[Monday's fourth round! ] For the sake of the crab code word, it is stupid, and you can enjoy the collection of tickets.

In the early summer, the city of Beijing seems to still have a strong spring atmosphere.

The pot of fat green begonias on the windowsill of the study in Xu's house is the best example. The bright red petals have not yet bloomed, and the yellow stamens in the center of the flower, although damaged by the bee butterflies, are still in contrast to the red flowers against the thick green leaves.

On the wall next to the windowsill, there is a huge triangular ruler, which can be vaguely seen to be made of fine sandalwood, and the surface is coated with a layer of white paint; It can be seen that this ruler has been repeatedly rubbed by the owner for a long time, and the white paint has fallen off in many places, revealing the unique red and black wood grain of the small leaf red sandalwood.

It's an alternative study -- compared to other readers of the age, of course.

There are many geometric drawing tools in the study, in addition to the triangular ruler on the wall, there are large and small rulers, curved rulers, and of course compasses of different diameters scattered on the very wide bookcase; There are also two abacus, and the ash stick holder next to the abacus is full of bamboo sticks of different lengths - at the beginning, Chu Fan guessed whether his teacher was also interested in Zhou Yi, so he made a stick holder here, and after looking at it for a long time, he figured out that it was just a calculation.

What shocked Chu Fan the most was the round globe on the bookcase!

That's right, it's the globe!

The topographical contours of the upper equatorial circle are almost very similar to those of later globes; As in later generations, there are also interlaced longitude and latitude lines, if you have to find a difference, that is, the longitude and latitude of this globe are thicker; Facing Chu Fan, it happens to be East Asia, the outline of the Korean Peninsula, the Liaodong Peninsula, the Jiaodong Peninsula and even the Japanese islands is almost the same as the picture that Chu Fan drew from memory and hid deep at the bottom of the box! Chu Fan had to wonder if the old man had sent someone to steal the picture out of his bedroom.

Looking at it, Chu Fan couldn't help but reach out and want to fiddle with it to see if the contours in other places were so accurate.

"Ahem~~Ahem!"

A light cough sounded, and Chu Fan was so frightened that he retracted his hand like lightning, holding the teacup in his hand and pretending to drink tea.

He was led to Xu's house in the west of the sand, and was soon brought into this inner study after the report, and after a while, Xu Guangqi came in with the support of the maid, and after sitting down on the ancient rattan chair, after waving the maid away, only their master and apprentice were left in the room.

The first time he saw a famous scientist in Chinese history, Chu Fan was so excited at first that he was trembling.

He wanted to shout "teacher" but he was afraid of being abrupt, but under the deep and stern gaze of the old man's white eyebrows, Chu Fan gradually quieted down, and then began to feel a little cramped and uneasy, as if he had returned to the university campus of the year, and the feeling of being under the gaze of the old professor.

Xu Guangqi's deepest impression on Chu Fan was that he was thin, so thin that he couldn't even hide his thick light blue home swallow suit; There is no flesh to be seen on the face of the ravines, and the cheekbones are more and more high; The old man's teeth were probably gone, and his whole mouth was deflated, and he had to sip and sip when he drank water.

Another deep impression was that he was clean, not that the old man's clothes or anything, but that his white hair, eyebrows, and a few beards under his chin were all crystal white, very pure white, and there was no variegation in sight.

From the time the old man entered the door to the present, more than ten minutes have passed, and the two people in the room have not said a word, and they have maintained the situation where Xu Guangqi observed Chu Fan, who was cramped and uneasy, but the corner of his eyes was glancing around.

"The old man of the Chuyang Dynasty accepted you as an apprentice, I really don't know if it will be a big mistake for my Xu Gate!"

In the quiet, the old man suddenly came up with such a sentence, which made Chu Fan startled, but the answer he blurted out surprised him even more, "Teacher, are you okay?" Can it still smell good when eating? ”

His inconsequential answer was just right, which made Xu Guangqi's eyes flash, and a hint of an imperceptible smile hung on the corner of his mouth, "Duh! The little monkey is flamboyant! ”

Chu Fan didn't expect this answer to be so tricky, and he actually melted most of the sternness in Xu Guangqi's eyes at once, and simply climbed along the pole, "Teacher, the student entered Beijing this time, and brought you the best scallops and shrimps from the Japanese country, and the porridge is the best, I think you can be ...... to be restrained."

"Wait!" Xu Guangqi saw him talking endlessly, frowned and interrupted him, "Accepting you as a disciple is really the meaning of the early sun, but once the old man allowed it?" ”

Chu Fan was stunned for a moment - if you don't take such a trick, your proud apprentice has said it, how can there be any reason to recycle? Besides, I wrote two letters to your old man before and after I went to sea, and although you didn't reply, I didn't see you return.

"I'm here to ask you," seeing that he was embarrassed, Xu Guangqi leaned on the rattan chair, stroked those pure white beards and said slowly, "Have you ever used the name of the old man to deceive in Dengzhou?" ”

“…… I'll just talk about Senior Brother Sun, how can you be swaggering? Chu Fan muttered in his mouth, but his face turned red - didn't he just use Chen Shangren's mouth to brazenly say to Wang Ting, "The family teacher is about to recover" before he went to sea? Speaking of which, he has to thank Xu Guangqi for lying for him and not piercing his cowhide.

"Ho! Little monkey, do you have to be tough in front of the old man? Hearing his muttering, Xu Guangqi couldn't help laughing, but his body was even more relaxed, and he buried himself in the rattan chair, "Looking at the old man, I don't know about your little tricks, huh?" ”

Seeing that Chu Fan was silent, Xu Guangqi said coldly, "You told that Wang Tengju that the old man is your teacher and is about to recover, but is there such a thing?" You are just afraid to think about it, bring out the name of the old man, and then make up a reason for the imminent recovery, then Wang Tengju is afraid that if he wants to deal with you, he will have to weigh it, but so? ”

Chu Fan is in a daze, this Xu Guangqi is really not a nerd like Sun Yuanhua who can only do knowledge, and he can enter the sixth department and mix to more than three grades, what can he do without two brushes? With a slight gesture of his own, he can immediately analyze the idea.

But Xu Guangqi's next sentence made Chu Fan feel deeply afraid.

"Little monkey, you also underestimate Wang Tengju, people have been up and down for decades, if you are frightened by your sentence of pulling a tiger skin as a banner, won't it become a joke? …… Do you know that on the day the old man arrived in Beijing, Chuyang's letter had not yet been transferred, and the old man didn't know that there was such a person as you Chu Fan at that time...... But at the beginning of the old man's disembarkation, there were already people knocking on the side in the official pavilion, saying that when the apprentices were accepted on the day of recovery, double happiness came to the door...... If it weren't for the old man's alertness and perfunctory past, I'm afraid that you and I would even have become the laughing stock of this Shilin! ”

Seeing Chu Fan frowning and silent, it was obvious that he was already frightened, a trace of cunning and naughty light flashed in the old man's eyes, and he spoke again, but Chu Fan turned over and bowed.