Chapter 90 Mengdie, you are a useless face lover!
After Ji Shubai left, Song Jin felt that the food and tea were no longer fragrant. All he could think about was not to let him go astray again later.
However, Ji Shubai never came back, so she had to go back to the house and wait for the right opportunity, and sort out her thoughts at the same time.
Sometimes, she felt that what Ji Shubai said made sense.
From feudal society to socialist society, women have been granted new rights, but the corresponding obligations have not been distributed. On the other hand, the whole society forces women to exercise their rights, that is, to work and earn money to support their families.
In the Ming Dynasty, such a man would be scolded to death, but in modern society, both men and women look down on housewives, as if they are laziness and the root of all evil. Educating children has become a priceless thing, or a cheap thing.
Is this really the case?
Song Jin didn't think so.
Children's education should be an extremely important matter in a family, but the whole society is denying its value, so it is not recognized.
But correspondingly, you will also see countless children complaining about their parents. It is like a vicious cycle, where they feel unimportant on the one hand and complain about not doing well on the other.
Who would spend energy to do something that is considered worthless?
Song Jin couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this. Fortunately, she didn't have children. Otherwise, with her workaholic state back then, she didn't know how she would distance herself from her children when they grew up. Maybe the Internet would have one more child who blamed his or her original family.
But on the other hand, she felt that Ji Shubai was trying to change the subject and would take any opportunity to scold her.
He clearly wanted to scold her, but he found a good excuse and she couldn't even return the scolding. Song Jin was so angry that she lost her appetite for chicken legs.
Ji Shubai was busy, so Song Jin had time to think slowly, but for some reason, the more he thought about it, the more tired he felt.
Rights and obligations is a very big topic and it is not something that can be explained in a few words. What’s more, it is extremely difficult for two people who grew up under two different social systems to convince each other.
Or maybe they don't need to convince each other.
After figuring this out, Song Jin felt much more relieved. She stayed in her room and didn't go out again until nightfall.
The surface of the river at night was filled with silver moonlight. There was no sound of frogs around, but there was the sound of oars paddling the water.
Song Jin lay on the deck, staring at the dark and shining starry sky.
When she was still a young girl, Song Jin once lay on the old bamboo bed at home with her mother and looked at the summer night sky in the yard.
She sat next to her mother and talked about how she saw Zhang Heng counting stars in a book, so she followed him to count, but she got confused after counting only a few.
She remembered it clearly. At that time, the stars were still twinkling and still filled the sky with stars. Unfortunately, after leaving home for many years, she never saw such a starry sky again, nor did she have such a night of cuddling together again.
A pair of dark blue satin boots appeared next to Song Jin. She let out a click of the tongue, jumped up, and glared at Ji Shubai angrily.
She didn't like that kind of perspective, the perspective of being looked down upon.
Maybe he didn't see her or didn't see clearly, but Ji Shubai ignored her and just glanced behind him. Qingshan and another servant brought two chairs over, placed them side by side, and turned to leave.
"Sit down."
Song Jin sat down unhappily.
"What do you think?"
Song Jin curled his lips, feeling very dissatisfied.
This man obviously has a handsome face. If he doesn’t want to be a music teacher or an art teacher, then why not become a physical education teacher?
He chose the dean's notebook, with a lecturing look on his face, which was annoying.
Song Jin looked at his face, which looked even more angular under the moonlight, and his eyes were full of stars, sparkling.
Song Jin, why don't you scold him, you useless face-hungry person!
"I was wrong."
What a loser.
Ji Shubai didn't know what she was really thinking. He was extremely satisfied after hearing this. He smiled and said, "That's good. Don't be so impulsive in the future. If you have any problems that you can't solve, you can come to me. I will do my best to help you."
Song Jin thought this was okay.
"Okay, didn't you finish what you were saying this morning? Why did you stay in your room all day and didn't come out to see me?"
Song Jin tilted his head and thought for a while, then said, "Sir, I have thought about it for a day and finally figured it out. That world is not what I want, and this world is not what I want either."
"So what kind do you want?"
"The world I want..." Song Jin pondered the words: "It should not mention gender."
"What do you mean?" Ji Shubai didn't understand at all. How could there be a world without gender distinction? Since ancient times, men have been responsible for the outside world and women have been responsible for the inside world. Men earn money to support the family, and women give birth to children and take care of the family. This has always been well distributed.
What does it mean not to mention gender?
Song Jin said: "When talking about something, gender is not a prerequisite. This is the world I want."
Ji Shubai frowned and asked back, "What about giving birth? You can't ask a man to give birth, right?"
Song Jin smiled and said, "Sir, you mentioned gender again."
"What else? Isn't the child born from a woman?"
Song Jin said: "What I mean is that whether a person has children or not should not be based on gender, but on whether she wants to have children."
"How can you choose whether to have a baby or not? Of course you will have the baby if you are pregnant."
Song Jin was confused. She forgot that there were no condoms or effective contraceptives in this world, and forced abortion was a deadly business.
After thinking about it for a whole day, she still couldn't think of this big BUG, so she had to change the example.
