The fourth year of Yongzheng's reign.
In a leisurely courtyard in Jinan, Shandong, Yinzhen was drinking tea and practicing calligraphy to pamper his wife. After writing half a word, he looked up at Jiang Ranli and saw that his wife was reading a play with relish. A smile appeared on the corner of his lips, and then he pinched a piece of cloud cake and put it to his wife's lips. After she ate it, he brought tea to her.
Turning his eyes away from the play, Jiang Ranli looked at him with a mixture of amusement and anger, "How long have you been writing this article "Three Obediences and Four Virtues"? From this morning till now, you have only written ten words."
The so-called "Three Obediences and Four Virtues" is a summary of Jiang Ranli's modern mocking words, namely: follow your wife when she goes out, obey your wife's orders, and blindly follow your wife when she makes mistakes... and so on.
As for why Yinzhen had to write all this, it was because one night in a dream, Jiang Ranli suddenly remembered that Yinzhen had punished her to write "Female Training". Rage rose in her chest and she felt evil. She pulled Jiang Fan to ponder over the modern male version of the Three Obediences and Four Virtues. After summarizing it, she punished him to write it silently a hundred times.
When he heard his wife talking about the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues", Yin'er's handsome and evil face was full of grievance, and he felt extremely regretful. If he had known that one day he would have to recite the male version of the "Three Obediences and Four Virtues", he would not have punished his wife by making her copy the "Female Training".
"My dear wife, please don't be angry since your husband is already 'dead' and has been renamed Seth Black. Don't worry, after you fall asleep, your husband will work day and night to recite the 'Three Obediences and Four Virtues' a hundred times."
Hearing this, Jiang Ranli looked at Yinzhen with sympathy. In order to persuade Yinzhen to let her and Yinzhen go, she suggested that Yinzhen choose a suitable time to announce Yinzhen's death to the world. In this way, a dead person would no longer pose a threat to him.
This is how Yinzhen was escorted to Baoding. In fact, before being escorted, he received a secret decree, which mentioned the plan of faking his death.
Yinzhen had no objection to this. He had never been interested in the throne. As long as Jiang Ranli was safe, he would be willing to live in anonymity for the rest of his life.
"The Fourth Master is too petty. He actually gave our Ai Jiu Master the name Seth Black, just like in history," Jiang Fan came over, waving a folding fan, and sighed as he spoke.
Because Yinzhen was stripped of his yellow belt and declared dead, he is now called Ai Jiu. The Ai Jiu mentioned by Jiang Fan is referring to him. (For convenience, he will still be called Yinzhen in the text.)
Hearing Jiang Fan's words, Yinzhen instantly became interested and asked, "What kind of person am I in history?"
Hearing this, Jiang Ranli and Jiang Fan looked at each other, and both saw a hint of ridicule in each other's eyes.
After the eye contact, Jiang Ranli spoke first, "In history, you were extremely lustful, uneducated, and only cared about pleasure all day long. You are truly detestable to both humans and gods."
Jiang Fan nodded frantically and agreed, "Li'er is right. You have a very bad reputation in history. Forget it, I won't say anything more to avoid making you sad."
Yinzhen was stunned by what they said, and at the same time, he felt helpless. Was he that bad? He didn't defend himself against being extremely lustful. After all, many people now called him lustful. Who was it that made him accept everyone who came and took them into his backyard? Although he had never touched those women, it would be a shame to say that he was uneducated and unskillful.
He may not be the best among all the princes, but he is well-versed in ancient and modern knowledge. How come he has the reputation of being unlearned?
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