But the bright moon shines on the ditch

It's still early, why are you in a hurry to go home?

Maybe if you think about it for a second longer, you won't seem so urgent and embarrassed when you ask, right? How regretful Xu Zhiliu was, wanting to bite her tongue, wanting to go back to a moment ago, wanting her not to hear, wanting her not to stay.

But she still stopped, her body seemed to be suddenly struck by lightning, and she froze in place, not moving for a long time.

Maybe she also suspected that she heard wrongly?

Did he ever speak?

With a hint of timidity and temptation, she gradually looked back. Because she was full of tears, the redness of her eyes was softened, but also because she was full of tears, she looked even more pitiful.

Xu Zhiliu never felt that he was a jerk.

"I……"

This time she saw that he really opened his mouth and laughed before he could finish his words. She completely forgot about the image and wiped her tears and nose randomly, laughing very loudly.

"Yunxian is still waiting for me at home. I promised him that I would leave early and come back early."

She didn't come forward anymore, she just looked at him and waved her hand again, "You should go back and rest early. I left a lamp for you at the concierge. I hope you like it."

Take his lamp as a favor and send it back to him?

She's so kind.

"Will you accept it?" He didn't leave even after saying that, with the same expression as when he poked his head out from behind the door with the official post and pig's trotters.

This time she didn't want to miss any of his suspected deceitful behavior, so she waited there stubbornly, and left with satisfaction only after she was sure to hear him say "yes".

After walking far away and out of sight, Liang Peiqiu finally stopped, stroking her chest and breathing heavily. She still couldn't help crying, crying and laughing. Pedestrians walked by and looked at her.

She endured it, but finally couldn't help it. She buried her body in the corner, covered her mouth, and let her tears flow down one by one.

When she got home, she had packed up her emotions and armed herself to perfection.

Wang Yunxian placed a table full of wine and food on the flower stand at the entrance of Xiaoqingyuan, and stood carefully in the wind to protect against wind, dust, and spring cold. He was afraid that the food would be cold before she came back, and it would not work if it was dirty.

Bai Li first laughed at him for being awkward, insisting on eating wine and waiting for people outside in the cold weather. Seeing that the boss was unhappy when he said something about himself and didn't refute a word, she stopped talking and ran to the front yard to help him out.

When she saw someone coming back from a distance, she was happier than anyone else. She ran back to Xiaoqingyuan to report the news like a hot wheel under her feet.

Little did she know that the door of Xiaoqingyuan had never been opened to Wang Yunxian, not before, and never would in the future. The beauty that Wang Yunxian left in Liang Peiqiu's heart will always be outside the door.

Away from the door, he once created a sea of ​​flowers for her, with fireworks all night long.

He was outside the door, accompanying her as she grew up inch by inch.

"It's all my favorite food."

"It's all what you like to eat."

The two said in unison, paused, and then laughed.

Wang Yunxian left the air vent to herself and asked her to sit on the warm seat inside. She was not polite. She picked up a chopstick and put it into her mouth. After chewing it for two times, she felt something was wrong and puffed out her cheeks and asked: " Wasn’t it cooked in the kitchen at home?”

"Your tongue has become semen!" Wang Yunxian poured hot wine for her, and suddenly remembered that she did not drink alcohol in the past. I don't know which day her drinking capacity became particularly alarming, "The aunt of the Xu family sent it, saying it was for the New Year. I went back to Yaoli during the festival and brought you the flavor of my hometown."

"Why did you suddenly return to Yaoli?"

"You don't know?" Wang Yunxian raised his eyebrows with interest on his face.

Liang Peiqiu blinked and wondered: "I should know?"

Wang Yunxian looked at her stupid look and hit her on the head with chopsticks: "Eat well and don't pry into your business."

"You dare to knock me?" She immediately stretched out her hand and pinched his ear, "Master is not here, and the eldest sister is like a mother, you know?"

"It hurts."

Hurts.

Liang Peiqiu let go and Wang Yunxian laughed.

"You're still the same as before. Every time I pretend to be miserable or act nice, you don't expose it."

