Tu Fengnian still remembers that he didn't read before the age of five, when his father was just thirty years old, and he was not as bookish as he is now, he often lit candles and looked at some books that talked about great truths, but he was not happy to read.

Tu Fengnian's deepest impression is that his father often pinched his eyebrows bitterly when he was tired of reading, and his mother would look at his father with concern, and the needlework in his hand stopped, and his father smiled and pulled his mother out of the door.

Whenever this time, Tu Fengnian would tiptoe out of bed, and the coldness of the ground would sink into his feet, but this could not stop him, he continued to walk, and saw his father holding his mother's hand, pointing to the stars in the sky, his eyes warm. My mother sometimes covered her mouth and smiled, and sometimes her eyes lit up, and she helped my father rub her forehead from time to time.

But in the next ten years, my father changed a lot, and he began to really understand those big truths, and he often said that he was immortal. Father has his own ambitions, this almost ambitious ambition made his father desperately start studying, he was admitted to the champion, he feasted all the gentlemen, at the banquet full of friends, Tu Fengnian looked at his mother's stiff smile, but he couldn't laugh.

My father often went out to socialize, and some banquets were held in the Qinglou, and my father would also go, and after my mother found out, she didn't say anything, but she didn't do the needlework she had been doing, and she began to live in seclusion.

Later, my father traveled far and wide and moved to the vicinity of Qingyu Village. Mother started to do needlework again, that year, Tu Fengnian was eleven years old, but within two years, his father left again, and talked with his mother for a long time before leaving, but Tu Fengnian only saw his mother silently shed tears, while packing up his clothes.

Then his parents left, and he lived here for almost four years.

During this period, he read more and more, and he also knew what the three stands were: virtue, meritorious service, and speech.

Virtue means to create the law and help the people; meritorious service means to save misfortune and eliminate difficulties, and merit is to help the time; and to establish words means to be worthy of words, and reason can be passed on.

This is a condition for sanctification! Only Confucius has done it in history, but this does not affect the fascination of scholars all over the world for it. In fact, after learning about his father's pursuit, Tu Fengnian also longed for the legend of the three immortal sanctifications.

In fact, as long as there is one stand, it is enough to be immortal, just like the master in history, which is not one or two of the three. Most fathers and sons can only speak, and this is also the first priority or the first pursuit of scholars.

So Tu Fengnian understands his father's mood very well - the road is so far away, what qualifications do I have to waste the years?

Although Tu Fengnian understands his father very well, Tu Fengnian is still very disdainful of the officialdom that his father sank back then. is even more disdainful of the person who opened the entertainment in the Qinglou. But this did not prevent him from being curious about Qinglou. My mother couldn't understand my father, and my father hadn't married again for many years, so my mother was very dissatisfied with the fact that my father had been to the Qinglou. And although Tu Fengnian knows a little about this place, what he really wants to understand is what kind of ability this place has that can destroy the relationship between his parents for many years.

Yesterday, I went to see the so-called Qinglou, and Tu Fengnian felt like that, but he also understood the reason. For the strong mother, no matter whether her father did anything unscrupulous or not, but her father's trip to the Qinglou made her unbearable.

Lotus flowers can come out of the mud without staining, but people can't, even if you don't do anything, your face will be covered with a handful of mud. A rift arose in the relationship between the husband and wife, and the father became even more disgusted with the corrupt officialdom, and finally decided to leave the officialdom. The mother was naturally happy about this, but she didn't expect her father to leave the family within two years, which made the mother very resentful, and felt that her father didn't care about herself, but in this world of three wives and four concubines, the mother could not do anything, so she had to leave in tears to express her resentment.

Later, although my father felt guilty, his desire to seek the truth was obviously stronger.

Alan listened carefully to Tu Fengnian's narration and felt that this world was really a little unfair. Not to mention anything else, he felt unfair just for the three wives and four concubines. Nanhai is not like Da Lance and Da Zhou, most of the people are ignorant, and people who don't read don't know what the world looks like at all...... In the South China Sea, where the number of farmers accounts for nearly ninety percent, the constraints on women are the most serious in the world, and if it weren't for Tu Fengnian's father, who was knowledgeable and open-minded, he would not have been so good to his mother.

Even Tu Fengnian knew in various documents that women's abilities were not smaller than their own, for example, in the big lance, women could be officials and businessmen, and they did very well. Otherwise, he will also have a sense of superiority over women under the influence of the people around him.

