Chapter 564: How to Divide the Gold

readx;?“ Starting from the second question, the answer will be closed. Pen ~ fun ~ Ge www.biquge.info you need to write the answer on paper. Whoever hands in the paper first and gets it right wins. Once you have given your answers, you can't go back. ”

Fu Youcheng sat upright and read out the questions and rules aloud. In order to avoid the drawbacks of rushing to answer and plagiarism, the two decided to take the form of written answers after discussion. After reading the question, Fu Youcheng squinted his eyes slightly and asked Song Qi and Ximen Yu. "Do you understand?"

"Got it!" The two of them rarely answered in agreement.

Fu Youcheng asked people to prepare a table for the two of them, and the four treasures of the study were prepared on the table. Ximen Yu sat behind the desk, holding a pen in one hand, pressing the paper, waiting for Fu Youcheng to announce the question, and then began to answer the question. Song Qi sat calmly behind the table, looking at Fu Youcheng with his eyes.

Fu Youcheng read aloud: "The second question is: A rich man has accumulated seventeen gold bricks, and when he makes a will on his deathbed, let his three sons divide the seventeen gold bricks in the following proportions: the eldest son gets one-half, the second son gets one-third, and the third son gets one-ninth. The will emphasizes that the gold bricks must not be cut. After the death of the rich man, the three sons divided the gold bricks according to their father's will, but no matter how they divided, some people were not satisfied. In the end, the three people sued the county government. If you were a county magistrate, how would you divide the seventeen gold bricks among your three sons? ”

The people in the hall shouted when they heard the question.

"That rich man is so unfair! Why did the youngest son only get one-ninth! ”

"All three are their own sons, why favor one over the other?"

"Could it be that the second son was born to a concubine, and the third son is wild?"

The two brothers, Rao Jingkang and Rao Yukang, heard the discussion in the venue, and their faces were a little ugly, but no one noticed.

"Ahem, silence! Don't affect the two of you to answer the question! Fu Youcheng coughed dryly, raised his hand and patted the table, and scolded loudly.

The voices in the room slowly became quieter.

Song Qi thought for a moment, and immediately picked up the pen and began to write the method of dividing the gold.

Over there, Ximen Yu frowned and thought for a long time, and began to answer the question.

"I'm done!" Song Qilong Feifeng Wu wrote the answer, and then raised his hand to ask for instructions.

"Good! Please hand in the answer sheet. Song Qi folded the answer paper a few times, and then handed it over to Fu Youcheng instead of Zhan Nian.

"I've written it too." Ximen Yu also raised his hand to ask for instructions.

"You're still slow!" Rao Jingkang looked at Ximen Yu with a smile and said slowly.

"It's just a little bit of time, it should be considered an answer." Ximen Liu pleaded loudly to Rao Jingkang.

"Slow is slow. How much time is it missing? Fu Youcheng said angrily to Ximen Liu.

"Then you should at least collect Yu'er's answer paper. In case Song Qi answers wrong, and Yu'er answers correctly, it will be Yu'er's victory! Simon Liu argued.

"I think you can only wait for Song Gongzi's wrong answer!" Rao Jingkang said with a smile.

The people below the venue racked their brains, and they couldn't help the three sons properly divide the money, and complained to each other:

"This old man is eccentric and troublesome, why can't he cut the gold bricks?"

"Well, why did he leave seventeen gold bricks, and not eighteen?"

"Even if he leaves eighteen gold bricks, according to his distribution ratio, it is not easy to divide!"

People can only give up thinking and wait for Fu Youcheng to read out Song Qi's method of dividing the gold.

Fu Youcheng and Rao Jingkang leaned forward, leaning forward and leaning their heads to read the answers written by Song Qi on the paper.

Then, Fu Youcheng stood up from behind the desk, cleared his throat and said, "Next, I will read out Song Gongzi's answer: If I am a county official, I will take out a gold brick from my pocket and make up the number of eighteen yuan... ”

The people below the venue whispered again:

What, that Song Qi wants to paste gold bricks himself in order to help others distribute gold? You must know that the weight of a gold brick is twenty-four taels, which is equivalent to two thousand four hundred taels of silver. If he divides the gold like this, he will surely lose his life. His method will definitely not work!

