Ultraman in the world of grams

Chapter 328 Nanke talks about Nanke

Suddenly, I heard the familiar pronunciation of a familiar language in an unfamiliar environment.

It was still his own name that he was most familiar with.

No matter who it is, it will suddenly inspire them.

Especially since he has never spoken his name to anyone else in this world except Jakula.

Then he saw Ellis who seemed to be thinking hard about something.

"nanke...?"

"Are you..." Wilson's sudden words directly interrupted Ellis's thoughts.

The red-haired lady looked up at Wilson with a puzzled look on her face, and saw Wilson's somewhat surprised and nervous expression.

"what happened?"

Ellis noticed something strange and asked doubtfully.

"Um...are you speaking Chinese?" Wilson quickly calmed down his thoughts, maintained his apparent calm, and asked Ellis thoughtfully.

"Yes," Ellis admitted readily, "I remember Professor Wilson, you teach ancient Chinese history? So you should know the idioms in Chinese very well, right?"

"It seems to be a fixed combination that has been agreed upon, but it's just too hard to remember."

Ellis complained, "I have also learned a little bit of Chinese, but those complicated slangs and fixed collocations are really killing me. I still only know a little bit."

"And those pronunciations are also very difficult to pronounce... I just remembered a fixed Chinese collocation, which seems to be related to dreams, but I can't remember the specifics, I only remember the first half."

"It's true..." Wilson nodded, seemingly calm, "The idiom you wanted to say just now...is Nan Keyimeng?"

"Oh oh oh, I remembered, that's what I said!"

Ellis followed with excitement.

"nanke...yi...meng?"

"No, no, this is still a bit awkward. Professor Wilson, why is your pronunciation so accurate?"

Ellis corrected his accent in distress, and suddenly remembered something:
“Does the pronunciation of meng mean dream in Chinese?”

"So this fixed combination means that a person named Nanke had a dream?"

"This is so strange. Why can this dream become a fixed match?"

"..." Wilson was silent for a moment.

In this foreign country, in a world full of fantasy and weird colors, I suddenly heard my partner next to me pronounce my name in an awkward and weird pronunciation.

Although it doesn't mean that, it really does have an inexplicable feeling.

But he couldn't explain exactly what it felt like.

He sighed slightly and took the initiative to explain to Ellis:

"You are right. The superficial meaning of this idiom is indeed easy to understand that a person named Nanke slept through it."

"Actually, that's not what it means. The Nanke here actually refers to the branches of the locust tree in the south. Ke means wood, tree, and branch in Chinese."

"Did the southern branch sleep?"

Ellis was stunned for a moment, feeling even more confused.

"..."

Wilson suddenly felt the collapse he had when his Chinese teacher taught him.

Moreover, his name is not South Branch!
"This is derived from an allusion, that is, a story in an ancient book, and was finally simplified into a fixed combination." Wilson tried his best to explain in words that Ellis could understand.

Although his Chinese language performance can only be said to be barely adequate, after all, this idiom is the origin of his name.The first idiom he came across since he became literate.

And when I read this idiom in primary school Chinese class, the whole class would burst into laughter and turn to look at him.

Under such circumstances, how could he not be particularly familiar with this idiom?

"This comes from an ancient Chinese. He slept under a locust tree, and then dreamed that he was recruited by the king of the Sophora Kingdom to be the husband of the princess, and became the mayor of Zhizhi City in the south. , lived a life of wealth and wealth."

"When I finally woke up, I realized that it was all a dream. I was lying under a big locust tree. The big locust tree was just an ant nest next to the tree."

"The meaning of this fixed combination refers to a big dream, a futile joy, a dream, and something unreal."

"I see."

Ellis nodded as if understanding, and then looked at Wilson with admiration: "As expected of you, Professor Wilson!"

"It's really a shame that you left school to join the expedition team. You really know a lot about the culture of that ancient country! No wonder the school asked you to be a professor of ancient Chinese history."

"..." Wilson showed a standard polite smile.

Can it be less?

He grew up under the red flag for the past twenty years.

Although my Chinese language scores were indeed average, I still scored over 120 points in the college entrance examination.If he didn't understand the stories of those idioms, especially the idioms about his own name, he would be ashamed of his name.

A piece of tofu will kill you.

Although many parts of this world are completely different from the world he is familiar with, the basic history is consistent.All the major events in history are unfolding in an orderly manner.

The most basic language and culture are basically the same as what he knows.

So he wasn't worried that he was wrong.

As for Miskatonic University hiring Howard Wilson as professor of ancient Chinese history?

That was a wonderful misunderstanding.

Howard himself does not know much about ancient Chinese history.

Simply because his tutor couldn't bear to let the unlucky Howard starve to death on the street, he recommended it to the school. Then the school directly arranged for him to take the ancient Chinese history course because there was a shortage of people...

Ellis suddenly showed an expression of emotion, carefully pondering the story Wilson just told and the deeper meaning of that fixed combination.

She couldn't help but sigh and said, "Isn't that who we are now?"

"We are immersed in this dream world. Trapped in a fantasy that is unreal."

Wilson was about to say something, but found that what Ellis said was absolutely correct.

More importantly, his name happens to be Nanke.

It doesn't seem to be a problem to say that I am currently in Nankeyimeng.

Wilson looked deeply at Ellis.

She did seem to just casually mention an unfamiliar fixed combination that she had seen before, and there was nothing wrong with that.

After all, Ellis did learn many languages.

Very logical.

It was just a coincidence that she said the word Nanke.

Coincidence?
Wilson pursed his lips and suppressed the doubts in his heart.

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