But the bright moon shines on the ditch
Chapter 42
Chapter 42
Sometimes Xu Zhong's "foresight" showed that even Xu Yao, as his daughter, lamented that a blind chicken catches worms, and every one catches one.
That day, Xu Zhiliu, uncle and nephew were talking in the front, while Shi Nian and A Yao were eating water chestnuts in the garden behind.
The first basket of fresh water chestnuts just picked from the lotus pond will be given to A Harrier every year.Ah Yao asked the girl to bring a bowl to cook, and took a few raw ones, peeled them and ate them.
This batch is still early ripening, not too big, but one by one is green and tender, the outer shell is peeled off with some skill, and the white flesh inside is crisp and sweet, and of course, a little bit astringent.
Some people don't like food very much, such as your own son.
When Nian thought of something, he said: "When you are free some other day, you have asked the young master to go to Yunshuijian to pick it yourself. You don't need to be such a small tool."
The young master meant to give some to the concubines in the backyard of Xu Dadong's house, just as a pastime, it's not some valuables, but just a little thought from him, but A Yao is not happy, even if he says it out loud.
After a long time, the son followed her.Over the years, the water chestnut of the lotus pond between the clouds and the water has been full of crazy students, and they have nowhere to go, so they can only be buried by this little ancestor.
Fortunately, the little ancestor still has a little heart, and his father can't send it to the backyard, so the managers and workers of the kiln factory can have a taste.
Speaking of this, Ah Yao got excited, slapped his head and thought of something, and said: "There are still a lot left in the basket, so fresh, we can't waste it, you go to the back kitchen to keep an eye on the fire for me, I'll go out for a while."
"Hey, where are you going?"
Before the years could be questioned, Ah Harrier had already run away carrying the bamboo basket.
Ever since Liang Peiqiu saved her life, Ah Haru would occasionally send something to Anqing Kiln after that, but she is the home of her daughter who has never left the house, so it is not good to go out often, especially when in contact with foreigners of the same age, for fear of causing misunderstandings .
But she just couldn't tell the reason, but she felt that Liang Peiqiu was what she wanted, so she could always find something in him.
The two of them come and go, and they can barely be regarded as little friends who spent a lot of time getting along with each other.
Today A Harrier visited Xiaoyou again, and specially made a detour to meet Xiaoyou from the backyard, in order not to attract attention, but she came just in time for a meeting of Anqing kiln stewards, Wang Yunxian was not serious With a loud voice, I heard it from the inside to the outside, and looked at Liang Peiqiu again, the look in his eyes was not right.
As soon as Liang Peiqiu went out, the hall was full of chatter.An acquaintance in charge asked Wang Yu straight to the point: "Has Pei Qiu turned eighteen? When will you get married?"
"Big Boss, you should take care of this matter, our little god can't be picked up by wild flowers outside..."
"That's right, at the young god's age, it's the time when you are young and angry. Even if you don't want to be married, you should arrange two maids in the room to get acquainted first."
Wang Yu almost choked himself to death with a sip of tea.
Wang Yunxian listened to the uncles discussing the affairs of the young man's room without shame, with his legs crossed, as if he was watching a play.Wang Yu glanced at him, he had eyesight, and immediately acted obediently.
After a while, the fire burned from Liang Peiqiu to his head.
The only young owner of Anqing Kiln has not discussed marriage so far, and the room is clean. If there is something wrong with this matter, in fact, the old people who have experienced the eldest son of the Wang family know that this is Wang Yu's heart disease. Young people can keep their lower body. There is nothing wrong with making more money in the kiln industry.
When I was only 16 years old, I didn't worry about it, and when I got there, I didn't worry about it. They were old guys who had half of their bodies buried in the loess, and they should worry about the inheritance of Wangjiayao.
You can put this on the agenda first.
Wang Yu looked around, nodded, and had the rules in mind.
