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  Chapter 216 214【Young mathematician】

  Fei Rulan took her son, Xiyue and nanny to visit her mother Lou.

  The official seal engraved by the Ministry of Rites is handed over to Secretary Haosheng for safekeeping.

  As for the official uniform, let the guards take it back to the inner house. The guards only dared to enter the main room, so they packed it in a rattan box and placed it on the table.

  Zhao Zhenfang and Fei Rumei returned together, chatting non-stop all the way. Although the female teachers in the school always taught girls to be demure and dignified, eight out of ten students in the girls' school became more and more lively.

   "Sister, sister!"

  Fei Rumei ran into the courtyard and shouted, but no one answered.

  A maid came out of the kitchen: "Miss Rumei, Madam has gone back to her natal home. She said she would be back before evening, and let me cook the food first."

   "Oh, go get busy," Fei Rumei walked into the main room, tossed her schoolbag, and muttered, "I finally came here, but my sister went to my house instead."

  Zhao Zhenfang went back to her room and put away her schoolbag, poured two glasses of water over, and handed one to Fei Rumei: "Tomorrow is the annual holiday, Miao Tong, please go to her house to play, will you go?"

   "Go, there's nothing to do if you stay at home." Fei Rumei said with a smile.

  Seeing a rattan box on the table, Fei Rumei put down the cup, went over to open the box, and said in surprise, "Ah, is this an official hat? The wings of the hat are so long."

  Official uniforms are only worn by officials when they are on duty. Ordinary people have never seen them before. Fei Yinghuan will not show off his official uniforms when he goes home.

  Zhao Zhenfang dissuaded and said: "This is the second brother's thing, don't mess around with it."

  Fei Rumei said: "This is Daming's official uniform. My brother-in-law is a traitor, so he wouldn't wear this kind of thing."

   "That's true." Zhao Zhenfang nodded.

  Fei Rumei raised her official hat, put it on her own head and said, "Do I look like an official?"

  Zhao Zhenfang couldn't help laughing: "Your head is too small."

Fei Rumei took out the suit again, put it on her body indiscriminately, raised her hand to support the unsteady official hat, pretended to be a lecherous and corrupt official, picked Zhao Zhenfang's chin with her finger and said: "This little lady was born beautiful, today she will be so beautiful." How about going back with me to enjoy the blessings?"

"Ha ha ha ha!"

  Zhao Zhenfang was so amused that she burst out laughing, and suddenly snatched the hat, put it on her head and said: "Bold and unreasonable, quickly take off my clothes!"

  The official uniform was worn on Fei Rumei, and the sleeves and hem seemed too long. It just happened to be a costume, she shook her sleeves like an actor, and then began to show off her figure, twisting and moving forward.

"oops!"

  Fei Rumei stepped on the hem of her jacket with her toes, and slammed forward to eat shit.

  Feeling the light at the door went dark, Fei Rumei looked up, got up quickly and said, "Brother-in-law is back."

  Zhao Zhenfang took off her official hat and quickly put it in the box, Fei Rumei also quickly took off her official uniform.

  Zhao Han said with a smile: "If you like it, you can wear it for fun, and don't wear it outside."

   Fei Rumei explained: "We just find it strange."

   "I'll put it on for my second brother." Zhao Zhenfang was afraid that Zhao Han would get angry, so she held up the official hat and put it on Zhao Han's head.

  Fei Rumei also said: "I dress my brother-in-law."

  Zhao Han didn't refuse either, and stood there with a smile, letting the two little girls toss.

  Before putting on the official uniform, Fei Rulan had already come back from a visit. When she saw Zhao Han's appearance, her eyes lit up immediately: "My husband's attire is really energetic."

  Zhao Han put the official hat on the table, but did not take off the official uniform, and said: "You find someone to sew a set of military officer uniforms, and you need to be a second-rank one."

  Fei Rulan didn't ask why, and immediately responded: "Okay, I'll go find a tailor tomorrow."

   After all, he has already accepted the recruitment, and it is inevitable to deal with officials in the future. Regular clothes belong to the daily clothes of officials, and they are usually custom-made by themselves. Zhao Han should embroider lions on his chest.

  While the husband and wife were talking, the two little girls had already run away to tease Ju'er, who was about to turn one year old.

  They put the children on the carpet and lure them with toys made of bamboo and wood.

  Ju’er sat there stupidly, staring at them in a daze, not thinking of crawling over to get the toy at all.

  Not very lively, and usually eat a lot, fat like a meatball. Sometimes Zhao Han would think, his eldest son, wouldn't he become a fat man in the future?

  The nanny kept saying, "Children need to eat more, and they have a big appetite to feed them. Now they look fat, but when they are one or two years old, they grow up and lose weight."

   "Ju'er, Juer, come here!" Zhao Zhenfang shook the rattle.

   Gun'er was attracted by the sound of the drums, stunned for a while, and crawled forward. But after only two steps, he suddenly lay down and rolled over, and because he was too fat, he was too tired to move after only one round.

  Fei Rumei pouted and said, "The gun is not fun at all."

   As soon as the words fell, Gun'er suddenly crawled out of the carpet, hugged the legs of the bench and pushed hard, even pushing a stool forward.

   It seems that the rattle is too small to be interesting, and that stool is his toy.

  Zhao Han and Fei Rulan sat next to each other, not talking, just smiling and watching their son play.

  The next day is a holiday.

  Zhao Zhenfang and Fei Rumei, escorted by two servants, went to their classmates' home to play tricks.

  This female classmate's surname is Liu, and her boudoir name is Miaotong. It is said that her eyes are opened at birth, and her eyes are very beautiful.

