Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 26 The Confused Future

  Some people say that women's intuition is the most terrifying, because they are extremely sharp and often accurate in judgment. Then the girl's intuition is even more terrifying.

  So Cai Yan immediately noticed the solemnity and kindness conveyed by Fei Qian's salute to her, instead of the feeling of casual perfunctory in his bones like other people's behaviors are very standard.

Moreover, Cai Yan was also quite satisfied with this "Senior Sister". She used to be called "Senior Sister", but now she is finally a sister, so she took two steps quickly, put the sheepskin roll in Cai Yong's hand, and looked at Fei. Qian Shi returned the gift.

  Since he is a registered disciple, he is more or less a stranger, so Cai Yan naturally does not need to avoid it.

   "Ahem..." Cai Yong looked at the two rolls of sheepskin in his hand, "What is this?"

"Ah," Cai Yan realized that the person involved was also present, and quickly said to Cai Yong, "My daughter found this in the library. Look, this volume is written by Shendu, and this volume is written by Daqin." , in both volumes, there are some fonts that are similar to... um... Fei and Fei's handwriting..."

Originally, Fei Qian was not qualified to be called Senior Sister. After all, Fei Qian was still a registered disciple, but before Cai Yong could react, his daughter seemed to have replied with words and actions, and Cai Yong had no choice but to pretend that he didn't hear it. care about.

   "It's true!" Cai Yong took a closer look, compared the left and right sides, and there were indeed some similarities, so he called Fei Qian to come forward to watch.

  Fei Qian finally felt a stone in his heart fall to the ground, so he stepped forward to take the parchment.

  The sheepskin scroll is very old. Although it has been preserved as best as possible, it is inevitable that there are still some wrinkles and black lines, and some parts are even slightly damaged by insects and mildew.

  I don’t know what kind of paint was used on the sheepskin scroll. After the vicissitudes of time, it is still recognizable. Fei Qian doesn’t know what is written on it, but the characters written on it are somewhat similar to modern letters.

According to what Cai Yan said just now, one is from Shendu and the other is from Daqin. Fei Qian is not sure whether Shendu is from ancient India, but Daqin, Feiqian still knows a little bit, it is from ancient times to the west of Hexi A general term mixed together for those other countries, it seems that the Han Dynasty did not divide this area in detail...

   Then in this way, there is no problem.

Fei Qian held up the scroll and returned it, saying: "When I was young, I was stubborn, and I often thought that counting was too cumbersome. It seemed to be easier to count the people who met Daqin in the market. Later, I got this bamboo slip by chance, and often used it to replace the number of characters. Save some pen and ink...after all...brocade paper is too expensive..."

Cai Yong stroked his beard, nodded and said: "I think this method is indeed simple, but it is quite inconvenient to use bamboo slips to record it. It is not as good as writing, counting and paper slips." Cai Yong is also right, after all Arabic Numbers are only convenient when the paper is used on a large scale, otherwise it is better to carve the twisted letters on the bamboo slips than the horizontal and vertical Chinese characters.

  However, Cai Yong also felt that there was no need to dampen the innovative spirit of young people, so he said softly: "Ziyuan has this innovation, and it is quite convenient for arithmetic. It may be useful. Come on, what's the meaning of this word?"

Fei Qian explained to Cai Yong and Cai Yan one by one the font meaning of the Arabic numerals from 0 to 9, and nonsense that xyz represents the earth element in the Sutra, which is the Zichouyinmao of the earthly branch, etc., let alone, X and Zi are quite similar in shape, and Cai Yong and Cai Yan understood it without any objection.

  When Fei Qian finished speaking, and before he knew it, it was almost late, Fei Qian hurriedly bid farewell to Cai Yong.

Cai Yong also didn't intend to stay with Feiqian for dinner. On the one hand, Cai Yong was like a child who got a novelty toy, and was still trying to use numbers and letters to calculate the problems in the arithmetic. On the other hand, Feiqian had only officially met after all. Few times, Qiang stayed to eat and both parties were a little awkward, so they asked the servants to send Feiqian back.

  After Fei Qian had left for a while, Cai Yong suddenly came to his senses, stopped writing and said, "Ah, isn't this fragment of Ziyuan's bamboo slip? Why didn't Ziyuan take it back..."

"Father, you didn't say anything, who dares to mess around?" Seeing the housekeeper indicating that the food is ready, Cai Yan walked over and pulled Cai Yong's clothes, and said while pulling, "I will call again next time." He brought it back, and my lord father is eating!"

   "Don't talk, don't talk! Okay, let's go, let's go!" Cai Yong put down his pen reluctantly, and walked to dinner with Cai Yan. As he was walking, Cai Yong suddenly remembered something and said to Cai Yan: "Just now, before Ziyuan, Meng De came and brought a set of ancient books. You may wish to read it if you are interested."

   "Did Brother Meng De come today?" Cai Yan was a little surprised. After all, after Cai Yong decided to marry her to Wei Zhongdao, Cao Cao rarely came to Cai's mansion.

  Cai Yong suddenly asked on a whim: "Yaner, what do you think of Meng De?"

Cai Yan gave Cai Yong a blank look. With her intelligence, how could she not know what her father meant, so she said: "Master Father hates me so much? You must drive me away as soon as possible? Isn't Brother Meng De already married? Father Are you asking me to be a concubine in the past?"

  Cai Yong yelled, "I'm just talking casually, I have no other intentions."—Yes, how did I forget that Meng De was married, alas, he is really old...

Cai Yong looked at his gentle and pleasant daughter beside him, and his heart was full of pity. He was getting old day by day, and now other official positions and property are not important, the most important thing is to give his daughter whatever he wants Find a good place to stay.

But-

  It’s hard to choose. The children of this aristocratic family, there are only a few who can be equal to my family. Those who have married wives have married wives, and those who have not married wives—Cai Yong glanced at Cai Yan, feeling a little distressed—it’s not suitable...

  If it is lowered again, it will be a little more wronged—the Wei family was wronged because of their father before, and this time they have to think carefully about what to say, and I can’t be wronged anymore...

   While eating, Cai Yong suddenly patted his head with an ouch.

  Cai Yan hurriedly asked Cai Yong what was the matter, Cai Yong smiled and said he forgot something, but if you forget it, forget it. Although Cai Yan was puzzled, seeing that Cai Yong didn't say anything, he just let it go.

The sun was setting, and although only the father and daughter were eating in the Cai Mansion, although it was simple, it was full of warmth and love. There was a wide variety of delicacies, but the people at the banquet were a little absent-minded and exchanged winks. The whole banquet was full of weird atmosphere.

  After many days of silent operations, this is the first time that Dong Zhuo has invited the Sangong Jiuqing and a group of important officials in the court to a banquet at the same time with great fanfare.

Although this group of important officials of the imperial court sat on the table, they actually had their own thoughts, some were anxious, and some were angry, with different expressions and attitudes, but one thing is certain is that tonight's The banquet will be a stage for Dong Zhuo's forces to express their attitude, and will determine the future course. In comparison, what to eat is not important at all.

  The main table is still vacant. The banquet has started for a while, but Dong Zhuo, who is the host of the banquet, has not arrived yet.

   Please recommend, please collect... Last night, the author Jun also dreamed of going back to the Three Kingdoms, but unfortunately he didn't meet Cai Yan... met Cai Hao... and was hacked back by Cai Mao...

  (end of this chapter)