Jing Jun saw that Xu Jingru said that there was a cell boss who came to watch him write poems every day, and there was obviously a strange light in his eyes, and he continued to listen quietly.

"I didn't pay much attention for the first few days, but after a long time, and the walls were almost full, I realized that the cell boss had been watching me for some time. ”

"When the cell boss saw that I was not depicting, he pointed to the wall, and then to me, as if to ask what it was. ”

"Speaking of which, I have to boast a little, I have two hobbies since I was a child, practicing words and reading, and later became a high school Chinese teacher, sometimes on behalf of history classes, decades have passed, nothing else dare to say, the words are good, hard pen and soft pen can be, once won the first prize in the provincial calligraphy competition!"

Xu Jingru said proudly, looking very excited.

Jing Jun can understand, he has a hobby, and he has been recognized and awarded, which is not much different from his own love of firearms, and won the honor of "King of Guns" or even defended this title.

"I haven't opened my mouth to speak for a long time, and I saw that there was nothing else to compare myself with this cell boss, and I slowly understood their language from the most basic 'you and me', in fact, the apes have their own language, but for me at that time it was tantamount to a foreign language, and my foreign language level is average, hehe, you know. ”

As he spoke, he smiled at Jing Jun.

Jing Jun was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly understood what he meant by "foreign language" with "average foreign language level", and also smiled and nodded.

"But I had time, and the cell boss had nothing to do but check the cell every day, and he was very interested in my handwriting, and it was only later when I could briefly talk to him that I explained to him what I had written. ”

"Of course, I just explained to him that it was a kind of writing, a carrier used to record and pass on culture, and then I asked him if there was no such thing as writing?"

The cell boss shook his head, saying that the whole continent is still martial arts, and there are words, but more people can just speak, and at most they can write to record some more important events, and the most important thing is that he thinks that the Chinese characters I write look beautiful and look very comfortable. ”

I joked that I could teach him to write, but he was overjoyed, and then I started teaching him to write Chinese characters in prison, and they had something similar to a brush, and they could also make do with writing. ”

"I have to, the ape people are really strong in learning, of course, I have been a teacher for so many years and have a certain experience in teaching, we teach and learn, I have forgotten how long it has been, and the words of the cell boss are indistinguishable from me. ”

Jing Jun couldn't help but be moved, and he really admired the learning ability of this ape cell leader.

Xu Jingru suddenly sighed, looked a little lonely, and fell silent.

Jing Jun couldn't help asking, "Mr. Xu, what happened later?"

Xu Jingru sighed again, and then said slowly: "I mentioned that after being struck by lightning, he became immortal, and at the same time, there was no disease, but the orcs on the continent will still be born, old, sick and die." ”

Jing Jun suddenly understood what he was going to say.

"I didn't have the concept of time in prison, and I didn't care about it later, I studied with the cell boss for 20 years, and for such a long time, he could speak Chinese, write beautiful Chinese characters, and I also learned their ape language and customs, etc., but he was old, and I didn't find out about it for so long. ”

"It wasn't until one day, when two younger apes followed him to the prison, that I suddenly found that his back was so hunched, his face and beard were all white, and the two apes who came with him were his sons, and at this time, these two young men actually spoke fluent Chinese, no different from our Mandarin. ”

"He asked his son to worship me as a teacher and continue to study Han culture, and at the same time he also told me that it was unwise to lock me up in prison for so many years, and now that he is declining, he will do his best to get me out of prison and carry forward Han culture in the ape clan!"

"I was deeply moved by his determination, and it was his words that rekindled my hope for life. ”

"After that day, he did not appear in prison, but his two sons came to study with me and take care of me in prison. ”

"In the past two years, he has only appeared once, and told me that he has passed on my situation and his twenty years of learning to the ears of the Ape Emperor, and the Ape Emperor seems to have an impression of me, and I may be out of prison in a few days, but he is coughing and his eyes are cloudy, and I can see that he is really running out of oil without knowing medical skills. ”

"Sure enough, it didn't take long for his two sons to come to prison in linen and Dai Xiao, and I already understood what was happening, because Dai Xiao also taught him to pay tribute to his relatives. ”

"The cell boss has passed away!"

Speaking of this, there were tears in Xu Jingru's eyes, the only best friend left thousands of years ago, and everyone was saddened.

Jing Jun could deeply feel Xu Jingru's grief, and couldn't help but comfort: "Mr. Xu's day mourns......"

