“Hello, hello, hello my foot. I don’t agree, I absolutely disagree with you marrying into the Du Gu family.”
“I didn’t say I was going to marry,” Mei Kai Ye shrugged and spread her hands. “It’s just servant gossip.”
“What? You’re not marrying? How can you not marry?”
Mei Kai Ye was speechless, then perfunctorily said, “Okay, okay, I’ll marry.”
“You’ll marry? Our Du Gu family absolutely cannot tolerate a wild woman like you!”
“Then I won’t marry.”
“What’s wrong with my son that he’s not good enough for you?”
After arguing for half a day, the old Du Gu blurted out, “You’re simply unreasonable!” and stormed off.
Mei Kai Ye touched her nose, feeling quite innocent.
The next day, the old Du Gu came again, found a good seat, and ordered a maid to hand a book to Mei Kai Ye. Then the old Du Gu said, “Read this book to me.”
Mei Kai Ye leisurely drank tea, glanced at the old Du Gu, took the book, opened her lips, “Female Precepts.” Then handed the book to the maid.
“What do you mean?” the old Du Gu fumed. “Read the book!”
“I read it,” Mei Kai Ye innocently pointed at the two large characters, “Female Precepts.” She raised two fingers, “I’ve read it twice.”
“You—” the old Du Gu’s eyes widened. “I want you to recite the contents, word for word!”
Mei Kai Ye took another sip of tea, “Female Precepts, warning women.”
The old Du Gu almost died of anger.
“Grandpa, I actually prefer books like the Analects,” Mei Kai Ye said seriously.
“Oh, you’re interested in the Analects,” the old Du Gu’s expression softened slightly, “Then tell me your understanding of ‘Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.'”
“Well, learning without thought leads to death, that is, if you learn something without thinking, you’ll die,” Mei Kai Ye said. “Thinking without learning leads to wearing mourning clothes, ah, that is, if you think a lot but don’t learn new things, you deserve to wear mourning clothes.”
“…” The old Du Gu’s expression grew darker.
