The little sister of the Zhou family silently read Chen Wen's answer, as if she had found the answer to the problem that had always bothered her, it turned out that this kind of thing could not be fully expected to be recognized by the society, and more needed to improve economic ability. The pen is interesting and the pavilion www.biquge.info is just like what the sage once said - if you are in a warehouse, you know the etiquette, and it turns out that it is also applicable here.

Once she figured these things out, the little sister of the Zhou family recalled the thoughts she had when she once read Li Zhen's works, and it turned out that most of them were just utopian dreams and completely unrealistic.

The economic base determines the superstructure, so if the economic foundation cannot be reached, no matter how gorgeous the superstructure is, it is just a castle in the air, which is unrealistic.

A flash of realization appeared in his heart, accompanied by a sigh.

"Zhejiang Wang Shi was able to continue to grow in such a dangerous situation, and it was really not fortunate. Listening to the words of the king, it is better to read for ten years, and the concubine has been taught. ”

After a while, the woman smiled, her eyes were bright, and she smiled smartly, as if even the entire hall was a little brighter, and even at this moment, Chen Wen felt as if her heartbeat had stopped.

In the main hall, Chen Wen looked at the woman in front of him stupidly, as if he had fallen into the clear eyes like water. After a long time, under the embarrassed look of the woman in front of him, Chen Wen retracted his gaze with some embarrassment. He coughed slightly, then changed to the question he was about to ask.

"I answered Zhou Xiaoniang's question below, so can Zhou Xiaoniang answer the next question?"

Chen Wen had already recovered from the embarrassment just now, but under the woman's blowing skin, the blush just now had not completely faded, and even better than before after hearing this.

"Master Hou, please speak bluntly, the concubine should tell you so."

The woman in front of her lowered her head shyly again, leaving only her smooth forehead and inky green silk still exposed to Chen Wen's sight, and even her voice seemed to be getting lower and lower, but I didn't know if it was an illusion.

Chen Wen had roughly guessed what was going on in this girl's mind, but what he was going to ask now was not this.

"Do you dare to ask why Mrs. Zhou has this idea, just because she has read Mr. Li Zhen's discussion?"

A stunned look appeared on the woman's beautiful face, and when the stunned retreated, those eyes fell into memory.

"When the concubine was young, she was enlightened with her two cousins and her brother, and although it took a little later, she was always able to stay behind. I remember that after enlightenment, when the concubine was going to start learning the rules and training of women, Jia Yan had said privately with Jia Ci that if the concubine was a man, my Zhou clan should have a champion and first. To this day, the sound is still in my ears and has not dissipated a ......"

Who said that women are inferior to men, originally it was only a joke in an opera, or a legend like Mulan, who would have thought that there were indeed women with such thoughts in this world. If you think about it, it's normal, otherwise how could there be such a story in this world, and how could there be a heroine like Princess Pingyang Zhao.

In the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with the development of the economy, the mind was no longer imprisoned in the cage of Cheng Zhu Lixue as before, and the emancipation of the mind was all-round, and at the same time, it was constantly repeated. It's a pity that there was originally a period of one or two hundred years, and perhaps a Chinese-style Renaissance would begin. But once he remembered the faces of those Confucian scholars and doctors in the late Ming Dynasty, Chen Wen had a trace of doubt about this theory, which won some people's hearts in later generations, and even the confusion in his heart was reflected in the woman's eyes.

"Master Hou, if there is, if there is anything, can you say that you are one or two with the concubine?"

Hearing this, Chen Wen sighed, and then asked, "Since Little Lady Zhou has this thought, doesn't she have the heart to compete in her heart?" ”

said that it was a heart of competition, but in fact, it was better to say that what Chen Wen asked was the idea of contempt. Between people, even if they are sluggish, they can always feel and understand how the other party sees themselves in the past ten or twenty years. But as far as Chen Wen knows, the men, women and children of the Zhou family all love this woman.

Zhou Jingting is like this, but it is normal. My sister, besides, Zhou Jingting is a guy who is extremely protective of calves. At the beginning, the Qing army withdrew from Jinhua under the advance of the Ming army, and wantonly set fire to the houses and houses in the city, so as not to be used by the Ming army, and Zhou Jingting joined the Ming army because of this.

