Queen of flowers - Chapter 70

Since then, Feng Liao’s rebellious heart had been completely ignited!

As long as it was something Shen Taifei liked, Feng Liao would always hate. Whatever Shen Tai Fei hated, Feng Liao would immediately like.

He began to cultivate his own manpower–Yong Ruo knew that Feng Liao’s own manpower had nothing to do with the “King’s Mansion”. He was purely a rebellious young man who wanted to get rid of his mother’s control and fight for independence and privacy.

He also asked his uncle to open the house for him in advance.

After opening the Wangfu, Feng Liao had his own place, his people, and his own financial resources. It was much more convenient to do things.

He successively replaced Taifei’s people with his own ones, which made his life much smoother.

Shen Taifei tried to place girls next to Feng Liao, causing another wave of counter-actions by him. Which subsequently triggered the tragedy of Zhu Ying who attempted to climb high but fell miserably.

The two girls, Yomo, did look good. Shen Taifei and many people in Wangfu boasted of their beauty.

The two of them also had the intention to climb high branches, so they boasted their looks, often dedicated themselves in front of Feng Liao, tried to seduce him intentionally or unintentionally, and they secretly competed with each other.

Unexpectedly, Feng Liao had no feelings for Shen Taifei’s girl, nor he favored them.

He was repeatedly seduced by them and was completely sexually harassed by the two people who he didn’t like, he only felt bored. But at that time, he still gave Shen Taifei a face, and it was not easy to say that Shen’s confident girls were not good, so he was just like a gentleman and ignored the two girls.

Later, Shen Taifei decided to reward these two “good girls” to Feng Liao as concubines.

It was intolerable and Feng Liao exploded! In the presence of Shen Taifei, he devalued the two Shen Fei’s favorite girls, completely breaking their paths, and beating Shen Taifei’s face heavily.

Shen Taifei had been a concubine for a long time, and she was not used to what happened. Her “good intention” was met with such fierce resistance from her son. Naturally, she was so angry that she lost her temper.

Later, as Zhu Ying said, Prince Xing took Feng Liao to apologize to her.

It was just that Prince Xing was also a gentleman. He only talked about “filial piety” and how ridiculous his behavior of “disobedient to parents” was. He completely ignored his rebellious spirit.

Feng Liao was still uneasy at first, and he was reluctant to do so. When his rebellious spirit once again prevailed, he would rather act and cry than plead guilty to confession.

When Prince Xing gritted his teeth, Feng Liao was anxious and thought of “Xunzi”* and immediately reversed the situation.

“… I said at that time, ‘The Emperor has ministers, the country won’t perish; the father has a son, the family will not perish’*. Obviously, the Princess mother doesn’t know how to judge people clearly and does not use them properly. I don’t know how to persuade her. Princess mother is wrong, and she makes mistakes again and again.”

(Xunxi-son, who can bluntly persuade his father.

‘The emperor has ministers, the country won’t perish; the father has a son, the family will not perish.’ The proverb means that if a monarch has a minister who can bluntly persuade, the country will not die; a father who has arrogant persuading Son, the family will not be ruined.)

When he used ‘Xunzi’, he found moral support for his rebellious behavior, and all the anxiety and guilt were swept away.

Therefore, he started his eloquence, exposed all the irregularities he knew about Shen Taifei to the Prince and Princess, and defended his ‘defying his mother’ behavior. This made Shen Taifei leave the stage!

This time, Feng Liao won!.

He was proud but uneasy. After that, for a long time, he had no appetite, restless nights, and repeatedly dreamed that he had angered his mother and was convicted of unforgivable sins, and had to go through thousands of swords … and then awakened from the dream.

Until the night of the Lantern Festival, when he met Yong Ruo, he was uneasy. Yong Ruo said to him at that time, “In essence, etiquette is also something that binds people.”

