Lu Yao had only read some chapters of "The Analects" and "Mencius" in Chinese textbooks before. Now that he has read it intensively, he realizes that although it is indeed a bit outdated in modern education, in the Song Dynasty, at this time,
, it is indeed of great benefit.
It is precisely because of this that "The Analects", "Mencius", "The Great Learning", and "The Doctrine of the Mean" were called the Four Books by Zhu Xi in the Southern Song Dynasty, which shows their high historical status. Naturally, this is inseparable from Zhu Xi's advocating Confucian culture.
Even in modern times, Confucian culture still affects us in small things and details.
However, for Lu Yao, what he likes most is the theory of benevolent government proposed in "Mencius". He feels that some of these theories can still be applied to the reforms he will carry out next.
Mencius inherited and developed Confucius's thoughts on moral governance and developed it into a theory of benevolent government, which became the core of his political thought. He applied the principles of "kinship" and "longevity" to politics to ease class contradictions and maintain the rights of the feudal ruling class.
long-term benefits.
On the one hand, Mencius strictly distinguished the class status of the rulers and the ruled, believing that "those who work hard govern others, and those who work hard govern others", and imitated the Zhou system to formulate a set of hierarchical systems from the emperor to the common people; on the other hand, Mencius
, and compared the relationship between rulers and the ruled to the relationship between parents and children, advocating that rulers should care about the people's sufferings like parents, and people should get close to and serve the rulers like their parents.
Naturally, for scholars of the Song Dynasty, not only the Analects of Confucius and Mencius, but also the Four Books "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean" must also be studied thoroughly.
"The Great Learning" is an essay that discusses the Confucian thoughts of cultivating oneself, regulating one's family, governing the country, and bringing peace to the world. It was originally the 42nd chapter of "The Book of Rites of Xiaodai". It is said to have been written by Zengzi during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is actually a Confucian work of the Qin and Han Dynasties. It is a
An important work discussing educational theory in ancient China.
"The Doctrine of the Mean" is a moral philosophy monograph in ancient China that discusses the realm of life cultivation. It is one of the Confucian classics. It originally belonged to Chapter 31 of the "Book of Rites" and is said to have been written by Zisi during the Warring States Period. Its content definitely affirms the " Doctrine of the Mean "
It is the highest standard of moral behavior. It is believed that "sincerity" can reach the highest realm of life, and it puts forward the learning process and understanding method of "study extensively, interrogate it, think carefully, discern clearly, and practice it diligently". Song Dynasty scholars referred to "The Doctrine of the Mean" as the highest standard in life.
Extracted from the "Book of Rites", together with "The Great Learning", "The Analects" and "Mencius", they are collectively known as the "Four Books". After the Song and Yuan Dynasties, they became official textbooks in schools and required reading for imperial examinations, which had a profound impact on ancient Chinese education and society.
had a huge impact.
The Four Books had a far-reaching influence and later became the textbooks of feudal education, making Confucianism the ideology that fully controlled China's feudal society. It is almost similar to the fact that Christianity has the Bible and Islam has the Quran. It would be embarrassing to say that students do not know what the Four Books are.
As long as people talk about traditional Chinese culture, they must mention it. The "Four Books" is an important part of traditional Chinese culture, the core carrier of Confucianism, and a treasure among ancient Chinese history and culture. The Confucian classic "Four Books"
"The content is extremely extensive and profound, and it has a very high status in the history of world culture and thought.
These four books have a very high historical status in modern times, not to mention what position the Song Dynasty, which attached great importance to Confucian concepts, would place these four books in.
Although Lu Yao really couldn't bear to read these four books, "The Analects of Confucius" and "Mencius" were actually not bad. After all, when he was a student, famous sentences from these two articles appeared in his Chinese texts. For example, "
"When three people are walking together, there must be a teacher from me", "It's a pleasure to have friends from far away" and so on. Of course, I have also learned the story of Meng's mother moving three times. In fact, these things had a great impact on Lu Yao.
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In fact, the traditional Confucian culture, even today, is still subtly influencing our modern lives. For example, the concept of respecting the elderly and loving the young, as well as the idea of patriotism, are actually inseparable from Confucian culture. This is also
One of the important reasons why China is now called a human society.
Is this good or bad? Of course, a human society is about human relationships and feelings. Sometimes, you will indeed meet some warm-hearted people. However, since it is a human society, corruption and guanxi are also important.
