Ye Qing still found Bai Chun and Jin Se in the broken bridge, the two of them seemed to be not affected by Fan Niande's troubles, they were still eating and drinking, some vendors on the side of the road had been patronized by the two of them several times, and the short broken bridge had also been walked back and forth several times by the two of them.

took the backpack from Bai Chun's hand and replaced it with Ye Qing's back, now such a thing is already a normal thing in their family, whether it is Bai Chun or the little girl Jinse, they don't feel that there is anything wrong with letting the only man in the family and the head of the family help them carry the bag.

"It's not easy to find, this West Lake is much bigger than I remember, it's just catching up with Dongting Lake." Ye Qing stood in the middle of the broken bridge, looking around, and everywhere he could see was crowded, so he complained exaggeratedly.

"Didn't you say you hadn't been to West Lake? And how can it be as exaggerated as you say, it's about to catch up with Dongting Lake. Bai Chun pointed in the direction in front of him and refuted Ye Qing's words.

In order to wait for Ye Qing, she and Jin Se were already a little tired of staying here, but one good thing was that they finally figured out where Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan were talking about the literati.

The literati of the Southern Song Dynasty, who lectured and preached everywhere, enjoyed a very high reputation among the people of the Great Song Dynasty, which was naturally related to the imperial court's emphasis on literature and military suppression.

However, under the peaceful and prosperous era, the lack of people's spiritual culture is also an important reason, and it is natural that some literati, including famous prostitutes and goolan washers, are needed to enrich the wealthy Southern Song Dynasty society at this time, and to provide for the consumption of high-ranking officials and nobles, down to peddlers and pawns.

What's more, Wu is not as good as the Jin Kingdom in the north, and those who are beaten by others can only bend their knees to seek peace, bow their heads to courtiers, and pay tribute every year.

Therefore, at this time, the arrogance of the literati naturally became the spiritual food for the people of the Southern Song Dynasty to ideally fight against the Jin State, and it also became the favorite spiritual belief of the people who sat in the well and watched the sky and deceived themselves.

Just like Ye Qing's previous life, when the Chinese nation was unable to achieve an overwhelming advantage over the Japanese in terms of comprehensive national strength, and when it was not able to take revenge on the hatred of the nation, we would often start to find a sense of superiority from the cultural perspective.

For example, this one is from China, and the one we haven't played for a long time, and is regarded as a treasure by the Japanese people, but it is actually the leftover from our ancestors, and no one wants it before they pick it up.

And when they met the real Japanese people in the society, most of them were proud to be able to have a Japanese friend and study in the Japanese country, such a scene is really not much different from what Ye Qing has seen and heard in West Lake now.

Anyone knows that whether it was the Liao State at the beginning, or the Jin State that drove the Great Song Dynasty south of the Yangtze River to the present, it is also learning Chinese culture in everything, even in daily life, it is also Sinicization everywhere.

Even during this period, the Jin State had begun to regard itself as an orthodox Han Chinese and Han culture, and the Jin merchants or envoys who traveled to and from the Southern Song Dynasty often called the people of the Southern Song Dynasty barbarians.

Nowadays, most literati are shouting loudly about recovering the lost territory and going on a northern expedition, but when they saw the Jin people, they immediately resumed their flattery and fear of power.

Along the way, Bai Chun was like every angry young man he met on the road, especially when he met an impassioned, tear-jerking, and long-winded literati who talked about how the imperial court should go north to the Jin Kingdom, Bai Chun was full of admiration, looking at others with a little star on his face.

And in Ye Qing's eyes, these are just keyboard warriors and mouth cannons in the previous life, and they are often powerful in words, and in real life, I am afraid they are similar to cowards.

"You despise their ideals of active Northern Expedition, why?" Bai Chun really couldn't stand Ye Qing, and every time he saw an impassioned literati shouting loudly, the disdain and contempt at the corners of his mouth turned around and asked very seriously.

Ye Qing tightened his ponytail, the hat that Jin Se gave him, he was always reluctant to wear it, so he liked to swagger through the market with a small ponytail on his bare head, even if Jin Se bought a flower and wanted him to wear it on his head, he was also disgusted by his mouth, and then hurriedly refused.

So now Jin Se has a flower on top of his head, which Ye Qing can't name, and it is still stinky there.

"I'm serious about you." Bai Chun's bright eyes are very good-looking in the eyes of passers-by at the moment, but in Ye Qing's eyes, they are eyes that want to kill.

"Alas...... Have you ever heard a word? Ye Qing sighed helplessly, he didn't want to raise the bar with Bai Chun, but his sister-in-law was a dead eye.

"What?" Bai Chun asked calmly.

"Literati mislead the country, and they are useless scholars." Ye Qing looked at Bai Chun in a relaxed tone, shook his head and said.

"You...... The literati misled the country, and I think it is because you don't learn and don't know how to mislead the country. Bai Chun didn't expect Ye Qing to open his mouth and deduct such a big hat for the people of the world, he was a little angry at the moment, and gritted his teeth.

"Believe it or not, sooner or later, or you won't understand what I say in your life, in fact, what I said is more difficult to hear than those sour words, but they have been tested by time." Ye Qing said lightly.

Then he ignored Bai Chun, who was a little stunned, and walked alone and continued to walk not far ahead, where Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan were arguing, and Quyuan Fenghe, one of the ten views of West Lake.

In Ye Qing's opinion, the Southern Song Dynasty could have survived for a few years, and even continued to resist a period of Mongolian iron cavalry, but it was because of the pedantic style of the literati that the Yashan tragedy was staged.

