"Oh, dear Tony, we have to be four times twenty plus ten plus nine months since we haven't seen each other!" Yule greeted Tangning warmly.
Seemingly seeing that Tangning was stunned, Yule apologized: "I'm sorry, Tony, I've been in Paris for the past few years, so I'm used to the French way of counting!"
After hearing what Yule said, Tangning realized that he was talking about 99 months. Let's do some popular science here. The French's description of numbers is extremely weird. Unlike our decimal system, they use decimal, hexadecimal, and binary systems.
A mix of decimal and sexagesimal...
1-16 is hexadecimal, and each number has its own word; 17-69 is decimal, just like us; 70-79 starts to become individual, for example, 71 is 60+11, 78 is 60+10+
8; 80-99 is a combination of decimal, hexadecimal and hexadecimal. For example, 80 is 20*4, and 99 is what Yule just said 4*20+10+9...
So Tangning complained in her heart, "You guys can't say more than eight years? You have to say 99 months. We don't interact often. Do you need to calculate it so clearly?"
But on the surface, he still had to smile and say: "It turns out, Uncle Jules, you have been in Paris all this time. I thought you were in London!"
Hearing what Tang Ning said, Yule let out a "whoosh" as if his tail had been stepped on, and said with a look of disgust: "How could I possibly stay in a place like London where the sky is full of smoke and the ground is full of horse manure!
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Tangning complained again in her heart, if you want to say that London has serious air pollution right now, then I admit that it is a smog city after all, but when it comes to horse manure, Paris is not much better, and you can even say that in all big cities.
We are all facing the "horse manure crisis".
Some people may think that horse-drawn carriages are great because they have no exhaust emissions, low noise pollution, and are environmentally friendly. They hate cars and hope to return to the era of horse-drawn carriages, but the real situation is that the environmental disasters caused by horse-drawn carriages are much more terrible than cars.
In 1894, there were 300,000 horses in London and 100,000 to 200,000 horses in New York. Generally, each horse produced 10 kilograms of feces and about 1 liter of urine a day. Note that horses always defecate anywhere.
This means that 3,000 tons of horse manure were added to the streets in London every day; there were also 300,000 liters of horse urine a day, which is equivalent to pouring an Olympic-sized swimming pool full of horse urine into London every 8 days.
On the street. (No data for 1859 was found, but I guess it wasn't much better.)
The ensuing chat also made Tangning very unhappy, because Yule, like some people these days, spoke a mixture of Chinese and English, as if he could no longer use his native language after two years abroad, and he always felt that he had to use English in order to learn more.
Express his meaning clearly and more accurately. In fact, it would be better if you speak only English. The most annoying thing is these two mixed things.
Of course, Tangning could also understand Yule's thoughts, because in this era and even before World War I, Americans were regarded as nouveau riche. Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many wealthy Americans going to Europe to marry poor nobles, such as Constellation.
Lou - Carl from Vanderbilt and Titanic, so speaking French with an authentic London accent or Parisian accent at this time can satisfy some people's vanity.
Fortunately, the maid brought in two cups of coffee at this time. Tangning originally thought that the coffee would be able to shut Yule's mouth. Unexpectedly, after he saw the maid, he frowned and asked Tangning: "Tony, is this maid a black slave?"
Bar?"
Tangning nodded and replied, "Yes!"
"It's already 1859, why are you still using black slaves? This is not what a civilized person would do. Europe had abolished the slave trade decades ago. Alas, the United States is still too backward!" Yu
Le shook his head and sighed.
Although Tangning doesn't like slavery, Yule's method of pointing at monks and scolding bald donkeys is really disgusting. Besides, didn't your family buy and use black slaves before moving to London? Why are you pretending to be so big now?
Tail wolf? And if you say this in New Orleans, aren't you afraid of getting beaten when you go out?
However, considering that he didn't come back for many years, Tangning changed the topic and asked, "Uncle Jules, what have you been busy with in Paris these years?"
"I'm studying art. Do you know Mr. Courbet?" Yule asked proudly.
If Jules mentioned something else, Tangning might not understand, but how could a master in his profession not recognize him? So he asked: "Courbet? Is it Mr. Gustave Courbet, the author of "The Atelier"?"
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Jules was very surprised by Tangning's answer: "You actually know Mr. Courbet and "The Atelier"?"
Tang Ning thought to herself: How could I not recognize such a famous realist oil painting master? Speaking of which, Tang Ning didn't like Impressionism very much, but she was about to catch up with the era when the masters of Impressionism were blowing out...
"Uncle Yule, are you planning to return to New Orleans to stay for a while or to settle down?" Tangning asked again.
An unnatural look flashed across Yule's face, and then he replied: "Well, I haven't thought about it yet, but I will definitely look for creative inspiration in New Orleans first, create a few excellent works, and then take them back to Paris to participate in the art exhibition. Yes.
Tony, I came back in a hurry this time, so I didn’t bring much money. You can lend me some money first, and I’ll give it to you when my friend in Paris calls me the money!”
"Uncle Yule, how much do you want to borrow?" Tang Ning asked casually.
Yule thought for a moment and then replied: "Two thousand francs!"
Tangning immediately shook his head and replied: "I don't have francs here, only pounds!" The reason why Tangning said this is because the U.S. dollar is not yet dominant, and pounds are used more in the south. After all, they are all related to the British.
People do business.
"Well, then a thousand pounds!" Yule changed his words.
Tangning hesitated for a moment, then reluctantly agreed. After all, this was indeed his relative, and normally he should be able to repay the money.
Originally, Tang Ning didn't take the money seriously, but a few days later he unexpectedly discovered that Uncle Yule had left New Orleans. At first, Tang Ning thought he was out collecting information and looking for inspiration.
When Rick sent someone over to ask him about Yule's whereabouts, he realized that this guy had actually borrowed money from them again, and it was still under his banner. Although each person didn't have many people, they added up to almost a lot.
A thousand pounds...
PS: Thanks to book friends "I Have Green Waters and Green Mountains" and "Ride the Yellow Road" for their support! In addition, (in fact, French is not the most troublesome, Danish numbers are even more troublesome, for example, 99 in Danish is 9+(-
0.5+5)*20, written in Danish is syvoghalvfemsindstyve(syv-og-halv-fem-s), does it look like you are wiping the keyboard?)