  Liu Miaotong's house is very large. As long as he is willing to hand over the land, Zhao Han will not confiscate other properties of the gentry. It's just that there are fewer servants. There are not as many domestic slaves as before, and there is no income from tens of thousands of acres of land. The big families really dare not hire too many servants.

  The garden is directly a garden, and an artificial lake was dug.

   "I'll take you to play on the swing." Liu Miaotong said with a smile.

  Fei Rumei said: "My house used to have a swing."

  Zhao Zhenfang ran with them, looking at the garden from time to time, and suddenly saw a young man writing something by the lake.

  Zhao Zhenfang asked: "Who is that?"

"My cousin is a nerd," Liu Miaotong said, "Uncle asked him to watch politics so that he could become an official for Mr. Zhao in the future. He insisted on learning those Western and Western numbers. I feel annoyed when I see numbers like earthworms. It's like getting a baby."

  Three girls go on the swings, but the boy is completely immersed in mathematics.

  The young man's name is Xiao Shixuan, from Fenghuanggang Village, Taihe County. One-third of the whole family was killed by the rebel Sai Lubu. His family ran fast and fled with hundreds of taels of silver.

  I have lost all property, so I can only live with relatives.

  Xiao Shixuan's father, Xiao Weigong, has been with Zhao Han for more than a year, and is currently serving as the head of the criminal house in Anfu County.

  As for Xiao Shixuan himself, he was only seventeen years old and had no interest in imperial examinations. Since I came into contact with mathematics, I have been living in my uncle's house, and I have confirmed ancient Chinese mathematics with Thai and Western mathematics.

  He felt that algebraic symbols such as A, B, and C were too troublesome to write when doing the questions, so he made a series of symbols by himself based on cursive script.

  Then it was unstoppable, using those symbols to formulate equations randomly, and researched a lot of things in half a year.

   This guy discovered Veda's theorem. Although it was a hundred years later than the West, it was indeed induced by him. Afterwards, according to this theorem, a series of related laws are deduced.

  Xiao Shixuan was completely trapped. His father asked him to go to the Yamen to observe politics, but he refused to go. Zhao Han made a rule that scholars who are willing to be officials can go to certain departments for internships. Bring your own dry food, do not get paid, and help with work. The internship period is at least half a year. If it is done well, it can be turned into a reserve official with the joint signature of a chief official and two assistant officials of the department. Once there are vacancies, they will be selected from among these reserve officials.

  In Xiao Shixuan's opinion, how can being an official be as interesting as studying mathematics?

  The three girls first played on the swing, then kicked the shuttlecock for a while, and walked slowly towards the lake.

   "Cousin." Liu Miaotong shouted.

   "En." Xiao Shixuan only responded, and didn't bother to lift his head.

  Liu Miaotong simply sat down and asked with a smile, "What formula did you research today?"

  Xiao Shixuan felt that his cousin was very annoying. He looked up and found two strange girls. Although they were both beautiful, there was no wavering in his heart.

  Women only affect his study of mathematics!

   He was supposed to get married last year, but his fiancée committed suicide after being humiliated, and he has never thought about getting married until now.

  Zhao Zhenfang glanced at the manuscript paper on the stone table, and asked curiously, "What are these symbols?"

  Xiao Shixuan wanted to send these women away quickly, and explained casually: "A, B, C, D, algebraic symbols. I randomly set them up by myself, and I can write them in one stroke."

   "It's convenient," Zhao Zhenfang asked again, "Why don't you have many numbers in your equation? Who came up with the math problem?"

   "I wrote it myself," Xiao Shixuan was a little surprised, "You also understand equations?"

  Zhao Zhenfang smiled and said, "My brother taught me."

  The two began to discuss mathematics, Xiao Shixuan was very disappointed, because Zhao Zhenfang's level was too low, like a king facing bronze and silver, they couldn't talk together at all.

  Xiao Shixuan didn't want to continue the chat, and asked directly: "How is Brother Ling's mathematical attainments?"

   "My brother is good at mathematics." Zhao Zhenfang said.

  Xiao Shixuan was eager to find like-minded people, so he hurriedly asked: "Where does Brother Ling live, and I will definitely pay a visit someday."

  Zhao Zhenfang said: "Go today, my brother must be happy. By the way, bring these manuscripts of yours too."

   "Okay, let's go now," Xiao Shizhong got up immediately, "I still have some manuscripts in my room, wait for me to go back and get them."

   After finishing speaking, he ignored the three girls and disappeared after a short trot.

  Fei Rumei pointed to her own brain and asked, "Miao Tong, is there something wrong with your cousin here?"

  Liu Miaotong smiled and said: "He has been stuck since he was a child, learning all kinds of messy things. Others are trying hard to be a scholar. After he was admitted to Tongsheng, he has been reading those idle books."

  Fei Rumei said to Zhao Zhenfang: "This person won't talk nonsense, so he will offend brother-in-law when the time comes?"

   "No, my brother definitely thinks highly of him." Zhao Zhenfang said firmly.

   Not long after, Xiao Shixuan ran over with his mathematics manuscript in his arms. He didn't regard himself as an outsider at all, and said happily, "Let's go, brother Ling, do you live far away?"

  Zhao Zhenfang smiled and said, "Not far."

  Everyone went all the way to Fucheng, and when they arrived outside the Commander's Mansion, Xiao Shixuan felt something was wrong.

   "Your house... didn't go wrong?" Xiao Shixuan asked confusedly.

   "Please, Mr. Xiao." Zhao Zhenfang was very proud, thinking that she had recruited a talent for her brother.

  (end of this chapter)