The Moonlight Clan and His Hubu Shangshu

Chapter 73

Seeing that Teng Yi and Bai Jiacheng finally showed up, the colleagues in the box warmly greeted them to take their seats. The so-called "supreme seat" facing the door was naturally reserved for Teng Yi, the highest-ranking person in the group. Teng Yi didn't pay attention to these respects. It's just that since they are happy to boo, they will follow suit. Allen reserved a seat on his right for Bai Jiacheng, who thanked him briskly, pulled out the stool and sat down, took off his backpack and put it on his lap to search for things.Seeing that everyone had arrived, Chen Chen, who was about to faint from hunger, hurriedly waved his hands and told the waiter to serve the food quickly.

Bai Jiacheng found out the money that had replaced the festive envelope earlier, and put it in the palm of Allen's lap, "Return yours, keep it."

Allen looked at the red gold-stamped envelope that said "Make a fortune in silence", and then at Bai Jiacheng, with a dazed expression on his face.

Bai Jiacheng blinked dryly, and thought about his words, "I appreciate your sincerity in sending me flowers a while ago, but don't you want to start a company for yourself next time? Since you are short of money, don't spend it. I'll send those flowers to you." You've converted it into cash, and it's all here."

Allen's calm face began to fluctuate, and he couldn't believe it at the end, and then fell into complete silence, as if the question was a bit out of the way and he couldn't answer it.

Bai Jiacheng was particularly afraid that he would refuse, so while the iron was hot, he took out a few candied haws wrapped in paper bags of different flavors and stuffed them into his arms, "In conclusion, you have been in China for a long time, but I have never played with you However, you like sweets, so I will give you these as a consolation prize, if you come again in the future, I will ask Chen Chen to take you to have a good time, he knows the way better than me."

Hearing this, Chen Chen smiled at Allen, swallowed the stir-fried broad beans, and kindly added: "The outer layer of candied haws is sweet, but the inside is sour, so you should eat slowly and taste it in small bites, and don't take a big gulp to make yourself sour."

Allen understood and said to them, "Thank you."

"You're welcome, well, I still have something nice to give you." Bai Jiacheng took out the wrapped flat and rectangular gift from the gift bag.

Allen was surprised and delighted, his eyes followed the curve of Bai Jiacheng's hand longingly.

Chen Chen stopped in the air with his hand holding the cold jellyfish, shook his head and said with a smile, "You... have too many tricks."

"Where is it, this is the real thing!" Bai Jiacheng smiled, and handed the guy in front of Allen, "This is amazing, with Chinese characteristics, your ancestors definitely didn't have it!"

Allen sat upright, listened to him seriously, took the gift box carefully, not daring to act rashly, and asked politely, "Excuse me, can I open it now?"

Bai Jiacheng waved his hand and said boldly: "It's okay, you just open it."

With the enthusiastic assistance of Chen Chen, Allen successfully untied the gift box and pulled out the lid of the wooden drawer box. The moment the gift was displayed in front of his eyes, Allen nodded in admiration: "I know this, the famous Chinese woodcarving, woodcarving candied haws , it’s unbelievable that they can move freely.”

"What hahahahahahahaha!" Chen Chen and Bai Jiacheng looked at each other, and then laughed.

Their laughter also attracted curious glances from other colleagues and Teng Yi.

Allen didn't know what they were laughing at, but maybe the laughter could be contagious, and he looked at everyone with a smile that didn't understand the truth, "Isn't it candied haws?" Allen fiddled with the beads again, making a crisp sound, "Maybe it's the blow from the Qing Dynasty." musical instrument?"

Bai Jiacheng rubbed his disfigured face back to normal, and said sternly, "Oh, this is indeed made of wood. It's not a candied haws string or a musical instrument. It's called an 'abacus', the 'calculation' of 'calculation', 'a plate The 'plate' of '. The calculators used by our ancients can do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. I give you this, I wish you a lot of money and careful calculation."

"It's so powerful!" Allen admired sincerely, "Can you calculate with just a few moving beads?"

Bai Jiacheng snapped his fingers, "Exactly!"

"Can you demonstrate it?" Allen asked curiously.

Bai Jiacheng was stunned. When Bai Jiamu was in elementary school, he still had a few lessons of abacus in math class, and he didn't need to learn abacus at all in his current year.

Fortunately, Chen Chen came to the rescue in time, "Since the popularity of computers, modern people hardly use abacus, and I only remember some simple addition and subtraction, how about I try it?"

