Chapter 8: Young Master Reads Spring and Autumn

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  "Master, master, get up quickly, it's time to teach Miss Lu to read, hurry, hurry, don't keep Miss Lu waiting."

  The next morning, Hao Feng Lou was woken up by Xiao Xiang Xiang. He got out of bed with a refreshed spirit, hastily put on his clothes and shoes, and his heart was filled with anticipation.

  What does Miss Lu look like?

  Is she beautiful?

  Very well, let's see how this saintly move plays out. Master, you can rest assured in your mother's womb, your disciple won't bring shame to you.

  Wait a minute, that's not right. Master's mother is probably still in her mother's womb. So Master's grandmother was probably not born yet either. What a complicated family relationship!

  Hao Feng Lou put on his clothes, washed and rinsed himself, and Xiao Xiang brought him a copper mirror to look at. In the mirror, Hao Feng Lou's sword-like eyebrows and starry eyes were still radiant and dazzling.

  He pulled out a paper fan from his waist and said with confidence: "You stay here, don't run around, I'm going to see your young mistress."

  Xiao Xiang nodded heavily and encouraged him: "Young master must work hard, madam and I will take care of you."

  "Who does he think he is? I'll have him swept out of here!" thought Hao Feng Lou.

  Out of the house, there was a young servant waiting outside, leading Hao Feng Lou to the depths of Lu Fu.

  As they walked, Hao Feng Lou thought about how to get along with Miss Lu later and how to attract her favor. Various thoughts flooded his mind when a young servant in the distance said, "The master is back, the master has returned from the camp."

  "Should we inform the lady?"

  The person who came before said: "It's better if you don't know, Master just returned and went to Chen Niang's place."

  It seems to have touched on a taboo in the mansion, and another one didn't dare make a sound.

  These sounds faintly reached Hao Fenglou's ears, and he couldn't help but shake his head. After waiting for a while at the pavilion, the young servant went in to announce him first, then came out and politely said to Hao Fenglou: "Mr. Feng, the young lady invites you to enter."

  Hao Feng Lou stepped into the pavilion, and he didn't care about the furnishings inside. What he cared about was how Miss Lu looked, what she looked like, and whether she met the standards of Wu Tong Lan.

  Then...

  As soon as he entered the cabinet, Hao Fenglou was thoroughly shocked, and all his expectations were shattered.

  The room was divided into two parts by a screen, and Miss Lu was not seen, but in the gap of the screen, a vague figure could be faintly seen. It seemed that Miss Lu was hiding behind the screen to listen to the lesson.

  What made Hao Feng Lou speechless was that the person sitting in the corner of the pavilion was none other than Ying Chun, who still had a solemn expression on her face. She sat upright with her eyes scanning Hao Feng Lou and nodded slightly to greet him.

  This... this is a tragedy.

  Hao Fenglou had originally expected to personally teach Miss Lu to read, with romantic feelings and intentions, hoping to even seduce her. Unexpectedly, the result was that Miss Lu only heard his voice but couldn't see him, and there was also a supervisor standing by to monitor them.

  Take a deep breath and tell yourself to be calm and composed. Setbacks are only temporary, don't get bogged down by gains or losses in individual battles.

  Miss Lu behind the screen heard the noise and said in a soft voice: "Student Lu Xuan, I have seen the teacher."

  Spring's gaze is slightly closed, sitting on one side as still as ever.

  Hao Feng Lou could only force a smile and say: "Very well, let's get on with the lesson then."

  Facing the screen, there was a chair, and Haofeng Lou sat down.

  Miss Lu said from behind the screen: "Today is the first day of class, but I don't know what content you want to teach, sir?"

  The sound is very pleasant, as if the oriole is singing a song.

  Hao Feng Lou smiled wryly and said, "What can I teach? I haven't done any homework myself. Can't just use my lovely wife Yun and the elegant style of Shi Zi to lecture, right?"

  He thought for a moment, at the time of recruitment, the most questions were about the Four Books for Women. The other party was a woman, and it would be best to lecture on the content of the Four Books for Women. But Hao Fenglou had never read the Four Books for Women, what to do?

  Got it!

  Hao Feng Lou coughed and put on a few airs of being a gentleman, saying: "Let's start with a story."

  Chun's eyes widened slightly in surprise, and her eyelids opened lightly, apparently feeling that something was wrong, but at this time, it was not convenient to stop.

  Miss Lu behind the screen suddenly became enthusiastic and said clearly: "Good, good, let's hear the story."

  It seems Miss Lu has a naive and romantic side.

  Hao Feng Lou said: "In the past, there was a young lady who was originally betrothed to a poor scholar. However, later on, the young lady's family saw that the poor scholar was too poor, so..."

  Hao Fenglou's abacus was clicking away, the story he told was actually very simple, it was just about a young lady who, due to her parents' regret over their marriage arrangement, abandoned everything and eloped with a poor scholar. He decided to use indirect methods to brainwash Lu Xiangxian, telling her that regretting the engagement was wrong.

  In the end, Hao Feng Lou sighed and said: "As they say, 'a chicken follows a chicken, a dog follows a dog', once a woman is married to someone, she should follow him through thick and thin, whether he's rich or poor. That's what it means to be a virtuous wife."

  This story seemed to have touched Miss Lu's heart, and she couldn't help but ask: "But what if the person you were originally engaged to was a spoiled rich kid who spent his days idling away, and it's said that he's also addicted to gambling and often frequents brothels... do you still have to... be with him till the end?"

  Ying Chun, who was standing beside her, caught the implication and coughed violently, stopping Miss Lu from continuing.

