Chapter 2249: Late Autumn in Golden City (Thirteen)

Chapter 2223 Golden City Late Autumn (Thirteen)

Light smoke floated up, and ashes kept falling in the dim and cramped cage. Outside the window shaped like a golden grapevine, a hand opened the lid of the incense burner, took out the incense that had been burned out, and replaced it with the freshly pressed incense powder. The strong sandalwood scent in the room was replaced by a light salt fragrance.

The heavy curtain fell, and there was a layer of gauze curtain inside. The high-altitude sunlight broke through the heavy obstacles and fell on the black-haired man who was burning incense.

He was wearing a soft lining underwear inside the dark blue armor, with a golden helmet on his side, and a staff leaning upright against the door. When the door was pushed open, he was almost hit.

It was Strange who walked in. He was wearing a white silk high-necked shirt and a dark blue Tibetan robe on the outside. The end of the skirt and the cuffs were embroidered with patches of Gesang flowers with silver thread, and he was also tied with a belt inlaid with Bazhu.

"Are you resting, Loki?" Strange stepped back and leaned halfway in to ask.

"I just came from Asgard and am preparing for class. Come in and tell me what's going on."

Strange walked in with a large stack of papers in his hand. He walked to the opposite side of Loki and sat down. Loki looked at his dress and said, "Is there another traditional festival in the village?"

"Yes, today is the New Year's Eve of the Tibetan calendar. The Supreme Sorcerer needs to hold a dance for four villages." Strange picked up the teapot on the table and poured a bowl of hot tea. He took a sip and let out a long breath.

"This dress is nice." Loki praised sincerely, "Blue is more suitable for you."

"Fortunately, I didn't bring my cloak. It can't stand this." Strange smiled and said.

"You look in a good mood." Loki also turned over the tea bowl next to him and brewed half a bowl of tea for himself.

"Because the village has a good harvest this year, and there are 32 newborns, which broke the record in the past ten years, and two college students have returned."

"Before coming here, I thought Kamar-Taj hardly dealt with ordinary people." Loki recalled, "I thought you were the kind of organization that was detached from the world."

"A very realistic point, what do we eat." Strange knocked on the table, looked at Loki and said, "We need to learn magic and hone our skills. Mages can take time to farm, but we can't spend all our time doing this. Moreover, if we want to practice martial arts, we need to get enough protein from meat. Grazing is not something that can be done in the mountains."

"The village provides for you, and you help the villagers." Loki tilted his body slightly, propped up his elbow on his knee and said, "It reminds me of the very early Asgard. German history, at that time, every time we docked, it was almost to celebrate traditional festivals with the villagers around the coast. "

"In fact, we are villagers. You can regard the surrounding villages as a tribe, and we are the leaders and witches of the tribe to help them maintain unity and follow the time. The translation of Supreme Master in Tibetan is "Great Witch". "

Strange took out an oil paper bag from his waist bag and handed it to Loki and said: "This is the old man in the village fried butter fruit, a kind of snack with tea, and there are barley cakes and barley wine, but in order to prevent the children from stealing them, I left them downstairs. "

Loki opened the oil paper bag and found that there were indeed snacks one after another in it. Most of them were not very exquisitely made, the edges of the turning were a little rough, and there was a little bit of crumbs, but there was a smell of butter as soon as it was opened.

"You can actually carry them through the dormitory of those hungry little wolves?" Loki picked up one and put it in his mouth and said, "Last time I took two cinnamon rolls from home and planned to eat them before class, but they went into their stomachs in less than two seconds after I took them out."

"I always feel hungry when I grow up." Strange began to rummage in his bag again and said, "This year's grain harvest is great, and the village decided to hold a banquet. I want to take the children, but I can't let them get it so easily."

Loki laughed and said, "I think you still remember their papers. I told you not to read them."

Strange pressed his forehead. He recalled the disastrous day before. He suddenly had the idea of ​​checking the homework of the little wizards, focusing on the age group of 12 to 16. Older and younger children did not have to write papers.

Then as expected, Strange got some papers with quite avant-garde writing style and wonderful content.

Although Strange is not a master of theory and has not studied magic for a long time, he has a high level of attainment in surgical medicine. Before becoming a surgeon, he was also a leader in the medical school. If he was not gifted in surgery, he would also be an excellent internist, and writing papers would be a piece of cake.

But most of the former Supreme Sorcerers, especially the Ancient One and her generation of great wizards, first explored the way to success in practice, and then taught them to students by words and deeds. There was a lack of systematic teaching basis, which resulted in the half-grown children who had studied with them for several years not even knowing what the written homework was.

