"David Wu... why don't you just say your name is Octavian!"
Zhang Shou heard the pronunciation of the name clearly different from the original one, so he definitely didn't mishear the surname, and he almost subconsciously complained. When he found that the young man in front of him suddenly widened his eyes, he saw Chen Yongshou's face full of confusion, so he simply said with a smile: "If you are Octavian, then I am Caesar!"
"You actually know Caesar and Octavian!" The blond boy was immediately surprised and delighted, his eyes were shining, "No wonder they told me that you could translate those books! God bless you, you are indeed a true scholar!"
If God knew that you, a believer, were chanting "Buddha is above" on the land of the East, he would surely kill you! This must have been taught to the boy by someone else when he was learning Chinese on the ship. Maybe the person who taught him thought that the God believed in by the church was the Western Buddha, and that this translation was correct, but he didn't know that this was simply a divine operation...
Zhang Shou was both angry and amused, and immediately laughed, "I am a scholar, but I am not proficient in the languages of various countries, so don't count on me for translation! I just know who Caesar and Octavian are. You are so young, but you have great ambitions. Why, do you want to revive the Roman Empire that Augustus once founded?"
"Wait, wait, speak slower, I don't understand..."
The blond boy finally showed a bitter look, and quickly bowed and asked Zhang Shou to stop, and this time, his voice was not as clear and fluent as at the beginning. It was obvious that he had rehearsed some of his words well in advance, but what he said now was not, and it also revealed his lack of Chinese listening and speaking.
However, as a person who learned Chinese while traveling across the ocean, Zhang Shou felt that this kid was already good enough. You know, as the most difficult language to learn in the world, even for young people who are most receptive to new things, it is really not easy to learn such pronunciation in a short time.
Of course, the most important thing is that the person who taught him didn't speak Cantonese or other dialects. This is really precious! If the boy had just opened his mouth and spoke Cantonese or some coastal dialect, he would have been very upset!
Although Chen Yongshou didn't understand the conversation between Zhang Shou and the blond boy, he could at least hear that Zhang Shou had a certain degree of understanding of the country or history of the boy. He knew very well that he brought people here today on a whim, and Zhang Shou definitely couldn't have any connection with the people in the fleet, so this was very shocking.
He thought of the emperor's revelation that Zhang Shou had apparently had other unknown teachers besides Ge Yong, and these teachers must have traveled overseas, so the things they taught Zhang Shou were very novel. That was why Zhang Shou would occasionally teach some foreign history that no one else knew in Banshan Hall and Jiuzhang Hall.
The two names now spoken by Zhang Shou and the blond boy obviously also belong to the category of foreign history, which proves what the emperor said.
Therefore, seeing that the blond boy who called himself Wu Dawei was obviously a little flustered because he couldn't keep up with what he heard, Zhang Shou stopped talking with a smile, but didn't explain anything. Chen Yongshou said with a stern face: "Master Zhang is a busy man, how can he have time to help you learn to speak! Well, in short, it's your luck that you can set foot on the land of the Ming Dynasty alive, so you can take care of yourself from now on!"