Chapter 161: Heart-to-Heart Talk
Wanru listened to what the crown princess said, she listened to it all, and thoughtfully.
Qin Yu turned his head and said to Wanru, "Don't listen to Yue'er's nonsense. ”
"Your Highness doesn't have to explain it to me?" Wanru said with a smile.
"Let's go! I'll take you to the Xuan Courtyard. Qin Yu felt that Wanru had to keep it secret for the time being when she came back this time.
After a while, the plague situation has stabilized, and she can return to Xiangguo's mansion.
Wanru followed behind His Highness and walked very slowly. Or, Wanru deliberately walked behind His Highness. Maybe for Wanru, just quietly following him was enough.
During this journey, it was quite quiet.
Only the sound of walking footsteps could be heard.
"By the way, tonight, I heard you mention Shizun, but it seems that you still had something to say at that time, but it was inconvenient to say it on the spot." Qin Yu asked.
Wanru was stunned at first, how did His Highness know that she still had something to say to him alone at that time?
"Your Highness can foresee the future?" Wanru was curious about how His Highness knew?
"Huh...... I'm just guessing! Qin Yu didn't say much.
Wanru took out a letter from her sleeve and handed it to His Highness.
"This letter was entrusted to His Highness by Master Sun Qing." Wanru only then handed the letter to His Highness.
"The teacher really still remembers me." Qin Yu was very happy when he saw this letter.
His Highness opened the letter and looked at it as he went.
It's just that after reading the letter, His Highness frowned slightly, and his heart seemed to be a little heavy.
"What's wrong?" Wanru asked with concern.
"It's fine!" Qin Yu immediately folded the letter and put it into his sleeve.
"'Heaven is constant, not for Yao, not for destruction.'" He is critical of traditional religious superstitions, believing that there is no necessary connection between natural changes and the good and bad things in society. It is believed that the various religious ceremonies of sacrificing and mourning the deceased are merely expressions of 'admiration' and are 'humane' rather than 'ghostly'. Nowadays, there are very few people who can look at these things so thoroughly, and I also have great respect for the teacher. Wanru told Sun Qing what she knew in the Jixia School Palace.
"Oh, could it be that Wanru also wants to be a student of the master?" Qin Yu was surprised that this Wanru admired the teacher so much.
"I am self-aware, I know that Master Sun Qing does not accept female students." Wanru still knows this, which proves that she still knows His Highness's master quite well.
Qin Yu looked at Wanru and suddenly felt that she was not an ordinary woman.
"'Heaven is natural', in his article "The Theory of Heaven", the stars rotate, the sun and the moon pass the fire, the four times of the emperor, the yin and yang are magnified, the wind and rain are blessed, all things have their own harmony to live, each has its own nourishment to achieve, not to see its things but to see its merits, the husband is called God; Everyone knows why it is made, but I don't know that it is invisible, and the husband is the sky. Qin Yu still remembers the content of the teacher's teaching.
"Hmmm! The content of Master Sun Qing's text is also the essence. In his view, heaven is nature, and there is no reason, will, good and evil. Heaven is a natural heaven, not a personal God. The subtle functions such as yin and yang, wind and rain are called gods, and the natural world composed of these functions is called heaven. The creation of the universe is not created by God, but is the result of the movement of all things themselves. Wanru has only been following Master Sun Qing for a few days, but she has already carefully studied Master Sun Qing's treatises.
"It seems that I have to write a letter and ask his old man to accept you as an apprentice, and you can understand the master's treatise so thoroughly." Qin Yu was indeed surprised, in this regard, Wanru's talent was indeed very high.
"There's just one thing I don't understand?" When Wanru was in the Jixia School Palace, she heard many people criticize Master Sun Qing for being a pseudo-Confucian.
"Oh? Let's hear it and see if I can help you out. Qin Yu said.
"Master Sun Qing is a Confucian school, but the 'theory of sexual evil' he put forward advocates that human nature is evil, denies the moral concept of natural nature, and emphasizes the influence of acquired environment and education on people. This doctrine is contrary to the Confucian Mencius's theory of sexual goodness. It is no wonder that when he was in the Jixia Academy, some scholars ridiculed him for not being a Confucian. Actually, Wanru really doesn't understand this.
When Master Sun Qing was in the Jixia Academy, he criticized each family, but he only admired the thought of Confucius, believing that it was the best concept of governing the country. Therefore, Master Sun Qing regarded himself as the heir of Confucius.
"Zunshi is indeed a Confucian scholar, but he especially emphasized the inheritance of Confucius's 'study of foreign kings'. Moreover, from the standpoint of epistemology, he critically summarized and absorbed the theoretical propositions of the hundred schools of thought, and formed a distinctive view of nature that is clear from heaven and man, a moral view of "dissolving nature and creating falsehood", and a social and historical view of "the rule of etiquette". "Qin Yu is a student of Sun Qing, and he naturally knows better than anyone else.
