The afternoon was more leisurely, teasing Li Shu, feeding the fat pig, and before you knew it, the sun was slowly dipping in the west.
When it was time to make dinner, Li Shu, the black-hearted girl, went to her mother Chen’s place to show her performance. A pampered young lady grabbed the picking, washing and cutting of vegetables, and worked diligently and smartly, so Chen could not help but praise again and again, as for Zhu Pingan, he carried two buckets of water to the stove room and carried firewood twice, all of which were disregarded by Chen…….
Mother, do you only have eyes for Li Shu? My son has been fetching water and carrying firewood, and in the past, he would have been praised for doing these tasks.
Is it so hard to get a compliment?
Zhu Pingan, in order to brush his face in front of Chen, after carrying the firewood, sat down in front of the stove again and prepared to burn the fire, however, he still failed.
“What’s the point of you big brats coming together, get out.”Chen saw Zhu Pingan preparing to light the fire, and without saying a word, drove Zhu Pingan out.
“A gentleman is far away from the kitchen~~ You’d better go and warm up your books.”Li Shu had an apron made of linen hanging around her neck, holding washed vegetables in her hand, standing at the door of the cookhouse looking at Zhu Pingan who was being driven out of the cookhouse by his mother Chen, squinting her big watery eyes and lengthening her voice, full of smugness.
A gentleman is far away from the kitchen?
Looking at Li Shu’s complacent appearance, Zhu Pingan couldn’t help but shake his head, pulling the corner of his mouth to leisurely say, “You’re wrong ……”
“Where is it wrong?”Li Shu pouted her cherry lips, “A gentleman is to be far away from the kitchen.”
“A gentleman is far away from the kitchen, this sentence is not the meaning that a gentleman who does great things should stay away from the kitchen, you have misunderstood Meng Zi’s meaning.”Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu and shook his head.
In fact, all along, it was estimated that by now most people were the same as Li Shu who misunderstood this phrase of Meng Zi’s that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, in fact, Meng Zi really did not mean that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, the kitchen was a woman’s world, it was not so.
“How is it not?”Li Shu was sceptical of what Zhu Pingan said, the saying that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen had been heard for a long time, so how could it be wrong.
“This quote from Mencius has to be read in its entirety, ‘A gentleman is also a gentleman to the beasts and animals, seeing their life and not tolerating their death; hearing their voices and not tolerating their flesh.’ This is why the gentleman is far away from the kitchen’. For the birds and beasts, when a gentleman sees them alive, he cannot bear to see them die; when he hears their voices, he cannot bear to eat their flesh. Therefore, a gentleman always stays away from the kitchen.”
“To put it simply, the so-called gentleman is far from the kitchen, but it is just saying that heaven has the virtue of good life, and a gentleman can’t bear to kill, it’s not something that a gentleman doesn’t enter the kitchen ……”
When Zhu Pingan said these words, his eyes kept looking at Li Shu, which didn’t look like much, but the eyes were like a teacher looking at an uneducated bear child, making Li Shu look at Li Shu with itchy teeth.
“You ……”Li Shu puffed up her mouth, somewhat stuttering.
Looked at Li Shu suffered a loss, mother Chen this moment stood out to give their good daughter-in-law out of the head, funny look at Zhu Pingan, holding a rolling pin in his hand gesture to clean up a meal as if asked, “Mengzi said does not count, that mother just said does not count?”
“Count ……”
Zhu Pingan was immediately defeated after Chen’s question, causing Li Shu to cover her mouth and laugh.
Unable to intervene in the cooker room, Zhu Pingan went back to his room and took out the two brushes made by his father and slightly scalded the hairs with hot water before putting one of them away. Took out a piece of rice paper and spread it on the table, studied the ink, dipped the brush into the ink, and wrote eight words on the rice paper: thieves combing the soldier’s comb, killing Liang and risking their lives.
In the morning banquet Huai Ning governor, Huai Ning governor to Zhu Pingan said the recent events in the court, which mentioned Zhu Pingan on the way out of the zhangzuo uploaded. Zhu Pingan did not expect his own zhang fold will cause so much commotion, is also a coincidence, just with two impeachment Yan Song zhang rush up. In addition, also did not expect that the kill Liang risking the merits of the hundred households Zhao Daiying is actually Yan Song promoted, it is said to have long defected to Yan Shifan Yan’s disciples.
Of course, even if he knew about his relationship with Yan Song at that time, he would have impeached. If this kind of person is dealt with one day later, the people will suffer one more day. If an official doesn’t do anything for the people, he might as well go home and sell sweet potatoes. Therefore, Zhu Pingan did not regret it at all.
The governor of Huai Ning showed Zhu Ping An an issue of the Di Di newspaper at the banquet, which was expedited from the capital, and it mentioned that Zhu Ping An should go to the Ministry of Justice to present his case.
Huai Ning governor is about a neutral party, neither the Yan party nor the anti-Yan party, just think of peace and stability over the term, do not go out of business on the line. Zhu Ping’an is Huai Ning people, won the scholar, for Huai Ning governor is a colourful piece of political achievements, so Zhu Ping’an is still very good.
Huai Ning governor even mentioned Zhu Pingan, suggesting that Zhu Pingan might as well go Zhao Wenhua’s relationship, Zhao Wenhua was briefly served as the South Zhili’s mention of the school officer, and it is exactly when Zhu Pingan’s lifts, counting, Zhao Wenhua is also considered to be Zhu Pingan’s seat teacher. With this relationship, it was not too sudden for Zhu Pingan to go to Zhao Wenhua’s relationship.
In addition, Zhao Wenhua’s reputation as a money-grubber was not something hidden in the political circles of Southern Zhili or the Ming.
Of course, the most important point is the relationship between Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song, Yan Song is Zhao Wenhua’s righteous father, this relationship is much more solid than what Zhao Dajing. If Zhao Wenhua is willing to say a few words for Zhu Pingan in front of Yan Song, this matter is not a big deal. It could be solved in any way.
Because of this, Governor Huai Ning suggested that Zhu Pingan should go to Zhao Wenhua’s relations.
However, Zhu Pingan is not prepared to go to the relationship, the body is not afraid of the shadow slant, he did not do bad things why worry about going to the Ministry of Justice to report it. And at the beginning is also prepared for, he impeached Zhao Dajing is not a hot head, he is also well thought out, but also made preparations.
Killing Liang and risking his career, this is not uncommon in history, mainly in the late Ming Dynasty is the most common. There were quite a few that made it to the Ministry of Justice and even to the Imperial Court. Zhu Pingan had seen many such examples in modern times, and how to deal with such things, Zhu Pingan had learnt a lot from them.
Therefore, for this situation today, Zhu Pingan was not worried.
Have a relationship is not it? Likes to kneel at the Ministry of Justice to redress grievances, doesn’t he? You are emboldened, aren’t you? Let my Ministry of Justice to tell the truth, is not it?
Oh, we’ll see.
Zhu Pingan sitting at the table, will have seen in the mind of those who killed Liang risking the example of slowly one by one, will be some of the key points written in the manuscript paper, especially Chongzhen years of those cases, and now the situation is somewhat similar to the significance of the reference, Zhu Pingan focus on the analysis of the record down.
Wait until dinner is ready, Zhu Pingan has recorded a full three pages of rice paper, for the Ministry of Penalty to state the case is also ready.