Ximen Yu listened, and a smug smile appeared on his face. He thought to himself that Song Qi's division would definitely not work. Which county magistrate would do that?

?“ Ahem~" Fu Youcheng smiled slightly, raised his voice and continued to read, "Song Gongzi's method is: let the eldest son take one-half of the eighteen gold bricks, that is, nine gold bricks, let the second son take one-third of the gold bricks, that is, six gold bricks, and let the third son take one-ninth, that is, two gold bricks. In the end, there was a gold brick left, which I put back in my pocket. I just took out a gold brick and brought it in, and I lost nothing, but I was able to help the three brothers divide the seventeen gold bricks satisfactorily. ”

Those who listened below were still puzzled:

"Half of the seventeen gold bricks is not nine at all!"

"One-third of seventeen is not six!"

"One in nine is not two!"

Someone simply shouted to Rao Jingkang and Fu Youcheng: "Is Song Gongzi's method right? ”

"Song Gongzi's method is right!" Fu Youcheng glanced at the audience with excited eyes, and said proudly, "This is a case that a friend who is an official told me about the case he personally judged, and the friend who is an official divides the gold according to this method." And none of the three brothers was dissatisfied! So this question ... ”

"I protest!" Ximen Yu angrily interrupted Fu Youcheng's words about to be announced, "As everyone said, one-half of seventeen is not nine, but a little more than eight!" A third of seventeen is not six, but a little more than five! One ninth is not two pieces, but a little more than one! Song Qi let everyone get a little more money than they deserved, so his method of dividing the money was not right at all! ”

"I said that this is the conclusion of the official to decide the case, since Song Gongzi's method of dividing the money is in line with the method of judging the case, it is naturally the most clever method!" Fu Youcheng made a final decision.

"You should at least read the answer to the rain! At least whoever has the best method, justice is at ease in the hearts of the people! Ximen Liu did not give up, and argued with Rao Jingkang and Fu Youcheng.

"That's right, it doesn't matter if you read Ximen Yu's answer!" Someone at the bottom of the venue chimed in, of course, these are mainly people from the Ximen firm, and there are also some people with strong curiosity.

"It's nothing to read!" Rao Jingkang smiled and explained loudly, "Song Gongzi handed in the answer first, and it was correct, so now Song Gongzi is the winner." Whether you want to read Ximen Yu's answer or not, it is up to Song Gongzi to decide. Then he turned his head to look at Song Qi and asked for advice: "I don't know what Song Gongzi thinks?" ”

"It's okay to read, it's okay to read!" Song Qi is now winning, what else is there to worry about, he is happy to be generous.

Rao Jingkang handed Ximen Yu's answer to Fu Youcheng and asked him to read it.

Fu Youcheng had no choice but to take the answer paper and read it aloud: "Ximen Yu's answer: If I were a county official, I would ask the three brothers to exchange seventeen gold bricks for four hundred and eight taels of gold bars. Then the eldest son was given two hundred and forty taels of gold, and the second son was given a third and gave him one hundred and thirty-six taels, and the remainder was naturally to the third son, so the whole part was given to the third son. ”

"It's easy to run **** field, and some people below the field began to applaud Ximen Yu's method.

"The old man only said that he couldn't cut the gold bricks, but he didn't say that he couldn't exchange them! Why didn't I think of this method? ”

Rao Jingkang and Fu Youcheng looked at each other, and for a while, they couldn't say that Ximen Yu's method was not good.

Simon's father and son looked proud, full of ambition, and looked around.

Song Qi thought about it a little and knew what was going on, Ximen Yu completely exploited the loophole in the algorithm.

The corners of his mouth curled slightly, and he said in a contemptuous tone: "Ximen Yu, why don't you just give eight gold bricks to the eldest son, five gold bricks to the second son, and then give the remaining four gold bricks to the third son?" (To be continued.) )