Chapter 519： The gentleman far away cooks

Chapter 519 The Gentleman Stays Away from the Kitchen

The afternoon was relatively leisurely, teasing Li Shu, feeding the fat pig, and before I knew it, the sun was slowly setting to the west.

When it was almost time to make dinner, Li Shu, a black-bellied woman, went to her mother, Mrs. Chen, to show off again. A spoiled young lady rushed to pick and wash vegetables and cut them. Exaggeration, as for Zhu Ping'an carrying two buckets of water to the stove and holding firewood twice, Chen ignored them.

Mother, is Li Shu the only one in your eyes? My son has fetched water and firewood, and he used to be praised for doing these jobs.

Is it so difficult to get a compliment?

In order to wash his face in front of Mrs. Chen, Zhu Pingan hugged the firewood and sat in front of the stove to light the fire again, but it still failed.

"You little brat, why don't you join in the fun, get out quickly." Seeing that Zhu Pingan was about to light the fire, Mrs. Chen drove Zhu Pingan out without saying a word.

"Gentlemen stay away from the kitchen~~ You should study hard." Li Shu hung a linen apron around her neck and held washed vegetables in her hand. She stood at the door of the kitchen and watched as she was driven out by her mother Chen Zhu Ping'an in the kitchen squinted his big watery eyes and stretched out his voice, full of complacency.

A gentleman far away from the kitchen? !

Seeing Li Shu's proud expression, Zhu Ping'an couldn't help but shook his head, and said with the corners of his mouth, "You're wrong."

"What's wrong?" Li Shu pursed her lips, "A gentleman just wants to stay away from the kitchen."

"A gentleman stays away from the kitchen. This sentence does not mean that a gentleman who does great things should stay away from the kitchen. You have misunderstood what Mencius meant." Zhu Pingan looked at Li Shu and shook his head.

Actually, for a long time, it is estimated that most people have misunderstood Mencius’s sentence that a gentleman should stay away from the kitchen like Li Shu. In fact, Mencius’ meaning is not 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 expressed doubts about Zhu Pingan's words. The saying that a gentleman stays away from the kitchen has been heard for a long time, so how could it be wrong.

"This sentence of Mencius has to be read completely. 'A gentleman is like a beast. He sees its life, but cannot bear to see it die; When they are alive, I can't bear to see them die; when I hear their voice, I can't bear to eat their flesh. Therefore, the gentleman always stays away from the kitchen."

"To put it simply, the so-called gentleman stays away from the kitchen, but it means that heaven has the virtue of being good at life, and a gentleman can't bear to kill. It's not that a gentleman doesn't go into the kitchen."

When Zhu Pingan said these words, his eyes kept looking at Li Shu. It seemed nothing, but his eyes were like a teacher looking at an ignorant child, which made Li Shu's teeth itch.

"You..." Li Shu puffed up her mouth, and she was a little frustrated.

Seeing that Li Shu suffered a loss, his mother, Mrs. Chen, stepped forward to stand up for her good daughter-in-law at this moment. She looked at Zhu Ping'an amusedly, and asked with a rolling pin in her hand as if she was about to clean up, "Mencius said Doesn’t count, does what the mother just said count?”

"Calculate"

Zhu Ping'an was immediately defeated as soon as Mrs. Chen finished asking, which made Li Shu cover her mouth and laugh coquettishly.

Unable to put his hands in the stove, Zhu Pingan went back to the room, took out the two brushes his father had made, scalded their hair with hot water, and then put one of them away. He took out a piece of rice paper and spread it on the table, grinded the ink, dipped the brush in the ink, and wrote eight characters on the rice paper: A thief combs his soldier's grate, kills the good and pretends to be meritorious.

When the magistrate of Huaining was entertained in the morning, the magistrate of Huaining told Zhu Pingan what happened in the court recently, and mentioned the memorial that Zhu Pingan played before leaving. Zhu Pingan did not expect that his memorial would cause such a big commotion, it was a coincidence that it happened to coincide with the two memorials to impeach Yan Song. In addition, I didn't expect that Zhao Daying, who killed the good and pretended to be meritorious, was promoted by Yan Song. It is said that he had already joined Yan Shifan and became a disciple of Yan's family.

Of course, even if I knew his relationship with Yan Song at the time, I would impeach him. If this kind of person is dealt with one day late, the common people will suffer one more day. When an official does not make decisions for the people, it is better to go home and sell sweet potatoes. Therefore, Zhu Pingan did not regret it at all.

The magistrate of Huaining showed Zhu Ping an issue of the mansion newspaper at the banquet, which was urgently sent from the capital, and the mansion newspaper mentioned that Zhu Pingan should go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to make a statement.

The magistrate of Huaining County is probably considered a neutral faction. He is neither a strict party nor an anti-strict party. Zhu Ping'an is from Huaining, and winning the first prize is a remarkable achievement for the magistrate of Huaining, so he still has a good impression of Zhu Ping'an.

The county magistrate of Huaining even mentioned Zhu Ping'an, suggesting that Zhu Ping'an might as well get involved with Zhao Wenhua. He is Zhu Ping'an's teacher. With this level of relationship, it's not too abrupt for Zhu Pingan to leave Zhao Wenhua's relationship.

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

Of course the most important point is the relationship between Zhao Wenhua and Yan Song. Yan Song is Zhao Wenhua's adoptive father. 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.

Because of this, the county magistrate of Huaining suggested that Zhu Ping'an should seek out Zhao Wenhua's relationship.

However, Zhu Ping'an is not going to make a relationship. He is not afraid of the shadow slanting. Why worry about going to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs to express his feelings if he has not done anything wrong. And it was well prepared at the beginning. I didn't impeach Zhao Daying in a moment of enthusiasm. I also thought it over and made preparations.

It is not uncommon in history to kill good people and pretend to be meritorious, and it was most common in the late Ming Dynasty. Many made troubles to the Ministry of Punishment, and even to the imperial court. Zhu Pingan has seen many examples of this in modern times, and he has learned a lot from them on how to deal with such things.

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

Is it related? Do you like to kneel at the Ministry of Criminal Justice to appeal for grievances? Feel confident, right? Let me tell the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, right?

Hehe, we'll see.

Sitting at the table, Zhu Pingan slowly went through the examples of killing the good and pretending to be meritorious service that he had seen in his mind one by one, and wrote some of the key points on the manuscript paper, especially those cases during the Chongzhen period, which were somewhat different from the current situation. It is similar and has great reference value. Zhu Ping'an focused on analyzing and recording it.

By the time dinner was ready, Zhu Pingan had already written three pages of rice paper, and was ready to go to the Ministry of Criminal Justice to express his feelings.

(end of this chapter)