Returning wild geese in autumn

Chapter 18: Relearn

Early the next morning, when Cao Xu woke up, Bai Yutang and Zhan Zhao had already been fighting each other for a long time in the small bedroom with small grappling hands.Seeing him get up, the three of them had breakfast together, and then Cao Xu mysteriously dragged the two of them to his bedroom, pointing to a small square thing and said:

"I checked some things on the Internet yesterday, and specially converted them into traditional Chinese characters, and put them in this computer. The two of you can compare them first. Here, use this mouse to operate, which is forward, backward, and page turning... "He said, using a half-palm-sized thing next to him to manipulate and click, and demonstrated to them the operation method, and after making sure they had learned it, he said: "You guys take a look at these first, I will go out to buy train tickets, and by the way, I will give you two Buy some clothes."

"Why do you let Brother Cao keep spending money?" Zhan Zhao felt apologetic, while Bai Yutang directly exchanged gold and silver with the rest of RMB yesterday.Seeing this, Cao Xu waved his hands, "Don't worry, both of you, we will calculate these things later, I don't intend to keep doing business at a loss, hehe, with your current net worth, you don't have to worry about paying me back, let me first Just pay in advance."

"Wealth?" Bai Yutang raised his eyebrows, "Brother Cao, are you joking?" The two of them are far away in a "foreign land" now, alone, what wealth can there be besides that bit of gold and silver?

"Xiao Cao." Cao Xu corrected, and then said, "You two have more than just gold and silver. It's not convenient for me to elaborate on these ways of money. You two are smart people, so you should be able to think of it." He signaled, and smiled meaningfully, "I'm going out first, and I'll be back later."

After Cao Xu left, the two followed what he said before and looked at the square and bright object on the table: "Is there an answer in this 'computer'?" Zhan Zhao frowned slightly, looking at that thing, and refused to move lightly, lest he would be disturbed. Be careful not to damage it.

Bai Yutang didn't have those scruples, imitating Cao Xu's action, picked up the thing called "mouse" to have a look, then tentatively put it on the table to move it, and said casually: "If the master is right, what he meant is' antique'."

"antique?"

Bai Yutang glanced up at him, and smiled: "You cat must have never done business."

Zhan Zhao has never experienced anything like doing business, he raised his eyebrows slightly: "Brother Bai?"

"The Bai family in Jinling is also one of the best merchants." Bai Yutang said proudly. Although he doesn't often manage the family business, whether it is in Jinling or Xingkong Island, he has some experience, which is better than Zhan Zhao, a layman. too much.

But today is different, thinking of the current situation, he frowned almost invisibly, and suddenly lost interest.Zhan Zhao didn't know what he was thinking, when he heard the word "antique", he reflexively thought of the three treasures stolen by Bai Yutang, and said solemnly:

"Brother Bai is talking about antiques, isn't it the Three Treasures? They are antiques from the Kaifeng Mansion, and they must not be sold!"

"Who told you the Three Treasures?!" Bai Yutang pulled the chair impatiently and sat down, "Those broken pillows and rotten dishes are only your Kaifeng Mansion's treasure offerings. What the Lord said is something else!"

"Others?" Zhan Zhao hesitated, other things, besides their sabers, what else can be called antiques?

Bai Yutang guessed what he was thinking, and sneered: "You cat is too old-fashioned! We are now a thousand years later, and all the things we bring here are all from a thousand years ago? Medicine bottles, clothes, official friends, etc. , and some others—aren’t they all so-called ‘antiques’?”

Hearing this, Zhanzhao suddenly realized that he had always regarded those things as current things before, and never thought that these things were already ancient.Unexpectedly, Bai Yutang is not only good at martial arts, but also has good business acumen.Just as he was about to praise him a few words, he heard Bai Yutang say to himself:

"But those are little things that are not well-known, you reminded me, if you really use the Three Treasures..."

"Absolutely not!"

Without even thinking about it, he said something to stop him, and then he heard the man chuckle: "You are too easy to coax, aren't you? Don't know if this is a joke?"

Zhan Zhao said seriously: "Brother Bai, don't bring up such jokes again in the future!"

"Tch!" Bai Yutang snorted, and turned his eyes to the screen, carefully reading the unusually neat square characters on the white screen.Zhan Zhao stared at his expression and looked again and again, seeing that his handsome face was still a little playful, his eyes were raised, and he looked carefully at the shiny screen, without the slightest intention to bring up that topic again, so he put it down for the time being. Heart to read with him.

Cao Xu is very careful. He put all the information he found into a Word document, not only converting it into traditional Chinese characters, but also arranging it in a vertical format and zooming in.Although the two of them are not very used to this well-regulated font, reading it is no problem at all.

Those materials briefly introduced the change of dynasties from the Northern Song Dynasty to the present, the people's way of life, a brief introduction of titles, and some simple basic necessities of life.With photos, it can be seen that he put a lot of thought into making it.The two learned a lot from this document: such as the "train" they were about to take, the "Beijing" they were going to, and the lifestyles of some ordinary people.

