Chen Jingzhou, this was the first time Lin Qianqian heard this name.

A sentence came to my mind: The path to the mountain of books is made through diligence, and the boat to the boundless sea of ​​learning is made through hard work.

Chen Jingzhou doesn't have the money to come to such a place.

His father died early, and he and his mother depended on each other. His family had to support his studies, and his mother lived a hard life with plain food every day.

But just because of a word of appreciation, he mustered up the courage to set foot here.

There stood a man in the lobby who looked poor and shabby. Many people avoided him just because he was wearing rags with patches on them and straw sandals on his feet.

The prostitutes who were soliciting customers knew that they could not get any money from such men, so they fanned their noses and stayed away from them.

"He smells so poor and stinky. Why doesn't mom chase him away?"

"Yes, just like a beggar."

"Go find mom and chase him away."

The madam came and walked straight over, waving her hands and shouting to drive people away, "Get out! If you are not looking for a girl, don't enter the gate of our Zui Hua Yin!"

Chen Jingzhou stood there, his back straight, "I'm here to look for someone, I'm here to look for Miss Lin."

"Looking for a girl?" The madam gave him an incredulous look.

She stared down at his hand-woven straw sandals and said disdainfully, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, you're still looking for a girl?"

The madam put her hands on her hips and shouted at him with gnashing teeth, "Bah! You can't even afford a pair of cloth shoes, how many coppers do you have to spend on my good girls! Go to the street and see if the old lady in the half door has any to sell to you!"

The madam hates this kind of poor and stingy man the most.

She regards such men as the public enemy of women.

The spit splashed on his face. Chen Jingzhou raised his sleeve to wipe his cheek, took two steps back, distanced himself from the rude woman in front of him, and muttered to himself, "Only villains and women are difficult to raise. I'm talking about women like you."

"A real man wouldn't bother with a woman like you."

"Get out of here!"

"Get out! Don't disturb my business!" The madam stretched out her hand to push Chen Jingzhou, using brute force to push him towards the door.

"Can a poor guy like you afford a place like this?"

"Get out of here! Don't infect me with your poverty!"

Chen Jingzhou's stubborn temper came up, he rolled up his sleeves, "You told me to get out, but I won't. You're open for business, why can't I come?"

The madam said, "If you can't pay, get out!"

Lin Qianqian came out and saw the madam desperately pushing a man out, with his body falling forward severely. The man fought against her, the two of them like wrestlers.

Lin Qianqian noticed that he was wearing cloth clothes and straw sandals, and his appearance matched what Qingyin had described.

She took two steps forward and said, "You must be Chen Jingzhou, Mr. Chen. My last name is Lin, so I'm Miss Lin."

Chen Jingzhou looked up and saw Lin Qianqian was stunned for a moment.

He bowed and said, "My surname is Chen, Chen Jingzhou, and my courtesy name is Zizhen."

Chen Jingzhou raised his hands to salute Lin Qianqian. The madam suddenly lost the support of her opponent and fell forward with an unstable center of gravity.

Lin Qianqian noticed from the corner of her eye that the madam was being helped up by the servant, and she said to Chen Jingzhou, "Come with me."

It was Chen Jingzhou’s first time entering a brothel. After looking left and right, he still felt very strange.

The place was decorated very fancy and the smell of perfume was very strong. There were many men and women hugging each other and being affectionate in the corridor.

Arrogance and debauchery are his first impression.

Lin Qianqian invited him into the house, asked Qingyin to pour some good tea, and put out the melon seeds and snacks that she had asked someone to buy outside.

"Mr. Chen, please be at your leisure. Please enjoy."

"Thank you." Chen Jingzhou sat in his seat stiffly and took a sip of hot tea.

His eyes lit up.

He looked at Lin Qianqian and asked, "Why is this tea sweet?"

Lin Qianqian smiled and said, "There's some honey in it. This is honey tea."

"The weather is getting drier and drier, and honey moisturizes the lungs and relieves coughs."

Lin Qianqian took out the saved article and said, "This article you wrote touched my heart. I agree with it, but I don't dare to agree with it. I wonder, Mr. Chen, under what circumstances did you realize that there is no karma in this world?"

Chen Jingzhou sighed, "If there is karma in this world, then why does my mother have such a hard life? If there is karma, why do good people die while bad people live well? If there are ghosts, they should drag all the bad people into hell? If there are gods and Buddhas, why don't they save those innocent and kind people at the critical moment of life and death."

“So, I don’t believe that there are gods, Buddhas, or ghosts in this world.”

"If there are gods, they are kind and helpful people. If there are ghosts, the evil ones are ghosts and monsters."

Chen Jingzhou said, "My hometown once erected a monument for a living person. Because he did a lot of good deeds, he later died and a temple was built for him. People burn incense to worship him and ask for his blessing. I think such a person is a god."

Chen Jingzhou's words suddenly reminded Lin Qianqian that many gods believed by Fujianese were also human beings. For example, the goddess Mazu did exist and saved many people during her lifetime. She began to be deified during the Northern Song Dynasty. People built temples to worship her, and Song Gaozong named her Lady Linghui, becoming a god recognized by the court.

