Tong Nianyi still can't understand.

No matter who I asked, I couldn't get an answer, and even the gentleman from the school couldn't tell why.

But it was also in the midst of this constant questioning that she was sure of one thing.

Although I don't know why I want to read a book, it must be useful.

It doesn't take much to explain.

In fact, she just needs to know that it works.

Later, she went back to the academy, but after that, she was not as serious as before, and slowly picked up the contents of the book one by one.

Xu is because of the study, but after more than a year, Tong Nianyi makes people feel very different, and there is less childishness in her speech, and there are many rules, but she still retains the innocence of a child.

I'm growing up.

Mr. Xiucai also often praises Tong Nianyi, but this girl has opened her mind and is very good at reading.

But when talking about it with Tong Zhizhao, Mr. Xiucai was very helpless about it.

"She is very talented in reading, but it coincides with troubled times and is not allowed to perform, but now the scene, I want to be able to recover the imperial examination in a few years, but... She's a girl. ”

Tong Zhizhao couldn't help but sigh when he heard this.

Oh, yes.

Since ancient times, how have I ever seen a female official in the court.

Tong Nian listened, and the husband also told her.

She told the big cat what her husband had said.

"Big cat."

"The gentleman of the school said, I am very good at reading, but I can't read too much, let me read less, said that the better I read, the more I read, and I am helpless in the future, I asked Mr. why, but Mr. kept telling me ...... before"

"I heard my father chatting with the gentleman in the school today, and they said that women can't participate in the imperial examination, is that true?"

Tanuki jumped down from the wall, came to Tong Nianyi's side, and said, "It seems like this, I've heard of it before." ”

Tong Nian paused, lowered his head, and said, "Why don't women participate in the imperial examination?" ”

Tanuki shook her head, it didn't understand.

Tong Nianyi stretched out his hand and threw the stone into the river, making a slight splash.

She sighed softly, and suddenly seemed to understand why her husband said that.

She was still wondering at the time, is there anything wrong with reading more?

If you read it well, what's so bad?

It turned out to be because of this.

Just because she's a woman.

Tong Nianyi was stunned and said, "If I disguise myself as a man, will I be able to participate?" ”

Tanuki blinked after hearing this, only thinking that Tong Nian's idea was very good.

"I think so."

"It's not going to work."

A voice came.

Tong Nian looked back and hurriedly called.

"Grandpa Kim."

Jin Sanye threw a dried fish to the raccoon flower.

He stepped forward and sat down, and said: "The imperial examination is not a joke, and not everyone can participate in the imperial examination, the local participation in the county examination, you need someone to vouch for you, so as not to be mixed into it, and the person who guarantees must also show off your talent and fame, and you need to be searched to enter the examination room, and your identity will also be ascertained. ”

Tong Nian's face turned pale after hearing this, and he said, "Then, is there no other way?" ”

Jin Sanye said: "This matter is very dangerous, and there is no need, you go to participate in the imperial examination, is it possible that you want to be an official?" ”

Tong Nian was stunned when he heard this, "Do it, be an official?" ”

"Yes, be an official."

Jin Sanye said: "The imperial examination is a way to be an official, and the student imperial examination is to become famous in the future, become an official master, and become famous, your Ruyi aunt's younger brother is all the way to the imperial examination, even the middle three yuan, entered the Hanlin Academy, and finally sat in the position of Jing Zhaoyin." ”

"So you have to understand that the imperial examination is just for being an official, and if you don't want to be an official, you don't have to think about it too much."

Tong Nianyi sighed lightly and said, "Grandpa Jin, I don't want to be an official either, but I don't understand why it's so unfair, is the difference between women and men so big." ”

Jin Sanye smiled after hearing this, but did not say this.

The child is still young, why do you talk so much.

He just said perfunctorily: "Then you have to find this answer yourself." ”

After thinking about it, Jin Sanye said again: "But don't think about anything like seeking justice for women, this is Grandpa Jin's advice to you." ”

"Why?"

"In the past years, you Grandpa Jin and I have seen a lot of such things, there was a woman who dressed as a man and finally won the Jinshi before being discovered, and she talked about it and threatened for the woman, and finally the words fell into the mouth of the official, the official family was particularly interested in this woman, and wanted to recruit her into the palace, but when the people in the palace went to invite, they found that the woman had been hanged on the beam."

"Why?!" Tong Nian exclaimed in surprise and asked, "Even if someone is unwilling to reform, they can't force people to death." ”

"You're wrong." Jin Sanye said with a smile: "It's not those who are unwilling to reform it, in their opinion, although this woman is making a lot of nonsense, it will not take her life, what really wants her life is the gossip in the market." ”

"In the cognition since ancient times, women are not talented is virtue, the past ideology educates women should respect three from the four virtues, that is, unmarried from the father, married from the husband, the husband from the son, the four virtues refer to the woman's morality, women's words, women's appearance, women's merit, is a requirement for women in appearance, morality, words and deeds, etc., which is also what the vast majority of women think."

"When the women and women in the market hear such words, they will only feel that this girl is embarrassing, forgetting the three obedience and four virtues that women should follow, so they will insult, insult, and point."

"Maybe she didn't even think that she was speaking for the women of the world, but in the end, it was these people who belittled and humiliated her, not only did they not appreciate it, but they cursed her, and even hoped that she would not die well, and because of this, she was so disappointed in her heart that she hanged herself in the house."

Tong Nianyi fell silent, and she didn't seem to understand why at all.

There has never been any rules in her family, and she doesn't understand it.

Her gaze was blank, as if she didn't understand any of this.

Jin Sanye sighed and said: "In fact, the official family was interested in the female official system back then, but after such an incident, it was also a big disappointment, and at the same time, I also understood that this reform could not be done overnight, so this matter has been shelved and never mentioned again." ”

"The official family is a Ming monarch, and there are only a handful of emperors like him in the past years, and it is for this reason that the woman can return home unharmed that day, if it is the Xiang Taizu or Emperor Jing of the year, maybe the woman will be killed with a rod for the crime of bullying the monarch that day."