From Chief to Ball

Because I often eat bean sprouts, and I haven’t traveled too far to explore the sea, scurvy, a disease that sailors have heard of, has not appeared in the past five or six hundred years.

Rare, and therefore more terrifying.

Chen Jian squeezed close to the medical hall, watching the doctors helpless, and also saw the crew members who looked terrible when they got sick.In just a few days, another person died of the disease.

And because the doctors had never seen it before, they couldn't start treatment, and they couldn't understand why.

Combined with the strange disease, the rough skin like fish scales, and the terrifying rumors of the sea, all these combined make this disease a curse that seems to surpass the power of nature.

Looking at those sailors whose bodies were covered with bruises and dark bleeding, Chen Jian's heart skipped a beat.

Here's your chance!The opportunity to hype is here!Not only should we use drama, but we should also use this terrible and strange disease to fully hype up that kind of flower!From the bottom to the top, from sailors to ship owners, the entire city of Fujian will be covered and they will all be surrounded.

As for how many people will go bankrupt or even commit suicide, this is not what Chen Jian is thinking about now.Even when he had the first pot of gold, he thought that he could use ashes, charcoal and silica to make white phosphorus, make white phosphorus matches, and give them a cheaper and more convenient way to commit suicide—just swallow a matchhead, If you really can't afford it, three or five people can pool their money to buy one, the lethal dose is enough.

Flowers can't cure diseases, but you can pretend that flowers can cure diseases.Flowers are not noble, but they can pretend to be noble.

Chapter 13 Faint

In the small wooden house outside the city, the window was half open, letting in the sea breeze and sunshine that could travel thousands of miles, but blocking out the rumors and stories in the city.

Lin Xi curled up on the bed, stretching her soft waist vigorously, curling her legs together obliquely on the bed, like a lazy kitten that just grew up.

On the cabinet in front of the bed was a pot of overnight herbal tea, and three pieces of rice cakes that had cooled down, two on the bottom and one on top, arranged in a pyramid shape.

Where the sun shines, the fine dust swims in disorder and falls on the grass leaves in the flower pots on the cabinet. The faint fragrance of flowers seems to give the dust a taste of sunshine.

The owner of the flower is holding a copy of "Twenty Years Trial Calculation Exercises", and there is a pile of paper next to it, with a lot of numbers written on it. Every time he looks at it, he frowns, puts down the book and calculates carefully for a long time, and then Turning to the second page, the brows that were originally frowning or frowning became tighter, or a smile suddenly opened up.

The township examination is only to obtain the qualifications to enter those high-level Taixue palaces. It is very difficult to squeeze in. There are only two opportunities to take the examination, and the age must be under 23 years old. If you exceed the age, you cannot take the examination again. But it is more than enough to be an enlightened teacher.

After enlightenment, either choose to go to those professional schools that can make money in a short time as an apprentice, or choose to go to a secondary school to study and take the provincial examination.Therefore, those who can pass the provincial examination and gain a chance to enter the Imperial College probably have nothing to worry about food and drink. Those who are poor will choose to go to the school as an apprentice after enlightenment, learn a craft and make money early.

After so many years, the rules have not changed. You need to take exams on articles, arithmetic, common nature, and basic legal knowledge. If you have enough scores, you can then take another professional subject according to your needs, such as arithmetic, geometry, agronomy, and so on.

The questions became more and more difficult year by year. For Lin Xi, she could tell what the cultivation of this plant was like with her eyes, but it was very difficult for her to calculate these complicated calculations.

She would buy various brochures from time to time, but this year's brochures made her very annoyed: The orbits of the planet Yinghuo and the earth around the sun are not circular, but elliptical?Although she couldn't quite understand the reasoning inside, it made her very unhappy. The world and all things in her heart must be harmonious and orderly. Compared with circles, ellipses are not harmonious and orderly. I have to accept it again.

Fortunately, things like ellipse and conic curves are things that can only be encountered in the mathematics department of the academy. Today's exercises still look more comfortable with circles and triangles. The truth, and then use these principles to calculate a little bit.

When I was immersed in the world of these sages' theorems with the company of Nuan Yang, there was a burst of shouting outside.

"Lin Xi! Lin Xi! Are you at home?"

Putting down the pen, the corner of his mouth smiled unconsciously, the voice was very familiar.

Then the voice turned into two pictures in my mind.One is the laziness of the tall boy when he called her cousin with a hippie smile; the other is the serene smile at the corner of his mouth when he rides on the ridge of the roof in the sun and hits the wood with a hammer.

The two pictures are not in the same style at all, like geometry and algebra, but in Lin Xi's heart at this time, they are so harmonious, gradually blending into one, becoming a living person.

