Chapter 105 The herd, the back mountain, the recipe
Chapter 105: Cattle, Back Mountain, and Good Recipe
Under the starlight, there are one piece of paper, two pieces of paper, three pieces of paper on the table by the west window...
Chen Pipi looked at the dense regular ink marks on the paper, his eyes widened more and more, and his scalp felt a little numb. He thought to himself what the title was, and actually wrote three long words, and subconsciously started reading from the beginning.
:
"The brilliance of Haotian spreads all over the world, paying loving attention to all living things like a cowherd. If you think you are somewhat smart, you can try to calculate the number of cattle that Haotian shepherds."
"The herds of cattle gathered at the Kaiping Market in the north of the Tang Empire. They were divided into four groups and passed through the city gate to graze leisurely on the barbarian grasslands. The first group was as white as milk, the second group was shining with black luster, and the third group was as white as milk.
One group is brown and yellow, and the fourth group has colorful coats. Each group has male and female cows, as many as they want."
"First tell you the proportion of bulls in each group: the number of white bulls is equal to the number of brown bulls plus one-third and one-half of the number of black bulls. In addition, the number of black bulls is one-quarter of the number of spotted bulls plus five points.
One plus all the brown bulls... When the brown bulls and the colorful bulls are together, they form a triangle, and no cow dares to break in..."
"Please tell me the number of cows in each group accurately, and add another explanation: I have solved this problem when I was seven years old."
In the following time, Chen Pipi stared at the dense ink characters on the paper, began to bite the pen holder, scratched his head and pulled his hair, smashed his legs and pursed his lips, gasped, licked the tip of the pen again, began to calculate, gave up again, and then continued to bite
The penholder scratched his head, pulled his hair, smashed his legs, pursed his lips, sucked in air and cursed in a low voice, and he still didn't leave until late at night.
In the early morning, the mountain behind the academy is shrouded in light mist. There are several loose fences surrounding the stone flat. You can faintly hear the sound of chickens crowing and pecking in the distance. Occasionally, it can be heard from the school building deep in the stone flat.
A few words of reciting and asking questions.
The fog gradually opened, and Chen Pipi walked out with his fat body. His eyes, which he had stared at all night, were bloodshot. His hair, which was usually tightly tied, was as fluffy and messy as a haystack after being pulled over by a chicken chop. He looked extremely embarrassed.
It doesn't look like he read a book all night, but like a poor child who was taught a lesson with a stick by his mother all night long.
Walking to the door of the school building, listening to the people reciting books and asking questions, and thinking about how proud he was in daily life, Chen Pipi couldn't help showing a bit of shame on his fat face, but the urge to solve the problem made him feel ashamed.
Finally overcoming the humiliation he might face, he gritted his teeth and pushed open the door and walked in. He bowed respectfully to everyone around him without looking.
After a while, several shocked and mocking laughter sounded in the study room.
"There are actually math problems in this world that our junior brother doesn't understand?"
"How can we guys solve a problem that even the only genius in the world like you can't solve?"
"Pippi... stop being naughty."
At this moment, a person appeared at the door of the study room, and the laughter in the room suddenly stopped. Everyone, including Chen Pipi, quickly stood up, bowed respectfully and saluted, and said, "I have met the second senior brother."
I saw that the man called the second senior brother was tall, wearing a rather ancient hat, an ordinary college summer clothes, and a gold-woven ribbon tied around his waist.
His eyes were solemn and upright, and his whole body exuded a sense of strict observance of etiquette. Standing here, the whole person looked like an unshakable palace.
"The season of the year is spring, and now it is still late spring. Before the summer, you have begun to be lax again! The season of the day is morning, and now at the beginning of the morning, you have begun to laugh and laugh again. How unbecoming!"
Everyone knows that the second senior brother has such a proud, polite and upright character. When facing him on weekdays, he is even more nervous than when facing the master and senior brother. Fortunately, he has long been accustomed to hearing such clichés, entering through the ears and through the nostrils.
When he came out, he didn't take it seriously, he just smiled and acted stupid and responded.
Chen Pipi couldn't pretend to be stupid. He smiled awkwardly. Under the stern gaze of his second senior brother, he tidied up his disheveled scalp as quickly as possible. He also pulled the wrinkled school clothes on his body and coughed twice.
Sheng stepped forward and handed the pieces of paper in his hand to the second senior brother in an extremely respectful manner.
"You were in the top six subjects during the admission exam, but there are still math questions that you can't solve?"
The second senior brother frowned slightly and took the three pieces of paper and glanced at them. He said the same sentence, but he was not mocking Chen Pipi, but he was actually a little confused as to who came up with the question to actually embarrass a genius like his junior brother like this.
?
"Um?"
After quickly reading the questions on the paper, the second senior brother's brows furrowed even more fiercely, his thin lips curled up, and he held back a sentence for a long time: "Whose fault is this? The algorithm is too troublesome.
I don’t know how much time it will take to figure it out. I have to study ancient rituals recently and I won’t have time to play around with you. You can figure it out yourself.”
After saying these words, the second senior brother flicked his sleeves, put his hands on the gold-woven ribbon around his waist, turned around proudly, left the bookstore, and walked straight towards the mist-shrouded fence outside the door.
There was silence in the study room, and all the students looked at the back of the second senior brother in shock. They thought that the second senior brother who used seriousness to hide his absolute pride would actually use this method to avoid fighting? Thinking about the serious demeanor of the second senior brother on weekdays, some people wanted to
When she laughed, she immediately raised her hand to cover her mouth, for fear that she would laugh out loud and let him hear her.
