Chapter 105
When it comes to matters between men and women, Chu Jiujiu is just like Chu Shao last year, always lacking a thread. It's obvious that both of them are like this, and even Han Shengyi can see that something is wrong between them, but Chu Jiujiu has never noticed it. Occasionally, she would feel strange, but soon, the straight woman spirit in her mind would suppress that strangeness.
At the end of July, Director Ma finally completed the research on the gold artifact. Their research institute published a whole set of books on gold artifacts. After finishing these, they devoted themselves to the research of bronze artifacts. It was also during the transition period between the two projects that Director Ma finally had some free time and remembered Chu Jiujiu, whom he had forgotten for a long time.
When Chu Jiujiu heard that Director Ma was going to take her to the Cultural Relics Archives, she couldn't sleep for the first half of the night. Early the next morning, she packed her small backpack and went to the courtyard to meet Director Ma.
Watching Director Ma show his work ID to the archive staff, Chu Jiujiu stepped lightly and followed Director Ma obediently. After they went in, Director Ma whispered to her, "I'm on the second floor. I have something to do. Jiujiu, you can take a look on the first floor. Ordinary documents are usually on the first floor. Even I may not be able to see the valuable cultural relics. Don't run around. I'll come down to see you at noon."
Chu Jiujiu nodded repeatedly, "You go ahead and do your work, I can handle it on my own."
Director Ma knew that she was sensible, so he left with peace of mind. After he left, Chu Jiujiu looked at the rows of bookshelves, like a fish finally returning to the sea, and almost jumped twice on the spot to show her excitement.
Time was running out and Chu Jiujiu didn't dare to delay. She quickly ran over to find the books she was interested in. After taking them out, she flipped through the table of contents and then turned a page every five seconds.
She was taking notes in shorthand. No matter what the content meant, she just wanted to write down the words so that she could read more books.
Anyway, she has nothing to do during the holidays, and she will have plenty of time to reminisce when she returns.
Her way of reading is very special, like scanning. There were people next to her looking for documents, and they just felt strange seeing her like this.
But the other party did not disturb her. Everyone was doing their own thing, and soon, two hours passed.
There are very few people in the archives, and there is no rule against talking. As long as you don't speak too loudly, no one will come to bother you.
Chu Jiujiu was reading a thick dictionary. The entries in it were not words or idioms, but slang. Chu Jiujiu found it very interesting. While she was reading, there was always someone talking next to her.
"Are these the only two from Chen State?"
"No, there's another one. Wait a minute, let me look through it... Yes, look, this one is from the same period."
The other party took a look and felt that it didn't look like it. "Are you sure it's a Chen Dynasty artifact? The style doesn't look like it."
"Yeah, I see they're grouped together. It says 564 AD on the back."
"564 doesn't necessarily refer to the Chen Dynasty. It could also be from the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Go check which emperor's reign title is 564."
The man agreed and turned to go back to look for information. Beside him, Chu Jiujiu looked up from her book and whispered, "564 AD, the fifth year of the Tianjia era in the Southern Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Wen of Chen, and the reign of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty, Yuwen Yong, under the reign name Baoding."
At this point, she paused quietly, calculated in her mind, and then continued: "It should be the fourth year in Baoding."
After saying this, she smiled at these people and then lowered her head again.
Those who were looking up information were stunned.
They looked at each other in confusion. Finally, the oldest one came over and asked her, "Comrade, do you also study the Northern and Southern Dynasties?"
Chu Jiujiu looked up blankly, "Ah? No, I only know a few era names."
Just by thinking about it, he can match the reign title, the emperor, and the year. It doesn't look like he has never done any research.
The man looked her up and down and thought she was too young, like a minor.
Of course, he didn't really think that Chu Jiujiu was underage. To be able to enter the archives and know all this, she must be at least in her early twenties.
He extended a hand to Chu Jiujiu. "Comrade, you're joking. I'm the director of the First Qin and Han Research Office of the Institute of Ancient History. My last name is Liang. What's your last name, comrade? Where do you work?"
Chu Jiujiu blinked at how formal he spoke. She also extended her hand and shook it. "Hello, Comrade Liang. My last name is Chu. I'm the deputy monitor of Class 3, Grade 12, at XX Middle School in XX District. I'm also the Monday Red Flag Bearer."
Director Liang: “…”
He suspected he had heard wrongly.
"Are you still in high school?"
Chu Jiujiu hummed.
"Then where do you know all this?!"
He asked rather impolitely, as if it was incredible that Chu Jiujiu knew all this. Chu Jiujiu felt that he looked down on her, so she replied unhappily, "Isn't it in the books? It's printed at the back of every dictionary."
Thinking of this, the doubts on Director Liang's face disappeared. Yes, he forgot about the dictionary.
"I see. Chu is so young, yet he can actually memorize a dictionary. That's quite impressive."
Chu Jiujiu glanced at him. She didn't want to mention it, but Director Liang was too bad at speaking. "I didn't memorize it. I just looked it over."
Someone said, "You can remember it even now after reading it once. Chu, don't lie at such a young age. Working hard is good, but lying is wrong."
...These people are so annoying.
"I'm not lying. I can remember it after reading it once. If you don't believe me, test me!"
After saying that, Chu Jiujiu slammed the slang dictionary into Director Liang's hand. Director Liang was busy with the information and had no time to test her on these things. However, seeing that Chu Jiujiu didn't seem to be pretending, he actually became interested.
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Director Ma found what he needed on the second floor, sat and read for a while, and then realized it was almost time, so he went downstairs with the book. The first floor was relatively empty, and Director Ma searched for a long time before he saw Chu Jiujiu. She was surrounded by a group of men, holding a book, her brows tightly furrowed.
Director Ma was shocked. This was Chu Liqiang's daughter. If anything happened to her, he would be dead too.
Director Ma walked over quickly and scolded them: "What are you doing?"
Hearing this voice, Director Liang turned his head and found that it was Director Ma coming over. Director Liang's face was actually alert for a moment. He turned around and smiled to block Chu Jiujiu behind him: "Director Ma, why are you here? It's okay, we are just talking here."
"Just say what you want to say. Why are you blocking the way with Jiujiu?" Director Ma asked him bluntly.
As he said that, he drove all the men away and came to Chu Jiujiu. He quickly asked, "Jiujiu, are you okay?"
Chu Jiujiu shook her head: "It's okay, you misunderstood, these uncles didn't do anything to me, they just wanted me to work for them."
Upon hearing this, Director Ma became even more furious: "How dare you let a child work for you!"
Director Liang hadn't expected them to actually know each other. He quickly explained to Director Ma, "Director Ma, you don't know, this kid has a photographic memory! With her, we won't even have to look through materials anymore. This is such a huge boost for our lab!"
Director Ma opened his eyes wide in surprise. He turned around and asked Chu Jiujiu, "Do you really have a photographic memory?"
Chu Jiujiu neither nodded nor shook her head. She handed the book in her arms to Director Ma and let Director Ma test her in the same way.
Director Ma picked up three pages at random. As soon as he said the first few words, Chu Jiujiu could accurately repeat the rest of the words. He closed the dictionary with a snap, and Director Ma looked confused.
Beside him, Director Liang was still saying to him, "Now you believe it, don't you? Then classmate Chu..."
Director Ma turned around and said to Director Liang even more bluntly, "Get lost! This is Political Commissar Chu's daughter. Her father and I are old friends! We're just trying to help, and she's here at the Institute of World History. Get out of the way. A few grown men, blocking a little girl, you're really ashamed!"
After saying that, he took Chu Jiujiu away.
Director Liang and others: "..."
You are stealing from the inside!
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