Is he teasing me

Chapter 405 Finale

A month later.

In the pottery class, the teacher taught the essentials of pottery making in detail on the stage. A dozen young students, with their hands full of mud, imitated the teacher's techniques on the clay throwing machine. Zhang Moyan was the most serious student among them. The teacher couldn't help but call on all the students to look at her, which made Zhang Moyan very embarrassed and she almost dug a hole in the clay.

  Now she finally recognized kaolin. Although it was still early for her to master it, she believed that hard work could make up for her shortcomings. One day, she would be able to become a master.

Fortunately, she later found out that the three pieces of celadon-glazed porcelain that Xiao Xingyu gave to Jin Xueyang were imitations of Xiao Guotao's works. Thanks to Xiao Xingyu's courage and cleverness, otherwise she would really have become a sinner of the Xiao family, not just a sinner of the country.

"Zhang Moyan, please come out for a moment. Someone is looking for you in the small conference room!" The consultant teacher suddenly knocked on the door and waved for her to go out.

  Zhang Moyan went to the sink to wash off the mud on her hands and wiped it on her body twice. No one should know her here, so why would someone look for her?

When she walked into the small conference room, the person waiting for her stood up. It was a completely unfamiliar uncle, about fifty years old, with a square face and a very intellectual look.

"Hello, may I ask who you are?"

The uncle extended his hand: "Hello, Miss Zhang, I am Huang Wei, an orthopedic surgeon at Shenhai People's Hospital. I am so glad to have found you!"

"Oh!" Zhang Moyan remembered the name and shook hands with the uncle. "You are my grandfather's doctor, right? My grandfather mentioned you before he passed away and asked us to send him to you for treatment. He said you would definitely be able to cure him."

When the uncle heard these words, his expression became sad: "Thank you Professor Chen for thinking so highly of me."

Zhang Moyan asked: "Do you know me?"

"Professor Chen showed me your photo."

"Oh, I wonder what you want to talk to me about, Dr. Huang?"

"It's like this," Doctor Huang picked up a small bucket from a chair nearby, which looked a bit like a thermos bucket used for delivering meals. "I'm here to give you something that Professor Chen left with me. When Professor Chen was alive, he told me that if anything happened to him one day, I must give the thing to you, his granddaughter."

Zhang Moyan took the bucket in confusion: "Really...what's in it?"

"Professor Chen said it was a very rare glaze, and it was her daughter who found it for him with great difficulty."

Zhang Moyan looked up in surprise: "Glaze? Did her daughter find it?"

Doctor Huang nodded in affirmation: "Yes, Professor Chen said it is used for making ceramics, but I don't know the details."

Zhang Moyan's palms were sweating, and he unscrewed the lid of the bucket with some trembling. Sure enough, there was a bag of sealed powder stuffed in the stainless steel liner.

  She immediately understood that what she was holding in her hand was the ancient celadon porcelain glaze that Chen Yun had swindled from the Geng family!

At the same time, this also confirmed that Chen Yun had indeed stolen the Geng family heirloom and delivered it across the ocean to Chen Guanfu.

"How come this glaze is here with you?" Zhang Moyan asked Dr. Huang.

Dr. Huang said with deep emotion: "This glaze was originally in Japan. Professor Chen had wanted to bring it back to China for a long time, but due to surveillance by the Japanese, he had not been able to successfully return to China. Professor Chen finally had to hide it in the plaster of his broken leg, and that's how he finally brought it back. After Professor Chen returned to China, he treated his leg injury in our hospital. I was his attending physician. He told me about this glaze and entrusted it to me during our face-to-face consultation. Professor Chen told me that this was a treasure that our country had lost overseas, and asked me to keep it for him."

  Zhang Moyan was deeply shocked, and immediately thought of the situation where her grandfather needed a wheelchair when he first returned to China. It turned out that he had used this method to sneakily bring the Geng family's ancient glaze back to China!

He was a genius in getting the glaze into the plaster on the leg!

"In addition, there is a network disk account for you." Doctor Huang took out a prescription from his pocket and gave it to her. "This is written by Professor Chen himself. He said that all his life's research results are stored on it. The password is the code of your kinship certificate."

