6 Curiosity

Who can resist the temptation of the Monkey King?

Anyway, Xie Shi can't.

Hesitating for a second is disrespectful to the Monkey King.

He replied loudly: "Yes!" ”

At the end of the opening song, in the system's fictional screening room, the white and innocent little ball is already huddled with the fluffy fat tanuki on a round soft chair, almost hugging each other.

And that's not all.

The light on the fat tanuki's silvery white fur converged, and in a flash, a coffee table appeared in Xiao Tuanzi's hand, and on it were a few plates of fragrant snacks, melon seeds and fruits.

"Wow!"

As soon as the delicious dim sum was in his mouth, Xie Shi couldn't help but let out an exclamation. His two small soft hands grasped the claws of the fat tanuki at once, and little stars seemed to twinkle in his eyes.

- Who can refuse such a caring kitten? He declares that cats will be his best friends forever!

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"Brother Monkey ~ Brother Monkey ~ You are amazing!"

"Five Elements Mountain~ Can't Suppress Your ......"*

Xie Shi followed the beat, bouncing along the dry dirt road of Erqiao Village, and a group of urchins surrounded him in the center.

The cheerful and lively children's chorus floated from the head of the village to the end of the village, floating on the autumn fields, mountains and forests, and by the streams.

The children's carefree singing is like a bubbling sweet spring flowing through Erqiao Village, and the villagers who have worked all day forget the fatigue and hardship of the whole day, and the deep wrinkles on their faces are relaxed.

Since the tragic loss of supernatural powers, these are the most surviving days Xie Shi. Although the bizarre and colorful dreams of the past are gone, it has a new nighttime entertainment - in the dream, you can freely pet the cat, eat melon seeds, eat snacks, and watch the Monkey King.

During the day, he can continue to share the story of the Monkey King with his friends and enjoy the adoring eyes of his friends.

The little day is really beautiful, beautiful.

Behind Xie Shi's beautiful life, the system is moving forward with a load.

Within two days, the system stopped backing, and the showdown was over: the virtual screening room in the dream, the animated plot, and the delicious melon seed snacks all required energy to be constructed.

Although it is not as large as the consumption of "Sleepwalking in the Heavens", the energy reserves that are bottomed out by the system are not enough to sustain it for a long time.

[Energy is like a person's physical strength, but if the physical strength is not replenished by eating, he can only lie still.] In the dream, the fluffy fat tanuki drooped its head, pitiful and miserable, [The host no longer absorbs knowledge, I can only lie down.] There's no more energy to build a virtual screening room for the host! ]

Are you sure? Xie Shihu's suspicious little eyes turned around the fat civet cat, and finally nodded that it should be true.

It's not because of the temptation of the Monkey King. Thinking that he is in a hurry to help the leader of the Second Bridge, how can he sit back and watch his good friend go hungry?

Xie Shi's eyebrows immediately twisted into a tangled ball.

- Help recharge the system, yes!

- Read and study, refuse to refuse!

Sooner or later, he will return to the immortal class in the future, so why should he read mundane books? Besides, which cub likes to read (tremble)!!

Xie Shi's first impression of reading was not good.

He had seen an old man with gray hair and a patched body in a dream. He claimed to be 60 years old, and he began to study hard at the age of seven, and he read books for decades, just to take the imperial examination, but he was only a child for the rest of his life.

The old man in the dream was crazy, crying and laughing when he mentioned reading. Mistakenly thinking that the little tuanzi who is white and pure and like a New Year's painting doll is the little fairy sent by the gods, he will be able to bless him in this scientific examination, and he is so happy that he kowtows to Xiao Tuanzi in his dreams, no matter how Xiao Tuanzi persuades, he can't persuade him.

This scene left a deep shadow on Xie Shi's young heart. made him think that reading was really a chore, and if he was not careful, he would fall into the devil - where is the crooked and evil way of studying the imperial examination comparable to the glorious and righteous path of cultivating immortals? In case he is also killed by that crazy appearance, where is there any hope of re-enlisting the immortal class?

Xiao Tuanzi made a decision with a sad face.

…… Instead of letting him suffer from studying, he really let his good friend continue to be hungry.

System: [...... ]

…… Is this the best friend forever?

…… The cubs are fickle.

Fortunately, the system never thought that it would be so simple for Xie Shi to change his original intention, and he must know that the "Internet addiction" for several years was cut off, and it never shook the idea of this little group becoming an immortal.

[The essence of learning is to seek knowledge, knowledge is power, and reading is only one of the ways to seek knowledge.] ]

[The so-called knowledge seeking is to explore all the unknown, to turn the unknown into the known, and this process can absorb new knowledge.] ]

[Just as I told the host the principle of water and rice, the host understands and remembers, that is, it turns the unknown into the known and absorbs new knowledge.] As long as the host continues to learn, it is enough to ask "why is this so" in everything. The reason why the gods have great powers is that there are enough "known". ]

After a long discussion of the system, Xie Shi only remembered the last sentence and the key word "knowledge".

"Ask more, 'Why?'"

Shaking his head and muttering, Xiao Tuanzi patted his chest and packed the ticket: "This is easy." ”

Since then, he has turned on the "100,000 Whys" mode.

Why do spring, summer, autumn and winter alternate reincarnation, why flowers and trees flourish and decline, why the sun rises and falls in the west, why does the moon rise in the day and rises at night, why the rice is harvested in autumn and hidden in winter, and why ducks are raised in the rice fields...... Human cubs are the most curious creatures, but because they have no one to answer their questions since they were young, they have gradually become accustomed to not asking questions when they grow up. Now, when Xie Shi rediscovered many of the puzzles that had arisen in the past, the curiosity that had gradually faded in the years of growth returned.

