Chapter 26 Mutual Envy
The reasons given by Li Nuo are so sufficient.
Song Jiaren didn't know what to say.
He is like a child, pure-minded and straightforward.
Looking at Li Nuo, Song Jiaren suddenly realized something and asked, "Do you remember the past?"
Li Nuo was slightly stunned, then said: "I just remembered this one."
Song Jiaren didn't say anything else.
Sometimes he is too smart, and sometimes he is so childish. No wonder Mu'er likes him so much. Of course, two children can play together.
At this time, Song Muer looked up at Li Nuo and said, "Brother Li Nuo, shall we go play shuttlecock..."
Li Nuo touched her head and said, "You and Sister Jiaren go play. I'm going to read a book..."
Song Muer didn't pester Li Nuo, she put away the shuttlecock and said obediently: "Then I won't play anymore, I haven't finished my math homework yet, brother Li Nuo, you read the book, I will do my homework beside you, okay?"
Li Nuo smiled and said, "Of course."
Looking at such a well-behaved Mu'er, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart. They were born to the same parents, even looked exactly the same, and grew up in the same place. Why were Song Mu'er and Song Ning'er so different in character...
One is well-behaved and sensible and always smiles, while the other is unruly and willful and only knows how to cry. Comparing the two, of course he likes Mu'er more.
Besides, isn't my wife the same? She is with Mu'er all day long...
Shouldn’t he follow his husband’s lead?
The room was a little dim at this time. Li Nuo was reading in the pavilion in the yard. Song Muer took out a booklet from her bag, biting the pen tip and her fingers from time to time, and her delicate eyebrows gradually frowned...
Li Nuo was reading "Daxia Law". When he was mediating and judging a case today, he found that Daxia's laws were very different from modern ones, and many laws were full of feudal colors.
According to modern legal rulings, sometimes it violates the laws of Daxia.
A large part of the reason is due to etiquette and law. Take marriage as an example. Marriage is free in later generations, but here, the marriage between men and women must be approved by their parents and arranged by a matchmaker. Only in this way can it be in accordance with etiquette and law and can gain public recognition and legal protection. Otherwise, it is elopement, and elopement is not protected by the law. If the eloping man and woman are caught and brought back, the families of both men and women have a certain degree of discretion in handling the matter.
Another reason is because of hierarchy.
In later generations, everyone is equal before the law...at least on the surface.
But here, people are divided into different classes. The power of the monarch is greater than that of the ministers, the power of officials is greater than that of the people, and the power of sovereignty is greater than that of servants. Specifically, if a master beats or kills a slave, he will only be fined some copper coins or silver coins, while if a slave commits an offense against his superior, he will generally be sentenced to hanging at the very beginning. If the powerful oppress the common people, they can be exempted from punishment to a certain extent, but if the common people offend the powerful, their crime will be more serious.
However, based on the Legalist classics, Li Nuo also discovered that the laws followed by the Legalist masters did not seem to be the laws of a certain dynasty or generation.
Each dynasty has its own laws, and the laws of the same dynasty will continue to change with time and circumstances. Not all laws are correct and just, and it is common for laws to change from day to day.
What the Legalists follow is not the law on paper, but the law in their hearts.
Everyone has a scale in their heart. The Legalists enforce the law, and what they enforce is the law in their hearts. They are not bound by the laws of a certain dynasty, and sometimes they even go against the law. Different Legalists have different understandings of the word "law".
"The Dharma in my heart..."
Li Nuo looked ahead, murmuring these three words, pondering their deep meaning.
Practicing "law" is actually practicing "heart". Doesn't it mean that as long as he thinks it is the right thing, he doesn't need to refer to the law at all? However, there are too many laws of Daxia that Li Nuo doesn't like. In this case, he is breaking the law by practising the law.
Strictly speaking, Li Nuo is breaking the law every day.
After all, he had no official position, and trying cases and judging sentences was against the laws of Daxia.
But for the disciples of the Legalists, the "law in the heart" is more important than the "law on paper".
As long as he follows his heart completely and practices the justice in his mind, he will be able to enter the door of Legalism sooner or later.
At this moment, Song Jiaren, who was wiping the sword in her hand in the yard, suddenly turned her head and looked at Li Nuo.
