Seeing Zhao Yao staring at a page of the book without turning the page, the fourth prince asked, "What's wrong?"
"It seems like something is missing." Zhao Yao flipped through a few more pages of the book, but it was still the same. He picked up another book and opened it, but it was still the same. Thinking about it now, all the books he had read were like this. There was no sentence segmentation, so he had to learn to segment sentences by himself. "This isn't right."
The fourth prince asked in confusion: "What's wrong?"
Zhao Yao pointed to the content in "Notes on Daily Life" and said, "There are no sentence fragments." In the dream, the book Zhao Yao read had sentence fragments. They use punctuation marks to break up sentences, which makes reading very convenient. By the way, there’s also Pinyin.
"Of course there are no sentence breaks." The fourth prince said warmly, "Because you only started reading this year, the books your husband gave you are all with good sentence breaks. Normal books do not have sentence breaks. The reader is required to break the sentences himself."
"Books without sentence breaks look so inconvenient." He felt strange every time he read a book, always feeling that something was missing. Now I finally remembered that there was a missing punctuation mark. "Besides, not everyone can punctuate sentences. Also, not everyone can punctuate sentences correctly."
The fourth prince did not think much about Zhao Yao's words, but said: "When Mr. teaches, he will teach you how to break sentences."
Zhao Yao mumbled and said, "There are many books. If you don't teach me, how can you break sentences while reading them?"
"If you read too many books, you will naturally break sentences." The fourth prince said, "If you can't break sentences when you read in the future, you can ask me."
"Okay." Zhao Yao still finds it convenient to use punctuation marks to break up sentences. "Fourth brother, I want to take this "Notes on Daily Life" back to read, can you?" He read a few pages of Emperor Xia Ling's Notes on Daily Life and thought it was so weird and interesting.
"We can't do that now. We have to sort out and collect these books. When someone copies them, you can read them again."
"How long will it take?"
The fourth prince thought for a moment and said, "Let's do this. You come to Lanyuan Pavilion every day to see him." This will allow the tenth brother to have more contact with the ministers, and also allow the ministers to get to know the tenth brother.
"Okay, then I'll come and read it every day." Zhao Yao put down the "Notes on Daily Life" in his hand and squatted down to sort out the pile of books in front of him.
This pile of books is very miscellaneous, including history books, poetry collections, manuscripts, local chronicles and other books. Zhao Yao found a book inside, with only one "skill" on the cover. He opened it curiously and looked at it. The contents inside were all about calculating farmland and millet.
He looked at it carefully. While watching, he was still calculating in his mind.
"It's quite simple."
"What's simple?"
"Fourth brother, I mean the content here is simple." Zhao Yao pointed to the content in the book and said, "Today there are fifty steps to the field, from sixteen steps. How big is the field?" - Selected from "Nine Chapters" arithmetic".
"You think it's geometric."
"One acre."
The fourth prince was a little surprised, "How did you calculate it?" The tenth brother has only been studying for three months. The gentlemen have not taught him arithmetic yet. Could it be that Empress Zhaoyi taught him?
"That's how it's calculated."
"How did you calculate this?"
"After reading it, I have the answer in my mind."
The fourth prince was shocked when he heard this.
Seeing the disbelief on the fourth prince's face, Zhao Yao pouted unhappily: "Fourth brother, what I said is true."
"Then Fourth Brother will test you again." The fourth prince took the "Shu" from Zhao Yao's hand and chose a question at random, "Today, there are people buying things together. Each person contributed eight coins, leaving a surplus of three coins. Someone gave seven coins, which was insufficient. Four coins, ask the number of people. How much are the prices?" - Still selected from "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic".
Zhao Yao said without thinking: "Seven people, the price is fifty-three yuan."
The fourth prince was shocked, and then he tested Zhao Yao again.
Zhao Yao still said the correct answer without any hesitation.
Zhao Yao was tested on five questions in a row, and Zhao Yao answered them all correctly, which surprised and delighted the fourth prince.
"Tenth brother, I didn't expect you to be so smart in arithmetic."
Zhao Yao blinked and said, "Is this difficult?"
The fourth prince reached out and touched Zhao Yao's little head, and said happily: "I knew my tenth brother was smart."
"Except for not being smart in reading, I am very smart in other aspects."
The fourth prince returned the "Shu" in his hand to Zhao Yao and told him: "Read this book carefully first. If there is anything you don't understand, you can ask me."
"Can I take this book back?"
"Can."
"What if I don't understand anything after reading it?"
"If you like it after reading it, fourth brother will give you a book on arithmetic to read." The fourth prince felt that Zhao Yao was very talented in arithmetic and should not waste it.
"Fourth brother, I like it." Zhao Yao said with a smile, "I think this book is much better than The Analects of Confucius, and it is also much more interesting than The Analects of Confucius."
