But the bright moon shines on the ditch

Chapter 17

When Wang Yunxian first announced his marriage at the age of 16, he discussed liking with Liang Peiqiu.

What does it feel like to like someone?At that time, they were sitting on the back of the long and narrow red brick kiln, watching Jingdezhen's fireworks, imagining the appearance of the "throb" that had not yet arrived.

It was ethereal, shapeless, and free.They can describe it, imagine it, embrace it at will.

At that time, they still wanted to meet it urgently, but now that they actually met it, they felt panic like the feeling of being close to home, making them restless and disturbed.

Is throbbing that doesn't get a response counted as throbbing?

Wang Yunxian didn't know the answer either, but when he gnawed on the pig's trotter angrily, recalling Liang Peiqiu's little joy that he couldn't hide when he went out, he became more and more annoyed.

He bit down a piece of meat fiercely, but the big pork knuckle was not stewed enough, and he just slammed down on the part of the throat, his teeth snapped, and immediately the bright red blood slid down the corner of his mouth to the ground.

When Liang Peiqiu came back, he happened to see this scene.

Wang Yunxian was still holding the pig's trotter stupidly, with a big circle of sauce around his mouth, his eyes were round and round, staring at the few drops of blood on the shoe surface.

She hurried forward and asked, "What's the matter?"

As soon as Wang Yunxian raised his head, before he could close his open mouth, Liang Peiqiu happened to see that there was a missing tooth in the middle of a row of neat teeth.

She couldn't help laughing: "You deserve it, who told you to steal my pig's trotters."

Wang Yunxian wanted to cry but had no tears. When he opened his mouth, he always felt that there was some air leakage, and his mouth was cold.

He wailed and shouted, "Hurry up and call the doctor for me."

The doctor came to see it, and he was also surprised that such a big boy could break his teeth by eating a pig's trotter. It seems that he ate sweets when he was a child, so he carefully told him.

The bleeding stopped quickly, but it takes time for new teeth to grow. At this stage, you can no longer chew hard food, and it is best to supplement it with easy-to-digest soft food.

Wang Yu also came to see it, gave Wang Yunxian a hard look, and ordered the back cook not to eat meat for him for half a month.

He crossed his arms and asked Liang Peiqiu angrily: "I've never seen you gnaw on this thing before, why did you suddenly have an idea recently? You even asked someone to bring it back from Yaoli. Look, did you cause me a lot of misfortune?"

Liang Peiqiu still said the same thing: "Who told you to steal it."

"I... I didn't see you sneaking out early in the morning, wondering what was in your oiled paper bag."

"So you came to my room to steal pig's trotters while I was away?"

This, this, this pig's trotter can't be bypassed, right?

Wang Yunxian fell back in anger, kicked twice on the bed, turned his back and ignored her.

Liang Peiqiu was afraid of being angry with this precious young master, so she came to coax him after a while, but Wang Yunxian was very angry and had no intention of relieving him at all.

Liang Peiqiu coaxed for a long time to see that he still ignored him, and was a little annoyed: "It's clear that you were wrong first. You went to my room without telling me, and even rummaged through my things. I didn't get angry with you, but you blamed me first."

When Wang Yunxian heard this, his body became a little loose, and he murmured for a long time, "I'm sorry."

Liang Peiqiu also ignored.

Only then did Wang Yunxian turn around slowly and look at her sitting at the table of the Eight Immortals.

Right now, she was leaning on the table with one hand, and resting the other on her knees, her back was straight, and she had a cold and serious face, and there seemed to be some other emotions mixed with her sullenness.

Wang Yunxian couldn't tell, maybe it was because she couldn't see clearly with the backlight, maybe she encountered something unpleasant after she went out?Yin Xia cautiously said: "Pei Qiu, are you still angry with me?"

Liang Peiqiu sighed slightly: "No, I'm angry with myself."

"what happened?"

He immediately got up from the bed, before he had time to put on his shoes, like a monkey, he slid up in front of her and looked around, "Who upset you?"

Liang Peiqiu shook his head.

Seeing that she didn't seem to be having a good conversation, but from the corner of her eye, she lightly fell on the oiled paper bag beside her, and Wang Yunxian knew that the culprit was still that pig's trotter!
This time he didn't care about who he was competing with, he was the one who was angry with himself, besides, in front of Liang Peiqiu, when did he really get angry?How could he bear to make her unhappy.

"Tell me the story of the pig's trotters, is it related to that guy again?"

Wang Yunxian moved a low stool and sat in front of Liang Peiqiu with a serious face, "If it is really a touching story, I will show mercy and spare that pig's trotter!"

Liang Peiqiu knew that he was making herself happy, so she also smiled in unison.

Speaking of that past incident, it was indeed related to Xu Zhiliu, but it was not a touching story, which is common to ordinary people.