It is unavoidable. Not to mention, because Han Yonghe and the Cao family are competing against each other, most of the courtiers now have to make their own choices, whether to side with the Cao family or the Han family.
Here, once they have made a choice, even if they make the choice with the attitude of watching a show, in fact, in Zhao Zhen's eyes, they belong to Cao Yi's faction, or Han Yonghe's faction.
Lu Yao's thoughts returned to the present. In fact, among the four books, he liked nothing more than "The Great Learning" and "The Doctrine of the Mean". From the perspective of text type, if the Analects of Confucius and Mencius are more of a book, then
In fact, in Lu Yao's view, "University and Doctrine of the Mean" is more like a long prose in modern times.
However, despite the limited length, Lu Yao was still able to appreciate the extraordinary wisdom of the ancients from these two essays.
Speaking of "The University", when Lu Yao first read it, he just thought it was very funny. The first few words of this long prose were, "The way to a university lies in Mingmingde..."
These words may sound very solemn and sacred to outsiders, but in Lu Yao's view, they are extremely funny. This is naturally due to the influence of Lu Yao's identity as a time traveler. Lu Yao first read
When I hear these eight words, I always think of those actors who played the poor scholars in ancient times in those vulgar TV series and movies. They read these eight words while looking at the books in front of them and shaking their heads.
Not to mention, before actually reading this long prose, Lu Yao only thought it was very funny and wondered, could ancient people really be so funny when they read?
But who knew that when Lu Yao was studying in college and Zhongyong, he couldn't help but shake his head. At first, Lu Yao didn't notice it, but later because his head was spinning too many times, Lu Yao realized it and couldn't help laughing.
The smile didn't matter. Uncle Fu and a few servants were just passing by the door. Lu Yao's laughter frightened them to death. Uncle Fu once thought that Mr. Lu was stupid because of his reading. Why was he laughing like this?
Crazy?
"It seems that now that I think about it, this kind of attitude of the ancients is really vividly reproduced in the TV series."
Lu Yao couldn't help but smile.
Then, Lu Yao spent more than a morning and basically browsed the Four Books. Among them, Lu Yao spent a relatively short time on the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean, because after all, compared to the Analects of Confucius and Mencius, the Great Learning and the Doctrine of the Mean are longer in length.
It is less and easier to understand. As for the Analects of Confucius and Mencius, Lu Yao decided to have a detailed and in-depth understanding of the Tao of Confucius and Mencius in the next few days.
After all, these four books, as well as the Five Classics, were the foundation for ancient scholars to establish themselves in the world. If they did not understand them, they would be looked down upon, let alone serve as officials in the court.
At this point, Lu Yao was already a little tired from reading. He took out his mobile phone and checked the time. It was already evening. While reading, he didn't expect that time would pass so quickly.
Now that he had a preliminary understanding of the Four Books, Lu Yao felt that he should also dabble in the Five Classics that corresponded to the Four Books.
The most important of these Five Classics is the Book of Songs, also known as the Book of Songs.
As a modern person, the famous line in "The Book of Songs" that Lu Yao can recall now is naturally that line.
"Guan Guan Jiu Jiu, in the river island, a graceful lady, a gentleman likes to fight."
Who is the so-called fair lady to Lu Yao? If this had been done before, Lu Yao would definitely have said without hesitation that she was engaged to him, and soon he would marry her into the Han family.
Miss Han Yunyu.
But, what now? When Lu Yao thought about this problem, he felt very confused inside, and he couldn't explain the reason.
He suddenly thought of a method that his friend taught him in modern times. For example, when you don't know what you want to eat for dinner, you might as well calm down, close your eyes, and then the question just flashed through your mind, and then the next question flashed through your mind.
The dish corresponding to the picture that appears in your mind is the dinner you want to eat.
This method is also used to determine the person you love. No matter how many people of the opposite sex you have been in contact with before, or how many girlfriends you have actually dated. But everyone knows that there is often only one person you love deeply. Even the ancients
This is also the case. As the saying goes, marry a wife with virtue and take concubines with sex. This is also the meaning. No matter what, the wife of the wife plays a decisive role in the family. If nothing else, let’s just say that in ancient times, the wife had the highest status.
