Meng Liu raised his eyes and looked over. Isn't it true that you can bump into a handsome guy just by bumping into a passerby? Is this the way the male and female protagonists will inevitably meet?

"I'm really sorry. Where did you buy this pastry? I'll buy another for you." She discussed it in a good voice.

Li Feng was already angry after queuing all morning, and he didn't know why there were so many people buying from that small pastry shop. When it was his turn, he only had the last portion left.

If the emperor's brother hadn't warned him not to overpower others, his mother was fond of this, and it was a coincidence today, otherwise he wouldn't have come to buy it in person.

"At this hour, the Poria Cake in the shop has long been sold out! How can you afford to pay for it?" He stared at her with an unkind look, and when he touched the girl's face, she was stunned for a moment.

Meng Liu looked at him doubtfully, then turned to look at the shop next to him, Fumantang.

"You're just looking down on others, aren't you? Who doesn't have any connections?"

The Meng family started their business by making pastries, and their shop was on this East Street, not far from Fumantang. She was familiar with the shopkeepers there, and Meng Liu entered in a majestic manner.

A dark and strong woman who was busy greeting her at the front immediately beamed when she saw her: "Xiao Liu, when did you come back? Didn't you go..."

Before she could finish speaking, Meng Liu interrupted: "Erya, do you still have poria cakes in your store?"

"Sold out."

Li Feng sneered, really thinking she had something to do.

Erya looked at him suspiciously, then turned to Meng Liu and said, "But if you want to eat, of course you will! My mother will leave a portion for my brother every day. Just wait, I will pack it for you!"

As soon as this was said, the people in line were unhappy.

"How do you do business? We haven't been waiting in line for so long, so why is this little lady here as soon as she arrives?"

"The old lady in our house is just waiting for this bite, so the store owner should give it to me."

"I'm willing to add more money, give it to me."

Erya waved her hand: "Go, go, there is a daily limit of Poria cakes. This is my good sister. I left it specially for her. You all want to make it early tomorrow."

As soon as these words came out, everyone was embarrassed to say anything else. After all, who doesn't have relatives and friends? There is nothing to say to a friend. After a while, Meng Liu came out with a newly packaged Poria cake.

"Here." She handed it over.

Li Feng didn't pick it up, but Lian Xiao, the boy next to him, took it in time: "Thank you, girl."

After Meng Liu paid off his things, he turned around and left. He had been delayed for a long time because he was afraid that Xing Jingyao had left the palace.

Li Feng stared at her back steadily for a long time without moving, and Lian Xiao said weakly: "Your Majesty?"

"Go check it out!" he ordered with a sneer.

Lian Xiao was confused: "What are you checking?"

"Check who this woman is!" Li Feng knocked on his head twice, "Stupid, can't you see such naked seduction?!"

"Huh?" He really didn't see it. Wasn't this just an accident? It was seduction.

Li Feng let out a soft snort from his nose. The woman was very coquettish. She bumped into him first to try to attract his attention, and then went into Fumantang to pack Poria cakes to calm him down. There must be a monster when things go wrong. Such naked seduction If he couldn't see it, he wouldn't be a man!

"Check carefully to find out who sent it, what are the intentions of the people behind it, and what are their intentions." Li Feng said in a deep voice.

Lian Xiao nodded blankly. He wanted to say that he really didn't think the woman was seducing, but he didn't dare.

Oh, if you want to use a honey trap on him, Li Feng, then you have found the wrong person!

After a long delay, when they returned to the palace gate, Xing Jingyao had already come out, and he glanced over with a heavy gaze.

"What did you do?"

"Just bought something."

"buy what?"

Meng Liu didn't expect that he would ask further questions. He was stuck for a moment and didn't know how to make it up.

"Well, actually I'm not buying things, I'm selling things." She said straight.

A trace of doubt flashed in Xing Jingyao's eyes: "You can eat and drink if the Xing Mansion is short? Why do you have to show your face and sell things?"

What does it mean to show one's face? This man didn't even know how to speak, and Meng Liu didn't try to change the thinking of ancient men.

"I don't sell things for food and money, but because I like it."

"Do you like selling things? What do you sell?"

"Just some storybooks I wrote."

Nowadays, some literati do sell some storybooks written by themselves because they don't have enough money for the imperial examination. It is also an elegant thing to say, but it is different from other vendors.

Xing Jingyao was curious: "Are you literate?"

"Yes." She gave him a strange look, and then thought that in this era, children from poor families were not qualified to read.

After thinking for a while, she explained: "My brother is a scholar and will participate in the Autumn Festival next year. He taught me some words when he had nothing to do."

"If you can write a storybook, you should also have read some books?"

"OK."

"Have you read "Female Training"?"

"..."

"Have you read "The Female Commandments"?"

"..."

Meng Liu looked at him with burning eyes: "Why should I read these?"

"These two books have been a source of enlightenment for women since they came out. They specifically state that women should respect Taoism, respect their elders, be diligent in running the household, and be humble and polite. They will also be the foundation for you to settle down and build your life in the future."

She chuckled: "Why don't you read such a good book?"

Xing Jingyao noticed that her attitude was different, and she seemed to be back to her weird look that night.

He hesitated for a moment but still answered seriously: "I am a man, I read the Analects of Confucius and Zhuangzi, and I learned about regulating the family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world. Naturally, I am different from women."

The sense of superiority in these words has already penetrated the bone marrow of men’s superiority over women.

Amid the rolling sound of the carriage, the breeze blew the curtains, and the sun shone in, casting a shadow on half of her face, as if she was out of tune with this world.

"What's the difference? Just because you've gained two ounces of flesh? Superficially dividing people into male and female roles based on gender regardless of talent. From then on, men became the gods and women were the earth, men had three wives and four concubines, and women were obedient and virtuous. In this world, Let women be wrapped in a layer of moral gauze, and even you yourself have forgotten that you were born from a woman's crotch."

These words were a bit unpleasant, at least Xing Jingyao felt that they should not come out of her mouth, it was too vulgar.

So he also got angry: "Do you think the rules handed down from past dynasties are all wrong? This has always been the case, women support their husbands and teach their children, men make their wives their wives, and everything is peaceful when yin and yang are harmonious."

"Yes." She met his eyes and spoke firmly, "That's wrong. If men and women read the same books and follow the same path, do you think women will be worse than men? In fact, the reason why you let women read The Commandments of Women is The training is nothing more than discipline, such as the three obediences and four virtues, as well as caring for husbands and raising children, but it is just because they are afraid that women will awaken their self-awareness after reading the book, and you men will not be able to control it. "

Xing Jingyao sneered, not understanding where her messy theories came from: "Men can't control women? What a joke. So why not let you women read the Four Books and Five Classics. Li Qingzhao and Zhu Shuzhen are famous and talented women, don't they still end up lonely and depressed in their early years? What’s the fate of death?”


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