"Satisfied, satisfied......" Lao Guo said with a grin.

Tang Chen couldn't help but sigh, but he was also a little helpless. In fact, the love story of a handsome talented man and a rich and beautiful woman has always been the ultimate dream of a scholar in ancient times who studied hard in the snow and in the cold for decades. In fact, in this kind of story of talented and beautiful women, it also embodies too much bitterness and complex mentality of readers, and it can be said that the love of "talented and beautiful" is a product of YY under the oppression of reality.

Why?

For example, in the classical masterpiece "The Outer History of Confucianism", all kinds of ridiculous phenomena of scholars are written, and the pedantry and persistence of some scholars are also written, and the difficulties of taking the road of the imperial examination are written frankly. Like Zhou Jin, his hair is gray, and he is still participating in the imperial examination. Of course, I am fortunate to have passed the examination, but what about not being able to pass the examination? Of course, I am "like ashes, my eyes are in a daze," I am destitute, and I even have the road of no return. It is precisely because of this unimaginable hardship that the reader will be more inspired to have a stronger desire for official position, wealth, and having a wife, and wonderful fantasies are the ideological motivation for the generation of these stories. Otherwise, Fan Jin would not have been moved, and the whole person would have gone crazy.

In addition, in ancient times, it was a society dominated by agriculture, and the teachings of the sages would make some pedantic scholars feel that only reading was respected, and everything else was inferior. Most of them do not have a source of income, and poverty is the inevitable end. However, the concept of "there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is greater" makes them feel that marrying a wife and having children is no less important than the imperial examination in life, but the poor life washes away this hope without a trace, so they can only get some comfort in the story with the help of wonderful fantasies.

The singleness of the production activities in the agrarian society and the monotony of hard work in the cold window make people's thinking extremely simple, and the storyline of marrying a wife and having children and starting a family adapts to the tastes of the vast majority of people, and beautiful love is of course what everyone yearns for; moreover, the lack of people's entertainment methods and the loneliness and ignorance are also an important reason why the absurd love of "talented and beautiful women" is popular in society. Think about it, who will pass on the love history of one or several pairs of people from generation to generation in modern times?

People often have such a characteristic: what they cannot explain, they will produce wonderful associations, and for what cannot be realized, they will produce wonderful fantasies, which can also be said to be delusions. Therefore, those scholars who can't enter the official career, enter the "golden house" and marry "Yan Ruyu", in the face of the current situation of poverty and the cruel reality of being alone, fantasize about marrying a white rich beauty, changing their own predicament, or dreaming of "spending candles in the cave room, when the gold list is famous", of course, is also a normal psychology. "Official position, wealth, and wife", isn't it a wonderful scene in Huangliang's dream?

Writing the most desired in reality into the story is a kind of psychological comfort for the author, and for the audience, in addition to entertainment, it also adds some beautiful life aspirations!

Based on the above, the story of a talented and beautiful woman is naturally "broad in the market" and is talked about. Like "The Legend of the West Chamber", "Liang Zhu", "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix"...... Aren't they all stories of talented and beautiful women?

"This is a happy ending, but I don't seem to hear it......"

Zhou Deqing was puzzled for a moment before he said slowly, " The version I heard was: Cui Hu went to Beijing to catch the exam, it was the peach blossom season, drinking tea in a teahouse, falling in love with the girl in the teahouse at first sight, using the jade pendant on his body as a love object, he wanted to go to Beijing to catch the exam, and agreed that if he was in high school, he would come to the door to propose, and the woman's parents also agreed, and when Cui Hu came back from the exam, he proposed marriage, and it was also the time when the peach blossoms were in full bloom, but the woman had been dead for three months, Cui Hu looked at the peach blossoms, thought about the woman's appearance, was sad and became ill, and the pain was for a few months, and the poem was written on the wall of the woman's house after that......"

"Old Zhou, you can't say that, this magic weapon is for your granddaughter!"

Lao Guo hurriedly reminded that not only people in Guangdong Province talk about lip color, but also people in Fujian Province will also ask for lip color, and it can even be said that the entire Chinese culture is "auspicious" culture.

was reminded by Lao Guo like this, Zhou Deqing also came to his senses, and hurriedly said: "It seems that the version I heard is wrong, wrong......"

Tang Chen smiled: "It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong, as long as the magic weapon can be used and useful." ”

Zhou Deqing laughed: "It's this truth, it's this truth......"

With that, he gently moved to the incense case, gently picked up the pair of porcelain dolls, and stroked the body as if it were an antique, with a glimmer of hope in his eyes.

Originally, he was already about to despair, but he didn't expect to run into Tang Chen around the corner, giving him hope.

With his demonstration, Lao Guo also went over to pick up the gossip mirror and looked at it carefully. Looking at the mirror that shone brightly, Lao Guo didn't know what to mumble.

Only Zeng Lao behaved calmly, but his words betrayed him: "Master Tang, have all the preparations been completed?"

Tang Chen nodded: "Mmmm, yes, it's done." ”

"Then when will I go to Hui'an again? My ancestral house seems to have dragged on for a long time......"

Zeng Lao said a little embarrassed.

Tang Chen was a little funny, Zeng Lao's temperament was like a child, if he wanted a certain toy, he must be in a hurry to get it.

"You can go at any time!" Tang Chen didn't want to delay it too long, counting it, he had been in Fujian Province for more than a week.

"That'...... It's better not to be in a hurry......" Zeng Lao got Tang Chen's affirmation, but his heart settled down and he was not so anxious.

Zhou Deqing, who was on the side, listened to their conversation, leaned over and asked, "What are you doing in Hui'an?"

Zeng Lao told him about the situation of his ancestral home, and Zhou Deqing was interested: "Can I go to the side and have a look?"

Since seeing Tang Chen's "performance" today, Zhou Deqing has been "out of control", but Zeng Lao is not easy to refuse: "It's nothing, Zhou Lao wants to see my ancestral home, I am a hundred welcome ......"

"Add me one!" Lao Guo was afraid that the world would not be chaotic, and clamored to join.

"Don't you have to open a shop? Are you willing to let go of your 'pen bank'?" said Zeng Lao teasingly.

"Hey, what's this, isn't it just a day of closure? The proprietor has something to do, it's normal! Besides, don't I have a son, tell him to see what's going on with the shop?" said Lao Guo.

"But aren't they going to work tomorrow?" said Zeng Lao unrelentingly.

Lao Guo rolled his eyes: "For the sake of my father, I can't take a day off?"

Listening to them teasing, Tang Chen shook his head and said in his heart: "Sure enough, people are getting older, and the more they live, the more they look like children......"

(End of chapter)