, then of course she is the empress, a woman who will be called a thousand years old, and no matter how favored those concubines are, even if they are the imperial concubines, they are still concubines, and their status will never be as good as that of the queen.
So, in fact, this is the meaning of the so-called weak water three thousand, and only taking a scoop is this. You may like many people and fall in love with many people in your life, but often the one you love most will only be that one person. Interesting
What's more, the person whom few people love the most is the one who will accompany them to the end.
So for Lu Yao, who is his favorite now? Can he still firmly say that the person he loves most at this time is Han Yunyu?
Before that night came, Lu Yao would definitely have said this, but what Cao Han said to him that night made Lu Yao dare not think about this issue carefully now.
He began to escape. Yes, Lu Yao actually began to escape from this problem.
He didn't dare to imagine, but now, Lu Yao, who remembered this sentence from the Book of Songs, finally decided to ask himself, it just so happened that now was his time to retreat, and no external factors or people would disturb the question he was thinking about.
Who is your favorite?
Lu Yao put down the book, closed his eyes, leaned back on the chair, and took two deep breaths.
A figure of a person flashed in my mind.
It was a woman dressed in white, looking at him and walking over with a smile...
Lu Yao opened his eyes suddenly, only to find that he was sweating profusely.
Is it her?
This result was really beyond his expectation. When did he become her? Does this count as confirming his mind? Lu Yao didn't know either.
The figure that appeared just now was naturally Cao Han. It was the first time that Cao Han truly appeared in his field of vision as a lady, dressed in white.
Although Cao Han had so many misunderstandings with him before, why did he remember it now?
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, only the day they met, and the subsequent scene when Cao Han came to see him at night? Thinking of this, Lu Yao couldn't help but smile bitterly. He actually became the kind of man he despised before, and he fell in love with someone else.
Is this considered a transference? I can’t tell. After all, after Cao Han’s previous questioning, Lu Yao returned home and thought about it for a long time. In the end, did Han Yunyu really like him?
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In fact, Lu Yao himself was not very satisfied with the final result. Although Lu Yao liked Han Yunyu very much, when it came to thinking about problems, Lu Yao was a person who would put aside all emotional factors and analyze problems from the most objective point of view.
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Therefore, he told himself very objectively in his heart that there was nothing wrong with Han Yunyu liking him, but in the end, who did Han Yunyu like?
Obviously, she liked Lu Yao, who could compose poetry, but she didn't know that this poem was not originally written by Lu Yao himself.
What she liked was Lu Yao, who wrote "The Story of the Stone" superbly. But she didn't know that the "The Story of the Stone" was not originally written by Lu Yao at all.
If she knew all this and knew that Lu Yao was just a thief who cheated the world, how would she treat Lu Yao? She would also like Lu Yao without hesitation, stand in front of Lu Yao, and confront Cao Han
She won't. Lu Yao knows this very well. Maybe she will look at Lu Yao with contempt and look down on him.
And what about Cao Han? Cao Han likes Lu Yao, and it has nothing to do with Lu Yao's halo. As a representative of a wild girl, Cao Han is attracted by Lu Yao's talent, writing style, and even his huge wealth.
, totally not serious.
What Cao Han really likes is Lu Yao. Compared to Han Yunyu, Cao Han's love for Lu Yao seems to be more pure.
However, Lu Yao didn't consider this at all before, or in other words, he felt that he already had Han Yunyu, so he didn't pay much attention to Cao Han.
What now? Everything is different. After thinking about it just now, Lu Yao finally understood that the balance in his heart has slowly begun to tilt from Han Yunyu to Cao Han.
The specific manifestation may be the letter that Lu Yao gave to Tangxi before retreating and asked him to forward it to Cao Han. Although he knew that he could not give Cao Han any hope, Lu Yao still apologized to Cao Han in the letter.
, said that what he said that day was really a bit excessive, and he also explained that because he had not been in contact with Cao Han for a long time, he still needed to think about it carefully. What's more, Lu Yao and Han Yunyu were already engaged, so what should he say?
He also cannot be a capricious person. Marriage is not a trivial matter, how can it be changed over and over again. As Cao Han is now the eldest lady of the Cao family, if she gets married, she must marry into the main wife.
Therefore, Lu Yao wrote this letter to Cao Han, which was equivalent to comforting Cao Han and explaining the reason tactfully.
What Lu Yao didn't know was...
