Chapter 106 (2/2)
At this point, Second Brother slowly walked towards the stone land outside with rigorous and regular paces, just like an emperor on the stage of a play. Listening to Chen Pipi's plea, he did not return but raised his hand impatiently to rebuke annoyedly. ”As I said, do it yourself. This crazy question's answer turns out to be a huge number... Don't talk about Kaiping Market, even the whole Tang Empire can't contain so many cattle. I'd rather be curious where Haotian ranch is!”
”Well, I admit that I can't figure out this crazy problem. But I don't believe you can solve it, especially when you were seven years old. Unless you immediately tell me the answer, I'll think you're cheating. To tell you the truth, if you cheat, there'll be a very serious consequence in Academy, especially for me and someone who was p.i.s.sed off today. That's not a warning to you but a friendly reminder.”
Beside the table near the western window, Ning Que stepped on the chair with his right foot and put his right arm on the window to support his jaw, happily reading that guy's message with eyebrows that twitched with pleasure from time to time. When he saw the words ”p.i.s.sed off”, he could not help but laugh loudly, which caused the female professor at the eastern window to frown and glance at him.
Ning Que quickly straightened his body and then continued to read that guy's message.
He did not know who was p.i.s.sed off at the message, and thought that it was an excuse for that guy to keep the face. If he knew it was the legendary Second Brother from Second Floor that was p.i.s.sed off and angrily whipped his sleeves around to leave, one would wonder if he would become much happier or be scared out of his wits.
As for that guy's accusation of cheating, Ning Que simply did not care about it. As a Stockholm patient solution for solving math problems, he was very aware of the pain and anger when one could not find the answer to a question—that guy's accusation in the message was nothing more than being extremely curious about the answer.
”Do you want to know the answer to this question? That's simple, tell me the answer to your medicine question and then we tie in this test. If you're not convinced, we can continue the game later.”
Out of the window were the brilliant final spring and young cicadas crying desperately. Ning Que shook his head and chuckled, rolling his sleeves up to pour in water and grinding ink, and then, he dipped the brush in the ink stone to write the words above on the paper.
On the second night, the horse carriage left Academy, going through the Vermilion Bird Gate in the south part of Chang'an, and then arrived in Lin 47th Street of Eastern City, stopping in front of Old Brush Pen Shop. Ning Que turned back to thank the carriage driver and walked into the shop.
Sangsang closed the shop and walked out carrying a bowl of leftover hot and sour noodle slice soup from the morning. She put the soup together with chopsticks and towels in the front of Ning Que, and then took out a bowl of vinegar-soaked vegetable heads and a plate of salad from under the table.
After a whole day of studying hard in the Academy, Ning Que had to eat leftovers and small salted vegetables after arriving home. He thought that they should treat themselves better, for they had two thousand taels of silver in hand after all. If it happened in the daily life, perhaps he would directly teach the little handmaiden a lesson. But he was in a good mood today, so he just shook his head and picked up the chopsticks to eat happily, while asking about the shop's business today.
Sangsang has already eaten them in the afternoon. She sat beside him, with thin folded arms on the table and little black face on her arms. Staring with the willow-shaped eyes, she leaned the head to look at Ning Que's face. After a long time, she curiously asked, ”Young master, are you in a good mood today?”
”Yeah.” Ning Que put a piece of a little black salted vegetable heads into his mouth and crunched on it. He frowned painfully at its sour taste and replied vaguely, ”I met a fascinating guy in Academy recently.”
Sangsang laughed happily and lifted up her little face to ask with concern upon hearing that he had met a new friend in Academy. ”Is the person your cla.s.smate? Male or female?”
Ning Que looked at the little handmaiden's face and went slightly blank, dipping the chopsticks in the warm hot and sour noodle slice soup. After a moment of hesitation, he said, ”I've never seen the person, but... probably a man?”
”No, no.”
Thinking of that guy's obscene metaphor for reading without getting the meanings in the first message, he shook his head and categorically said, ”Not probably, that guy is certainly a man, a very poor and wretched man who has suffered losses in the hands of women many times.”
”Poor and wretched...” Sangsang began to think and wrinkled her nose. ”They seem to be two different words.”
”Poor experience, wretched temperament.” Ning Que seriously explained.
Sangsang sat up and curiously asked, ”Does it mean he's very ugly?”
”Just as I said, I've never seen him.”
Ning Que took out a piece of paper from the body and handed it over to her. ”There are several medical herbs and their uses written in the paper. Tomorrow you go to the pharmacy to take medicine, and then come back to deal with them by yourself. Remember not to let the others see it.”
Sangsang received it and frowned. ”Why can't the others see it?”
Ning Que thought of the guy who left the messages for him in the old library and could not help but laugh to say, ”If I guess it right, that guy should be the student on Second Floor of the Academy. So this prescription is certainly an exquisite secret recipe from Second Floor. We've got this huge benefit from that guy secretly, so we'd better keep it a secret.”
(Note from the author: This problem belongs to the Archimedes question on cattle. Because of its long length, it's impossible to write it out all, or I'll write this chapter too easily. Ha, ha. Everyone can search it on Google. What math means for me is like cultivation for Ning Que. There are a lot of acupoints blocked. I just casually used the math question. If there's any problem, those math learners can treat me like a kind of gas and just let it go. Therefore, it can be considered as a disclaimer for Nightfall.)
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