Chen Wen remembered very well that because of this incident, Zhou Jingting was quite resentful of Zhu Zhixi, and even once believed that Zhu Zhixi was treacherous and wanted to kill him by the hands of the Qing army. Later, with the successive battles of the Ming army, Chen Wen successively arrested Ma Jinbao and Zhang Guoxun, both of whom shifted the responsibility to each other, but both mentioned that Li Zhifang and Zhu Zhixi were opposed at that time. This public case has become like Rashomon, but Zhou Jingting's hatred for Zhu Zhixi has not been reduced in the slightest, even if this has basically ruled out the suspicion of Zhu Zhixi as the mastermind.

As for the reason, it is very simple, their old house was destroyed, and some of the servants in the family who were old and watched him grow up died in the fire, and even he was almost not spared. Since the Manchu officials were able to treat the scholars like mustards, it was only natural that he would be transferred to rebel against the Manchu rule.

From this point of view, it is not abnormal for Zhou Jingting, who regards his family as heavy as Mount Tai, to almost make a move on Chen Wen because of a sentence like yesterday, after all, it is his own sister.

Even if Zhou Jingting is not mentioned, according to Chen Wen's intelligence, it all shows that this is the case, and even the two sons of the uncle of the Zhou family's younger sister once said a nonsense about their cousin not long ago because a classmate of the civil official training class drank some wine in the restaurant, and as a result, they were openly beaten by these two guys, and even the person who drew the words did not let go.

If the little sister of the Zhou family despised her two cousins and her brother because of her talent for reading, Zhou Jingting was fine, but Chen Wen would not believe that her two cousins, who had always been timid and afraid, would react so violently, and nine times out of ten they should still go back to their homes.

"To say no, that's a lie. The concubine also thought about it when she was young, but what could she do if she thought about it. The concubine is a daughter, and it is in vain to expect to be able to be the champion. With this time, honoring one's parents, being in harmony with one's brothers and sisters, and doing what a woman should do well is far better than feeling sorry for oneself or complaining about others. ”

Speaking the words that had been pent up in her heart for many years in one breath, the little sister of the Zhou family instantly felt that the whole person was much more relaxed, and what she ushered in was Chen Wen's applause.

"Little Lady Zhou can have this realization, which is far better than how many eyebrows. Even below, there are many inferiors. ”

"Hou Ye's praise is just a little nonsense about the concubine in the boudoir."

"Little lady Zhou doesn't have to be too humble."

It is true that there is no need to be too modest, for a long time, in order to be able to unite more people, in order to be able to prevent China from being damaged too much in this catastrophe, and even sometimes just for the sake of his posthumous reputation, he has made compromises and worries, but has put some more important things on the back burner.

Nowadays, although the Manchu Qing Dynasty suffered repeated setbacks in the sixth year of Yongli and this year, its overall strength is still in an overwhelming advantage. This time, Hong Chengchou organized the four provincial capitals to suppress, in fact, it was not to do the best of the four southeastern provinces, but more to consider the overall situation, so it was decided to revitalize the overall situation with the Eight Banners of the Han Army and the Qiantang Water Division, and eliminate the Ming Army in Zhejiang as soon as possible. Otherwise, it will simply be consumed, and the chances of victory of the Manchu Qing will be higher.

Today, the suppression of the four provincial capitals is over, the offensive and defensive situation in the southeast is different, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty is in a passive situation on both the southeast and southwest fronts, which is far stronger than in history. This is the time for heroes to rise up, if they still take into account the influence of this aspect and the views of that aspect as they did in the past, and bind their feet, when will they be able to destroy the great enemy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

"Little Lady Zhou is right, when should she do her best to do something, thinking too much is trapping herself in place."

As soon as the depression in his heart opened, Chen Wen's gaze couldn't help but be a little hot, and the woman couldn't help but take half a step back.

"Hou Ye asked the concubine to come here just to answer the question of the concubine?"

Xifeng Temple is located on the back of Xifeng Mountain, in Jinhua Mansion, here is the place where the incense is extremely prosperous, and even because of the mass grave behind the temple, here is more or less gloomy, even the monks are not a few. In the past, if it was incense, the Zhou family would go to Tianning Wanshou Temple and would never come here.

This question, in fact, the little sister of the Zhou family wanted to ask about it a long time ago, but she didn't have time. At this moment, the heat wave in Chen Wen's eyes made her quite scared, and she just brought the question out and changed the topic.

Hearing the woman in front of him ask, Chen Wen sighed, he did seem to be a little too much just now. At least in the current era, a girl who has not yet been out of the cabinet is willing to come to the appointment, which can indeed be understood as being mentally prepared for some things, but this year it is said that it is out of affection and courtesy, and the impulse to embrace it a moment ago is indeed very rude.

