But the bright moon shines on the ditch

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At that time, I asked the young master why he was chosen as the book boy who was picked up from a beggar's den when he was both a dirty boy. The young master said at that time that it was because he looked the smartest.

He was so proud that he would show off in front of Heizi, Goudan and the others when he had something to do, giving pointers about this and that, and he looked like a smart man.

The so-called carp leaping over the dragon's gate is nothing more than that, even if it is just a small folk kiln. After all, in the past years of these people, whether they could grab a steamed bun today and whether they could have a roof tile to shelter from the rain at night was all that mattered to them and their future.

The miserable days are still fresh in our minds, how many of them will not know how to cherish Xu Zhiliu's reshaping of their destiny? Although Heizi hated him so much that he still worked hard every day.

Goudan is different. That kid is used to sneaking around and being slippery. He is so lazy that he would rather eat the bones and scraps left by others than work with his weak legs and feet. He faced this problem not long after working at Hutian Kiln. The threat of unemployment.

At first, Zhang Lei punished Goudan by depriving him of food, but Goudan didn't care. He went to the kitchen and took some stolen goods. After being caught once or twice, he turned to attack his companions. They come from beggars' dens and have lived a precarious life. They are afraid that if they eat this meal, they will not get the next meal, so they have the habit of hiding food.

Goudan knew very well where Heizi's destiny was, but he still wanted to attack there. A fight between a few people was an inevitable outcome. But what Shi Nian didn't expect was that in the past, when he was naked and hungry, he didn't bite each other so hard that he wanted to tear off his whole skin for a porridge and a meal. Now that life is getting better, his heart is cruel. The hand was a hundred times crueler than before, Heizi was beaten to a bloody pulp, and Goudan was not even intact anywhere on his body.

Isn't it just stealing some dry food? He thought this at the time, but was startled when he met Heizi's gaze. Kuroko seemed to show a side that he couldn't understand.

That night, the young master asked Zhang Lei to take Goudan Heizi and others to see a doctor, and paid for their treatment at his own expense. The big boss was very unhappy that the young master had brought back some beggars. He repeatedly scolded the unruly white-eyed wolves for not being able to feed them enough. Not only did he cause a lot of trouble for nothing, but he also ruined the feng shui at the entrance of the kiln. They threatened to drive them all out. , the young master responded with silence and did not argue too much with the big boss.

The next day Zhang Lei came to report that Goudan's leg was broken and he was afraid that he would no longer be able to stay at the entrance of the kiln. The young master didn't say much and asked Zhang Lei to drive Goudan out directly.

Heizi didn't come back in the next few days.

In the young master's repeated silence and indifference, Shi Nian suddenly understood Heizi's eyes.

Stolen and robbed, after all, you did not work hard for it, so it can be harmless and irrelevant. But what you get through hard work, every bit of it, is the result of your blood and sweat, and it belongs to you. No offense is allowed, and it is the same as your lifeblood. Everyone is afraid of living the old days again. No one can live a good life and then go back to the miserable days. This is the case for Heizi, and the same is true for him.

Shi Nian was finally afraid, and the vague pride and secret joy turned into ashes in an instant after seeing the young master's palace. He was trembling with fear, walking on thin ice, and was plagued by nightmares during the day and night while waiting for the conclusion of the vicious beating incident. Finally, after Heizi and several others recovered from their injuries and returned to the kiln entrance, he also fell completely ill.

The symptoms he had suffered in the past broke out this time. He was covered in rashes and had a high fever. He was in a daze for half a month. The doctor repeatedly said that there was no need for treatment, but Xu Zhiliu insisted on scrubbing and changing clothes for him every day. She personally fed him medicine, and later asked her boss to advance her salary in advance to buy him top-quality medicinal materials to heal his body.

Whose young master would be so kind to a book boy? Didn't he drive Goudan out? He thought he regretted bringing them back...

