Dress to be a celebrity

Shangyuan night is naturally a traditional festival for watching lanterns and theaters.

Although there are Eight Immortals crossing Haideng Mountain in the Zhou Palace, it is always more interesting to look at the lights outside than at home during the festival.After the dinner, the king of Zhou changed into casual clothes and enjoyed local lanterns with Huan, Song and ten officials who came with him from Beijing.The female family members of the royal family couldn't travel with other men, so they took a small sedan chair and went out through the back door. They also wanted to take advantage of this rare festival to go out for a night of fun.

The mansion and the hotel are located in the busiest center of the city, and there is a sea of ​​lights when you step out the door: ingenious lanterns are hung under the gates of each mansion; there are a lot of light sheds on the side of the road, and there are lantern riddles, puzzles, and solutions under the roadside. , a stall that sings and earns money; a few people-high lamp mountains are piled up a little far away, including Ao Mountain, dragon lanterns, pagodas, and lotus flowers, all of which are made of bamboo bone and silk. Glittering in the light of the fire.

The upper half of the sky in Hanzhong City is brightly illuminated by lights, and people on the road can be seen clearly without having to carry the lights on the road.

This group of officials looked at the lanterns all the way and solved other people's lantern riddles all the way. What others couldn't think of, but this group of Jinshi solved it like a pattern in the palm of their hands.A young scholar was thinking hard on the roadside reading "The boat is empty and the moon returns" on the lamp, and wanted to win a palace lantern with four seasons for the beautiful woman around him. The lamp came, and it was given to the young couple as a gift.

The boy was so pleasantly surprised that he thanked him repeatedly, and wanted to ask him his name, but he just waved his hand and walked towards the light mountain in front of him.Shu Chang Lin Fang, who was traveling with him, took a step behind, and said to the boy with a smile: "Brother Shen is studying with your prefect of Song Dynasty at Hanzhong College. If there is a chance, we will meet in the college."

After finishing speaking, he left the scholar and quickly followed Chang Shen, praising him for his carelessness and detachment, and his demeanor of a celebrity.

Chang Shen shook off his cloak, waved his big sleeves, and smiled casually: "Brother Song Nian was able to make a couple happy, and now I, Chang, try to follow suit. Isn't it a good story?"

It is really a good story to match a couple of lovers during the Lantern Festival.

Everyone applauded one after another, and they should follow suit to complete a few good stories.

They don’t want lanterns either, they pick those who can’t guess the lantern riddles in the past to guess for others, and after winning the lanterns, they give away the lanterns, and then leave with a long smile, leaving behind a piece of gratitude, envy, emotion... and the owner of the lantern shed sad sigh.

Song Shi was afraid that if they guessed any further, they would be beat up by the lantern riddle guessing boss on this street, so he hurriedly dragged them to a lantern shed built by the government office under Deng'ao Mountain to guess riddles.

The lamp shed can not only guess riddles, but also pair pairs, continuation poems and couplets of poems, which are guaranteed to meet the wishes of these talents.But he didn't try to guess it himself, he had read all the puzzles, and he even came up with a few questions.

The ring stall is set up next to the lamp shed. Small bamboo rings are used to put things on the ground. They can be taken away in the ring, and you can get five circles to try your hands for three pennies.Most of the prizes are self-produced items in Hanzhong Economic Park, such as crystal glass palace lanterns, double-layer thermos cups, sunglasses, gloves, scarves, etc.

In the past, it was popular to use dice to win money and things, but his set of rings was a new thing that only appeared in the Qing Dynasty, and it was quite popular all night when it was first set up—there were more than ten or eight sets of rings the next day. The circle stalls are spread everywhere, and gold and silver are also set up on the stalls, so the number of people who use this official stall is much less.

Song Shi has been playing with this since elementary school, and he knows that this kind of hoop loses more than wins, so he doesn't want to go to other stalls to play, only to generate income for the stall in his own house, and spent ten yuan to buy an arm bamboo hoop , smiled and said to Huan Ling: "Today's festive season, you are back again, it's a rare double happiness, let me set up a lantern for you to celebrate the festival."

He took off a bamboo ring and ran towards the palace lantern cover.

It's a pity that the wind came late, and the bamboo ring was so light that I couldn't hit it even after several shots.There were so many tourists at night in Shangyuan, and the sound of people, firecrackers, and music mixed together, making it difficult for him to concentrate.

Huan Ling saw that he seemed restless, so he spread his hands towards him, and said with a smile: "Sir Song, I'm afraid that I've worked too hard on picking up the driver and entertaining me these two days, and I'm bound to miss my mark. Let me try." Try it."

Dare not dare, you still work harder than me.

Song Shi pursed his lips, his eyes fell on his feet, and he raised a hand for him to stroke the circle.Huan Ling took a few for himself, put them on airs and threw them out.

Just threw it on the corner of the palace lantern and was bounced off.

He calmed down and tried another one. When he threw it out, it felt smooth, but when it fell, he didn't know whether it was the wind or something. It was a little bit deflected than he expected, and it was bounced away again.He really aroused a bit of confidence in winning and losing, he held the bamboo ring to compare several times, considering the strength and direction of the shot.

Song Shi grinned as he watched him do the looping, and his anger about losing his hands dropped——

The hoops are really interesting only when people fail in fancy ways. A master in a hoop is certainly worthy of admiration, but it’s better to see him struggling to debug like himself, hoops flying all over the sky, but he can’t get any prizes. .

He saw that Huan Ling had finished throwing away the hoops in his hand, so he rolled them off his arms and gave them to him, and said affectionately: "Practice slowly, don't worry, I'll buy you another few hundred dollars."