"If you like reading, then read more." Arithmetic is a "crooked practice" in the eyes of the world, but the fourth prince does not think so. Now that Zhao Yao likes it, he naturally supports it.
He remembered that there were some books on arithmetic in his grandfather's library, and there were also many books on this in Taixue. I'll lend it to my tenth brother when the time comes.
"Fourth brother, I'd better help you organize the books first." Zhao Yao put the arithmetic book aside and squatted in front of a pile of books again to organize the books. He found that there were very few books on arithmetic, and there were many other books. "Fourth brother, are you here to participate in the compilation of history? Will you not go to the Hall of Wende to study in the future?"
"not going."
"Ah?" Zhao Yao was shocked. He quickly put down the book in his hand and asked anxiously, "Fourth brother, are you really not going to study at Wende Hall?"
"Can't you bear to leave your fourth brother?"
Zhao Yao nodded repeatedly: "I can't bear to leave. If you leave, Fourth Brother, then I will be left alone to study in Wende Hall. I would be so pitiful." Let him study with Third Brother, Ninth Brother and the others every day, and also Might as well kill him. "I also told my father that I would also come to Lanyuan Pavilion to help you, sort out your books, or serve tea and water."
The fourth prince was amused by Zhao Yao's words: "You should just study in the Hall of Wende."
Zhao Yao let out a heavy sigh: "Oh, you and Bage are not here, so I am the only one left."
The fourth prince reached out and rubbed Zhao Yao's little head, "You can come to Lanyuan Pavilion to find me at noon, and you can go to Xingde Palace to find me in the evening."
He added, "If you don't understand anything, you can come to Lanyuan Pavilion and ask me, or ask the adults. The adults who come to Lanyuan Pavilion to study history are all very knowledgeable."
Zhao Yao said stiffly, "No need." He already had many gentlemen in the Wende Palace, including Mr. Xiao, the Fourth Brother and the Eighth Brother. If he comes to Lanyuan Pavilion to look for his husband again, his life will be ruined.
The fourth prince shook his head helplessly and fondly: "You..."
As long as he doesn't study, Zhao Yao is willing to do anything. He helped the fourth prince sort out his books for an hour without feeling tired.
At noon, the fourth prince asked Zhao Yao whether he would go back to Kunde Hall for lunch or stay in Lanyuan Pavilion to have lunch with them.
Zhao Yao had never had lunch at Lanyuan Pavilion, so he naturally wanted to stay for lunch.
Lanyuan Pavilion has a dining hall. Every day at noon, the eunuch in the imperial dining room will deliver lunch on time. Because meat is not allowed to be eaten during this period, the dishes served are all vegetarian. However, Yu Shanfang’s cooking skills are good, and even vegetarian dishes are delicious.
The fourth prince took Zhao Yao and sat in the dining hall to have lunch with the ministers. The fourth prince's two cousins sat at the same table with them, and the other ministers sat at the table next to them.
Zhao Yao had met the fourth prince's two cousins at the celebration banquet before, and Zhao Yao spoke to them in a nonchalant manner.
Taichang Cheng and Shaofu Cheng knew that Zhao Yao liked to eat delicious food, so they chatted with him about delicious food from various places as they did last time.
As soon as they talked about delicious food, Zhao Yao kept chattering. Although he has never been to other places, he has seen a lot of delicious food in local chronicles.
Zhao Yao chatted for a while and found that He Xiang and Taishi Liu were not there, so he asked suspiciously: "Aren't He Xiang and Taishi Liu coming to have lunch?"
Taichang Cheng said: "He Xiang and Taishi Liu don't come to the dining hall to eat. They eat directly at their own tables."
Shaofu Cheng added: "He Xiang and Liu Taishi are very busy, and they eat lunch in a hurry."
When Zhao Yao heard that He Xiang was so busy, his eyes rolled around. He sighed with emotion: "It turns out that He Xiang and Taishi Liu are so busy." Then he should be able to steal orchids later.
When the fourth prince saw Zhao Yao's appearance, he knew that he was planning something bad.
After lunch, the fourth prince asked Zhao Yao to go back to Kunde Hall to drink medicine and rest.
Zhao Yao originally wanted to stay in Lanyuan Pavilion to avoid drinking the medicine, but he didn't expect that the fourth prince would see it.
Seeing that Zhao Yao was unwilling to go back, the fourth prince had no choice but to say: "I will take you back to Kunde Hall."
"Fourth brother, no need, I'll go back by myself." Zhao Yao stood up smoothly, "Fourth brother, two cousins, I'm going back." After saying that, he ran out.
He asked Tongxi to help him keep an eye on him in advance, and went downstairs to the orchid garden. When he saw He Xiang, he didn't stare at it. He hugged a pot of orchids that didn't bloom and ran away.
Fourth Prince: When the tenth brother comes to Lanyuan Pavilion, the ministers will definitely find out how good the tenth brother is.
Li Bin: You really think about the tenth prince at all times.
(End of chapter)
