Chapter 94: Inquiry into Knowledge
The person involved who was caught in the vortex and still knew it was still calm and free at this moment. Standing at the perspective of the bystander of history, he was still looking at the people and things of the Southern Song Dynasty as if no one was around, and still knew nothing about what was about to happen to him.
Beautiful wine and beautiful women are naturally important "props" that literati have gathered together when they meet, including poetry, songs and essays, which are also very fond of things that Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan, the two protagonists of the Tao.
The arrival of Fan Niande added a touch of interest and elegance to the entire atmosphere of discussion of Taoism. Whether it is scholars discussing Taoism or scholars and poets gathering together, people naturally need to contribute to pay for the grand events.
Fan Niande is obviously the "sponsor" of the grand event of Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan's discussion. In Ye Qing's opinion, this is probably the reason why Zhu Xi interacted with Fan Niande.
The beauty and Qinse were placed on the other side, with some dancing and some stroking the strings of the piano. As Lu Jiuyuan and Zhu Xi reached the end of the debate, it was like the highlight of a feast just kicking off, the expression on everyone's face began to become relaxed from the solemnity, concentration and seriousness at the beginning.
When Fan Niande came here, he did not expect that Ye Qing would be here too. So when he was about to take advantage of all the scholars he was working on and was troubled by Ye Qing again, he not only recognized Yi An's lay Buddhist next to Ye Qing, but also saw Ye Qing's smile on his face and slowly stretched out a middle finger to him.
"What does this mean?" Jin Se next to him was closest to him because he was a maid. Bai Chun, Yan Qingcheng, or Liu Qingyan, at this time, he naturally had to be very cautious in the holy place of Confucian debate, and they all set a distance between Ye Qing without any hesitation.
Looking at Jinse at him and stretching out his middle finger as he had just looked at Fan Niande, Ye Qing quickly slapped Jinse's stretched out middle finger without saying anything, and then said seriously: "Girls don't stretch out this finger if you're okay."
"Why?" You'er on the other side also wanted to learn, but when she saw Jinse's finger being patted, she resisted the impulse and asked strangely.
"Where do you think there are 100,000 whys? If you don't, it's not possible." Ye Qing couldn't explain to the two little girls. The main reason is that these two are familiar with her now, and they are not afraid of him on weekdays. It's common for them to talk back. Although they sometimes call him a young master, who knows if they teach them and they will use it in the future.
However, facing the eyes of two with strong desire for knowledge on the left and right, Ye Qing finally lowered his head and coughed lightly, and then said, "Anyway, this is not a good idea. As for what it means, what it means... Just treat it as I am greeting Fan Niande's hypocrite's family."
"Then this is polite." Jinse blurted out and greeting the whole family was not a good thing.
"Be polite, you are!" Ye Qing was a little angry. Just as he was about to knock on Jinse's forehead with bangs, Jinse was pulled away by Bai Chun not far away. After saving a while, he made some jokes with him.
Ye Qing looked at Bai Chun, who was also indifferent and cold in his face and eyes, pulled Jinse away, turned his head and just wanted to warn the other one, but Yan Qingcheng waved like You'er, and then another "butterfly" flew away from him.
Li Qingzhao, who was standing in front of him, leaned back slightly, then smiled at Ye Qing and said, "My friend, it seems that the popularity is not very good. Not only my girl doesn't like you, but the eldest lady in the Yan Mansion is also quite alert and guarded against you. Tsk tsk, even her sister-in-law is... My friend, you are even more failure than your old man."
"I didn't like him, and I didn't know him." Liu Qingyan, who was beside Li Qingzhao, was even more angry than before. What's the better place for this disciple? My sister-in-law is beautiful and beautiful as a fairy. Why is it even a little bit unexplainable to the Yan Mansion's beautiful and beautiful young lady seems to have a little bit of an unclear relationship with him.
"A good man doesn't fight with a woman..."
"Are you talking to the old man?" Li Qingzhao asked in a cold smile on her face and threatened tone.
"I... how dare I?" Ye Qing was depressed. You are the first female poet in the ages. From the time I met you, whoever has always performed a ritual of a gentleman when he saw you. Now he has classified himself as a female? If you have the advantage, which end you can stand?!
Liu Qingyan looked at Ye Qing's look of being defeated in front of Yian's layman, and couldn't help but feel at ease. However, she still had some questions in her heart. This disciple was the first time he met the layman. Why did he feel like he had known him for a long time? Otherwise, how could he be so respectful and afraid of the layman? Strange!
Ye Qing, who was speechless by Li Qingzhao's words, had to pretend to be deaf and dumb, pretending to be serious and listening to the academic dispute between Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan.
Their arguments may be because they write books on weekdays, or they may use all their thoughts and thoughts to words, or it may be that people in this period will turn spoken language into classical Chinese when discussing important things.
So Ye Qing stared at his wrist, counted the second hand silently and turned it twice, and finally sighed helplessly: I don’t understand what they are saying.
