Chapter 12 Chapter Eleven

In the evening, when Thirteen sent me back to Baylor Mansion, it was already dark.Although Thirteen had already slowed down his horse speed, I was still wearing the cloak he brought for me, but I still felt a little cold.After he helped me off the horse, I said, "You go first!" He thought for a while and said, "It's better for me to make it clear with my starling." I smiled and said, "They won't do anything to me. My sister won't be willing." .” He smiled and ignored me, and stepped forward to pat the door knocker. I see that he is determined to do so, so I will follow him.The door opened quickly.The two doormen who opened the door saw me and brother thirteen standing side by side in front of the door, and they were surprised to say hello.Shisan said calmly: "Get up! Go report to Lord Baylor and tell me that I'm coming!" A servant immediately rushed away, while the other hurriedly closed the door and led Shisan to the front hall.I nodded to Thirteen and went back to my sister's room by myself.

When I returned to the house, the other girls were not there, only Qiaohui was by my side.My sister looked at me with a livid face, and said, "You should still remember that I said 'only once, never again'." I stood there, not knowing how to answer.Things that I often do in modern times go out with friends on a whim.But in ancient times, such an ordinary event caused such a big reaction from the people around.I couldn't help but sigh and sigh again. I have been standing silently, because I feel that I have no way to communicate with my sister about this matter. We have a generation gap of more than 300 years.My sister also kept looking helpless and looking at me sadly.

After standing silently for a long time, the best sister waved her hand wearily and said: "Go down!" I felt very uncomfortable seeing her, but I really didn't think I had done anything wrong.I've lost a lot here, and I don't want to be deprived of my right to make friends, even if it hurts my sister's heart.In the end, he had to turn around silently and go back to the room. When I woke up in the morning, it was already late.I was still lying on the bed and refused to get up.Looking at the roof of the tent, thinking about what happened with Shisan outside last night...

He rode his horse through the quiet alley, and finally stopped in front of an exquisite courtyard house.The old servant woman who opened the door saw him, hurriedly greeted him, and said with a smile: "Master Shisan, why didn't you send someone to say something in advance? The girl is seeing a guest now! I'll go to inform the girl and let her Hurry up and send someone over." Thirteenth said: "No need, today I just borrow your place to drink with friends, you can buy a table of wine and food!" The old woman took a sneak look at me and saw that I was dressed Rong Huagui, who was looking at her again, hurriedly bowed his head in response.

Thirteen was very familiar with this courtyard house, and led me into an extremely elegantly furnished room.A few rosewood tables and chairs were simply placed in the room, and there was no other decoration at all, except for a white porcelain vase on the table by the window, with a few sticks of green bamboo randomly inserted in the middle.I looked around and sat down with Thirteen.He smiled and asked: "A confidante?" He smiled and said, "When I'm bored, I often come here to drink a few glasses of wine, and I can talk." I nodded, thinking that the girl living here should be an elegant prostitute, and the idle person is absolutely I won't see you.

After a while, the old woman came in with two maids, bringing wine and food.After the arrangement was complete, he withdrew.Shisan and I just started drinking and eating. After a few glasses of wine, the two gradually talked more.From trifles in the palace to anecdotes of ancient and modern times, from the vast Mobei to the misty and rainy Jiangnan, from landscape poetry to ancient and modern sages.In the end, it was discovered that the two of them were both Ji Kang and Ruan Ji's admirers. They already felt that they were very speculative, but now they met each other even more.I was even more excited.

In the thousands of years of ideological and cultural development in China, the three cardinal principles and five constant principles in Confucianism are like a huge net, which firmly binds independent individuals in the political and cultural hegemony centered on imperial power, so that they cannot develop a complete individualism.But Ji Kang, who was born in troubled times, can be said to be an accident, like a flash of lightning flashing across the night sky, short but bright.His masterpiece "The Letter of Breaking Friendship with Shan Juyuan" expounds the principle that he believes that human nature is true equality.He "not Tang, Wu, but Zhou and Confucius", and believes that the sages and sages respected by Confucianism are just the value standards of a class of people, and everyone should not be required to follow suit.The individual's happiness is only clear to the individual himself, and the individual has the right to pursue the happiness he recognizes.It can be said that Ji Kang's thought has a lot in common with equality, freedom and individualism in modern society.

Although I already knew that Thirteen was uninhibited, I never thought that he would actually admire Ji Kang, especially as a child of the royal family, he was at the top of the pyramid of the ruling class.This unexpected joy that fell from the sky and the feeling that there is finally someone who can understand my deepest thoughts in this ancient society made me ecstatic, and I couldn't help talking more and more.And he probably didn't expect to meet a woman like me in this era of Confucian culture. After all, even men rarely dare to question Confucianism.He talked with me with three points of surprise, three points of appreciation, and three points of joy.

