Chapter Thirty-Eight: Men are terrible
Feng Hang is very liked and respected by Yang Xianrong, he likes it because his classes are always lively and interesting, Yang Xianrong likes to study, but the previous gentleman can also make her head big, and even fall asleep after listening to the class, and in the end she has to take a hand. Feng Hang is different, he has always smiled, and even allowed Yang Xianrong to refute him, he will not be annoyed, if he thinks that Yang Xianrong is reasonable, he is even happier, and will pat Yang Xianrong's head and praise "good".
As for respect, Feng Hang is really knowledgeable, none of those must-read books are not recorded in his head, Yang Xianrong often wants to test this gentleman, but in the end, she is always the one who makes jokes. Yang Xuanzhi hoped that her daughter would learn books such as the Biography of Lienu and correct her behavior, but Feng Hang didn't think so, he also taught, but he often had a negative attitude, which surprised Yang Xianrong, after all, other people's daughters also learned this.
Feng Hang smiled and said, "I'm not saying that these books are wrong, it's just that believing in books is better than not having books, if you fully believe in the truth in the books, wouldn't it be stupid?" ”
"Why?" Yang Xianrong doesn't understand, isn't what the book says the right truth?
"There are two lives in the world that cannot be violated, the order of the king and the order of the parents, but if the king is mediocre and the parents are deaf, what should you do?" Feng Hang lined up the books on the table and pointed to them one by one: "Books are written by people, and saints such as Confucius and Mencius are also human beings in the end, and people have weaknesses, and weaknesses are hidden in the articles he left behind, so you say, do you fully believe that his books are smarter, or can you find out the weaknesses of saints are smarter?" ”
Yang Xianrong nodded, she felt that what Feng Hang said was very reasonable, but she couldn't discuss this truth with her parents, if her mother heard it, she would keep shaking her head, and her father would be furious when he heard it, and then drive her husband away.
Yang Xianrong's puzzled expression made Feng Hang smile again, he knew that he hadn't convinced her, so he spoke again: "The legend of Jieyi in the legend of the martyr's daughter, it is said that the Qi army attacked Lu, and I saw a woman in the suburbs holding a son, holding a son. Seeing that the Qi army was approaching, the woman abandoned her child in her arms and ran towards the mountain with her hands in her arms. The outcast weeps, and the woman walks without looking back. When the general chased after him and asked, he learned that the woman was the son of his brother. She explained: Seeing that the Qi army was approaching and could not protect the two sons, she gave up her own son and hugged her brother. His own son, selfish love; The son of a brother, righteousness also. Turning away from righteousness to selfish love. It is a betrayal of righteousness to die a brother and save his own son. The Qi people listened to it and dismissed the army. Feng Hang looked at Yang Xianrong: "What do you think of this story?" ”
Yang Xianrong blinked her eyes and thought seriously for a long time before she cautiously spoke: "As far as the woman is concerned, her guarantee is all righteous, but that child is also a human life." If the Qi people didn't quit the army, the child would have lost his life, how wronged he was. ”
"What would you do if so?" Feng Hang asked again.
"Me?" Yang Xianrong thought about it for a long time, but there was no way, so he had to say scoundrelly: "I am a mother again, how can I know?" ”
Feng Hang laughed "haha", suddenly sighed, and said, "I have encountered this kind of thing. ”
That year, Feng Hang was still traveling, passing by Wuxing County, one day there was a sound of crying and scolding on the street, it turned out that two children from two adjacent families went to the river to play, but fell into the water one after another, when the father of one of the children happened to pass by, he jumped into the river and rescued his child without hesitation, but when he went to save another child, the child had disappeared. Two days later, the child's body was found and recovered from miles away. The child's family was grieved, and the surviving child was taken by the father to a neighbor's house to mourn, but the family actually called the whole family to beat the father and threatened to throw the child into the river to be buried again.
"And then?" Yang Xianrong asked curiously.
"No," Feng Hang shook his head: "The two families who had a good relationship don't interact anymore because of this." ”
"But if it were my mother, she would have saved me first," Yang Xianrong said firmly, "She's not a bad person." ”
"There is no right or wrong in this matter, as you said, the lives of two children are the same, and the father saved his child first because of the nature of father and son, and there is nothing to blame. It's just that some people insist on imposing their own morality on others, thinking that they are noble, but in fact, it is just that things have not happened to them, and if they do, things are not going to happen. Feng Hang said slowly: "Just like the mother in the book, if she saves her child, the person who wrote the book will think that she is selfish and unjust, and may even put her into the biography of the martyr, but in fact, what is wrong with a mother choosing to save her child?" ”
Yang Xianrong completely understood this time, the so-called people are terrible, and what they are afraid of is not what they have done wrong, but how others talk about it. People in the world always think that they are noble, and others have problems, and this is the biggest problem.
"Is there any reason why the master told me this today?" Yang Xianrong asked.
