Menghualou has become the first teahouse in Bianjing and is famous throughout the capital. Zhao Pan'er thought she could finally live a stable life, but unexpectedly, Bianjing suffered from drought for years, the court's illegal salt sales were rampant, government officials and businessmen colluded, and Menghua Tower was involved in a "tea tax case."
Gu Qianfan was ordered to investigate the case, but was transferred to Yangzhou. Pan'er was left alone to deal with the pressure from the court and the exclusion from the city's shipping merchants' association. The old love rival and "official daughter" Leng reopened the discipline school under the name of "Women's Virtue Forum" in an attempt to suppress the tea house women in Menghua Tower in the name of "poetry and etiquette women" in an attempt to relegate them to "old status".
In order to save herself, Pan'er teamed up with Sun Sanniang, Song Yinzhang and others to organize a "female lecture" on a snowy night, proposing that "there are women in the Book of Songs, and I have myself in the ethics", challenging the current trend of "female virtues only respecting women", and debated scriptures with the old Confucians of Taixue in Baita Temple, leading to the "true copy of the Nine Classics" that had been hidden for many years.
Concept: If a woman is independent, the world will be wider