Chapter 54: Debating the Lecher

Wang Yang acted uninterested: "Forget it, if I win against you later, you will find fault and get angry, and then bring up old accounts or something, it's too tiring."

He wanted to take this opportunity to block Xie Xinghan's mouth, so that if Xie Xinghan brought up the old grudge in the future, he could say it was because she lost in pure conversation, so she was jealous and looking for trouble.

"Stop talking nonsense! I will talk to you! But if you lose, be my slave for ten days, serve tea and water, listen to my orders, be willing to work, and let me beat and scold you!"

Childish...

Not as practical as something else.

Wang Yang said: "Alright. But if you lose, you help me copy a book, copy three hundred copies within six days, can you do it?"

Xie Xinghan raised her eyebrows: "How many volumes, how many words?"

"Not many, only one volume, more than four thousand words."

Xie Xinghan said indifferently: "Simple. I will hire ten copyists, each copying five copies a day."

"The content of the book cannot be leaked within six days," Wang Yang added.

"Can do, I will detain them in the mansion and release them after six days."

Being rich is good!

Wang Yang couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

If he had the capital to hire people, he wouldn't have to use the method of betting.

"Xie girl, if you lose, you have to return the 'Zhuangzi Commentary' handwritten by Guo Xiang to me," Zong Ce added.

Xie Xinghan smiled slightly: "Can do. But if I win, you have to give me that 'Laozi Dao De Jing Commentary' with Wang Bi's seal."

Zong Ce was anxious: "If you win, don't you have Brother Wang to be your slave?"

Wang Yang: →_→

So you don't want to spend a cent at all!!!

Xie Xinghan said: "That is a bet between me and him, and naturally it is separate from Uncle Zong."

Zong Ce looked at Xie Xinghan and then at Wang Yang, feeling very conflicted in his heart.

On one hand, Wang Yang's "Zhuangzi Affection Theory" is wonderful. If it is brought into pure conversation, it will definitely convince Xie Xinghan.

But on the other hand, pure conversation is not just about establishing arguments, but also about debating. Zong Ce came too hurriedly and didn't know Wang Yang's debating talent.

Just as he was in a dilemma, Wang Yang said casually: "It's just a volume of 'Dao De Jing', bet it."

Zong Ce was dissatisfied with Wang Yang's light tone: "It's just a volume of 'Dao De Jing'?! Brother Wang, do you know what dynasty's copy this is—"

"It doesn't matter what dynasty it is, because she can't win."

Zong Ce widened his eyes, seeing Wang Yang with bright eyes and black eyebrows, standing tall, his expression faint. In the breeze, his white clothes fluttered, making him look even more divine. His brain heated up, and his confidence rose inexplicably: "I believe you, bet!"

Xie Xinghan glanced at Wang Yang, her expression indifferent.

But her heart was thinking: I really want to beat him, what should I do...

Sunlight poured down, light clouds passed by.

Xie Xinghan and Wang Yang sat opposite each other.

Xie Xinghan's eyes were cold, looking at Wang Yang; Wang Yang smiled back at her.

The debate had not yet started, but the atmosphere was already tense.

Zong Ce grabbed the lead: "Brother Wang has the 'Zhuangzi Affection Theory', please let Brother Wang be the host, and explain the theory."

When there are only two people in pure conversation, one is the host and one is the guest.

The "host" first explains the theory, and then the "guest" refutes it, and the host answers. This is the general procedure of pure conversation.

Zong Ce grabbed the role of "host" for Wang Yang, naturally because he had confidence in Wang Yang's "Zhuangzi Affection Theory," wanting Wang Yang to take the lead and catch Xie Xinghan off guard.

Xie Xinghan laughed:

"What's the point of taking prepared things? He establishes the Zhuangzi Affection Theory? Then I might as well establish the 'Lecher's Lust Theory'."

