Chapter 224: A Literate Man
"Why don't you stay and have a meal together before leaving?" Wang Xijia remembered that Fenghuangling was a foodie, so he wanted to stay with him for a meal. Let him also feel the profound catering culture of the country.
Phoenix Ling's eyes lit up, but she still said, "No, there is something else at home." Besides, there are no plane trees here, so I can't stay long, so I'll talk about it later when I have a chance. ”
Wang Xijia said: "Okay, when the time comes, I will build a few plane trees in New York, and it will be convenient to come and go in the future." ”
Phoenix Ling smiled and said, "Okay, Great Emperor, I will definitely get a few phoenixes here for you in the future." ”
Wang Xijia said: "Okay, see you in two weeks, you can help me introduce your king." ”
Phoenix Ling expressed doubts: "In two weeks, can you rush to Yosemite?
You must know that it is almost more than 5,000 kilometers from New York to Yosemite, which is equivalent to walking from Kunming to Harbin. If you ride a horse, you won't be able to get off for a month or two.
"No problem, I'm sure I'll be there," said Wang Xika, who has many modern means of transportation, including airplanes and cars. It's just that Phoenix Ling doesn't know yet.
"Okay, then we'll see you in two weeks, respected emperor!" After finishing speaking, he clasped his fists with both hands and stepped back towards Wang Xika, and then sat on the phoenix and flew away. This is the etiquette of the Aztecs, when you are facing a very noble person, you can't walk with your butt facing others, you must face the other person.
Phoenix Ling's attitude towards Wang Xijia has completely changed now, a big emperor in one mouth, and a big gift at every turn.
Seeing this change in attitude, Wang Xika's feelings are very complicated. There is both the pleasure of receiving special attention and the feeling that something has been lost. How to describe it? It's like: "I was going to get along with you as an ordinary person, but in exchange for being estranged." Don't pretend, I'm the emperor, I'm having a showdown......"
Bidding farewell to Phoenix Ling, Wang Xika began to prepare for the paperwork to go to the Aztec Empire. It's hard to write it. In later generations, the exchange of visits between the two heads of state would generally be arranged by diplomatic personnel, and everyone would have a foreign ministry for each other.
But there is obviously no such thing in this year, so Wang Xijia, who is the emperor, can only write it himself. Is it written in the format of a diplomatic passport in later generations, or in the format of a customs clearance document written by the Tang Emperor to Tang Seng in that year?
But the real Tang Seng in history was smuggled out, and there was no such thing as a customs clearance disc.
After thinking about it, Wang Xika decided to write by himself: "Hello respected Aztec king, I am Wang Xijia, the emperor of the Eurasian continent, and I want to visit your country, meet with you, and strengthen international exchanges." Would you like to see me?
This brief letter was written entirely in "saliva", regardless of the fact that this text message does not conform to diplomatic rhetoric. It is estimated that the Aztec king did not understand Chinese either, so it did not matter if the Fu did not match the diplomatic rhetoric.
If the king doesn't know Chinese, how can he read his letter?
It's a pity that the literacy rate of people in this era is not high, like Bloodfang and Grey Beaver, their tribe has no writing at all, how do you tell people to be literate? If they speak, Grey Beaver can still understand a little. But when you write, you can't read it at all. Moreover, this kind of diplomatic document attaches the most importance to whether the text is standardized, which is really nerve-wracking.
After much inquiry, it was finally discovered that among the Indian Saiyans living in the Grand Canyon, there was a little brother named Turnip, who could recognize the Aztec script.
This surprised Wang Xika: the Indian Saiyans seemed to him to be a race of ignorant monkeys, and he felt that they were just drinking and playing with mud every day. I didn't expect such a talent to come out, and he could also read and break words.
It turned out that this flower radish was active by nature, and when he was a child, he ran away from home to play in the south, but he got lost. He was adopted by a kind Aztec lady and taught him to read and write, hoping that he would become a useful talent.
And the radish is indeed competitive, every day the other Aztec children go out to play, he silently reads books at home alone, and he has become an excellent young man with knowledge and culture.
Hua Radish was still young when she went missing, so she doesn't remember things very clearly when she was a child. So in his heart, he always thought that he was also an Aztec, but his hairstyle was a little special and he had a tail.
The Aztec children also did not have the concept of racism, on the contrary, they were very envious of the carrot's hair that he never had to comb, as well as his tail, because with a tail he could do many actions that only a person with a tail could do, such as hanging the Admiralty upside down with his tail.
In such an environment, the identity of the radish becomes that of the Aztecs. It wasn't until he was 18 years old that the eldest lady who adopted him told him the truth: "Radish, your father is not your real father, grandma, and not your real grandmother!"
And Hua Radish's reaction is very similar to Li Tiemei in the Red Lantern Chronicle: "Grandma, are you confused?" - it is estimated that any child who hears this kind of news will have such a reaction.
The old lady smiled bitterly, "Why are you so stupid, kid? You don't look at your hair, that Aztec will have a sisal hairstyle like this?"
