It is definitely not that Xie An looks down on the so-called well-educated people in this era, on the contrary, Xie An has no doubt that these scribes who can be valued by the crown prince Li Wei have extraordinary talents and knowledge, which are much more capable than him.

But it's a pity that Xie An's questions are far beyond the scope of this era.

O, it's not the level of wisdom, it's just the difference in the level of education, maybe this scribe named Wu Rui can memorize the scriptures of the sages of the past dynasties, but as long as he doesn't have the concept of logic in his head, he can't solve this puzzle.

With the single-threaded way of thinking in this era, it is absolutely impossible to calculate such a complex logical problem, although this kind of problem was almost universally known in Xie An's time.

Oh, it's just a limitation of this era.

Thinking of this, Xie An couldn't help but feel some pity for the scribe named Wu Rui, so he dispelled the idea of making sarcastic remarks and disturbing the other party's thinking process.

After a whole stick of incense, Wu Rui, who was covered with sweat, still couldn't tighten his lips, and looked at the eight pieces of bamboo in front of him in a daze, his expression became more and more anxious.

"Get out!" The crown prince Li Wei, who had lost his patience, spat out a cold sentence.

Wu Rui stopped talking, and in the end, he rolled out of the hall with his head in his hands, and rolled out in a veritable way.

"Hey! Sure enough, it's stronger than the first one! ――The way to roll......" Xie An pursed his lips and sneered, and then in Li Shou's cough, he restrained a little.

At this time, another middle-aged scribe came out of the staff of the crown prince Li Wei, pointed at Xie An and said angrily, "Didn't you bluff me?" There is no answer to this question at all! ”

As soon as the words fell, Xie An immediately felt the cold gaze from the crown prince.

If you don't have an answer, I'm afraid you'll die a miserable death, right?

Pity...... Thinking of this, Xie An said lightly, "As long as you admit ......"

"Admit what?" The middle-aged scribe looked puzzled.

"Admit what?" Xie An shook his head with a smile, and then his face was straight, with a little ridicule, and said lightly, "Naturally, I admit that my skills are not as good as entering, what else can I have?!" ”

The people in the hall looked at each other.

To admit or not to admit?

This is probably the most difficult problem to choose in the minds of those staff members hovering over the crown prince Li Wei at this moment.

Admitting it means that they, the scholars who read poetry and books, and the staff of the current prince, are not even comparable to a mere scholar in the Nine Emperors' family.

But he didn't admit it...... They really couldn't solve the problem, and even gradually began to suspect that there was no so-called answer to the problem.

And at the time of the stalemate, suddenly, the staff members walked in, and saw that he was seven feet tall, emaciated, pale, and sunken eyes, and looked not haggard, but from a distance, it looked like a clothes rack.

"You are?" Xie An's eyes showed a little surprise.

"Hedong Anyi enters, Wang Dan!" The scribe bowed.

There is no doubt that this scribe was the queen who joined Li Shou and became Li Shou's henchman except Xie An, Wang Dan.

"It turned out to be Mr. Wang......" Xie An learned the other party's movements, and bowed back.

The reason why he was polite to this scribe called Wang Dan was that Xie An only noticed that when the crown prince Li Wei ridiculed Li Shou, this Wang Dan did not laugh like other staff, but stood silently behind Li Wei, as for the second, it was Xie An's subconscious feeling that the other party was not an ordinary object.

Although this Wang Dan had a bad face, Xie An felt an indescribable temperament from him, a calm temperament that was not moved by the things in the world.

Thinking of this, Xie An hesitated for a moment and arched his hand, "Mr. Wang, don't you think about it anymore?" ”

But Xie An's words were not finished, and he was interrupted by the rest of Wang Dan's staff.

"Wang Dan, what do you mean?"

"It's O, Wang Dan, we are well-educated people, how can we be despised by a mere scholar?"

Under Xie An's surprised gaze, Wang Dan shook his head slightly and sighed, "Since we can't answer this question, why bother with unnecessary obsessions?" Ladies and gentlemen, this question is that we are waiting to lose! ”

"You!" Several staff members were full of anger, but Wang Dan ignored them anymore and said to Xie An, "Please also tell me the solution to this problem!" ”

Glancing at Wang Dan, who was as usual, and then at the frowning prince Li Wei, Xie An was not embarrassed, nodded and said, "Okay, since that's the case, I ...... answer to this question."

