After a pleasant greeting, Ma Yicheng invited everyone to sit down, and Xiao Er brought up the ordered dishes one by one. Ma Yicheng said to Yang Ling again: "Yang Xiucai, the old man is loud, call you a virtuous nephew, my son, the surname is rude, and often causes trouble for the old man, this time there is a big disaster, if it is not for Yang Xian's nephew's clever plan and Lord Min's kindness, the dog will suffer a life lawsuit."

Yang Ling hurriedly said: "Where is it, the little nephew can see clearly, Brother Ma has never done anything to that Boss Wang, it is really greedy and harmful, that Boss Wang coveted Miss Ma's pearls, and was pulled by Brother Ma to hold his theory, and died of anger and anger, it is really not Brother Ma's fault, Master Ma must not be too harsh on Brother Ma."

Ma Ang suddenly said: "Daddy, I told my sister that you don't believe it, but you should believe Brother Yang's words, right?" I haven't beaten that old man."

"Shut up! Little brute, how can you interject! Ma Yicheng scolded his son, shook his head at Min County Ling, Huang County Cheng and Yang Ling: "Look, look, this little beast is not enough to do things, more than defeat, where can he compare to Yang Xian's nephew, who is a few years younger than my son, but he is calm and practiced, and he has already made a name for himself before he reaches the weak crown, alas, the clumsy Jing died early, and this son and a daughter are disciplined by young people, so they are so ignorant."

Min County Ling, Huang County Cheng, and Yang Ling inevitably explained to Ma Ang again, and while they were talking, Xiao Er over there sent the banquet over there. After a while, there were more and more people in the theater, and the people sitting around the private room were some merchants who passed by the post station, and in the distance in the remote place were some messengers, long-husbands, and unscrupulous officials who had nothing to do to kill the time.

The stage in front of him was brightly lit, and as soon as the gongs and drums sounded, the actors invited by the theater sang on the stage. At that time, there was no Peking opera, Yang Ling didn't understand opera, and it was inconvenient to ask people, I really didn't understand too much after listening to a few words, and the dramas at that time were all men, and I couldn't get enough to see the beauties, Yang Ling was very boring, but I listened to Min County Ling, Ma Yicheng, and Huang Xiancheng and they talked about it while watching and understanding a rough idea.

After listening to the story of the two of you, Yang Ling only felt incredible, this play is about a woman who was newly married to her husband, and her husband left home.

It took several years for the husband to return to his hometown, and when he was almost home, he met a very beautiful woman who was picking mulberry, and he was moved by the woman's beauty, so he stepped forward to tease, but was refuted by the woman's righteous and stern words, and felt bored, so he returned home in a gloomy manner.

Unexpectedly, when he came home, he saw that his wife was the woman he had just flirted, and he felt very ashamed, and he also had a heartfelt admiration for her wife.

There is nothing wrong with the story here, but then the second day of the stage, the wife cried at home, wrote a suicide note, and actually committed suicide by hanging the beam, saying that her woman's moral cultivation was not at home, so as to arouse the evil thoughts of men, so that her chastity was disgraced, so she could no longer live in the world, and only died to preserve her chastity.

In the end, the event caused a sensation in the township, all parties wrote to the emperor, the emperor issued a holy decree, this chaste martyr was posthumously awarded the title of Mrs. of a product of the order, the royal gift of "chastity archway", the glory is incomparable, her husband is grateful to his wife, and later married his wife, and the husband and wife also went to the grave together to worship.

This Hongyan Building is a complex of the opera garden and the restaurant, so the play is not so compact, the play is not so compact, the play is performed in the middle of the rest for a while, Min and Ma talked about it with relish, Huang Xiancheng took a sip of wine, and interjected two sentences from time to time. Although he doesn't talk much, after all, he is a scholar, but he can always say what Min Xianling wants to say but can't express.