Earlier today, after Tangxi left Cao Mansion, Cao You found an opportunity to find Cao Han alone and handed Cao You the letter Lu Yao gave her.
Cao You knew that Lu Yao wrote this letter to apologize, and also to make his sister give up completely. In fact, for Cao You, Lu Yao's approach was undoubtedly the right one. How could it be possible for the daughter of uncle Cao Guo's family?
She was wronged to marry Lu Yao as a concubine, not to mention that the head wife was the archenemy of the Cao family and the apple of Han Yonghe's eye. There would definitely be conflicts in the future.
As the saying goes, short-term pain is worse than long-term pain. Lu Yao's actions may seem heartless, but it is absolutely correct.
After Cao You handed the letter to Cao Han, he actually found a chair in his sister's room and sat down. In fact, he was thinking that after reading the letter, Cao Han might cry again, so he decided to get down there then.
He still had to come over after being informed, so why not just wait here for a while. When his sister vents her emotions, he could be there to comfort her.
However, Cao You's imagination of Cao Han breaking down and crying did not happen. Instead, after Cao Han read the letter, a smile appeared on his lips.
"It turns out that he was worried about this." Cao Han said happily.
Cao You was confused and naturally didn't know what his sister was talking about. Cao Han looked at Cao You and continued: "Brother, I can see from the letter he wrote to me that he actually likes
mine."
"How is that possible?" Cao You was very surprised. He took the letter from Cao Han and read it.
After reading the letter, Cao You said, "I have different opinions from you. In my opinion, this is a letter to stop your whims."
When Cao Han heard what his brother said, he immediately showed displeasure and said, "Humph, how can you, a grown man, understand the secret language between the two of us?"
"What secret words? I see that Lu Yao wrote clearly on this. Please don't pester him again. He is now engaged to Miss Han's family. They will get married soon after he takes the imperial examination. By then
What should you do? Are you going to become a concubine?" In order to make his sister give up, Cao You could only speak in a more serious tone.
I thought that the self-centered Cao Han would be angry when he heard this, but this time Cao Han said: "As long as you can marry the person I like, what's wrong with being a concubine?"
With just this sentence, Cao You froze on the spot. He knew that it was difficult for him to change his sister Cao Han's character as long as she decided on something. It seemed that Cao Han had already made up his mind about Lu Yao.
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Moreover, through what his sister said just now, Cao You noticed another problem very keenly. That is, his sister Cao Han has completely fallen in love with Lu Yao. This kind of love is not just a whim, otherwise
, Cao Han would not say that it would be okay to be his concubine.
Although she and Cao Ping were older than Cao Han and were her two favorite brothers, in the face of their sister, who had always been unruly and willful, Cao You and Cao Ping actually had no choice at all.
However, you can let your sister be unruly and willful in the face of trivial matters, but this is a major matter of marriage. Unlike Lu Yao, a time traveler, marriage in ancient times is not as free as in modern times. The orders of parents and the words of matchmakers are even more important.
Pay attention to a well-matched person.
Thinking about it, the Cao family is also a relative of the emperor. Cao Yi only has one daughter, and Cao You and Cao Ping only have one sister. In private, they naturally don't want Cao Han to marry into the same family as a concubine.
Basically, concubines are squeezed out by the main wife. This is often reflected in modern palace dramas. As for Yu Gong, Cao Han married into a family to be a concubine, which is tantamount to being a concubine in the same family.
Slapping Cao Yi in the face will bring disgrace to his face. If the news spreads that Cao Guojiu's daughter married into someone else's family and became a concubine, wouldn't it make his colleagues who are officials in the court laugh?
Losing big teeth? Moreover, even if we take a step back, which family does Cao Han really want to marry as a concubine? Even if Cao Yi, Cao You and Cao Ping let Cao Han, saying that they want to consider her happiness,
But any family can do it, except Lu Xu’s Lu family.
Everyone knows that the Cao family and the Han family are at odds with each other. The two families have to have fierce debates on everything from the political program of the imperial court to the discussion of various national affairs. As small as the new Cuju competition that will be held recently.
, both sides had originally agreed to compete in the second round of the official competition. However, by chance, the two teams were trained on the same day. As the conflict intensified, they actually directly proposed to compete.
Unreasonable demands for warm-up matches after training.