"What does it mean to study things and lead to knowledge?" After giving up listening to Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan's conversation, he felt that his mind finally became clearer, so he asked Li Qingzhao next to him in a low voice.
Li Qingzhao glanced at Ye Qing, then smiled and said lightly: "Zhu Xi is a person who wants to become a saint, so he believes that only by pursuing things and becoming aware of things is considered to be entering the forest of sages." Li Qingzhao looked at Ye Qing with a confused look on his face, sighed and whispered: "To put it bluntly, he is a saint now, and Lu Jiuyuan is still a little short of it. In today's world, he is the most saint in Confucianism. Lu Jiuyuan cannot be considered as the realm is not enough. Do you understand now?"
"Oh... I understand, it's just a matter of a professor and an associate professor." Ye Qing nodded suddenly and realized, and then Li Qingzhao frowned: "What a mess? Which of them can't afford the name of a professor?"
Ye Qing was speechless and could not explain that the professor she was talking about was different from the professor she talked about, so she had to shrugg and stopped talking.
But after a while, Li Qingzhao said: "But I have to say that in addition to being despised and unbearable in his private life, Zhu Xi's academic views are indeed the most saint. Didn't you say that the first time you met him was because of "Dream Xi Bi Tan" written by Shen Kuo? Therefore, Zhu Xi's situation in this aspect is indeed higher than Lu Jiuyuan. But Lu Jiuyuan also has his advantages, the distinction between justice and profit, and the debate of Taiji Wuji, Zhu Xi was obviously at a disadvantage, and it seemed that he was more inadequate. In short, Zhu Xi did not win in these two aspects, at most... a forced debate was tied."
When he heard Li Qingzhao talk about Zhu Xi’s private life being despised, Ye Qing immediately became excited as if he had chicken blood injected: “So he took two nuns as concubines, and that was true that he would make his daughter-in-law pregnant?”
"I didn't say that, but it doesn't mean that no one wouldn't say that. Who knows whether this is true or not? Even if he likes to throw dirty water on others and accuses others of corrupting virtues, he has to withstand it. People say that he has corrupted ethics. Even if you don't know these, you should know that literati are despised? Zhu Xi has criticized me, Li Qingzhao, right?" Li Qingzhao's smile remained unchanged, but he did not give Ye Qing an accurate statement like he was playing Tai Chi.
Someone sighed with disappointment and hoped that if he could be traveled back again, he could tell the bricks loudly that if he had returned from a remote place or country trip: Zhu Xi really took two nuns as concubines and ruined his daughter-in-law.
But now it seems that I don’t know whether this statement is true or not. No one knows whether it is true or false.
But there is one thing that Ye Qing cannot deny. Zhu Xi is not a true saint, and Li Qingzhao is not as perfect as her poems. Thinking of this, Ye Qing sighed again: "No one is perfect."
"You dare to say this without saying that you are old?" Li Qingzhao's eyes turned cold. The words "no one is perfect" were the four words. If Ye Qing did not include her, she would write her name upside down.
"I... I really didn't say you. I'm talking about him... it's Zhu Xi! Actually, I don't like him either. Tomorrow's principles destroy human desires, I won't say anything else. I don't understand anything. I just say that he advises others to so-called "life and death are small, and losing one's integrity is big." I don't agree with it. This is simply annihilation of human nature." Ye Qing spread his hands and looked at Li Qingzhao with innocent words.
The first thing he did not expect was that this happened to hit Li Qingzhao's pain again. Also, he did not see that Zhu Xi, who was discussing whether to fight the Northern Expedition, was looking at him at Fan Niande's instructions.
Looking at Ye Qing's appearance, he looked like he was not attentive. Could it be that Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan finally found a common point, the problem of the Northern Expedition, as an imperial guard, Ye Qing did not have a little patriotism and full of passion?
"So, if you were asked to marry a widow, would you be willing?" Li Qingzhao looked at Ye Qing, who was unaware of nothing, and thought to herself that she was thinking too much. Then she glanced at Bai Chun first before looking at Ye Qing and asked.
As long as Ye Qing dares to say she doesn't want to, she plans to clean up the boy. Even though she doesn't like Zhu Xi's advice, why don't she want to marry a widow?
But what she didn't expect was that Ye Qing actually said, "It doesn't matter if a widow is not a widow. One, there is no child, two. If the two have similar feelings, then there is nothing to be willing or not. The two people who are in love can't separate, right? If I meet, since I like others, why don't I want to?"
"Truthful?"
"That's certainly the truth."
As soon as Ye Qing finished speaking, he heard Fan Niande suddenly say loudly: "My friend Ye, do you think the Northern Expedition is not impossible? As an imperial guard, although he defeated many wars and was crisscrossing in the army and gnawing on the court's salary like a worm, do you not even have the intention to recover the northern land?"
Chapter completed!