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Although Chen Xiansong's strange smile frightened the group of people in front, as long as they are intelligent creatures, they can communicate. He slightly mentioned that the two of them got lost and wanted to find the nearest city to settle down. people a distance.

Because after thousands of years of changes, although it is still the same language, the semantics of many words have changed.Chen Xiansong felt that the Han Chinese voice of this group of mercenaries was weird, and the mercenaries felt that Chen Xiansong's common language was not very authentic.

A weak boy and a beautiful girl, this combination is harmless to humans and animals. The mercenaries reported the situation, and the regiment leader ran over to have a look, asked a few words, and then let the two join the team.The pyre that had not been completely extinguished in the middle of the business group was rekindled. Chen Xiansong and Bai Min sat aside, watching the flames being blown to and fro by the evening wind.

A large group of people surrounded them, all of them came to watch the beautiful Bai Min.Most of the mercenaries are stout men who have no opportunity to receive any education, let alone the upper class. Although Bai Min is wearing a man's shabby mercenary clothes, just from his flawless white face and his slender body like jade. Finger, the mercenaries all agreed that this must be a girl from a noble family, and there are also beautiful peasant girls, but they definitely don't have such good skin.

As for Chen Xiansong, the mercenaries saw him as delicate and weak, and took it for granted that he was a son of a nobleman. Most of these two little guys eloped from home.They have heard a lot about this kind of thing from the street poets in the mercenary guild. The most famous one is the love story about the elopement between the first King Solomon and his queen when they were young.

The mercenary group that can be hired by the big business group generally has an excellent reputation and is a good person.The head of the group sat not far from the two of them, and while fiddling with the pile of firewood, he asked curiously: "Little guy, what's the matter with your eyes, the tears haven't stopped since I saw you, But looking at you, it doesn't look like you're crying."

Chen Xiansong wiped away the tears from his face, and said with a stiff expression: "A small problem, which occurs every once in a while, has it affected your mood? If so, I'm sorry."

"Haha, of course not. If blood comes out of your eyes, I'd be a little scared. Tears are nothing." The leader stroked the thick beard on his chin: "By the way, uncle, my name is Aslan, what are your names?"

"Chen Xiansong."

Bai Min looked at Aslan and said nothing. She leaned against the boy and looked around warily from time to time.In fact, Aslan has always paid attention to her, which is not surprising, as long as a man with a normal mentality will unconsciously peep at a beautiful woman, he can understand this girl's concerns, after all, almost all of the merchant group and the mercenary group are men , a delicate, beautiful little girl, surrounded by so many big men, will definitely be embarrassed and scared.

Bai Min was afraid that someone would hurt Chen Xiansong, so he was on guard all the time, unwilling to distract himself by talking.Knowing this, Chen Xiansong said for her: "Her name is Bai Min, and she is my subordinate."

"Subordinates?" Aslan was a little stunned, but he soon thought of an explanation. The nobles were also divided into ranks.The girl's status may not be as good as the boy's, and there should be a huge gap. The two fell in love, and they were not in the right family. They were obstructed by the boy's family, and then they made an appointment to elope.

Soon Aslan was a little worried again. The two children from noble families must be better than ordinary civilians in terms of knowledge and other aspects, but the world is dark now. Let's not talk about whether the two little guys can support themselves, let's talk about the little girl , beautiful enough to make people want to commit crimes, it’s okay to meet them, if you meet other mercenary groups or other organizations that act without any scruples, you can guess how you will be treated without even thinking about it .

Aslan considered for a while and made a decision. He asked earnestly, "Chen Xiansong, from your name and appearance, you and Bai Min should be from the Cathay Empire?"

"Aurora Empire?" Chen Xiansong twitched his eyebrows, reached out and broke a firewood branch from the side, and wrote two Song-style Chinese characters on the sand: "This 'Aurora'?"

Aslan looked down for a while, then raised his head, and smiled embarrassedly: "Actually, I am illiterate. These two characters are beautifully written, and they are common languages. In our mercenary group, only Campbell can read. But she is still sleeping in the car, a woman, always afraid that lack of sleep will affect her appearance."

"I am also from the Cathay Empire." Datie shouted loudly from the side, then squatted and moved forward a few steps, holding a spear, and sat beside the head with a smile, he had long wanted to get away from that hair The girl with long black hair and a fair face is getting closer.He used to think that Campbell was very beautiful, but now he thinks that Campbell is not good-looking at all, especially her short yellow hair, compared with the long black satin-like hair of the girl in front of him, it looks like a straw after the autumn harvest, Rough and rough.

Aslan knew the mentality of this little boy, Datie, he was also young; gently stroking the head of this little guy who showed his thoughts, he thought to himself: child, you have no chance, knowledge is far more important than force , identity is even more important, ordinary civilians should honestly marry a peasant girl, and live in peace and stability is the last word.

Aslan sighed in his heart, and then picked the fire to make the flames that were about to extinguish reinvigorated, and then continued to ask: "Chen Xiansong, what are your plans after you arrive at the nearest city?"

