Cultivation: I Have Studied Abroad in the Modern World-Chapter 48 - Interpretation
Chapter 48: Chapter 48 Interpretation
Chapter 48 -48 Interpretation
Zheng Family.
Without a study room, Zheng Fa simply set up a small dining table in the courtyard to write on.
Younger sister Zheng Shan, wearing new clothes made by Mrs.
Zheng, was running around in the yard.
She didn’t dare disturb her brother, so she could only run around the courtyard, at times pulling at the grass in the corner of the wall, or picking up a stone and scrawling on the ground, with her little head occasionally glancing in Zheng Fa’s direction.
Not until Zheng Fa lifted his head.
“Big brother!
Have you finished writing?” Zheng Shan ran over with a pitter-patter, pulling on Zheng Fa’s sleeve and peering curiously up at the table on her tiptoes.
Inside the house, Mrs.
Zheng, still busy at the loom, spoke up, “Shan’er, don’t disturb your brother reading.”
Zheng Shan pouted but obediently let go of Zheng Fa’s sleeve.
“Mom, it’s okay, this is for our little sister,” Zheng Fa said with a smile, pinching his sister’s cheek.
“For me?
Can I read?”
Zheng Shan’s eyes lit up, and she leaned on Zheng Fa’s knees to look at the table, where there lay two books with wet ink.
A few characters could be seen on the cover of the top book.
“Elementary…”
“Elementary Mathematics, Book One,” Zheng Fa taught his sister to read.
Ever since moving in with the Zhao Family, he had been thinking about getting his sister to study, but it was not easy.
The Zheng family was actually living on Zheng Fa’s monthly earnings, which was enough for food and clothing but, being new in town, they had no savings.
Mrs.
Zheng had been wanting to find some work at a clothing shop, but when the shops asked about her background and learned she was from a peasant family, they assumed she lacked skills.
So for now, they couldn’t afford to pay for Shan’er’s school fees.
Money was one thing, but safety was the most important issue: Shan’er would have to leave their residence to go to school, and would have to be accompanied by Mrs.
Zheng, which Zheng Fa felt uneasy about.
Lately, with no books to read, and with Mrs.
Zheng not allowing her to run about the Zhao Mansion to avoid offending the nobles, Shan’er could only play by herself in the courtyard.
“What, have you run out of things to do recently?” Seeing her so excited, Zheng Fa knew that for his lively little sister, being confined to a small courtyard was a bit tough.
“There’s stuff to do!” Zheng Shan shook her head: “In the morning, I help mom cook, then wait for big brother to have lunch.
Then help mom again, and wait for big brother to have dinner.”
Zheng Fa stroked his sister’s head: “So, do you want to read?”
“Read!” His sister nodded vigorously: “Mom said big brother could buy me tasty treats and new clothes because he can read.
I want to read too!”
“What will you do after reading?” Zheng Fa asked.
“Mom still doesn’t have new clothes to wear!”
Zheng Fa smiled, hugged his sister, and pointed to the book “Elementary Mathematics, Book One,” saying, “From now on, your brother will teach you this in the evenings.
Remember to study hard.”
“Alright, I will definitely study well!”
The naive and unknowing little sister made perhaps the heaviest promise in her short life.
Watching her sister happily flipping through the new book she couldn’t understand, Zheng Fa picked up the other book and headed to the study room.
He had thought long and hard about teaching his sister mathematics; even without Immortal Sect knowledge, mathematics was very useful in everyday life in the Xuanwei Realm, but he had always been cautious, feeling unsafe to teach in the village.
It was only today, after mastering Spiritual Crane Body and believing he had some ability to protect himself, that he decided to teach his sister.
As for the other book, it was prepared for Seventh Young Master – “Junior High School Mathematics, Book One”.
This idea had come from borrowing the concept of backup brains and from what Old Man Bai had said.
After all, Old Man Bai was just one person with limited time.
Facing the endless talismanic diagrams, there were inevitably shortcomings, plus he was indeed very busy, and sometimes went on strike; to be honest, Zheng Fa didn’t feel very reassured.
He had to prepare a new brain.
Tang Lingwu had great potential.
Books like “Topology” that may involve knowledge of the Immortal Sect, he still didn’t plan to disseminate.