"I'll hear you!" Unlike the rest of the indignant staff, Wang Dan thanked him.

"The fastest is six times, and the slowest is thirteen times...... Under the bewildered gaze of the audience, Xie An slowly said the answer, and came up with a full and reasonable answer process.

To be honest, this puzzle is not difficult, at least in Xie An's world, almost every entry can be solved, as long as you pay attention to the traps.

Because Xie An's is to distinguish these eight pieces of bamboo according to the characters, the fastest number of times is not eight, but six, which is the first trap.

And for the problem of the slowest number of times, in other words, it is actually to turn over each bamboo card, and then add it to the fastest times, but there is a trap here, that is when the flop is made, it is not necessary to turn eight times, but seven times, because no matter how stupid you enter, you can also guess the words on the last piece of bamboo, which is why Xie An just added the words [under the premise that the conditions are sufficient, you can't deliberately repeat the number of failures], because if there are no these words, then the second half of the question, it is impossible to have a correct answer.

In other words, it is a question that requires logic and care, and no matter which one is missing, it is not enough to solve the problem.

o, it has nothing to do with wisdom or intelligence, it's just a difference in education, or ...... Knowledge!

"I see......"

"This kind of puzzle is really unheard of......"

When Xie An finished, after four or five breaths, there was a burst of exclamation in the hall, obviously, those ministers of the DPRK and the Central Committee were not straw bales, and after Xie An's explanation, they naturally gradually understood and understood.

Needless to say, they immediately had a high opinion of the unattractive scholar next to the Nine Emperor Prince Li Shou.

"Is this a mystery?" Xie An smiled and looked at the middle-aged scribe who had just spoken, with a slight sneer on his expression.

I saw that the middle-aged scribe glared at Xie An hatefully, his face was red, but he couldn't say a word.

Suddenly, one of the staff members of the crown prince Li Wei showed disgruntle, raised his hand and pointed at Xie Andao, "Arithmetic, Taoism!" - Son, dare to try the way of governing the country with us! ”

Xie An smiled when he heard this, showed an exaggerated expression, and pretended to be surprised, "The first time I heard it, arithmetic is not in the way of governing the country, where does this gentleman put the household department and the ministry of industry?" ”

As soon as the words fell, the atmosphere in the hall suddenly became tense, and some officials of the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry stared at the scribe with a frown on their faces, everyone knew that the Ministry of Household and the Ministry of Industry relied on arithmetic to operate, and the scribe's words were simply a slap in the face of one of the six departments of the two imperial courts.

"I ...... I didn't! The scribe also seemed to pay attention to some unkind eyes around him, and couldn't help but be a little flustered, and hurriedly said, "You don't want to sow discord......

"Sow discord? [arithmetic, the way also!] Is this sowing discord? ”

"You ......" The scribe was red-faced and speechless, Bi Jing was indeed his gaffe.

At this time, another scribe came out behind him, blocked him, looked at Xie An and said lightly, "Hugh has to be brave with his tongue, you only, dare or not?!" ”

"Your Excellency, how can you enter?"

"Shan yīn enters, township tries to solve Yuan, Feng Zheng!"

"It turned out to be Mr. Feng......" Xie An arched his hand, secretly vigilant in his heart.

Even if he doesn't know about the things of this era, he still knows what Xie Yuan is.

The so-called Xie Yuan is the first place in the township test.

In other words, this scribe named Feng Zheng was the first place in the township examination of Huiji County, and the first place among hundreds or even thousands of students in Huiji County. And the first place in the palace examination is called the hand-picked champion, which is even more amazing, and it is simple, it is directly favored by the national high-level and entrusted with important tasks.

Xie An's teacher, Ruan Shaozhou, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, was the list of three consecutive assessments in the township examination, the meeting examination, and the palace examination, and because of this, he was valued by the son at a young age and became one of the important ministers of the imperial court.

And although this Feng Zheng is not as good as Ruan Shaozhou, he is also extremely out-of-the-box, so Xie An did not dare to despise it, and secretly guarded against it in his heart.

"I wonder what Mr. Feng wants to compete?"

I saw Feng Zheng sneering and said arrogantly, "Nature is the way to govern the country!" ”

Boy...... Opening your mouth is the way to govern the country!

Frowning slightly, Xie Anxin thought about what to do.

He knew very well that he was definitely no match for these well-educated people when it came to the study of true talents, but the problem was that now, he did not want to humiliate his prestige.