She is worshipped in more than 28 temples in 6000 countries and regions! From the Song Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty, emperors of successive dynasties honored her 36 times.

The existence of the belief in the goddess Mazu has influenced people to this day, but she was a low-class fisherman during her lifetime.

Why did an ordinary person become a god? It was because she was the god that the common people really needed, the god they chose. The influence of the common people was so great that even the imperial court had to acknowledge her.

Lin Qianqian sighed in her heart, yes, only such a wonderful woman, who saves people so selflessly, can be a god who saves people from suffering.

She silently said in her heart: Please ask Mazu to bless me.

Such a woman also lived in a feudal society. She was not as talented and learned as the noble ladies in ancient times. She never married after finding a good husband. However, she was loved by the common people. She gave them hope to live and believed that someone would help them when they were on the verge of life and death.

Lin Qianqian's heart was filled with infinite strength just by thinking of her deeds.

In feudal society, it really takes great courage for a woman to save others, and such female heroes should be worshipped as gods.

Modern knowledge can obviously save many people, help many people change their lives, and revitalize the entire country. Let alone modern agricultural hybridization knowledge, just the suggestion to the emperor to bring foreign corn, potato and sweet potato seeds back in advance to solve the domestic food crisis can save many people from starvation, which is enough for the people to worship her as a goddess and build a temple to worship her. However, in the domestic fighting novel, she became the mistress who stole the heroine's man and the tool to set off the heroine's IQ. She was criticized everywhere in the novel and attacked by readers everywhere.

Lin Qianqian felt a wave of sadness.

Maybe it feels better to slap such a highly educated "mistress" in the face and let the wife teach her. Although you are beautiful and educated, you are a "mistress" and "steal my husband." It feels so good to defeat such an enemy.

Lin Qianqian wanted to say: Stop fantasizing, I really don’t like your husband.

Modern education has washed away male chauvinism for many years, and modern girls can't stand male chauvinism with a strong "daddy flavor" (preaching, self-centered).

If you travel back to ancient times, would you still look for an authentic feudal primitive brain from three thousand years ago, educate people with "Women's Virtues" and "Women's Precepts" every day, punish people to kneel, and whip your "living father" at every turn?

If modern people travel back to ancient times, not getting married would be their destiny.

If the author of this book portrays the prince as a feudal primitive with a tough personality, he will be disciplined every day no matter how obedient he is. In an era where men are the sky, a married daughter is like spilled water, and her husband's family can abuse her at will.

And if the prince has a tough and overbearing personality, there will be no room for the heroine to manage the backyard and exercise her power.

Ultimately, it is a right given to her by men.

After a conversation with Chen Jingzhou, Lin Qianqian felt the overlap in their thoughts.

With common topics and common views, Lin Qianqian realized the beauty of the phrase "feeling like old friends at first sight".

It's like this with some people. Just talk to them for a few minutes and they're happy because they've found a like-minded friend.

For the first time, she felt an urgent urge to make friends.

Lin Qianqian said to Chen Jingzhou, "Brother Chen, we just had a brief conversation and it seems like we have a common goal. I want to make friends with you. Are you willing?"

Chen Jingzhou was a little surprised, "Miss Lin..."

Lin Qianqian smiled and said, "We are good friends who drink tea, chat and eat together. If it is even better, we can be friends who interact with each other and help each other."

Lin Qianqian's mind flashed back to the time when she was in school, when she studied together and ate in the cafeteria together. That simple and pure friendship was so beautiful.

"To be honest, I don't have any close friends here. Your insights and your articles make me feel like we've known each other for a long time. I feel like your thoughts are on the same level as mine, and we're somewhat compatible."

The woman looked sincere and her eyes were serious.

This was the first time Chen Jingzhou received a friendship request from a woman.

There wasn't a trace of flattery or belittlement in her eyes; instead, she looked straight at him with appreciation.

He felt as if the two of them were standing on the same horizon.

"Could it be that Master Chen thinks that I am a woman, and a prostitute, and therefore feels that my status and position are not worthy of me?"

"No, no." Chen Jingzhou waved his hands hurriedly.

He lowered his head and clasped his hands in front of him.

"Ms. Lin, this is the first time I have made friends with a woman like you. I don't know what to do. Besides, I don't have many friends in my life. I am only good friends with a cousin."

"I have a strange personality and my family is poor, so many people don't want to associate with me."

"The article I wrote was criticized a lot, and no one agreed with my point of view. They shouted at me whenever they saw me."

"I scolded some powerful people before... My classmates and friends were afraid of me and didn't dare to associate with me."

Hearing that he dared to scold the powerful, Lin Qianqian felt that this person's temperament was very similar to hers.

Lin Qianqian laughed, "Hahaha, you are so brave. You and I are really alike. I have also scolded the rich and powerful before..."

"Really?" Chen Jingzhou's eyes suddenly lit up, and he put his hands on the table with some excitement.

He looked at Lin Qianqian in disbelief, "Miss Lin, you are a woman, yet you have such courage."

"You are amazing."

"You don't know that many men's knees become weak when they see the powerful and they kneel down automatically."

"I admire you, really."

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