Chapter 53: The Conscience of the Empire
Wang Defu obviously didn't expect that the charming girl in front of him was so active, and the other party gave him the feeling that he didn't look like a girl of this era.
Chen Qingle saw that Wang Defu hadn't responded yet, her brain was spinning very fast, and she hit the railroad while it was hot: "I know that a man like you who has gone to a new-style university must be pursuing the so-called 'free love'." In fact, I have also studied this in depth, the so-called 'free love' is to cultivate feelings before marriage, and then get married logically, and the so-called 'arranged marriage' is nothing more than getting married first, and then cultivating feelings, how much is the difference between the two? Now anyway, both of us are not married yet, we are just married, so we can fall in love first! We are also together through 'free love'! β
Wang Defu only thinks that this Chen Qingle is really still a teenage girl, he is too naΓ―ve, maybe because of this, his style of action is so impulsive and reckless, isn't there a lot of young girls who are not deeply involved in the world in later generations, and they are deceived by various scumbags.
Wang Defu finally said: "I won't fall in love with you, you are too young to understand what love is." But it's a fate for us to meet today, so it's still appropriate to invite you to a meal, just watch a movie. β
Chen Qingle frowned at her good-looking willow eyebrows, and asked the question she almost blurted out, that is, just now, you asked my sister to watch a movie, why can't I?
Chen Qingle only felt that from this incident, she found that her status in the other party's mind was inferior to her sister after all, which made her, who likes to fight for everything, very unconvinced.
But Chen Qingle was afraid that she would ask such a question, which would make the other party resist her even more, so she endured it stiffly, originally she only had a strong liking for Wang Defu on the outside, as if she had to get this toy, and now Wang Defu's preference for her sister prompted her to want to catch this man even more, so that she would not feel uncomfortable.
Wang Defu invited Chen Qingle to have a light meal, and the atmosphere between the two was not as good as Chen Qingle expected, which further stimulated her desire to challenge.
Could it be that she Chen Qingle has been honed for so many years, and she thinks she can please anyone, but she can't make such a man who fits her eyes like like her like her? Is she so unattractive?
However, what relieved Chen Qingle was that at least Wang Defu sent her back to the First Girls' High School very gentlemanly, but her sister did not have this treatment.
This is purely because Chen Qingyan walked too fast, Wang Defu didn't react yet, and then Chen Qingle, who was "never casual", appeared again, which caused him not to send Chen Qingyan, otherwise sending the girl to the other party's residence safely is also the basic operation he thinks, unless the girl resolutely does not need him to do this.
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Before the new issue of "Xuehuan" came out, the literary and artistic young people in the Department of Literature of Soochow University, who were extremely concerned about the school magazine, had already received the news that Wang Defu, the author of "Listening to the Snow Night", would publish a masterpiece in the school magazine this time, but it was no longer an essay, but an essay on the disadvantages of the times.
That's right, it's a typical public-knowledge article that criticizes the problems of the entire society and system!
Such an essay must be more influential than Wang Defu's previous essay "Listening to the Snow Night", because it will undoubtedly cause huge controversy!
Before, maybe even a madman like Huang Kan had to praise "Listening to the Snow Night" for being wonderful, but Wang Defu's work is a fancy refutation of Huang Kan's "On Women", which is almost a war letter directly to Huang Kan!
Therefore, everyone originally thought that the previous issue of the school magazine containing Wang Defu's "Listening to the Snow Night" was the most concerned, but they didn't expect that this issue of "Xuehuan" would attract more attention!
Almost at the moment when "Xuezhuan" was printed and sent to Soochow University, its spread speed and breadth were far beyond before, and Wang Defu's "The Subservient Status of Women" was finally seen by many readers for the first time!
Wang Defu's article can be said to be quite profound, and he is not even refuting Huang Kan's "On Women", but directly criticizing and criticizing the political and social system of the Chinese empire, and demanding that women be given equal rights to education, work, and election rights with men.
In his article, Wang Defu proposed that the issue of women's rights should be resolved as soon as possible from the perspective of the needs of social progress, and he even raised this to the level of human progress, boldly writing: "I believe that the principle that regulates social relations between the sexes, in which one sex is legally subordinate to the other, is itself wrong, and has now become one of the main obstacles to human progress." β
Wang Defu advocated that women's rights should be safeguarded in law, women should be given the right to vote and participate in political power, the quality of women should be improved, and women should be admitted to all positions and occupations that have so far been exclusive to men.
He believed that the result of this would be the general reorganization of the whole human relations, and the great benefit of human nature.
How else to say that after Chen Qingyan read Wang Defu's "The Subservient Status of Women", she admired him from the bottom of her heart, just because she only thought about herself and hoped that she could enter Soochow University for higher education.
As a result, Wang Defu believes that this is only the most basic right that women should have, and women should be able to do more things, even if they become the prime minister of the empire one day, it is a matter of course, as long as her ability is enough.
Of course, women have more rights, and of course they have more obligations, otherwise how can there be such a good thing as only enjoying rights and not fulfilling obligations?
As soon as Wang Defu's essay came out, many students of Soochow University who saw this article for the first time were divided into two factions, one group completely denied Wang Defu's article, and the other group partially denied his article, thinking that some parts of the article are very reasonable, but some places are too radical and completely unrealistic!
However, there is no doubt that this essay is like a depth charge, triggering a wave of discussion on "how to liberate women and improve women's rights", which centered on Soochow University and spread to the entire empire, just because this article "The Subservient Status of Women" is too suitable for reprinting.
writing prose and selling writing can only be famous in the school and win the title of "genius"; But writing essays, scolding society, scolding the system, as long as you scold well, you can become the "conscience of the empire"!