Zhang Moyan took the prescription, and the elegant black handwriting appeared on the paper. A strange, distant, yet intimate and warm feeling suddenly came over her, instantly blurring her vision.

She brought the glaze to Huarui International Hospital and waited for an hour before visiting Geng Jun. It was beyond her expectation that she could meet him without an appointment.

After handing the glaze to the other party and explaining the origin of the glaze, Geng Jun asked her to wait for a moment and called Geng Baishan, who was visiting Zhou Xia, from the inpatient department to the scene.

Geng Baishan took over the ancestral glaze that was lost and recovered, and his initially impatient and arrogant attitude softened in an instant.

"This Chen Guanfu..." Geng Baishan wanted to comment on him, but after searching for a long time, he still couldn't come up with a single word.

"You just got the glaze and you're coming back to us right away?"

Geng Baishan couldn't believe that there was such a fool in the world, even though the property had now been returned to its original owner.

Zhang Moyan: "I don't have a safe place to keep it."

Geng Baishan: “…”Okay.

"So does Xiao Xingyu know that you returned the things to us?"

Zhang Moyan shook her head and asked, "Do you need him to know?"

Geng Baishan was stunned by the question and coughed twice: "That's right, this is your freedom, you don't need to go through Xiao Xingyu!"

"But aren't you afraid that he will criticize you for doing something wrong after he finds out?"

“There are always people who think things are right, and there are always people who think they are wrong.”

Geng Baishan looked at Zhang Moyan with admiration: "Well said! You are much more sensible than the Xiao family! You did the right thing in this matter. This is something passed down from our Geng family's ancestors. If I lost it, I would be too ashamed to face my ancestors. Fortunately..."

Geng Baishan held the small bucket of glaze with tears in his eyes. He suddenly thought of something and said, "Miss Zhang, although it is your responsibility to return the property to its original owner, we still have to thank her. Regarding your mother's matter... considering what you did today, let it go. If you need our help in the future, as long as our Geng family is able to do so, we will definitely do our best!"

Zhang Moyan thought for a moment and said bluntly: "Xingyu mentioned to Dean Geng before that he wanted to borrow your kiln for cooperation. I wonder if Mr. Geng can facilitate it? If so, I am willing to share my grandfather's research materials with everyone."

  Geng Baishan was stunned. He didn't expect this girl to be so generous. He also didn't expect this girl to be so bold as to ask for the use of their firewood kiln. It was really not easy to marry into the Xiao family!

But looking at her expression, it seemed like she had no idea how serious a matter it was to borrow the wood-fired kiln, nor did she understand how valuable Chen Guanfu's research materials were.

"Is this Xiao Xingyu's idea or Xiao Guotao's idea?" Geng Baishan couldn't help but ask.

"That's what I meant. You asked me just now. No one knew that I returned the glaze to you."

Geng Jun also helped to speak up: "Ms. Zhang, the wood kiln can be fired once a year. We have already made a plan for this year, so it is impossible to borrow it. Next year or the year after..."

Geng Jun left the words to Geng Baishan, who rolled his eyes at him and said, "Girl, you just married into the Xiao family, so you don't know. Cooperation has happened in history, but it ended in unpleasantness and turned into enemies. You see, we are now living in peace with the Xiao family. We are colleagues and comrades-in-arms, and we are working together to bring glory to Chinese ceramics on the international stage. How great is that! If we become enemies because of a failed cooperation, it would be more harm than good. What do you think?"

Zhang Moyan glanced at Geng Baishan and said, "Mr. Geng is too eloquent. The ancestors of each family at least bravely tried to cooperate, right?"

Geng Baishan: "Uh, yes."

Zhang Moyan asked: "Are we worse than the ancients?"

Geng Baishan was choked with speech. Although he was an eloquent man, he had never found it so difficult to argue. It turned out that the truth was simple.

Zhang Moyan didn't want to make the situation too awkward. Anyway, she didn't expect to borrow someone else's firewood kiln just by saying a few words.

"Is Zhou Xia doing okay now?" Zhang Moyan asked about another thing that concerned her.

Geng Jun said: "She has some reaction to external stimulation now. Next month I will take her to the United States for further treatment. I am confident that I can make her sober within a year!"

