My father Yongle, building a five-good family

Chapter 17 I, Zhu Gaoyu, am a true genius!

Xiao Jixiang had never seen anyone climb up a pole like this.

Or it is said that the palace is so strict that anything pulled out from any eunuch inside will be human sperm.

Most of the people who fail to make it big are because they cannot find the ladder to success.

Look, Zhu Gaoyu is just a child now, and Fulu is trying so hard to curry favor with him.

At this moment, Xiao Jixiang felt an unprecedented sense of crisis.

If this continues, his position as the most trusted and intimate person to His Highness will be in jeopardy.

Xiao Jixiang clenched his fist silently, waiting to go back home tonight and do his homework hard.

That's right.

I don't know where this kid Fulu learned so many nonsense. When he tries to coax people, he has one trick after another. Even Xiao Jixiang has to admit that he is inferior to him in terms of eloquence.

Little Fulu finished speaking so many words in one breath, and felt his mouth dry. Zhu Gaoyu happened to hand him a cup of cold tea. He took it at first, but before his lips touched the edge of the cup, he suddenly knelt down, looking terrified:
"I have offended you. I deserve to die. I hope Your Highness will forgive me."

After seeing this scene, Zhu Gaoyu laughed instead.

He put his hands on the stone bench, stretched them out, and jumped off the stone bench. He walked to Xiao Fulu and took out a package of mung bean cake from his arms, saying with a smile:
"Giving you a glass of water to drink is an offense. Then I'll give you a mung bean cake, will you eat it... or not?"

Little Fulu's kowtow paused and he raised his head with tearful eyes. When he saw the mung bean cake in Zhu Gaoyu's hand, he was stunned.

For a moment, an indescribable feeling surged from the tip of his heart.

Little Fulu knew it.

For people like them, once they enter the palace, that's how their lives will be.

You have to know that the current emperor is a man of final say. In order to prevent eunuchs from interfering in state affairs, he has hung an iron plate on the palace gate with the words "Eunuchs are not allowed to interfere in state affairs, and anyone who does so will be beheaded" engraved on it.

Besides this, eunuchs were not allowed to read and write, otherwise, how could little Fulu be unable to figure out the math of six minus two?

Even if it is to amuse Zhu Gaoyu, you can't treat him as a fool.

All of this is true and based on facts.

The only thing that little Fulu didn't expect was the envelope of mung bean cakes.

Having entered the palace at a young age and worked in the Imperial Food Bureau with his master, little Fulu was extremely cautious.

It was already an extremely bold thing to be recruited by His Royal Highness Prince of Yan before.

But today, he wanted to be bold again.

Little Fulu looked at the mung bean cake in Zhu Gaoyu's hand, hesitated for a moment, and then glanced at him.

Zhu Gaoyu still looked like a child, smiling heartlessly.

But little Fulu felt that this little prince had a particularly strong sense of humanity.

So he took out the mung bean cake without hesitation, opened it, took out one of the pieces, took a sip carefully, and then nodded vigorously:
"good to eat!"

……

At lunch time.

Today's main dish is a bowl of meat in a particularly solid porcelain covered bowl.

Zhu Gaoyu was eating so much today that his brothers put down their chopsticks silently after seeing him like this.

Seeing his fourth brother put down his chopsticks, Zhu Gaochi wiped his mouth and tentatively said with some fear:
"Would you like another bowl?"

As soon as these words were spoken, they attracted disapproving glances from the second and third brothers.

It's just that the third brother usually doesn't take the initiative to get involved, so it was the second brother who took the initiative to speak:
"Brother, why do you eat like this? Don't you know it? If you feed me the way you eat, I'm afraid that next time I see you, I'll have grown horizontally..."

The second brother is not targeting the eldest brother, this is really the situation.

After Zhu Gaochi realized what was happening, he was not angry. He smiled awkwardly and ate a few more leaves silently. The eldest brother felt bitter, but he did not say it. Besides, the eldest brother could not eat meat, but only green leafy vegetables...

But speaking of it, the three brothers were also a little confused.

What was unexpected was that Zhu Gaosui was the first to notice something was wrong:
"Xiao Si, I remember that before you left today, your sister-in-law gave you a packet of mung bean cakes. After you ate them, could you still eat so much rice?"

Zhu Gaoyu grumbled, "Xiao San, adults should stay out of children's business!"

As soon as these words were spoken, the expressions of the three brothers became a little strange.

Especially Zhu Gaosui.

I don’t know why, but the term “mistress” sounds so unpleasant.

When no one was paying attention, Zhu Gaochi sneaked up to Zhu Gaoyu and made faces:
"You can't even tell my brother?"

"cannot!"

"What about your sister-in-law?"

"Then I'll think about it."

Zhu Gaoyu stroked his chin, thinking about the possibility of this matter.

Now it was Zhu Gaochi's turn to be depressed.

So the brotherhood between him and Xiao Si for many years is not as good as that between him and his wife?
Zhu Gaochi looked up to the sky and sighed:
"It was a wrong decision after all..."

Zhu Gaoyu glanced at his elder brother strangely, thinking that the script must have been taken by mistake, and silently moved away a little.

……

"Now there is a pond one zhang square, with reeds growing in the center. The water is one chi high, and the reeds are led to the shore, where they are level with the shore. I want to know how deep the water is and how long the reeds are."

In the classroom, the teacher was talking about the problems in the book, shaking his head.

However, unlike the classics classes where many princes and grandchildren forced themselves to be alert, many people took advantage of the afternoon time to doze off in these divination classes.

This problem comes from the classic square field problem in "Nine Chapters on the Mathematical Art".

There are classic geometry problems inside.

The general meaning of the translation is nothing more than "There is a pond of ten feet square. In the pond there is a reed, which is one foot above the water surface. If you lead it to the shore, it will be level with the shore. How deep is the water? How long is the reed?"

The teacher on the stage spoke in a neutral tone, and the students below listened in confusion.

Why do you have to be so good at everything?

They are not the crown prince, so they don't need to compete with others for the first place in everything.

Besides, the eight-legged essay in the imperial examination set by Zhu Yuanzhang did not test arithmetic or other such things. So why should the princes and grandchildren of the emperor bother to learn such difficult things?

For something so niche, unless one truly likes it, few people would suppress their playful nature and work hard to study this boring arithmetic.

Zhu Gaoyu originally thought that he would not be interested.

But after the class, he suddenly felt that Xiao Fulu...might be right.

He, Zhu Gaoyu, is truly a genius!

And he's a genius in arithmetic!
Immediately, Zhu Gaoyu gave the answer without hesitation:

"The water is twelve feet deep, and the reeds are thirteen feet deep."

At this moment, seeing the surprised eyes around him, Zhu Gaoyu suddenly felt like a lone warrior seeking to defeat the enemy.

What is dimensionality reduction attack?
This is!
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