It wasn't until a long time later that he accidentally heard Zhang Lei talking to the doctor who had treated him. He didn't know that the young master kept him by his side not because he was smart, but because he was the youngest among the beggars. He suffered the most and was in the worst health. He was afraid that he would not be able to endure the hardships at the entrance of the kiln, so he found the identity of a "book boy" and forced him to stay with him.

The young master has given up his official career, so where is the need for a bookboy? When you were young, you didn't need to be around to serve you, and when you got older, there was even less need. Besides, the young master himself was dependent on others, surviving under the roofs of others, and he didn't have enough capital to be self-reliant. If he had to leave behind someone who would probably live for nothing, Beggar, you can see how difficult it is.

Everything he was proud of was just a white lie. But even if it is just a lie, it is worth tens of millions to Shi Nian.

Why become a beggar? Past experiences can no longer be tested, and Wei Mo's memories are always filled with bad images, bit by bit splitting the young man into two halves, with one half looking down on himself, and the other half preferring to be a bandit. Fortunately, Xu Zhiliu fished him out of the cold river water, and from now on he could see the sun.

It was not until the eleventh year of Wanqing that Heizi was tragically killed by the eunuch.

Things have changed since then, which is hard to describe. The cruel part of fate is often here. It is not static and will trap you in the darkness where you can't see the light for a long time. It will make you feel the cool breeze and make you hear The birds are chirping, the branches are fluttering, and the fallen flowers are blooming. Just when you think that such days will last throughout your life, you suddenly take them back without giving you any chance to react.

Heizi's white and swollen face still appeared from time to time after being soaked in it, so the young master left unexpectedly. At that time, he was pushed again and fell into the bumpy river. He didn't know where he was going. He didn't know if he would be the same as Heizi, and he didn't know if the damn old days would find him again. Just like this, I was dragged back to Yaoli, then back to Jingde, then back to Yunshuijian, then back to Hutian Kiln, everything finally settled.

He has a new mission.

Find the inner ghost, for the sake of the master and for yourself.

But how could there be a mole? Shi Nian could not figure out who could betray Xu Zhiliu? Why? He thought about everyone he could think of, and of course the first person to doubt was Xu Zhong.

The young master is not the biological son of the big boss. He is said to be a nephew. He is a bit far apart. He is from the same family but not close to him. Over the years, as the young master gradually gained a voice at the entrance of the kiln, the big boss's attitude towards the young master also became ambiguous.

If the young master marries Ah Yao and joins the Zhenhu Tian Kiln, perhaps the big boss will be relieved and less unwilling to be inferior in skills. However, the young master will not be manipulated by the big boss and has always been obsessed with taking the scientific examination again. In this way, for many years Isn’t all the careful cultivation in vain? It’s normal for the big boss to have some resentment.

The eldest boss once secretly intercepted the letter written by Yang Gong to the young master, obviously not wanting to see the young master participating in the bureaucratic struggle. If the eldest boss knew that the young master had private contacts with Xia Ying, would it be possible to steal the letter in the same way? But, what if it was stolen? He argued with the young master because of this. The young master felt that his official career was hopeless, so he threw himself into a kiln in anger?
No, no, everything the Dadong family did was to avoid conflicts with the eunuchs and worry about being retaliated by the eunuchs. Regarding the young master, the Dadong family always wanted to stay by their side and inherit the Hutian Kiln, and would never harm the young master.

If the big boss really gave up on the young master, how could he openly confront the eunuch after the young master died?
Later, I heard people talking at the entrance of the kiln one after another, saying that the Dadong family was driven to the wall. Once the master left, Hutian kiln had no successors, and there was no one to care about the eunuchs. Anyway, it would never be Anqing kiln again. opponent.