The elder brother took the eggs that his mother had saved for a long time to sell in the market. The younger brother went with the elder brother when he was young. On the way, he passed a lo mei shop and smelled the fragrant smell of pig’s trotters just out of the pot.

The elder brother was helpless, and couldn't be coaxed, so he counted and counted the few copper coins he had finally sold the eggs in exchange for, and gritted his teeth and stepped forward.

After haggling for half a stick of incense, the boss agreed to cut off a small piece of pig's trotter and sell it to him, and he immediately gave it to his brother.

The younger brother finished eating in one bite, and the older brother watched with envy and forbearance.

Since then, every time my brother came to the market to sell eggs, he would pass by the braised meat shop, stop for a while and then leave.

After a long time, the boss found him and kindly cut off an elbow for him.He refused, saying that if he saved enough money in the future, he would definitely buy a pig's trotter.

But until the store was transferred and the boss changed one after another, my brother never showed up.

At the beginning, she just met him by chance at the market, but later on, she found out about her brother's anomaly just like the boss, thinking that one day he must taste the pig's trotter.

It's a pity that times have changed, and the original lo-mei shop is long gone, but that kind of heart has not been dusted.

Hutian Kiln had just experienced the sad news of Xiao Gong's unjust death. He wanted to settle Xu Zhong, mediate with An Jiu, and make Xiao Shutong happy.

He has thought hard for so many people, but who among those people would think hard for him and want to make him happy?

She thought that since she was going to find him in the name of writing an official post signboard, she might as well take this opportunity to bring two pig's trotters as a thank you gift, so that even if he couldn't get his long-cherished wish fulfilled, at least it would be delicious, wouldn't it?
Good things always make people happy.

It was only now that Wang Yunxian knew that that night, when he saw her climbing up a tree in the bamboo forest, pointing at the toothless moon, and talking nonsense with her eyes open, Xu Zhiliu was experiencing pain that he couldn't understand.

The two workers who died unjustly were not casual workers, but people he cared about a lot.They passed away, but even so, he still went to watch the night that night.

The kiln fire in Jingdezhen has never been extinguished for thousands of years. Almost all the people in the town eat this bowl of rice, and they all have gods in their hearts. They fear the kiln god and dare not profane.

There are always patrolling guards in the Three Kilns and Nine Associations, and there are two shifts of guards at the entrance of each kiln. It is said that there will be no small troubles, but Xu Zhiliu has walked the road that the lion drives no less than a thousand times.

Sometimes Liang Peiqiu couldn't help thinking, what is the purpose of him patrolling the kiln for ten years?
Although the answer was not very clear, she had vaguely understood something from the conversation in the afternoon.The difficulty that I never understood in the past has also begun to become concrete.

"They're not beggars."

"There are at least 15 people involved in the direct production of a kiln. They are Zhuang, Tuo, Jiabiao, Shudoujiao, Sanban, Erban, Yiban, and the young man. There are also kiln pushers and miscellaneous workers. Even the most inconspicuous types of work, we must admit that without them, there would be no Hutian kiln today."

"He may become an irreplaceable good craftsman for Hutian Kiln."

……

Every word of these kept flashing and vibrating in her mind, making her keep thinking, even though it was not his heart's desire to give up his official career and be forced to devote himself to business, his heart was still toward every common people, and he was still working hard for every common people's fair and just way of life. He was really a diligent person.

Compared with the former him, he is still eloquent and energetic, with a vast world in his heart, and how difficult the people's livelihood is, which has nothing to do with where he is or what he wants.

At that time, her heart was full of heavy feelings, as if she couldn't bear the affection that had been hidden for many years, but when A Harrier appeared, everything was shattered.

In front of Jiangshuilou's new dishes, her pig's trotters suffered a crushing defeat.

Wang Yunxian sensed her frustration, and he also knew that it was impossible for him and Xu Zhiliu, how could it be possible for two men?Not to mention Xu Zhiliu has a fiancée.

Well, she was doomed to be hurt by rushing forward with such a moth to the flame.

Wang Yunxian stretched out his hand, patted Liang Peiqiu's shoulder, and comforted softly: "Cry, it's fine if you cry out. If you really like men, why don't you see if there are better ones around? For example..."

He flung a wink at him, Liang Peiqiu stared at him in shock, suddenly understood something, stood up abruptly, as if to brush off some dirt, brushed the shoulders he had touched repeatedly, and said with disgust: "You are the only one who likes men, and you have always liked men all your life!"

After speaking, he ran away quickly.

Tuliu Wang Yunxian blinked, innocent and inexplicable.

This night, under the peace of the clan elders, Xu Zhiliu and Xu Zhong each backed down from the dispute during the day, and finally sat at the same table at the end of the New Year's Eve.

The children at home have troubles, which can be resolved by closing the door and arguing or fighting. In the end, they are all trivial matters, but the things outside are not the same.

