is not hot from the distance. ”

Huang Jie didn't expect that although this little Yang Zaixing was still young, his brain was flexible, and he actually found a mistake or omission that other children had not discovered, and after thinking about it, he replied: "I also think that this is a strange statement, I think that it must be that the ancestor wrote it wrong, but then I thought that the ancestor may not be able to write it wrong, and there may be a reason for the ancestor to write it like this, but I still can't understand the truth, but this kind of problem, Zaixing also think about it, how about it?" ”

Xiao Yang Zaixing listened, nodded and memorized it firmly.

At this time, he heard someone coughing, Huang Jie turned his head to look, but found that he didn't know when the eaves in the courtyard were full of people, but he was in the direction of Huang Jie's back, and he was concentrating on teaching, but he didn't find it.

Looking at the time, it was also time to rest, so Huang Jie let go of the children's wind, and invited everyone to sit down in the pergola, and said with a smile: "Why are you here today?" ”

When everyone sat down in the pergola like students, Huang Jie looked at them one by one, the first row was the four elders of the Sun family, the second row was Lei Bao, Sun Li, Sun Xin and Yang Huai, the third row was Zhu Gao, Zhang He, Hu Ren and Yang Zongbao, and the fourth row was Sun Qiniang and Gu Xiong.

At the moment, except for Gu Xiong, who is still a little rusty, the rest are old men. This Gu Xiong is one of the six heroes that Lu Er found last time, he was originally the commander of the Quanzhou Naval Division, and he was degraded because of his crimes, so he was recruited by Lu Erxun, and now he happened to stay in Huangzhou to train sailors for the Huang family's fleet, but he was invited over for some reason.

Among the six heroes who came back from Lu Erxun last time, Chang Wu, Song Fu and Tang Wang, who were born in Yilongzhai, are now leading the fleet with Lu Er to carry goods in Quanzhou, and Cao Cheng and Gong Laoqi are in Hangzhou and Quanzhou respectively to take care of the shops under Huangjiapan.

They all sat down, but no one answered, only Lei Leopard read something in pieces, and if you listened carefully, you could hear what he said: "There are 25,500 miles of things in Qiankun, and the ancestral rate of times is exactly 80,000 miles?" It's not bad with what "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" says! ”

Seeing that this battle was so big, Huang Jie was also inexplicable, so he looked at Sun Li, but Sun Li looked at his nose and nose and heart, and sat still.

When he was wondering, Uncle Sun Qi smiled and said: "I just came, and I saw that Da Lang was teaching, so I listened to it. So the old man thought about it, thinking that the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty were no more than 3,000 miles across and 4,000 miles vertical, but he said that there were 10,000 people living there. Not to mention the future, at present, there are Qingtang people and party members in the west eyeing me in the Great Song Dynasty, and there is a hungry wolf of the Liao Kingdom entrenched in the north, occupying my Huaxia Jinou, and the feud for a hundred years, if these birds are really killed, I don't know how rotten flesh and blood the old man can kill a few thieves and save a few good people? ”