So Allen was very enthusiastic to help him pass the abacus, resting his chin to watch his series of actions.

The sandalwood beads collided and crackled, but after a short time, the demonstration of "three down five go two" and "six up one go five into one" was completed, and Allen was stunned for a while. Coming here is like magic.

Chen Chen returned the abacus to him, and continued: "Back then, after the Soviet expert group withdrew, Chinese scientists relied on abacus to assist the hand-operated computer to complete a large number of calculations, so China's first atomic bomb was produced. explosion of success."

Allen thought for a while and said, "You say that this is the way to calculate addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. I believe it is feasible, but the calculations related to the atomic bomb should not be so simple? For example, I don't quite believe that it can also be used for square root."

Chen Chen's ability is only limited to addition and subtraction of abacus, and he is not good at other calculations. It seems that no one among the colleagues present can take over this hot potato.

Teng Yi, who had been eating steamed shad quietly, nodded in agreement with Chen Chen's point of view after hearing this sentence: "It is indeed possible to prescribe."

So everyone looked at him in unison.

Teng Yi didn't want to delay the delicious food, so he put down his chopsticks and said to everyone: "More than 400 years ago, in the Ming Dynasty of China, there was a member of the royal family named Zhu Zaiyu, who was both a mathematician and a musician. He once wrote a book called "A New Theory of Mathematics", which recorded in detail the methods of using the abacus to find the square and the cube. He also used the abacus to calculate the 'twelve equal law', in your language, it is called ' EqualTemperaments', if I remember correctly, it seems to be decades ahead of similar theories in Europe, if you have learned piano, you should be familiar with this theory."

Bai Jiacheng thought about it for a while and nodded.

Teng Yi lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "Later, at the beginning of the 18th century, J. SBach published a "Harmonic Temperament Collection", 'Well Tempered Clavier' for keyboard instruments with twelve well-tempered temperaments. But it is not sure whether it has benefited from Zhu Zaiyu's theoretical basis."

Everyone couldn't help admiring, and Allen was persuaded by his patient explanation. With the help of Bai Jiacheng, he put the abacus away and put it on the sofa on one side with other gifts he received.Teng Yi called everyone to eat quickly, "If you don't move your chopsticks, this fish will belong to me."

Colleagues who were belatedly responded to the call and started to move one after another——adding vegetables, toasting toasts.Bai Jiacheng stared at Teng Yi madly with chopsticks in his mouth, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt satisfied, and he felt a lot of pride.

Although Allen said in a very easy-going way, "I'm fine with whatever you want to eat." But when the Chinese food was served one after another, Allen hesitated and didn't eat a few.For each dish, he must ask clearly what it is made of before he is willing to try a little bit. There are many ingredients that he has never heard of. How can it be eaten as a dish.Sometimes even if he encounters the ingredients he knows, if it goes against the way he is used to cooking, he still can’t get used to it—for example, potatoes, shredded and fried with green peppers.

However, compared to the endless stream of toasts, this is nothing.

Allen only knew that everyone who came up to salute him, no matter whether they had white wine, beer or red wine in their hands, drank it all in one gulp, so he had no choice but to stand up and do so.But after one round, he couldn't take it anymore, and asked Bai Jiacheng, who was eating crabs happily, "It seems that in China, if someone comes to toast, he has to drink it up?"

Just as Bai Jiacheng stuffed a large piece of crab meat with crab roe into his mouth, he replied vaguely in a hurry, "Well, that's right, 'one mouthful is full of emotion'."

Allen got a little dizzy from drinking, frowned and whispered in Bai Jiacheng's ear, "But I'm not familiar with some people...how could they have deep feelings for me?"

Bai Jiacheng's questioning was overwhelmed by this honesty, he chewed the crab leg meat dryly, and then said after a long pause, "There are some things that you don't need to understand too much, if you can drink it, just drink it with them, if you can't drink it, don't drink it."

Bai Jiacheng didn't know the rules on the drinking table, but he just took it for granted, Allen followed suit, but it was obvious that he couldn't resist the posture of persuading him to drink.Colleagues always have all kinds of tricks to persuade Allen to drink, and Allen can't refuse, and his feet start to tremble.Bai Jiacheng felt that it would be impossible to go on like this, so he wiped his hands, stood up and supported Allen, who was slightly drunk, and said to them, "Don't make trouble with him, he really can't drink, it's not good to drink clients into the hospital."