Knowing that Xu Zhiliu sued An Nineteen in the Dalong Vat, the elders of the clan were also taken aback. Before Xu Zhong could invite them, they spontaneously joined together and wanted to give Xu Zhiliu a tight grip.

Unexpectedly, Xu Zhiliu didn't play cards according to common sense. He first punished himself with three cups when he sat down, and then accused Xu Zhong of his crime, and punished himself with three cups.Then he confessed to the clan elders and ancestors, and punished them with wine one after another.

So many pots of wine went down, and the dishes were not ready, and people fell down.At this point, the elders of the clan also guessed his thoughts, fearing that if the sharp knife was out of its sheath, it would be hard to take it back.

Several people looked at each other in blank dismay, unavoidably worried.

Xu Zhong was so annoyed that he even got himself drunk.

By the time the group of people tossed about and sent Xu's uncle and nephew back to their room, it was already dark.

When Xu Yao came to deliver food at noon, he had already heard about the quarrel between the two of them. The reason was nothing but the death of Heizi and Sangou.

She knew Xu Zhiliu well, and with his temperament, he must take care of Erma's second half of his life before he can rest assured, but what Xu Zhong said was not completely unreasonable.

Although she didn't know much about the outside affairs, she had also heard about An Jiu's name, and it was said that she was an even worse eunuch than the former Prime Minister Pan.Offending him, there must be no good fruit to eat, just look at the fate of Heizi and Sangou.

She was worried about Xu Zhiliu, and wanted to persuade her, but she was interrupted by him just as she opened her mouth.

Naturally, he didn't try the new dish, so he returned it directly.Ah Yao was not happy in her heart, and was unhappy for half the afternoon.

In the evening, when she heard that the clan elder had reconciled and invited the two to drink, she secretly sweated for the old father and her sweetheart.Then I heard the news that both parties were drunk, so without thinking about it, I went to visit Xu Zhiliu.

Shi Nian covered Xu Zhiliu with a quilt, leaned on the side of the pedal and looked at it for a while, seeing the young master's face was peaceful, he couldn't help sighing.

In his impression, Xu Zhiliu had never closed his eyes before the third watch. He often had to deal with the kiln affairs when he came back from his tour of the kiln.

He hadn't had a full night's sleep for a long, long time.

Thinking of this, A Harrier walked in on tiptoe.Perhaps hearing the movement, Xu Zhiliu suddenly frowned, and sweat broke out on his forehead.

Shi Nian stared at A Yao reproachfully, A Yao clasped his hands together to beg for forgiveness, covered his mouth and approached quietly, squatted down in front of the bed, and heard Xu Zhiliu's raving in his dream:

Xiao Hei, don't be afraid, go forward.

……

"When I grow up, I want to be like my little boss and become a great billiard worker!"

"Just you, are you still the same as Xiaodong?"

"Why can't I! My little boss said that people are like porcelain, and porcelain is like people. The blanks are pure and flawless when they are put into the box, and they are full of brilliance when they come out of the box. My life will be as bright and bright as ceramics."

"This is the most educated sentence Heizi has ever said."

Shi Nian said to A Harrier, "It must be difficult for you to understand? The young master buried Heizi, collected the body for Sangou, and arranged a retreat for Erma. Just like what he said the day he took us out of the beggar's den, trust him, he can arrange everything. After all these years, he has not broken his promise."

Shi Nian's eyes were red, and he repeated again and again: "He never broke his promise."

Hearing what he said, Ah Yao guessed his intentions, and responded in a low voice: "I know, I always knew that Brother Aqian is very good, he is a very good person. My father told me a long time ago that if I could marry Brother Aqian in the future, he would definitely treat me well, would not bully me, would not let me be wronged, and would protect me well. I have always believed what he said, and I have always wanted to marry Brother Aqian, but..."

Ah Yao turned her head to look at the person on the bed, it was precisely because they had been together for many years that she knew what kind of person Xu Zhiliu was, and she clearly knew what kind of good he was to her.

Even though she was like those people at noon and wanted to persuade him that a person who knows current affairs is a hero, he just tactfully expressed his bad appetite and sent her away.

He never said harsh words to her, and always took good care of her self-esteem.

But she knew better than anyone that Xu Zhiliu didn't like her.

When Shi Nian left, Ah Yao also knelt and sat down on the footrest beside the bed.

Under the moonlight, Xu Zhiliu's outline became softer, and the usually strong and sharp jawline was now given a layer of light, as if the whole person had taken off the disguise.

He was so real and warm when he took off his coat.

She was so close that she could clearly see his eyelashes fluttering from time to time in his restless sleep.

She couldn't help but press down gently with her fingers, and the next second, her closed eyes opened.

Xu Zhiliu's eyes were not yet clear, and his consciousness seemed to be still stuck in a dream. With the feeling of alcohol, he leaned forward, clasped the back of the neck of the person in front of him, and pulled it to his chest.

　This chapter focuses on the thoughts of boys and girls. In short, the first love did not end well

　　
　
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