After a greeting, Ma Yicheng asked everyone to sit down, and the waiter brought the dishes one by one. Ma Yicheng said to Yang Ling again: "Yang Xiucai, I urge you to be a good man, my son is rude and often causes trouble for me. This time, a huge disaster will happen. If it weren't for Yang Xianxian's plan, Lord Min would be kind to him, and the dog would have to be a lawsuit for life."

Yang Ling hurriedly said, "Where is it? That day, my nephew could see clearly that Brother Ma had never attacked Boss Wang. It was really greedy to harm others. Boss Wang was greedy for Miss Ma's pearls, and was pulled by Brother Ma to argue. He was so angry that he died of anger and silence. It was not the fault of Brother Ma. Lord Ma must not blame Brother Ma too much."

Ma Ang immediately said, "Dad, I don't believe me if I say you and I say, Brother Yang, should you believe it? I have never beaten that old man."

"Shut up! Little beast, how can you interrupt!" Ma Yicheng scolded his son, shook his head at the magistrate of Min County, Huang County Magistrate and Yang Ling, "Look, look, this little beast is not in good condition and has more than enough to be defeated. How can he compare to nephew Yang Xian. He is a few years younger than my son, but he is calm and skillful. He has already gained fame before he gets angry. Alas, Zhu Jing died early, and a girl is a little disciplined, so he is so ignorant."

The magistrate of Min County and Huang County Magistrate Yang Ling couldn't help but explain to Ma Ang again. As he was talking here, the waiter came over the banquet like a flowing water. After a while, more and more people in the theater were more and more people. The merchants who were walking by the post station were walking around the private room, and in the remote place were some postmen who were idle to spend their time, the eldest husband and the unemployed yamen runners.

The stage in front was brightly lit, and there were gongs and drums, and the actors invited from the theater sang opera on the stage. At that time, there was no Beijing opera, and Yang Ling didn't understand the opera, so he was inconvenient to ask people. After hearing a few words, he really couldn't understand too much. In addition, all the actors at that time were men, and they couldn't even get enough to see the beauty. Yang Ling was very bored. Instead, he listened to the magistrate of Min County, Ma Yicheng, Huang County Magistrate and others who watched and talked.

After hearing the story of the two of them saying everything, Yang Ling felt it was incredible. This drama was about a woman who left home and went out shortly after she got married with her husband.

After several years, my husband returned to his hometown. When he was about to get home, he met a very beautiful woman picking mulberry. He was moved by the woman's beauty and went forward to tease her. Unexpectedly, the woman was refuted with justice and harshly. He felt bored and returned home in shame.

Unexpectedly, when he went home, he saw that his wife was the woman he could not tease just now. He felt very ashamed and also gave her wife a sincere admiration.

There is nothing wrong with the story here, but the second day after the stage was staged, the wife cried at home and wrote a suicide note, but she even committed suicide by hanging herself. The letter said that her wife had not cultivated her moral character, which caused men's evil thoughts and shamed her chastity. Therefore, she could no longer live in the world, and could only survive in the world. She could only survive with one death to preserve her chastity.

Finally, this incident caused a sensation in the village. All parties wrote letters and the emperor issued an imperial edict. The chaste woman was posthumously named as the first-class lady of the imperial edict and was given a "chaste archway" in great honor. Her husband was grateful to his wife and later married her wife. The couple also went to the grave to worship together.

This Hongyan Tower is a complex of theaters and restaurants, so it is not so compact to perform the show. After the show, Min and Ma started talking with relish. County Magistrate Huang took a sip of wine and said a few words from time to time. Although he didn't say much, he was a scholar after all, and he could always say what County Magistrate Min wanted but couldn't express.

Yang Ling felt that the play was too unreal. The most outrageous thing he had ever heard of was that one day a woman fell into the water and was rescued by a passing man who saw her holding her arm. When she returned home, she cut off her arm with a kitchen knife, just because she was touched by a man who was not her husband.

But if that is considered "loss of cerebrality", it is physical loss of cerebrality. The woman in this play cannot bear the mental loss of cerebrality, and it is not considered a loss of cerebrality. It is just that she is beautiful and others have become lustful. The man has no guilt, but the wife realizes that her wife is not virtuous enough, which is simply outrageous.

Listening to the Magistrate Min and Ma Yicheng still praised him, Yang Ling could not help but say, "Two sirs, this drama is too exaggerated and untrue, right? Her husband teased her when he saw a beautiful woman on the way. He was scolded and left with such misconduct. In the end, his wife felt unfaithful. This is simply outrageous. How can such a thing be like this in the world? Such a funny thing, such an exaggerated and untrue drama, what's good about it?"

Ma Yicheng said in surprise: "Why, Nephew Yang is reading the book of a sage, but he doesn't know what happened in "The Biography of the Fierce Girls"? What's wrong with this? This woman is so stern and is really a role model for women all over the world. What's so funny about it?"

