After the college entrance examination, life began to follow one's heart

Chapter 112: Visiting Shang Wanjun’s dormitory again, Shang Wanjun’s Hanfu?

After seeing Lei Haolong off, Xu Lin went straight back to the dormitory.

Xu Lin remembered that he had to return the book tonight, so he picked up the copy of "Zhuangzi's Discourse" and flipped through it.

With his extraordinary memory, Xu Lin memorized almost all the contents of the book of more than 400 pages after just 20 minutes of flipping through it. If he was given another 20 minutes, he could even memorize even the punctuation marks.

But it's almost okay.

Besides, for most people, after reading a book once, they can only remember a few things.

Soon it was time for the class meeting.

Except for the first class meeting at the beginning of the school year, the subsequent class meetings actually had little content, with the student union members just coming to take attendance.

Xu Lin sat at the back of the classroom.

It was almost time for the class meeting to start when Rong Xiyan came in from the back door of the classroom with her long legs.

But even so, there were still many people looking at her intentionally or unintentionally.

Tonight, Rong Xiyan was wearing only a short-sleeved shirt and ultra-short jeans. Her long, white legs were swaying. I wonder if these were the most beautiful legs in the University of Finance and Economics.

So, boys and girls couldn't help but look at her.

When Rong Xiyan saw Xu Lin, she sat down next to Xu Lin and at the same time put a black plastic bag containing something on Xu Lin's thigh.

At this time, Xu Lin was sitting next to the aisle, and on the other side of the aisle was Liu Longsheng.

Liu Longsheng saw Rong Xiyan give Xu Lin a black bag, and he didn't know what was inside.

He remained calm and didn't appear to be making any movement, but he couldn't help but glance at Xu Lin from the corner of his eye.

"what is this?"

Xu Lin was curious and wanted to open the bag.

"Can you please not open it here?"

Rong Xiyan glared at Xu Lin.

"Then open it tonight!"

Xu Lin didn't care.

But he touched the bag and found a rectangular box inside.

Based on his many years of experience in buying underwear, he knew that there must be underwear inside.

Liu Longsheng on the other side became even more curious.

What's in this bag?
He was puzzled and wished Xu Lin would open the box right now.

Rong Xiyan saw the "Zhuangzi Zhenhuan" placed on the table by Xu Lin.

"What kind of book is this?"

"It's the book on interpreting Zhuangzi. I borrowed it from my counselor a while ago."

"You actually still read this kind of book?"

Rong Xiyan looked at him with some disdain, "Are you pretending to be cultured?"

She was a little skeptical that Xu Lin could read.

Xu Lin gave Rong Xiyan a wise look and said, "You are right!"

Rong Xiyan glared at him again.

"Start the roll call now!"

At this moment, the student union members came in and started to call the roll. Sometimes the counselor might be responsible for this kind of call, but most of the time it was the student union's responsibility to prevent the class assistants from taking advantage of the situation. After all, some students might travel around the country during the holidays, or even fly abroad, and occasionally some students would not return after the holidays. If something went wrong, the school would have to take responsibility.

After the roll call, Xu Lin remembered that Rong Xiyan had said before that she wanted to join the student union, and she remembered it was the broadcasting department.

The student union member who was called out tonight happens to be from the broadcasting department.

"You joined the student union?"

“I passed the interview!”

"Oh."

Xu Lin suddenly realized.

Rong Xiyan held one cheek and played with her mobile phone, looking at Xu Lin from time to time, wanting to say something but stopping herself several times. Her expression was like someone who wanted to borrow money from someone but didn't dare to ask.

But Rong Xiyan obviously didn't want to borrow money.

"Xu Lin..."

Finally, she mustered up the courage.

"What do you want to say?"

"me……"

"What do you mean by 'I'? You're being so fussy. Can you be more straightforward?"

"Can you send me your mother's WeChat?"

Rong Xiyan took a deep breath and prepared herself to be rejected by Xu Lin.

"I'll give it to you."

Xu Lin thought it was something else.

"Thank you!"

Rong Xiyan saw the message Xu Lin sent on WeChat. If it weren’t for the class meeting that was going on here, Rong Xiyan would have wanted to scream excitedly.

"Don't tell my mom about me, or she'll nag you."

"Don't worry, I'm too lazy to tell you!"

Rong Xiyan no longer paid attention to Xu Lin and mustered up the courage to click to add a friend.

"What should I leave a message for?"

Before adding a friend, you must leave a message, of course, you don’t have to leave a message.

But if you don’t leave a message, people won’t know who you are.

Rong Xiyan didn't know how to leave a message for a moment.

"I am Rong Xiyan?"

"Hello, Auntie, I'm Rong Xiyan."

"Auntie, I'm Rong Xiyan, can I add you as my friend?"

Rong Xiyan thought of several messages, but she was so nervous that she didn't know what message to write for a moment.

In fact, this is a very simple thing, but for Rong Xiyan at this moment, it is a very difficult thing.

After Xu Lin recommended Ms. Ren's number to the other party, he ignored Rong Xiyan next to him.

During the class meeting, Xu Lin was waiting for Shang Wanjun to come out.