"Let me put it another way. For example, studying for the imperial examination, becoming an official, and becoming an emperor are not things that men do nowadays."
"yes."
“What if gender is not a prerequisite?”
Ji Shubai sneered: "Are you going to say that we men have messed up this place again?"
"Sir, you are so petty. How can an lord be so vindictive?"
"You are allowed to curse, but I am not allowed to bear grudges?"
"Remember, remember, remember. Remember it well. It would be best if you remember it for the rest of your life."
Ji Shubai was not annoyed at all. He leaned back in his chair, looked at the sky and said, "You are very sharp when scolding others, but when it comes to yourself, you become petty."
"Who is petty?"
Ji Shubai smiled and didn't argue with her, which made Song Jin very angry.
"Go on."
"I say, men are just so-so in their work. Wu Zetian didn't bring down the Tang Dynasty, and Empress Lü didn't destroy the Han Dynasty. Throughout history, countless dynasties have been destroyed by men. So, whether a country is strong or not has nothing to do with whether it is run by a man or a woman."
"Then do you agree with Lu Zhi turning Concubine Qi into a human pig and poisoning Liu Ruyi?"
"Liu Bang even kicked his own son while on the run."
Is there anyone more morally superior than this couple?
Ji Shubai let out a "hiss", sat up straight, faced Song Jin, and looked at her carefully, which made her feel uneasy.
"what?"
Ji Shubai thought of a question. If Lu Mancao was really able to survive for thirty years in another world through that "collision", then was there another possibility that the person in front of him actually came to this world from another world through a "collision"?
After all, Song Jin was obviously not familiar with the culture and etiquette of the Ming Dynasty, but he knew a lot about another world.
"You, aren't from here?"
"What do you mean you're not from here?"
Ji Shubai smiled and sat back down: "Nothing."
"Half-sentences are the most annoying thing."
"Then you can slowly get tired of it."
"I won't waste my energy." Song Jin muttered in a low voice.
Ji Shubai took a deep breath and said, "I roughly understand what you want to say, but..."
"But what?"
This time, Ji Shubai thought for a long time and asked her, "You once said, what would happen if there was no emperor in this world? Have you ever seen such a situation?"
Song Jin lowered his voice and said like a thief: "I have seen it."
Ji Shubai also lowered his voice like her: "What was it like?"
Song Jin thought for a moment and said, "With an emperor, it's called a family empire. The royal family is the country. Protecting the royal family's reputation is protecting the country's reputation, so the royal family is the most important. But if the royal family is gone, then we can nominate someone else to take charge, and change it after a few years."
"Ah? How can this be changed?"
"Didn't the governor of Suzhou change?"
"How can it be the same?"
"It's almost the same, but the selection method is different. You are recommended by officials, selected by the emperor, and you take office immediately with an imperial decree, right?"
Ji Shubai nodded: "Almost."
"There, the selection is also made by the hundreds of officials, but not necessarily by the officials of the court."
"Who will choose then?"
Song Jin said: "There is a new rule there, called the People's Congress System..."
"people?"
“It’s the people.”
"Oh, but the people are only good at farming, how can they understand the governance of the country? What if they make the wrong choice?"
Song Jin sighed, "Didn't I tell you? Everyone studies and is selected layer by layer."
"You mean choosing the squire?"
"There is no such thing as gentry there. Everyone reads and is literate. Gentry are everywhere, just like ants on the ground."
When Ji Shubai heard this, his face fell.
The gentry are like ants on the ground...walking everywhere?
What was the point of all his efforts over the years? Was it all in vain?
"Then...then I...we..."
"Don't be afraid, sir. What happens over there won't affect you in this world."
Song Jin patted Ji Shubai's shoulder proudly, as if comforting a child who had just been frightened.
Ji Shubai thought that he might not like that world. Once he entered that world, wouldn’t it mean that everything he had now would be invalid?
What about Song Jin?
She came here, became a house slave, and what did she give up in that world?
No wonder she was unwilling to be a slave. If it were me, I’m afraid I might not be able to do as well as she did.
He was decisive and resolute, and his strike was steady and ruthless, but no one's life was harmed.
She made a feint and regained her life. If he were in that world, could he do the same?
Song Jin was just comforting Ji Shubai in a teasing tone, but when she turned around, she saw Ji Shubai looking at her with a strange look.
At this time, Song Jin didn't know that Ji Shubai's eyes were exactly the same as the compassionate look she had when she looked at him by the river that day.
"What's wrong with you again?" Song Jin became a little less confident, his voice became much lower and his smile faded.
"nothing."
Ji Shubai turned his head away, sighed and asked, "Do you know the story of Zhuang Zhou dreaming of a butterfly?"
"Know."
Ji Shubai still has to say: "In the past, Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was a butterfly. I don't know whether Zhuang Zhou dreamed that he was a butterfly or the butterfly dreamed that he was Zhuang Zhou. However, there must be a difference between Zhuang Zhou and the butterfly."
After saying that, he looked at Song Jin: "You have to remember, never merge the two into one."
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