"Customers can't do it, but you can do it!" Some of the colleagues got drunk and booed and asked Bai Jiacheng to replace the wine.

"Little Bai, you haven't had a sip of wine tonight. Don't act like a little girl. If you're a man, just have a drink with us."

Bai Jiacheng put Allen on the sofa and asked the waiter to serve him a cup of tea slowly. Remembering Bai Jiamu's advice, he held the wine glass they handed over: "I can't, I really can't."

Chen Chen took the teacup from the waiter, helped Allen up to drink tea, and said to the subordinates who persuaded him to drink: "You guys are old fritters, don't scare the kids in the development department, just take it when you see it. "

Sitting in his seat, Teng Yi poured himself a glass of white wine, and said to them, "Since he said he had never drunk alcohol, it wouldn't be interesting to insist on drinking with him. Come here, let's drink."

Teng Yi's rescue is like timely rain, and Bai Jiacheng feels that he can love him for another 300 years.

Those who can drink naturally like to get together. Teng Yi accompanied them to drink five cups in a row, glanced at his watch, "It's almost time to close the stall, I have to catch a plane tomorrow morning." He raised his eyes and said to Chen Chen and the others, "Chen Chen Responsible for sending customers back to the hotel, for those who haven’t had a drink, please drive those who have had a drink home, and if there are not enough people, call a taxi or a substitute driver.” After organizing his colleagues into groups, he leaned over and said briskly to Bai Jiacheng : "I'm going to the bathroom, wait for me."

After Bai Jiacheng turned around and gestured "OK" to him, he walked out of the box in peace. Allen must not be expected to pay the bill if he is so drunk, so Teng Yi went to the front desk to pay the bill and then went straight to the bathroom.

When I came back to look for Bai Jiacheng, Chen Chen had already taken Allen away, and the other colleagues had also been evacuated, but there were three or four drunk men who didn't know each other at all, probably because the next game ended and they couldn't find Bei, so they were running around. Run into their box in one go.Bai Jiacheng was being pinned down on his seat to drink, he shook his head, kicked and refused, one kicked away and another came up to clamp his arm, Teng Yi called the waiter and security guards to rush in to stop him, and grabbed Bai Jiacheng's wrist while he was in the chaos. He yanked it out of the box.

It wasn't until the person was in his arms that something was wrong. Bai Jiacheng's body became heavy and he simply leaned on him.

But not long after he walked away, such a thing happened. Teng Yi felt unbelievable at first, and then felt a wave of fear, "How much have you been fed?"

Bai Jiacheng stared at him blankly, nodded, shook his head again, and said with a smirk, "Not much!"

Teng Yi sighed and helped him go out, "What's the matter with those people?"

Bai Jiacheng looked back at him, sneered and said, "I don't know."

Teng Yi was suffocated by the smell of foreign wine and liquor coming out of his mouth.Only then did he escape from his colleagues, but he couldn't guard against outside thieves.But to be drunk in such a short period of time is undoubtedly a "one gulp" physique. No wonder Bai Jiamu doesn't let him drink. If he drinks two glasses seriously, he can't be slaughtered?

This is great, originally Bai Jiacheng was expected to drive him home, but now that both of them had drunk, they had to find a substitute driver.Bai Jiacheng almost fell asleep lying on his lap all the way, Teng Yi secretly rejoiced that such a Bai Jiacheng was a peace of mind.

Back in the community, after paying the driver's fee, Teng Yi helped Bai Jiacheng out of the car, walked out of the garage, and was jolted by the night wind, and Bai Jiacheng became high belatedly.

It was only then that Teng Yi vaguely realized that something was wrong, and it turned out that the real strength of alcohol had only begun to come up.

Bai Jiacheng first pulled Teng Yi and refused to go upstairs, saying that he wanted to enjoy the moon, but today was cloudy and overcast, and the moon came and went.Naturally, Teng Yi would not waste time with him, holding his hot face, Teng Yi patiently said: "Ah Cheng is drunk, go home with Dad to sober up."

Bai Jiacheng straightened his back, pointed to his nose and said, "Dad made a mistake, I didn't drink!"

"Then what did you drink?"

Bai Jiacheng said mysteriously: "I tell you, don't tell others!"

Teng Yi opened the password door and pushed him into the corridor, "Okay, tell me."

"Purple potion!"