Lord Min also smiled and drank wine, laughed and said, "Yang Xiucai must only read the books of sages that can be used to obtain fame and fortune. I don't know the story of "The Legend of the Wild Girls". It's just that you are kind-hearted and soft-faced. I also think this woman is a pity. If I were the county magistrate there, I would definitely beat her husband forty and punish him for not being able to take a concubine for the rest of his life.

However, there is nothing wrong with this. During the Chenghua period, when I was fighting pirates in Fujian, I was still a soldier. There was a woman in southern Fujian. After her husband died, she wanted to leave with her husband. The relatives were proud of her, beat gongs and drums, and made a big fuss. Three days later, the woman held flowers in her hands, dressed brightly, sat upright in the sedan chair, walked to her husband's grave, stepped on a stool and climbed onto a pre-built colored shed, hanging her neck, and committed suicide. Emperor Jingtai once issued an edict to give the chastity archway, and all the countryside was prosperous. Hehe, that archway was still erected for her."

Ma Yicheng nodded and said, "That's right, how can you be careless in ethics? Nephew Yang is too kind to be a woman. Speaking of which, women like this are all strong women from good families. If they are happy women, how can they be as stern as such?

Thinking about the famous prostitute Guan Panpan of Xuzhou, who was taken as a concubine by the Shoushang Zhang Yan. Zhang Yan died. She did not die for her husband, but moved back to her former residence, Yan Zilou, to live alone for ten years, and wanted to win the reputation of being a chastity. She was really shameless.

Later, Sima of Jiangzhou wrote a poem to point out her hypocrisy. The woman was ashamed to death after ten days of hunger strike. It was far worse than the woman in the play and the young woman in Fujian."

Yang Ling had a good time in his previous life and had some characters to post, so he knew who this Jiangzhou Sima was. But he didn't know that Bai Juyi could be so pity for an old man selling charcoal, but he had such an attitude towards a widow. At that time, the Tang Dynasty, which was the most open-minded in China, now after Master Zhu of the Song Dynasty's invention of "Three Obediences and Four Virtues", no wonder women were poisoned so deeply.

Ma Lian'er was very angry when she heard this, and couldn't help but snorted coldly and said, "Ten years of spring crying turned into a oriole tongue, and three people think that old and ugly are replaced by moth eyebrows. If your beloved wife follows her husband, there is nothing wrong with it. However, since such a man regards the concubine as a goods that can be bought and sold at will, he has no mercy and righteousness, and he also wants others to die for death, but his daughter feels it is a bit too much."

She read the poem in Bai Juyi's self-telling Feng Liu's elegant story, saying that he bought some girls of fifteen or sixteen as concubines. He had only played with them for three years. He was only eighteen or nineteen years old, so he thought they were ugly when they were old, so some gave them to others and some resold them, and bought another batch of fresh goods. He changed three batches in ten years, so he wrote them in a poem to show off to his friends.

Ma Yicheng was very unhappy and felt that his daughter was too embarrassed to say this in public. A county magistrate, a county magistrate, and a scholar with fame. His daughter's words were so rebellious that he seemed to be not strict in his family. Therefore, although he loved his daughter the most, he couldn't help but slapped her in the face and cursed: "What are you saying? Since Emperor Taizu Gao, this dynasty has valued the most in style. In order to commend the priest, those who are widowed and do not remarry in the thirty years of age and do not remarry, and commend the family and exempt them from the servants of our family. What a glory it would be?

The chastity and chastity are the duty. As the saying goes, one horse is not worthy of two saddles, and one foot is hard to step on two boats, so a woman does not serve two husbands, just as one minister does not serve two masters. Although a woman’s virtue lies in her tenderness, she is worthy of her reputation and chastity. Can’t I forget what I teach you?”

Ma Lian'er is usually the most favored by her father, so when they heard that women were like men's personal money and toys, they couldn't help but refute them. Unexpectedly, her father actually slapped herself in front of an outsider. She was both ashamed and annoyed, and could not help but cover her face and cry, and turned around and ran out.

Seeing that his father was angry, Ma Ang didn't dare to persuade him. He wanted to chase him out but was afraid that his father would be angry, so he couldn't help but hesitate in the local area. Ma Yicheng waved his hand angrily and said, "Let her go, we will take care of drinking. This child is really spoiled by me, and he can say such words."

Yang Ling couldn't help but feel silent. Ma Lian'er's words were wrong. Why did Ma Yicheng be so angry? County Magistrate Min also felt that it was natural and he did not dissuade him. He stood up and said, "Miss Ma must be just pitying Guan Panpan. She died of hunger strikes and a peerless figure was missing in the world. Therefore, she was just moved for a moment, so uncle doesn't have to be angry.

If it’s too late today, it’s so inappropriate for Miss Ma to go out alone, so I’ll wait until my nephew advises her to come back.”

Although Ma Yicheng felt that his daughter was too embarrassed to speak, the father and daughter were deeply in love. Although he said ruthlessly, he was really worried about her. Seeing that he was polite, his face calmed down and said, "It's such a blessing for Nephew Yang Xian."