After Strange took over, he required them to combine theory with practice like most students in ordinary schools. At least half a day should be spent on learning magic theory. Older children should also learn economics, sociology and finance, and have essay homework every day.

Although Strange arranged it in this way, he did not have much time to check it. The mainstays of the teaching community were mostly pure-blooded wizards who went up the mountain in their childhood. Most of them had not been exposed to this kind of education method. After collecting the homework, they took a few glances and let it go if they thought it made sense.

So when Strange checked, they had accumulated a lot of strange papers full of words in their hands. When Strange read them, he used more archaeological skills than magic knowledge.

This has to talk about one of the biggest problems of Kamar-Taj education-they do not use a unified language and writing.

Because Kamar-Taj was built on the Himalayas, most of the students here are from three nationalities, China, India and Nepal.

Chinese students use Mandarin and Tibetan, Indian students use Hindi and English, and Nepali students use Nepali and Newari dialects.

Most of the magic theories of Kamar-Taj require students to master Chinese classical texts, Sanskrit and Persian.

The children who go up the mountain are not very old. They will learn many languages ​​in conversations with their peers and teachers, remember many proper nouns that cannot be accurately described in their language system, and use them creatively in writing.

Most of the papers Strange has seen are mixed with traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, Devanagari, and Tibetan.

Strange is an authentic American who only knew 26 English letters in the first half of his life. Any of these characters is like a heavenly book to him, and when they are mixed together, combined with the children's unrestrained writing style, Strange has wanted to hire a code-breaking expert several times.

"This is indeed a big problem." Loki said, "As far as I know, most of the teachers here are much more knowledgeable than us. They master at least five languages ​​and characters and can answer all the questions of the children."

"But this also allows them to mix complex languages." Strange took another sip of tea and said, "We must establish a sufficiently standard education system, which can usually only be based on 1~2 languages."

"So what do you think it will be?"

"Ancient One believes it should be Chinese, because most of the magic theory knowledge she has learned is written in this language, and some ancient cliffs and stone slabs are written in this language. It records the history of magic in ancient Chinese characters such as bronze inscriptions, official script and small seal script. "

"But we can't give up English." Loki spread his hands and said, "There are many students from other countries. As far as I know, English is the easiest language to learn." Strange waved his hand and said, "It doesn't depend on which language we want." After that, he finally took out a stack of papers from his bag and said, "The most important issue is actually the teacher, and what makes me most happy is that I just learned that a group of teachers from big cities in China will come to the village in a few days. "

"What are they doing here?" Loki asked with some confusion.

"Help the village make money." Strange flipped through the stack of papers in his hand and said, "At least this is what I read from these things. They think the village here is a bit poor. They hope that the villagers can make more money, so they come here to help them."

Loki took the things in Strange's hand. In fact, he only knew a little about Chinese. He tried to recall the knowledge that had almost forgotten in his mind, and pieced together some meanings.

"Are they going to build a school here?"

"I heard that many have been built, but none of them are so remote. This time they seem to be planning to make a big move. Traffic designers, railway workers, satellite base station staff, teachers and officials are coming."

Loki frowned and thought for a while before saying, "Are they going to actually control this place? Do you think this is a good thing?"

Strange looked at Loki with a little contempt and said, "Don't tell me that you sit here quietly and burn incense and meditate because you like it. Do you know how fast the Internet speed is in the nearest city?"

"They are going to connect this place to the Internet?!" Loki said with a surprised look, "Old Oh my god! This is the halfway point of the Himalayas! Where are they going to connect the network to? Asgard? "

Strange changed his posture with some excitement, pounded his numb legs and said: "I asked the Grand Master of the Hong Kong Temple, yes, they are going to fully access satellite signals here, all the way to the other side of the mountain."

"But this is not the best news. The good news is that they don't seem to be satisfied with the railway, but plan to build a high-speed air transportation system over the entire Himalayas, completely eliminating airplanes and ships."

"Cough cough cough..."

Loki coughed for a long time and said: "They plan to build a high-speed railway across the Himalayas? ! Over our heads? ! ! "

"That's right." Strange rubbed his hands and said, "I have discussed it with the village chief. If we propose it together, we may be able to get a station on the hill next to it, which is only for the transportation of mages and villagers. It takes about ten minutes to get to the nearest town and only three hours to get to Chengdu."

"What are the conditions?"

"We use Chinese to teach and help the four villages near us make a lot of money."

Strange stared at Loki and said, "This is why I came to you. Help me think of a solution."

"You found the wrong person." Loki took a sip of tea and said, "Shouldn't this matter be addressed to Schiller?"

"He is busy with a banquet. Have you received an invitation?"