  Hao Feng Lou immediately became excited and said seriously: "This is natural, Miss Lu. People can change. As a woman, he is her future husband. A virtuous woman not only cannot abandon him but also should slowly reform him with her own greatness and radiant maternal love, embracing and loving him. How could she possibly discard him or even break off the engagement? I believe that as long as the woman gradually devotes her true feelings and reforms her future husband, he will eventually return from his mistakes and become a pillar of the country."

  Hao Fenglou spoke with great passion and fervor, completely immersing himself in the topic, his entire being filled with righteous indignation, almost to the point of clenching his fists.

  Miss Lu behind the screen added: "But I heard that this future husband has also contracted a venereal disease..."

  Hao Feng Lou's old blood is about to spit out, this is slander, naked slander, this is slandering his own reputation. Hao Feng Lou cursed in his heart that the whole family of the scoundrel who slandered him got syphilis.

  He took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down, and said: "These are just empty words. Whether or not there's any romantic entanglement, how would others know? Even if we assume that there is, what of it? Romantic entanglements... that sort of thing..."

  "...Hao Feng Lou suddenly felt that he was at a loss for words, he couldn't just say nothing, even if he had gotten the beauty, life would still be wonderful."

  Miss Lu obviously disagreed with Mr. Hao's point of view, saying: "What the gentleman said is reasonable, but how can such a man be entrusted with a woman's life?"

  The Chun who was sitting in a corner had already become somewhat restless.

  Hao Feng Lou said: "This... Does the young lady think that in the future, when the two of them become relatives, they will gradually influence each other and become respectful and harmonious, living together for a long time, isn't that a good thing?"

  Upon hearing this, Miss Lu seemed to pout and said: "It's not like that. Let alone men with poor conduct, even if they have good conduct, it's not necessarily possible for them to be together forever... My mother..."

  "Cough...cough..." Ying Chun almost coughed out her lungs.

  Miss Lu realized her mistake and hastily said, "I heard that there was a couple who were originally deeply in love, but when the woman grew old and lost her beauty, her husband found a new lover. Despite being busy with official duties, he would still find time to visit his concubine's quarters every day. Is this also considered 'growing old together'?"

  Hao Feng Lou couldn't help but smile to himself, this woman was probably his mother. Lu Xiaojie seemed a bit "disillusioned with the world", probably due to her family background. Wasn't it because she had experienced her parents' ways that she no longer believed in love? No way, if you don't believe in love, how can I, Young Master, survive? I was counting on you to elope with me!

  One side of Ying Chun felt more and more unscrupulous, but in front of Miss Lu, she didn't dare to be presumptuous, almost coughing up her lungs.

  Hao Feng Lou glanced at Ying Chun with the corner of his eye, then looked at Miss Lu, and had an idea.

  The preferences of the future mother-in-law are crucial. If you can win her favor, things will be half done. My unborn child's mother, just watch me first win over the future mother-in-law.

  Hao Feng Lou said lightly: "Let me tell you another story instead."

  Miss Lu said from behind the screen: "Tell me about it."

  Hao Feng Lou's tone suddenly changed, saying: "In the past, there was an emperor who originally doted on the empress, but later, because the empress grew old and lost her beauty, the emperor transferred his affections to someone else and fell in love with a beautiful woman. This beautiful woman served as a concubine and inevitably spoke ill of the empress. From then on, the emperor became increasingly distant from the empress..."

  At this point, Miss Lu behind the screen seemed to choke and said involuntarily: "This is not a story, it's obviously..." She felt she had misspoken and didn't continue.

  Hao Feng Lou went to the side to see Ying Chun, who was no longer coughing at this time, as if quietly listening to what Hao Feng Lou would say next.

  The Eight Trigrams, the Eight Trigrams, nine out of ten women are gossipy. Hao Feng Lou sighed in his heart and said: "Listen to me first. The empress is about to be killed by this beauty, but at this time, she suddenly came up with a plan. The beauty continued to slander the empress, while the empress had the opportunity to praise the beauty excessively, asking about her well-being, and if the beauty was ill, she would be anxious and cry every day. When the emperor occasionally thought of sleeping in the Phoenix Palace, the empress would always decline. This beauty knew that the empress was not kind-hearted, but still continued to slander her. At first, the emperor didn't take it seriously, but after a long time, he became more and more disgusted with the beauty. Human psychology is strange, when you like someone's point, you think they are lovely all over, but once you can't accept one of their points, you become more and more disgusted. Later, the emperor finally couldn't bear the beauty's endless crying and yelling, and in a fit of rage, he banished her to the Cold Palace.

  Miss Lu said in a low voice: "Ah...... I see......"

  Hao Feng Lou smiled slightly and said, "Miss knows in her heart that's good enough. Alright, today's lesson ends here. I still need to go back and study. Learning is a matter of constant practice, isn't it? Knowledge is the result of daily accumulation over time. Even at my level, I still need to accumulate bit by bit. Miss Lu, farewell."

  Miss Lu curiously asked: "I wonder what book you've been reading lately, sir?"

  Hao Fenglou's old face turned red, and he said with a straight face and a dignified tone: "I don't read those miscellaneous books, I've been reading the Spring and Autumn Annals lately."

  Miss Lu exclaimed: "I saw in the play that Guan Yu also looked at the Spring and Autumn period, sir is indeed a elegant man."

  Hao Fenglou almost spat out a mouthful of old blood, yesterday he was still a beast watching porn books, today he has already ascended to the realm of Guan Ergou.

  Hao Feng had just walked out of the building when Ying Chun stood up, and Miss Lu was still behind the screen, saying: "I think this gentleman teaches well, it's quite interesting to listen."

  Welcoming spring is not good at deceiving people, knowing that Hao Feng Lou's knowledge is limited, she just smiled calmly and said: "As long as the young lady likes it."