Not to mention A Harrier, even Liang Peiqiu and Wang Yunxian didn't expect that she walked around casually, and unexpectedly promoted their respective marriages.
When Liang Peiqiu returned to Xiaoqingyuan with a small basket of water chestnuts, the meeting had already dispersed, Wang Yunxian cheekily followed inside, reached out to fetch a piece of Nenqingqing, peeled off the shell and ate it.As soon as it entered the mouth, the face wrinkled into a sore mass.
"It's so astringent." He quickly spit out the pulp, and threw the rest on the table. "What's so delicious about this thing? I even brought it here for you to taste."
Liang Peiqiu ignored him, and put the bamboo basket on the low cabinet like a calf, not allowing him to touch it again, and then cleaned his hands, thinking of the satisfied face of A Yao when he was holding the bamboo basket and pouring beans and telling the origin of water chestnut, thinking of her and The man's unfinished marriage made his thoughts drift away for a while.
After Wang Yunxian yelled twice, she slowly opened her mouth: "Xu Zhiliu planted it herself."
"Oh."
"He has a private house in the town called Yunshuijian, have you ever heard of it?"
"Really? Xu Dadong's family treats him like an eyeball, and they allow him to buy a private house outside? This is really strange! I haven't even heard of it, he hides it tightly enough!"
Liang Peiqiu smiled faintly, he wasn't showing his temper at all, he just said: "He made an agreement with me that when the pond is full of lotus flowers in summer, he will invite me to his house to cool off."
Now that the water chestnuts have been delivered, it can be seen that the lotus in the pond has already bloomed.
Wang Yunxian smacked his lips, hearing some other meaning from these words, his limp body couldn't help sitting up straight, cleared his throat and said, "It's almost August, and he hasn't posted you yet?"
Liang Peiqiu shook his head.
Wang Yunxian didn't know how to comfort her for a while.
Ever since An Nineteen made a fuss earlier when Xu Zhiliu knelt down to An Nineteen almost in front of the whole city, she has been unhappy.Finally, Xu Zhiliu came here once, and she seemed to be much better, no longer sitting down day and night, but she was still not energetic.
In the past, he always felt that he had to bear some responsibility for the incident of "hiding criminals so that Xu Zhiliu was humiliated", so he was cautious everywhere, dared not say anything, dared not do anything, as if his brain was twisted, he couldn't turn around Come.
However, after the relationship eased recently, his temper of forgetting to eat and not to fight began to show up again. Seeing her sluggish, he felt unhappy, so he poured out his thoughts recklessly.
"What do you want me to say about this matter? It's just a matter of weak legs, and the past is over. Why bother to be obsessed with it? Everyone has to look forward. With the arrogant temperament of Xu Dacai, he was ridden to the head by a eunuch How can the Lord let it go? I think there will be troubles in the future!"
But after Liang Peiqiu went to see Ah Yao in the afternoon, the stewards and Wang Yu talked about Xu Zhiliu, saying that he was young at heart, daring to quarrel with An Nineteen was purely a newborn calf not afraid of tigers.After this battle, I am afraid that many things will be learned, and in the future, I will have to follow An Nineteen's lead.
It doesn't sound good to say it, and I don't like it when people mention it, but the official has two mouths, and he is justified in saying one thing and doing another. How can the common people fight with the official?Isn't Xu Zhiliu's end right there?Anqing Kiln did not intervene in this matter, and watched from the sidelines from the beginning to the end, but now it is somewhat sober.
Wang Yu only raised his mouth a little, and let no one continue.
But Wang Yunxian knew that they still wanted to talk behind closed doors, but because of his presence, it was not easy to make things clear, it was too ugly.
Ever since the father and son had a quarrel, the line separating them is now thin and tense, and it's just that they can't be seen when the time comes.