However, until the end of the class meeting, Xu Lin did not see Shang Wanjun. Generally speaking, as a counselor, Shang Wanjun would appear at every class meeting.

Xu Lin still has to return the book.

You can't take it back to the dormitory, right?

"Teacher, why don't I see you?"

A minute later, Shang Wanjun replied.

"I'm resting in the dormitory. I twisted my ankle this afternoon."

Shang Wanjun twisted her leg while walking up the stairs in the afternoon.

In fact, just take a break. Shang Wanjun is not that delicate.

But an old leader of the school found out about it and directly approved leave for Shang Wanjun, saying, "Xiao Shang, just have a good rest tonight."

Shang Wanjun was naturally not polite and was now in the dormitory.

As for the old leader, he was still sending messages on QQ to ask about his well-being, so Shang Wanjun directly sent him a message saying "do not disturb".

It’s impossible to add him on WeChat.

If Shang Wanjun blinks now, a bunch of men will rush to her in the school.

This is the power of beauty.

However, Shang Wanjun was a person who enjoyed herself by enjoying her own music. In her eyes, these men were just ordinary people, and she didn't bother to pay attention to them. "Oh."

"Xu Lin, do you want to return the book?"

"Correct."

"Come up to my dorm."

"Ok."

Xu Lin was not polite. After the class meeting, he headed straight for Shang Wanjun's dormitory.

dong dong.

As soon as I knocked on the door, Shang Wanjun came out to open it.

Xu Lin glanced at Shang Wanjun and saw no signs of her twisting her foot. She walked normally, even though she was wearing slippers. She also wore pajamas in the dormitory, which were very common. There was nothing wrong with her.

In my impression, Shang Wanjun always wears long skirts and high heels, which makes her look very elegant. This is the first time I see her like this.

"Xu Lin, sit down!"

"Thank you, teacher."

Xu Lin sat down on the sofa and handed the book to Shang Wanjun.

Shang Wanjun took over "Zhuangzi's Disputes".

"Xu Lin, what do you think of this book?"

Shang Wanjun flipped through the book. In fact, she had finished reading it a long time ago and just bought it to collect it.

Xu Lin thought for a moment, "It's hard to comment on the master's writings, but I prefer the 'Xiao Yao You' chapter..."

Xu Lin had already flipped through the book in the afternoon, and only lacked the punctuation marks. The content that had already entered his mind was equivalent to having gone through it once in his mind and understood it thoroughly, so Xu Lin began to talk about it freely.

Shang Wanjun smiled faintly and said, "I also prefer the chapter of 'Xiao Yao You'..."

Then Shang Wanjun talked about the ideas in "Xiao Yao You". In fact, the original text was learned in high school, and many people have memorized it by heart. The content itself is not much, but the ideas in it are very grand. The ancients emphasized the simplicity of the great way, and many truths were expressed in just a few sentences, but they are very interesting when chewed carefully.

While chatting, Shang Wanjun took "Liezi Yishuo" from the bookshelf. It consists of three books, divided into two volumes.

"Xu Lin, have you heard of Lie Zi?"

"No."

To be honest, Xu Lin only knew three of these philosophers: Laozi, Confucius and Zhuangzi.

Shang Wanjun smiled and said, "When Laozi was leaving Hangu Pass to the west, a man named Yinzi stopped him and asked him to leave behind the original version of the Tao Te Ching, which is the so-called Taoist thought. This thought was passed on to Yinzi, who passed it on to Liezi, and after Liezi came Zhuangzi. Most people only know Laozi and Zhuangzi. Their thoughts are more acceptable to the secular world, while Liezi's thoughts are relatively... well, it should be said that they are unique!"

"How do you find a new way?"

Xu Lin asked casually.

"You should have heard of Liuxia Hui sitting in a circle without getting tangled, right?"

“I’ve heard of this.”

Liuxia Hui, who remained calm even when a woman sat on his lap, is a well-known figure. It is also used to describe a man who is not lustful and has high moral standards.

Shang Wanjun said, "In Confucianism, Liuxia Hui is touted as a sage. What is a sage? In traditional values, a sage is a perfect person without selfish desires. However, in Liezi, a man named Yang Zhu criticized Liuxia Hui for not being a true sage. He was merely obsessed with the desire to be pure and free from desires. He still had desires, just like us ordinary people, so he cannot be called a sage."

"Isn't Yang Zhu asking too much?"

Xu Lin replied.

"The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was the heyday of various schools of thought, with various ideas bursting out and colliding, and the Yang Zhu school was one of them."

Shang Wanjun continued, "The key isn't the high or low standards Yang Zhu set, but the critical thinking. For example, Xu Lin, let's study this question: Liuxia Hui remained calm even when a woman's arms were bent. Do you think this is true?"

Xu Lin thought about it, "If it were an ordinary person, it would definitely be fake. If she were a beautiful woman, ordinary people would not be able to resist her charm. And if she were ugly, ordinary people would not let her sit in their arms."