Yang Ling felt that this play was too unreal, and the most outrageous thing he had ever heard of was that it was as if a woman fell into the water one day, and was seen by a passing man who grabbed her arm and rescued her, and when she returned home, she actually cut off her arm with a kitchen knife, just because it was touched by a man who was not her husband.

But if it is also considered "loss of virginity", after all, it is the loss of virginity on the **, and the woman in this play can't bear the mental "loss of virginity", and it is not a loss of virginity, but she is beautiful, and others have seen it, the man is not guilty, but this wife feels that her morality is not enough, which is simply unreasonable.

Listening to Min Xian Ling and Ma Yicheng still praising it, Yang Ling finally couldn't help but say: "Two adults, this scene is too exaggerated, right?" When her husband saw a beautiful woman on the road, he made a flirtatious speech, so misbehaved, he was scolded and left, and finally his wife felt that she was unchaste, which is simply unreasonable, how can there be such a thing in the world? Such a funny thing, such an exaggerated and untrue play, what's so good? ”

Ma Yicheng was surprised: "Why, Yang Xian's nephew is reading the book of sages, and he doesn't know the traces in this "Legend of the Martyr's Daughter"? What's wrong with that? This woman is so festive, she is really a model for women in the world, what is so funny? ”

Lord Min also took a sip of wine with a smile, and said with a smile: "Yang Xiucai must only read those sage books that can be used to gain fame, and I don't know the story of "The Legend of the Martyr". If I were the county magistrate there, I would have beaten the husband with forty boards and punished him for not taking a concubine for the rest of his life.

But there is nothing untrue about this, during the Chenghua years, when I was fighting Haikou in Fujian, I was still a small soldier at that time, there was a woman in southern Fujian, after the death of her husband wanted to go with her husband, relatives were proud, beating gongs and drums, hyped up, three days later, the woman held flowers, brightly dressed, sat in a sedan chair, to her husband's grave, stepped on the stool to board the color shed set up in advance, hung her neck and committed suicide, Emperor Jingtai once issued a decree to give the chastity archway, a township is glorious, hehe, the archway or I set up for her."

Ma Yicheng nodded and said: "Exactly, the great defense of etiquette and religion, how can it be sloppy, Yang Xian's nephew is too kind to a woman." Speaking of which, such women are all fierce women of good families, if they are happy women, how can they be so fierce?

Thinking that Guan Panpan, a famous person in Xuzhou, was accepted as a concubine by the guard Zhang Su, Zhang Su died, she did not die as a martyr, but moved back to her old residence Yanzilou to live alone for ten years, and wanted to win a reputation for keeping festivals, which is really shameless.

Later, it was Jiangzhou Sima who wrote a poem that broke her hypocrisy, and this woman died of hunger strike for ten days, which is far worse than the woman in the play and the young woman in Fujian. ”

Yang Ling was good at practicing bad words in his previous life, and he posted some words, so this Jiangzhou Sima knew who it was. It's just that he doesn't know that Bai Juyi can be so merciful to an old charcoal seller, but he has such an attitude towards a widowed widow, at that time it was still the Tang Dynasty with the most open atmosphere in China, and now after the invention of Zhu Fuzi's "three obedience and four virtues" in the Song Dynasty, it is no wonder that women are so deeply poisoned.

Ma Li'er was very angry when she heard it on the side, and couldn't help but interject with a cold snort: "Ten years of spring crying has changed into a warbler's tongue, and the three old ugly have changed their eyebrows." If a beloved wife follows her husband, there is nothing wrong with it, but since this kind of man regards the concubine as a commodity that can be bought and sold at will, and there is no mercy at all, and he wants others to die in death, the daughter feels that it is a bit excessive."

She read the poems in Bai Juyi's "Chasing Joy and Puppetry", saying that he bought some fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls as concubines, and he only played for three years, and he was only ten years old, so he thought that people were old and ugly, so some gave them away and some resold them, and then bought a batch of fresh goods, and changed three batches in ten years, so he wrote in the poem to show off to his friends.