Liang Peiqiu was too lazy to talk to him and said back to Ah Yao, "They are not close relatives in Yaoli. They didn't move around in previous years. Why did they suddenly go back this year?"

"Who said there are no close relatives, have you forgotten? Then whose brother is still there? There was none before, but now there is."

Liang Peiqiu suddenly realized: "You're talking about Anan!" She said it casually and naturally, without mentioning the secrets of the deceased at all. "Did Nian go back together then?"

"That's not true. Hutian Kiln is very busy during the New Year."

Wang Yunxian asked her to drink a cup of hot wine to warm her body first, and then took two bites of hot food, and then said, "We are a famous painter with pastel porcelain, but we have made a lot of money. We even owe his family no debt." If it’s filled up, how can they not be greedy?”

Liang Peiqiu understood it as soon as she heard it and couldn't help laughing: "Uncle Xu's sword never grows old."

The battle for the leadership between Hutian Kiln and Anqing Kiln is a family honor engraved in the blood, and it will not stop just because the relationship between the two families has eased. Any time a stone is thrown in, their bloodline can be awakened.

This is a good thing and at least proves that they won't stop improving.

She has never thought of hiding anything, sharing is a win-win situation. Over the past few months, she has been imitating and re-firing the imperial porcelain. All samples are available for observation, and all craftsmen have access to the specific blank room of the imperial porcelain, so that she is ready to make the skills and techniques behind it public. This is done not only because the background color of imperial porcelain is Xu Zhiliu, but also because this is the common ambition of all ceramic people.

Whether it is Wending Kiln, Hutian Kiln, Anqing Kiln or Changnan Kiln, it doesn’t matter who owns it. In the final analysis, the number one private kiln in the world is just a title. What it represents is the prosperity and longevity of the porcelain industry. It is a private kiln. hope. This is not generous or noble, it is serious self-help.

"That's what you think. Not everyone is the same as you. They may not regard you as a gentleman, but you may still be a ghost when you close the door." Wang Yunxian snorted lightly, but that was not enough, "Be careful of capsizing in the gutter."

Liang Peiqiu found it funny: "What's wrong, are you jealous of Hutian Kiln?"

"Bah, I'm jealous of a bad old man, and you think I'm not jealous?" Wasn't it because the way she was shining when she talked about those things was so beautiful that she fascinated him, made him envious, and then endured it? I couldn't help but feel sour, so I wanted to use an old man as my backing.

In fact, he knew very well that he was not suitable to be the owner of a folk kiln. It was not that he did not understand the process of making porcelain, but that he did not understand the heart of the porcelain maker.

Wang Yu once asked him to learn accounting, because he wanted him to see the roots of a family from the accounts. He studied with the famous owner of Wedding Kiln for a long time, but what he saw through the brush strokes in and out of the flowing water was still the numbers that made his eyes dazzle with stars.

He was a layman, and perhaps running a bank was more suitable for him, although before he could earn the money to fill the hole, the hole was blocked by her.

I still get angry just thinking about it!

Why are you running so fast?

Wang Yunxian drank a full glass of wine in one go, making him hiss because it was so spicy. Liang Peiqiu picked up a vinegar cucumber, rolled the juice in it, and quickly stuffed it into his mouth.

Wang Yunxian stared and was forced to swallow a puddle of jealousy.

My eyebrows and teeth are sore.

Liang Peiqiu laughed so hard that her stomach ached and she lay on the table unable to get up. Seeing her like this, Wang Yunxian suddenly remembered an earlier incident. At that time, she had just joined the Sanyao Jiuhui to take up a temporary position. The second-generation ancestors there wanted to bully her and invited her to drink three times a day. Just drinking wasn't enough, he ended up stuffing people into her room.

Even one will do, after all, countless heroes have fallen on the pillow throughout the ages.

Occasionally, he came back quietly to see her, and saw that she was choked by the fragrance of makeup and powder in the room, almost vomiting acidic water all over the floor, and told the girl in the room to get out without looking back.

Her words were vulgar and her expression was contemptuous, which frightened the girls into running out in disheveled clothes.