This was originally a sentence to satirize Wang Yang, and the last six words were specially emphasized, but Wang Yang immediately interrupted:

"Xie Niangzi is wrong. I think the lecher is not a lustful person. Getting married and having children is human nature, how can it be called lustful? Song Yu wrote the 'Lecher's Lust Rhapsody', which is really biased and doesn't distinguish the situation, wronging the lecher."

When Wang Yang said "wronged," he imitated her and emphasized the words heavily.

"Lecher's Lust Rhapsody" is Song Yu's masterpiece, which tells about the lecher slandering Song Yu as lustful in front of the King of Chu. Song Yu said that the woman in the east neighbor was beautiful, and she climbed the wall to peek at him for three years, but he didn't agree to associate with her. And the lecher's wife was extremely ugly, but the lecher gave birth to five children with his ugly wife in a row! Finally, Song Yu asked: "The King carefully examines it, who is the lustful one?"

From then on, the lecher became synonymous with lust.

Xie Xinghan's white fingers rested on the teacup, tapping gently:

"His wife has messy hair and twisted ears, protruding lips and exposed teeth, walking sideways and hunchbacked, and is both scabby and hemorrhoidal. And the lecher likes her and has five children, if this is not lustful, what is?"

"Not disliking his wife for being ugly just shows that he is not a lustful person. And having children with his wife is heaven's justice. If having five children is lustful, then Yao had ten children and Shun had nine children. Does Xie Niangzi mean that Yao and Shun are both lustful rulers?" Wang Yang asked back.

Xie Xinghan was slightly startled. She was just quoting words from Song Yu's article, but she never expected Wang Yang to borrow the topic and play it, opening a pure conversation topic directly.

She didn't want to show weakness and argued:

"Not disliking his wife for being ugly is not that he is not lustful, but that he is lustful to the point of being unpicky. Having children is not lustful, but in the midst of being unpicky, indulging his desires and having five children in a row, then lust is known."

Wang Yang saw Xie Xinghan sitting like a pine, with a small pretty face, talking nonsense righteously, and found it funny:

"Indulging his desires, do you know what 'indulging his desires' means?"

Xie Xinghan's jade face turned red, and she was slightly flustered, but soon recovered, saying calmly:

"Confucius said: 'Too much is as bad as too little', and also said 'regulate it with etiquette', 'indulging desire' is 'not restrained', 'not restrained' is 'too much', and too much is 'lustful'."

Xie Xinghan was not led astray by Wang Yang and always kept to the point.

Wang Yang immediately grabbed Xie Xinghan's words and questioned:

"Marrying an ugly wife and having five children is not restrained, who stipulated this?"

"Me," Xie Xinghan answered righteously.

Wang Yang was stunned: "What right do you have to stipulate?"

"Because I established the argument that the lecher is 'lustful', then the definition of lust is up to me. I say this is not restrained, then it is not restrained."

Xie Xinghan picked up the tea, took a small sip, with a leisurely attitude.

This was almost sophistry, but it was really hard to refute for a while.

Zong Ce looked at Wang Yang nervously, afraid that he would have nothing to say.

Wang Yang decided to set a hook for this little beauty who was good at debating:

"If according to your definition of 'lustful', then am I also called lustful?"

Xie Xinghan didn't bother to answer, her eyelashes drooping, with an expression of "what do you think."

Wang Yang continued to induce: "Then according to what you said, lust is really not a derogatory term."

Xie Xinghan despised: "Of course it is a derogatory term."

Wang Yang said slowly:

"Gaozi said: 'Food and sex, nature.' The 'Book of Rites' says 'eating, drinking, and men and women, human desires exist there.' 'I Ching' takes Qian and Kun as the foundation; the 'Book of Songs' begins with the singing of 'Jujiu'. The sages don't even avoid talking about it, where does the derogatory term come from?"

In one breath, he listed four classics, coming aggressively.

At this point, Wang Yang successfully opened the second battlefield of the debate topic and began to encircle! ===== CHAPTER 55 =====