Chapter 25 Everyone has their own choice
Ying Chengjiao did not respond.
He seemed too lazy to pay attention to the servants, and with a wicked smile on his face he inserted his second finger into the housekeeper's mouth.
The housekeeper blushed and gave Ying Chengjiao a charming look.
This expression was completely different from her previous appearance.
Ying Chengjiao laughed heartily, feeling very proud and satisfied. He hummed songs, ate, drank, and played with girls as he continued his monotonous, decadent, and lustful life.
"People are not as good as animal skins! I am thirty-eight years old and have never heard of such a theory!"
"He treats people like animals! How could your majesty have such a brother! How could the Ying family have such a son! It is unfortunate for the Qin Dynasty!"
"I heard from my father that this boy made a lot of nonsense in the court today, making fun of the Analects. He is not a human being!"
Some guests noticed what was happening here, and they were indignant and whispered about it, expressing contempt for everything Ying Chengjiao did.
They couldn't stand what Ying Chengjiao did, and they felt that what Ying Chengjiao did was really insulting.
They did not consider the feelings of the parties involved, they just wanted to express their contempt for Ying Chengjiao.
What is the best way to get closer to a Qin person?
Scold Ying Chengjiao.
On a table not far from Ying Chengjiao's table, there were two pots of wine and four plates of dishes. There were four people sitting around, all dressed in Confucian style.
The four Confucian scholars were not accompanied by beauties. It was not because they could not afford to find beauties, but because they were reluctant to do so because they were too expensive.
As soon as they entered the inner door of the building, they saw Ying Chengjiao holding two beauties, and jealousy appeared in their eyes.
The two beauties were not concubines, but prostitutes, which made the jealousy in their eyes even more intense.
There are roughly two types of beauties in the pavilion.
One is a concubine, a slave.
The other type is prostitutes, who are ordinary people and enter the building voluntarily.
Concubines have no right to choose. They have to accept the guests' orders. They have to drink, sleep, and do other kinds of things. Even if they die, the guests only have to pay a large sum of money, and they don't have to pay with their lives.
Prostitutes have a certain degree of autonomy and can choose whether to accept customers or sell their bodies.
They have official status and receive salaries from the court.
If a prostitute is killed, the guest will not only have to pay with his life, but also have his huge fortune confiscated.
The four Confucian scholars had been secretly following Ying Chengjiao and witnessed the entire incident.
Hearing the people around them expressing their condemnation and dissatisfaction with Ying Chengjiao, the four Confucian scholars exchanged glances and felt that the opportunity had come.
The youngest scholar, who was three or four years older than the servant on the ground, stood up, slammed the table with his hand, and said angrily: "Chang'an Jun is too absurd!"
The guests all focused their attention, the stringed music paused for a moment, the housekeeper frowned, and wine dripped from her brows.
Where did this young boy come from to cause trouble on the rooftop?
Having provoked Chang'an Jun to leave, the money coming into the building today is no longer the same as it was yesterday!
From the voice that still had a hint of a drake's voice, she judged that the person speaking was not very old.
She was just about to deal with the matter when Ying Chengjiao's nonchalant gaze fell on her face. He clasped her teeth with two fingers and said with a half-smile, "Don't stop."
Inside the pavilion, Ying Chengjiao's words were not much worse than an imperial edict, so the female steward could only continue to show off her ventriloquism skills.
At this moment, the young scholar came over with a look of resentment on his face.
"In the Book of Rites, the chapter 'Ru Xing' says that Confucianism can be approached but not robbed, can be approached but not forced, can be killed but not humiliated. Chang'an Jun can give an annotation to the Analects! He is the great Confucian scholar appointed by Your Majesty to seek advice from Chunyu Pushe! Please teach me what this sentence means!"
"I am not your father, nor your mother, and I don't want to adopt you as my adopted son, so what can I teach you to do ?"
It was obviously the first time that the young scholar encountered a foul-mouthed person like Ying Chengjiao, and his face turned red with anger.
I want to curse back, but I feel it's ungentlemanly. If I don't curse back, I will feel upset.
He was caught in a dilemma and stood there, unable to speak. He was choked by Ying Chengjiao's words.
At the table, a bearded scholar in his thirties spoke up to help the young scholar out.
"I never thought that Chang'an Jun was such an indecent person who spoke so much filthy words! Ping'er was kind enough to ask for advice, but you responded with harsh words. You really brought shame to your majesty!"
Ying Chengqi snorted.
"Stop pretending to be stupid. The four of you have been staring at me since you came in. You are all bad people. The old and the young, you have no skills, you are ugly, and you are all poor. You stared at the two beauties beside me with lustful eyes for a long time, but you don't have the money to find a concubine to fill the gap."
The female steward did not look back at first, as she did not know who the people behind her were, and was a little worried that these people might have a conflict with Ying Chengjiao.
Those who can enter the building must be either rich, powerful, or influential.