In a white sentence, he didn't want to leave with Li Shou Erjin in a sneer.

Thinking of this, Xie An pretended to shake his head calmly, and said lightly, "What Mr. means, I also understand below, Mr.'s way of governing the country is nothing more than the land system, the official system, water governance, people's livelihood, Confucianism and law at the same time, take it when it is unstable, take it when it is stable, right?" ――But in such a festive feast, do you think it is appropriate for you to speak bluntly about the pros and cons of the imperial court? -- Listen below, not in his position, not in his government, although the gentleman has a high talent, but but also in vain, the affairs of the court, its own sages in the court, if the gentleman insists on a thousand involved, it is not called [seeking government], but [chaotic government]! ――Do you think so? ”

Feng Zheng opened his mouth, speechless.

Of course he would be speechless, Bi Jing Xie An first went through everything roughly, made an outline, and made Jin mistakenly think that he knew everything, and finally, while quietly flattering the courtiers and officials, he blocked the road with words, and Feng Zheng was speechless, and put a big hat on him.

However, who can be Xie An's wrong?

You must know that although the Great Zhou did not criticize the people for evaluating the government, this does not mean that the ministers of the DPRK and China are willing to listen to these suggestions.

You're welcome, [what is your identity to be qualified to evaluate us?] This is probably the voice of most of the courtiers.

It is precisely because of this that although none of the officials in the hall spoke, they looked at Xie An's gaze, but there was a little more kindness, in the eyes of these ministers of the court, although this Xie An is young, but he knows the current affairs, knows how to advance and retreat, and knows what to do and what not to do, compared to the [madman] named Feng Zheng, it seems to be much better.

These ministers obviously didn't think that this was an atmosphere deliberately created by Xie An, in order to force Na Feng Zheng to end this topic.

"At a young age, I feel that this kind of festive rì and talk about state affairs is inevitably a little inappropriate, so I use the [Dao] of that gentleman to add some fun to this wedding banquet, if Feng Xian

If you really insist on competing, you can only be accompanied......"

I have to, Xie An's words are very smart, and he was stunned to force Feng Zheng to be speechless, Bi Jing, if he insists on competing, then the crazy man's high hat on his head can't be taken off, and besides, it will even cause the courtiers in the hall to be dissatisfied.

Thinking of this, he held back his indignation, looked at Xie An and said, "Then according to what you said, what is the competition?" ”

I saw Xie An shrug his shoulders and said, "Fang is making the question, this time, your Excellency's turn, what do you think is interesting, what kind of question does your Excellency have!" ”

In Xie An's words, there is a hidden cover.

What he was most afraid of was that these well-educated people would test him with allusions from the Four Books and Five Classics, so he added the word interesting in order to block the road.

I have to, Xie An's interesting two words, really make the prince Li Wei's staff a little difficult, Bi Jing and they have been reading the book of sages since they were young, so they became the leaders of the counties in one fell swoop, and they were fortunate enough to rush to Jijing, or to prepare for the examination, or to recommend themselves to the high-ranking officials, where have they been exposed to any interesting topics?

"Interesting...... In that case, it's better for you to come up with the question! After thinking for a while, Feng Zheng hesitated.

Xie Anxin smiled secretly, because his purpose was originally like this.

"That's ...... Is it appropriate? ”

"Nothing out of place! ――I've been so full of poetry and books, can't I compare to you as a mere scholar? Feng Zheng frowned, glanced at the eight pieces of bamboo that were still on the table, and said, "Your topic is quite interesting, let's do it again!" ”

Otherwise, this Feng Zheng is also very smart and very clever.

In his mind, they already know the key to how to solve this kind of puzzle, and it is not difficult to guess the answer to the puzzle by drawing a gourd, and they can also fall into the reputation of being conceited and talented, so why not?

Only, Feng Zheng looked at the puzzle of logic too much.

Xie Anxin smiled secretly, he naturally knew what Feng Zheng's idea was, it was nothing more than deliberately giving himself the right to ask questions, and then following the cat and the tiger and solving the puzzle, in this way, the entrance in this hall would naturally have a higher opinion of him.

It's a pity...... With a secret laugh in his heart, Xie An pretended to be reluctant and said, "Since this is the case, then you are not welcome to come up with a ...... similar to this question", he turned his head to look at Li Shou and whispered a few words in his ear.

"......" Li Shou looked at Xie An in confusion for a while, and then called a member of the Zongfu family to ask for the four treasures of the study.

