Chapter 173 Chapter 11: The World of Beads

The lamps were kept burning until the rooster crowed the next day. It has been a long time since my grandfather told me about this matter, but he still couldn’t help but smile and dance, like a child who just entered school, as if a new world suddenly opened up in front of his eyes, which surprised him very much. At a loss, his head became a little hot and uncontrollable.I was very confused and asked with great interest: "What is written on those toilet papers that deserves your happiness?" But grandpa mentioned other things: "Your grandpa is really a man of ingenuity! If I had known that he was so powerful, I would have studied alchemy with him very carefully. Before he died, he actually knew about female sex. Ghost thing."

I was surprised and said, "What? Did you know when grandpa was still around?" Grandpa was probably too happy, didn't hear my question, and said to himself: "Father is really hidden like a mountain! If you don't go in, you don't know how big he is. If you really go in, you will get lost." In fact, my grandpa gave me the same feeling as my grandpa felt to my grandpa.At first glance, my grandfather looked like a complete old farmer, but he gradually showed me various amazing abilities.I thought that I could surpass my grandfather by getting a copy of "Hundred Skills Drive", but now it seems that it is really unrealistic.Maybe when grandpa looked at grandpa back then, he also dismissed it, and didn't bother to learn alchemy from grandpa at all.So many years after my grandfather passed away, I accidentally discovered my grandfather's manuscript, and my grandfather was surprised at how powerful my grandfather was.

Grandpa suddenly asked me: "There was a famous person in the Wei and Jin Dynasties named Ruan Ji, you know that?" I said I know.This bohemian historical celebrity is often mentioned in high school Chinese textbooks. He said: "Ruan Ji was a famous person at that time. Besides drinking and writing poems, he also liked to whistle, and his voice could be heard for a mile or two. One day, a skilled alchemist came from Mount Sumen. Call Sun Deng. Ruan Ji went to see him." "Sun Deng was also a great celebrity at the time. He didn't marry a wife, and he still lived in an ordinary house with blue tiles and mud walls. He lived in a hole dug by himself all year round. , especially likes to read "Book of Changes", and carries a yixianqin with him, and can play a good piece of music. The strange thing is that he never loses his temper."

"Ruan Ji was sweating profusely when he climbed up the mountain, and saw Sun Zhenren sitting on the rock with his knees hugged; when the two of them met, they sat with their legs stretched out. Ruan Ji talked about the past and the present, and he talked about the mysterious and nihility of the Yellow Emperor and Shennong's era. Advocate, go down to study the profound virtues of the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, and ask Sun Deng about these. Sun Deng, however, raised his head and did not answer. Ruan Ji also mentioned the Confucian moral education proposition, and Taoism focused on guiding the spirit. To see his reaction, but Sun Zhenren still remained expressionless and noncommittal, which made Ruan Ji quite depressed, so he whistled at him as a prank."

"After a while, Sun Zhen said lightly: Yes, you can play it again." "Ruan Ji played it again." "Ruan Ji knew that he met an expert, so he fell silent." "It was getting late, and Ruan Ji got up to say goodbye. He had just walked halfway up the mountain when he heard all the voices on the top of the mountain singing in unison, as if a band was performing passionately. Ruan Ji looked back in surprise and saw Sun Deng waving to him, whistles From him came the sound of whistles like a waterfall." After the grandfather finished speaking, he was immersed in his own story and looked intoxicated.

"What is powerful, this is powerful." Grandpa said to me excitedly, "The composition of alchemists is very complicated. There are knowledgeable intellectuals and swindlers who are ignorant. Scholars who study science and technology include ordinary farmers and merchants, as well as politicians who come and go to the court. , was listed as a low class by the common people. Your father's father did not allow him to take an official career, so he didn't have the life of the three princes and nine ministers; because the ancestor's shade is not bad, he can't be reduced to a beggar. From the beginning to the end, I thought he was just a spirit A counting house devoted to arithmetic, playing alchemy only out of boredom."

I heard my mother say that my grandfather can put the abacus on the top of his head and fiddle with it. "Isn't he playing?" In my mother's narration, in my memory, my father and grandfather used the alchemy they knew to help their relatives and neighbors within their ability. Big ambition. Grandpa said: "Your grandpa is just like Sun Zhenzhen. He only shows it to others when he looks at it for fun. He doesn't know how many mountains and rivers he has in his stomach." "Then where did you know about these landscapes of grandpa?" I asked. "From all that toilet paper." Grandpa was still beaming.Surprise overflowed on his furrowed face.

"Toilet paper?" "That's actually your grandfather's manuscript." "Grandpa's manuscript? Is the toilet paper Grandpa's manuscript? What do you write down?" At this time, asking Grandpa like this is actually superfluous, and you don't even need to think about it. Shushu" is similar, but I still can't help blurting it out. Grandpa told me about the records on the toilet paper. Oh I see.When my grandfather first came into contact with alchemy, it was indeed out of boredom and curiosity, and he only learned some calculation techniques at first.If my grandfather only used his fingers to calculate, then there would be no manuscripts now.When my grandfather was using the abacus to calculate the income and output of rice at home, he happened to have a clever idea: can the algorithm be used on the abacus?If you only use your fingers to calculate, you can only calculate the things in the short time in front of you. If you use the beads on the abacus, the time range that can be calculated is very large.

So, after dinner and tea, my grandfather tried to use the abacus with the beads lit up instead of counting with fingers.With this calculation, the time range that can be calculated has suddenly increased many times and many times.This effect was unexpected.Grandpa was surprised and scared at the same time. The surprise was that he discovered such a secret by accident. The fear was that the more he knew, the more he worried. And these foreknowledges felt uncomfortable in his heart, but his life was shortened when he spoke them out. Grandpa's fingers hung over the abacus, and he dared not put it down for a long time.He was bewildered by his shocking discovery and at a loss what to do.A huge new world suddenly unfolds under his hands...