Wang Yunxian thought about this, thinking that when the Wang family fell into his hands at the time, he would become the same person as Wang Yu at the end of the day, thinking that these old gangsters had eaten more salt than he had eaten, maybe people just Such a cheap bone, right?So I persuaded Liang Peiqiu according to the old saying, "With the Hutian kiln by my side, I think the eunuch will not deceive people too much, so you don't have to worry too much about him. It's you yourself, you have to cheer up quickly. You are a dignified little god, Jingdezhen Which kiln’s fire can’t you see clearly? If you can’t see clearly for a while, it must be because of the smoke! Don’t you think so?”
Liang Peiqiu couldn't hear it when he rushed to praise her.
Only after Wang Yunxian solved it, the lingering mist that lingered in front of my eyes seemed to really dissipate a little.
She remembered the situation when she was sent to a private school by her mother disguised as a man when she was young. She asked her mother why women could not enter the private school?Why is the daughter not accepted by the father?Was she not the father's child?The same children, why should they be divided into concubines, men and women, and ranks?
The mother didn't know how to answer her many naive thoughts as a child. Perhaps in this world, having received the influence of ethics in this world, as the most despicable prostitute, everything the mother experienced was also the most inferior.
She always said that women are not as free and happy as men in this world, that women cannot be the head of the family, that women are not worthy of passing on meritorious deeds to a family, that women are confined to the backyard, and that no matter how talented they are, they can do little. Men live.
But the mother also believes that a woman can live as a woman when she possesses certain, indispensable abilities.
She didn't understand at first, but when she became a little god, she understood her mother's words a little bit.In the Anqing Kiln, she is respected because she has insight into the divine endowment of the kiln fire.Even Wang Yu once made it clear that as long as she becomes the wife of the Wang family and has a name on the family tree of the Wang family, walking in the kiln from now on will seem to strip off the shackles of the woman herself, and she can become herself.
But she still doesn't understand what is the true meaning behind these "able to break the etiquette", and why?
When she was young, she didn't understand even more, and she couldn't figure out what her mother was thinking, so she just chased a handful of bright lights with her heart.She saw every step he took from happiness to unhappiness, when, when was he ever given a little preferential treatment because he was a man?
Therefore, God is fair. Although women have all kinds of restraints and rules in today's world, no matter men or women, people are always heading towards an unhappy ending.
And this kind of unhappiness is not brought about by ethics or the difference between men and women, but by being a human being, how to behave, or how to become a superior person.
It was not until today that she vaguely understood something, and she cherished that person who was so upbeat and sleepy all the time, who was diligent in learning.
Wang Yunxian said that it was a matter of weak legs, and even he said he didn't mind, but is it really that easy?If he was someone who could kneel when his legs gave way, then he wouldn't be Xu Zhiliu.
He was burdened with his father's blood feud, his mother's expectations, his younger brother's incomprehension and even the fate of the entire Hutian kiln. Are those twenty bangs really a setback that can be overcome with a limp leg?
And why did they think that his thin spine could bear such humiliation?
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, she is hurting the spring and the autumn, and is downcast, but she knows it is not, and she watched the kiln fire day by day, imagining that if it were herself, a woman who would take over Xu Zhiliu's life. God, what will happen to her?But at this moment, all she had left was fear, a fear that Xu Zhiliu could empathize with.
She was afraid that everything in the future would destroy that hard-won arrogance.
But Wang Yunxian was right about one thing, even if it went on like this, it wouldn't change the status quo, and it wouldn't help Xu Zhiliu at all.Maybe this is why the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, right?He explained the key point in one word, and let her find the foothold that had been floating for many days.
"Yunxian, you are right, thank you."
Wang Yunxian was still at a loss after finishing speaking, but she rushed to him quickly, supported his shoulders and shook: "Thanks to you, I figured it out."
She had a peach blossom face, and her smile was like a flower, so beautiful that she almost stunned Wang Yunxian.He hadn't seen her smile so happily for a long time, and after a moment of daze, he also became happy for her from the bottom of his heart.