"I heard a story before, it is said that it happened here, I planned to come over and see it a long time ago, but I didn't have time, today I finally gave myself a vacation, just invite Zhou Xiaoniang to come and listen to this story."

Chen Wen can tell stories, and the little sister of the Zhou family does know about this, and even Zhou Jingting told her some stories about Chen Wen telling ancient stories in Dalan Mountain. It's just that it is said to have happened here, but she, a local woman in Jinhua, has never heard of it.

"When I went south from Tianjin, I passed by the ground in Shandong, and I heard an old master talk about the ancients, which was the story of this Xifeng Temple. However, in the mouth of the old master, this Xifeng Temple used to be called Lanruo Temple, but I don't know if this is really the case. ”

The Lanruo Temple in Chen Wen's mouth comes from the famous novelist Pu Songling's "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is the place where Nie Xiaoqian's story takes place. However, in the original text, this Lanruo Temple is in the north of Jinhua City, and there is a tall tower that can overlook the whole city, which is more like the Yongfu Temple in the north of the Zhejiang Martial Arts School. However, among the local population of Jinhua, because there is a mass grave in the story behind Xifeng Temple, and there are rumors of haunting here, this Xifeng Temple also has a great possibility.

"During the Song Dynasty, there was a scholar in Zhejiang named Ning Caichen......"

Nie Xiaoqian's original text Chen Wen remembered that he seemed to have seen it before, but he had long forgotten everything, fortunately he had watched some film and television dramas, among which Leslie Cheung and Wang Zuxian's version can be called a classic, and it is still fresh in my memory, so I said it to relieve my boredom.

"Seeing that Ning Caichen was upright, the woman was born from Chen, it turned out that the woman's surname was Nie, her name was Xiaoqian, she died when she was eighteen years old, and she was buried in the mass grave behind the temple......"

Just now Chen Wen said that he wanted to talk about the ancients, and the little sister of the Zhou family found two futons in the main hall, one was placed behind Chen Wen and motioned for him to sit down, and the other was placed opposite Chen Wen and knelt there by herself. It's just that at this point in the story, Chen Wen saw that the pretty face was already pale, and his body seemed to be a little shaky, and he realized that this poignant love story in his impression was actually a ghost story, especially if it was told to a girl's family in this place, it was really too much.

Getting up and approaching, Chen Wen's soft hands were closed, and he said softly: "I'm really sorry, I only remember that this story is very touching, but I forgot that there are some things that are not suitable for it." I won't talk about it, don't be afraid. ”

"The concubine is fine, Hou Ye should finish the story, the concubine also heard the story of ghosts when she was a child, and she knew that if she couldn't finish listening, she would always feel scared. Besides, with a famous general like Hou Ye, there is no need to be afraid of the concubine. ”

Chen Wen's soft voice, or the warmth of that pair gave the little sister of the Zhou family some courage, after listening to Chen Wen's apology, her body no longer shook so much, and her little face also regained some blood, but those hands still did not dare to fade out of the warmth.

"Okay." Sitting on the ground, Chen Wen continued to tell the story. "Anyway, Nie Xiaoqian didn't want to harm people, all because a thousand-year-old tree demon in the temple called her grandmother was photographed......"

With Chen Wen's narration, the story unfolded step by step, the love and hatred between Ning Caichen, Nie Xiaoqian, Yan Chixia, Grandma and other characters, it didn't take long for this story to come to an end, far faster than his previous talks about the ancients.

"The human world is too complicated, it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong, but with ghosts, it is black and white, clear. This Yan Chixia is indeed not such an ordinary man, and Ning Caichen is also a rare sincere gentleman, and the story of Hou Ye is really good. ”

"Zhou Xiaoniang praised falsely, in fact, she is just picking up people's teeth and wisdom. It's just that many years have passed, and I don't remember very well whether this is the case, and I hope that Zhou Xiaoniang will not mind. ”

This story was not originally intended to be scary, after the story was heard, Ning Caichen sent Nie Xiaoqian's bones back to his hometown, and Yan Chixia killed demons, which also responded to the moral concept of punishing evil and promoting good. The little sister of the Zhou family was originally a little scared, but when she heard that the bearded Yan Chixia was a cultivator, she was no longer as afraid as she was just now, and she had obviously guessed the direction of the story.

"It's a pity, there are lovers who can't be dependents, if Nie Xiaoqian is reincarnated to repay the kindness, the concubine thinks it might be better."

