The afternoon time was more leisurely, teasing Li Shu, feeding the fat pigs, and before I knew it, the sun was slowly slanting westward.

When it was time to cook dinner, Li Shu, a black-bellied girl, went to her mother Chen again, a pampered eldest lady rushed to pick vegetables, wash vegetables and cut vegetables, and worked diligently and neatly, so that Chen couldn't help but praise and praise, as for Zhu Ping'an, he brought two buckets of water to the stove room and hugged firewood twice, which was ignored by Chen

Mother, do you only have Li Shu in your eyes? My son is a man who fetches water and firewood, and he will be praised for doing these jobs before.

Is it that hard to get a compliment?

In order to brush his face in front of Chen, Zhu Ping'an took firewood, and then sat in front of the stove to prepare to light the fire, but he still failed.

"What are you doing, get out." Chen saw that Zhu Ping'an was about to light a fire, and drove Zhu Ping'an out without saying a word.

"The gentleman is far away from cooking~~ You better go to the book." Li Shu wore an apron made of linen around her neck, held washed vegetables in her hand, stood at the door of the stove room and looked at Zhu Ping'an, who was driven out of the stove room by her mother Chen, squinting her big watery eyes and lengthening her voice, full of pride.

Gentleman is far away from cooking?!

Looking at Li Shu's smug appearance, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but shake his head, and said leisurely with the corners of his mouth, "You said something wrong."

"What's wrong?" Li Shu pursed her lips, "A gentleman just wants to cook far away." ”

"A gentleman is far away from cooking, this sentence does not mean that a gentleman who does big things should stay away from the kitchen, you misunderstand the meaning of Mencius." Zhu Ping'an looked at Li Shu and shook his head.

In fact, for a long time, it is estimated that most people have misunderstood Mencius's sentence like Li Shu, but in fact, Mencius really does not mean that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen, and the kitchen is a woman's world, which is not the case.

"Why not?" Li Shu was skeptical of what Zhu Ping'an said, the gentleman has been talking about it for a long time, how could it be wrong.

"This sentence of Mencius must be read in its entirety, 'A gentleman is also to an animal and a beast, and he cannot bear to see his death; Hearing its voice, I can't bear to eat its flesh. It's a gentleman who is far away from cooking'. A gentleman can't bear to see birds and beasts die when he sees them alive; When you hear their voices, you can't bear to eat their flesh. So, the gentleman always stays away from the kitchen. ”

"To put it simply, the so-called gentleman cooks far away, but it just means that God has the virtue of a good life, and a gentleman can't bear to kill, but it's not that a gentleman doesn't go into the kitchen."

When Zhu Ping'an said these words, his eyes kept looking at Li Shu, which didn't seem to be anything, but his eyes looked like the teacher was looking at a bear child who didn't learn and didn't know how to learn, which made Li Shu's teeth itch.

"You" Li Shu puffed out her mouth and stammered a little.

Seeing that Li Shu suffered a loss, Mother Chen stood up for her good daughter-in-law at this moment, looked at Zhu Ping'an funny, and asked as if she was about to clean up with a rolling pin in her hand, "What Mencius said doesn't count, does what the mother just said count?"

"Count"

Zhu Ping'an was immediately defeated as soon as Chen asked, and Li Shu, who provoked her, covered her small mouth and smiled.

couldn't get his hands on the stove, so Zhu Ping'an went back to the room, took out the two brushes that his father had made and scalded them with hot water a little, and then put one of them away. took out a piece of rice paper and spread it on the table, grinded the ink, dipped the brush in ink, and wrote eight words on the rice paper: The thief combs the grate, kills the good and riskes the merit.

When Huaining Zhixian was invited to the banquet in the morning, Huaining Zhixian told Zhu Ping'an about the recent events in the court, which mentioned the letter that Zhu Ping'an played when he left. Zhu Ping'an didn't expect that his twists and turns would cause such a big movement, which can be regarded as a coincidence, just in time to come with the two twists and turns to impeach Yan Song. In addition, I didn't expect that Zhao Daying, the one who killed good and risked his merits, was actually promoted by Yan Song, and it is said that he had already taken refuge in Yan Shifan and became the disciple of the Yan family.

Of course, even if he knew about his relationship with Yan Song at that time, he would have been impeached. If this kind of person is dealt with one day later, the common people will suffer one more day. If you don't make decisions for the people, it's better to go home and sell sweet potatoes. Therefore, Zhu Ping'an does not regret it at all.

Huaining Zhixian showed Zhu Ping'an issue of the Di newspaper at the banquet, which was sent urgently from the capital, and the Di newspaper mentioned that Zhu Ping'an should go to the Criminal Department to present his case.

Huaining Zhixian is about a neutral, neither a strict party nor an anti-strict party, so he thinks that he has passed his term of office in peace and stability, just don't go on a business trip. Zhu Ping'an is a native of Huaining, and winning the champion is a strong political achievement for Huaining County, so he still has a good impression of Zhu Ping'an.

Huaining Zhixian even mentioned Zhu Ping'an, suggesting that Zhu Ping'an might as well take a look at Zhao Wenhua's relationship, Zhao Wenhua briefly served as the promotion officer of Nanzhili, and it happened to be Zhu Ping'an's appointment when he was raised, counting, Zhao Wenhua can also be regarded as Zhu Ping'an's teacher. With this relationship, Zhu Ping'an's relationship with Zhao Wenhua is not abrupt.

In addition, Zhao Wenhua's reputation for greed for money is not a hidden thing in Nanzhili or in the political circle of the Ming Dynasty.

Of course, the most important point is the relationship between Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song, Yan Song is Zhao Wenhua's father-in-law, and this relationship is much more solid than that of Zhao Daying. If Zhao Wenhua was willing to say a few words for Zhu Ping'an in front of Yan Song, this matter would not be a big deal. It's easy to solve anything.

It is precisely because of this that Huaining Zhixian suggested that Zhu Ping'an go to Zhao Wenhua's relationship.

However, Zhu Ping'an is not ready to go to the relationship, he is not afraid of shadows, why worry about going to the criminal department to explain the situation if he hasn't done anything bad. And he was also prepared at the beginning, he was not hot-headed when he impeached Zhao Daying, he was also thoughtful and prepared.

This is not uncommon in history, mainly in the late Ming Dynasty. There are many troubles to the criminal department, and even to the front of the emperor. Zhu Ping'an has seen many examples of this in modern times, and how to deal with this kind of thing, Zhu Ping'an has also learned a lot from it.

Therefore, Zhu Ping'an is not worried about today's situation.

Does it matter, doesn't it? You like to kneel in the criminal department to redress grievances, don't you? Fearless, isn't it? Let me tell the criminal department, won't you?

Hehe, we'll see.

Zhu Ping'an sat at the table, slowly went over the examples of killing good and risking the merits that he had seen in his mind, and wrote down some of the key points on the manuscript paper, especially those cases in the Chongzhen period, which are somewhat similar to the current situation, which is very meaningful, and Zhu Ping'an focused on analyzing and recording them.

By the time dinner was ready, Zhu Ping'an had already recorded three pages of rice paper, and he was ready to go to the criminal department to tell the story. (To be continued.) )