The flowing water seat was set up for three days in a row before it stopped, and Wang Shouren also lived in Xia Yuan's house unceremoniously.

Not only did I live, but I also lived very moist, and I ate and slept soundly.

Xia Yuan sometimes saw him and thought, this guy is from a big family, and he eats more mats than anyone else, at least he can be regarded as having fish and meat.

But the porridge at home is green, and he still eats it with relish, and he doesn't recognize the bed when he sleeps at night, so he sleeps with a pillow.

Every time I passed by his room at night, I could hear snoring from inside.

Is the heart so big?

Wang Shouren has been studying the articles and notes in the past two days, and since the dismissal, Xia Ru gave him a thick stack of such things, but he did not refuse to come, and accepted them all.

However, after studying it carefully for two days, he realized that these things seemed to be.... Nothing to use?

There are not eight articles in it, but notes from scriptures.

And those eight strands are still very ordinary.

When he got up this morning and read these articles for a while, he finally couldn't help but run to the courtyard to find Xia Yuan, "Teacher, the students are stupid, the students have been studying these articles for two days, why can't they see the slightest way?" ”

Xia Yuan was sitting in the courtyard squinting in the sun, the warm sun near winter was the most comfortable, shining on the body warmly, making people almost sleep.

Hearing the question, he opened his eyes and found that it was his uncle's article notes, and asked with some puzzlement: "What do you want to see?" ”

"Student..."

Wang Shouren hesitated, what did he want to see?

Or what have you been looking forward to?

"Don't tell me, you want to read these articles and then go to the exam and come back."

"Lift people?"

"Ang, these articles and these notes are my uncle's eight thoughts over the years, if a show is to take it and read it, it may be of some use, but it is completely useless to you."

As he spoke, Xia Yuan unconsciously sat up straight from his chair, "It's quite incomprehensible to me, you are a jinshi, what did my uncle do for you, and you are a jinshi, and you read something all day long with the notes of these examiners." ”

“.... This is the note used by the examiner? ”

"Isn't it?"

“.......”

The silence lasted for a second, two, three seconds...

"Didn't you tell my uncle that you are a jinshi?"

“... No. ”

“......”

Xia Yuan got up from the chair, "I see that both of you have a bit of a problem, especially you, the problem is even bigger, I guess you are also a little stupid at home, let's go, I'll take you to the village to take a look around and control your brain." ”

Wang Shouren didn't say anything, put those notes and articles in his arms, and followed Xia Yuan out.

As soon as the two walked out of the courtyard gate, they bumped into Zhao Yuerong head-on, she was carrying a big back basket behind her, and the back basket was full of firewood, and she looked happy.

But Xia Yuan frowned: "Why did you run to collect firewood again?" Picked up so many? ”

"It's not."

Zhao Yuerong shook his head and explained happily: "There are a lot of them that I didn't pick up, they were all sent by those uncles and aunts who went to the mountains to chop wood. ”

"Then have you ever wondered why they sent it to you?"

"I know, because my husband was admitted to understand the yuan."

Well, you know.

Xia Yuan felt speechless, he used to go up the mountain to collect firewood all day long, but now he has passed the exam to understand Yuan, or he still goes up the mountain to collect firewood, and with the identity of Xie Yuan's daughter-in-law, he will only gain more than before.

It seems that there is only one way to get this little girl to give up picking up firewood, and that is to have no firewood for her to pick up.

Moved to the capital.

The thought came to mind again.

After all, when I lived in the Beijing Inn a few days ago, I didn't see her running to collect firewood.

Having made up his mind, Xia Yuan asked, "We're going to go out for a walk, do you want to go with us?" ”

Zhao Yuerong was a little moved when she heard this, but after thinking about it, she shook her head, "Don't go, I still have something." ”

"What's the matter with you?"

"I'm going to dry the quilt, it's a good day today, dry the quilt."

"Cheng, then you can dry it."

............

Winter is approaching, and many people in the village are turning the ground in the fields and turning the soil softer, so that after a winter, the soil will be hard and impossible to cultivate in the spring of the next year.

Seeing Xia Yuan leading Wang Shouren over, everyone put down the hoes in their hands and waved to greet him.

Xia Yuan waved his arm vigorously a few times, which was considered to be a response to everyone, and as soon as he put his arm down, he heard Wang Shouren next to him ask another question, "Teacher, what are these dealers doing?" Cultivate? ”

"Where do you farm in the winter?"

"The student's hometown is spring farming."

"Coincidentally, we're here too."

"And what are these dealers doing?"

"Turn the ground, the weather is cold in winter, turn the ground over and turn it softer, otherwise after a winter, the soil in the field will freeze, and you will not be able to cultivate it in the spring of the next year."

In two lives, Xia Yuan is a household registration in the north, and he has seen the land ploughing in winter a few times in his previous life, and he doesn't feel that there is anything to doubt.

"I think you seem to be a Southerner?"

"Yuyao, the student's hometown."

"That's right, the temperature over there is relatively warm, and the winter is not as cold as in the north, and the fields will not freeze, so you must have never seen such a thing as plowing the ground in winter, and it is normal to feel confused."

