But the bright moon shines on the ditch

Chapter 16

Xu Zhiliu's study room is very large, much larger than Liang Peiqiu imagined. There are antique shelves facing east and west when entering the door. On one side are various famous kilns and famous porcelains, and on the other side are documents and account books.

In the middle is a waterway, with exquisite rockery and strange stones, and four armchairs on the left and right, which should be used for discussing affairs and entertaining guests.

Going straight to the end, there is a desk about eight feet long. It seems to be carved from a whole piece of pineapple wood. From a distance, the wood-like tree patterns are intact, and the veins are clear and coherent when viewed from a close distance.

In addition to this, there are some daily utensils, washing utensils and so on on the west side, which should be connected to his bedroom.Inside the bookshelf on the east side, there is a soft couch near the window, with a wintersweet plant planted beside the couch, and a few boxes and stacks of books are placed against the wall. They look like they have aged, yellow and uneven, not like documents from a kiln.

She was about to take a closer look when she heard Xu Zhiliu call his name.

"Peiqiu, I'm in a mess here, don't mind, just sit down for a while, I have to deal with something first."

Liang Peiqiu's heart skipped a beat.

He called him Pei Qiu, but he actually called him Pei Qiu?

"No, nothing, I'll take a look casually, you are busy first."

At this time, the stewards filed in one after another, and went to the desk to listen to Xu Zhiliu's orders.

They were still in the shock of Liang Peiqiu's appearance at the Hutian Kiln, and they didn't know what Xu Zhiliu had said, so they went in so absent-mindedly, and came out in a blur.

Seeing that Shi Nian came to serve tea, they couldn't help being curious, and they all poked their heads to inquire, but they were killed by the little book boy with a sharp look.

It seems that the little book boy still resents them for helping the big boss to hide the young boss's affairs, so he is too embarrassed to ask more questions, so you push me away.

After finishing the trivial matters, Xu Zhiliu saw Liang Peiqiu staring at a little rabbit made of clay on the shelf, walked up to her side and asked, "Do you like it?"

"No, just a little curious."

Pottery and porcelain are actually two different things.

Clay clay can be made into something casually, and even a novice can make it look decent. Porcelain clay is different, it is very hard, and it is not easy to shape. It takes at least a year or two to pull a blank on a cart like the masters.

Even those with great strength and talent will need three to five months to complete the work.

On the antique shelf in his study room, at first glance, there are rare antiques and peerless famous porcelain, and this little rabbit made of ordinary clay looks particularly abrupt when it falls on it.

Xu Zhiliu explained: "This is the mud my master threw me to play with when I was first drawing blanks. He said that I should squeeze out an object first, and then I will learn how to draw blanks from this object. When I can pull out an eight-image blank, I will barely get started."

Liang Peiqiu was surprised: "Master is very strict with you."

Xu Zhiliu shook his head: "Hutian kiln takes porcelain as its foundation, and the blank is the beginning of the porcelain shape, so we should pay attention to it. Could it be that the master of your Anqing kiln will teach people how to draw blanks casually?"

"That's not going to happen."

There are many rules in the ceramic industry, such as accepting apprentices, also known as lifting the ban.

Master drawing masters, master sharpening masters, master drawing masters, and masters of each process have different opening times.Only by accepting him as an apprentice can he go to the kiln to learn crafts from the master, and outsiders can't easily get in, otherwise his housekeeping skills will be stolen by others, wouldn't it mean that the backyard is on fire?
Because he is Xu Zhong's nephew, and Xu Zhong wanted to test him, he gave him a special opportunity.

Liang Peiqiu nodded. In fact, she thought the rabbit was fake, she just wanted to find something to divert her attention.Just now when the stewards came in to discuss kiln affairs with him, he didn't guard against her, he was so open and upright that her heart fluttered.

"You just talked about something, why didn't you let me avoid it? Aren't you worried that I'm eavesdropping on something secret?"

Xu Zhiliu asked without answering, "Have you eavesdropped?"

"I...I didn't."

Xu Zhiliu saw that his and the little rabbit's faces complemented each other very well, so he covered his lips slightly, took off the ornament and handed it to her: "Give it to you, it's my thank you."

Liang Peiqiu was in a daze, and the hot object had already passed in front of her.She hurriedly caught it with both hands, carefully holding it in her arms.

Xu Zhiliu asked again: "Which company asked you to buy official posts?"