Forget it, let's be so confused, just pretend that I owe her in my previous life and I am destined to pay it back in this life, Wang Yunxian didn't care about the messy thoughts in his head, he just raised his hand, intending to hold her arm, and happily circle around .
But as soon as she moved, she let go of her hand, found something under the pillow, and walked out quickly.
His half-raised hand froze in the air for a moment, then fell, hid behind him, brushed the hem of his clothes that was shaking with the movement, and squeezed out a slightly mocking smile.
At this time, Liang Peiqiu, who regained his senses, also stopped and looked back at him with hesitation: "But..."
Wang Yunxian saw her thoughts and waved his hand nonchalantly: "You go ahead, I will cover for you at the old man's side."
Ever since An Nineteen returned to Jingdezhen, the attitudes of the major kilns towards Hutian Kiln have become ambiguous and confusing. On the surface, they communicate normally, but in private, they are waiting for An Nineteen's next move, so as to judge the Hutian Kiln. Is the position of the world's number one kiln mouth shaken?
Even Wang Yu, who once secretly helped Xu Zhiliu, was not immune this time.
Liang Peiqiu knew what Wang Yu was worried about.As the head of the family, there was nothing to blame for his worries.As an apprentice, she should also put her master first.
She fixedly looked at Wang Yunxian, and saw that he was leaning against the door, unimpressive, with hair bun and jade hairpin, gorgeous clothes, no different from the dude who dominated in the past, as if nothing had changed.Heartstrings loosened suddenly, and she nodded to him.
"Thank you, Unzen."
When she walked away, Wang Yunxian put away her previous idle posture, glanced at the green and tender water chestnuts on the low cabinet, bared her teeth, and walked out with a toothache.
He told Wang Yu that Liang Peiqiu has practiced seclusion recently, and he will not go out for dinner tonight, but will study a new method of observing the fire in the kiln in the house.
When Wang Yu heard this, he was naturally happy, and ordered his left and right to prepare rich evening food and send it to Xiaoqingyuan.Wang Yunxian was happy to accept this task, saying that he would fight with Liang Peiqiu until dawn.
Seeing that he has made great progress recently, Wang Yu was overjoyed for a while, but then thought of his marriage, and felt a little distressed.
Then he asked cautiously: "Son, did you hear all the uncles in the hall today? What do you think about this marriage?"
Wang Yunxian sneered in his heart, the old man is really murderous, and he only picked his sad things to mention.He pretended to ask, "What's Daddy's plan?"
Seeing that he was sensible, Wang Yu felt distressed.He is just such a single seedling, how can he be willing to be wronged?He also sees it these days, he only sees it but doesn't say it.
But at this time, there is nothing to be afraid of, so he pondered for a while, and said: "If Peiqiu is a woman, have you ever thought about marrying her?"
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But on Liang Peiqiu's side, who would have thought that the thoughts Wang Yu once had would be revived again, and only focus on meeting people whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
I don't want to be stopped by Xu Daren halfway.
Xu Daren led a large group of people, and he couldn't help saying that Liang Peiqiu was set up and went to Huangjiazhou, and he said with certainty that he wanted her to be a witness.
Xu Daren is the head of the Suhu guild hall, that is, the curator. Liang Peiqiu had met this person several times when he was singing a big opera at the Three Kilns and Nine Clubs, and held a hall meeting.
She also heard about the fights in Huangjiazhou in the past few days. Naturally, she was on the side of the people in Zhouzhou. She didn't expect Xu Daren to use force, and she didn't want to judge what is fair. It's just that they have a large number of people and their mouths are mixed. I don't know who it is After mentioning "Xu Shaodong's house has also been notified", her struggling movements slowed down.
Thinking that Xu Zhiliu might also pass by, he simply went with them.
When Xu Zhiliu got the news, he was only half a step too late, and rushed to Huangjiazhou.From a distance, I first saw the Suhu Guild Hall on the beach. It is magnificent and expensive, and it can be called a first-class guild hall.