Zhang Moyan was sincerely happy: "Great, you are really a great doctor!"

Geng Jun said cheerfully: "If it's fast, maybe it won't take a year. If possible, I would like to hold a wedding with you and Xiao Xingyu! Now I have convinced both parents, they will not stop me and Zhou Xia from being together!"

Geng Baishan put his hands behind his back and said unhappily: "You little bastard, I just can't bear to part with my grandson!"

Zhang Moyan lowered her head. What about the wedding? Her marriage with Xiao Xingyu was almost dead in name only! What happened a month ago caused Xiao Xingyu to be in a coma for three days. She took care of him and he disappeared the second he opened his eyes. She really didn't know how to face him and his family.

After a while, when she is mentally prepared, she will take the initiative to file for divorce. It is best not to contact her through emails. It is better to let Xiao Xingyu stay away from her and not let her ruin him. Oh, it is better not to think about these.

The days go by one after another, and every day is repetitive. Today, the pottery class said that they can provide job introductions after graduation. I was quite looking forward to receiving this news.

At noon, I had lunch with the students in the restaurant and listened to them talking about their husbands and children. Although they complained, every word they said was actually a show of love and sweetness. Zhang Moyan felt that even the braised pork ribs were not delicious anymore.

"Zhang Moyan, your phone is ringing!"

After being reminded, she picked up her phone. It turned out to be a video call from her mother-in-law, Meng Xiaoya! Zhang Moyan quickly wiped the oil off her mouth and answered the call.

"Mom,...why are you in the hospital?"

In the video, Meng Xiaoya was wearing a hospital gown, lying on the bed with tears in her eyes: "Mo Yan, my illness has relapsed! I just heard the doctor tell my assistant that I only have half a year to live... Woohoo, Mo Yan, what should I do?"

The sudden news made Zhang Moyan at a loss: "Mom, don't cry, I'll go see you wherever you are now!"

I rushed to Meng Xiaoya's ward in a hurry. Meng Xiaoya was curled up on the bed in a daze. She looked extremely pitiful, as if the sky had fallen.

"Mom?" Zhang Moyan sat carefully beside her bed.

Meng Xiaoya was stunned for a moment, and tightly grasped Zhang Moyan's hand: "Moyan, you're here! I'm so scared, I don't want to die so young, I just got a wife and I don't have a grandson yet..." Meng Xiaoya couldn't help crying again, and Zhang Moyan followed with tears and hugged her in his arms: "Mom, it's okay, we will cooperate with the doctor's treatment, I will also work hard, you will definitely be able to hold your grandson."

"really?"

Zhang Moyan patted Meng Xiaoya on the back: "Of course it's true."

I don't know where the confidence to deceive people comes from.

"Mom..." The door of the ward was opened in a hurry, and a man with a top-notch appearance, figure and temperament rushed in. When he saw the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugging each other, his tongue was a little uncontrollable, "You, what you said on the phone... is it true?"

The moment Zhang Moyan saw Xiao Xingyu, her heart skipped a beat.

Meng Xiaoya stroked her hair proudly and straightened her back. "Of course it's fake! I came here for a physical examination yesterday and the doctor just showed me the report today. I can live another 30 years!"

Zhang Moyan was stunned: "Mom? You..."

Xiao Xingyu was also speechless: "Ms. Meng, you actually joked about this, I was scared to death!"

He was talking to Meng Xiaoya, but his eyes were always on Zhang Moyan, and his heart was beating faster than when he rushed here!

"How can I keep you two together if I don't do this?" Meng Xiaoya smiled and put Zhang Moyan's hand on her heart. When she saw Xiao Xingyu, her eyes immediately turned cold and stern. "When are you going to face Moyan? You are as timid as a mouse, which is not like me at all! Well, Moyan has already expressed her position to me. She wants me to hold her grandson. In nine months, I will have a child to play with! Well, it's your turn now. Tell me what you are going to do?"

"Mo Yan, do you really say that?" Xiao Xingyu asked with his handsome eyes wide open.

Zhang Moyan pursed her lips. If she had known that Ms. Meng was faking illness, she would not have said that. Now, Xiao Xingyu was embarrassed.