Alain didn't need to read at all to understand that women shouldn't be unjust. This is what you are born to know, Tu Fengnian thought.

When the two of them talked about this, they happened to be on the street, and today they were in the market, and they could hear the noise of people from several miles away. Alan and Tu Fengnian walked to the steamed bun shop as usual, chatted for a while, and drank a bowl of mung bean soup.

They chatted as they watched pedestrians rush by. After staying for a while, most of the people who came to the market on the street went back, and the two of them walked leisurely on the street where the smoke and dust had subsided.

At this time, a group of naughty children rushed by, and the smoke and dust that had finally calmed down flew up, and the child who took the lead was about nine years old, and the two pigtails shook and trembled, which was very funny. The clothes on his body are yellow in the east and green in the west, and he looks like a restless master.

No, he looks like a child king, leading a group of younger brothers to poke and poke in the east and look west, I don't know how much trouble it has caused. It is said that this child's name is Huang Shu, the son of the village chief, and he likes to run around the most, although he has added a lot of chaos, but few people trouble him, after all, it is not a big deal, so it is not worth it to evil the village chief.

Alan noticed that far away from Huang Shu and his little brother, there was a lonely little girl standing with her temples hanging down, her eyes always on the group of children running wildly, and her eyes flashed with envy.

Alan walked slowly towards her, stopped at a place three or four steps apart, and asked, "Sister, what's Nong's name?" This is a very pure local dialect in the South China Sea, and the children have not yet gone to school and can't speak official dialect, so they all speak dialects.

She seemed a little timid, but she didn't turn around and run away, and said expectantly, "My name is Deng Chi...... I want to ask...... Where do you seem to be?"

"My name is Alain, why don't you go (find) the door (they) Wan (play)?" Alain was actually very puzzled, why didn't this little girl go to play well, but stood here in a daze.

The girl didn't say much, just smiled shyly, turned and walked away. Tu Fengnian came over and said: "The South China Sea, especially the area of Xihuafu near the sea, has a deep prejudice against women...... This is actually ...... It's bad, but the people here aren't aware of the mistakes. ”

Alan was a little flustered in his heart, pointed to Huang Shu's group of children, and said, "What's the difference between him and her? Don't children just like to play?" Alan himself is a child, but he is not naïve, he prefers fun things.

At this time, he knew that many children like him here couldn't even go out to play, and he felt stuffy in his heart. But Tu Fengnian couldn't answer this question. Admittedly, there is no difference between girls and boys, but the patriarchal mentality is deeply ingrained here, and it is not easy to change it.

The two of them were not in the mood to take any more walks, so they went straight home.

At this time, the flowers on the official road were in full bloom, the weeds were vigorous, and they were growing in the wilderness, Alain was not in the mood to look at it, he always felt that the girl was very pitiful, standing there alone, silently suppressing the envy in his heart. He also learned that here, women could not even read.

Alan gradually felt more angry in his heart, the more he thought about it, the more angry he felt, and as soon as he got home, he turned around and rushed towards Qingyu Village. Tu Fengnian vaguely understood what Alan wanted to do, but he didn't want to stop it, or even look forward to it.

The two came to the street again, and Deng Chi stood there again, his eyes still so envious. Alan rushed at her "violently" and said directly: "Deng Chi, do you want to play with me?" He didn't use dialects, and spoke in a dignified manner.

Deng Chi was a little stupid, and said dizzily: "Sa...... Sazi?" She could hear the official words, but she didn't understand what Alain was trying to say.

"Do you want to or don't want to?"

"Think, think hard!" Deng Chi didn't know what evil he had fallen into, so he forgot the warnings of his parents and the teachings of his elders, and his stupid appearance was very cute.

Alain pulled her and ran away, but he cast some magic, such as illusion, which made their figures very light and did not attract much attention from the people around them.

When he ran out of the village, Alan stopped, pulled Deng Chi, and looked at the flowers and weeds on the official road.

Tu Fengnian also sat side by side with them, the three of them chatted, at first Deng Chi was hesitant and spoke very badly, but it didn't take long for her to get used to it, she roughly understood what Alan and Tu Fengnian wanted to do, she was ignorant and learned to talk like them, learned to joke, and learned to laugh out loud.