Chapter 24 The problem-solving ideas of a scholar
Qian Yang looked at the stones very quickly because he felt that the stones provided by the Stone Skill Masters Association in the first round of examinations were actually not difficult at all.
Either it is the kind of garbage that looks not very good at first sight, or it is a high-quality rough stone with extremely typical characteristics. Although Qian Yang always thinks he is just a two-knives, these rough stones are as simple and clear as one plus one, and there is basically nothing to worry about.
In a blink of an eye, he had finished looking at nine of the ten stones, and he had silently recorded three numbers in his heart, which were a piece of five elements white salt sand, a piece of treasure black sand, and a piece of skin that was suspected to be the Nine Nether Elephant.
Why is it suspected? Because the gray-white elephant stone is wrinkled and rough, it seems to have no sand on the surface, but it feels a bit rough to the touch. Jiuyou Old Field and Yongchun New Field will produce similar elephant stones.
Of course, there are also subtle differences between these two stones. According to Lao Dingtou, the two stones feel very different when they feel. One feels like an old woman's forehead, which makes people feel happy, while the other feels like an old man's instep, which makes people sick in the stomach.
Unfortunately, Elder Qian had never touched these two things.
Qian Yang, who had only used the elephant stone in Jiuyou Old Field, had only once before, and did not feel pleasant or disgusted. He felt that the piece in his hand was not much different from the piece he had touched before, but after all, because he had never seen the elephant stone in Yongchun New Field, he had to draw a question mark in his heart.
This elephant skin stone is Qian Yang’s only doubt. As for whether to choose this elephant skin stone, it depends on the performance of the last stone.
But when Elder Qian approached the last stone, he was stunned on the spot, and there was also a stupid big man with a tendon and flesh on his body.
At this time, the monks who participated in the competition had basically completed the process of identifying stones. Only Qian Yang and the legendary "Master Wu" stood in front of the last stone.
Since Qian Yang saw this stone, he immediately showed a sad face. However, Master Wu was not so exaggerated, but he was holding a translucent bead in his hand and slapped at the stone. He looked at it with many doubts on his face, as if he was a little curious.
Qian Yang's mouth was pouting, and he arranged a irreconcilable old man in his heart again: He said he was a master? He taught me for so long, but the score-free questions in the first round of the exam exceeded the syllabus. How else do you want me to play this?
Talking about a thousand words is actually Qian Yang's appearance when he discovered the last stone. He had never seen it before!
It was a rough stone with fiery red color, extremely irregular shape, and sharp edges.
The stone is not very large in size. If you throw it into a footbath full of water, you will probably overflow two tea tanks of water.
Qian Yang has seen the red-skinned raw stone, either red sand or red wax skin, it is not rare. However, most of the red-skinned stones on the market are reddish brown or yellow-red, and some are even pure brown, but this is the first time he has seen such a dazzling bright red color.
Haven't seen it before! I don't recognize it! What should I do?
Just pretend it doesn’t exist, just choose the three pieces before?
No, Qian Yang's answer is no.
As a strange young man who has been influenced by the exam-oriented education for half his life, if you don’t know anything else, the exam skills are definitely master-level.
You can get full marks for questions you know, and you can get half of the questions you don’t know. This is just the minimum requirement. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t seen the questions before. Using known knowledge to solve unknown problems is the true meaning of the exam!
I lowered my head and looked at the twisted stone carefully, then reached out to touch the outer skin, and a hard and smooth feeling came from my fingertips, as if there was a layer of wax on it.
It's waxy stone!
If you ignore the eye-catching color of the raw stone, just in terms of the feel, this stone is no different from the common waxed stones produced in the mountains.
When he turned on the flashlight, the red raw stone became a little darker under the strong light, and the color seemed to be closer to the dark purple. Qian Yang adjusted the angle of the light and soon found a purple about three fingers wide and darker color on the side of the stone.
Red and blue are purple, right? It should be true.
You see, knowledge points that seem to have nothing to do with the test questions may provide some interesting information.
I gently stroked the dark purple color, and the feeling of sagging like nothingness is tortuous and continuous.
This is a dark python!
Well, the observation of stone can come to an end for the time being. Qian Yang slowly closed his eyes and began to find ideas for solving problems from other angles.
As for the stone itself, the external performance of this red stone is almost as good as it can be. To judge the pros and cons of a waxy stone, the first thing to do is to look at the smoothness and uniformity of the waxy skin, and the stone is almost perfect. Coupled with the strip python belt that can almost be determined to be blue, Qian Yang almost determined that this stone has extremely high value.
However, Qian Yang still remembers that the great old Ding once said a very philosophical saying: All the behaviors that put aside the scene and talk about the skin are hooligans!
A very simple sentence expresses the bitterness of the two swords.
The most direct example is the Aicang stone. The Aicang stone has a very high yield but its quality is extremely low. Many Aicang stones that perform well on the outside have no actual value at all, which is well known to everyone. Therefore, the outer skins of those Aicang stones that dare to sell for money are all extremely tempting.