Liang Peiqiu thought about the business, and hurriedly said, "Liang Yuci is in business."

"Listen to the name, is it a female boss?"

"Yes."

It was the first time someone asked her to write a signboard for an official post, and she was a bold female boss. In front of Wang Yu and other kiln managers, she was so teased that she couldn't say a word of rejection, so she accepted the "different opinion" in a daze.

Seeing his situation, Xu Zhiliu guessed a little, and didn't ask any more questions.

Unexpectedly, Liang Peiqiu got the wrong idea, and waved her hands again and again: "I don't know her, I don't know why she came to me suddenly, and even threw the application paper into my arms, I can't push it away."

He said in a hurry, "I'm in the kiln every day, and I don't leave the door. I don't know how she found me!"

Seeing his distressed look, Xu Zhiliu smiled slightly: "I didn't think much about it, but I'm not a famous person, so you come to ask me for advice, I really dare not take it."

"You are famous in my heart!"

She blurted out, and then added, "Besides, you are a famous artist. I know that many people ask you to write signboards. Your handwriting is very good."

She really, really has an unabashedly candid nature.

Xu Zhiliu had met countless people, and for the first time he felt overwhelmed.

He bowed his head to drink tea, and after a while he said, "Why don't you write a few words? I'll take a look for you."

"it is good."

So with the remaining half stick of incense, Liang Peiqiu wrote four big characters that were the most serious in her life. Seeing Xu Zhiliu's expression froze for a moment, although it was only for a moment, she had already cut Liang Yu into pieces in her heart.

Is the lady boss blind?Why did you ask her to write a signboard?

Why did she dare to come to him just because of the agreement that "a moon is big and round"?Why use such an ugly word to pollute his eyes?
She is guilty!
Liang Peiqiu wailed inwardly, but there was no turning back when he opened the bow, so with the mood of a strong man cutting his wrists, he reluctantly completed the task under the guidance of Xu Zhiliu's strokes.

The two of them were so close, their breaths intertwined, and it took as long as a lifetime to write the four characters. When Liang Peiqiu put down the pen, she blushed so much that she wanted to bleed, and she felt as delicate and charming as a spring flower.

Its weirdness made Xu Zhiliu feel in a daze.

At this moment, Shi Nian knocked on the door suddenly, and Liang Peiqiu felt guilty, so frightened, he dropped the package hidden in his arms on the ground.

Shi Nian stared at her suspiciously, and stepped forward to snatch the package in three steps.

When I opened it, I saw that there were two sauced elbows inside the oily paper bag.

"I asked someone to bring this back from Yaoli yesterday. It's made with homemade sauce, and it's still very fresh. I think I'm asking for your advice, so I can't come empty-handed, so, so I prepared this small gift."

Shocked at that time, eyes as round as copper bells!Someone actually took the sauced elbow as a thank you gift?You can pick whatever you want, but why is it... an elbow?
Does his son look like someone who can chew elbows?

"You and I are from the same country, and I think this should suit your taste."

Liang Peiqiu stared fixedly at Xu Zhiliu, trying hard to finish speaking, "It's delicious, it's really delicious."

Originally, she was ready to say goodbye after writing the signboard, but she invited Xu Zhiliu to drink tea at Mingquan Teahouse as a thank you gift afterwards, just because she suddenly felt that this warm sauce elbow might be able to soothe the sadness of saying goodbye to his family in a two-day rush after returning home, right?Or in the tail of the New Year, give him some warmth?So after thinking about it, I still carried it with me.

Originally thinking of adapting to the situation, who knew that Elbow would not be able to wait to run out by himself? !

She was out of sheath like a sharp sword, unable to restore the current situation, so she took a deep breath, unhurriedly rolled up the official post and other documents, took the little rabbit that Xu Zhiliu gave her, nodded to the two of them, and finally signaled Xu Zhiliu with her eyes repeatedly that she could close the door and taste it alone.

Really, really delicious.

When she reached the door, she suddenly turned her head again, showing expectant eyes: "Thank you for pointing me out, can I still come to you in the future?"

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If Liang Peiqiu was still in a heavy mood when she went out this morning, her steps were already much lighter at this time.

Without him, just because she visited Hutian Kiln for the first time, she entered the more private study of the master's house.

Xu Zhiliu not only discussed kiln affairs with the stewards in front of her, taught her how to write official post signs, but also gave him the first small object made by himself in his life.

He really regarded her as a friend!