No matter which side suffers a loss in this conflict and never comes back to Loutai again, it will be Loutai's loss.
After hearing what Ying Chengjiao said, the female manager was no longer worried at all, and she hummed and moved closer to Ying Chengjiao.
Four guys and one girl can't even afford it. Listening to them talking, they are probably four corrupt scholars. No need to pay any attention to them.
Although the food and wine at the pavilion are expensive, the money earned by the two is just a fraction of what the beauty earns from drinking and sleeping with them.
Most of the profits of the buildings come from beauties, and the food and wine are just embellishments .
Most of those who only know how to order food and drinks are ordinary people who have saved money for a year and have no power.
"I, Zhang Ping, care about the world! How could I be a shameless person like you who only cares about the flesh!"
Zhang Ping felt that what he said was very good. It not only showed his noble aspirations but also belittled Ying Chengjiao. He killed two birds with one stone. He looked back at his teacher with some pride.
However, he did not expect to see the three teachers looking unhappy and not praising him at all.
Zhang Ping was very confused. What I said was so good, why did the commanders look like that?
If you say this to Ying Chengjiao outside, there is nothing wrong with it, but it is not appropriate to say it in public.
What is a tower?
Most people come here not to show off their knowledge, listen to music or talk about lyrics, but to play with women!
Zhang Ping's words did indeed belittle Ying Chengjiao, but they also belittled most of the people in the building!
The thirty-year-old scholar, seeing the looks the guests were giving them, became somewhat dissatisfied and hurriedly changed the subject.
"The meaning of this sentence in the chapter "Ru Xing" is: Confucians accept kindness but not coercion. They can move people with emotion and enlighten them with reason. But unreasonable and unreasonable threats and coercion will not work. They can be killed but not insulted. Chang'an Jun was furious about the animal skins spread on the ground at first, and then he made a living person lie on the ground. Didn't Chang'an Jun feel ashamed, ridiculous, and funny? How could a person like Chang'an Jun have the virtue to annotate the Analects?"
The four Confucian scholars were very angry about Ying Chengjiao's version of "The Analects of Confucius". They came here today to find a way to make Ying Chengjiao lose his moral character.
This would give the great Confucian scholars in the court a clearer target to persuade the First Emperor to burn the unorthodox annotations to the Analects!
The four of them sat there, and what would normally take two people a quarter of an hour to finish took them an hour to complete. Finally, they waited for what they thought was a perfect opportunity.
They were already prepared for a verbal battle of three hundred rounds with Ying Chengjiao, and had prepared their plans in advance.
For example, if Ying Chengjiao said that this was just a slave.
They retorted that slaves were also human beings.
Confucius said that there is no distinction in education. We and the officials all have two eyes, one nose, one mouth and two ears. Does Chang'an Jun think that he is different in some way?
No matter which angle Ying Chengjiao came from, they could find words to refute him.
Their eyes were flashing green light, and they were staring at Ying Chengjiao like four hungry wolves, waiting for Ying Chengjiao to speak, and then they would refute Ying Chengjiao completely and thus vindicate "The Analects"!
Ying Chengjiao used his other hand, which was not in the housekeeper's mouth, to touch the balls of the beauty next to him.
This action naturally attracted the four people's envious, jealous and hateful gazes.
This guy deserves to die!
"I think what they say makes sense, so get up."
Ying Chengjiao said to the servant who was lying on the ground.
The servant's face changed drastically when he heard this.
Get up? Getting up means going to Lishan for imprisonment! It means going to death!
"That doesn't make sense! My Lord, I am willing to lie down!"
"But they said that I was insulting you. A gentleman can be killed but not humiliated."
Why don't you four just die!
The servant roared inwardly, and flattered, "Your Excellency did not insult me. The four guests were talking about the Confucian Way, which is the behavior of the Confucian gentlemen. I am a servant, not a gentleman."
Out of the corner of his eye, the servant caught a glimpse of the two people in the building who were about to drag him away walking towards him.
With tears in her eyes, she begged Ying Chengjiao: "Lord, please let me lie here! I am lying here voluntarily! Please let me lie here!"
Which is more important, life or dignity?
The servant chose life, and the four Confucian scholars chose dignity, neither of them was wrong.
Everyone has their own choice.
But if the four Confucian scholars wanted to make choices for the servants in order to achieve their goal of rehabilitating the "Analects of Confucius", then they were totally wrong!
The four Confucian scholars looked extremely unhappy.
They did not expect Ying Chengjiao to play such a trick. Instead of refutating them, they expressed their agreement and wanted to release the servant.
As a result, the servant refuted on the spot. Although his tone was tactful, the slap was still a slap! It came from a servant!
The four men were so angry that they were insulted by this servant. Their faces were as gloomy as water and they were unable to contain themselves.
What is a slave? Just a slave! Do you really think of yourself as a human being?