Chen Pipi looked at the back of the second senior brother who was gradually retreating, his expression became even more ugly, his fat face twitched and undulated, he chased him to the door and shouted in a tearful voice: "Senior brother! You have to help me with some ideas!"
At this time, the second senior brother slowly walked towards the outside of Shiping with rigorous and square steps, like an emperor on the stage. Listening to Chen Pipi's plea, he did not look back, but raised his hand and waved impatiently.
, scolded angrily: "It doesn't count if you say it doesn't count. I don't know how big a number this bastard question will be in the end... Not to mention the Kaiping Market, even the entire Tang Empire cannot put down so many cows, but I do
I’m curious where Haotian’s ranch is!”
"Okay, I admit I can't figure this goddam problem out, but I don't believe you can figure it out either, especially when you're seven years old. Unless you tell me the answer right away, I'm going to think
You are cheating. To tell you the truth, cheating on me in the academy, especially on someone who is so angry today, will have very serious consequences. This is not a warning to you, but a friendly reminder."
Next to the desk by the west window, Ning Que stepped on the chair with his right foot and rested his right arm on the window stile to support his chin. He read the guy's message with relish and raised his eyebrows proudly from time to time. When he saw the words "Old Shame Turns Angry",
He couldn't help but laugh out loud, causing the female professor by the east window to frown and look at him.
Ning Que quickly sat up straight and continued to read the guy's message.
He didn't know who the person who was so embarrassed and angry in the message was, and he thought it was an excuse by the guy who left the message to save face. If he were to know the person who was so embarrassed and angry that he walked away because of his Archimedes question.
It was the legendary second senior brother on the second floor. I don’t know if he would smile more happily or break out in a cold sweat.
As for the guy who left the message accusing him of cheating, Ning Que didn't care at all. As a former patient with Stockholm Syndrome, he knew very well the pain and anger when looking at a question and not being able to find the answer - the person who left the message didn't care at all.
The guy's accusation is nothing more than an extremely urgent need to know the answer.
"Do you want to know the answer to this question? It's very simple. You tell me the answer to your decoction question first. Then this competition will count as a tie between you and me. If you are not convinced, we can continue in the future.
.”
The spring light outside the window was last blooming, and the cicadas were chirping for the first time. Ning Que shook his head and chuckled, rolled up his sleeves, filled his ink with water, polished his pen, patted an inkstone, and wrote the above paragraph on the paper.
On the night of the second day, the carriage left the academy, passed through the Suzaku Gate in the south of Chang'an City, and arrived at Lin 47 Lane in the East City. It stopped in front of Lao Bizhai. Ning Que turned around and thanked the coachman and walked into the shop.
The shop door closed, and Sang Sang came out with a bowl of hot and sour noodle soup left over from the morning. He placed it in front of Ning Que along with the chopsticks and towel, and then took out a plate of vinegar-pickled cabbage heads and a plate from under the table.
Three shredded noodles.
After studying hard in the academy for a whole day, he had to eat leftovers and pickles when he got home. Ning Que thought to himself, why do we still treat ourselves so harshly when we already have a net worth of two thousand taels? On a normal day,
Maybe he would directly teach the little maid a lesson, but he was in a good mood today, so he just shook his head, picked up the chopsticks and ate with relish, and asked a few questions about the business in the shop today.
Sangsang had already eaten in the afternoon, and was sitting next to him at this time, with her thin arms folded on the table, her dark little face resting on her arms, her head tilted and her eyes staring at the willow leaves as she looked around.
Ning Que looked at his face and asked curiously after a while: "Master, are you in a good mood today?"
"Yeah." Ning Que picked up a piece of soaked green cabbage that turned black and threw it into his mouth. He chewed it and frowned in pain at the sour taste. He answered vaguely: "We met in the academy recently.
A very interesting guy.”
When Sangsang heard that he had made new friends in the academy, she laughed happily, tilted her little face and asked with concern: "Are they classmates? Male or female?"
Ning Que looked at the little maid's face and was slightly startled. He scratched the tip of his chopsticks in the warm hot and sour noodle soup. After a moment, he hesitated and said: "I haven't seen anyone before, but... it should be a man, right?"
"wrong."
Thinking of the obscene metaphor that the guy used when he left a message for the first time, he shook his head and said decisively: "No, that guy must be a man, and he must be a very wretched man who has had sex with women.
A poor, wretched man who has lost money many times."
"Pity and wretchedness..." Sangsang began to think, the tip of her nose wrinkled slightly, "It seems they are not the same thing."
"Pity is experience, wretchedness is temperament." Ning Que explained seriously.
Sangsang sat up straight and asked curiously: "Does it mean he is ugly?"
"As I said just now, I have never seen anyone else."
Ning Que took out a piece of paper from his arms and handed it to her, and said: "There are several medicinal materials on the paper, as well as methods of decoction, preparation and cutting. You can go to the pharmacy tomorrow to get the medicine, and then come back and treat it yourself. Remember not to
Let outsiders see it."
Sangsang took it and asked with a frown, "Why can't people see it?"
Ning Que couldn't help laughing as he thought about the guy who left a message for him in his old house, and said, "If my guess is right, that guy should be a student on the second floor of the academy, and this prescription must also be exquisite on the second floor.
The secret recipe, since you and I secretly took advantage of that guy, it’s best not to spread it to anyone else.”