The extraordinary daily life of people with super powers

"The way of expressing time has been the same since ancient times. There is nothing complicated about it."

"Master, do you have a simpler way of division?" Xia Mingyang asked.

This kind of question might be considered as nothing more than a gimmick in the eyes of those old-fashioned people, but she was very interested in it.

She didn't like the red tape of Confucianism and mostly read miscellaneous books. However, it was these books criticized as "miscellaneous" that enriched her spiritual world.

Being unwelcome in the palace was a constraint for her.

Only in these books can Xia Mingyang feel the vastness of the world and the greatness of nature.

"Has it been right since ancient times?" Tang Ansheng asked back.

"This..." Xia Mingyang was speechless again.

She thought about it carefully and said, "It may not be right."

Yes, has it been true since ancient times?

Not necessarily.

If it has been right since ancient times, then why has the Great Xia Dynasty become what it is today?

This makes no sense!

"As for the simpler method, I will tell you about it." Tang Ansheng said.

Xia Mingyang immediately straightened his expression, just like when he was reading a book.

"A day consists of twenty-four hours, an hour consists of sixty minutes, a minute consists of sixty seconds, and a second consists of one thousand milliseconds."

"And one hour can be roughly understood as half an hour." After Tang Ansheng finished speaking, he paused to give the princess time to think.

"Of course, that's how the words are written."

Tang Ansheng picked up a branch nearby and wrote words like hours, minutes, and seconds on the ground in the official language of Daxia.

As soon as Xia Mingyang saw these words, his eyes immediately lit up.

good word!

Apart from anything else, the few words written by Tang Ansheng do not have that kind of brush strokes or beginning, transition, development and ending, but they are very neat, so neat that... they look like they were carved out of the same mold.

"What style of calligraphy is this? I've never seen it before."

"Is this Taoist priest also an alternative calligraphy master?"

Xia Mingyang shifted his attention away from the font and focused on the meaning of the characters themselves.

"Hours, minutes, milliseconds... It's indeed much more accurate and convenient, but I always feel like there's something wrong."

She looked at Tang Ansheng and asked, "Why is sixty minutes an hour?"

"Since sixty minutes make one hour, why not sixty milliseconds make one second?"

In response to this question, Tang Ansheng said: "It's just a habit of being better at dividing."

"In fact, the length of a day varies depending on the planet you are on."

"Planet?"

Another strange word popped up.

"What do you think of the world we live in and the land we stand on?"

"The sky is round and the earth is flat? A flat land?" Xia Mingyang said, "These are all mentioned in books. They are very simple principles. Taoist priest, you are testing me with this..."

"But what if I say that this world is a sphere?"

Tang Ansheng grabbed a handful of soil from the ground nearby, kneaded it into a ball, pointed at it and said, "This ball is the world we live in now, that is, the planet."

Then Tang Ansheng pointed to the sky and said, "The stars you see at night are these spheres."

"It looks no bigger than a bullet, but it is actually as vast as this world."

"How is that possible?" Xia Mingyang couldn't believe it.

What the Taoist said was hard for her to accept.

If every star in the sky is as vast and endless as the world we live in, how big would the entire universe be?

Also, how do they stay suspended in the sky without falling?

She originally thought that she was a frog in a well, but after hearing what the Taoist priest said, she realized that she could not even compare to a frog, let alone a mayfly that is born in the morning and dies in the evening.

"For example, time. What do you think time is?" Tang Ansheng asked again.

This seems to be a philosophical question.

The previous planetary theory was too vast, so Xia Mingyang instinctively did not dare to believe it, and her brain was still a little dazed.

Hearing this question now made her calm down slowly and put aside those unbelievable questions for the time being.

"Is it a year? Is it a time? Is it yesterday, tomorrow, or tomorrow?" Xia Mingyang replied.

With every word I said, I felt a little less confident.

She was originally quite satisfied with her own knowledge, but what the Taoist priest said just now was so scary that she couldn't help but doubt herself.

“Time is determined by humans themselves. The universe itself may not have any so-called time.”

"Oh, you can simply understand the universe as heaven and earth."

Tang Ansheng continued: "Everything is in motion, and this motion constitutes what is called time."

there is no time?

How can it be?

If this is true, then the past ten years of life are fake and non-existent?

Will tomorrow never come?

If there is no time, shouldn't everything be in a state of stillness?

Wait, Xia Mingyang seemed to understand a little bit what the Taoist priest said in his last sentence.

It’s not that without time, everything would be still, but time exists only when everything starts to move.

But even so, she still had many questions that she didn't understand.

"Wait a minute, Taoist priest, are you talking about maybe?" Xia Mingyang noticed Tang Ansheng's choice of words.