I still remember that when I got excited at the end, I held my wine glass and said, "Actually, there is another very important reason why I like Ji Kang so much."I half-closed my eyes and said with a smile on my face: "Although there are many beautiful men in ancient Chinese history, such as Song Yu and Pan An, they always have a soft and feminine beauty. But Ji Kang is different, he is masculine, A healthy one is a tall spruce under the golden sun." After speaking, he couldn't help but sighed heavily, looking infinitely fascinated.Shisan's eyes became straighter as he listened to me. After listening to me, he looked at my expression for a long time without making a sound, and finally sighed: "The real celebrity is so romantic!"...

It is undeniable that when I first made friends with Thirteen, I had selfish motives.After all, on the surface, I am on Ba Ye's side, and my sister is Ba Ge's side Fujin, but history shows that Si Ye and Thirteen won the final victory in this war. Although I can't reverse history, I still I can try my best to leave a way out for myself.But after the heart-to-heart talk, I really think he is my confidant.After all, who here would think that essentially everyone is created equal?Who would think that even the Son of Heaven does not have the right to make everyone do what he wants?Although Shisan questioned and confused the existing cultural system just because he admired Ji Kang, it was surprising enough for me.

I was immersed in the joy of finding a confidant in this era last night, the girl outside the tent called: "Miss, Lord Belle sent someone to call you over." When I heard this, I quickly turned over and sat up, feeling a little worried Uneasy.After tidying up, he hurriedly followed the eunuch who was waiting outside. When I arrived at the door of the study, Li Fu was standing at the door, pushed the door open for me, and let me in.He stayed outside and closed the door.With the sound of closing the door with a "click", my heart, which had been forced to calm down for a long time, finally began to beat wildly. The eighth elder brother was dressed in a moon-white robe, and was standing beside a celadon urn half a person's height, in which more than a dozen scrolls of calligraphy and painting were randomly inserted.Hearing me come in, he didn't respond, still looking out of the window with a leisurely posture.From my angle, I can only see his profile.The sunlight came in through the hexagonal windows and shone on his face, making it hard to see his expression clearly. I don't know what Shisan said last night, and I don't know what he was thinking, so I didn't dare to say anything, so I could only stand at the door blankly.After a long time, he turned around, with a smile on his face, and asked: "What did you do with Thirteenth brother yesterday?" I thought about it and asked, "Did Thirteenth brother not tell you?" He said "I'm asking you now!" I was so confused, but after thinking about it carefully, I felt that although yesterday was a bit out of line, there was nothing to say to others, so I calmly stared into his eyes and said: "Brother Thirteen brought you I went somewhere to drink." After listening to my words, he didn't react at all. He still had the eternal smile on his face, but his eyes were fixed on mine, as if he wanted to see directly into the depths of my heart through them.I looked at him calmly for a while, and finally felt a little embarrassed, so I had to turn around, pretending to find a seat to sit down, and walked out of his sight.As soon as he sat down, he said softly, "Come here!" I looked up at him suspiciously, and he smiled gently, but still said softly, "Come here!" I was sure he was serious, so I had to stand up slowly, lowered my head, and moved over step by step.When I was three steps away from him, I stopped and looked down at the terrazzo floor under my feet. He sighed inaudibly, and said softly, "Am I that scary?" As he spoke, he took two steps closer. I found that every time I stood close to him, I felt oppressed, panicked, confused, and couldn't think normally at all.He gently took my arm, and I subconsciously withdrew it. He tightened his hand and said, "Don't move!" He took out a crystal green jadeite with a thin line of dark red like blood in it. Bracelet, put it on my hand. The bracelet was a little tight, and when he put it on, I felt a little pain and frowned.He comforted: "Be patient, it will be fine soon." Little by little, he slowly pushed the bracelet onto my wrist.Then he took my hand, looked at it a few times, let go of me, walked back to the table and sat down.He was far away from me, and I felt like my mind was clearing up again.I started to wonder, what is going on with this?Didn't I come to listen to the lecture?Just thinking about it, he heard him say softly: "Yao Shilang from the Ministry of Officials is still coming. You should go back first!" I startled 'Oh! With a sound, he made a blessing and withdrew.Li Fu outside the door saw me coming out, and hurriedly bowed to me, but I just thought about it myself, ignored him, and left. When I came back, my sister saw me with a dazed face, probably thought that I was being scolded by the eighth elder brother, she smiled slightly, and said lightly: "It is time to establish rules." I didn't say anything, and went back to my room. During dinner at night, my sister saw the bracelet on my wrist, was taken aback, and asked, "Where did it come from?" I was shocked and didn't know how to answer.While worrying, my sister nodded and said, "Thirteenth brother is really generous! This is a rare phoenix blood jade." It seems that my sister has misunderstood.But anyway, I have no way to explain it, I can only let Shisan bear this false name in vain. After the meal, I drank half of the cup of tea. My sister said abruptly, "Since there are some things that we can't control ourselves, it's better not to think about it forever." In the end, he replied without beginning or end: "I will take care of myself."