The document was very long, and the two of them read it for more than an hour before finishing it, and then found important parts to re-watch.So far, they have a systematic understanding of the world they are in now.

"It turns out that there were so many dynasties after the Song Dynasty." After reading it, Zhan Zhao couldn't help sighing, a dream for a thousand years, really a dream for a thousand years, and the time that should have been the future has become history in a blink of an eye.

Bai Yutang fiddled with the scroll wheel on the mouse with his middle finger, and looked down at the computer in front of him with his chin slightly raised: "After a thousand years, people have created a lot of things." There are many incredible things mentioned above. There must be more—for example, the computer in front of them, there are so many things stored in such a delicate box, which only existed in the imagination in the past, just like the mustard seed that the Buddhists said, it is amazing And magical.

It seemed that they had to adapt to this completely strange world for a long time.

The two exchanged a few words, and then heard familiar footsteps outside. Soon after, Cao Xu opened the door with big bags and small bags, and smiled when he saw the two of them: "Have you finished reading?"

"Yeah." Zhan Zhao nodded with a smile, pointing to the computer behind him, "Isn't this time-consuming? Cao, Xiao Cao has a heart." Such an unimaginable thing, and so many dazzling materials, I'm afraid Cao Xu yesterday I haven't slept all night, and I've been doing this.

Cao Xu chuckled and handed over the bag in his hand: "Don't be polite to me! Come on, both of you, change your clothes. I think the ones on your body are just random ones, and they don't fit very well. It's more comfortable to wear this. "

"Thank you." With the previous conversation, the two stopped being polite to him, and each took their clothes to change.Their previous clothes were nothing more than street goods, and they were randomly picked in the evening, and they didn't fit well: the clothes were too baggy, the pants on the lower body were hard and uncomfortable, and the belt was also used as a temporary filling.It looks fine at first glance when you go out like this, but it will feel very awkward when you look closely.

Cao Xu chose two sets of sportswear of different styles for them, and even underwear and other items.Fortunately, they had read the introduction of modern clothes before and knew how to change them, otherwise they would be in a hurry again.

After changing his clothes, Cao Xu took out three more train tickets: "The train to Beijing is at 12 o'clock, and there is still more than an hour. Let's go out for a light meal, and then go to the train station!"

……

Cao Xu bought three sleeper tickets, firstly, it was clean and tidy, and secondly, the harder-seat carriages were much quieter.He downloaded a lot of things with the laptop he carried with him, and while teaching the two to operate, he taught them the basic way of life with the help of materials downloaded from the Internet.Poor two great knight-errants in the Northern Song Dynasty, now they can only be students again, learning all kinds of knowledge ignorantly and greedily.

"I plan to teach the two of you how to use Pinyin and the dictionary first, and then teach you how to use the computer." Cao Xu said, and took out two books, one is a comparison between simplified and traditional, and the other is a large dictionary that he bought earlier. "Modern characters have been simplified, which is very different from the past. If the two of you were in Taiwan, you might be more comfortable. Now that you are in the mainland, you have to relearn the simplified characters."

"It doesn't matter." Bai Yutang took the two thick books and flipped through them casually. There were densely packed small characters inside, some he knew and some didn't. "Just live it again and learn some characters. It’s very difficult!” After speaking, he twisted the smooth white paper that had never been seen before, and murmured in his heart: Will people in a thousand years know so many words?Such thin paper, there are actually two such thick ones!

Zhan Zhao is not as optimistic as he is: "Xiao Cao, what is the 'Pinyin' you just mentioned?"

"It's a way to learn characters." Cao Xu said, pointing to the keyboard, "The letters on this are pinyin, and they can be combined to form characters."

Zhan Zhao looked at those crooked "characters" half-understood—could these be used to form Chinese characters?It's completely irrelevant!

Cao Xu knew that it was difficult for them to understand now, so he didn't make any gestures, and he called up the initials and finals table he had downloaded before, and started teaching elementary school students.

He knew he couldn't always take care of these two as elementary school students, both of them were adults with their own pride and way of life.There is an old saying: It is better to teach people how to fish than to teach them how to fish. Teach them pinyin and how to look up a dictionary, plus the basic skills of using a computer, and what else they need to learn. These things are enough for them to explore on their own.

The hours of driving were exhausted in teaching pinyin and computer operations.Cao Xu found that the two people in front of him were both tenacious and eager to learn, and it was not difficult to learn these things.Seeing one of them operating the computer in a decent manner, and the other carefully flipping through the dictionary, I suddenly felt a strange sense of accomplishment.

Thinking of their identities, he suddenly became curious. Once such two people mastered the modern way of life, what kind of storms would they cause in this world?

Really looking forward to it!

(Volume [-]: Freshman and Arrival)

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