Cute Brother Badass Family Protector
Chapter 144: Joining the Team
Moreover, although the students were proud of their work, they were also honest like good scholars.
As long as whatever happened was beneficial to their studies, they would not mind.
Professor Gu nodded and pointed to the archives in Tan Mo's hands. “That's all here. Tan Mo finished his translation over the weekend. He passed my exam, and that's why I brought him here. If she doesn't pass, I'm afraid you guys will cause some problems for her.”
“Very fast?” A boy screamed in surprise. “You finished everything in two days ...?”
“Actually, Professor Gu didn't give me too much. Don't be fooled by how thick this pile of paper is. This is a finished job. This includes my translation as well as the original text. That's why it seems like a lot.”
He thought the explanation was fine.
Professor Gu took the papers from Tan Mo and handed them to the boy who had just spoken up. “You are the team leader of the team responsible for the translation of “Liye Qinjian”. Look and see if everything is okay.”
Professor Gu had examined them before. He was sure there would be nothing wrong.
The boy received the pile of paper. “I'll do it now.”
With that, he ran away with that pile.
“Yuemu, will you introduce Tan Mo to everyone here?” Professor Gu asked.
“Tan Mo, follow me.” Wang Yuemu gestured to Tan Mo and walked towards the boy who had just picked up all the papers. “The male brother here is in charge of organizing and translating 'Liye Qinjian'. 'Liye Qinjian' is not a literary work, but rather a record of Qianling County in Dongting State during the Qin dynasty. This includes records of ancient clan lineages, townships, and land ownership. I'm sure you're pretty familiar with all of this, but it's not an easy material to put together in a book. However, we organize and translate everything so that it can become a valuable reference for academic textbooks or simply stored in a file. They could come in handy someday.”
“This is the team leader, Ying Siyuan.” Wang Yuemu introduced her to Tan Mo.
Ying Siyuan smiled in greeting. “Tan Mo, welcome to team.”
“You are very enthusiastic,” Wang Yuemu smiled.
“We haven't started translating this part that Tan Mo did. This is the original part of it. I just saw him. I plan to familiarize myself with the text before I start translating.” Ying Siyuan laughed. “Because of that, I know the difficulty in the part he just translated. He did his part very well. I know he put his heart into it.”
Ying Siyuan showed the page to Wang Yuemu. “Add again, with its efficiency.. Complete the work in just two days during the weekend…! I'll beg him to join us!”
“We have not decided which team we will use to place Tan Mo.” Wan Yuemu reminded him jokingly, “Don't expect too much first.”
For the sake of efficiency, they had split the work into teams. The work of some teams is not so complicated, and they are able to finish faster than others. When that happens, they move on to the next task.
“Come. Let me introduce you to more people.” Wang Yuemu grabbed Tan Mo and continued to walk around the room.
One of the girls spoke up, “This is the team I lead. This is senior brother Chen Shihua, senior brother Ling Zimu, senior brother Shen Hongshan, and senior brother Pu Xinyan.”
“This is text from Warring Countries.” Tan Mo immediately noticed the words on the blackboard, as Chen Shihua and the others happened to be standing right next to him.
The blackboard was a bit too far away to look at up close just a moment ago.
With the board right in front of him now, Tan Mo immediately noticed what he was saying.
“You know about this?” Chen Shihua shouted in surprise.
Tan Mo can translate original text from “Liye Qin Slips”. This meant that he understood the script of the ancient clergy.
Everyone had heard what Ying Siyuan had just said.
However, they did not expect Tan Mo to be able to read the text of the Warring States.
“I don't know much about the text of the Warring States. They are too messy to be recognized easily.” Shen Hongshan shook his head sadly.
Just by looking at the words on the board, Ling Zimu could feel his head start to hurt, “Since the end of the Spring and Autumn period, until the Qin dynasty unites all kingdoms, all empires, and all, everyone uses the Warring States script. Previously they used Chinese bronze inscriptions from the Spring and Autumn period. After that, they used the clerical script from the Qin and Han dynasties."
“During the Warring States period, there was not a single alphabet. The writing did not unite until the beginning of Qin Shi Huang's reign. He unites languages, standardizes distances, and consolidates measurements,” explains Ling Zimu.
“Before that, the writings of the Warring States included manuscripts of six different kingdoms and the Qin empire. The scripts of the six kingdoms were further divided into Qi system scripts, Yan system scripts, Jin system scripts, and Chu system scripts."
“You're right. As I manage all of this, my respect for Qin Shi Huang grows over time. What an amazing feat he achieved, uniting all the scripts,” exclaimed Pu Xinyan.
Wang Yuemu laughed. “Your brother Ling loves to lecture. That's an old problem of his. Regardless of whether the listener already knows it or not, he will always babble.”
Ling Zimu was not angry with what he said.
Apart from being in college, he has a good temperament. Now, despite the criticism, he still smiled. It even made her look a bit naive.
“Brother Ling has a good temperament. Besides like to educate others a little, no matter what you say around him, as long as you don't act too far, he won't get angry.” Pu Xinyan laughed, looking towards Tan Mo.
“Tan Mo, if you can read the Warring States script, then you should know a little about this?” Wang Yuemu asked him.
However, Wang Yuemu thought that it was already quite astonishing that Tan Mo was skilled in clerical script. The Scripts of Warring States are very confusing. Knowing them is an accomplishment in itself.
He really did not expect that Tan Mo would be talented in the Warring States script.
“I'm not proficient. There are some I don't know.” When the little snow fairy came to her senses, the period of the Warring States had long since passed.
Everything he knew had been taught to him by his master.
Master knows everything!
Despite this, Master never taught him everything, and he was too lazy to learn everything.
In the end, what he knew was rather limited.
“However, there are some characters that I know.” Tan Mo pointed to one of the papers. “This character is qi, as in gods and gods.”
Tan Mo was afraid that they would misinterpret him as another character with the same pronunciation. He picked up a blackboard marker and wrote a character next to the paper.
“Character that looks like this ‘tian’ is ‘li’. It was a character from Zhongshan.” state script Tan Mo wrote it down as well.
“Zhongshan state script is included in Jin system script,” Pu Xinyan said, take a copy of “Barring” State Literature for reference.
“So this is really ‘li’.” Pu Xinyan quickly took note of it.
At the same time, Shen Hongshan also double-checked. “This is a character ‘qi’!”
“Tan Mo, you know some of these characters without having to look for them?” This is too shocking.
There was no way they could memorize all these characters.
All states have different ways of writing the same character.
Fortunately, some of them looked somewhat similar.
However, on the other hand, there were also very different ones.
“This ‘li’ character is very complicated. Under the Chu system, this word had not changed much. But in Jin system, this does not look like ‘li’!” Shen Hongshan started to get dizzy again. This character looks too similar to ‘tian’.
“Tan Mo, how many do you know?” Chen Shihua's eyes twinkled.
Tan Mo felt a little goosebumps by his gaze. He pointed to the board, “I know three there.”
“For the last two, I don't know them. We have to find him,” continued Tan Mo.
“This is already amazing!” Chen Shihua.
“Sister Wang,” Chen Shihua looked at Wang Yuemu with sparkling eyes, “Genius like Tan Mo should join our team!”
