The old man walked slowly to a place not far from us and took the lead in saluting: "I am Pei Haohong, a traitor to Confucianism."

I looked at Pei Haohong and said: "Brother Pei, we came to Shanglin Village originally to find you and ask you to return to Banxian Village to help. Now it seems that it is not necessary, right?"

Xia Chuan, the head of the Xia family, let Xia Mengying go when the crisis in Banxian Village was approaching, just so that she could find the rebels and bring back reinforcements.

After I arrived at Shanglin Community, I have always had a doubt.

Are the black-clothed rebels who have taken over Shanglin Community still in the community?

Now it seems that he has just come back, maybe he already knows that Banxianzhuang has closed the mountain gate.

He didn't go to rescue Banxianzhuang, which already showed his attitude towards Confucianism!

In this case, even if we pray hard, we will not get the results we want.

Pei Haohong nodded and said: "I know your purpose of coming here very well. Banxian Village has nothing to do with me!"

"Understood! Farewell!" Without saying a word, I turned around and wanted to walk out, but Pei Haohong said in a deep voice: "Wait a minute, you can't leave yet."

I looked at the other person again: "Friend, is there anything else you can do?"

As a result, Pei Haohong did not answer my question, but looked at Xia Mengying: "Little girl, we meet again."

"Back then, I saw fifty children in the forest bookstore."

"After they saw me, they were either panicked or very angry."

"Only you can suppress your fear, control your emotions, and not be instigated. You can also stand up and debate with me."

"There are more than fifty children, but you are the only one who can be made."

"I've been waiting for you to come to Shanglin Village all these years."

Pei Haohong said: "I set up this situation in Shanglin Village just to accept a Confucian disciple to inherit my mantle."

"Shanglin Village is a test I leave to everyone."

"In this village, those who keep their promises will not only not be harmed by ghosts and gods, but will also receive generous rewards."

"Even if they are not my entry-level disciples, the rewards I have left for them are enough to make them either rich or noble."

"Unfortunately, no one who arrived in Shanglin Village could pass the test."

Pei Haohong sighed: "I also once doubted whether my requirements were too high?"

"After all, there are not many people in this world who can abide by 'benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom, and trustworthiness'."

"So, I lowered my standards again and again. In the end, only the 'letter' was left."

Pei Haohong sighed: "I didn't even test the righteousness of the people who came, I just tested whether they were trustworthy. I just made them look ugly one by one."

"Sad, deplorable, abominable!"

Pei Haohong looked at Xia Mengying again: "Of the people who entered Shanglin Community this time, you are the only one whose performance is quite remarkable."

"You can go!"

"Everyone else must stay until the next unfaithful person comes and they can't leave."

I looked at the serious Pei Haohong and asked, "Old man Pei, are you kidding?"

"You seem to be not joking!"

"Do you think you're in your right mind?"

Pei Haohong looked at me sideways and said nothing. I continued: "Do you think that when a normal person puts makeup on a dead person, he finds that the other person is sucking his own essence back to life?"

"Should I turn around and run away, or should I risk being sucked into a mummy and have to put on my makeup?"

Pei Haohong said: "We have already made an agreement, and we should keep our promise even if we die on the spot!"

I laughed and said: "Then let me ask you, if you let your minister die, but the minister has to die, is it loyalty or trustworthiness?"

Pei Haohong said: "It is loyalty and faith!"

"Even if the monarch is unjust, the ministers should try their best to help the monarch correct his mistakes. This is the loyalty of the ministers and the trust of the ministers."

I laughed and said, "That's what you think."

"In my opinion, if the king asks the minister to die, the minister can leave; if the king forces the minister to die, the minister can only kill the king."

"What you call trust may be the way of a gentleman, but it is also encouraging evil arrogance."

"No matter how high your cultivation level is or how profound your knowledge is, you are still just a Confucian who is powerful and cunning, or simply a Confucian who is a villain."

Pei Haohong said coldly: "Are you trying to argue with me?"

I said calmly: "When I meet others, I really don't want to talk nonsense. When I meet you, it doesn't hurt if I say a few more words."

"I finally understand now that rebels against Confucianism and evil Confucianism have been stained with evil characters, so why are they still so righteous?"

"Let me be clear, you have read the book crookedly."

"If you were put in Wang Xiaohuan's position, could you finish putting on the dead man's makeup?"

"Definitely!"

"Because you are keeping your promise."

"Are you a man of your word?"

"Definitely!"

"A person who has to fulfill his promise even if his life is on the line, can you say that he doesn't keep his word? Can you say that he is not a gentleman?"

"But, is your Tao worthy of my respect?"

"I can tell you, I have no respect at all!"

"To use the integrity of a gentleman to gamble on the villain's plans, I can only say that that is stupidity, not faith!"
Chapter completed!