If Zhao Zhen had a good temper and considered giving the two families a chance to vent their emotions, and Lu Yao said that the warm-up match was indeed necessary, what if he encountered an emperor with a very bad temper?
Do not be angry to punish them both for their sins.
After all, Zhao Zhen still considered that these two people had quite a lot of party members in the court. Judging from the current situation in the court, under his control, the two sides could still maintain a balance. Once these two parties
If something unexpected happens, the situation in the DPRK will actually be unstable.
At this time, if Cao Han marries to the Lu Mansion and becomes Lu Yao's concubine, what will be the consequences?
Naturally, needless to say, the officials who had been standing by Cao Yi before would definitely switch sides and go to the Han family. This would be another big blow to Cao Yi.
Not to mention the Cao family's own family, even Zhao Zhen actually didn't expect that Cao Han would say such a thing, so although he actually knew about the misunderstanding caused by the Cao family, the Lu family and the Han family before, the final result
The Lu family still signed a marriage contract with the Han family, and the misunderstanding ended here. The reason why Zhao Zhen did not take any measures on this matter was because he knew Cao Han's character and she would never become anyone else's concubine.
It would be nice not to let her become the head of that family.
Cao Han's impression of Zhao Zhen is just two words: a fierce woman. This kind of woman will never be someone else's concubine, and she must find a husband who can completely listen to her ideas, otherwise the mansion will probably be destroyed.
It's impossible to be turned upside down.
Back to the Cao Mansion, Cao You couldn't understand Cao Han's weird smile just now. In fact, Cao You had read the letter written by Lu Yao to Cao Han just now. To be honest, Cao You had read it by himself.
The conclusion drawn from this letter was completely different from that of his sister. He had no idea that Lu Yao liked his sister at all.
However, now facing what his sister said, Cao You knew that he could not defeat her. However, this was a major matter for the Cao family, so Cao You could only say: "I know I can't control you, but this matter,
You still need to tell dad, I don’t think he will agree to you marrying into the Lu family as a concubine."
"I naturally have to make my own decision about my marriage. I will go and tell my father now." After Cao Han finished speaking, he ran out in a flash.
As for Cao Yi, from the moment he woke up until now, there was nothing that could make him feel comfortable.
Let’s talk about the morning first. I, Cao You, Han Yonghe and Han Wenyuan went to greet Zhao Zhen. On the one hand, they wanted to get Zhao Zhen to agree to the warm-up match. After all, although Lu Yao had already agreed, this warm-up match
The final game will still have to be held at the training ground set up in the palace. In addition, if you can defeat Han Yonghe in front of the emperor, there will definitely be no problems in the future, and you can mock Han Yonghe unscrupulously. Of course.
, Cao Yi knew in his heart that the old guy Han Yonghe thought the same way, so he tried his best to cooperate with him to find Zhao Zhen to ask for a memorial.
Although the final result was good, Zhao Zhen agreed to the request to hold a warm-up, but when showing Zhao Zhen the embroidery patterns designed by his team, although
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It is said that Zhao Zhen expressed his approval for the patterns designed by his Lions team and Han Yonghe's Wenyuan team, but officialdom veterans like Han Yonghe and Cao Yi can tell at a glance that in terms of patterns, it is very
Obviously Zhao Zhen still prefers the pattern designed by the Wenyuan team.
Why is this? It’s very simple, because the patterns designed by the Cao family’s Lions team are more inclined to pictographic patterns, that is to say, they are painted according to the literal meaning. After all, the image of the lion is too specific, leaving it to
There is not much space for painters to design.
However, Han Yonghe's Wenyuan team used a symbolic drawing method. Although the name is Wenyuan team, it is not Han Wenyuan, but the name of Zhang Liao, the famous general of Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, Zhang Wenyuan.
The final design was a spear, which naturally had a symbolic meaning. After some explanations from the Han family, Zhao Zhen approved of it.
At this point, the Cao family was already at a disadvantage.
However, Cao Yi did not feel very discouraged, because the strength of his team had been praised by Zhao Zhen when he entered the palace for the first time to face the saint. However, on the training ground, after seeing the Han family
After comparing the strength of the team members with those of his own team, Zhao Zhen criticized the Cao team. After asking, Cao Yan, who was confused, found out that the old guy Han Yonghe secretly replaced three players.