But “Junior High School Mathematics” is fine, for him, the greatest use of this book was to sift through brains with potential.
The first, is Seventh Young Master.
…
In the study room, the Seventh Young Master stood in front of Zheng Fa’s desk, gently flipping through a stack of papers with talismanic diagrams, his lips tightly pursed.
“Young Master?” Gao Yuan, who felt his relationship with the Seventh Young Master had grown much closer, looked at his gloomy face with surprise: “What’s wrong?”
“How long has Zheng Fa been here?”
The Seventh Young Master silently put down the diagram in his hand and suddenly asked.
“Less than two months?”
“He began studying ‘Complete Understanding of Talisman Diagrams,’ in less than half a month…”
As he spoke, a deeper bitterness surfaced on the Seventh Young Master’s face.
“Young Master?”
“In this half a month, the Primordial Talismans he has deciphered…
are more than what I’ve deciphered in three years…” Saying this, the Seventh Young Master turned and took out a book “Comprehensive Guide to Rune Diagrams: Basic Rune Symbols” from the shelf.
After comparing it with the patterns Zheng Fa left on the papers, he dejectedly put it down: “And they are all correct.”
He turned his head toward Gao Yuan, his eyes lifeless: “Tell me, why is there such a huge gap between people?”
Gao Yuan felt like crying, “Young Master, all these things you’re talking about…
I’ve been through them already…
I’ve asked myself this question a hundred times.”
“I now feel that the two of us are soulmates!” The Seventh Young Master put his arm around Gao Yuan’s shoulders: “Among all these Attendant Students, it is you who fits my heart best!”
Zheng Fa noticed upon entering that the atmosphere between the Seventh Young Master and Gao Yuan was much more harmonious than usual, making him feel like an outsider.
“Zheng Fa, what are you holding?”
“Oh, I have a book that could be somewhat useful for the talismanic Dao.
Isn’t the young miss returning?” Zheng Fa handed over the “First Volume of Junior High School Mathematics”: “Although this book doesn’t seem effective at the moment, it’s better to start learning early.” freeweɓnovēl.coɱ
The Seventh Young Master was taken aback, as if he remembered something: “Is this…
from the person behind you?”
“Behind?” Zheng Fa blinked, guessing some of the Seventh Young Master’s implications, and could only mumble: “Sort of.”
I have a world of people behind me, and I’m not sure which one you’re referring to.
“Did you acquire your talent in the talismanic Dao only after studying this book?” Glancing at the Primordial Talisman diagrams on Zheng Fa’s desk, the Seventh Young Master excitedly said.
“You could say that, but this is just the basics.” Zheng Fa thought about it and felt this wasn’t a bad thing to say.
“Out of all my Attendant Students, it is still you, Zheng Fa, who is the best!”
Gao Yuan, standing behind them, opened his mouth, at a loss for words and with an urge to swear, yet with nothing to say.
The Seventh Young Master took the book Zheng Fa handed over, his hands trembling slightly, as he softly read the name on the cover: “First Volume of Junior High School Mathematics, this name at first glance is an exquisite method of the Immortals!”
“…Could you interpret it?”
Zheng Fa was quite curious, how he figured it out.
“Juniors, should refer to the ancient beginning, when heaven and earth were not born, representing that this secret technique goes straight to the ancients!
Middle,” denotes the middle of the great Dao, indicating that this is the correct law of the Immortals, and might contain the meaning of the Doctrine of the Mean.” Saying this, the Seventh Young Master furrowed his brows: “What does this mathematics mean, could it have some relation to the changes of Yi (Book of Changes)?
The profound person who wrote this book, could he be from the Confucian school?”
After finishing, he mentioned with a bit of embarrassment: “My learning is shallow, and I do not fully understand, I still need to meditate on it more.”
“You understand it very well, profoundly,” Zheng Fa commended: “I think you understand it even more profoundly than the person who wrote the book.”
Holding the book, the Seventh Young Master fell silent for a while: “Actually, my sister is returning to help me prepare for the Immortal Item meeting.”
“The Immortal Item meeting?” Zheng Fa looked at the Seventh Young Master with a bit of confusion, wondering why he hadn’t mentioned this earlier.
…The Seventh Young Master avoided Zheng Fa’s gaze, his complexion tinged with embarrassment.
…I get it, another one trying to work hard in secret.