Most of the Suhu guild halls were businessmen from Suzhou and Huzhou. They sold silk and Huzhou pens to Jingdezhen, bought porcelain and shipped them to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.As time went by, the guild hall naturally showed the same momentum of wealth and wealth as the people inside.
Xu Zhiliu walked all the way in, and when he opened the door, he saw a stone carving wall several meters long, and went deep along the north and south corridors on both sides of the wall.As soon as you enter the gate of the courtyard, four thick nanmu pillars support the beams of the house. On the beams, there are gilt plaques with four big characters written in dragons and phoenixes - Suhu Guild Hall.
There is also a statue of Guan Gong more than three feet high in the courtyard. In front of the incense table is a huge curtain made of fine silk, embroidered with hundreds of operas, flowers, birds, insects and fish, and countless birds and animals.
It's not the first time we've met Xu Zhiliu, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking calm and breezy.Xu Daren came to pick him up in person, looked at it for a while and smiled and said: "As expected of Xu Shaodong's family, I saw that the little god is far worse than you, when he came just now, his eyes were rolling around, obviously he hadn't seen anything big occasion."
Xu Zhiliu paused slightly: "The little god is here?"
"Yes!" Xu Daren said with a smile, "The previous big bosses came here in a hurry, and I didn't treat them well, no, I took the opportunity to offer tea to the young bosses to apologize first."
"Don't dare to take it, Director Xu is too polite."
The two of them came to the main hall while they were talking, Xu Daren's voice was not low, and everyone present heard it, and immediately some people rolled their eyes and turned their faces away in disdain.
Today's appearance is obviously because Xu Daren didn't get a good face in front of those old gingers, so he turned the curve and started attacking them young gingers.You said it beautifully, if you really want to apologize, why don't you just return the territory to the original boundary, so as to avoid this trouble!
Therefore, without waiting for Xu Daren to open his mouth, someone first tore off his hypocritical veil and brought the matter to the surface.They are different from Zhoumin, they stand upright, they just want to judge right from wrong by looking at the black and white.
Xu Daren was forced to take out a new contract.
From this point of view, the deed is brand new, without any traces of age. Those who understand the color of ink can judge the handwriting on the document to be new ink. In addition, the writing standards such as inscriptions and identification are somewhat different from the past. It is obvious that the deed was changed only in the New Year.
Xu Daren didn't quibble, he just said that during the rainy season, the library was damp and the old deed was bitten by mosquitoes, rats and ants, so he went to the county government to replace it with a new one.
The other end was still arguing, but Xu Zhiliu was ushered into a seat and served tea.
Jiangsu-Zhejiang tea Mingqian Longjing, the first batch of young buds picked, just the aroma after brewing, is wrapped in the breath of gold and jade.
Liang Peiqiu watched him from a distance drinking tea with his head down and whispering to others, but he never looked at himself, and the joy he had gathered at the goodbye was blown away by the wind.
She looked at him across the noisy crowd, her gaze was undisguised and scrutinized.
When the young man led the way just now, he obviously wanted to take him to the seat he was holding, but he seemed to glance at it casually, and went to the opposite side.
Was he avoiding her on purpose?
Yunxian found the Wang family, but he didn't send it to the government in time or inform him. Although he couldn't escape An Jiujiu's schemes, he still had a thorn in his heart, right?If it were her, it would be hard not to mind.
Liang Peiqiu didn't even have the face to meet Xu Zhiliu, but now seeing his shy attitude, he didn't dare to go any further, only indescribably bitter in his heart.
At this time, Xu Zhiliu opened his mouth and said to Xu Daren: "Director Xu, the people in Zhou are all doing small business, but just pick up some rough pottery and porcelain to make ends meet. Even if the curator doesn't have the land on the river beach, The business is also spread all over the north and south, so there is no need to be angry with ordinary people. Moreover, Jingdezhen has always believed in a saying that craftsmen come from all directions, and the craftsmen go all over the world. Everyone in the country is a bosom friend, and those who do business are in harmony. Do you think this is the truth?"