Under the puzzled gaze of the onlookers, Xie An dictated while asking Li Shou to write down a few lines on the paper.

[Ming: Gang is my son, and Xing is my daughter.] ]

[Ash: Ming is my son, and Star is also my son.] ]

[Gang: Ming is my father, and Xing is my wife.] ]

[Star: Ash is my mother, and Zhu is my sister.] ]

[Zhu: Ming is my father, and Ash is my sister.] ]

"What is this?" An official asked his colleague next to him, puzzled, who stared at the paper for a long time and shook his head slowly.

Listening to the buzzing discussion around him, Xie An pretended to cough, signaled the surrounding voices to quiet down, and then took the piece of paper from Li Shou's hand, turned his head to look at Feng Zheng, and said, "On this piece of paper, there are five things, namely Ming, Gray, Gang, Xing, and Zhu. -- I would like to remind Mr. Feng that only one of the two sentences of the five admissions is true, and the other is a lie......"

"Is that a lie?" One of the prince's staff asked subconsciously, but he was stunned to notice that Xie An looked at him with a smile, his face turned red, and he hurriedly took a step back.

"Which sentence is a lie and which one is true, of course, Mr. Feng has to judge it himself......" Xie An slapped the paper in his hand on the table, looking at Feng Zheng with fearlessness.

"This ...... This is not the same topic at all! Feng Zheng frowned.

"No, it's similar," Xie An shook his head and said firmly, "Mr. Feng really thinks that the question just now, counting the times, is really called arithmetic?" Clearly told Mr. Feng that it was a logical judgment question dressed in the skin of arithmetic, and the current question was also a logical judgment question...... I have already told Mr. Feng about the riddle, and from the two sentences of the five entrants, one true and one false, I can judge the relationship between the five entrants...... Mr. Feng, please! ”

It turns out that in Da Zhou, where the concept of logic has not yet been born, this kind of problem is too difficult, although in Xie An's time, it was almost a well-known topic, but for this era, even a veritable person of full learning may not be able to solve it.

Yes, it is absolutely impossible to answer.

How to solve the multi-threaded operation process of single-threaded operation?

In the end, the scribe named Feng Zheng could not solve the problem.

Wang Dan didn't either, and after asking Xie An for the answer to this question, he left silently.

Xie An later learned that when he became rì, the crown prince Li Wei drove all his staff out of the palace, including Wang Dan, and secretly caused the officials to never hire them.

And more than half a month later, Li Shou and Xie An, on the way back to the palace, met Wang Dan, who was in a coma on the side of the road due to hunger and cold...... Although looking at the prince Li Wei's somber expression, Li Shou vaguely realized that something was not good, but the feeling of raising his eyebrows made him feel unusually comfortable, and all of this came from the scholar next to him who didn't like each other.

That banquet was the beginning of the formal establishment of a deep friendship between Li Shou and Xie An.

"You guy...... A little bit of ability! - It's the king who looks at you! ”

"Hey! It's good to know...... What is it? Halfway through, Xie An looked at the two stacks of paper that Li Shou handed him suspiciously.

Li Shou shook his head and said, "A family member sent it to you, and I named you!" ”

"Huh?" Xie An was stunned, took it apart and took a closer look, and then looked slightly startled.

Because in those two pieces of paper, Jing Ran wrote the accurate answers to those two questions...... "When was it delivered?" ――Before I publish the answers? Xie An asked Li Shou a little nervously.

Li Shou thought for a while, nodded and said, "Yes!" ”

"Both?"

"That's right! ――Probably within 30 minutes of your mystery...... What's going on? What is written on it? ”

Xie An opened his mouth and silently looked at the lower right corner of the two papers, where a simple but jīng folding fan was drawn...... Yes, the answer is out!

-- Back to today's time, in front of the grave of Fu Bo, the old housekeeper of Anle Wangfu, on a mountain outside the capital of Jijing, ...... "When rì is still vivid" shook his head, Wang Dan sighed with a self-deprecating face, "I think I waited for that time, I am prestigious, but I can't even answer a question, I think that throughout the whole Great Zhou, I am afraid that I will not be able to solve this problem......

Seeing Wang Dan holding himself up so high, Xie An was also a little embarrassed, and said with a smile, "No, there is an answer ......" Here, his face changed suddenly, and he subconsciously looked at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, but saw that she was looking at him with a smile.