Liang Peiqiu was secretly delighted.

When Nian sent her out, watching her words and deeds all the way, she saw that she was just about to write "satisfaction" on her forehead, and a pair of huge white eyes almost rolled up to the sky.

Just as I was about to mention a few words, I met a group of people head-on.

Shi Nian paused, and Liang Peiqiu followed suit.

The leader is a young woman, about fifteen or sixteen years old, wearing a complicated pink and white skirt and a bright yellow jacket, with two braids on the top of her head and two simple peach blossoms.

The peach blossoms were obviously just picked, and the petals were dewy, very fresh.

From a distance, she is bright and charming, but when she comes closer, she is not tall, a little shorter than Liang Peiqiu, but she has a slender figure, a slightly round face, a pair of black and bright almond eyes, and a small cherry mouth.

"Brother Aqian, is Brother Aqian here?"

She walked forward quickly, and said in a cheerful tone, "Jiangshuilou has new dishes today. I went to queue early in the morning and bought several of his favorite foods. I have to send them to him while it's hot."

When Shi Nian thought of Liang Peiqiu's sauce elbow who was just a gift, he glanced at her with disgust, and hinted that she should look at him.

Liang Peiqiu looked, there were two servant girls behind the woman, each carrying a bamboo food box, three layers up and down, before they were opened, they could already smell the fragrance.

He hummed softly, indicating the direction of the study: "Just now the hospitality is over, now you go over, just in time to have dinner with the young master."

"That's exactly what I plan to do!"

The woman's face was happy, and she was about to go there. She turned her head and saw Liang Peiqiu, who seemed to think of something, and showed a surprised expression: "You are the little god of Anqing Kiln, right? On the way here, I heard the young men discussing and are still betting on whether you will ask my brother A-Qian to fight! Why are you so good-looking? If it were me, I would definitely be reluctant to beat you. Brother A-Qian is such a good person, and he would definitely not do anything to you. The two of you are really like what the storyteller said, and you really deserve it!"

Seeing that Liang Peiqiu was stunned, she quickly patted her head: "You don't know who I am, do you? My name is Xu Yao, you can call me A Yao."

Ah Harrier has a hot temper, and it's a headache to talk too closely.

She couldn't help but catch Liang Peiqiu and ask why she came here, she also wanted to see her official post, and asked her what she said in Xu Zhiliu's study.

Shi Nian watched from the side, and reminded anxiously: "Miss, if you don't go, the food will be cold."

"Ah yes! I almost forgot."

Ah Harrier stuck out her tongue and waved her hand at Liang Peiqiu, "I'm going to deliver food to Brother Aqian, and I'll invite you to drink tea later. The new dishes in Jiangshuilou are not bad, you can try them if you have time, remember...remember to put it on my account!"

While running away, she still didn't forget to wave to Liang Peiqiu.

Liang Peiqiu stared at the back of A Harrier who was flying away, and the sweetness in her head suddenly became complicated.

Although she has only been in contact with her once, she can tell that A Yao has a good temperament, pure and warm, and she is a perfect match with Xu Zhiliu.

It is often written in the scriptures that Xu Zhiliu entered the kiln alone, but thanks to the favor of Miss Xu's family, she won a place in the Hutian kiln.

They are bamboo horses and green plums, talented and beautiful, they are a match made in heaven.

In the past, it was always difficult to describe the appearance of the people around him based on imagination alone. Perhaps in her heart, she had never dared to face the fact that there was another woman beside him?

Now that I have seen the fiancée in the story book with my own eyes, and know how good she is, so good that she is almost ashamed of herself, only then does she feel how ridiculous she used to be.

Not only then, but also now.

She was probably overjoyed by the contact during this period, thinking that being close to him and becoming his best friend, instead of just sneaking up on the tree to peek at him and missing him endlessly, would be full of satisfaction.

But in fact, when he becomes a figurative him, all the emotions that were once unrealized will be magnified, and her desires will be filled, held up and shattered endlessly and hideously.

She was like the demon mirror in a fairy tale, she was illuminated naked, with no self left.

It turns out that drinking poison to quench thirst will only make people more and more thirsty, and make people look forward to Sichuan.If you are close, you want to be closer, and if you have it, you still want to have it.

There is no cure for admiring Xu Zhiliu.

　You are famous in my heart.

　　There is no cure for admiring Xu Zhiliu.

　　Qiuqiu's heart wow...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)