Although there are reasons for this, but more of them should feel guilty towards the young master, right? This person has passed away, and all the things that happened back then are just floating clouds. Compared with the good things in front of you, what is more important?
To the struggle for civil rights, are those things really important to the innocence and justice of a human being?
At that time, I saw Xu Zhong holding a wine jar, sitting on the porch all night long, silently looking at the moon, sighing and laughing. What do people want in life?
Maybe living like Xu Zhiliu is a blessing, right? At least he knew where to go.

Thanks to Xu Zhiliu's exhaustive thinking and hard work on the Hutian kiln entrance over the years, Xu Zhong has become lost, forgetting himself and losing the bones of the head of the family on the mahjong table. It was only when the flags used to block the wind fell down, and the family business that had been maintained for decades was coveted by the bad guys, that the muscles and bones that had been numb for a long time began to move.

At that time, he might be able to discover that Wang Yu committed suicide, Liang Peiqiu revealed the techniques of imperial porcelain, and the reappearance of roses and jade after hundreds of years was such a beautiful and precious moment for the kilns all over the world.

And moments like this are earned with blood and tears.

Folk kilns need face.

Face is justice.

Entrusted to eunuchs, lowering civil rights, indulging the three kilns, and ignoring the nine societies, this moment will never come.

Everything became meaningful. Xu Zhong discovered it, and Shi Nian also spied on it. They were one step closer to the young master. Xu Zhong began to experiment with the best glazes in the world, and Shi Nian also began to learn about kiln affairs. Even if there is no longer a light to illuminate the front in the dark night, their wilderness is still vast.

However, all this ends with the real mole. Things are like this in the world. If you don't play tricks on people, you won't survive.

Perhaps his obsession was too deep, and he refused to walk on the Naihe Bridge for many years, so God used another way to let him see the young master. Shi Nianxu floated in the air, staring at the face that was completely different from the young master's and bursting into tears. It was already past the seventh day of his life, probably not yet the forty-ninth day. After the parade had come to an end, the young master went to his grave and burned a stick of incense, with Zhang Lei tied beside him.

Zhang Lei's haggard look reminded Shi Nian of the sunspot that had been soaked in water. Heizi was so ugly that it was unforgettable for years to come, but no matter how exhausted Zhang Lei was, his face was still much prettier than Heizi.

How miserable Heizi's death must be, how miserable Zhang Lei must be!
At that time, he knew that the young master had come to make the decision for him. He cried until his tears and nose ran down. Only in front of the young master, he was the protected child who could care less about anything. Only the young master, the only young master in the world, would do it for him and for people like him. Blackie calls the shots.

Only Xu Zhiliu has ever warmed their lives, which were as humble and short as grass and mustard.

I don’t remember how long I cried at that time. During that time, Xu Zhiliu seemed to have sensed something, and stood silently in front of his grave, tracing the inscriptions on the monument with his fingers. That word was also carved for him by Xu Zhiliu. From a certain day of a certain year to a certain day of a certain month, a clever ghost was born and died. I hope he had seen the best moonlight in the world.

"Young master, I've seen it. This life is already very complete." Shi Nian wiped away his tears with a calm and gentle expression, "Fortunately, I have you. See you in the next life."

After that, Xu Zhiliu and Zhang Lei said something. Zhang Lei has nothing left to defend himself, and no matter how much he refutes to this day, it is useless.

That day on Jingde Street, the moment he heard that Zhou Qiguang was Xu Zhiliu, he had already anticipated today. Such a secret could never be discovered by ordinary people. Either An Jiu was instigated to disturb the muddy waters with nonsense, or there was something really fishy and left to be investigated.

Since An Jiu was waiting to be surrounded and suppressed, and looking at the status of various people, it was obvious that the latter was more likely. If Zhou Qiguang is Xu Zhiliu, what should he do? Zhang Lei asked himself, after all, he was more fortunate than regretful.

Then there is no need to say anything more.