This sentence completely spoke to his heart! Made him feel that Yu Boya* encountered Zhong Ziqi. It turned out that he was not the only one who was dissatisfied with the etiquette and wanted to resist it! She could say such things, it seemed that she was smarter than him and more thorough than him…

(The legend of Yu Boya and Zhong Ziqi: story exemplifies friendship)

Since then, he had regarded Yong Ruo as a confidant, and it was difficult to give her up.

Yong Ruo felt that the contradiction between Feng Liao and Shen Taifei could be summed up in one sentence, a story that had to be told between an excessive controlling mother and the rebellious adolescent son.

In modern society, most families go through this situation.

But feudal times were different from modern society.

In the feudal era, “filial piety” was the moral foundation (evidence: “a hundred filial piety first”) and a universal code of conduct.

“Unfilial piety” was not only a moral issue, but it had also risen to the legal level, and it was also one of the “ten evil” felonies.

This was actually quite extinct!

It deprived children of their human rights of a dual perspective of law and morals. They were making children a vassal that parents could handle at will. Fathers could kill sons, elders could drown babies, but children and grandchildren couldn’t disobey their parents.

A person of good character, not only must withstand the repression of the elders and the condemnation of the surrounding public opinion, but also had to bear the torment of his own heart-because of the brainwashing education received from childhood to when he came to age that kept telling him, ‘This is wrong! This is totally wrong! This is a “ten evil” felony!’

In this case, those who had been thoroughly brainwashed by “filial piety” would live easier.

Because when they restrained their own passion and love for “filial piety,” they also got a moral superiority. With this spiritual reward, they could compensate for the pain they endured when restraining their own nature!

Feng Liao was the type of person who had not been completely brainwashed but would live a bit in pain.

He did not agree with Taifei’s behavior and was unwilling to be at her mercy, but he could not yell at his elders like those rebellious children in modern society and stubbornly strive for his independence -because it was “unfilial”! It was “ten evils”! That had to endure the double judgment of his heart and the whole society!

All the resistance was tortuous and less effective.

If resistance was unsuccessful, he would be more aggrieved; if resistance was successful, he would probably not feel very happy.

So Feng Liao would ask her, “I’m not a filial son, would you look down on me?”

Yong Ruo suddenly felt that Feng Liao was very pathetic!

She had no moral burden on her against her elders. She just had to stop talking. Feng Liao wanted to resist Shen Taifei’s control but needed to endure greater pressure and deeper suffering.

At present, he had just refused to accept a concubine or two, and had suffered so much pressure and exerted so much effort.

In the future, how much effort and pressure would he need to fulfill his promise to her?

Yong Ruo even felt that her decision at that time was very wise. Instead of dying to take the name of a “wife,” she rationally saw the reality and let him retreat.

Otherwise, she couldn’t guess what the current situation would be or what would happen in the future!

“Ruo Ruo, I can’t be a filial son. I can’t blame my mother for disregarding my mind, right?” Feng Liao said sadly, “What is the cause of the present consequences? What are the consequences? “

Yong Ruo thought about it. She didn’t remain silent, and said, “I can guess. Right or wrong, Wang Ye must judge by himself!”

Feng Liao’s eyes brightened, and she said quickly, “You talk!”

“The cause and effect can be reduced to three words, ‘who is the master’,” Yong Ruo said slowly, “the Princess mother wants to be your master, but you want to be the master yourself. These two contradictory causes will be the result of ‘disagreement’. The cause of your ‘disagreement’ with the Princess mother will eventually lead to two completely different results; First, It’s up to the Princess mother to dispose of it. Second, the Princess mother no longer wants to decide, and it is up to you to dispose of it. Before one of the two appears, there will be a conflict between you and the Princess mother.”

Feng Liao was lost in thought.

After a long time, he said softly, “In the future, I will take good care of my mother and do everything I can to make her live smoothly in return for her giving birth to me. But I won’t let my mother decide my life. Lord! If she wants to intervene in our relationship, I will deal with her to the end … ” His expression was mixed with sadness and relief.

Yong Ruo sighed in her heart, ‘This is a long road of resistance!’

Moreover, Shen Taifei was actually not the big boss; the emperor was!

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