Yang Ling bowed to Lord Min, Ma Yicheng, and hurriedly chased him out. Ma Lian'er was standing under the red lantern at the entrance of the theater, staring blankly at the stars in a daze. Yang Ling felt relaxed and slowed down and walked forward slowly and said, "Miss Ma, go back, Ling Zun is just afraid that your words will be heard and will affect your reputation. The so-called deep love and harshness of blame, don't be too angry."

Ma Lian'er raised her face and looked at the twinkling stars in the sky, and said softly: "What do you think of women in this world? A woman who sacrifices her husband and a sacrifice of her ritual is a good woman who can be praised and praised. A woman's rigorousness shows a woman's virtue, and also shows a man's greatness, and shows that he deserves the efforts of women, but what did he do for women?

Treat women as a man's private property, not just a concubine, but also a wife. I listened to the Three Kingdoms and the Three Kingdoms, and the first thing I did was to kill all my wives and children. Do they have family affection for their wives? Liu Bei treated his wife as clothes, and hunter Liu An treated his wife as a dish and killed him to entertain guests. Are these people or wild animals?

Water never gets clean, and girl never gets clean. Do you know? My mother was forced to death by my father. At that time, he was still a soldier. My mother took her brother and me alone and lived a difficult life. Later, the robbers on the nearby mountain went down the mountain to rob. My mother hid me and I in the water tank and escaped. The robbers raped her, but they rarely made a kind heart and didn't kill her. As a result, she was not killed by the robber's knife, but was stared to death by the man in the village who saw the robbers and were fleeing to death."

Yang Ling was silent for a while and sighed softly: "Preserving the principles of heaven, destroying human desires, starving to death is small, and losing integrity is big. Zhu Xi and Master Zhu may not be right, but the world belongs to men, so it is right." He remembered his era and shook his head and said, "Not only is it right now, but hundreds of years later, there are still many men who believe in it, but this principle is specially designed for women.

Ma Lian'er sneer said, "Zhu Xi? He spoke of 'natural principles' and 'Taoism', but he seduced two nuns as favored concubines, and his widowed daughter-in-law was also taken by him. It was really a model of morality and a model for scholars. It was such a great irony."

Yang Ling only knew that the defense of ethics and education was carried forward by Zhu Xi in the Song Dynasty. Since then, women who died for their rituals have emerged like bamboo shoots after a rain. He didn't know that Zhu Xi had such "wind and rhyme events".

He couldn't help but smile bitterly, "Since men have the final say in this world, it is not surprising that Taoism has different requirements for men and women. If a man is insulted in dignity, it is to lie on firewood and taste gall, to endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. As long as he avenges in the future, he will be proud. No one cares about how shameless he was once. Even if he took the initiative to flatter the feces, and even if a woman is forced to lose her integrity, it is an unforgivable sin!"

Ma Lian'er suddenly turned around and looked at him with eyes brighter than the stars in surprise. After a while, he said: "You are the first man today, especially scholars, who can say this. I really didn't expect that you can have such insights at such a young age and read those 'sage books' for so long."

Yang Ling couldn't help asking, "What a pity?"

Ma Lian'er turned her head and said quietly: "Your pearls are shed with tears, and I wish you would never meet before you get married."

Yang Ling was moved when she heard this, and the atmosphere between the two suddenly became stiff. After a while, he forced a smile and used jokes to ease the atmosphere and said: "Although you and I have the fate to meet you because of your pearl, I have never given you a pearl. Miss, please do not misunderstand."

Ma Lian'er smiled "splash", turned her head and glared at him charmingly, bit her lip, blushed and said with courage, "That's because you are not lucky," looking at his high nose under the light shadow, Ma Lian'er's heart jumped, and turned her head away, feeling a charming atmosphere spread between the two.

She gently wiped away the cold tears on her face and said, "I will be nice to others. Since my mother died, Ma Lian'er, I feel that there is no man in this world who deserves such a great sacrifice from our women. I will not be the stupid celebrity woman on the stage. I will live well for myself!"

Yang Ling was obsessed with the beautiful charm that emerged from her confidence and arrogance, and then sighed softly after a while: "You were born too early, you should have been born five hundred years later, really!"

Ma Lian'er blinked her beautiful big eyes and asked strangely: "Do you think my words are so ruthless and shocking? Is it okay to say this in five hundred years?"

Yang Ling was shocked and hurriedly called out, "I just thought that maybe at that time, some men would regard women as independent existences and demand them equally. Haha, they were just random guesses and sentiments."

Ma Lian'er smiled slightly, reached into her arms, took out the purse, stepped forward and stuffed it into Yang Ling's hand, and said, "I can see that your little wife loves you very much. This pearl is my gift to you. I just hope that you will treat your wife well and don't treat her badly."

The purse in his hand also had her body temperature and faint fragrance. Seeing that he was stunned, Ma Lian'er smiled and tied her hair and said, "Let's go back, I'm just sad and not angry. After all, it doesn't make sense. How many men do you men understand the sadness of women?" As soon as she glanced at him, she had already noticed that Huang County Magistrate was chasing him, so she hurriedly pulled her hand back and walked in.
Chapter completed!