Traveling through history leaving a name

Chapter 187 entanglement
The shy girl with her head bowed was exactly Tian Ling, the young lady of the Tian family in Yang Sanlang's memory, and also his love object.

But Zhang Qingfeng knew that what Yang Sanlang really liked was the girl next to Tian Ling.

Liu Rongqing is the name of this girl, she is a descendant of the Liu family, and He Tianling is a good best friend.

Both of them are very young. In the 21st century, both of them would still be junior high school students, but in this era, they have already reached the age where they can get married and have children.

"Um, hello!" Zhang Qingfeng was embarrassed and didn't know what to say.

"Yang Sanlang, how come you can't speak after not seeing you for a month? You used to be eloquent." Liu Rongqing asked Zhang Qingfeng.

"No, no, I'm a little uncomfortable." Zhang Qingfeng said with an excuse.

"Oh, are you still sick? Then why don't you rest up for a few more days?" Liu Rongqing asked.

Hearing Zhang Qingfeng say that he was uncomfortable, the little lady Tian Ling, who lowered her head and dared not see anyone, also raised her head at this moment, looking at him with concern.

"My illness has recovered, but I haven't come to the academy for a month, and I feel a little uncomfortable." Zhang Qingfeng explained.

"That's good." Liu Rongqing nodded, then turned her head and pushed Tian Ling and said, "Aren't you going to have a word with Yang Sanlang?"

"What, what did I say?" Tian Ling blushed and was very ashamed, completely at a loss.

"Yes, Sister Ling is too embarrassed to speak." Liu Rongqing teased with a smile on her face.

"Well, it's almost time for class, I'm leaving first."

Zhang Qingfeng felt that chatting with the two of them was very awkward, after all, the other party was Yang Sanlang's favorite object, so he made excuses and prepared to slip away.

"Hey! What are you bringing?"

At this time, Liu Rongqing noticed the book bag Zhang Qingfeng was carrying.

I saw that the book bag was bulging, and there must be a lot of things in it.

"Nothing, just some pen and ink and writing paper." Zhang Qingfeng said.

"Show me, did you bring some delicious food for us to eat? Every time you came to the academy, you would bring delicious food for Lingmei." Liu Rongqing said to Zhang Qingfeng.

After speaking, Tian Ling squeezed aside and said, "Sister Ling, don't you think so?"

Hearing what her best friend said, Tian Ling quietly rolled her eyes and didn't speak.

Hearing Liu Rongqing's words, Zhang Qingfeng thought about it for a while, and it seemed that it was true. In order to pursue Tian Ling, Yang Sanlang would bring something to Tian Ling every time he went back to the academy.

"Well, I came to the academy directly from my sister's house this time, so I didn't bring anything with me." Zhang Qingfeng said.

After speaking, he directly opened the book bag and showed it to the two of them.

In his book bag are the manuscripts of the "Fengshen Yanyi" novel he wrote during this period, and some blank paper, which looks a bit thick because it has not been revised into a volume.

In addition to the manuscript paper, there is also a large bottle of ink and a dozen quill pens. He is planning to continue writing in the academy.

"Huh? What is this? Show me." Liu Rongqing said immediately when she saw Zhang Qingfeng's manuscript.

Because the quill was placed at the bottom, she didn't see it.

On the other side, Tian Ling also looked curiously into Zhang Qingfeng's book bag, also very curious.

"It's nothing, it's just some storybooks that I wrote when I had nothing to do when I was recuperating." Zhang Qingfeng said.

Immediately he closed the bookbag, not showing the intention of showing it to others.

"What are you hiding for, take it out and have a look!" Liu Rongqing said to Zhang Qingfeng.

"This, if I didn't write it well, I won't show it to show my shame." Zhang Qingfeng said.

"Yang Sanlang, do you look down on me?" Liu Rongqing pretended to be angry.

"No." Zhang Qingfeng denied.

"Then take it out and have a look, otherwise we'll grab it." Liu Rongqing said, as if eager to try.

"Okay, let me show you?"

Zhang Qingfeng finally compromised, he found that this Liu Rongqing in front of him was too difficult, not like a woman at all, but like a tomboy, and he didn't know what Yang Sanlang liked about her.

It seems that only by satisfying her can he send her away.

Opening the book bag, he took out a piece of manuscript paper and handed it to Liu Rongqing, saying, "Just read it here, and return it to me when you're done.".

"How stingy. I'm just taking a look, and I won't kill you." Liu Rongqing rolled her eyes.

