Be a master through ancient times

Chapter 78 Which came first, the duck or the egg?



May [-]th, after the monthly exam.

Chu Ci called the two children to him, and told them to study hard during the few days when he was not around, and to go to Zhang Wenhai and the others if they needed anything.

The two children are very well-behaved. They watched Chu Ci go out with reluctant eyes, and they felt a little uncomfortable seeing Chu Ci. They have been away for several days, and they really miss seeing no one.

But when he carried the package on his back and stepped out of the room, there was suddenly a small cheer from behind.Chu Ci suddenly turned around and went back to the room, only to see that the second child was still looking at him cutely with that kind of reluctant eyes.

Ah, Schrödinger's cheers!

Chu Ci walked out of the county school together with the other two, and saw two carriages parked at the entrance of the alley outside.This carriage looks quite big on the outside, but it is not particularly big on the inside.It's just right for two people, but it's a bit cramped for three people.

At this time, the curtain of the carriage in front was lifted suddenly, and a smiling face of Maitreya Buddha protruded from the inside: "Master Zhu, unfortunately caught the wind and cold last night, and the head of the mountain asked me to lead the team."

Seeing that the person sticking out his head was Mr. Zhou, Jiang Huai and Chen Zifang looked at each other, and immediately decided to die as a fellow Taoist rather than as a poor Taoist.

Therefore, Jiang Huai and Chen Zifang had the ambition to bow their hands to Chu Ci and said, "Brother Chu, I will trouble you to sit with Master Zhou. We still have a problem left over from last night that has not been resolved."

Chu Ci didn't understand, so when he saw the two people looking at him expectantly, he nodded and sat down.He turned around and climbed up to the carriage where Mrs. Zhou was, ignoring the shameful and relieved expressions on the faces of the two behind him.

An hour later, Chu Ci put on a wooden face, listening to Master Zhou chattering in his ear, and then mechanically opened his mouth to answer.It turns out that Master Zhou likes to test the knowledge of school students, and he asks about everything he sees, no matter it is simple or profound.He will gradually deepen the shallow ones, and break down the shallow ones. Anyway, he just wants to keep talking.

After Master Zhou finished asking another question, he was a little bit unsatisfied.He opened the curtain again, looked outside, and saw a group of ducks bobbing in the water.He looked at it for a while, suddenly his eyes lit up, he closed the curtain, and turned his head.

Chu Ci thought, here it comes again.

"Chuci, I have an upper couplet here, can you make a pair?"

"Master, please tell me."

"Ducks play in the clear river."

Chu Ci took a look through the opened curtain, and saw a group of ducks playing in the water.He looked around, and suddenly saw a puppy running towards the mountain wagging its tail.

"The dog barks deep in the forest."

"A flock of ducks frolicking in the clear river."

"A lone dog barks in the deep forest."

"A flock of ducks are playing, floating up and down in the Qingjiang River."

"The lone dog barks wildly, and echoes inside and outside the deep mountains and forests."

"Hahaha, not bad." Mr. Zhou nodded, quick thinking, neat battles, worthy of being recognized as a top student by the county school.

Chu Ci's mouth was a little parched, he took out the bamboo tube and took a sip of water silently, thinking that going on like this was not an option.This old man has obviously practiced.It will be at least an hour before the midway vote hotel. If he continues to answer like this, he will die of exhaustion of mouth as well as brain exhaustion!

"Master, you suddenly mentioned ducks just now, and the student suddenly remembered that he had a question that had been lingering in his mind for many years when he was a child. I don't know if the master can explain it to the student?" Chu Ci asked sincerely.

Master Zhou became interested. After being tortured by him for more than an hour, most people often lose their minds. How dare this Chu Ci ask him for advice?

"You just say it. If the old man knows the answer, he will definitely answer your questions."

"Dare to ask Master, everyone knows that ducks are hatched from eggs. So let me ask, did ducks or duck eggs come first?"

Master Zhou smiled, and was about to say that there were ducks first, but suddenly remembered, didn’t the ducks hatch from eggs?If there were duck eggs first, then which duck laid the duck eggs?

As he thought about it, his brows became tighter and tighter, obviously troubled by this question.Chu Ci secretly smiled in his heart, and then began to close his eyes to rest his mind.