Ma Yicheng was very displeased, only to feel that his daughter was too embarrassed to say these words in public, a county magistrate, a county magistrate, and a famous scholar present, his daughter's words were very rebellious, and it inevitably seemed that his family education was not strict, so although he usually loved this daughter the most, he still couldn't help but slap her at this time, and scolded: "Muddy account, what did you say, since I Emperor Taizu Gao, the most important wind religion in this dynasty, in order to commend the festival women, thirty widows and fifty do not remarry, in addition to exempting the family from servitude, What glory is that?

As the saying goes, one horse is not worthy of two saddles, and one foot is difficult to step on two boats, so a woman does not serve two husbands, just as I wait for a minister to do not do two masters. Although a woman's virtue lies in gentleness, the Lord's Day is famous and salty, and I have forgotten what I taught you? ”

Ma Li'er is usually the most favored by her father, so when she heard them say that women are like men's private property playthings, she couldn't help but refute them, and she couldn't imagine that her father actually slapped herself in front of outsiders, and she was ashamed and annoyed for a while, and couldn't help hiding her face and crying, and ran out as soon as she turned around.

Ma Ang saw that his father was angry, but he didn't dare to persuade him, and he wanted to chase him out but was afraid that his father would be angry, so he couldn't help but hesitate in the local area. Ma Yicheng waved his hand indignantly and said: "Let her go, we will drink by ourselves, this child, I am really spoiled, and I can say such things."

Yang Ling couldn't help but be dumbfounded, where did Ma Li'er say it wrong, why was Ma Yicheng so angry, Min Xian Ling also felt that it was natural not to dissuade him, and he stood up and said: "Miss Ma must just pity Guan Panpan, she died of hunger strike, and there is one less gorgeous character in the world, so I just feel it for a while, and my uncle doesn't have to be angry."

If it's late today, it's not appropriate for Miss Ma to go out alone, just wait for the little nephew to persuade her to come back."

Although Ma Yicheng felt that his daughter was too embarrassed to speak, the father-daughter relationship was deep, and although he was ruthless, he was really worried about her, but when he saw what he said politely, his face softened, and said: "So there is Lao Yangxian's nephew."

Yang Ling bowed his hand to Lord Min and Ma Yicheng, and hurriedly chased them out. Ma Li'er was standing under the red lantern at the entrance of the opera garden and staring at the stars in a daze, Yang Ling's heart was relieved, and he slowed down and slowly stepped forward and said: "Miss Ma, go back, Ling Zun is just afraid that your words will be listened to and affect your reputation, the so-called deep responsibility of love, don't be too angry."

Ma Li'er raised her face, looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, and said softly: "In this world, what do you treat women for?" A martyr, a martyred woman, is a good woman, can be praised, praised, a woman's martyrdom illustrates the virtues of a woman, but also shows the greatness of a man, and shows that he is worthy of a woman to pay for him, but what did he do for a woman?

Treat women as men's private property, not only concubines, but also wives, I listen to "Three Kingdoms", Taoyuan Three Righteousness, the first thing is to kill his wife and children, do they have family affection for their wives? Liu Bei treats his wife as clothes, and Orion Liu An treats his wife as a dish and kills to entertain guests, are these people or beasts?

The water is not tired of being clear, and the woman is not tired of being clean. Do you know? My mother was forced to death by my father, at that time he was still a soldier, my mother alone with my brother and me, life was so difficult, and then the robbers in the nearby mountains came down the mountain to rob, my mother hid me and my brother in the water tank and escaped, the robbers defiled her, but it was rare to have a good heart and did not kill her, but she was not killed by the robber's knife, but was stared to death by her father, by the village who saw the robbers and the men who fled for their lives. ”

Yang Ling was silent for a long time, and sighed softly: "Saving heavenly principles, destroying people's desires, starving to death is a small matter, and losing temper is a big matter, Zhu Xi Zhu Fuzi's words may not be right, but this world belongs to men, then, it is right", he remembered his own era, shook his head and said: "Not only is it right now, but after a few hundred years, there are still many men who believe in it, but this truth is designed for women."

