The boat quickly left Bailuzhou, and there was no longer a beautiful woman playing the piano in the reed flowers. She could only cry and complain, and was sent intermittently to the ears of the people on the boat by the river wind.

Seeing Young Master Zhao standing at the stern of the boat, the sirens realized that the pair of beauties were here to give him another gift.

However, this poem is not included in the "First Meeting Collection", so it must have been given privately by Mr. Xiao Zhao to the beauty who played the piano.

"He is still a child, with only so many confidantes, and he still has a lot of things when he grows up..."

"It's really a comparison between people, it's so annoying..."

"What's so angry about? Young Master Zhao's talent is probably the best in this dynasty. If you can write a song about him, there will be a confidant..."

"Can we do it? No, so it's normal not to have it."

"It's better to take the Jinshi exam well. This is not a path that ordinary people can take..."

The words of the juren are filled with confidence in their self-deprecating.

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The fleet with yellow flags left Jinling City at noon, entered the Yangtze River from the Jiangdongmen Waterway, and then went down the road, and reached the water surface of Dantu County, Zhenjiang Prefecture at dusk.

After walking through the 160 or 70 miles of water, the fleets that were originally densely formed were scattered and could not see each other.

On the double-decker passenger ship that Zhao Hao and the others were riding on, there were more than 30 cabins above the water surface, and there were about 60 people, of which Zhao Hao and his party accounted for most of them.

In addition to the four masters and apprentices of his father and son, there were Gao Wu, Fang Wen, and more than ten strong men from Caijiaxiang. In addition, Wang Wuyang and Hua Shuyang's respective book children, they followed and guarded each other. There were only about 30 people, as well as Wu Kangyuan and his followers, and Zhao Hao invited them to accompany him.

Therefore, most of Zhao Shouzheng's group was on the other two ships in the same year. Only Tang Hezheng and Shi Jinchen were closer to each other and took their respective entourages onto the ship.

The beginning of winter has passed, and the snow is close to it, and the wind on the river is already very biting. Zhao Hao is afraid of cold and heat, so he has naturally hid in the warm cabin and lie on the bed to read the "Dream of Dreams and Bi Tan" given to him by Hua's family.

This book was almost lost in the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, and Zhao Hao had never seen it in the bookstore. Only the Hua family, which had a rich collection of books, could find the printed copies of the previous dynasty.

Of course, this book is not the original version of the Song Dynasty, but the current version printed by the Hua family. However, both the paper and the layout are impeccable, which makes people look pleasing to the eye. In fact, it is much more comfortable than reading the ancient version of the Song Dynasty directly.

Hua Shuyang also told Zhao Hao that this was printed with his treasured copper movable type, which was much more advanced than woodblock printing.

Zhao Hao was lamenting the strength of the Wuxi Hua family, when Hua Shuyang suddenly pushed the door open and came in.

Zhao Hao glanced at him, and Hua Shuyang's face changed. He quickly stepped out and closed the door, knocked on the door again: "Master, can I come in?"

"What do you think?" Zhao Hao was also amused and crying at this rash second apprentice.

Hua Shuyang came in with a shy face and greeted his master, and then he couldn't help but dance again.

"Master, I have found a way to prove that the earth is round!"

"Oh?" Zhao Hao couldn't help but get up curiously and followed Hua Shuyang to see what happened.

Wang Wuyang and his master were in the same room. When they saw Zhao Hao going out, they quickly brought him a hooded cloak and then followed him to the top of the cabin.

Zhao Hao put on his cloak, tied his hood, looked at Hua Shuyang with excitement and pointed at the river in the distance and said, "I just used a telescope to appreciate the scenery in the distance. I wanted to see if I could see Jinshan Temple. As a result, I saw an amazing scene!"

"What an amazing scene?" Wang Wuyang urged: "Stop keeping it!"

"I saw the sailboat coming from afar. I saw the top of the mast first, and then exposed the entire sail bit by bit, and finally saw the complete ship."

Hua Shuyang waved his arm, handed the monocular lens to Wang Wuyang, and whispered: "If you don't believe me, just take a look now."

"Oh?" Wang Wuyang took it and looked towards the distant river. At this time, a large sailboat happened to be heading east. His eyes kept following the ship. Sure enough, he saw that the hull first disappeared from his sight, then the sail, and finally the top of the mast.

“It’s like going downhill!”

"Right, the river surface is flat, how could it be uphill and downhill?" Hua Shuyang slapped his hands heavily and said, "This only means that the earth under our feet is round!"

"Is that true, Master?" Wang Wuyang looked at Zhao Hao with verification.

Zhao Hao smiled and stretched out his hand. Wang Wuyang immediately took out a special chalk from the treasure bag he carried with him and handed it to his master.

Zhao Hao drew an arc on the boat board and explained the principles to the two disciples.

The two apprentices had excellent understanding, and Zhao Hao could hear clearly after a few simple words.

Zhao Hao threw the chalk back to Wang Wuyang, patted the white ash on his hand, and smiled and said, "In fact, there is a simple method, which also has the same effect."

As he said that, he pointed to the sun that was about to set in the west and said, "Think about it, how can you see two sunsets in a short time?"

Seeing the sunset dazzling, Wang Wuyang quickly took out a mother-of-pearl glasses box from the treasure bag, took out a pair of gold-wire sunglasses, and handed it to the master.

It was a pair specially customized by Zhao Hao, with small oval flat-light lenses and slender gold wire temples. It looked no different from the sunglasses of later generations.

Of course, compared with resin lenses, titanium alloy frames, crystal lenses and pure gold frames are still a bit heavy.

‘But I like it…’ Zhao Hao happily put it on the bridge of his nose. What he felt was not the weight, but the weight of money.

The two disciples looked at the teacher enviously, feeling that the sunglasses were very cool, so they couldn't help but make up their minds. When we arrived in Beijing, we would also customize a pair...

But now it was not the time to envy, and the two of them quickly calmed down and thought about the teacher's questions.

After a while, Wang Wuyang slapped his thigh and said, "I understand!"

"I thought of it too..." Hua Shuyang slapped his forehead immediately.

Then the two of them lay on the deck at the same time, and saw that the red sun that had just intersected the ground plane was only half left.

After a while, the red sun completely disappeared into the eyes of the two.

Eryang jumped up from the ground again, and indeed saw the setting sun, revealing the semicircle again!

Sure enough, I saw two sunsets!

When the sunset set again, the afterglow shone the sky into a gorgeous purple and gold color, and the two finally withdrew their gaze.

"If you climb onto the mast, you should be able to watch the sunset again!" Hua Shuyang looked up and saw the sails swaying in the evening breeze, so he really wanted to climb up to take a look.

"I know it's like this if you don't have to look at it." Zhao Hao was afraid that he would fall down accidentally, so he hurriedly called Hua Shuyang and said:

"But this can only prove that the ground has a curve, but it is not enough to convince others that the earth is round."

"That's right, who made the land wide and reach thousands of miles? How can an ant get the whole picture?" Hua Shuyang smiled bitterly.

"In addition to global travel, there is still a way to prove it." Zhao Hao smiled slightly and said, "Of course, this is not a question you should think about now. Let me work hard first and get the top scorer!"

"Yes, Master..." The two disciples obeyed the orders respectfully, and in order to avoid slandering them, the master kept him indifferently...

【End of this volume】
Chapter completed!