He was ordered by Sun Min to lurk next to Xu Zhiliu, first for money, and later for power. It's not that he didn't think about saving Xu Zhiliu, nor that he didn't think about using Sun Min's power to eradicate An Jiu, but in the end he was just a pawn. He thought that even if he was just a pawn in the game, he had the right to take advantage of the situation, but he misjudged his own value as a pawn.

In the struggle for power, pawns will always remain pawns. No matter how loyal and useful he is, he is just a pawn. Sun Min wanted to use Anjiu to kill Xu Zhiliu, and he couldn't stop him, not to mention that there was Xia Ying in the middle. Once Xia Ying discovered the unsolved case at Wedding Kiln, Sun Min would be in danger, so Xu Zhiliu would have to die as well.

It was better to leave it to An Jiu to do it than to do it himself.

"Sir, I gave you a chance."

During the fight between the Suhu Guild Hall and Huang Jiazhou, when Liang Peiqiu was swallowed up by a mudslide and he spent all his wealth to go to Qimen to hire a famous doctor, and later when he and Xia Yingli Yingwai collaborated to perform a tiger skin show, Zhang Lei reminded Xu Zhiliu more than once - since Save.

The things that couldn't be done, the timing that was deliberately delayed, and the misaligned perspectives and fates were all traces of his efforts. He was the same as Xu Zhong, but different. What Xu Zhong wanted to protect was the Hutian Kiln, but he was the only one he wanted to protect from the beginning to the end.

Xu Zhiliu looked at Zhang Lei without sadness or joy. After a long time, he said, "You are too self-righteous."

In a word, father and son, master and disciple, the relationship is broken.

Zhang Lei laughed loudly, then knelt down and begged: "Please let my family go."

"What do you want from me?"

"I beg you to remember this..."

"It's not the same as before." Xu Zhiliu said calmly, like an outsider who had never experienced betrayal or murder, making a judgment, "You are here, wearing handcuffs and leg irons, and tending to the grave for the rest of your life. As for your wife Son, I will let them go back to their hometown. Since they think the mountains are quiet, they can die there."

"Then, what about my grandson?"

"Aren't you worried that there are wild beasts on the mountain that your wife and children can't deal with? Don't you care about the whereabouts of your daughter-in-law?" There was finally a hint of color on Xu Zhiliu's face, and that color made Zhang Lei feel inexplicably afraid.

He can't control other people, but his grandson is his heart and soul!

"I, I... that child is innocent, I beg you."

"This is the way the world is. Is my father at fault? Am I not an innocent person?" Xu Zhiliu showed the only smile that day, "I will give you two choices. One is to use your child to pay for your sins. I will kill him, and secondly, send him away, change his name, and have nothing to do with your Zhang family from now on."

What's the alternative? Of course it’s the latter, it’s only possible if you’re alive! But, if this happens, won't the Zhang family's incense be cut off? If the child has nothing to do with the Zhang family, what difference does it make whether he is alive or dead?
Zhang Lei cried and howled on the ground.

Xu Zhiliu looked at him indifferently, and through the aging and twisted spine, he could see through all Zhang Lei's pretentiousness. Despicable, greedy, heartless, and unjust, such a person fell into a fatal whirlpool and focused on passing on the family line all his life.

Then let him have no descendants.

"The Zhang family is not hopeless. Isn't there a man and a woman on the mountain?"

A word floated in the wind, and Zhang Lei stopped crying. After a moment, he cursed loudly as if he were mourning his heir.

Shi Nian watched Zhang Lei open and close his mouth, scolding until his voice became hoarse, his tears ran dry, his whole body was trembling, his pants seemed to be wet, but he had no choice but to collapse on his grave from exhaustion.

Zhang Lei is already old. In the cold wind of early autumn, his body is unwilling but has to huddle together, a small black ball, which looks very pitiful and sad.

Shi Nian stood there for a long time, and then turned around and left until the sky was slightly bright.

Once the shadow crosses the Naihe Bridge, it will be the next life.

very nice. (End of chapter)