Xiao Xingyu was overjoyed and said in a rude manner, "Isn't it good to have a granddaughter? Why does it have to be a grandson? Ms. Meng, you have a problem with your preference for boys over girls! Also, you want to have a grandson in nine months? You are not sick, why are you in such a hurry!"

A pillow flew through the air and hit Xiao Xingyu's handsome face accurately. Ms. Meng was furious and said, "Unfilial son! Why did I give birth to such a thing as you?"

Every word Xiao Xingyu said was a rejection, and Zhang Moyan felt like a clown.

"I'm sorry..." She quickly stood up and said goodbye before tears fell, leaving the scene as quickly as possible.

"Mo Yan, wait for me!" Xiao Xingyu's voice came from behind.

Zhang Moyan quickened her pace and ran. When she saw Xiao Xingyu just now, her heart was still pounding. She was not mentally prepared to hear him asking for a divorce! She felt suffocated by those few words just now. If she heard Xiao Xingyu say something more escalating, she might hug his legs like a useless woman and beg him not to leave.

bang...

Captured from behind by the huge inertia, Zhang Moyan froze in surprise. The arms that tightly clasped her arms made her a little unbelievable for a moment.

"Mo Yan, don't go..." Xiao Xingyu begged in her ear with an unstable voice, "Are you still angry with me? You don't want to see me and don't even want to say a word to me..."

Zhang Moyan felt that Xiao Xingyu was about to cry. She turned around in a daze and looked at him again and again in disbelief.

"I swear, I didn't mean it when I said you were unqualified to be our daughter-in-law or that it was hard to mend a broken relationship. I just wanted to provoke those two Japanese devils to throw me into the river! I deserve to die, I farted, I'm sorry, Mo Yan, can you forgive me?"

Xiao Xingyu grabbed Zhang Moyan's hand and slapped his handsome face left and right, attracting the attention of people coming in and out of the hospital.

"Don't do this." Zhang Moyan retracted her hand awkwardly under the gaze of countless people.

But the next moment, her hand was grabbed again, and she was dragged forward by Xiao Xingyu: "Mo Yan, don't talk. Can you talk after I take you to a place?"

Xiao Xingyu stuffed her into the car, started the car, and drove onto the elevated road, then turned into the highway and went straight out of Shenhai.

Xiao Xingyu didn't say a word along the way, and Zhang Moyan was still in a daze about what he had just said. The two of them really didn't speak for two hours.

However, Zhang Moyan felt that she was already very satisfied to be able to stay in the same small space with Xiao Xingyu. After not seeing him for a month, she couldn't help but turn her head to look at him over and over again. She really liked him so much!

The car finally stopped in a village in Hangzhou, and Xiao Xingyu excitedly and mysteriously took her forward. The two of them walked one in front and one behind, and the road was uneven. When they were about to step onto a step, Xiao Xingyu reached out and pulled her up.

"Thank you!" It was already too late to pull his hand back, Xiao Xingyu held her tightly in his hand and walked forward as if nothing had happened.

Zhang Moyan's heart began to beat wildly again, and the accelerated heartbeat suddenly stopped when she saw a grave with the words "Tomb of Guo Man" written on it under a towering mulberry tree.

She looked around in disbelief, taking in the winter fields and the huge trees with branches, and uttered incoherently: "Oh my God... You found my mother's grave!... How did you find it..."

If the surrounding scenery were restored to the June season, it would be golden wheat fields and green trees, which she had seen in photos!

"I found a photo of your mother-in-law's grave among the things you left behind. In a small area of ​​the photo, I saw a egret standing on a cow. I gave it a try to a bird expert, who confirmed that it was a cattle egret that only lives in the Jiangnan region."

Zhang Moyan was shocked and said, "Jiangnan area, how did you find such a large area?"

Xiao Xingyu shrugged: "The shooting time on your photo was a great help. Based on the light at the time, I judged that the time should be 15 minutes before sunset. I compared it with the area in Jiangnan where the sun set at 20:6 on June 29, 19XX, and quickly confirmed that this place was Hangzhou. There are not many places where cattle egrets often live in Hangzhou. It took some time to finally find it!"

