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"Is he so poor that he can't even afford to eat? How could he stoop to advertising for a bookshop like this?"
"This is the first time he's ever done this. I presume that he's doing this at the request of a good friend, so it wasn't something he could turn down easily."
"I'm glad he's at least looking embarrassed because he definitely should be feeling that way," Cui Ci said with a sigh as he sprawled down onto the table. "Having said that, it's a nice change of pace. For once, he's not going on and on about some vapid and pointless principle today. Otherwise, I would've surely already fallen asleep by now."
"Who says principles have to have a point in order to be good principles?" Li Xisheng asked as he continued to listen to the old virtuous scholar's lecture.
"Pardon?"
Cui Ci felt like he had to have misheard his teacher.
Li Xisheng's attention remained on the picture scroll as he smiled and said, "Let me pose you a little question, Cui Ci. Which one is heavier, a gram or a kilogram?"
Cui Ci was perplexed. Was this meant to be a rhetorical question?
"Who initially decided what these two weight units would entail? What were the scales and weights that these weight units were first based on? These units had to have been invented tens of thousands of years ago, so did it not stand to reason that they had to have changed to some extent, even if only minutely, after all this time? If these changes had indeed taken place, then what impact would they have on the world?"
Cui Ci was beginning to develop a headache just thinking about it.
"There are some extremely pure principles in this world that seem to be very impractical and detached from reality, but you can't just say those principles are useless. There always...
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