Chapter 561: 275 Local Tycoon (First Update)_3 Chapter 561: 275 Local Tycoon (First Update)_3 The calculations involved are enormous and daunting. It would be much quicker if calculus was used.
With an unchanging complexion, Gu Jiao responded, “I’ve heard it from the students in the women’s school.”
There are arithmetic classes in women’s schools as well, but Xiao Liulang was not very clear about the specific contents.
However, he knew that Gu Jiao was extremely intelligent, and if she had indeed heard of it, she would probably not have forgotten the details.
Gu Jiao asked again, “What prompted you to consider doing these calculations all of a sudden? Is it part of your assignments from the Hanlin Academy?”
“No.” Xiao Liulang shook his head. He hesitated for a moment, and then recounted the incidents involving the little monk Jingkong and Master Sun. His main aim was to ascertain if Gu Jiao was the one who had taught Jingkong the succession rates and those arithmetic problems.
As for making Master Sun cry and the wager, he kept quiet, simply stating that they had amicably discussed the succession rates with each other.
Gu Jiao nodded in acknowledgment and shook her head.
She indeed had taught Jingkong arithmetic, but she never taught him any of the problems, nor had she mentioned the succession rates.
“He can recite such long succession rates?” Gu Jiao was astonished.
Xiao Liulang called Jingkong into the room.
Upon seeing Gu Jiao, Jingkong thought for a moment that his rascally brother-in-law had reported him secretly. However, when he saw that Gu Jiao’s expressions were normal, he quietly settled down.
Xiao Liulang said, “Could you recite the succession rates that you recited in front of Master Sun once more?”
Jingkong honestly recited them once more.
Xiao Liulang stated, “I am unsure if these are correct, so I’ll have to calculate it.”
The average person would definitely not believe that Jingkong was correct, as the book only contained seven significant figures, yet he had memorized seventeen.
Xiao Liulang didn’t immediately reject Jingkong.
It wasn’t that he believed that Jingkong was correct, but rather that he couldn’t prove that Jingkong was wrong.
He never used his age or his advantage of having attended school for over a decade to pressurize others.
Chastising might suppress a child, but that wouldn’t be because they have been convinced, but rather because they have given up their desire to seek knowledge.
Gu Jiao understood that what Jingkong had memorized was completely accurate.
“Who taught you this?” asked Gu Jiao.
“I saw it in a book,” said Jingkong.
“What book? Can we see it?” Gu Jiao enquired further.
“Of course!” Jingkong scampered off and after rummaging through his piles of small, worn-out possessions for a while, he found a yellowed and dog-eared book. Handing it over to Gu Jiao, he said, “Jiaojiao, here!”
Receiving the book, Gu Jiao and Xiao Liulang began to flip through it together.
Upon taking just one look, both of them simultaneously froze.
Gu Jiao froze because she recognized the familiar text and formulas, while Xiao Liulang did because he could not comprehend the patterns and characters. In addition, there were intricate notes in another language under these strange symbols and characters.
It was the language of Yan Country.
No wonder Jingkong was able to understand some of it. He had been studying the language of Yan Country recently.
However, it was quite strange. How did he come to possess a book from Yan Country?
Xiao Liulang flipped to the last page and saw a large seal imprint on it, causing him to draw back in surprise.
Could it be one of the national books of Yan Country?
Yan Country was the strongest among the six kingdoms, but who would have imagined that a few decades prior, it was but a mere subordinate state?
One day, a formidable National Master arrived in Yan Country, bringing with him six major books. It was the secrets enclosed in these books which enabled Yan Country to rise like a bamboo shoot after a spring rain.
The treatment for leprosy was also derived from one of these books.
In the end, these six books were sealed as national books and kept in the royal palace of Yan Country, guarded day and night by hundreds of palace experts.
If this book was indeed one of the national books, then was the one in the Yan Country’s palace a fake?
Well, it couldn’t be possible, could it? After all, Jingkong was just a little monk who faints at the sight of meat.
Gu Jiao knew nothing about the national books, but she could confirm that the simplified characters and the advanced mathematical formulas in this book did not belong to this era.
Could it be possible that a predecessor from another world passed it down?