Ma Li'er sneered: "Zhu Xi? He opened his mouth to 'Tianli' and closed his mouth to 'Taoism', but he seduced two nuns as favored concubines and widowed daughters-in-law, and he was also tricked by him, and he was really a model of morality and a model for scholars. It's a great irony."

Yang Ling only knew that the great defense of etiquette and religion was carried forward in the hands of Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty, and since then women who have been martyred have sprung up in an endless stream, but he didn't know that Zhu Xi still had such "romantic things".

He couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Since men have the final say in this world, it is not uncommon for Taoism to have different requirements for men and women, if it is a man who is insulted to his dignity, it is to lie on his salary and taste his courage, and to endure humiliation, as long as he takes revenge in the future, then he will raise his eyebrows, no one will care how shameless he has been, even if he has taken the initiative to eat feces, and women, even if they are forced to lose their temperament, is an unforgivable sin!" ”。

Ma Li'er turned her head suddenly, looked at him in surprise with a pair of eyes brighter than the stars, and said after a while: "Today's men, especially scholars, are the first ones who can say this, I really can't imagine that you are so young, and you have read those 'sage books' for so long, you can have such insight, it's a pity, it's a pity."

Yang Ling couldn't help but ask, "What's a pity?" ”

Ma Li'er turned her head and said faintly: "Huanjun Mingzhu is in tears, and I hate to meet when I am not married."

Yang Ling was thrilled when he heard this, and the atmosphere between the two of them suddenly became stiff, and he forced a smile after a while, and used laughter to ease the atmosphere and said: "Although you and I are destined to know each other because of your pearl, but I have never given you a pearl, miss, don't misunderstand."

Ma Li'er smiled "sigh", turned her head and glared at him charmingly, bit her lip, blushed and dared to say: "That's because you are not blessed,", looking at his tall nose bridge under the shadow of the lamp, Ma Li'er's heart jumped, and she didn't look over, only to feel that a beautiful atmosphere spread between the two.

She gently wiped away the cold tears on her face, and said: "If others are good to me, I will be good to people, since my mother died, I Ma Li'er has felt that there is no man in this world who is worthy of such a big sacrifice for us women, I will not be the stupid festival woman on the stage, I will live well for myself!" ”

Yang Ling was obsessed with her beautiful look that emerged from her confidence and arrogance, and only sighed softly after a while: "You were born too early, you should have been born five hundred years late, really!" ”

Ma Li'er blinked her big beautiful eyes and asked strangely, "Do you think my words are rebellious and shocking?" Is it okay to say that in 500 years? ”

Yang Ling was shocked, and hurriedly said haha: "I just think that maybe at that time, some men will regard women as the existence of reading power, and ask them equally, hehe, it's just random speculation and feeling."

Ma Li'er smiled slightly, reached into her arms, took out the purse, took two steps forward and stuffed it into Yang Ling's hand, and said: "I can see that your little wife loves you very much, this pearl is a gift from me to you, I only hope that you will treat your wife well, don't treat her badly." ”

The purse in her hand, still carrying her body temperature and faint fragrance, Ma Li'er saw him stunned, smiled, pulled her hair and said: "Let's go, let's go back, I'm just sad, not angry, after all, it doesn't make sense, women's sadness, how many of you men understand?" Out of the corner of her eye, she had found that Huang Xiancheng had chased him out, so she hurriedly withdrew her hand and walked in.

Yang Ling came to his senses after a while, turned back, and saw that Huang Qiyin, the county leader, smiled meaningfully at himself, made a gesture of invitation, and then smiled slightly, and replied, the two did not say a word, but they seemed to be very familiar.

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