Records of the Human Emperor Chapter 1660: Matters of the Past!

Chapter 1660: Matters of the Past!

Translated by: Hypersheep325

Edited by: Michyrr

"Ever since he was a child, Hou Junji could remember anything that he saw and was able to learn anything just by watching. He didn't know how to draw or paint, but when he still served in the Heavenly Tactics Residence, someone tried to make trouble and asked Hou Junji how many restaurants, alleys, meat sellers, cloth sellers, tea houses, oil sellers… and such and such the western part of the capital had. This was because Taizong often talked about how his learning capability was unequaled in the realm, and no one in the Heavenly Tactics Residence could compare.

"But in the end, Hou Junji began unrolling sheets of paper, and with a total of five hundred and thirty-seven sheets of paper, he was able to draw out all the restaurants, inns, meat sellers, book stalls, and every other store in the western part of the city. Not only that, he even drew out the insides of the two hundred and eighty-nine taverns, inns, and hostels, down the details on the roof beams and the damage to the legs of the tables and chairs. Everyone was struck dumb.

"When they took these drawings and went to compare, they found that there wasn't a single mistake! It was truly incredible! This incident left a deep impression on everyone's mind and earned him their admiration!"

Even Wang Chong couldn't help but be taken aback. The capital was simply immense, as it had always been in both Taizong's time and in the Sage Emperor's reign.

But to draw, or remember, the entirety of the western part of the city was not something that even Wang Chong dared to think about. The western part of the city was home to so many residences, restaurants, tea houses, inns, money houses… and he had even drawn out the internal structure, recording even the smallest blemish. Wang Chong asked himself and knew that he was incapable of such a feat.

If the man telling Wang Chong this hadn't been Su Zhengchen, and if Wang Chong didn't know that Su Zhengchen had always been a grim soul who d

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