Because of their differing perspectives, when Yi Jue heard that Feng Jun's sect handed out subsidies, she could not help asking, "Isn't that encouraging idlers?"
It really was encouraging idlers! Feng Jun agreed completely, but he still had to uphold Blue Star Realm's dignity. Moreover, he felt that Blue Star's ideas had their progressive side, so he could only smile bitterly. "I told you, there are investment returns."
"Why let others invest?" Yi Jue had a cold temperament and rarely argued with people, but she was clearly taking this seriously now. She was not trying to oppose anything; she was asking earnestly, "Can't they save up on their own?"
"That might not actually work," Feng Jun said, feeling qualified to speak on the matter because he had learned the lesson painfully. "If you can't keep up with the initial accumulation, how are you supposed to save?"
Back then, he had drifted through Sprout City and Friend City too, working hard to save up... but he had not succeeded.
"That means their ancestors left them nothing," Yi Jue's words could not have been more ruthless, yet she said them lightly. "Then they can only work hard themselves."
"Does working hard even help?" Feng Jun felt especially wronged, but he did not dare say that it came from personal experience. "When your starting point is already behind others', working hard is exhausting and still gets you nowhere... that's common too."
Yi Jue did not know that Feng Jun had inserted himself into the situation, so she stated bluntly, "Then the previous generation simply did not accumulate enough. Things like this... depend on luck. You can't blame anyone else."
This was how Heavenly Zither cultivators saw things: work hard, and one's fate was in one's own hands, not Heaven's.
Feng Jun shook his