Xu Daren brushed the hem of his clothes wrinkled by some dog during the dispute with a smile, and said: "What Xu Shaodong's family said means that I am not friendly in doing business?"
"That's not what I mean. It's just that the local people have been entrenched on the riverbank for several years, and the climate has formed. For the long-term plan, Director Xu really doesn't need to go to war. If you really want to expand your business, you might as well sit down with me and have a talk with kilns Long-term cooperation between factories and porcelain shops?"
These words really touched Xu Daren's heart.
It is really not easy for Suhu merchants to infiltrate the local folk kilns in Jingdezhen. There are too many rules here, the kiln industry system is huge, and the rule is strict. Outsiders have always been discriminated against. Room for him to speak?
If the folk kiln forces headed by Xu Zhiliu are willing to cut their own legs and discuss the method of sharing wealth in exchange for Huangjiazhou's peace, of course it is an excellent idea!
It's just that, can Xu Zhiliu still call the shots on this kind of thing?
Xu Daren leaned in front of him, and said with a shy smile on his old face, "How does Mr. Xu's family want to cooperate?" Looking around again, "I don't know, young masters and stewards, can you give me Xu Daren's face? Establish diplomatic relations with the Suhu Chamber of Commerce , It’s a good thing for all of you, but nothing harmful!”
"You've bullied me from Duchang, and you still want to take advantage of us? I think you're full and daydreaming!"
"That's right, if you want to cooperate, you are begging grandma to tell grandpa to come to your door. There is no reason to force me to wait here."
"Today, I'm going through this for the sake of your curator Xu. Let's not mention the rest for now. Let's talk about returning to Huangjiazhou."
Everyone in the seat either turned the table and left, or talked about him from left to right, and few took Xu Zhiliu's fault.
Xu Daren observed carefully, in the end it was the young man who couldn't hold his breath, and when he picked it up casually, they would cast their eyes randomly, seeing that Xu Zhiliu was no longer the old Xu Zhiliu, and they all played sloppy eyes.
Only the little God of Anqing Kiln sat quietly in his seat all the time, and said at the right time: "Everything is up to Xu Shaodong's."
Xu Daren couldn't help shaking his head.
These local folk kiln forces say that they are scattered and beautify their reputation.
When he was Xu Daren, what kind of begging kitten or puppy?
"So, since the young masters and managers don't like the signboard of my Suhu Guild Hall, I won't force you to stay. Let's wait and see."
Seeing him pretending to be profound, everyone felt a little restless for a while.At this time Xu Zhiliu wanted to say something, but Xu Daren held down his arm.
He clung to Xu Zhiliu's ear, and warned in a low voice: "Don't Xu Shaodong's family understand? There are wolves, tigers and leopards here. They are jealous when others grab the land, and they want to get a piece of the pie. If you say that I will take over, who will not?" Do you know their ugly thoughts? Don’t let them sell Huili, even if they encounter the slightest benefit, they would like to swallow you alive. Just these bastards, I hope they will understand the general situation and strive to make progress together. It seems that Xu Shaodong's family should stop dreaming... I know you want to save the people of Huangjiazhou, but this method is not advisable."
The implication is that there is no need to try to persuade the folk kilns to cooperate together. Xu Daren is the king of Suhu, and he doesn't like the "fly legs" of Hutian Kiln and Anqing Kiln.
Instead of this, it's better to grab the site and do things yourself.
"I have received a letter from Mr. Zhang a few days ago. I think Xu Shaodong's family will help me settle Huang Jiazhou's troubles. In this way, I will wait for Suhu merchants and follow your orders."
Xu Zhiliu frowned and didn't speak.