After this raising, it was raised next to the hotel on the way.When Chu Ci was awakened by the driver, there was no one in the car.

Chen Zifang and Jiang Huai were waiting for Chu Ci outside the car, and when they saw him get off the car, they hugged him apologetically.

"Brother Chu, you have suffered. Just now I saw Master Zhou getting off the car with a solemn expression. You must have fallen asleep while he was questioning you, right? Later, you remember to apologize to Master Zhou. He is always generous. I will definitely forgive you." Jiang Huai reminded Chu Ci, lest he leave a bad impression on Master.

Chu Ci smiled mysteriously, and led the two of them to an alley, and after frantically rubbing the two of them for a meal, he relieved the depression of being trapped in the car by the two of them in the afternoon.

"Brother Chu, in society, you don't talk too much. It's not that I've been put to sleep by my master, but that my master has been stumped by me." In front of this group of friends, Chu Ci still had the vigor of a young man.

Jiang Huai and Chen Zifang have long been accustomed to Chuci's occasional strange words. For example, after he got the first place in the ten-day exam last time, someone made him angry, and he said something like "don't worship brother, brother is a legend", although it sounds a bit Unrefined, but inexplicably funny.

Thick-skinned people like Zhang Wenhai even pick up other people's teeth and wits, and take them out to pretend to be aggressive. Anyway, Brother Chu said it, and he also heard it from others.

"You stumped Master?" Jiang Huai was impulsive when he heard the problem, "If you dare to ask what the problem is, why don't Brother Chu tell me?"

"Haha, you don't want to know." Chu Ci smiled heartily, then arranged his clothes and expression, and walked out of the alley in a graceful manner, leaving only two fried hairs in the alley to think about what kind of problem it is. Can Master Zhou be stumped?

Could it be nonsense again?

At dinner, Master Zhou didn't come down to eat.Chu Ci was quite worried that the old man would go into a dead end, so he volunteered and went up to deliver food to him with a food box.

Master Zhou heard the knock on the door and said to come in. After seeing Chu Ci, his first reaction was to cover his face with his sleeves, and then he realized something was wrong, coughed a few times and said: "Put it down, the old man is going to rest. You go back to your room too." He was afraid that Chu Ci would ask him the answer to that question in the afternoon.

Chu Ci chuckled lightly and said, "Students, let's serve the master for dinner. Today there is a stewed fish cube in the dish. I heard that the master has eye problems. Should the students help the master to criticize?"

This eye disease is mild myopia, Chu Ci looked at his eyes, and felt that there were about two or three hundred degrees in his eyes.

"Cough...no need, at worst I won't eat this fish, you can go back and rest. By the way, I haven't figured out the question you raised this afternoon, let me think about it at night." Mrs. Zhou said with some embarrassment .

"Master, you don't have to think about it for too long, because the students occasionally remembered the contents of a book in the afternoon, and suddenly felt that this problem that has plagued students for decades should be solved."

"Oh? Come and listen!" Mr. Zhou scratched his heart and lungs. He thought hard all afternoon and almost drove himself crazy, but no matter how he thought about it, the result was not satisfactory.

"Master, the journey has been exhausting. You can eat first. The students will serve you vegetables. Let's talk while eating." Chu Ci was afraid that Master Zhou would starve to death.

When Master Zhou saw the food, he finally felt hungry. He held the rice in his hand, and listened to Chu Ci while eating the food that Chu Ci had given him.

"This book is a miscellaneous book, from the "Three and Five Calendars" in the Three Kingdoms period. It said, "The heaven and earth are like chickens, and Pangu was born in it." The students thought that since the heaven and the earth were born like eggs, then there must be ducks first. Eggs, and then there are ducks, after all, everything in the world should be inherited from the first thing."

Master Zhou frowned, holding a mouthful of rice in his mouth for a long time without swallowing it.He silently recited what Chu Ci said twice in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this was probably the only answer he could have.

After he stopped struggling, he had a big appetite and even ate two bowls of rice. He was so frightened that Chuci hurriedly put away his things, hunger and hunger for a while, if he got sick, it would be all his fault!


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