What the second-generation ancestors did was not only a shock, but also a test. Otherwise, why would An Jiu stand idly by? There have long been rumors about the little god in the town. How could a normal man not have normal needs? She couldn't escape. The smell of alcohol filled her throat and her whole body felt uncomfortable. She sat down by the door, clenching her teeth and weeping silently.

He just watched her from a distance, watching her put her hand into her throat and dig out the sour water in her stomach, but she couldn't get it out.

In order to prevent the second generation ancestor from causing trouble to her again, in the middle of the night, she brought several buckets of cold water and poured it down one bucket after another, shivering and making herself sick from the cold. She is physically weak and is no different from an ordinary man.

The cold water wet her face, and she wiped away the water droplets with one hand. Her eyes felt cool in the dark night.

That was the first time Wang Yunxian discovered that she ran very fast, too fast for him to catch up. When she goes to the capital and comes back, he really won't be able to catch up with her.

"What are you thinking about?"

Liang Peiqiu saw that he hadn't spoken for a long time and pulled him back from his memories.

Wang Yunxian willingly ate a whole plate of pickled cucumbers and said to her: "That Aunt Xu must have something to tell you. She asked me again and again to tell you that I will meet you at your old place."

At that time, he was still puzzled and asked Xu Yao when. She smiled and said nothing, enigmatic. Seeing Liang Peiqiu's understanding look at this moment, she felt even more curious, "Are you talking about the code?"

Liang Peiqiu laughed.

Wang Yunxian put her hands on her hips: "Well, Liang Peiqiu, you are hiding a secret and won't tell me!"

"Of course, how can I tell you the secrets between women?" Liang Peiqiu felt guilty after bullying him, so she leaned over and said, "You and I also have secrets, and we haven't told anyone else."

Wang Yunxian was surprised, and then he couldn't say anything: "Don't tell me that our secret is a dog hole?"

"Of course!"

She said it so matter-of-factly that Wang Yunxian's clenched fists were unable to move.

Thinking about it, if he hadn't figured out the big and small holes in Jingdezhen and shared it with her, she wouldn't have been able to save him from Wan Niang's mouth in the county government office, and he wouldn't have been able to brush off the dust on her desk when she was helpless.

Wang Yunxian seriously accepted his fate.

"Looks like I have to treat all the dogs in town to a big meal."

"It should be."    "Actually, I also know a secret of yours."

Liang Peiqiu opened her eyes wide, feeling rested. Wang Yunxian started again and again, but finally gave up his strength and pointed in a certain direction behind the courtyard wall: "I have wanted to chop down that old pear tree for a long time."

Liang Peiqiu was really shocked now.

She didn't expect that he really knew.

"You, when did you..."

"Very early on, very early on, when you were still stupid and you only dared to hide in the tree and peek at him."

They finally got to the point of tonight.

In fact, everyone is waiting, but Wang Yunxian has never been very patient, and he can't see her talking about him. She inadvertently and lightly lifted it and lifted it several times, deliberately pretending to be indifferent.

In front of him, she didn't have to pretend.

Liang Peiqiu asked him to wait, turned back to the room, took out a brocade box, and pushed it in front of him.

"A gift for you."

Wang Yunxian felt that the brocade box was hot and did not dare to touch it. She smiled dryly and responded: "It's not my birthday yet. Is this gift too early?"

Liang Peiqiu said: "Open it and take a look."

Wang Yunxian didn't dare, but still involuntarily and helplessly touched the hidden button, twisted it with two fingers, and opened the lid of the box. As far as the eye can see, it's thin enough to penetrate into the bones, and it's shiny and jade-like.

"Don't be kidding." He slammed the lid shut, "Peiqiu, don't be kidding."

"I'm sorry, Unzen."

Wang Yunxian looked up at the moon in the sky. Fragments of silver light shone down, spreading a layer of soft white sand under his feet. The sand was fine and soft, and when he stepped on it, the blood vessels in his body seemed to be stretched. Before she came back, he was fascinated by it.