Xu Daren is a smart man, and he has seen the fatal injury behind Jingdezhen's thriving kiln industry-the folk kilns are independent, competing and splitting. They seem to be united, but in fact they are divided.
Because of this, he dared to attack the Duchang people, a local gang with a large number of people.
Huangjiazhou is indeed a rare and good site - located in the dock fortress, where merchants gather and shipping is prosperous, it can be described as a place that must be contested by military strategists.
Looking at these people in the seat, it may not be that they have no other thoughts.
Xu Zhiliu swallowed the words as they came to her lips.
Liang Peiqiu saw all this in his eyes, although he didn't know what Xu Daren said, and he didn't know much about the factional disputes in the secret kilns in Jingdezhen, just watching, Xu Zhiliu's prestige was not as good as before An Nineteen did anything before.
She felt very sad for a while, and planned to go back to discuss with Wang Yu. Although only Hutian Kiln and Anqing Kiln were the first, but as the first of the two blue kilns in Jingdezhen, this gimmick must be enough to impress the Suhu Chamber of Commerce to carry out the next negotiation.After a long time, the cooperation between the hatchback may not be as good as the territorial struggle, so it can be regarded as amicable.
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a commotion.
She immediately followed the sound, and saw a group of thick men in coarse short jackets rushing in with clubs or hoes, and slashed at the resplendent and resplendent wall.
"They want to cut off our livelihood, so we'll take our jobs back!" Gritting their teeth, the leader of the Zhou people climbed onto the stage in three steps and said loudly, "Tear down the stage and cut off the flagpole!"
The local people behind him echoed in unison, and they rushed forward and knocked down the stage shelf, and chopped off the flagpole with the thick mouth of the bowl.The colorful flag of "Suhu Academy" was originally hung on the flagpole, but it was torn into pieces and stepped on the feet of the people.
Obviously this was a well-prepared demonstration.
The citizens of the continent were aggressive, and the way they held their hands frightened everyone in the hall for a moment, Xu Daren reacted immediately, yelled a few times, and rushed out from behind a group of strong guards who were also prepared.
They are armed with three-section sticks, iron chains, whips, and pestles, which are undoubtedly a greater provocation in the eyes of the red-eyed locals.
So without waiting for Xu Daren to speak out, and without giving anyone a chance to turn around, the two gangs immediately scuffled together.The strong and loud sound of sticks and fists falling on the flesh really frightened a group of frail young housekeepers.
In the chaos, she didn't know who stepped on Liang Peiqiu's foot. Enduring the pain, she immediately rushed to Xu Zhiliu in the corner, subconsciously protecting him in front of her.
There was a force on her shoulders, but in an instant, she was pushed back.A familiar aura lingered in front of her. Although she couldn't see his face, she couldn't help but smile when she thought of the strength on Cai Cai's shoulders just now.
At this moment, Xu Zhiliu tried to persuade the people to lay down their weapons, but the people thought that they gathered together to discuss how to suppress them, so naturally they ignored them, and rushed to threaten them with their teeth and claws. He didn't do anything directly, he just pushed and shoved a few times at random, and then returned to the battle circle to fight hand-to-hand with the guards.
Although the nurses in the Suhu Guild Hall are well equipped and they are all Lianjiazi, on the whole, the people in the state are united, and there are some old, weak and women in them.
Liang Peiqiu watched helplessly as the gray-haired old woman was pushed onto the stage, her forehead was smashed, and her face was covered with blood. Feeling terrified, she rushed forward to protect the old woman.
"Grandma, are you okay?"
The old woman cried bitterly: "These gangs of gods are killing me!"
But even so, she still has to stand up and fight to protect her homeland!How can such a scene not make people excited?Even if the bystanders are like her, they can't help but feel angry, wanting to tear the ugly faces of those rich and powerful.