"Yeah, I don't even know your name, how can I know the mystery of cosmic time?"

"..."

Taoist priest, this is really interesting.

Xia Mingyang quickly stood up and said respectfully, "My surname is Xia, and my name is Mingyang."

She had no intention of hiding her identity.

In her opinion, this Taoist priest was a man of great powers and might have known her name for a long time.

"The emperor's eldest daughter?"

"..."

Such disrespectful address almost scared Qiao'er who was standing by. She was stupid to begin with and couldn't understand the conversation between the two people, so she was confused just now.

But she understood that this was a heinous crime and the nine generations of the family would be executed.

"road……"

Qiao'er wanted to say something, but Xia Mingyang stopped her.

"Master, this is the capital after all, with many people and eyes. I know you may not be afraid, but I am afraid of people with ulterior motives..." Xia Mingyang did not continue.

The "person with ulterior motives" she mentioned was naturally the person who was monitoring her in the palace.

Tang Ansheng ignored her and said, "My subject is called science. If you want to learn, you can come to this place at this time tomorrow."

Tang Ansheng put away his fishing rod and prepared to leave, but he saw the other party staring at his empty fish basket.

"puff!"

With a swing of the fishing rod, the straight fish hook instantly shot into the water.

Tang Ansheng raised his hand and a carp with a hole in it flew out.

"Isn't this a fish?"

"A fisherman never returns empty-handed, and I never break my word."

After saying that, Tang Ansheng walked towards Nanshi without looking back.

Looking at his back, Xia Mingyang thought for a moment and said, "Qiao'er, let's go back to the inn today. I have something to think about."

The Taoist priest caught two fish with a straight fishhook.

One is forced, like the carp.

The other is voluntary, like Xia Mingyang.

Chapter 22: Demons and Ghosts

Meeting Xia Mingyang was a coincidence, and teaching her was just a casual move by Tang Ansheng.

Anyway, most people in this world are sick, so it doesn't matter who you teach? Moreover, after talking for a long time, Tang Ansheng found her more pleasing to the eye.

Women like her are extremely rare in this era.

Come to think of it, what kind of people did Tang Ansheng meet when he first arrived? Yu Shanshan, who often spoke nonsense and insulted his intelligence; the ignorant country women who were either aggressive or timid; and Meihua, who was in the reincarnation space and kept her head down and didn't know the details.

In this comparison, Xia Mingyang seems like a new-age woman of the Great Xia Dynasty.

"I can't stay in this world forever. I will even leave in a short time. It seems impossible for others to wipe out these aristocratic families and corrupt officials in a short time."

"It's very simple for me."

After all, sometimes we can't solve the problem, but we can solve the person who raised the problem.

Killing, killing, killing may not be the best method, but it is definitely the fastest way to achieve results.

"But human hearts are fragile. A dragon slayer will eventually become an evil dragon. With me suppressing it, perhaps there won't be any problems. After I leave and time passes, everything will return to its original course."

History is a circle, and everything repeats itself.

Countless thinkers, military strategists, philosophers, and other great figures on Earth have tried their best to study this problem, but they have never been able to solve it.

Even now, this problem still exists.

Because this is human nature. The only lesson people learn from history is that they don't learn any lessons from history.

But we can’t just ignore the present situation just because we can’t solve the problem.

"If you can kill two, don't kill one. If you can kill a group, don't kill two."

"The more people you kill, the more people you save."

"Killing one person is a crime? Killing 100,000 people is a hero? Saving one person is a good person, saving 100,000 people is a savior, and saving 1 billion is the incarnation of God."

"Thinking about it this way, I have both sides. I am truly a great hero and a good person."

Tang Ansheng was thinking alone, wondering how those great scholars who debated with him would brag about him in the future.

"It's just that my meeting Xia Mingyang doesn't seem like a coincidence. She must be blessed by luck."

The entire capital city is so big, with a population of nearly one million. With such a huge base, how small is the probability of encountering a princess who has run away from the palace?

In reality, low-probability events are just low-probability events. If they happen, there is a high probability that there are some factors behind them.

Through the first two worlds, Tang Ansheng understood that some people in their own world, in that era, had luck so good that it was unimaginable for ordinary people.

"It seems like everything is going smoothly, but in fact, it is also swept away by fate."

"Maybe I am also one of those people who are caught up in fate."

Tang Ansheng didn't care much about this. He had inherited the fine tradition of the flower-growing family. "If you are poor, you should take care of yourself. If you are rich, you should help the world. If you are strong, you should be strong since ancient times."

When weak, it lies dormant;

Once you become powerful, you can kill everyone in your path!