With the huge database of the system, all of Xie Shi's doubts can be answered in detail, some of which he understands, and some of which he ignores.

Xie Shi began to see the world in a new light.

He truly found the joy of exploring the unknown. The moment the confusion was eliminated, it was like catching crickets all over the mountains, and finally looking for the cricket with the best appearance and strongest combat effectiveness from the depths of the grass, and pure happiness gushed out.

The Xie family was surprised to find out that Xie Shi had changed.

When the old Xu family was cooking on the fire, he squatted next to him and watched, and asked with a black face: "Why does this black smoke come out of the chimney and don't run home?" ”

When the two sisters of the big house followed the eldest lady Liu to learn embroidery, a small round head emerged from among them: "What kind of flower is this?" Why embroider this flower? Why is embroidery called female red and not male red? Why do sisters have to learn embroidery, doesn't it hurt to have a needle prick? Saying that, he picked up his eldest sister's bloody finger and blew "whirring", teaching people to cry and laugh.

Even when the tax collector came to collect the field tax from every household, he would come out coldly and ask: "Why should the grain that you have worked so hard to grow be taken away by others?" What is a tax, and why do we have to pay taxes for our own farming? ”

At that time, Xie Dayou and his two sons were paying grain and taxes, and the third child of the Xie family, who had nothing to do, wandered in the crowd and listened to the six roads, and when he heard such a sentence behind him, he turned his head to meet the little nephew's dark eyes, and immediately broke out in a cold sweat, and covered the little guy's mouth.

Still uneasy, he hurriedly carried the small ball back home.

This kid, why dare you tell the truth casually?

The tax collectors are fiercer than tigers, and it is not good for them to hear it!

The little ball whose mouth was covered blinked with big curious eyes, and there was no fear in his eyes, only a naïve stubbornness.

Although he felt that the little nephew was a little bolder, Xie Sen did not reprimand or perfunctory, but shook the child in his arms, and pondered for a while before explaining: "We can't tell, the field tax is handed over to the imperial court, and it is said that the imperial court can only raise soldiers if it has money and food, and only by raising good soldiers can the northern captives be kept out of the customs, otherwise every household will never have peace." ”

As he spoke, he lost his mind: "When I went to social studies, Mr. once said that the land tax was not high when Daqi first opened the country, and Emperor Taizu took pity on the people and paid three liters of grain per mu, but now it is not done. A few years ago, there was only one additional ......"

Speaking of this, Xie Sen sighed heavily.

Rural people rely on the sky for food. When the year is good, you can still have food and clothing, and once there is a natural disaster, it is common for families to be ruined and people die. Taxes are getting heavier every year, which is really not a good sign.

Xie Sen let out a long sigh, but he didn't notice that the little ball in his arms listened to his complaints with his eyes open.

The sun and the moon are like a shuttle, and a month has passed in the blink of an eye.

In just one month, the Xie family is accustomed to a small group of people who speak amazingly at any time in every corner, and they are taught to be speechless as soon as they ask questions, not knowing what to do.

The existence of the system has long been a secret that one person and one cat have agreed to keep, and when Xie Shi went around asking "why", others could not hear the system's answer, and could only hesitate in the innocent and confused gaze of Xiao Tuanzi.

The family was helpless: "He is a four-year-old doll, I really don't know where there are so many strange problems......"

"In the past, I didn't think he was at home, but now I'd rather this chaotic demon star play outside for a while longer, so as not to give me a headache."

Xiao Tuanzi's mother-in-law, Yu, can only caress her forehead.

He also cast his sympathetic and admiring eyes on Xie Sen, the third elder of the Xie family: "It's hard for the third brother to be patient with him." ”

Xie Sen smiled: "Why should the family be polite. With my brother by my side, I feel like it's very lively. ”

I don't know if it was because of the serious answering of questions last time, Xie Sen has been "taken care of" by his little nephew a lot during this time.

Often when he turned his head, he saw his little nephew following him with his short legs, and his eyes were on Xiao Tuanzi's bright eyes that flashed with the words "I'm curious".

The reason is actually quite simple.

Xie Shi found from his observations in these days that the third uncle Xie Sen is the person who has the most knowledge and understanding of the old Xie family.

He studied social studies for three years, and since the age of ten he ran in a restaurant in the town, because he was good-looking, able to speak and literate, he was actually favored by a bookkeeper and promised his only daughter to marry him.

After getting married, the young couple ran around the village and town, coming back to help with the work when the family was not busy with manpower, and most of the rest of the time they were in the town, following his father-in-law to do things. The Zhang family is an only daughter, and Mr. Accounts teaches his son-in-law carefully, and he expects this son-in-law to take over his class in the future.

Compared with the two brothers, Xie Sen is indeed more knowledgeable.

When he was studying social studies, he was not talented and his grades were not outstanding, but he won the love of the social teacher with his diligence and seriousness, and he also made a group of classmates with good relationships, otherwise, where would he, a country boy, have the opportunity to be introduced to work in a restaurant in the town?

When working in the restaurant, he had a sweet mouth and would come to things, and when he was free, he cheekily came to Mr. Ledger to steal the teacher, and invited him to eat some refreshments and fruits at every turn.

Not to mention anything else, his ability to seize opportunities is first-class. As for observing words and feelings, and dealing with people, not to mention. Being able to please different people is a kind of ability.

At the dinner table, the rest of the family was still having a headache with Xie Shi's overly strong desire for knowledge, but Xie Sen had different ideas.

"Brother Shi'er will be five years old in the New Year." He suddenly proposed, "If you are so smart, why don't you send him to school?" ”