Yipin Tang

Chapter 145 Divergent Thinking
When he came to Gewuyuan, it happened to be the time for the students to leave school, so Wang Xiang was really surprised.

After returning to Chang'an, he didn't bother to come to the Gewuyuan to have a look. The judges of the Gewuyuan were really incompetent.

When the Gewu Academy accepted students, they were all from poor families. He was most impressed by the arithmetic genius Chen Daqi. At that time, Chen Daqi was wearing old clothes and asked Li Chunfeng if he had any snacks after passing the examination.

It has only been less than a year now, and the whole person has changed. Although he is still a five or six-year-old kid, he wears the uniform issued by Gewuyuan, and his eyes full of spirituality are more stable. When he saw Wang Xiang He also took the initiative to salute and call the judge.

The number of students in Gewu College suddenly increased a lot, and Li Chunfeng has begun to restrict the enrollment. The students here are different from those in other academies. Maybe they are not familiar with "The Analects of Confucius" and "Classics", but their ability to solve problems is far away. students from other colleges.

Li Shimin has also visited many times and was very surprised by this. Even Li Shen and Li Zhen, who are the most naughty, have matured a lot now, and they do things in an orderly manner. They were naughty, but now I think they are clever and sensitive.

As for Li Zhi and Chen Daqi, the top students of Gewu Academy, he was even more amazed. He even felt that he had benefited a lot from some ideas.

Li Shimin is not a pedantic person. He understands that governing the country is not based on memorizing a few classics. These talents who think flexibly and act calmly are the future pillars of Datang, so they pay more and more attention to Gewuyuan.

The students did not go home directly after school. The Gewu Institute provides students with three meals a day. After school, they can go to the college's restaurant to have a full meal before going home.

Don't think that those who go to the restaurant to eat are all children from poor families. Those newly recruited children from wealthy families also like the food of the college. The cook of Gewuyuan was found from Dengxianlou.

The newly-built restaurant is spacious and bright. The children sit together in twos and threes to eat and chat after serving their meals. From time to time, a burst of cheerful laughter burst out. Language is not the rule of Gewuyuan.

Wang Xiang and Li Chunfeng sat in a corner of the restaurant.

"There are meat and vegetables. It's not bad, but there are a few vegetables." Wang Xiang picked a vegetable and threw it into his mouth. There was no such a spacious restaurant when he left.

Li Chunfeng smiled slightly: "At this time, there are many rich people in Chang'an City who can eat fresh vegetables. I listened to you to let the children maintain a balanced nutrition before letting people get vegetables from the vegetable garden on your farm. For this reason, you That little girl in the mansion has a big opinion on me, so how dare I do more."

As soon as he heard it, he knew that he was talking about little loli, Wang Xiang laughed loudly: "The girl is so precious to our family's vegetable garden, and King Jin wanted to pick two cucumbers, but she scolded her for several days."

Li Chunfeng looked gloomy, and made great efforts to build the glass greenhouse.

"Fortunately, the glass shed behind Gewuyuan will be set up in a few days. Although it is not as big as the one on your farm, it is enough to supply the vegetables for Gewuyuan."

"It's right to be self-reliant."

Wang Xiang didn't blush when he said this.

Li Chunfeng picked up a piece of braised pork and chewed it twice.

"I didn't know that pork could be made so delicious before. Although the method you mentioned...well, it's a bit inelegant, but it's really good."

In the Tang Dynasty, people with a little status did not eat pork, even ordinary people did not like to eat it very much, because pork has a weird taste, and the place where it is kept in captivity is dirty, so everyone thinks that pork is dirty. A strange smell.

In fact, the reason why pork has a strange smell is because the ancients did not know the castration technique. The indecent method Li Chunfeng mentioned was the castration technique Wang Xiang told him.

Li Chunfeng was very interested in the new thing Wang Xiang proposed, and tried it according to the method he said, adding the braised pork, and this dish became the most popular dish in Gewuyuan.

"By the way, did you come to see me today for something?"

When Li Chunfeng asked the question, his eyes looked at the wooden box Wang Xiang put at hand.

Wang Xiang wiped his mouth, opened the wooden box, took out a book and threw it in front of Li Chunfeng, saying, "Read it first."

Li Chunfeng curiously picked up the thick book and flipped through it. After reading a few pages, he sighed: "What a wonderful story, the printing is extremely fine, but there are more typos."

Wang Xiang was sweating in his heart, and said, "Don't worry about typos, do you think it's a good business to print such a story into a book?"

"The story is good, and I think many people like to read it, but..." Li Chunfeng looked at the densely packed words on a page and then at the thickness of the book, frowning and shaking his head, "I don't know how long it will take for such a long story to be just engraved. day, not worth it."

Wang Xiang smiled mysteriously and said, "Don't worry about the engraving, I'm here today for this purpose."

Li Chunfeng wondered, "Can you solve the engraving problem?"

Wang Xiang jokingly said: "You, the deputy judge of the Gewu Academy, are not worthy of the name. Gewu Yixue pays attention to divergent thinking."

"Divergent thinking?"

"Why, didn't I tell you what divergent thinking is?"

Li Chunfeng carefully took out the small notebook that Wang Xiang left before he went to Gaochang, it was the basic mathematics and basic physics, which he kept intact as before.

"It doesn't mention what divergent thinking is."

Wang Xiang rubbed his nose: "Uh, let's talk about divergent thinking later, let's talk about engraving first, do you have a pen and paper?"

Li Chunfeng asked someone to fetch a quill pen and a new stack of paper, and Wang Xiang wrote a line on the paper.

"When the sun goes, the moon will come, and when the moon goes, the sun will come." Li Chunfeng whispered.

Wang Xiang smiled and asked, "What if you want to print this sentence?"

Block printing is not a secret thing, Li Chunfeng replied: "Naturally let the woodblock master carve this sentence into a template and then print it."

Wang Xiang smiled and did not speak, but took another piece of paper and wrote a line.

"What if I want to print this sentence?"

"When the moon goes, the sun will come, and when the sun goes, the moon will come." Li Chunfeng frowned. The sentences on the two pieces of paper were just reversed, as if they touched something faintly, but couldn't grasp it for a while.

Seeing that Li Chunfeng frowned and said nothing, Wang Xiang took out two pieces of paper and tore them apart from the middle. Li Chunfeng's eyes lit up immediately: "You mean to divide this sentence into two parts and then splicing them together when printing. It only needs to be engraved once to print two sentences!"

"clever!"

After being excited, Li Chunfeng frowned again: "But sentences like this are rare, others..."

Before he finished speaking, he saw that Wang Xiang had torn that sentence into individual characters...

"That's divergent thinking."

With just a few words, Li Chunfeng felt a brand new door slowly opening in front of him.

(End of this chapter)