Is the earth round
Lu Liangsheng subconsciously looked down at the ground beneath his feet and stomped hard twice, causing the Taoist who was practicing talismans at the door to poke his head in.
"Did the land irritate you? Be careful that the god of land will come out to cause you trouble."
There is no land in the mountains and rivers of Lujia Village, and the Taoist was just joking. However, the scholar in the room ignored him, stepped on the ground twice, shook his head, and was amused by himself.
"How can the earth be round? If so, it would fall off while walking... Where would it fall off?"
This thought flashed through his mind, and the smile on Lu Liangsheng's face gradually faded. If the ground was really round, would people fall down, and where would they fall to
"Master?!" "Master, please reply quickly. That guy is so difficult to deal with. I can't defeat him."
The jade ring lit up, and Li Sui'an's voice was heard again, with the sounds of bombardment and splitting of rocks continuing, mixed in with the roars and howls of wild beasts.
"Even sword-controlling techniques can't handle it?"
"I can't hit him. That guy is too smart. Oh, Master, you are also very smart. Give me some advice and let me beat him until he is out of the water!"
The jade ring doesn't have much magic power to begin with, so it's impossible for it to keep saying this. Lu Liangsheng frowned and thought about it carefully.
"Since he said the earth is round, why not ask him to stop and let's witness it together. If he is right, then why continue fighting? People like him are in need of like-minded people."
"How do you prove it... Hey, hit me? Fuck you!!"
Listening to the chaotic fight inside, Lu Liangsheng took a few steps into the room. Outside the open window, the Taoist priest drew a piece of talisman paper, crumpled it into a ball and threw it away.
It passed through the scholar's eyes and said immediately:
"Use the sword-controlling technique to fly up to the sky and see if you can, or walk to the edge of the sky and see if you can fall down."
“Fly… fly to the sky?”
Li Sui'an hesitated for a moment, and said "Hello... Master..." twice. The jade ring for sending messages gradually lost its jasper color and became dull and lifeless.
Well…
Lu Liangsheng looked at the jade in his hand which turned back into an ordinary jade before he could finish his words, glanced at the Taoist outside who didn't notice it, and casually put it aside.
'... I have taught Sui An everything that needs to be taught. I think... he will be able to find a way.'
However, when he thought about the man who fought with Li Sui'an and said that the earth was round, he found it very interesting. He walked out of the room and couldn't help but look up at the sky. The winter clouds were thick and he couldn't see the blue color.
'The gods living in heaven would know whether the earth is round or square.'
"Sir, Taoist Sun, it's time to eat."
At the kitchen door, Hong Lian had already cooked the meal. She called the two of them, and seeing Lu Liangsheng looking up at the sky, she went over to stand beside him and looked up as well.
"There's nothing to see in the sky either. It's all gloomy."
"There's nothing to see, I'm just thinking about things." Lu Liangsheng smiled and retracted his gaze. He turned around and saw the Taoist priest under the eaves still drawing talismans, asking him to call Zhu Ganglie down to eat.
Sun Yingxian raised his face, but his nose was full of cinnabar. He angrily threw down the pen and talisman paper, and said, "You only know how to order me around!" He ran to the eaves and yelled upwards.
"Old Pig, it's time to eat!"
“Here it comes!”
The same roar made the attic buzz, and Lu Laoshi, who was sitting under the eaves on the other side, almost fell to the ground. Zhu Ganglie pushed open the door, pulled up his pants that exposed half of his butt, and came down from upstairs.
Seeing that the scholar was there, he curled his big mouth back, revealing a few big teeth.
"That... Lu Liangsheng, I, Old Pig, would like to..."
“Don’t even think about it.”
Lu Liangsheng waved his hand in rejection. He knew what Zhu Ganglie wanted to say without thinking. He had secretly drawn the painting of Yue'er wearing fewer clothes with reference to several yellowed books hidden by the Taoist priest. Now that Hong Lian was in front of him, there was no way he could say it out loud.
If he asks for more, won't he be asked to draw him without clothes
… If you do something weird again, this yard will become uninhabitable.
At the side, Hong Lian asked curiously, "What are you thinking about?" Her eyes moved around, looking at Zhu Ganglie and Gongzi, and she probably guessed something. Her face suddenly became hot, and she uttered a faint "Pah."
This made Lu Liangsheng stand there in embarrassment. Fortunately, Li Jinhua and Lu Xiaoxian soon came back with some meat and rice for Lu Taigong, so they could have dinner.
The kitchen is still the same size as before. After Zhu Ganglie came, the original round table was rebuilt into a bigger one so that it doesn't seem too crowded.
As soon as a few dishes were placed on the table, two pairs of chopsticks picked up the food in the blink of an eye. Then, there were two "pa pa" sounds, and the chopsticks hit Zhu Ganglie and Sun Yingxian on the forehead, and they both retracted their hands.
Li Jinhua and Lu Xiaoxian put away their chopsticks and sat down, then they shouted, "Let's eat!"
Seeing the two of them being humiliated, Hong Lian held the bowl, turned behind Lu Liangsheng with a suppressed smile, and then she couldn't help but chuckle. The Taoist at the other end of the round table raised his head and saw the scholar picking up the food from the bowl and chewing it bit by bit with a smile on his face.
He quickly took a bite of the fat meat and put down his chopsticks: "Old Lu, if you want to laugh, just laugh. Don't worry about my face."
Li Jinhua thought Liangsheng was thinking about something, so she picked up a piece of food for him and picked up a piece for the Taoist priest and put them in his bowl.
"I can't stop you from talking."
Over there, Lu Liangsheng put down his bowl and chopsticks, and said with a smile: "I'm not laughing at you, but I remembered something that happened today. Um... Sui An had a conflict with someone, and the cause was a bit unbelievable. That person said the earth is round."
When Li Jinhua, Lu Laoshi, the Taoist priest, and Zhu Ganglie heard this, they all burst into laughter.
"If it's round, then wouldn't people in other places be slanted?"
“…That’s not right. If it’s tilted, then you’ll fall down, right?!”
"Yes, if it's round, and I walk straight from here, then I will come back from the other side. How come there are all kinds of people these days? Mr. Lu, the great scholar, quickly tell Li Sui'an to give this guy a good beating, so that he won't be looking for trouble all day long after he's full."
This kind of thing can only be treated as a joke. Lu Liangsheng also laughed a few words and stretched out his chopsticks to pick up the dish, but suddenly stopped.
I remembered what Lao Sun said just now: "If we go straight from here, won't we come back from the other side?"
I suddenly remembered the monkey demon under the Five Elements Mountain.
After dinner, it was already dark outside. The scholar went back into the house against the cold wind, blew on the tinder, lit the oil lamp and placed it on the corner of the table. He then took out the bookshelf and took out a pile of monkey hair that had been stored for a long time.
After reading and gaining wisdom, he had a strong desire for knowledge. When he was at the Five Elements Mountain, he chatted with the monkey-headed man. The monkey even told him the story of how he had caused trouble and was trapped underneath.
"If you want to know whether the earth is round, you can ask him!"
The cold wind squeezed in through the window. The lights flickered, shining on Lu Liangsheng, who was holding a monkey hair between his fingertips. He blew out a light breath, and the hair flew to the ground in front of him. With a bang, a cloud of smoke rose up. The monkey, who was only four feet tall, carried a stick and waved his hand to fan the mist aside.
"Why did you call me out now?"
The messy monkey head looked around and said, "No women?"
Before he could finish his words, with a bang, he turned into monkey hair and lay on the ground.
Lu Liangsheng rubbed his eyebrows, picked it up, replaced it with another one and blew it out.