, completely changed the strength of their team, and after Cao You knew about this, he didn't even tell himself, nor did he replace the members of his team, which made Cao You extremely angry.
Later, Cao Yi, who had just lost his temper, actually received the news of Tangxi's visit. Cao Yi, who had always thought that Tangxi was here to see a joke, naturally did not give him a good look. Later, through Cao You's explanation, he realized that Tangxi should
I don't know about this.
Then, Cao Yi, who had been angry all morning, had no time to think about eating. He locked himself in the study alone and sulked.
At this time, Cao Han knocked on the door. Cao Yi knew that it was his precious daughter who came, so he cheered up, changed his expression into a smiling face, and let his daughter in.
As a result, the first words Cao Han said after coming in almost made Cao Yi vomit blood on the ground.
"Dad, I have decided, I want to marry Lu Yao!"
Cao Yi looked at Cao Han with wide eyes, shock and anger written on his face at the same time. How could Cao Yi, who was so young, understand his daughter's mentality of love out of hatred? He only knew that Cao Han had hated Lu Yao very much before.
, then whenever he is mentioned, her daughter will become angry. The reason is because Cao Han was at a disadvantage in the first fight, and later, Cao Han was speechless when Han Yunyu confronted her face to face.
Through these two things, Cao Yi felt that his arrogant daughter Cao Han would not fall in love with Lu Yao at all, so after knowing that the Lu family and the Han family had signed a new engagement, he did not do anything
To stop her, he felt that his daughter should have a more suitable husband.
Who knew that now, the daughter standing opposite him suddenly said that she wanted to marry Lu Yao. What was going on?
As for the process in between, Cao Yi didn't have time to ask more questions now, so he could only say: "Lu Yao? It doesn't seem possible. After all, the Lu family has an engagement with the Han family, and the relationship between daughter, father and Han Yonghe, you don't know."
have no idea."
Cao Han nodded and said: "My daughter knows that our Cao family and Han family are in the same situation, so I want to marry into the Lu family. If Han Yunyu can get along well, wouldn't the relationship between our two families be eased?"
Cao Yi's jaw almost dropped to the ground. When did his daughter become so sensible?
"What? You mean you won't stop Lu Yao and Han Yunyu's engagement?"
"Yes." Cao Han looked innocent, "Well, Lu Yao has already offended the Han family before because of the engagement. If there are any changes this time, I'm afraid others will think that he is a capricious person."
Cao Yi couldn't help but get angry after hearing this. His daughter was from the Cao family. Why did she sound like she was speaking for that kid Lu Yao now? She sounded like she was from the Lu family.
"So, what you mean is that you want to marry into the Lu family as a concubine under Han Yunyu?"
When Cao Han heard this, he did not shake his head and said, "As long as Lu Yao and I like each other, what's the difference between being wives and concubines?"
When Cao Yi heard this, he couldn't sit still. He stood up from his seat and shouted angrily: "Of course there is a difference, the difference is huge! If you become a concubine, then Han Yunyu is the legitimate wife, you let the civil and military officials of the court
No matter how the officials look at me, they will laugh at me. Besides, that old guy Han Yonghe might climb on my head and shit!"
By the way, this is the first time Cao Han has seen his father Cao Yi angry. Before, no matter how much trouble he got into, his father would comfort him and stand by him. Why is it that now when it comes to his life-long events, his father categorically says
Say something like this?
Cao Han, who had a hot temper, was not afraid of his father's majesty at all, and said: "You only think about yourself. Have you ever considered my daughter's feelings? In this life, I will never marry anyone other than Lu Yao!"
"Anyone can do it, except Lu Yao!" Cao Yan said angrily.
After Cao Han and Cao Yi looked at each other for a few seconds, Cao Han left the study angrily.
The quarrel between the two naturally attracted Cao Yu and Cao Ping.
Seeing the two brothers approaching, Cao Yi immediately looked at Cao You and said, "Tell me what's going on!"
Cao You knew that the matter had reached this point and there was nothing he could do about it, so he told Cao Han everything about Cao Han's careful preparations for Lu Yao's change of clothes, as well as the fact that he went to find Lu Yao that night.
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After hearing this, Cao Yi took out a book from behind and threw it towards Cao You, cursing: "You actually let the two of them meet behind my back, didn't you push your sister into the fire pit?
