Sleepless at night, he took the note out of the shop, put on a grimace mask, and entered the market.

In the market, the night is dark, and the moonlight is gorgeous. The so-called fifteenth moon and sixteen rounds, tonight the moon is bright like a jade plate, illuminating the night sky like amber, very beautiful.

Holding torches, the forces of the opera parade through the street covered the entire Nanzheng Street, and with the help of boats swimming in the river, it stretched along both banks.

Pillow with the thousand-year-old meaning of Wu Feng Chuyun, lined with the long river of Pingshui flowing quietly under the lights, Pingxiang City, the nightlife of this small city, has just begun.

According to the instructions of the address on the note, he came to a dim Confucian temple at night, and when he was about to take a closer look, an ugly face stretched out in front of his eyes and exclaimed:

"Heaven does not give birth to Zhongni, eternity is like a long night!"

What does that ugly face look like?

I saw that its teeth overlapped, squeezing each other without leaving space, and its forehead was high and convex, like a hill towering. The nostrils are exposed, and on rainy days, there is a suspicion of choking on water, and the eyes are white, which naturally shows a fierce appearance.

The man danced and walked in front of the sleepless night, like a madman, and shouted loudly: "King Wen is dead, doesn't Sven care?" In Wu Kongchu Kongzhong Ni is also ~"

After playing wildly for a while, I just looked at him coldly when I saw that I was sleepless at night, I didn't care about it, I was bored, and I went crazy somewhere else.

This man's face is different from the others.

Everyone else played the role of mountain ghosts and monsters, and the fierce generals were reckless, but he played the role of Confucius.

Only after sleepless nights can I see it clearly, this face, ugly is ugly, but it can match the appearance of Confucius recorded in various writings.

For example, "Xunzi Feixiang" said, "Zhongni's appearance is like a mask." ”

It is to the effect that Confucius looked good enough to ward off evil spirits.

Among the various portraits of Confucius that have been handed down today, except for the later Qing Dynasty, which was too outrageous and tied up a money rat tail, the other Confuciuss are generally the image of the master of the world wearing the clothes of the Han people.

It's just that the appearance is not very flattering, and most of them are buckteeth.

That noodle is also very restored.

However, the Analects of Confucius says, "The son does not speak of strangeness, force, chaos, and God." ”

This person wears this mask, pretends to be a ghost, and is mysterious, isn't it contrary to Confucius?

After sleepless nights, he glanced at the man again, remembered the description of Confucius's various behaviors in the article "Township Party", and shook his head silently.

Confucianism has been passed down to this day, and it has either become the false divine handle of the hypocrites of virtue and learning, or it has also entered the temple and begun to mystify.

Perhaps a saint is needed to revive the distorted Confucian style since Cheng Zhu.

Step past the Confucian Temple, the vermilion wall reflects.

Here, it is a solid family and a scholarly family.

Among them, the cloister is roundabout, the green tiles are uneven, and the lanterns are hung up. The poems and books are loud and endless.

The words and sentences recited are the meaning of the Six Classics; The rules and regulations involved are all excerpted from the four books. Zhu Zi's study of rational qi is to read lecture notes tonight and night; The precept of the second journey is to learn every day.

From time to time, there is also a high theory of Mr. Zhang Zi, the founder of the school, on the "Four Sentences of Hengqu": Establish a heart for heaven and earth, and establish a life for the people.

Sleepless at night, the goosebumps were all over for a while, and it seemed that they were also stirred up by this eloquent word. I didn't want to believe that the woman who was suspicious lived in such a place.

After reading the note again and again, and confirming that it was correct, his face showed a little strangeness, and he easily climbed over the red wall and reached the inner courtyard.

In the courtyard, there are not many servants, and there are almost no guards.

Sleepless passed through the door of the hanging flowers, and slipped in quietly from the side of a drowsy man with drooping eyelids, and reached the source of the sound of reading.

Here is a row of side rooms, which are used as cloth for the study.

There is an osmanthus tree in the courtyard, the flowers and leaves have long withered, even if some fertilizer is watered, it is also drooping, and there is no life.

At the top of the head, there are six block letters in the pavilion body, and the high book plaque is above:

【Home of Diligence and Thrift】

Left and right next to the door, two rows of couplets, all posted upright, meticulous.

I couldn't sleep at night and was impatient to look at the words in the couplet, only to hear the voice of a master in the study: "Recruit brother, look forward to brother, think of brother, come brother, the four of you can stop, and tonight's recitation is here." ”

As soon as these words came out, the sound of reading stopped.

The master also said: "Since the four of you are women, you should not only read the scriptures of the sages, and from tomorrow, you will add the "Female Commandments" of the Han woman Ban Shi as a daily compulsory reading. ”

It wasn't until this time that I couldn't sleep at night to hear four slightly immature female voices say in unison: "Master Gong'an." ”

He said to himself, "How can you be born a woman?" The sound of reading is all a man's tone, could it be that I heard it wrong? ”

Just in doubt, the door of the study opened, and a gentleman who was about fifty years old and rigorous in Taoism walked out of the study with a dignified eight-character step, a heroic spirit, and a thousand-year-old turtle style.

His throat shook for a while, as if he was about to spit, but when he saw that there were no spittoons everywhere, he held back and went to find a place to spit.

When he walked away, he opened the window at night, and saw the scene in the study, and sure enough, it was four women, each sitting next to the stool bookcase.

Three of the girls wore headscarves, ranging in age from seven to thirteen, and the other wore a hat, probably the same age as Luo Xiangzhu.

The four girls are all dressed as boys and boys, but they can't hide the posture of their daughters' families.

Among them, the thirteen-year-old woman suddenly said indignantly: "Why can't I wait for my daughter's family to take the imperial examination even though I have studied books?" Whose rule is this? ”

The other two daughters who tied their headscarves were still young and not sensible enough to answer her question.

It was the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl who said respectfully: "Brother Pan, it has been like this since ancient times, only a man who has received the teachings of the sage can eat the leaves in the spring in the examination room, and the moon palace will be crowned, how can there be a reason for the daughter's family to participate in the scientific examination." ”

The thirteen-year-old girl Pan Di asked rhetorically, "It's always been like this, right?" ”

The girl was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Brother Pan, don't ask such a rhetorical question, if you are heard by Mr., you have to eat the board again." ”

Pan Brother said: "Brother and sister, I heard that in the area of Huangmei County, Huguang, in addition to the flourishing of the Buddhist temple and the ancestral court of Zen Buddhism, there is also a strange play, called "The Female Horse". This play tells the story of a woman who pretends to be a man to save her husband, participates in a scientific examination, and finally defeats a group of men's bodies, becomes independent, wins the champion, and marries the princess. However, although "The Female Concubine" is good, it is still a story for men after all, and if I sing this play, I have to change it again! ”

The girl frowned and said, "Brother Pan, what you said is nonsense. The name of "The Female Concubine" is already extremely against the heavenly family and the code of ethics, if you want to reform it too much, my royal family will suffer because of you in the future. ”

Wang Pandi disagreed: "Left and right women such as us, in my mother's statement, are all going to marry other wives, even so, if the Wang family is in trouble, what can I do?" ”

Wang Zhaodi was disgraced and was about to correct her, but Wang Pandi complained again: "At that time, it is the new brother who will suffer." He is in trouble, but what does it matter to us? He doesn't have the same blood as us, he was just bought by his mother, but he can beat our Wang family's own daughter and inherit the Wang family's family business, I hate him too late, how can I worry about him not causing trouble! ”