Chen Xiansong threw the firewood in his hand into the fire, and said, "It depends on the situation, find a job first, and support yourself first. Uncle Aslan, I feel that you seem to have something to say, so you might as well speak up. "

Aslan didn't find it strange that his own thoughts were seen through by everyone. The nobles were already good at guessing people's thoughts, and it was quite normal for children of noble families to have this talent.He smiled and said, "If you don't have any goals, you can stay with our mercenary group temporarily. We need logistics personnel who can read and count. I wonder if you are interested?"

Chen Xiansong thought for a while, then nodded: "I only know this kind of...common Chinese, can it work?"

"Enough." Aslan smiled, "What will your little girlfriend know?"

"Little girlfriend?" Chen Xiansong's brain froze for a moment, and it took him a while to understand who Aslan was referring to. He looked at Bai Min beside him. She should be his only friend now. It shouldn't matter to my friend, so I neither affirmed nor denied it at the moment, but replied: "Bai Min's calculation ability is very strong."

"Computational ability?" Aslan's eyes lit up: "There should be no problem with complex calculations within a thousand digits?"

Chen Xiansong was stunned for a moment: "Complicated calculations within a thousand digits? I don't quite understand the saying. Uncle, can you give me an example?"

Aslan called back, "Kira, go and get the ledger from our regiment, hurry up."

Not long after, a big man covered in sweat carefully brought a stack of thick sheepskin rolls and handed them to Chen Xiansong.He flipped through the first page, his wooden face twitched a bit, then he read page by page, and at the end, he abruptly closed all the parchments in his hand and said, "If it's only to this extent , I don’t even need Bai Min, I can solve it. Let Bai Min calculate these things, it’s too good to be useful.”

The chip in Bai Min's brain can even complete the calculation and analysis of 'e1', a mathematical structure that has troubled human beings for a long time, within 8 minute. There are no multiplication and division, but what Chen Xiansong is curious about is that the written symbols in the parchment scrolls are actually the Ahoubo numbers they used in the new human era.

Bai Min said that these people are close relatives of chimpanzees, so why do they use Arabic numerals, and their so-called common language is obviously Chinese in the new human era.Chen Xiansong estimated that in the New Human Era, the blood of a group of people has been passed down and brought this knowledge.where are they now

Chen Xiansong was not in a hurry to ask Aslan about his doubts. He believed that his primary goal was to integrate into the current society and the current human group. As long as he became a part of these people, there would be plenty of opportunities to inquire in the future.

When Aslan heard this, he laughed happily: "Great, Campbell can only calculate within a hundred digits. Now that the accounts of the mercenary group are getting thicker and thicker, she can't do what she wants." Originally, he just wanted to The two children joined their mercenary group and protected them for a period of time by the way. He did not just act out of pure kindness.No matter how they elope, the children of nobles will return home one day. If they can gain their favor or friendship during the time when they are in trouble, then maybe they will return to the family in the future. After that, he will take care of his mercenary group from time to time.

Nobles need connections, business groups need connections, and mercenary groups also need connections.It is easy to have acquaintances, and it is the truth wherever it is placed.

It's just that he didn't expect that the abilities of these two children were completely beyond his imagination. One was specialized in general literature, and the other was specialized in arithmetic.

"Are you willing to join our mercenary group temporarily?" Aslan said nervously, "I will not restrict your freedom. You can leave whenever you want."

Chen Xiansong thought for a while, then turned to Bai Min and asked, "Do you have any suggestions?"

"Follow the command of the superior!"

Chen Xiansong wiped away the water marks on his face again, and said, "No problem, we will call you Mr. Captain from now on."

"You don't have to be so polite, just call me Uncle Aslan."

When Da Tie heard that the two had joined the mercenary group, he couldn't help laughing. He didn't have too many thoughts, he just thought that the girl in front of him was willing to stay, so he could see her every day, which was really great.

Chen Xiansong handed back the parchment in his hand to Aslan, and asked at the same time: "Uncle, are there very few people who can read and count?"

Hearing this, Aslan knew that the boy in front of him seldom left the house, he sighed and said, "Very few. Even among the nobles, only a small number of them can write proficiently. Paper is very expensive. Commoners can't afford to learn it, and there is no one to teach it. As for counting, besides nobles, there are also directors of business groups and a small number of assistants who can learn it. Generally speaking, they are unwilling to teach outsiders. After all, it is a good skill , as long as you count on paper, you can eat enough and support a family, which is much better than us mercenaries who come and go in the wind and rain."

Chen Xiansong turned his head and asked Bai Min: "What do you think when you hear this?"

"Dark Age!"

Chen Xiansong nodded: "I feel the same way. I have read history books for a while, but I forgot the exact time. Apart from frequent wars, the dark age is characterized by low cultural transmission, and the common people do not even have the opportunity to receive education." , writing and skills are the rights of nobility, I thought it was just an exaggerated description of history by later generations, but now it seems that it should be true."

Anyone with a little education should be able to understand what Chen Xiansong said, but with so many people present, no one could understand it.To put it in a vulgar way: every word Chen Xiansong said, they can understand what it means when they are taken apart, but when they are connected together, they don't understand it at all.