This is much cheaper than Guan Pu, uncle can afford it.

The two of them happily tossed bamboo hoops and set up prizes. They both let go of the burden of having to make amazing shots and set up a good prize to give to each other, and they realized the fun more and more.However, Zhou Wang, the trainees of various ministries, and the governor of the palace, who were thrown under the lantern shed to guess the riddles and watch the lanterns, tasted the frustration for the first time in the poem riddles.

They are a group of talented people who came out of the scientific examination and studied the Four Books and Five Classics in depth. Even in Beijing, they can sweep the Lantern Festival, and there are no poems that cannot be solved.But in the northwest corner of the lantern shed in the Hanzhong government office, there is a special piece of lantern riddles. They don't take the usual way, neither guessing characters, nor four books, idioms, or poems, but straightforwardly asking questions to test people.

What are "measuring rain in Tianchi", "testing valleys with bamboo utensils", and "accumulating valleys around fields", these topics can be calculated by those who have learned well "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", "Zhoubi Suanjing" and "Nine Chapters of Mathematics" .

Even better beauty lanterns and revolving horse lanterns actually read "the grass has a few leaves, and the stems are just divided into tillers", "the grains have grown to a few leaves, but there are no spikes and tillers", "to fill the grain, the depth of the field is several inches"... ...For such a question, there are three members of the household department, Wailang, who have read his agricultural books, and can answer a few questions.

But under the most eye-catching stained glass lamps, there are papers hanging, which read "Using a certain pulley and two moving pulleys as a pulley, how to wind the wire can save the most labor."There are also pictures on the paper. The upper wheel is fixed on the top, and the lower two wheels are connected by iron frames, through which threads can be threaded.

What kind of subject is this?Is this something that their readers should understand?

The person who is most familiar with Song Zhifu who built the lantern shed is King Zhou, but he couldn't answer everyone's questions. He pressed his fist to his lips and coughed lightly: "When this king left Hanzhong Mansion, Mr. Song hadn't made any noise yet. The new pulley, and it has never been mentioned before."

Anyway, he didn't know anything about it. Isn't the Ministry of Industry supposed to know how to use this block to lift objects?

The three Yuanwailang from the Ministry of Industry, who pinned everyone's expectations, silently drew lines on the paper, but they could only draw different winding methods, and could not guess which was the most labor-saving.They wanted to ask someone to take a pulley for a try, but the guard who looked at the lamphouse went up and took one of the drawings, and said with a smile on his face: "Your answer is correct, it is this picture, and the younger one will take it for you." Lights down."

go slow!stop!Let me explain why this saves effort!

Scholars became stubborn, and these servants couldn't bear it either.He didn't really understand the principle, he only knew the answer, so he pointed at the side randomly: "Your Excellency, you only need to ask those students who are studying in Hanzhong College. These questions are specially given by Master Song to the students of Hanzhong College. Most people don't know." I'll be here to answer questions."

Everyone looked over with his fingers, only to see those students also looking at them, with innocent faces, saluting tremblingly——

Among them were people I had met at the "Three Going to the Countryside" venue.

Although the Lantern Festival was brightly lit, everyone below King Zhou changed their common clothes and warm hats, which was quite different from the image they had at the Three Going to the Countryside venue.The students of Hanzhong College have only seen them once, and this time they have changed their clothes again. If it wasn't for the guard calling Poo, they would never have recognized them.

Now that they knew their identities, those students reminded their companions to salute, and answered their questions respectfully:

The more ropes wound on the movable pulley when winding the rope, the less effort will be saved when hoisting.

When they were studying in Hanzhong College, they not only read the classics and history collections with the instructors, but also learned "practical learning" from Song Jijiu. How to use mechanics, and then learn how to prepare fertilizers, pesticides, etc., which can change the properties of crops, and turn ordinary rice into a golden crop.

They hadn't learned much yet, but this group of superiors had already listened with gusto, no matter what they understood or not, they all heard the pride of wanting to conquer the sky with manpower.

Song Sanyuan really has the style of a famous scholar, and his capacity is magnificent, which is not comparable to ordinary scholars!

Teaching students is so equal in both knowledge and action, and what they teach are not ordinary pedantic scholars but people who can study things with their hearts and study physics.When these students passed three scientific examinations and entered the officialdom, they must be good officials who can be as pragmatic as the husband.

Now they can't wait to hear him lecture.

After this night of lantern festival, it was the scheduled agronomy class.The ten adults changed into Confucian green shirts early in the morning to show respect for the school, their predecessors Kong Sheng and Song Jijiu, and entered the school in a carriage from Fucheng.

This journey is all on the road, half of which is an ordinary loess road and half of which is a newly built asphalt road.Perhaps it was because the Hanzhong Avenue was built extraordinarily solidly that they didn't feel much bumps in the carriage this time out of the city, and the feeling of riding in the carriage was even smoother than the carriage they rode in when they were in the capital.

Could it be that he has a special technique for planting Jiahe, and even road construction has a labor-saving technique similar to the winding of a pulley, which allowed him to build all the official roads in Hanzhong Mansion into ones that can automatically support carriages without bumps? avenue?

When I go to school tomorrow, I must ask him to ask!

However, when they entered Hanzhong College, sat in the spacious and bright lecture hall, and prepared a set of pens, inks, papers and inkstones, the one who opened the door was not Song Shi, who they were thinking about so much, but Huan, who came back from Beijing together with them. Ling.

With a stack of handouts under his arm, he pushed the door open and said with a smile: "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. All practical subjects in Hanzhong College begin with arithmetic. I am not a talented official, so I came to teach arithmetic." .”