Being a tour guide for historical celebrities, the motherland is amazed again

"Ah? So, there are still many cultural relics lost overseas?"

"Alas," Su Jiahe sighed, "China has suffered so much in the past hundred years."

Li Shimin took a deep breath, and his finger joints crackled.

"I am the only one who wins people over with my virtue. How can anyone else snatch my possessions from me? Miss Su, take me to the John Museum and I will bring back the treasures of China."

"Okay, I'll book the ticket right away."

The three of them returned to the airport and rushed to John Country without stopping.

Along the way, Daji was extremely excited and kept asking Su Jiahe all kinds of questions.

"Sister Su, I've never been overseas. What's it like overseas? Is it scary? I heard that the North Sea is an extremely cold place, and there are monsters in the sea that are bigger than houses."

"Those are all myths and legends, and we're not going north, we're going west."

"West? Is that the West Sea? Legend has it that there are many tribes in the West Sea, and the people there are very strange. Some have three bodies on one head, some have three eyes on one arm, some have human faces and snake bodies, and they can live to be eight hundred years old..."

"Little Daji, you'll know if you go and see for yourself. People overseas look pretty much like us, except for their blond hair and blue eyes."

Su Jiahe only thought Daji's naivety was funny, but Li Shimin beside her suddenly asked, "Miss Dada, have you also read the Classic of Mountains and Seas?"

"What is the Classic of Mountains and Seas?" asked Daji.

"I remember that the "Overseas Western Classic" records that the Three-Body Country is located in the north of Xia Houqi, with three bodies on one head. The Qigong Country is to its north, and its people have three eyes on one arm." Li Shimin recited the original text fluently.

"Also, in the Xuanyuan Nation, nestled in this impoverished mountain range, those who don't live long enough live to eight hundred years. It's located north of the Nü Nation. It has a human face and a snake body, its tail intertwined with its head. These all correspond exactly to what you described."

"I haven't read these. The elders told them to me." Daji shook her head.

Su Jiahe had also read the Classic of Mountains and Seas, but only skimmed through it and couldn't remember the difficult text at all. As he listened to the conversation between Daji and Li Shimin, an idea suddenly occurred to him.

Could it be that some of the myths recorded in the "Classic of Mountains and Seas" had their prototypes in the Shang Dynasty?

To be more bold, could it be that the ancestors of the Chinese traveled all over the world and thus created the "Classic of Mountains and Seas"?

Maybe one day, Daji will be able to help scholars decipher the secrets of "Classic of Mountains and Seas".

After more than ten hours of trekking, the three finally arrived at John Country.

The moment she got off the plane, Daji seemed a little disappointed.

"This place is pretty much the same as Xia Country, same airport, same houses."

"Of course, it's similar all over the world, and overseas is not as fantastic as you imagine." Su Jiahe said.

However, when Daji saw the airport full of foreigners, she turned into a curious baby.

"These people are indeed blonde and blue-eyed, unlike us."

"Hey, there's one with red hair."

"Why do those people have tanned skin?"

……

"They are different races, including whites, Latin Americans, Africans..." Su Jiahe patiently explained to Daji.

"Oh," Daji nodded, "Then what are they all mumbling about? Why can't I understand?"

“Different countries have their own languages, and people here mainly speak English.”

Naturally, Daji and Li Shimin did not understand English. With the help of her half-baked English and translation software, Su Jiahe walked out of the airport and boarded the bus to the museum.

On the way, Daji kept yawning and her eyelids were almost unable to hold up.

"Sister Su, we left Xianyang at night. It's already been ten hours, so why is it still morning here?"

"I forgot to tell you that there is a time difference between different countries. It's evening in Xia Country, but it's still morning in John Country."

"Why is there a time difference?" Li Shimin asked in confusion.

"Because... this question is a long story. First of all, the Earth beneath our feet is round and rotates once every day and night..."

"Wait," Li Shimin interrupted Su Jiahe, "Didn't the ancients say that the sky is round and the earth is square? How can the earth be round?"

"Brother Li, that was the understanding of the ancients, but people later discovered that we are indeed all standing on the same sphere. If you can't understand this concept, you won't understand time difference."

"Everyone is standing on the ball?" Li Shimin frowned slightly. "Won't the people on the other end of the ball fall off?"

"Because of gravity, the weight of the earth is large enough, so it can attract everything." Su Jiahe tried his best to explain in simple language.

"Nonsense, can you attract things just because you are heavy? For example, I am heavier than the kid in front of me, so why can't I attract him?" Li Shimin pointed to a little boy in the front row.

Unexpectedly, the blond-haired, blue-eyed little boy suddenly turned around and said to Li Shimin in standard Chinese: "Are you Jiuluoyu?"

"What is Jiulou Fish?" Li Shimin was stunned.

"I'm sorry, kid, you can't be so careless." The mother sitting next to the boy immediately turned around and apologized.

"Sister Su, they are also foreigners, why do they speak our language?" Daji asked.

"We work in Xia Country and our child also goes to school in Xia Country. We returned home to visit relatives today," said the boy's mother.

"So you guys usually stay in Xia Country, nice to meet you."

Su Jiahe smiled politely at the mother and son, then lowered her voice and said to Daji and Li Shimin, "There are many foreigners who understand Chinese nowadays, so please be careful with your words."

"What exactly is the Nine-Leaked Fish?" Li Shimin still wanted to know this question.

"It's the fish that slipped through the net of nine-year compulsory education." Daji blurted out.

"Daji, you have even learned this?" Su Jiahe asked in surprise.

Although Li Shimin did not understand what compulsory education was, he could probably tell that it was not a good thing.

"I've been studying literature and practicing martial arts for over a decade since I was young, so how did I manage to slip through the net?"

"Brother Li, don't be angry. Modern education is different from the past." Su Jiahe said, "In the past, scholars studied the Four Books and Five Classics and the Six Arts of a Gentleman, but modern people need to learn scientific knowledge."

“What is scientific knowledge?”

"Science encompasses so much that I can't explain it all at once. Brother Li, when you return, I'll bring you a set of scientific books from later times. Science alone is the cornerstone of social development."

"Oh? Is science so powerful? Then wouldn't my Tang Dynasty become even more powerful?"

"It's more than just prosperity. Science has made the world progress by leaps and bounds, ushering in a new era. Just like 200 years ago, most people in the world were still living like ancient people, and it's only because of the explosion of technology that we have what we have today."

"Okay, okay, then please trouble Miss Su to give me some more scientific books." Li Shimin looked very happy.

"Sister Su, you seem to have strayed from the topic," Daji suddenly interrupted, "You haven't explained clearly what jet lag is all about."