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This time, retelling Journey to the West is much slower than in a tea shop.

Because there are not so many tea drinkers in the tea shop.

And this young man is actually a curious baby, and he can ask questions by himself just by talking a few words.

"How big is that stone? It can hold a monkey!"

"Why is it a monkey? Can't it be some other animal?"

"Why can the monkey talk when it comes out of the stone?"

Yan Kai couldn't resist the questions and asked curiously: "Why didn't Mr. Zheng have so many questions when he was listening to my story in the tea shop?"

"How can you be so rude in public?" Mr. Zheng said confidently, and then asked: "Since there is a plaque in Shuiliandong, do you know who left it?"

"I don't know, it's not written in the book!" Yan Kai was speechless. When he encountered a question that he couldn't answer, he could only answer this way.

They continued talking until it was almost dark, when the servant came over and said, "Sir, it's time to eat."

"Okay... then you ask the chef to make two copies and bring them to me."

As he said this, he pointed at Yan Kai, and it was obvious that he wanted to eat with Yan Kai here.

The servant had no choice but to reply, and then a maid came in with a dinner plate.

Yan Kai took a look and saw that what he was eating was actually the same as what this young man was eating.

There is a saying that a young man will eat a poor man. Yan Kai ate a few snacks of this young man in the afternoon, and now they are no longer in his stomach.

So I was not polite, thanked him and started eating.

The noodles we eat tonight should still be called soup cakes at this time.

Yan Kai hadn't eaten noodles made from this kind of flour for a long time, and it also came with some vegetables and meat slices, so he finished the large bowl in front of him with a sigh of relief.

"Huh, it's comfortable, but it's a pity there's no spicy oil."

"Spicy oil? What is it?" Mr. Zheng, who had always been silent during the meal, asked abruptly.

"Spicy oil is..." Yan Kai thought for a while, how to answer?

Chili Seed is still in America at the moment. I did see a Douyin shopping mall selection line in my live broadcast room, but it is still gray now. I guess I can buy and sell things in it after it is upgraded.

So I could only say: "It's a spicy oil, about the same as dogwood, but more spicy than dogwood and more delicious. If I get it in the future, I'll treat you to it."

"Okay, it's a deal!" After Master Zheng finished speaking, he continued to eat his soup cake.

By the time the maid took away the dishes, the room was already lit.

Mr. Zheng originally planned to continue letting Yan Kai tell stories, but then the man in green clothes and hat came in again.

Yan Kai just found out that this person turned out to be the housekeeper here.

He looked at Mr. Zheng and said:

"Sir, you promised that I will go out to play during the day and study at night. If you continue to listen to books, the master... I will not be able to explain it to you!"

"You..." Mr. Zheng seemed to want to resist, but in the end he could only nod helplessly.

"Bring up all the books!"

Yan Kai was curious for a while, this young man actually still wanted to study.

While the housekeeper was asking the servants to bring in books, paper, pens and other things, Yan Kai asked curiously: "Are you preparing to take the imperial examination?"

After all, after watching movies and TV shows, didn’t ancient scholars ultimately want to take the imperial examination?

"Imperial examination?" Mr. Zheng shook his head after hearing this: "I don't want to take the imperial examination. My family has arranged that I will take over part of the family business in the future, so I mainly major in arithmetic."

"Oh!" Yan Kai nodded. The children of this big family have everything arranged for them in whatever they want to do in the future.

To maintain such a large expenditure, these wealthy nobles naturally have a lot of properties. It is not surprising that members of the family learn arithmetic. If they are not proficient in arithmetic, wouldn't they be deceived by the people below who handle money and not be discovered?

"Can I read your book? I promise not to talk or disturb you!"

Yan Kai was also a little curious about the books of this era. He had never seen any of them since he came here. After all, people basically did not have book collections.

All knowledge is monopolized in the hands of these powerful nobles.

Even the poor people in Du Fu's mouth are not from a poor family.

The real poor people are like the Yan Kai family. They sometimes have to worry about the next meal after eating. It is almost impossible to study.

After Mr. Zheng communicated with Yan Kai, he always felt that he was a bit strange, and there was nothing strange about him.

Or maybe he wasn't so polite to him, but he didn't hate Yan Kai being like this.

So he nodded and agreed: "Okay, if you can understand it, just watch it!"

I dug out a book that I had read from the stack of books that was given to me, and then I ignored him and took out my pen and paper, reading and studying at the same time.

Yan Kai took it and looked at the cover: "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".

As a result, I opened the contents out of curiosity and found that it was actually divided into nine chapters.

What are Fangtian, Corn, Shaofen, Shaoguang, etc.?

Judging by the name, Yan Kai really doesn’t know what it’s about.

Flipping through it with great interest, Yan Kai understood it immediately.

Now Tian Guang has fifteen steps and sixteen steps in length. Question: What is the geometry of the field?

The answer is: One acre.

Isn’t this just the area of ​​the field? According to this calculation, fifteen times sixteen, the answer is two hundred and four, which means that if they use steps as the unit, two hundred and four is one acre.

Although the classical Chinese text is a bit stumbling to read, the questions involving data can still be barely understood.

After reading it, I discovered that these math problems are something that elementary school students can do, right?

Looking back at Chapter 2, corn.

The ancient text was still a bit difficult to read, but Yan Kai figured it out after thinking about it. This chapter gave a ratio of various grains.

Then the calculation is about the conversion between various grains.

The difficulty level is a bit more difficult than Chapter 1, but it seems like it might be at the level of an upper grade elementary school student, right?

Is this the mathematics that people in the Tang Dynasty learned?

Although Yan Kai didn't speak, he turned the pages of the book by candlelight. How could Mr. Zheng not notice it?

Seeing that the housekeeper was not there, he asked in a low voice: "What? Can't you understand?"

"No, it's too simple!" Yan Kai replied casually.

Although he is just a new outdoor anchor, he is also an undergraduate who has been admitted to college and has a first degree.

Even though it has been several years since he was a senior in high school at the peak of his IQ, he is still not stumped by such simple elementary school math problems.

"What? It's too easy!"

A soft drink came from the quiet study.