So he hurriedly put on cotton socks to cover his white and tender feet, looked at the musket on the cabinet that had been with him since his parents passed away, thought for a moment, and quietly put it away.

Stretching his little head out of the window, looking at Chen Jian who was shouting on horseback outside the fence, he pointed to the simple wooden door and shouted, "Open the door yourself and come in."

Chen Jian smiled, got off the horse, pushed open the door and walked into the courtyard, knocked again in front of the wooden house, and the answer inside was: "The door is not locked, come in."

Open the door and go in. It is still the same tea as last time, except for the scary gun.

"I figured out a way."

Lin Xi was stunned by the first sentence after sitting down, and smiled for a long time: "Have you been thinking about this method for the past three months?"

"Yeah. What about you, what have you been doing these three months?"

"In the past three months, I believed in you, so I didn't sell flowers, but read books in the house. Six pieces of rice cakes, two pots of tea a day, and I went out once every three days to buy some food."

"Are you watching Baicaoji again?"

"I've read it already. I have to prepare for the exam, and I have to read a lot of books. After passing the exam line, I can enter the academy to go to those subjects. At that time, Baicaoji will be useful. There are only two chances, I Gotta catch it."

Having said that, the two asked a question at the same time with different voices.

"How are you preparing?"

"What good idea have you thought of?"

After Qiqi finished speaking, both of them were stunned, and then they looked at each other unconsciously, and both laughed.

After laughing, Lin Xi sighed and said: "I didn't prepare very well. It's too difficult to pass the exam. If you only ask me about animals and plants, I won't be afraid. If you fail the exam twice, I can only go to Kaimeng School or a school funded by some workshop owners to be a female teacher. It is not difficult to survive, but I don’t have time to do what I like.”

"Just go to the academy?"

"Of course. My father was studying agriculture back then. Jixia left behind a large number of industries. The proceeds from several mines and a large area of ​​land were earmarked for the school. Every year, some money was allocated to those wild lands. Besides, you can learn a lot there, and some things you can’t see elsewhere, it is said that there are many birds, fish, insects, flowers and plants.”

"Is it difficult to pass the exam?"

"It's hard. Half of the quota is recommended, and only half is reserved for non-recommended ones. Take agricultural science as an example, you can be an official. After finishing your studies in the palace, you will be higher than others and get promoted faster. Many people rushed to squeeze in. There are also many people like us who want to learn a lot in it. They are very smart people, and it is always difficult. Some people can do difficult things at the age of ten It counts, there are people who can never forget, and there are many powerful people."

"I don't quite understand many questions, so I don't have much confidence in my heart. Fortunately, I am still young. If I don't pass the exam this time, I will have another chance."

Having said this, Chen Jian couldn't help deceiving: "Actually, I'm pretty good at studying. If it wasn't because my father forced me to go to the Naval Academy, I would have gone to the capital to take the test. If you don't know anything, You can ask me instead."

Lin Xi looked at Chen Jian full of doubts, she didn't quite believe it, but she didn't say anything bad.

Asking Chen Jian to wait here for a while, Pingping went back to her hut, took out a lot of books, and handed over one at random.

Chen Jian casually flipped to the place where the bookmark was sandwiched. Inside was a geometry problem, and the paper sandwiched was full of theorem reasoning written in thin fonts.

Lin Xi looked at Chen Jian secretly, and found that his brows were gradually wrinkled, and he seemed to shake his head without noticing it, obviously he finished reading it soon.

But the slight frown and imperceptible shaking of the head surprised Lin Xi.What I wrote above is wrong, because I read the answer after calculating it, and found that I was wrong at all.

But it took me a long time to find out where I was wrong, and it took about half an hour to calculate.However, the person opposite just glanced at it and shook his head slightly, obviously knowing that the writing was wrong.

In order to prove her guess, Lin Xi smiled and said, "Look, I've been doing it for so long and I've made mistakes. Maybe my thinking is wrong?"

"No, the idea is correct, but there is one step in which you think wrong."

Almost without any hesitation, Lin Xi subconsciously said what was wrong, and Lin Xi finally understood in her heart, and she couldn't help being secretly surprised.It's scary to be able to see where you're going wrong just for a moment.

Chen Jian took out a pen, marked it, and explained in a soft voice.

Lin Xi naturally turned her head to the side, nodded from time to time to show that she understood, and occasionally asked a few things that she didn't understand.

They talked lightly like this, until the sky was getting dark, Chen Jian put down his pen, and Lin Xi was still thinking about the problem just now, resting his chin.

"Okay, it's getting late, we haven't talked about business yet."