Chapter 22: Difficulties, organize the dictionary
"How can I sell the ink? How much?"
"Ink 10 gold coins a bottle, standard ink bottle." However, it seemed that Xia Duo didn't have much money in his hands. The apprentice lowered his voice and said more, "If you have a tight hand, I can sell you one. A bottle of my homemade ink only costs 1 gold coin."
"……"
Xia Duo did not expect that the people at the Material Claims Office would still carry private goods, but he did not have much money on hand. If he could not buy ink, it would be useless even if he bought parchment paper, so he could only choose to buy private goods. .
"Okay, another 6 sheets of parchment paper. The parchment paper should be brand new."
"I know!"
Xia Duo took out 22 silver coins from the inner pocket of the mage's robe and lined them on the counter. Except for leaving 5 silver coins for emergency, Xia Duo replaced all the money with learning tools.
If a man has no money, he has no confidence. Xia Duo hopes that such a day can end as soon as possible.
stood in front of the counter and checked the parchment paper and ink he bought. It was confirmed that the parchment paper was brand new. Xia Duo put it away, but the ink was a bit like that——
A small wooden bottle, the ink in it is even faint to see the bottom, Xia Duo even wondered if it could leave marks on the parchment paper.
Had it not been for this apprentice to demonstrate to Xia Duo on the spot, Xia Duo would never buy this inferior ink, it was too light, it just left a trace.
But I can only afford this right now.
……
Leave the materials claim office, and then, either go to the library to borrow books, sort out dictionaries, or go to Dean to copy.
On the elevator, Xia Duo chose to go to the dormitory floor without hesitation, because the library also costs money to borrow books, so if you can save a little now, you can save a little.
"Dean, are you there?"
"Xia Duo, you--" Dean opened the door with his hair messed up, his face was a bit sullen, and his eyes were bloodshot, "I thought you weren't coming today!"
"I want to borrow half of your copy of "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance", okay?"
"Yes, come in."
Dean returned to the room, and Chateau saw that there were a few notes and some scattered pieces of parchment on the desk in the room. Just now Dean seemed to be calculating something, but judging from his state just now , Obviously not going well.
"You can copy it here, I'll look at other books first." Dean put away the things on the desk indiscriminately and said to Chateau.
Xia Duo intentionally refused, but Dean had an expression of "I want to watch", which made people unable to refuse. Xia Duo guessed that Dean was worried about seeing the first half of the notebook.
……
Nisa lingua franca, Xia Duo already knows how to speak (basic communication), and now it is almost time to fill in more words and the corresponding text of all words.
When reading "The Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" with Dean before, Chateau noticed. Now after purposeful identification and analysis, Chateau discovered that--
Color-resistant text is composed of 26 basic letters. After deliberately selecting similarities and asking Dean once, Chateau determined that the color-resistant text is a phonetic text, which is very similar to English on the earth.
The question becomes much simpler.
As long as all the words are sorted in order, and then the phonetic symbols and meanings are added, a dictionary will be made?
"Sacred Proverbs of the Radiant Lord" covers a lot of content. As long as the words that have appeared in it are sorted out, it is a simple but practical dictionary. In the future, you can search for words you don't know at any time. If you can't find it , The dictionary needs to be expanded.
Although Xia Duo really wants to do it in one step, he now only has 6 pieces of parchment, which is not necessarily enough to sort out all the words. He can only sort out as many words as possible starting from the first letter.
……
The color-resistant writing is completely unfamiliar to Xia Duo, and the quill pen is not easy to use, but Xia Duo has overcome all these difficulties one by one, and nothing can stop him from his thirst for knowledge.
In this way, time passed a little bit in Dean's gaze from incomprehension, doubt, to sudden realization and admiration.
'S comment on the color-resistant words, Xia Duo did not use the Chinese that he was most familiar with, but instead used pinyin with phonetic symbols. It looked like a secret personal secret text used by the masters to record secrets, which was quite mysterious.
At least Dean was bluffed. He is not even an official apprentice at present, so where did he come into contact with the secret knowledge.
Half of the "Sacred Proverbs of the Lord of Radiance" has been read over and over again by Xia Duo. He has sorted out all the words in this half of the book that start with the first and second color-resistant letters, and also have phonetic symbols meaning.
If you look at it this way, it doesn't take much time to compile a simple dictionary. Xia Duo is a little looking forward to the scene when she brings the dictionary to the library to borrow.
was about to seize the time to sort out other words, the light in Dean’s dormitory suddenly dimmed, as if suddenly from day to night, although the five fingers can still be seen vaguely, but it is absolutely impossible to continue writing.
Xia Duo felt that the darkness of the night was even thicker than the inferior ink he bought.
"Dean, does Mage Tower do this every day?"
"Well, the light in the Mage Tower also comes from the outside world. When the Lord of Radiance returns to his kingdom, the interior of the Mage Tower will no longer provide lighting, but I heard that if you have energy pool permissions like Master Mage, there will be no day and night. Limited ~www.readwn.com~ So Xia Duo understands that the Mage Tower uses solar energy, but the energy reserve is not open to apprentices. If you want to get more study time, you can only do it at night. Lighting by candles.
No wonder candles and matches are given to the apprentices.
But since the lights had been "turned out" and Dean didn't mean to light him a candle, Xia Duo had to leave, because it was only the first day, Xia Duo didn't realize how tight the apprentice time was.
……
02163 dormitory, here Xia Duo just opened the door from the inside, and seven or eight apprentices squeezed in, and at the same time shouted:
"Dean, it's your turn today, why haven't you lighted the candle?"
Xia Duo didn't leave for the time being and wanted to see what was going on. Dean was a bit embarrassed for a while, but fortunately, the light was very dim at this time and it was not visible. Regardless of Xia Duo was still there, he took out the match from the inner pocket of the mage's robe. I lit my candle.
And the apprentices who had just come in burned Dean’s candles one by one, and then all took their candles and left.
"Um-Xia Duo, it's not cost-effective to use a match a day, so I asked a few people to share it. Do you want to continue copying?"
Although he said that, Dean got stuck at the door, and he didn't mean to let Chateau go in again.
"No need, I'm going back, I don't know what chores there will be tomorrow."
Xia Duo also thought it was a little funny, but when I think about it carefully, these apprentices struggling at the bottom may be a true portrayal of himself in the future. After thinking about it this way, I feel that my own thoughts are really funny.
returned to his dormitory in the dark, and Xia Duo began to gradually adapt to the life in the mage tower.