Zhang Moyan was amazed, her mouth opened but she couldn't speak, her eyes were hot and tears rolled down: "Xingyu, thank you, I'm really happy, thank you!"

He bowed three times formally and solemnly in front of Chen Yun's tombstone. Xiao Xingyu also bowed three times. When he stood up, Xiao Xingyu muttered, "Mo Yan, why don't you introduce me to our mother? She doesn't even know who I am yet?"

Zhang Moyan's face flushed slightly. Xiao Xingyu waited attentively. After a while, he heard Zhang Moyan introduce Chen Yun: "Mom, the man next to me who just bowed to you, he... he is my lover."

Xiao Xingyu felt relieved, and explained the meaning of opening a dyeing factory after being given some color. She said coquettishly, "You haven't told our mother about me yet."

Zhang Moyan: "..."

Xiao Xingyu shook her hand: "If you don't tell me, I'm worried that our mother will be worried. She hasn't been with you since she was a child, and she doesn't know if her daughter has gone astray, or if she has been blinded by love and deceived by bad people..."

"He's a very nice guy," Zhang Moyan interrupted him, "really nice."

Xiao Xingyu became bolder and went even further: "So do you like him or not? There are many nice people these days, but there is no love between husband and wife."

He added: "Don't tell lies in front of your ancestors."

Zhang Moyan had a feeling that she was being played around by him. It was a strange feeling at the moment. She was happy and sweet, but also a little bit unwilling to let that man be happy. She suspected that her expression was also strange.

Isn't this kind of occasion supposed to be very sad?

Xiao Xingyu held her face with both hands, his eyes became very serious: "Mo Yan, I know that I said a lot of things that day that hurt your heart, so I must do something to apologize to you. This matter must be so serious that you can't refuse, so I have been looking for our mother's grave. In fact, even if Ms. Meng didn't do this today, I would have found you soon. I wanted to wait until our mother's grave was renovated and the tombstone was replaced, but now is also good, we can plan it together... Mo Yan, I fulfilled your wish to bring the first man to your mother, right? Can you write off my mistake?"

Zhang Moyan finally couldn't help but hug him, crying: "What are you talking about! I am the one who should say sorry! I don't know how to punish myself! I almost killed you! I even said in front of you that I wanted to divorce you... I really don't know how to face you! That's why I want to stay away from you! You are right, I am indeed not qualified. You are so good, I am so afraid that you will be ruined in my hands!"

"So that's how it is, oh my ancestors!" Xiao Xingyu laughed heartily, unable to describe in words how happy he was to hear these words! He used both arms to lift Zhang Moyan up and spun her around, until she was dizzy before he stopped.

Xiao Xingyu kissed Zhang Moyan's hair hard and pushed her in front of him: "Why do you think so much? Whatever the person I like does is right! Besides, my family is not okay. Look, someone in my family is in jail, and I don't know if my child will pass the political review when he takes the civil service exam in the future. I'm worried that you will despise him!"

Zhang Moyan was both amused and confused: "What nonsense are you talking about!"

Xiao Xingyu suggested sincerely with bright eyes: "If you want to punish yourself in the future, there are many ways. You can make delicious food for me, buy me clothes, accompany me to unlock various postures, and help me raise a cat, but you can't make me suffer."

Zhang Moyan: "..."

Xiao Xingyu smiled and bravely kissed Zhang Moyan's lips: "Moyan, I like you, and I will always like you! This world is a mess, and I just like you to be clean."

"Then you just said you don't want to have a baby with me?"

"It certainly can't be that fast. I don't want anyone to take your attention away from me! Wait at least three years. Then I can give birth to a daughter. A boy definitely won't do!"

“Isn’t this something we can control?”

"How can I not control it? Believe me, I can definitely control it!"

……

Xiao Xingyu and Zhang Moyan walked hand in hand on the ridge of the field. The sun was setting and the sunlight shone obliquely from the mountains onto the endless land, lengthening their shadows. As it had since ancient times, it brought continuous hope and vitality to the world.

　Finally finished writing, spread the flowers

  　　I will finish the application tomorrow. I will write some extra chapters later if I have time. Don't wait for it. Just take your time(^_^)v

　　Finally, I would like to express my sincere gratitude to everyone for your company and support!

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