"Actually, if Yan Chixia has the ability to live dead and flesh and bones, maybe ......"

At the end of the story, when the two of them were still reminiscing about the story, it was the little sister of the Zhou family who reacted first, and pulled out the pair of weak and boneless hands that were used to holding the white blade of the spear.

"Master Hou did it on purpose!"

"Ugh."

The look of shame on the woman's face in front of her made Chen Wen a little overwhelmed. Maybe it's just that I've been kneeling for a long time, and my blood is not very smooth, but I can't stand up. Seeing this, Chen Wen hurriedly got up and helped the girl up, but the hands were clasped tightly and refused to let go.

"Master Hou, you are a famous lord of the imperial court, you should set an example for the people of the world, how can you be like this?"

"There is a question, I am afraid that Zhou Xiaoniang will not answer, so I have to do this, I hope to forgive me."

As soon as these words came out, the woman in front of her was stunned. It's just that before she could react, she just heard Chen Wen and asked: "I have the intention to ask Ling Zun for a kiss, so I want to know what Zhou Xiaoniang means." If you feel that it is okay to be in the next person, it is worth entrusting for life, and you will find someone to be a matchmaker in the next place; If you feel that it is not easy to get along with you, or if Zhou Xiaoniang has already intended someone, she does not dare to force it. ”

I knew that this might be the case, but when it really came to an end, the little sister of the Zhou family still only felt that there was a deer in her heart bumping into her, so that she couldn't even get up with the least idea or reply. In fact, her original impression of Chen Wen was not very good, at least that sentence was not a good match. But after a few chance encounters, especially this appointment, she realized that Chen Wen was not what she thought before, at least he was not an ordinary man who despised a cheap woman.

"The marriage event is the order of the parents, the words of the matchmaker, how dare the concubine be the master."

The woman's arms no longer struggled, but she quietly lowered her head, so that no one could see her pretty, which was already blushing.

After hearing this mosquito-like answer clearly, especially this performance, Chen Wen had already understood the meaning of this, and immediately let go of his hands. It's just that as soon as the hand was released, I saw that the woman immediately raised her head, and her eyes were even more panicked.

"Master Hou, the concubine is ......"

Gently taking the girl into his arms, Chen Wen said softly: "I already know your thoughts." Since I have an appointment, I won't say much about it today, choose an auspicious day, and I will find someone to be a matchmaker. ”

"Hmm."

After hugging each other for a while, the little sister of the Zhou family began to help Chen Wen clean up the folds of her clothes, and then packed up her own clothes before turning to the outside of the hall.

Watching the woman leave the main hall, the faint fragrance of the virgin was still lingering between breaths. For a moment, Chen Wen seemed to have forgotten that this was a Buddhist temple, and it was a bodhisattva with kind eyebrows who was smiling and watching all this behind him.

The woman got into the carriage, and her brother didn't ask any questions all the way, until she returned to the small courtyard where the boudoir was located, and waved away the servants around her, Zhou Jingting dared to say softly, and she didn't dare to be too loud, lest anyone hear her.

"Sister, is that rude guy?"

He has been doing things under Chen Wen for more than a year, but this "righteousness of the monarch and minister" is far less than the honor and disgrace of his family and relatives in the eyes of Confucian scholars like him, especially his own sister in front of him. In fact, if it weren't for the rumors and rumors outside, it would have affected her sister's lifelong events, and Chen Wen had a very good impression on him during this period of getting along, otherwise he would not have agreed to this appointment.

It's just that when his sister entered the main hall, the remorse and absurdity in his heart always lingered in his heart, even if the little sister of the Zhou family walked out of the main hall, she did not retreat at all.

"Brother is too worried, Master Hou is a righteous gentleman, he just answered a question about the concubine and told a story to the concubine."

"Hey."

Another sigh, Zhou Jingting felt that he had sighed more in the past few days than in the previous twenty years combined, and hoped that his sister would have a good home after this incident, and she would be carefree and happy.

Coincidentally, Chen Wen, who had just returned to the Hou Mansion of Anyuan from Xifeng Temple, was still immersed in the beauty of the love between men and women just now, but when he stepped into the Hou Mansion with his front foot, he heard a soldier who stayed in the mansion mention that Huang Zongxi had been waiting in the second hall for a long time.

"Hey, this Yuyao Huang Taichong has always been a good thing, and if he comes, he won't be good. God knows what happened to the north! (To be continued.) )