Fang Yun shook his head slightly. There were far, far too many incidents like these.
The report that most disgusted Fang Yun concerned a man from Xiang Prefecture who had visited Bianjiang Prefecture in the Qing Kingdom's Xi Prefecture in New Calendar year 187. While praising a little girl, he had patted her head. Local custom in Bianjiang Prefecture forbade married men from touching little girls' heads, so he angered the locals and was beaten and injured.
When the Xiang Prefecture Gazette published this report, it argued that people from Xiang Prefecture should abide by local customs when traveling elsewhere.
Yet not long ago, someone from Taihe Prefecture in Xiang Prefecture had gone to Dayuan Prefecture in the Jing Kingdom's Jiangzhou. The people of Dayuan Prefecture welcomed the visitors and, following local custom, presented gifts wrapped in white silk. The man from Taihe Prefecture flew into a rage and immediately returned to Xiang Prefecture, because Taihe Prefecture's customs forbade wrapping gifts in anything white.
The Xiang Prefecture Gazette savagely attacked the people of the Jing Kingdom for their ignorance of propriety, arguing that hosts should respect their guests' customs rather than impose local customs on visitors from elsewhere.
Whenever Fang Yun thought of these two reports, his stomach turned.
Shameless and base were no longer enough to describe the people who wrote the Xiang Prefecture Gazette.
Fang Yun was about to become a Grand Academician of the sincere intent realm, so he made no attempt to conceal his emotional fluctuations. He acknowledged his loathing for such things, and even suspected that he would probably still frown upon hearing something so disgusting after becoming a Half-Sage.
"There is nothing new under the sun!" Fang Yun's gaze cooled slightly.
Fang Yun flew extremely fast. As he crossed the Yangtze River, its waters