Saying that, Xia Yuan ignored him anymore, found a sunny and open place to squat, put his two hands into the cuffs, basking in the sun and muttering: "But this day is really cold, this is obviously autumn, it's cold like something, oh yes, I almost forgot, the Ming Dynasty is the Xiaoice River period." ”

Xiaoice period?

Wang Shouren quickly found the key point from his pile of emotions, and leaned over and asked, "Master, what is the Xiaoice River period?" ”

Xia Yuan waved his hand at him, "You go to the side, don't block my sunshine." ”

Hearing this, Wang Shouren hurriedly moved to the side, and then asked, "Master, what is the Xiaoice River period?" ”

"The Xiaoice period was a colder period."

“.......”

Wang Shouren waited patiently for a while, and found that Xia Yuan had no follow-up, and even closed his eyes and began to pretend to sleep, and couldn't help but be surprised: "That's how to explain?" ”

"Aang, what more explanation do you want?"

"Students want to find out."

After staring at Wang Shouren for a while, Xia Yuan sighed and watched the white mist exhaled from his mouth slowly drift in the air, "Okay, I'll tell you in detail." ”

"Hmm.... The Xiaoice period is a period of significant global temperature drops, to be exact, the temperature in the northern hemisphere should drop sharply, and the temperature drops even more. ”

“........”

"Don't understand?"

"Students.... Students are stupid. ”

"Don't say anything stupid, it has nothing to do with whether you are stupid or not, and if you are stupid, there will be no smart people in the world."

Xia Yuan looked left and right, reached out to pick up a dead branch, and then drew a circle on the ground,

"Let's put it this way, the place where we live is actually a round ball."

"Balls? Daming is a round ball? ”

"It's not the Ming Dynasty, it's the whole earth, or the whole world is a ball, by the way, didn't you ancients always say that the sky is round and the place is round?"

"We ancients?"

Xia Yuan's face did not change and said: "Don't care about the details, let's go on to talk about the round sky, you see, the sky above your head is round, as long as you raise your head and look at the sky, you can see it at a glance, right?" ”

Wang Shouren subconsciously raised his head to look at the sky, "Yes." ”

"And what do you think the earth looks like?"

"Also round?"

Xia Yuan was stunned, "You know? ”

"When the student was young, he once read a book of "Notes on the Armillary Sphere", which was written by Zhang Heng in the Han Dynasty, which contained: The armillary sky is like a chicken, the earth is like an egg in the yellow, living alone, the sky is big and the earth is small."

Wang Shouren looked up at the sky, as if he was caught in a memory, "At that time, the student was young, and he didn't understand the meaning, so he asked many people in a row, but no one could answer, and then he gradually forgot about it. ”

"It's not a ball, it's a round ball, forget it, it's all about the same, but since you know this, do you believe that Zhang Heng's statement is right?"

Wang Shouren pondered for a moment and shook his head slowly, "Don't hide it from the teacher, it's really difficult for students to understand this. ”

"Is it incomprehensible?"

Xia Yuan hadn't read any notes on the Heavenly Collection, but as soon as he heard this guy say it just now, and after pondering it again, he instantly understood what that record meant.

It is nothing more than saying that the world is like an egg, the sky is the egg white, the earth is the egg yolk, and the egg white wraps the egg yolk, so the sky and the earth are small.

It cannot be said to be exactly similar to the earth as known by later generations, but can only be said to be exactly the same.

However, he is essentially a posterity, and at first glance he will feel that this statement is normal and correct.

Of course, there is also shock, but the point of shock is that the ancestors realized that the earth is round as early as the Han Dynasty?

It's amazing my ancestors.

For the ancients, seeing this kind of statement that they live in an egg, they will only be more shocked, but after they are shocked, it is difficult to accept, and even a little scary.

It is a pity that the child who counted the stars put forward the correct statement, but it was not accepted by the world, thanks to the fact that Huaxia did not have the habit of tying the pioneers to the fire and burning them.

"It's hard for you to understand, and I don't know how to explain it to you, anyway, the sky is a ball, and the earth is also a ball, and the big ball is a small ball, like an egg.

It can't be a round place, you see, if the sky is round, then the world should be like this. ”

As he spoke, Xia Yuan drew on the ground with a branch, a square, and a dome buttoned up.

From a certain point of view, the world view proposed by the ancients is actually quite meticulous, the sky is like a dome, the earth is like a chessboard, and the dome of the sky is buckled on the chessboard, which is obviously not commensurate, just like a copper plate, there are four more arc edges, and these four sides are the four seas.

Southeast, Northwest, and Four Seas.

The logic is smooth and thorough, but unfortunately it is not very correct.

"Look, if the world is like this, this chessboard is the Ming Dynasty, and these four arcs are the four seas, then where are the countries that Zheng He saw when he went to the West?"

"Does the teacher mean all the overseas?"

"Yes...."

Xia Yuan just nodded, and heard the sound of horses' hooves in the distance, and subconsciously turned his head to look.

Wang Shouren was listening interestingly, and when he saw Xia Yuan suddenly stop talking, he couldn't help asking, "Why didn't the teacher talk about it?" ”

"Do you think that person is a little familiar?"