Cheng Cheng calculated silently in his heart. He had to admit that the young governor in front of him was really good at accounting.
In the eyes of outsiders, labor was free, but Jiang Pengji paid the workers. That was a stupid move.
Was that the truth?
Cheng Cheng didn't think so. Jiang Pengji seemed to be at a disadvantage, but she was actually taking advantage of everything.
"Young people nowadays are really shameful."
Cheng Cheng sighed. The girl in front of him was a few years younger than his youngest son, but she was ahead of everyone else.
Jiang Pengji said humbly, "You flatter me, Mr. Cheng. I still have a lot of things I don't understand and need your guidance."
Cheng Cheng smiled and waved his hand. "I'm old and useless. I only hope that I can live the rest of my life in peace."
Jiang Pengji smiled and said nothing, but she snorted coldly in her heart.
If Cheng Cheng was the kind of person who preferred stability, he wouldn't be so troublesome.
Speaking of troublemakers, the person in front of her was also a troublemaker.
What was Cheng Cheng doing?
This person spent a lot of time and finally came up with a way to use different patterns to punctuate sentences.
In fact, most scholars had their own habits of reading sentences, and they often used small symbols that they were used to to mark sentences.
On this basis, Cheng Cheng proposed to use a unified symbol to punctuate sentences. At present, he was worried about what pattern to use.
Since it was a symbol used to punctuate sentences, the symbol naturally couldn't be too complicated, but it couldn't be without a symbol.
He scratched his head and thought of several patterns, but he was not satisfied with them, so he looked for Jiang Pengji and asked her to give him some suggestions.
Seeing the pattern that Cheng Cheng sent, the audience in the streaming room exploded before Jiang Pengji could come up with any ideas.
Yu Jinxiang: "Oh my god, is this the ancient version of punctuation? But other than the dot and circle, I can't recognize anything else. "
Cheng Cheng gave a variety of symbol designs. The simpler ones, such as "", solid black dot, and hollow circle, and the more complicated ones were similar to the oracle bone script. The former was considered simple, but the latter was cumbersome and complicated.
Jiang Pengji looked at it carefully, but she still felt that the patterns were too complicated and not concise.
She was straightforward. Cheng Cheng heaved a long sigh and said, "It's indeed complicated. If it's used for writing, it looks gaudy and affects the beauty of the paper. Some of the diagrams are too large, and they are not simple to use … This matter is really worrying. "
Cheng Cheng was extremely worried, and the audience in the live broadcast room suddenly became excited.
They felt that punctuation could be used. If they could see familiar punctuation in the live broadcast room, they would feel a sense of accomplishment.
Li Wushuang: "Streamer, let me introduce something good to you. Our punctuation marks here are pretty good."
The audience in the streaming room was enthusiastic, and Jiang Pengji had the same intention.
She took out a new piece of paper and pretended to think for a moment. Then she picked up a pen and drew a dot and a line. Cheng Cheng looked at it carefully.
"What is the meaning of this, my lord?"
"I thought that the words we learn today are made up of dots and lines. Since you want to create symbols to punctuate sentences, why don't you evolve it on this basis?" Jiang Pengji drew and wrote at the same time. Cheng Cheng's eyes gradually lit up, as if he had received great inspiration.
"According to what my lord said, a dot and a line can be used …" Cheng Cheng thought about it and drew a small circle on the paper with a pen. It was a full stop that the audience was familiar with. "Such a small circle is concise and clear. If the blank space in the middle is painted, it will look different."
Jiang Pengji said with a smile, "Exactly. You can also add a stroke to the black dot. It's also simple and easy to remember."
She drew a "comma." The black dot had a tail hanging from it, and it looked like a tadpole.
The pattern was not big, and the image was concise and to the point. It was indeed easier to remember than the pattern that Cheng Cheng had just come up with.
Cheng Cheng was suddenly enlightened. Inspiration swarmed in, and he hurriedly extended his creation on this basis.
Jiang Pengji guided him from the side, and in a short while, she came up with a few basic symbols.
Every time one was added, the bullet screen in the live broadcast room became lively as if it was a festival.
They did not witness the birth of the symbol, but they witnessed the entire process of the symbol growing from nothing to something in another dimension. It was a great sense of accomplishment!
The person who was more excited than the audience in the live broadcast room was Cheng Cheng. The pattern in front of him was very simple, but in his eyes, it was a rare treasure.
With symbols, it was natural to give these symbols meaning.
Jiang Pengji pointed at the full stop and said, "A circle is a circle. Why don't you use this pattern to end it?"
Cheng Cheng nodded and immediately made a mark near the full stop.
He pointed at the comma and said, "According to what my lord said, this symbol has the intention of extending. Why don't you use it to stop?"
Jiang Pengji agreed with Cheng Cheng's suggestion. After all, the comma was originally used to stop sentences.
After discussing for the whole afternoon, Cheng Cheng's spirits were still high. His eyes were shining.
When Cheng Cheng returned home, not to mention his wife, even his youngest son and daughter could see the joy on their father's face.
"Father, what good thing happened to you? Why are you so happy?"
Cheng Yuan had been tired all day in the government office. He felt that his arm did not belong to him. He did not know why his father was so happy.
There were so many things happening in Wanzhou that it was scary. When Cheng Yuan was buried by the documents, he also felt a little remorseful — why did he walk right into the trap!
Cheng Cheng smiled and stroked his beard. He said, "Naturally, it's because there's been progress on the sentence reading."
"Really?"
Cheng Yuan knew why his father had been worried recently. Because of this, he had not been able to sleep well all night.
Now that there was a breakthrough, as his son, Cheng Yuan was naturally happy for his father from the bottom of his heart.
"Of course it's true." Cheng Cheng glanced at his son and said with some disdain, "There's no end to learning. You have to work hard."
In the beginning, Cheng Cheng was quite satisfied with the knowledge of his two sons, but compared to Jiang Pengji, he felt that he despised everything.
Cheng Yuan could be said to be extremely innocent after being suddenly lectured by his father.
He had not been slacking off recently. Why did his father suddenly give him a warning?
At the same time …
The city gate had been locked, but a large group of carriages arrived outside the city.
They thought that it was a passing caravan that would soon turn to another place to spend the night and enter the city at dawn. Who knew that the other party would stand outside the city in a daze and have no intention of moving.
The soldiers guarding the city felt that something was wrong and sent someone down to inquire.
"Who are you? Where are you from? "
"We're from out of town. We're here to seek refuge with our relatives."
The person who replied was a servant dressed as a child. Although he spoke in Dongqing's official language, his pronunciation was stiff and it was a little difficult to listen to.
When the soldier heard the other party's accent, his brows furrowed fiercely.
His tone was a little forceful, and he bluntly chased them away.
"Now that the city gate has been locked, if you want to enter the city, come back tomorrow."
The servant smiled apologetically and handed over a money pouch filled with broken silver. "Brother, please don't be angry. It's late at night and it's really not suitable to sleep in the wild. Why don't you do us a favor and help us pass a message to our master's relative to come out … "
The soldier did not dare to accept these benefits. The higher-ups were very strict in this regard.
He roughly pushed the money pouch back and asked casually, "Who is your master's relative?"
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