"I see, Wanru has been taught!" Wan only knew at this moment that His Royal Highness was a disciple of Master Sun Qing, and he probably didn't know as much about Sun Qing as he did.
"But seriously, I'm a little worried if you become his student?" Qin Yu said jokingly.
"How?" Wanru held on to the railing of the cloister with her hand and asked His Highness with a smile.
"Huh...... My teacher's personality and temper will not change for decades, his person is very serious, and every time I listen to his lectures before, I will inevitably be scolded. I'm afraid you'll not be able to stand the temper of the Venerable Master. Although Qin Yu said that he was punished by his teacher, in Wanru's opinion, it seemed that he was talking about the preciousness of the old past.
Wanru listened to His Royal Highness talk about the previous experience of teaching at Master Sun Qing, and felt that Master Sun Qing had really taught a good student. If His Royal Highness really becomes the king of the Northern Dynasty in the future, he must be a king who can stabilize the country.
Before they knew it, they had walked to the corridor of the Xuan Courtyard, looking at the lotus flowers in the pond of the Xuan Courtyard, although they had not seen each other for a year, they were still blooming in the breeze.
At this time, His Highness stretched out his hand and looked at Wanru.
Wanru stared at His Highness, wondering how he knew?
"How did Your Highness know that there was another letter?" Wan was even more curious at this time, His Highness is really a thoughtful person.
"This ...... Naturally can't say. "Qin Yu is playing tricks.
"Why don't you let me guess this time?" The more Wanru spoke, the more energetic she became.
"Hmmm! I'm listening. Qin Yu stood in place, wanting to hear if Wanru could say it.
"I always thought that His Highness handed me the jade pendant he was carrying with him for my self-defense. But when you think about it, it's not like that. I'm afraid Your Highness has already calculated that I will go to the Jixia School Palace? Only then did Wan feel that in the dark, even if it was thousands of miles away, it was all under the control of His Highness.
"Oh? But one thing you have to know, I don't know where you're going to go on this trip. Qin Yu said.
"From the last time, when His Royal Highness sent books, from that time, you knew that I liked to read, and the most prestigious cultural place in the whole world was none other than the 'Jixia School Palace'." Wanru felt that His Royal Highness not only had insight into human nature, but also into people's hearts.
"And then?" Qin Yu smiled slightly at this time.
"Then I arrived at the Jixia School Palace, and I was stopped outside the School Palace, I will definitely find a way to get in." Wanru replied.
"But I didn't tell you before that Master Sun Qing is my respected teacher." Qin Yu said.
"Your Highness didn't tell me directly, but His Highness told me the answer indirectly. Because the jade pendant was sent to me by His Royal Highness behind him, and there was a letter at the same time as the jade pendant, although there were only a few numbers on the letter, but it was enough. It was through this letter that Wanru knew that the head of the Jixia School Palace must have some relationship with His Royal Highness.
"And what did you read from this letter?" Qin Yu really wanted to hear it, did Wanru guess it?
"I found two things. First, if I want to enter the Jixia School Palace, then I must pass the head of this Jixia School Palace, then this person must be Master Sun Qing. Second, the Wei Gongzi who followed Master Sun Qing was probably the person deliberately arranged by His Royal Highness to be in the Jixia School Palace. As for why His Highness did this, I don't know. Wanru said what she knew in her heart.
"Hmmm! It's very good, it's worthy of my ** out. Qin Yu said very seriously.
"I don't want to be a teacher." Wanru smiled.
"Therefore, His Royal Highness knows that if I go this time, Master Wei will definitely have a letter for me to bring back. Although I don't know this Wei Gongzi, since Master Sun Qing personally took me in, Wei Gongzi must know the reason. That's why I'm relieved to hand over this letter to me. "Wanru is a smart woman.
"You're right, but you have to keep it a secret. Can't say anything about anyone. Qin Yu explained very seriously.
"Hmm!" Wanru nodded.
Qin Yu opened the letter, and after reading it, there seemed to be a smile on his face, but it was not obvious.
Wanru knew that the contents of the letter were not something she could know, so she didn't ask what was written in the letter.
"Wanru, thank you for bringing back such an important thing." Qin Yu was indeed grateful to her.
"Your Highness doesn't have to be polite, in fact, ......" Wanru thought for a moment, still hesitating whether to say it or not.
"Actually, what?" His Highness looked at Wanru.
Wanru turned to look at His Royal Highness and said slowly: "Actually, I always thought that during these days, I traveled around the world, and the two guards behind me were arranged by my second brother. It wasn't until I went to the Jixia School Palace that when I saw His Highness's jade pendant, I suddenly realized that these two guards were His Highness's people, not guards sent by Xiangguofu. Although the two of them claimed to be the guards of the Prime Minister's Mansion, I knew that they were not. ”
"Hehe......" Qin Yu smiled first.
Then he said: "Zimo really wanted to send someone from the Prime Minister's Mansion to protect you at that time, but I stopped him, because the matter of your illness was top secret, so I sent my own people." ”
Qin Yu admitted the matter.