Hua Radish said: "Ah, I thought you all deliberately cut your hair like this. ”
The old lady smiled again: "You stupid boy, have you never found out that you are the only one with a tail?"
Hua Radish said: "I thought that only children with good studies would have a tail ......"
The old lady painstakingly came up with all kinds of evidence: such as the small clothes he wore when he left home, the mud he played with in his hands, and so on. It took a lot of effort to finally convince the flower radish.
Hua Radish only felt a buzzing in her head, like thunder on the ground. After a long pause, he came back and said, "Grandma, what do you mean by telling me this now? Don't you want me?"
The eldest lady said with tears in her eyes: "My silly child, how could grandma not want you? ”
Hua Radish also cried: "Grandma, your analogy is really appropriate. ”
The old lady touched the hair of the radish, and the hairstyle of the radish was not messy at all. Because he was an Indian Saiyan, the characteristic of an Indian Saiyan is that his hairstyle is never messed up.
The old grandmother sighed and said, "Grandma is old, and I don't tell you some things now, I'm afraid I'll forget them in the future." Your home is in the north, and I heard that there is a group of people with sisal hairstyles and tails, and you can look for them when you have time, and maybe you can see your biological parents.
Hua Radish nodded, rolled up the cover and embarked on the road north to find relatives. When he is hungry he eats, when he is thirsty he drinks water, and when he is sleepy he sleeps. He walked and walked like an orphan, and finally found the Monkey tribe on the banks of the Colorado River.
When he saw this tribe of Indian monkeys, he was stunned - he came from a big Aztec city, and he never thought that there were such ignorant people in the world: every day he ate and drank in ignorance, and the only pleasure was to smash the passing ships with mud and stones.
Turnip soon found her biological parents: because the two men looked exactly like Turnip herself, but their eyes were more glazed. The Saiyan couple didn't react at all when they saw their son who had been away from home for 18 years and had returned, just like the children of ordinary parents went out to get a bottle of soy sauce.
This group of people hasn't opened up yet!
Knowing the truth, the tears of the radish fell, and he secretly decided in his heart to change the ignorant status quo of the villagers and the elders, and to make them read and write!
Since then, the radish has taken root in the monkey camp, teaching the villagers to read and write like a village teacher - but unfortunately no one wants to learn. Including the parents of the radish, white radish and carrot - in fact, human nature is to love to play, few are born to love to read, and people with a strong intellectual curiosity like flower radish can be said to be an outlier.
Especially in this day and age, reading books does not change fate. No matter how much we read the book, don't you come back and play with us in the mud? Why don't you just start playing with mud?
But the radish still teaches everyone to read every day, and gradually there are one or two people who are tired of playing with mud and occasionally come to learn two words.
In short, the radish is such a person, everyone has a match and no one to learn, the radish three days of fishing and two days of drying nets to teach, the situation is such a situation.
When Radish was invited to New York, she was immediately attracted by the big city atmosphere of New York. He was desperate to learn everything about it.
"Emperor, can I teach all this to my fathers and fellow countrymen? You don't know how backward my fellow countrymen are......" said Turnip, choked up in Indian.
The gray beaver blood tooth can understand this language, so he told the words of the radish to Wang Xijia.
"Hua Radish, I know the situation in your hometown. It's really backward. The so-called poverty alleviation first helps wisdom, and I will help your fellow villagers to open up wisdom in the future. Now you help me translate these manuscripts, I have something to ask the Aztec king. ”
Wang Xijia said and handed the manuscript to Hua Radishes, but Hua Radish couldn't read Chinese. Wang Xika simply read his manuscript to the gray beaver, and the gray beaver translated it to Hua Radish.
After listening to this, Hua Radish said: "Emperor, I understand what you mean, but you are talking too much. This kind of state-to-state document should be formal, please let me polish it for you. ”
Of course, Wang Xika agreed: "Okay, then you can help me polish and polish, and you have to be standardized." ”
So Hua Radish helped Wang Xijia write a formal request for a meeting. The writing is generous and decent, and the words and sentences are rigorous and concise. It is equivalent to the edict of the Son of Heaven in classical Chinese.
It's a pity that Wang Xika can't understand it, and only thinks that the Aztec characters written by the radish look like pictures, and like ancient seals of China, which is particularly interesting.
After the document was written, Wang Xijia sent Tengu to give a Pisces document in Chinese and Aztec to Phoenix Ling of Yosemite and asked him to convey it on his behalf.
By the way, let the tengu wait for a few days in Yosemite and come back with a reply.
After the order was issued, Wang Xika said to Hua Radishes: "As for you, Hua Radishes, you can't leave yet." I have to get a reply before I can let you go—because we can't read what you're writing. If you write something swearful in the letter, I'll cut off your head. ”
Although the radish looks honest, Wang Xika is still afraid that he will carry private goods. Historically, there have been wars between the two countries due to misunderstandings due to translation errors.
"Emperor, I am a cultural person, I will not scold people, you can rest assured. Hua Radish said sincerely.
"You'd better be. Wang Xika waved his hand and asked people to settle the radish in the hotel to rest.