My Wife Is A Sword Immortal-Chapter 721 - 442 Do I Have the Great Dao, Do You Have Wine?_2

Chapter 721: Chapter 442 Do I Have the Great Dao, Do You Have Wine?_2

Zhao Xifu glanced at him sideways as if he discerned what Zhao Rong was hinting at with his mention of "wine."

"No," he said expressionlessly.

Zhao Rong: "Why not?"

He paused again, "I know some of the rules of Summer 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 moment 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 mentioning. 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 Summer Insect grants one the speech of ice; Well Frog, the speech of the sea; Qu Shi, the enlightenment of the Dao." He curiously asked, "Has anyone ever drunk all three?"

Zhao Xifu was quiet for a moment, then he nodded and shook his head.

Before Zhao Rong could inquire further, he said indifferently:

"In the past, an interesting fellow came here, and I poured him a glass of Well Frog Wine. As for Summer Insect Wine and Qu Shi Wine, so far, no one has made me 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 merciless. Zhao Rong sighed.

Zhao Xifu abruptly said, "However."

"However, what?"

"Apart from Summer 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 me 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 meaning of his statement 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 moment and nodded.

Zhao Rong neither agreed nor disagreed and then asked, "Then what about moments of time, 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 agreement.

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 becomes 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 time 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 some distance, it requires a certain amount of time, and since time is also infinitely divisible, this would mean it requires an infinite amount of time to cover any distance."

He laughed, "No matter how short the distance, a chestnut would need infinite time 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, time 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 time, thereby demanding infinite time 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 time, thereby demanding infinite time 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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