Zhao Xifu glanced at him sideways as if he discerned what Zhao Rong was hinting at with his ntion of "wine."
"No," he said expressionlessly.
Zhao Rong: "Why not?"
He paused again, "I know so of the rules of Sumr Insect Pavilion... Isn’t the answer to this question interesting enough?"
"The rules have changed."
Zhao Rong slightly furrowed his brows, "When did that happen?"
"Just now."
Zhao Rong: "....."
After a mont of silence, the young Confucian Scholar earnestly said:
"So what if the three drinks are fake, stating that the rules forbid it is truly dull. But as for doing business, using gimmicks to boost popularity and draw people in is not worth ntioning. Making money isn’t disgraceful."
Zhao Xifu shifted to a comfortable position leaning against the door, and with a slight twitch of his mouth but expressionless face, he said, "No."
Seeing that his provocation failed, Zhao Rong blinked and softly recited, "I’ve heard that Sumr Insect grants one the speech of ice; Well Frog, the speech of the sea; Qu Shi, the enlightennt of the Dao." He curiously asked, "Has anyone ever drunk all three?"
Zhao Xifu was quiet for a mont, then he nodded and shook his head.
Before Zhao Rong could inquire further, he said indifferently:
"In the past, an interesting fellow ca here, and I poured him a glass of Well Frog Wine. As for Sumr Insect Wine and Qu Shi Wine, so far, no one has made pour it for them."
"Cough, Uncle..." Zhao Rong’s face showed hope.
The Shopkeeper paused, glanced at the young man who suddenly spoke warmly, and with a grin, said:
"No."
Damn, how rciless. Zhao Rong sighed.
Zhao Xifu abruptly said, "However."
"However, what?"
"Apart from Sumr Insect, Well Frog, and Qu Shi, I can serve you other drinks."
Zhao Rong suddenly lost interest. Other drinks? Were those just Ice Lady Wine left?
Then, Zhao Xifu added:
"However, whether you can drink it is not up to to decide."
He suddenly spoke an odd phrase.
Zhao Rong’s mouth twitched... Understood, whether he could drink it was not for him to decide, but it depended on the young master himself. The answer to this paradox that satisfied the Shopkeeper would allow him to indeed have a drink.
"It’s just Ice Lady Wine, isn’t it? We’ve already had a cup each, and not a little at that, yet there’s still so much penny-pinching."
Thinking this, Zhao Rong didn’t care much about it.
Afterward, he looked around the gathering and said:
"A stick of one foot long, if you take half of it every day, will never be exhausted. Do you think so, or not?"
The aning of his statent was clear—take half of a foot-long stick today, half of the remaining half tomorrow, and half of that the next day, and because there’s always half left, it will never run out.
Zhao Xifu and the others thought for a mont and nodded.
Zhao Rong neither agreed nor disagreed and then asked, "Then what about monts of ti, can they also be infinitely divided?"
Zhu Yourong nodded, "Of course, as long as it’s divided finely enough, it’s possible."
Zhao Xifu and the others also nodded in agreent.
The shopkeeper frowned and said, "What exactly are you trying to say?"
Zhao Rong ignored him and smiled with a sigh, "If that’s the case, then motion itself in this world becos impossible."
Everyone in the room frowned, not understanding.
Zhao Xifu snorted coldly, "Absurd."
Zhao Rong continued on his own:
"Let’s use another example with a chestnut, this ti not having it chase a hobbyhorse, as it would never catch up, heh. Imagine, if it wants to fly a certain distance, it must first cover half of that distance; and to cover that half, the chestnut must first fly half of that half; and to fly that quarter, it must first fly one-eighth...
"In other words, for a chestnut to fly a certain distance, it must first cover infinitely many halves of the distance that result from continuously dividing the distance in half. And no matter how short the distance, as long as it needs to cover so distance, it requires a certain amount of ti, and since ti is also infinitely divisible, this would an it requires an infinite amount of ti to cover any distance."
He laughed, "No matter how short the distance, a chestnut would need infinite ti to cover it, and thus, it could never move."
The audience was astonished.
Zhao Xifu’s eyebrows were tightly furrowed.
Zhao Rong’s smile faded, his expression serious:
"All of the above is wrong, the answer is simple—first, infinite sums do not necessarily represent infinity; second, ti and space cannot be infinitely divided, they are not completely continuous."
At those words, there was dead silence in the room.
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No matter how short the distance, as long as we need to cover a stretch, it requires a certain amount of ti, thereby demanding infinite ti to cover any distance, no matter how short the distance, as long as we need to cover a stretch, it requires a certain amount of ti, thereby demanding infinite ti to cover any distance...
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PS: Typing on the mountain, this Chapter is a bit short, will make it up to you brothers...
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