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Cao Yu saw that his father was really angry, so he quickly explained Lu Yao's attitude and the letter Tangxi had just sent. Then Cao Yu said that Lu Yao's attitude was actually very firm and had always rejected Cao Han.
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Hearing what Cao You said, Cao Yi gradually became less angry. Originally, after hearing what Cao Han said just now, Cao Yi thought that Lu Yao was actually a playboy who entered into an engagement with Han Yunyu, but at the same time he was still with Cao Han.
It's unclear, but now that Cao Yu has explained it, it seems that Lu Yao still has a very firm attitude towards Cao Han.
"If Lu Yao's attitude is like this, it would be easier to handle. It would be okay to let my sister die." Even Cao Ping, a straight man, could see this problem.
"But, she seems to have completely misunderstood the meaning of the letter Lu Yao gave her." Cao You said with a bitter smile.
Cao You closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then said, "Is there any way to make Cao Han give up on this idea?"
Cao You stood there without answering. As the person who has been closest to Cao Han since childhood, Cao You should know his sister better than anyone else. It should be impossible to make her give up, even if she comes to
At that time, Lu Yao and Han Yunyu got married, and his sister probably would not give up.
But, having said that, it is really not an option to continue like this. By then, Cao Han will be getting older little by little.
In ancient times, the age at which women got married was much younger than now. Basically, after the age of twenty, they became old maids. What's more, if that time comes, the Cao family will lose even more face.
At this moment, Cao Ping spoke up and said, "I have an idea."
Cao Yi glanced sideways at Cao Ping. His second son just followed him in his fiery temper. He really didn't learn anything about his IQ. Cao Yi really had no confidence in what Cao Ping could come up with. However,
He still said: "Tell me what you can do."
Cao Ping said: "Hasn't my little sister practiced martial arts since she was a child and likes martial arts? I guess the reason why she likes Lu Yao is because she lost to Lu Yao in a martial arts competition when we first met?"
Cao You nodded and said, "I have heard about this incident. Although it is not entirely because of this incident, there are also reasons for it."
Cao Ping continued: "If that's the case, it would be easy to handle. My sister has always liked men with strong martial arts skills. Why don't we hold a martial arts competition to recruit a bride, so that all the people in Bianliang City who think they have strong martial arts skills can compete in an arena.
The one who wins in the end can marry the little sister. In my opinion, although that kid Lu Yao is good at martial arts, there must be people in this city who are better than him in martial arts. When the little sister sees it, she might change herself.
What do you think?"
When Cao You heard this, he was a little surprised. The suggestion made by his younger brother this time was really pertinent, so he said: "This is a good method. Cao Han has a stubborn personality. If you want to change her, you can only wait.
She changed her mind on her own."
Cao Ping, on his side, thought about it carefully and felt that the method Cao Ping said was really good, so he said: "In this case, you might as well try this method first. Cao Ping, you came up with the idea.
I’ll leave this matter to you. Now everyone in the city is basically busy with the imperial examinations. We’ll compete in martial arts to recruit brides, so we’ll do it after that.”
This was the first time that Cao Yi recognized himself. Cao Ping seemed very happy and full of confidence, and immediately said that he would do a good job in this contest to recruit a bride.
Cao You also put forward his own idea. This martial arts competition is indeed a way to recruit relatives, but the Cao family is also a relative of the emperor, and among the people who practice martial arts, there are also some rough people in the market. Cao You said that although it is
Everyone can sign up for the competition to recruit relatives, but the family background of the applicants must be checked clearly. If they are ordinary people, they should not be allowed to sign up. At least, they must be the son of an official with a fourth-grade official position or above.
Cao You's move was not for the future interests of the Cao family, but because he didn't want his sister to marry into an ordinary family and suffer hardships. After all, she was also a rich young lady, so she couldn't marry too much.
So shabby.
In this way, the three men spent the afternoon deciding on the matter of the martial arts contest to recruit a bride. Cao Yi told Cao You and Cao Ping that the martial arts contest to recruit a bride would not be held until two or three days before it was actually held.
Before, find another opportunity to tell Cao Han, but before that, you must avoid Cao Han and Lu Yao meeting again, which will only increase Cao Han's determination not to marry Lu Yao.
To this, Cao You could only agree. After all, if Cao Han knew about the contest to recruit a bride, there was no telling what extraordinary things Cao Han would do during this period.