Just for a moment, she felt a strange breath from Li Nuo.
But when she looked over, that feeling disappeared.
After a moment, Li Nuo gradually came back to his senses.
The book says that every disciple of the Legalists has his own path. It is difficult to achieve great things if one sticks too much to the laws on paper. Li Nuo seems to have realized this. The law is supposed to maintain fairness and justice, but most of the time, it is just a tool to maintain the interests of the rulers. In the end, Legalists will inevitably come into conflict with the ruling class. Therefore, the strong Legalists have never had a good ending.
"Brother Li Nuo, how do you solve this problem?"
Song Muer's delicate voice interrupted Li Nuo's thoughts. Li Nuo said casually: "Brother is thinking about something, go ask your sister Jiaren - Hey, where is your sister Jiaren?"
Li Nuo turned his head and looked. How come the lady who was standing there just now suddenly disappeared?
Since he could no longer rely on his wife, Li Nuo had to take Song Muer's booklet. There were many questions on this page, all of which were simple mixed operations within three-digit numbers. Song Muer had finished all the other questions, leaving only the last one.
"Now there are pheasants and rabbits in a cage. There are twenty-seven heads on top and seventy-two legs below. How many chickens and rabbits are there?"
This is a very simple problem of chickens and rabbits in the same cage. Just write a system of linear equations with two variables.
Li Nuo picked up the pen and said as he wrote, "Let's assume there are 'A' chickens and 'B' rabbits. According to the question, 'A' plus 'B' equals twenty-seven, and twice 'A' plus four times 'B' equals seventy-two. Multiply both sides of the first equation by two, and you get twice 'A' plus twice 'B' equals fifty-four. Subtract the third equation from the second equation, and you get twice 'B' equals eighteen. So B equals nine, and A equals eighteen, which means eighteen chickens and nine rabbits..."
After finishing writing, Li Nuo looked at Song Muer and asked, "Do you understand?"
Song Muer's eyes were clear, and she shook her head simply, "I don't understand."
Li Nuo scratched his head. He was thinking about his own things just now and forgot that Mu'er was only six years old. Equations were something she couldn't understand yet. He thought for a while and said, "We're going to have spicy rabbit legs and braised chicken legs tonight. Now we need to use one leg of all the rabbits and chickens. How many legs are left in the cage?"
Song Muer answered without hesitation: "Seventy-two minus twenty-seven, there are forty-five legs left."
Li Nuo added: "There are many people in our family. One leg is not enough. We need to use one of their legs. How many legs are left in the cage now?"
Song Muer replied: "Forty-five minus twenty-seven, there are still eighteen legs left."
Li Nuo continued to guide her, saying: "Rabbits have four legs, chickens only have two legs. All the chicken legs have been made into braised chicken legs, and the rabbit has two legs left. So how many rabbits are there?"
Song Muer suddenly realized and said happily: "I know, half of eighteen is nine, there are nine rabbits in total, twenty-seven minus nine equals eighteen, the answer is eighteen chickens and nine rabbits!"
On the roof of the courtyard, Song Jiaren counted on her fingers and said in surprise, "So that's how it's calculated..."
When she was as old as Mu'er, her family hired a math teacher for her. She vaguely remembered that there seemed to be a problem about locking chickens and rabbits in the same cage. She didn't like math at that time and always sneaked away to practice martial arts. It was not until now that she realized that the problem that she thought was so difficult at that time was actually so simple...
If the math teacher at that time had taught her this way, she would not have been so angry and run away.
Mathematics is much more difficult for her than martial arts.
So when Li Nuo mentioned her, she jumped onto the roof immediately.
Song Jiaren lowered her head and glanced at the figure in the pavilion.
Solving cases, writing poetry, and studying mathematics.
These are things she doesn't know how to do.
Looking at the figure explaining the problem to Mu'er, she secretly envied him: "So amazing..."
After Li Nuo finished explaining the question to Mu'er, he looked around and finally found his wife on the roof. Song Jiaren glanced at him, jumped down from the roof, and landed lightly on the ground.
Li Nuo watched her jump down from the two-meter-high roof. Her movements were smooth and graceful, and she landed without making any sound. He secretly envied her in his heart: "How amazing!"
If he jumped from such a high place, he would have broken both legs if not died...
(End of this chapter)
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