Xu Jingru blinked his eyes twice, didn't let the tears remain, and said: "Hehe, after so many years, it is the first time that I have recalled to others in such detail, and the cell head can be said to be the most important friend in my life." ”

Jing Jun nodded, but he didn't speak, in fact, he didn't know how to answer.

Xu Jingru quietly remembered his cell boss friend for a while, and then continued to tell what happened.

"It's been more than a month, the Emperor of the Ape issued a decree to release me from the prison, and it's still on the top of that big hall, but the emperor of the clan who looked unruly more than twenty years ago is also dying, and I suspect that his daily life at that time needs to be carefully taken care of by the attendants. ”

"And I, except for the image I didn't pay attention to in prison, my hair and beard have grown a little, and there is not a trace of wrinkles on my face, and there are many changes in the civil and military generals present, but most of them have seen me burned to ashes at that time, and those who have not seen me have heard their parents talk about it, and after I touched up my makeup, they were all amazed. ”

"Of course, by this time I could already understand what they were saying, the eldest son of the cell boss turned out to be a military general in the court, although he was not a general, but he also had a certain amount of power to speak, and he told in detail what his father and I had learned from each other over the years, and praised our Han culture. ”

The Ape Emperor nodded from time to time, maybe people will be much calmer when they get old, he no longer has any doubts about my identity, but asks a lot of specific matters about cultural exchanges, mainly in terms of words. ”

"I knew that the opportunity had come, not only for a turning point in my life, but also for my first friend's expectations of me, to explain all the problems of the Emperor of the Apes in their words, and finally to perform calligraphy on the spot. ”

"Don't really say it, look at their five big and three thick, they have all kinds of heads, but for the 'beauty' discernment is quite uniform, I don't say that my words are the best, but it's much more comfortable than their words crawling over like insects. ”

"The Ape Emperor immediately ordered that I be allowed to teach the written language throughout the Ape Clan, and that the Great Demon Saint of the Fire Department who burned me at that time be in charge of supervising it. ”

"Speaking of which, his strength is the highest, so more than 20 years have passed, he doesn't look much older, or maybe he is the same long-lived generation, his interests are relatively broader, I have a lot of exchanges with him after opening the book and establishing the academy, and his knowledge is much broader than that of the cell head, for learning, he is also the fastest learner, not long, we can communicate normally in Chinese, and his handwriting is also very good. ”

"The old ape emperor died, and the new emperor succeeded to the throne, and this one also had good results in the academy, in the first year of his reign, he ordered the ape dynasty to select people with flexible minds to study in the Han Academy of Tongtian City, and after five years, he was responsible for returning to his hometown to inherit!"

"The Fire Demon Saint also tried his best to promote this, and it didn't take long for young people of all races and races to come to Babel City, many of them were pretentious, and they had many doubts about my teaching, and they were strong, I had no other ability than to die, and then it was thanks to the majesty of the Fire Demon Saint. ”

"Soon, five years have passed, these people are worthy of being selected talents, I have taught almost the same, even if I am not proficient in the cell head and the Fire Demon Saint, it is not a problem for ordinary people to speak Mandarin. ”

Xu Jingru's face was full of smug color at this time.

Jing Jun nodded secretly, to be able to pass on his culture in a completely unfamiliar world, this is really the work of a saint, the title of "Holy Ancestor", worthy of the name!

"Hehe, a group of students returned to their hometowns, and I had a little more time, and then I noticed that they practiced calligraphy or recorded on all kinds of animal skins, which was very inconvenient, so I thought of our paper-making skills. ”

Jing Jun was full of surprise and stammered: "You mean that you invented the paper on the mainland now?"

"Haha, if you say it here, it was invented by me, in fact, I like it very much, but it's not a strong point for hard science, and about papermaking, it's also based on some historical records I read before, trying to boil and dry it with various materials, but I didn't expect it to be really done in the end. ”

Jing Jun sincerely admired Xu Jingru at this time, first helping the Eastern Continent to "make words", having cultural inheritance tools, and then "making paper", which is a cultural recording tool.

Thirty years after I was released from prison, the new Ape Emperor was at the end of middle age, and the entire ape tribe had been popularized with Chinese and Chinese characters. ”

"But at that time, the elders of the Zongmiao were all powerful and sophisticated, and although my fifty years in the mainland were not short for them, it was not enough to be on an equal footing with them. ”