Actually, only children around her age were taught these Analects. Xie Zhen was only five years old, and she couldn’t have learnt this text, so how would she be able to know? Everyone present could tell that Gao Tongtong had deliberately made things difficult for the Xie elder miss, yet none of them spoke up . Leng shi’s expression changed, and just when she wanted to rescue her little lamb from the difficult situation, unexpectedly, little lamb, in a crisp voice, asked, “Older sister Gao, why do you ask me this, do you think I am that sort of person?”

Gao Tongtong, taken aback, asked, “What?”

Xie Zhen recited calmly. “Zi Gong said: Do not do unto others what you do not wish others to do unto you. Confucius replied: Yet this is still beyond you.”

In actuality, Xie Zhen hadn’t really studied the Analects of Confucius. It just so happened that there had been once where in Xie Liqing’s study, while looking for picture books, she had accidentally found this book. Xie Liqing was a scholar and had off-handedly told her a few sentences to let her learn, and coincidentally one of the sentences was the one Gao Tongtong had asked her to recite.

To put it simply, the meaning behind this sentence was, I am not willing to accept other people’s unreasonableness, nor am I willing to be unreasonble to others. In response, Confucius said, you have yet reached that stage.

Gao Tongtong had only asked casually, not expecting a five-year old to be able to answer and turn the situation around. Upset, and unable to find a way to diffuse the situation, a flush rose up her neck and face. After a long while, she finally said, “…That is correct”.