"Well, that guy has been busy with a big thing recently, and he should be back when he's done with it."
Lu Jing comforted the village woman.
After saying that, he took out one or two pieces of silver from his arms and regarded it as a reward for handing the bamboo tube to him.
Then Lu Jing took the star map and returned to the academy without stopping.
He wanted to see what kind of medicine Guo Shouhuai was selling in his gourd.
It was too late to learn stargazing now, and Lu Jing didn't have the time to spare.
Adhering to the principle that professional problems should be solved by professionals, Lu Jing took the star map directly to Professor Xu's residence.
When Professor Xu was young, he was obsessed with astrology. He spent a lot of effort to build a star observatory on the top of the mountain and built a small hut next to the observatory so that he could watch the stars.
However, as he got older, his legs and feet became less powerful. Considering that he still had to give lectures to students, the old man obviously couldn't bear the burden of running back and forth up and down the mountain.
So he moved to live in a small courtyard close to the school building. He would only go hiking when he needed to watch the stars. Moreover, he could see the general stars from his own residence, and there was no need to go to the stargazing platform on the top of the mountain.
When he came to Professor Xu's door, Lu Jing remembered that he seemed to be Guo Shouhuai's master.
So there's no way the teacher can't understand the question asked by the apprentice, right?
Lu Jing knocked on the door while thinking.
After a while, Professor Xu's voice came from inside, "Come in."
When Lu Jing entered the door, he and Professor Xu looked at each other, and then they were both stunned.
"why you?"
"Professor Xu, you are already your age, are you still playing crickets?"
"Hmph, what do you know...crickets can also be used to study arithmetic." Professor Xu said, stroking his beard.
"Then what are you thinking about?"
Professor Xu did not answer, but used a willow branch to separate the two crickets, put them into cricket jars respectively, and then asked.
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"Why did you come to me?"
"Oh, there's something I want you to take a look at."
Lu Jing didn't know if the old man was really calculating something, or if he was just trying to fool him with his words to cover up the fact that he was bored with things.
He didn't dwell on the matter and took out the star map from his sleeve.
Professor Xu took it and glanced at it, and then couldn't help but educate Lu Jingdao, "If you don't come and listen to my lectures, you can't even see the star map, don't say you are my student when you go out in the future."
Lu Jing chatted.
Professor Xu then looked down and let out a sigh, then asked, "Where did you get this star map?"
"What, is it great?"
"No, this picture makes no sense at all. It is a bunch of fallacies. The person who drew this picture has no common sense at all." Professor Xu threw the star map on the ground casually as he spoke.
"Don't read it, you are misleading me."
"Huh? But this thing was given to me by Shaojian Guo."
Professor Xu was startled again when he heard this, "Guo Shouhuai gave it to you? When."
"Today...well, to be more precise, yesterday, he left this thing with his lover's sister and asked someone to give it to me." Lu Jingdao.
"You didn't tell me earlier."
Professor Xu bent down and reached for the star map on the ground again.
Lu Jing saw that the old man was struggling, so he quickly picked up the star map for him and handed it over, "Don't you always say that this thing is nonsense and misleading? Why did you pick it up?"
Professor Xu took the star map, shook off the dust on it, and then said, "Normally, it is nonsense for the star map to look like this, but there is another possibility."
"What's possible?"
"This picture was made very early."
"How early?"
"I don't know. I haven't calculated it carefully. Anyway, there will always be tens of thousands of years." Professor Xu said, "Many people don't know that the stars above our heads are not motionless. They are changing their positions all the time, especially at any time. As time goes by, many stars have shifted significantly from their previous positions.
"This is why I said at the beginning that this star map is different, because from our current perspective, this star map can indeed be called a big mistake. But if it were placed tens of thousands of years ago, That makes sense.”
Lu Jing could still understand this part of junior high school geography, so he asked again, "Really? What does this star map from tens of thousands of years ago mean?"
"How do I know what the star map of tens of thousands of years ago means?" Professor Xu then added, "I have to spend some time to determine the time first, and then calculate the changing trajectories of the stars, so that I can understand Uncover the secret behind this star map.”
"How long will that take?"
"At least a month, maybe longer."
"It's the beginning of March now. A month later, on the fourth day of April, the twelve teams should have arrived at the center of the secret realm. It's too late. Even if they solve anything, it will be useless."
"Then you will do it yourself?" Professor Xu glanced sideways at Lu Jing.
"I'm not complaining about your slow calculation," Lu Jing said hurriedly, "I suspect that Young Supervisor Guo knew that I would come to him to question him about the selection of his team, so he deliberately gave me a scribbled star map in order to hold me back. .”
"Shou Huai is not that kind of person," Professor Xu shook his head. "Although he can be very bad sometimes, he never makes fun of official matters. Well, I don't know where he got this star map. He has never done it before. Never told me about it.”
"Has he come to see you lately?"
"No."
"Okay." Lu Jing sighed, "Then I'll wait and see for now. By the way, Professor Xu... have you done any math recently?"
"Forget what?"
"Did this trip to the secret realm go smoothly? Will the secret power in this world be restored? The things locked there..."
"I didn't count." Professor Xu interrupted Lu Jing, "I have recently become obsessed with cricket fighting, as you have seen."
"But you just told me that you fight crickets to study arithmetic."
"That's a lie. Have you ever seen someone using crickets to tell fortunes?"
"…………"
"Okay, you go find something else to do. Don't delay my study of this star map here. I will tell you about it when I figure it out." Professor Xu began to drive people away.
Lu Jing stood up wisely when he heard this and went back to his small courtyard to continue practicing his sword.
And when he finished practicing his sword, he saw Xia Huai already standing in his yard.
"The things you asked me to investigate last time have already become clear. There is indeed a TEDA bank in Xizhou, but as the four major banks began to work hard in Xizhou, about ten years ago, that small bank could not continue to operate. .”
"Then it's gone now?" Lu Jing frowned.
"TEDA Bank is indeed gone now, but it hasn't disappeared either. It was annexed by Tongbao Bank and is now a branch of Tongbao Bank in Yizhou." Xia Huai said.
Lu Jing's spirits perked up slightly upon hearing this. It seemed that the true solution to the One Hundred and Eight Crazy Demon Staffs had been found.
It seems that Guo Shouhuai's trip to the secret realm will not take him for fun, and Professor Xu's star map will not be solved for a while, so he can take advantage of this gap to make a trip to Xizhou.