Feng Hang shook his head and said: "My daughter's family is alive, it is always more difficult, there are many people who can't help themselves, the master just hopes that you will follow your heart, not afraid of rumors, the rest of your life is not long, and it is not too much to steal peace." ”
In this way, the eldest brother also told himself, maybe he is the kind of person who is reluctant and stealing peace in the master's mouth, since he was young, the eldest brother's idleness will not be treated by his parents, and at that time he also thought that his brother was incompetent, is he just following his heart?
After class, Yang Xianrong went straight to the courtyard attached to the sheep. It is early summer, the courtyard attached to the sheep is really beautiful, a green grass with all kinds of small flowers, the grass with stones to carve out a path, the confluence of the trails is a very delicate small pavilion, the pavilion is decorated with flowers all around, in the pavilion, Lin is playing with the toddler Ace, approaching, Yang Xianrong only to see that there are two butterflies in the flowers there are entwined with each other flying, and Ace wants to catch them, so babbling something, and then "giggle" laughing.
"Sister-in-law," Yang Xianrong jumped to Lin's side.
"Got out of school?" Lin smiled and sent Ah Qi into Yang Xianrong's arms: "Help me bring the belt, my waist is about to break." ”
Yang Xianrong took Aqi and continued to chase the two butterflies with him. "Where's the big brother?" Yang Xianrong asked, "Have you gone to the Yamen?" ”
"No," Lin sat down on the side, beating his waist with his hand: "He is resting today, and he is busy with his own affairs while he is free." ”
"Your own business?" Yang Xianrong came to be interested: "What your own business." ”
"You know that your brother is different from ordinary people, and he often has some thoughts in his mind that do not blend into the world," Lin said with a smile, but his eyes were full of love for Yangfu: "He has always wanted to write down his ideas and pass them on to the world, but he doesn't know how to do it. ”
Hearing that his brother was actually writing a book, Yang Xianrong's eyes immediately widened in admiration, writing a book is something that only a saint can do, and my brother can actually do it, which is really amazing.
"Sister-in-law, is my brother the kind of person who follows his heart and lives freely?" Yang Xianrong asked.
Lin Shi was stunned, and shook his head with a wry smile: "He thinks, but how many people in this world can do it?" When I married your brother, he was a very ambitious person, and he was willing to enter the court as an official to benefit the people, at that time his father found a way out for him, and he went, although the Yang family was considered a high-ranking scholar, but after all, it had declined, and those people saw that your brother could not afford it, so they suppressed it as much as possible, and your brother had no hope of promotion, and he was already disheartened, but his father was unwilling, and bribed him everywhere with money, and your brother was a high-minded and arrogant person, so he simply resigned from his official position. ”
After that, Yang Xianrong also knew that the eldest son who was idle at home naturally became the target of public criticism, his parents didn't want to see him, and even his younger brother looked down on him, and he didn't feel proud of his high wind and bright festival, but he only felt stupid, so he cut off his future.
"Your brother has a clear conscience," Lin continued, "but after all, he can't resist the gossip at home and outside the family, and with the fact that Aqi was born, the family's expenses have increased, so he has to bow his head." Lin sighed and said: "Actually, your brother doesn't want to do things, after he resigned, he was invited by a wealthy businessman to teach his children to read at home, he was also quite interested, so he agreed, and after coming back to tell his father, his father was furious, saying that he was a son of a family, how could he succumb to the family of merchants?" The so-called public door has a public door, and the secretary has a secretary, and self-surrendering identity is to make others laugh, and there will be no future in the future. ”
Yang Xianrong can hear that her sister-in-law complains deeply about her father, and she can also see that she loves her brother very much, but she is also quite contradictory, I don't know how to balance the contradiction between her brother and the world in such a world.
"Rong'er is young, what are you doing with her?" Yang Fu didn't know when he appeared behind the two, he slowly walked to the two of them, picked up Ah Qi, looked at Yang Xianrong, and said with a smile: "Call your sister-in-law right, my brother is very pitiful." ”
Yang Xianrong pouted: "I also think you are a little pitiful." ”
"Eat well and dress warmly, with your sister-in-law by your side, and now with Aqi Chenghuan on your knees, how can you talk about pitiful?" Yang Fu didn't sound sad about what happened to him, but looked at everything very lightly: "Actually, I can't blame my father, now that the world is like this, no wonder he is worried and anxious." ”
"What kind of world?" The sheep did not understand.
"There is no cold door in the upper grade, and there is no world in the lower grade." Sheep attached.
In order to replace the Han Dynasty as emperor, Cao Pi implemented the Jiupin Zhongzheng system, which gradually became a tool for the Shi bureaucrats to monopolize the election, and later, in order to obtain the support of these people, Sima Yan, Emperor Wu of the Jin Dynasty, adopted a laissez-faire and coercive approach to them, resulting in these scholars having absolute privileges and maintaining absolute boundaries with the Shu people. It is difficult for the Shu people to climb the temple, on the contrary, the children of a family like Yangfu are down, and they are even more stagnant in their lives and can no longer make achievements.
Yang Xianrong suddenly felt that she understood a lot today, she understood her master's teachings to her, her father's expectations of her, and her mother's worries about her. In her life, I don't know if she will squeeze into a high-ranking family in the name of Miss Shi and live the dark years in the future?