He should have been obsessed with the good night, shouldn't have ruined it, shouldn't have...

"Actually, I also have a secret that I haven't told you yet." Wang Yunxian said, "When the old man was alive, he often said that I was ignorant. In fact, I know everything. Those ignorant behaviors are all just an act."

At that time, he couldn't bear to see her being lonely and struggling to survive alone in a strange cave. Every time he teased her but couldn't help but look at her, he knew that he liked this little stubborn girl.

He regards her as a biological brother, who behaves in front of his old father and acts like a fool.

He thought that he couldn't be sensible. The less sensible he was, the more sensible she would appear. In this way, the old man would have a contrast, and maybe she wouldn't have to work so hard.

He thought he hid it well and no one knew, but Liang Peiqiu said: "I know."

"you know?"

Liang Peiqiu evaluated it seriously: "Yunxian, your acting skills are not that good."

What's more, they get along day and night, how could she not know his nature? In fact, Wang Yu also knew that he often said that the Yunxian child was a bit silly and kind.

Wang Yunxian burst into tears and laughed.

She knew everything, but she still burned these cups.

How special is the egg curtain cup?

At that time, she had received Xu Zhiliu's promise to cool off under the canopy of the willow tree, and she was waiting for the arrival of midsummer with great joy. Since she could not walk in empty-handed, and was afraid that the flavor of her hometown would be disrespectful to her, she wanted to burn a cup for Xu Zhiliu.

She wanted to be in the clouds and water, watching the scalding water brewing tea, and the long-lasting fragrance exuding from the cup as thin as cicada wings made by her own hands.

It's a good time to welcome that acre of square pond in this way.

Wang Yunxian was dissatisfied with the fact that she had worked so hard and sleepless for a cup, and threatened to receive a cup made by her on her birthday. "I want a pair, one for you and one for me, and they should be thinner and finer than the oval cup." , to be more transparent, I want you to draw a silhouette of you and me drinking against the moon on it, so that when I am old and drink from this cup, I can still think of how you always made me mad when I was young."

He said, "Even if you are really mad at me, I will never forget you for the rest of my life."

Now, the belated birthday gift was finally delivered to me.

Wang Yunxian did not dare to take another look.

"When?" After Wang Yunxian asked, he quickly thought of something, "You have been sleeping in the kiln every day. I thought you were rushing to make winter porcelain, but I didn't expect that you would take the time to burn these cups."

So, no matter how fast he ran, even if he ran to the place where he thought he could catch her before tonight or earlier, nothing would change, right?

This pair of cups has been ready for a long time.

In her heart, making a pair of egg-shaped cups for Wang Yunxian is the best way to repay her childhood sweetheart and even write a marriage certificate.

How cruel?

How unkind she was to him!

"Don't think I don't know. This is a token of your commitment to your relationship with him. Give me this matching pair. Why, do you plan to have no contact with me for the rest of your life, and we will only forget each other across the rivers and lakes?"

"is not what it means."

It is true that she and Xu Zhiliu have an inhumane past, and they are both full of expectations for one day. When a boy and a girl are in love for the first time, all the waiting seems so impatient.

However, there is love in the egg curtain cup, why did she only burn one? Because the relationship between a man and a woman is different from other relationships. If she gives one to him and he gives one back, they are a pair.

It's different for Wang Yunxian, she can give everything to her.

This confidence is the most valuable.

Liang Peiqiu said with great solemnity: "Yunxian, this is not a token of love between me and him. It is a token that happened to appear at that period and happened to carry the first half of my relatively pure and upright life.

Before that, I once thought that the moon would be eternal, but later I discovered that the moon would be powerless in front of dark clouds.

We all have moments of powerlessness that strangle and destroy us little by little. It's not that I haven't thought about accepting my fate. When I was very hopeless, I convinced myself over and over again that it would be better to just let the moon covered by dark clouds be buried in my heart forever. At least there would still be incomplete beauty to remember. But when I think of the times when we watched the stars together and talked about our daily lives together, chatted about the future together, climbed trees and drilled dog holes together to have snowball fights, ran wildly through the streets and slept on the kiln together, I couldn't bear to accept it.