So which field is this red stone from?
The answer is actually not difficult to guess, that is, the Red Mountain Mine!
Even if Lao Ding is unreliable, he must have told Qian Yang about the output types of various mines. How could he miss such a strange stone?
The only possibility is that this kind of stone has never appeared on the market before.
It didn't have it before, but now it has it. As the Yinjianmen has just opened a new mine, I contacted the name "Hongtuoshan", red! Mountain stone! It's definitely!
It should be certain that the stones come from Hongtuoshan. The next step is the key to the problem. Are the quality of the raw stones produced in Hongtuoshan Mine good? Will it be as good as the old farm? Or will it be as good as the scam?
Qian Yang had no idea about the answer to this question, but since it was an exam, there were traces to follow. Little did he know that there was a way to solve the problem called "understanding the intentions of the questioner."
He looked up at Elder Chen, the Hidden Sword Sect on the rostrum, and then looked at Master Zhou, who was in the old god in the Hidden Sword Mine next to him. Qian Yang curled his lips and smiled secretly: The stones in the Hongtuo Mountain Field appeared in public for the first time, but were they directly facing more than a thousand backbone of the gambling stone industry. With the figures of the two on the stage, they would take out a worthless stone to embarrass people? Will the Hongtuo Mountain Stone be labeled as "garbage" as soon as it was launched?
Don't joke! If nothing unexpected happens, this red stone is definitely the most valuable piece among the ten stones!
Qian Yang decisively wrote down the number of the stone and ran aside with his hips. For him, there was only one problem left to be solved, that is, which of the three stones should be given up?
This question seems not difficult to answer. Two of the three stones can confirm their value, and the other one is not sure whether it is valuable. Then give up the uncertain elephant stone and it’s all done!
But for a top student, if you draw a conclusion in such a simple way, it is obviously incomplete and even more extreme and unserious.
The academic research must be rigorous, and the problem is even more so. When encountering a problem that cannot be completely determined, you must carefully consider it from all aspects. If you dare to make a decision at will, the consequences may be something you don’t want to see.
As for the multiple-choice question in front of Qian Yang, the various information he already knows is actually enough to support him in conducting some more detailed analysis.
First of all, among these three stones, the most valuable piece of Five Elements White Salt Sand should be the piece of Five Elements. Its external performance proves that its value is obviously higher than the other two.
The quality of Duobao black sand should be one level worse than that of the white salt sand. Even if the elephant stone really comes from Jiuyou Old Field, its value will definitely not be higher than that of the white salt sand. Therefore, the eliminated stones should be chosen between the black sand and the elephant stone.
The next question is a bit complicated, because if the elephant skin stone comes from the old Jiuyou field, it will be more valuable than the black sand, but if it comes from the new Yongchun field, it will obviously not be as good as the black sand in Duobao field.
Qian Yang could not determine which scene the elephant sculpting stone came from. Even though he felt that the stone was more likely to come from the old field, doubts still existed. Therefore, he felt that he should make an assumption and see what would happen.
Of course, the premise of assumption is that there is no problem with his previous judgment.
Assumption 1: If Qian Yang chose elephant skin stone, and elephant skin stone came from the old market, he would be equivalent to choosing the three most valuable of the ten stones, and he would get the full mark in this round of exams, and the first place was not negotiated.
Assumption 2: Qian Yang chose elephant skin stone, but elephant skin stone came from the new market. Then he chose the two most valuable pieces of the ten stones, and with a very valuable stone, it is hard to say where the final score can be ranked.
Assumption 3: Qian Yang chose many gems, and the abandoned elephant stone came from the new field. He also chose the three most valuable among the ten stones, which was 100% fine.
Assumption 4: Qian Yang chose many gems, and the abandoned elephant stone came from the old field, then he chose ten stones with value in the first, second, and fourth place. One hundred points are definitely gone, but ninety-nine points are definitely a good result.
In fact, when the problem is solved here, the key to the problem becomes how many points Qian Yang wants to get!
If he chose multiple gems, his final score was not one hundred or ninety-nine. Of course, the ninety-nine might be much larger, because Qian Yang always felt that the possibility of the elephant stone coming from the old field was much higher.
If you choose elephant stone, the final score will either be one hundred or fail, and a 100 point may be much greater than a failure.
So how should I choose? Make a math expectation like last time?
Of course not!
We have been making choices all our lives, and the fundamental reason that determines our direction is always - what do we want?
What does Qian Yang want?
One hundred points in the exam? Is there an additional reward? Of course not.
What he needs now is to enter the top 500 of the 1,000 people, and 99 points are enough to meet his needs. Then he has no reason to choose another one that needs to take risks, but can only bring false and perfect options.
Of course, if the examination rules are changed and the three most valuable raw stones must be selected to qualify, there is no doubt that a bet is the only correct solution.
Chapter completed!