What is the greatest characteristic of the literati? In Ye Qing's view, their biggest characteristic is that they are not strong-minded, pedantic, stubborn, like to drill the horns, stingy, too rigid, and difficult to accept the result of failure.

Whether it is Zhu Xi or Lu Jiuyuan at the moment, after being dismissed from office by the imperial court, they began to become disheartened and uninterested in their careers, and then blindly pursued another ideal on the way to learning.

Are you sure that preaching and lecturing after their dismissal was their original ideal? Obviously not, it is obviously another life path that he chose after experiencing all kinds of blows above the court, in a depressed situation.

Of course, no one knows which cloud will have rain, so there is not necessarily only one way to succeed.

But in any case, whether it is Zhu Xi, Lu Jiuyuan and other literati, when they encounter difficulties and setbacks, they are often not as good as Tang Sihui and others, they can endure dormancy, their hearts are as strong as iron, and wait for the next life situation.

If Tang Siwei, like Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, was dismissed from office by the imperial court, he chose another path when he was depressed, and even refused the court's call when the imperial court intended to recall them, then what would be the situation of the Southern Song Dynasty?

Since Ye Qing came to the Southern Song Dynasty, he has often thought, especially in the Battle of Yashan, the literati Lu Xiufu took the young emperor and hundreds of thousands of people to jump into the sea to martyrdom, thus making China completely fall into the hands of foreigners for the first time in history. Will the ending be rewritten?

And Zhang Shijie, who is also one of the three heroes of the late Song Dynasty, was not born as a literati, but at the last moment of his death, he was obviously much harder than Lu Xiufu and others.

With Lu Xiufu and the young emperor throwing themselves into the sea and martyrdom, at least Zhang Shijie had served the Empress Dowager Yang, looked for the descendants of the royal family, and then tried to restore the ideas and feats of the Song court.

"What are you thinking? These days, you are always confused. Bai Chun whispered to Ye Qing, who was in a trance.

"Uh...... It's nothing, I just remembered the record in a book. Ye Qing smiled, inexplicably remembering the Qing Dynasty novelist Wu Jingzi's "Fan Jin Zhongju".

Although it is a novel, the literati it satirizes can be said to be to the blood and the knife to the bone.

Seeing that Ye Qing didn't mean what he wanted to say, Bai Chun glanced at Ye Qing, and then pulled Jin Se, who was wearing flowers on his head, and planned to continue walking, and at this time, at the covered bridge of Quyuan Fenghe, Zhu Xi and his scholar were talking and laughing with friends there, and they saw Ye Qing, who was tall and slender, at a glance.

Almost at the same time, Liu Qingyan and the old woman who helped them clean up the aftermath that night, their eyes gradually shifted from Zhu Xi's surprised face, and with Zhu Xi's gaze, they gradually shifted to Ye Qing and Bai Chun.

"Is that him? How did he come here? Liu Qingyan was stunned, thinking that the two would not meet again, but they didn't expect to meet here by mistake.

Looking at Ye Qing with a faint smile on the corner of her mouth, she was leisurely in the crowd, followed by a woman wearing plain clothes and skirts, but looking like a fairy, when she walked forward, she forgot to answer the question of the old woman next to her for a while.

"What, you know that guy?" The old woman asked several times in succession, but saw that Liu Qingyan just looked at the tall and slender young man with cold eyes, and clenched her silver teeth from time to time, as if she had a common enmity with that person.

"This little brother, I don't want us to meet here again, I was in a hurry last time, and I didn't have time to learn the little brother's surname, so I hurriedly said goodbye to the little brother, this time, I have been thinking about this in my heart, and I look forward to meeting the little brother again one day." Zhu Xi strode over from a group of people and stood in front of Bai Chun, and then smiled and apologized to Bai Chun before saying to Ye Qing with a smile on his face.

"You...... Who are you? Some are familiar, but ...... Oh, the one I made the bet on last time, I remember, hehe, hello. Ye Qinggang wanted to scratch his head and recall, but after seeing Bai Chun's disgusted gaze, he suddenly remembered the dark-skinned old man in front of him, like a farmer, wasn't it the old man who grabbed the book with him last time.

"Little brother remembered? Hehe, last time I said goodbye, I was very worried about it, and I regretted that I couldn't talk to my little brother in my heart, no matter what happened today, my little brother couldn't shirk anymore. By the way, the little brother of "Dream Creek Writings" has been studying for many days, I don't know if I have any experience? Can you share it later? When Zhu Xi saw Ye Qing, his tone and demeanor were much more relaxed, unlike just now, he was still holding his Confucian frame in front of everyone.

Ye Qing was stunned for a moment again, and when he heard the four words of "Mengxi Pen Talk", he really reacted, so he replied directly without thinking: "Hey, I took it back and turned two pages, but I didn't understand it, so I threw it aside." ”

When Bai Chun heard Ye Qing answer like this, his face turned red at the moment, and he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get in, the people who were watching here, which one was not dressed as a scribe and a Confucian student, why didn't he speak without considering his words, wouldn't it be ashamed!

Zhu Xi was also stunned, he didn't expect Ye Qing to be so happy, and then laughed, and he didn't know if what Ye Qing said was true or not, so he laughed and said: "Little brother is really funny, temperamental, so he answered, but it was the same as the last time you put it in when the lion was not paying attention." ”

"Uh...... Is that okay? Bai Chun couldn't help but look at the dark-faced old man twice, this is too good at resolving embarrassment for others and himself, right?