"Yes...... You? ”

"Giggles," looking at Xie An's shocked expression, the eldest grandson Xiangyu chuckled, waved the folding fan in his hand, and said, "When I first met in Donggong's Mansion, I entered the house, and it was not the first time I saw you, but you didn't believe it at that time...... What a penchant! I obviously went to the house, and I specially wrote the answer, calling you to enter the house, so I don't remember to enter the house......"

Xie An and Li Shou looked at each other.

You must know that the eldest grandson Xiangyu wrote the answer on the paper in just a few dozen breaths, and called it into Li Shou's hands.

Thinking about this, Xie An and Li Shou couldn't help but ooze a layer of sweat on their foreheads, and they were secretly glad that this woman didn't make any harm from it in the first place.

Looking at Xie An's slightly sluggish appearance, the eldest grandson Xiangyu said indignantly, "You can't do too much?" Why don't you want to think about yourself, you don't even remember the entry into the house...... In this case, Sister Ben humiliated you fiercely, see if you remember it! ”

Looking at her indignant appearance, Xie An couldn't help but feel a little weak, he finally understood why the eldest grandson Xiangyu humiliated him so much when he was in the Donggong Mansion.

Bi Jing came according to the xìng grid of the eldest grandson Xiangyu, a woman, and she generally entered, but she looked down on it, and she didn't even bother to come forward to talk, but at that time, she treated Xie An so much...... Well, it's all mockery, though.

I'd rather offend than offend a woman, Gu Cheng doesn't deceive me...... Xie An shrank his head in shame, but after thinking about it for a long time, he didn't remember whether he had seen the eldest grandson Xiangyu.

In fact, the eldest grandson Xiangyu did go to the banquet, and Duke Yin was also there, but after his grandfather and grandson entered, Xie An was busy competing with the staff of the crown prince Li Wei at that time, and he didn't pay attention.

Maybe seeing that Xie An's expression was a little wrong, Wang Dan diverted the topic and said, "There is something unknown below, when I went down to the palace, I never saw this old man enter the house, could it be that before I entered the mansion, this old man passed away?" ”

Xie An and Li Shou glanced at each other when they heard this, and were silent.

"O, on the night when I waited for the great Si Nong Sect to enter the mansion and went to the banquet at the second ......rì night, Li Shou's face was iron-blue.

"How so?" Wang Dan's face was stunned, and he was about to ask, when his heart suddenly moved, and he said in disbelief, "Isn't it ......?"

"It's the one [Mo No]!" Li Shou's eyes flashed with hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said, "As a dignified prince, the instrument competition is so narrow, but it is just a little face-shedding, Jing sent an assassin named Xu Bi to assassinate Xie An, and Fu Bo was stabbed twice in the body in order to save Xie An, and died...... At that time, this king swore that at all costs, this king would also make Li Wei's blood debt repayable! ”

[Xie An, this king doesn't want to be a powerless prince anymore......]

[……]

[This king must recover this blood debt from Li Wei!] - Help me ......]

[o Ah! - Is this still useful?! ]

Glancing at Li Shou, who was looking excited behind him, Xie An squatted down and stroked Fu Bo's tombstone.

[…… Stinky man, don't bother, in the middle of the night, where will the doctor go? Again, count it out...... Ahem, even if it's a doctor...... It's too late...... The only thing that the old man can't rest assured of is His Royal Highness...... If you have the heart, take care of Your Highness for the old decay, otherwise...... Ahem, otherwise ......]

[Hmm!] - I will! ]

"It's not too early, let's go back......" Eldest Sun Xiangyu said on the side.

Xie An took a deep breath, patted the tombstone, and said in a low voice, "Fu Bo, Zi actually doesn't believe that there will be a soul after death, but if you are really still there, don't rush to reincarnate, wait for us...... There is a day, I and Li Shou, no, call him like this, you old guy will definitely whip me with that stick again, hehe...... Waiting for us, Fauber! His Royal Highness Shou and I will definitely bring the head of the crown prince Li Wei to your grave to worship! ”

Wang Dan was shocked when he heard this, and glanced at the eldest grandson Xiangyu, who was also a little surprised, and said nothing.

Li Shou squatted down in front of the grave and lit three pillars of incense, and then took a deep breath.

"Luoyang Battlefield...... Xie An, success or failure, at this moment! ”

Standing up slowly, Xie An stared intently at the far southwest.

"O!"