Regarding Ruyi, Ping An just lowered his head and smiled innocently, scratching his head along the way.
If he wasn't a dull person, how could he be a penniless official, let alone a Jing Zhaoyin?
"Sister, why are you kicking me?"
Ruyi kicked him and said, "Look at how stupid you are."
Ping An opened his mouth and thought for a long time but did not refute.
Ruyi snorted softly and asked: "Let me ask you, you haven't gone back, not because you are too busy, but because you don't have money, right?"
Ping An hesitated for a moment, "I..."
"It looks like it is."
Ruyi continued: "Some people write very well in their letters. They talk about how they can enjoy happiness in the capital and how they can be rich, but in the end they are stubborn. Where is your money?"
Ping An explained: "With so many people in the house, naturally they also need to eat."
Ruyi asked: "You are like this, why do you still have so many servants?"
Ping An's lips opened slightly, but after thinking for a while, he didn't say anything.
"I'm asking you something!"
"them……"
Ping An sighed and said: "A few years ago, there was a snowstorm in the capital. It was so bad that year that many people died and there were many homeless people. Your Majesty cares about the people, so he promised all the officials to find these things." People who make a living are brought into the palace and become servants, so they have a little bit of food to eat."
Ruyi was stunned for a moment, then opened her mouth and asked: "Are there so many people? There are more than 20 people in your house, and there are so many officials in the court."
Ping An hesitated and said: "Well... at that time, it all depended on how many people he was willing to take. Those who took more would get more, and those who took less would get less..."
"Then what you receive is considered too much or too little."
"I am the most."
Ruyi was so angry that she laughed when she heard this.
"Lord Wang!"
This slightly ironic title came out.
Ping An was shocked and said, "Sister, please don't do this."
"Master Wang is so kind-hearted! You can hardly afford food yourself, but you still have to help so many people?"
"Sister, please speak in a lower voice, they will hear you, that's not good."
Ruyi also restrained her voice a little after hearing this.
"I won't talk about you anymore."
Ruyi pursed her lips and asked again: "What about your salary? I heard before that His Majesty was very proud of you and rewarded you with a lot of money. Where did it go?"
"Building bridges and building roads..."
"Build a bridge? What kind of bridge to build and what kind of road to build?"
Ruyi opened her eyes and looked at him and asked: "Isn't that what the Ministry of Industry is supposed to do? Shouldn't the required money be taken from the Ministry of Household Affairs? What are you doing?"
Ping An trembled and said quickly: "According to the charter, the Ministry of Household Affairs should allocate funds and the Ministry of Works for repairs, but the problem is that the Ministry of Household Affairs has no money..."
"After I became Jing Zhaoyin, I went to the countryside to observe and found many difficulties. Most of them were actually roads."
"Many people from the countryside have to walk dozens of miles to sell things in the city. There is a river thirty miles south of the capital city. The river is turbulent and there is no bridge. To cross here, you have to detour more than twenty miles. !”
"However, for some people who want to go into the city, if they take a detour, they will be late. The morning market in Shangjing City has the most people. After the time, it will be difficult to sell things."
"It's okay to get up early and stay up late at night, but there are old people lying on the bed at home, or there are children waiting to be fed. With this busy work, I don't know how early I have to get up. The old people and children can't get up so early like them."
"Once I watched an old man who was nearly fifty years old crossing a river. He was shivering in the cold wind, but he could only swim carefully in the river. I asked him why he didn't cross the river faster. He unfolded his clothes and exposed
He took out the eggs inside and said he couldn't move them too fast because they would spoil. His grandson is still relying on these eggs to buy medicine for his illness."
"I couldn't bear it, so I used my own money to appeal to the Ministry of Industry."
Ruyi looked at him after hearing this, but did not speak for a long time.
Ping An lowered his head and suddenly said with a bit of strength: "Sister, the bridge has been built."
"I can't change it back."
Ruyi didn't know whether to laugh or cry after hearing this, and said: "Who wants you to change it back?"
She looked at Ping An and opened her mouth but seemed to hesitate.
Finally he spoke.
"I'm too lazy to talk about you."
Ruyi left such words and stood up to leave.
"Hey, sister?"
Ping An looked at it, but he was a little confused.
Sister, what does this mean?
What does it mean to be too lazy to talk to me?
He stood in the study room and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw his sister leaving.
To be honest, he is still a little afraid of his sister. He doesn't dare to talk back when her sister lectures him. He has been like this since he was a child, and he will still be like this when he grows up.
Ping An doesn’t understand either.
…
After Ruyi walked out of the door, she saw the broken tiles falling under the eaves. She looked up and saw that a piece of the tile that came out was missing. It seemed that a long time had passed and there was no repair.
She wondered how she could have such a stupid brother.
The roof tiles are broken and there is no repair, but they are thinking about building bridges and roads for others.
"well……"
Ruyi is a little worried.
What worries her is that Ping An has indeed become a good official, but in her heart she doesn't want Ping An to be a good official.
Being a good person rarely ends well.
This is true in the world of martial arts, and so is being an official.
Ruyi couldn't understand it better.
But she also knew that Ping An was no longer the little brat he was before. Whatever she could figure out, Ping An could also figure out, but in the end he still did it.
Ruyi doesn't know how to evaluate this stupid brother of hers.
She scolded him harshly, made him kneel down, and made him eat standing up. They were all lessons in and out of words, but in fact Ruyi really felt sorry for Ping An in her heart.
Ruyi always felt that Aniang named her brother Ping'an because she wanted him to be safe, not to make others feel safe.
Is it possible that I got the wrong idea?
Ruyi doesn't understand either, she is petty and just wants to be safe and sound.
However, Ping An seems to want everyone he meets to be safe, and wants those who are suffering to be happy as soon as possible.
Peace has grown up...
The civet cat came from behind and came to Ruyi's feet.
"What are you looking at?"
Ruyi lowered her head and saw that it was civet flower. She squatted down and said, "I didn't see anything."
Lihua glanced at her and said, "Ruyi has something on his mind."
Ruyi opened her mouth and said, "I'm just a little sad."
"hold head high?"
Ruyi said: "When I was young, I often bullied Ping An, and he never fought back, even if it was unreasonable. But now that I have grown up, I have to find reasons to bully him, no matter what I say.
He didn’t talk back, but if it didn’t make sense, I couldn’t say anything wrong with him.”
The naive and ignorant Lihua looked at Ruyi and said in disbelief.
"Ruyi made Ping An kneel down. Doesn't that count as bullying?"
Ruyi paused and said, "That's different."
"Why is it different?"
"Hey, it's different, it's different."
Lihua looked at her blankly and said, "Ruyi is really bad."
"Um?"
"You still have to make excuses when you bully others."