In fact, there are three versions of the story of Liuxia Hui who remained calm when a beautiful woman sat in his arms, namely, hiding from the rain in an ancient temple, holding his sister in his arms to keep her warm, and the king's beauty trap. The unanimous idea is that Liuxia Hui was a man of noble morals. The most popular version is the one in which he let the beautiful woman who was suffering from cold sit in his arms to keep her warm. However, this version is probably the most difficult for normal people to understand.

"What else?" Shang Wanjun asked.

"But if there really are people with such high moral standards, I can't understand it. Maybe such people can really do it."

Xu Lin suddenly thought of Song Yu and said, "In the 'Ode to the Lustful Man,' Song Yu was spied on and seduced by his eastern neighbor's daughter for three years, but he didn't overstep the bounds, did he?"

In the original text, the daughter of the east neighbor is a stunning beauty. If we really talk about realm, Song Yu may be much better than Liuxia Hui.

If a beautiful woman seduces you for a few hours and you can hold on, you are a gentleman. But if your beautiful neighbor next door seduces you every day, wearing yoga pants today, black stockings tomorrow, and translucent pajamas the day after tomorrow, who can resist it?
The former is Liuxia Hui and the latter is Song Yu.

Shang Wanjun said calmly, "Many things in ancient times were exaggerated. Liuxia Hui was touted as a sage, Song Yu boasted of himself as a gentleman, and the Twenty-Four Filial Exemplars were even more exaggerated, beyond the comprehension of ordinary people. There are countless similar examples in ancient times. These ideas were uniformly conveyed from the ruling class to the general public to stabilize society and consolidate their rule. Therefore, we must be sufficiently critical and dialectical in our approach to the world's problems."

"Teacher, you are right."

Xu Lin thought that he would definitely not be able to win the argument.

"Xu Lin, do you agree with me?"

"Agree."

Shang Wanjun smiled, feeling an imperceptible sense of satisfaction.

At this time, Shang Wanjun handed Xu Lin the three volumes of Liezi Yishuo. "This set of books starts from the eighth chapter of the original text of Liezi, that is, it talks about it from the end. The ideas in it are very interesting. You should take it home and read it!"

Finally, Shang Wanjun added: "The Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period was truly a brilliant era, with diverse ideas colliding and bursting forth, and great thinkers shining like stars. For example, many people may only know of Laozi and Zhuangzi in Taoism, but not of people like Yang Zhu, whose ideas were completely different from those of Laozi and Zhuangzi. This is a reflection of the diversity of thought. However, as history progressed, the more dominant a single school of thought became, and Confucianism gradually deteriorated over thousands of years of development."

Xu Lin took the book, opened the first volume and flipped through it.

In fact, Xu Lin doesn’t like reading this kind of books. He even doesn’t like reading books at all and finds it boring.

Fortunately, he now has an excellent memory, so he just needs to flip through the book and it won’t take much time.

"Teacher, can I use the restroom?"

"The toilet is inside."

Xu Lin was in a hurry to pee, so he went to the toilet.

Coming back from the bathroom and entering the living room, Xu Lin accidentally saw a lavender and white Hanfu hanging on the hanger next to him.

Shang Wanjun still wears Hanfu?
Xu Lin was a little surprised.

Shang Wanjun usually wears long skirts and high heels, which makes her look elegant and bookish, and she can't give Xu Lin the impression that she would wear Hanfu.

Who wears Hanfu?

As for girls, Hanfu is mostly worn by little girls. In fact, it is similar to the girls who cosplay, and most of them are little girls.

Xu Lin never thought that a girl like Shang Wanjun would wear Hanfu.

But when Xu Lin thought about it, it seemed very reasonable. Shang Wanjun was a literary youth who studied Chinese classics. It was normal for him to like traditional culture and Hanfu!
Shang Wanjun also noticed Xu Lin looking at her Hanfu, but didn't say anything.

However, when Xu Lin looked at Shang Wanjun, he saw a line of words above her head.

【A young man who wants to visit a traditional culture corner. 】

What is the traditional culture corner?
Xu Lin knew about traditional culture, but he didn't understand why there was a "角" at the end.

【Traditional Culture Corner+. 】

Xu Lin saw the new prompt appear and immediately clicked it silently.

[Triggerable quest: Shang Wanjun's wish.]

[Note: The Traditional Culture Corner is an event that brings together many traditional cultural elements. Shang Wanjun wanted to go to this event, so she specially prepared Hanfu, but she was hesitant to go.]

[Note: The event will be held next Sunday. Accompany Shang Wanjun to participate in the event to complete the task. Completing the task will earn you a fixed skill reward.]

After a period of exploration, Xu Lin realized that these tasks with only one reward were small tasks and very simple.

I don’t know what skill it is, but Xu Lin must get it, otherwise it would be a waste not to get it.

So Xu Lin boldly asked, "Does the teacher also wear Hanfu?"

"Hmm, I'm a little curious..."

Shang Wanjun sat there, very dignified.

"Oh."

Xu Lin just nodded without saying much. Next Sunday was still ten days away. Xu Lin would think about it during this time and then go to the event with Shang Wanjun to get the reward.

"Teacher, I have to go back to the dormitory. I won't bother you anymore."

"Ah."

Then Xu Lin picked up three books and left.

(End of this chapter)