Even if it breaks my teeth, I will continue to persevere, I convinced myself, and then the dark clouds really dissipated. Can you understand my feelings? The egg-curtain cup that first appeared and was not very broken was like a gift from God in return. It allowed me to regain what I had lost and get what I wanted. I kept that feeling, and it is still pure and eternal. , it witnessed you, me and our best youth.

Unzen, please believe that those broken moments, those moments that I desperately want to protect, cannot be without you.

You are irreplaceable in my life.

I made two because I believe that you also share the same feelings. I will never forget your kindness to me in my life. You are my dearest and dearest person in this world. If possible, we should not separate and be family for the rest of our lives, okay? "

Wang Yunxian listened, tears streaming down his face uncontrollably. He laughed at himself for being so stupid, and was deceived into thinking with just a few sweet words. However, that was Liang Peiqiu's pure and honest sincerity. She said that he existed in the moment that she desperately wanted to protect.

He is irreplaceable in her life.

After a moment of excitement, he quickly fell back to the destined ending. This ending was sealed by him himself, and it was doomed before he cut down the pear tree.

"Well, Liang Peiqiu, you are really the reincarnation of a fairy. This mouth is so powerful." Wang Yunxian said, "I will keep this gift all my life, place it properly, guard it carefully, and let it accompany me in the coffin."

As soon as he finished speaking, his ears were pinched.

It really hurts now.

"Bah, bah, bah, childish words are unbridled! Do it again."

Wang Yunxian was so painful that she burst into tears. She slapped her harsh hands, wiped her nose and scolded her. There can be feelings even outside the door, right?

At this time, the moon was at its zenith.

The town is decorated with lanterns and colorful lights, and gongs and drums are noisy. It seems that as long as the excitement lasts, the reunion and happiness of the New Year will continue, from the beginning to the end of the year, year after year.

That night, in front of a splendid mansion behind the Wind and Fire Temple, a figure covered in dust finally returned to town at the end of the New Year.

After knocking on the door, he was not surprised by the desertedness of the courtyard, and walked straight through the second courtyard to the front of the master's bedroom.

An Jiu was wearing a single coat and sitting under the window, looking lonely and a little tired. Seeing the person coming, he raised his eyelids slightly and said quietly: "Have you found it?"

"Yes."

This person was the short guard who had received the secret order to leave Jingdezhen.

Seeing no one around, he took a step forward and said, "My subordinates returned to Yang Chenggong's hometown to investigate, and learned from his servants that before his transfer, there were indeed frequent letters from the capital. The messenger at the post station said that the source came from the household. The Ministry also specifically explained the importance of the letter and told them to travel under the stars and at night and not to neglect it."

Most of the people in the household department are Wu Fangyuan. That old guy has always been at odds with the eunuchs.

"Not only that, the new official is also one of theirs. Someone once saw the new official coming in and out of Wu's house many times during Wanshou without hiding it. The woman who followed him on his way to his appointment was also Miss Wu, and they were treated as brother and sister along the way. "

In this way, it is not surprising that Zhou Qiguang has behaved in various ways before. He is the eye candy given to him by the civil servant faction again after Xia Ying.

It's ridiculous. What the cruel official Xia Ying can't do, can a sick man do it?

This was what the guard was puzzled about, so he stayed in Beijing for a few more days and found some clues. Seeing that he was hesitant, An Jiu was afraid of upsetting him because of his troubles, so he put on a smile and said, "Is there anything else?"

The guard licked his lips, gritted his teeth, and said his bold idea: "Mr. Zhou was not in good health. The doctors who saw him said that he was terminally ill and would die soon. The servants in the mansion had already begun to prepare for the funeral. I never thought... …Suddenly I felt better, and I was praised by the emperor for my meritorious service, and was reused by the Queen Mother.”

Of course there is some handiwork from the civil servant group, but no matter how powerful the conspiracy is, it cannot bring a dying man back to life.

"You mean, our Lord Zhou is a fake?"