Qin Rui didn't dare to treat Yuan Dongchu as an ordinary woman before, but with this negotiation, he was much more cautious.

So the rest of the matter is much easier to talk about.

The next thing to talk about is where the phonetic symbols come from and whether there will be trouble.

In order to dispel Qin Rui's concerns, in addition to the rhetoric that had already been prepared, Yuan Dongchu also analyzed two possibilities for Qin Rui:

First, the most likely source is that someone copied it from some ancient text, and it is not clear what it means at all. Otherwise, it will not be transcribed but not well preserved, but discarded at will.

The other possibility is that someone has developed this method of literacy, but doesn't understand the value, so they don't take it seriously. He did not intend to make it public, but copied and discarded it until it was discarded.

The second possibility that Yuan Dongchu said, even Qin Rui couldn't stop shaking his head, and even said that he wouldn't.

Thus, Yuan Dongchu's first speculation was established.

Qin Rui even thought that this thing might be something that was not seen by anyone, copied from ancient tombs or monuments, and discarded after repeated research.

Thinking like this, the only concern in Qin Rui's heart disappeared.

Moreover, he didn't plan to claim the pioneer of phonetic characters as himself, he only needed to find a few old pieces of paper and study them with the efforts of many people.

Later, after understanding its meaning, the idea of using this symbol to phonetize all the characters and compile them into a book for the use of scholars all over the world arose.

After a hearty conversation, Qin Rui felt that he had benefited a lot.

This Yuan girl is really like what his parents said, extremely intelligent, and often has whimsical ideas when encountering problems.

In the course of discussing the compilation of the text, the girl gave several suggestions that made him pause.

The layout and interpretation of the words, which were originally vague and even inconclusive, suddenly became clear after the girl's suggestion.

With the classics, how to find the one you need in the vast text is very difficult.

Qin Rui tentatively threw out this topic, but the girl only thought about it for a moment, and then gave two ways.

One is to know the pronunciation, but not to know which word.

In this case, you can use the pronunciation order. According to the order of pronunciation and arrangement of phonetic characters, the first and second levels are searched, and then the corresponding characters are found according to the interpretation from the homophones.

The other is to see a certain word and do not know the pronunciation and meaning, in this case, you can use radicals and strokes to find it.

Of these two methods, Yuan Dongchu only mentioned them slightly. For a more specific and detailed approach, she doesn't plan to participate, to see how far Qin Rui can operate in the end.

The most important thing is that Yuan Dongchu solemnly suggested to Qin Rui that if you want to launch a literacy classic as soon as possible, then select the text part first, and only give the text phonetics and interpretations.

Compared with vocabulary, words are single, and the workload is much less.

The vocabulary is very complicated, and the various combinations of different words are good when it comes to the etymology of the sea of words or something, and it has been good for a long time.

However, for Qin Rui, who is interested in running a family, this kind of long-term thing makes it easier for the Qin family to keep it in an academic aura, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

After a detailed discussion, Qin Rui's attitude was very different from when he came, with all kinds of politeness and modesty towards Yuan Dongchu, and there were still all kinds of entanglements in his heart.

This trip can be said to be very successful in compiling the classics. But at the same time, Qin Rui also realized that his contribution was also huge.

Three unknown promises made him feel heavy on his shoulders.

It is conceivable that the Qin family will have a high rank and prestige in the future, and the weight of these three promises will also increase.

How can Gu Tiancheng and Yuan Dongchu be easy to match, where can the help they need be solved by understatement?

From this point of view, he got the phonetic symbols, but also paid a high enough price.

Yuan Dongchu, sure enough, is not ordinary shrewd!

Sending the three members of the Qin family away, Yuan Dongchu and the others had to go back to the dock to continue their work.

On the way, Yuan Changhe asked Yuan Dongchu: "What did you talk about with Master Qin?" Why do you still let me and Jingwen avoid it? ”

Yuan Dongchu glanced at Qin Xiangru and said her thoughts, Qin Xiangru, who was secretly depressed, was immediately moved, opened his mouth for a long time, and didn't say a word, his eyes were almost red.

Later the next day, the housekeeper of the Qin family visited the Yuan family with two servants and handed over a box to Yuan Changhe.

Inside the box are three rosewood plaques, which are engraved with the seals of the successive heads of the Qin family.

In addition, there are three invitations, Qin Rui, who lives in the Qin family, invites Gu Tiancheng and the father and daughter of the Yuan family to attend the wedding banquet of the eldest son Qin Xiangru ten days later.

Before, Qin Xiangru also invited Gu Tiancheng and Yuan Changhe, but the difference between his invitation and Qin Rui's invitation is big.

Qin Xiangru married, Yuan Dongchu was a girl's family, of course, it was inconvenient to go, but there was a formal invitation from the Qin family, that is, in the name of the relatives and friends of the Qin family, it was very status.

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Time passed quickly, and within a few days, the two boats bound for Pingzhou returned to Muliang Town.

Looking at the deep waterline of the two boats, it is really grain.

Grain is not only delivered after the autumn harvest, but also a lot of grain is allocated on weekdays, if this road can be taken away, not only the river transportation business is prosperous, but no one dares to make up their minds.

The two boats are still arranged to rest in Muliang Town for one night, and they will leave on the second day, and Liu Qiyuan will follow the boat, while Gu Tiancheng will stay in Muliang Town to preside over the affairs of Chengyun.

These days, Liu Qiyuan and Manager Zhang are quite familiar with each other.

Liu Qiyuan's current position is equivalent to the big boss of Chengyun, such a figure, Zhang Guan really doesn't dare to underestimate it.

Now that Chengyun has opened in the north and south, Gu Tiancheng can still send Liu Qiyuan to accompany him.

After two or three years, Gu Tiancheng and Chengyun have become the climate, if Liu Qiyuan's identity remains unchanged, when the time comes, he will just be an ordinary steward of the Liao family, and he will not be at the same level as Liu Qiyuan at all.

When they came to their own territory, everyone gave a warm reception to Steward Zhang, and Gu Tiancheng, Yuan Changhe, and Qin Xiangru all sat down.

Early the next morning, Gu Tiancheng, Yuan Changhe and others ceremoniously sent the two boats away.

When he turned around, Gu Tiancheng finally had time, pulled Yuan Dongchu, and asked mysteriously, "The old man of the Qin family has come to visit?" Do you really want to label classics with phonetic characters? ”

He heard about it as soon as he returned, but he never found a chance to ask.

Yuan Dongchu was quite proud: "What do you mean by real?" People are from a scholar's background, and they know the value of this thing better than ordinary people. Three promises, he promised. ”

"At the beginning of winter, which one are you talking about? It's not me, is it? "Gu Tiancheng was very hurt. What made him depressed was that he did doubt that Qin Rui would make a book on this.

Why did he support the face of a big man, and didn't carefully ask Yuan Dongchu why he was so confident.

Yuan Dongchu's eyes drifted away, and he continued to walk back, not answering Gu Tiancheng's question.