"Hey, why are the words on your face so small? How did you write this?"

Seeing the densely packed words on the manuscript paper, Liu Rongqing was suddenly surprised.

"Why can't it read smoothly? It's crooked."

"This is viewed horizontally from left to right." Zhang Qingfeng couldn't help reminding.

When he wrote with a quill pen, he also considered writing from top to bottom and from right to left according to the custom of Song people.

However, when he was writing, he found that if he wrote this way, his hand would easily blur the previously written characters. Only when he wrote horizontally from left to right, his hands would not touch the previously written characters that were not yet dry.

Writing from right to left is only suitable for writing with a brush, not for a quill. According to the writing habits of later generations, Zhang Qingfeng can also write faster.

"What are you writing? Why are they all in vulgar characters?"

Soon, Liu Rongqing discovered a new problem. On Zhang Qingfeng's manuscript paper, everything was written in vulgar script, which made it difficult for a person like her who is used to formal script.

Vulgar characters, that is, simplified characters, have existed since ancient times.

There is a book called "Population of Common Characters Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties", which records more than 6000 simplified characters. After the founding of New China, many simplified characters used are from folk characters often used in ancient times.

Each traditional character has an average of three or four vulgar characters. After the founding of New China, some of them were used and most of them were abolished. Finally, there was a complete set of simplified characters used by later generations.

Although it was written in vulgar script, Liu Rongqing endured the uncomfortable reading habit and read it carefully in order to see what Zhang Qingfeng wrote.

Beside her, Tian Ling also moved her head curiously.

A few minutes later, the two finished reading the 1000-word manuscript.

"Have you read it? Return it to me if you read it. I'm going to class."

Seeing that Liu Rongqing had finished reading the manuscript, Zhang Qingfeng said.

"Your story is pretty good. What about the rest? Let's take a look." Instead of returning the manuscript, Liu Rongqing reached out to Zhang Qingfeng.

"It's gone in the back." Zhang Qingfeng said.

He regretted showing her the manuscript, and at the same time he was a little annoyed, so the plot of the reader threatening to send the author a blade is vivid in his memory.

"I don't believe it. I saw it. There's more in the back. Let me take a look. Don't be stingy, I won't damage it." Liu Rongqing said.

"No, just return this to me."

"Why are men so stingy, show me quickly." Liu Rongqing said carelessly, "If you don't borrow it, we will rob it. Don't regret it if you rob it when the time comes."

"Sanlang, just show it to us! We'll return it to you after we've finished reading it." At this time, Tian Ling who was on the side said.

"Did you hear that, your little sister Ling has already said it all, but she still hasn't brought the manuscript." Liu Rongqing stretched out her hand to Zhang Qingfeng with a look of color on her face.

"Okay, but don't lose my manuscript, it took me half a month to write it." Zhang Qingfeng said reluctantly.

He also saw that if he didn't give the manuscript to Liu Rongqing today, he would definitely not be able to leave.

This woman, Liu Rongqing, doesn't have any woman's reserve. If it wasn't for her obvious femininity, Zhang Qingfeng would have doubted whether she was a man.

Such a woman, in ancient times, can only appear in the Song Dynasty, an extremely open dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, women's status can be said to be very high compared to other historical dynasties, mainly because of the economic prosperity of the Song Dynasty, and women also participated in the social division of labor, so both family status and social status are very high.

In the Song Dynasty, a woman could initiate a divorce or remarry. If she had children, she could get half of the family property, which was unimaginable in any other dynasty.

Henpecked stories such as "Rouge Tiger" and "Hedong Roar" all appeared in the Song Dynasty.

Su Dongpo's good friend, because he was afraid of his wife, was written into a poem by Su Dongpo, which became a joke through the ages.

As for the three obediences and four virtues required by Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, whether men and women give or receive each other, starving to death is a minor injustice and a major one, all of which appeared after the Song Dynasty.

In the Song Dynasty, Confucianism was just one of the schools of thought, not the most mainstream official thought. After the Ming Dynasty, this school of thought was infinitely elevated by Zhu Yuanzhang, and then it gradually developed and became the mainstream school of society.

And at the beginning, Confucianism was also good, and it persuaded people to be good, but as time went on, it, like Confucianism, became a tool for the superior to rule and restrain the inferior.

Confucianism was not valued in the Song Dynasty, but it was developed in the Ming Dynasty. Especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the status of women was suppressed to the lowest level in history.

Like Liu Rongqing, it was basically impossible to stop a man from asking for this or that in the Ming Dynasty.

(End of this chapter)