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Chen Ping'an was unaware of the deeper considerations behind this, and he simply treated this as an ordinary conversation between two people where one was asking questions and one was answering. He nodded and accepted the cup of tea, drinking a small sip.
After experiencing the perilous calamity on Osmanthus Island, Chen Ping'an had come across that old boatman who had admired and loved Lady Gui for many hundreds of years. He was the first boatman for Osmanthus Island, and he was also Lu Chen's only servant before the former ascended from the world. He and Lu Chen had traveled across the seas and journeyed all around the world.
Back then, Chen Ping'an had experienced a strange dream where he had entered a book and finished reading it in a single night. Afterward, he had conversed with the old boatman in the small world that the latter had created with a single wave of his hand. In the end, the old boatman had surprisingly exclaimed, "Don't try to ruin my Great Dao!"
At the time, Chen Ping'an had been roughly comparing the notion of reason to the two ends of a ruler.
He felt like the old boatman's reasons had gone to an extreme. They appeared reasonable on the surface, yet they were in fact unreasonable.
This was because they weren't complete enough. They failed to adhere to the concept of "The Mean[1]" described in the books.
Meanwhile, the root of Daoism was described by the phrase, "The Dao follows nature[2]."
Thus, Chen Ping'an could vaguely recall someone telling him something when he had read the book in his dream. The principles of Confucianism never existed in lofty and unreachable places. It wasn't important how lofty these principles were, and it was only important whether these principles could be applied in real life.
That person had even smiled and said that the knowledge of the Paramount Sage of Confucianism was already...
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