Why?Why are they rich and powerful, so they can insult and trample the dignity of ordinary people at will?Can they take away their foundation and make them homeless?Why do they claim to be superior to others, but their hearts are so cold and humble that they can ignore the begging for mercy of the old, weak, sick and disabled?
Don't they have parents and children?
How could they push people to this point!
Why?
why!
Why does this world always have to be like this!
A stone fell head-on, and Liang Peiqiu felt his eyes go dark.When the consciousness came back, the whole group of blood slid down from the corners of their eyes, hitting their feet one by one.
Her face was pale, but her eyes were calm like never before, she just hugged the old woman and softly comforted her, no longer caring about the swords and swords behind her.
She could no longer think of that much, could no longer bear that much.
All she knew was that she wanted to protect this grandma!
However, the imagined violence did not come. After an unknown period of time, she tried to move her stiff neck and looked back, only to see a blue figure covering above.
Amidst the muffled sound of falling sticks, they met their gazes.He quickly scanned her up and down, noticed the blood on her face, his expression tightened for a moment, and then said: "Go to the backyard first."
She nodded, no longer hesitated, and ran to the backyard protecting the old woman.
When she reached the corner, she looked back and saw that more than a dozen nursing homes had been surrounded by desperate locals. Xu Daren and others were wrapped in dumplings, and they were pressed into the crowd, biting and trampling on them.
The whole yard was filled with roaring, cursing, and dripping with blood.
Xu Zhiliu retreated a few steps away from her, bowing left and right, receiving constant attacks on his face and body, but even so, he still firmly blocked her.
Liang Peiqiu's eyes couldn't help but turn red. After sending Grandma to the backyard, she immediately turned around and went to Xu Zhiliu's side, took out an object from her waist, and stuffed it into his hand.
"Brother Liu, I finished it a few days ago, but I haven't found a chance to send it to you. It's a bit ugly, I hope you don't mind."
Xu Zhiliu took it in a hurry, and subconsciously glanced at it.
It turned out to be a knot of five blessings.
It looks like she punched the lock herself.
"Why did you send me this?" he asked.
The voice seemed to be muffled in the throat, and it jumped out with all its strength, with a hint of tremor.
Liang Peiqiu smiled slightly: "There is no reason, I just want to send you off, I think this has a good meaning."
certainly not.
Xu Zhiliu wanted to say that he knew it was not that simple.Just like the pig's trotter back then, how could everything just happen to appear in his life?Even for himself, it is difficult to guarantee that on such a snowy night, he can accurately cross the mountains and report to him in the village.
Was she really ignorant?
At that time, after his father died, the family was impoverished. He was looking for work everywhere, and when he was desperate, he passed a monastery.The monastery needs a donation of sesame oil money to enter and pray for blessings. He didn't have any money for sesame oil, so he knelt down under a century-old ginkgo tree in front of the mountain.
A monk saw it and gave him a five-blessing knot, wishing him a smooth life.
He took it, received it properly, and tied it around his waist to wear it every day.
But soon, there was a plague of locusts in the village. When they went to collect food, Wu Fujie was lost.He searched for a long time, but never found it.The days after that were really ups and downs, and had nothing to do with "smoothness".
It might just be a thing that monks use to send children casually. He knew it was useless, but for some reason, for so many years in the past, he always remembered the Five Blessing Knot that he didn't know where it fell.
Maybe deep in his heart, what he always remembers and looks forward to is the so-called "successful" day?
Now, in this chaotic scene, a person risked the danger and turned back and stuffed the Five Fortune Knots into his hands.She still had a smile on her face, with a trace of caution and hope in her eyes, saying that this meant a good meaning.
Xu Zhiliu only held the five-blessing knot for a moment, then returned it.
"Keep it for yourself."
Now he won't ask her again, Xiao Liang, don't you have anything to say to me?He had asked the same thing many times, but she never said it once, just like she had never explained the above coincidences.
If so, act as if it never happened.
He pretended that she never knew the existence of the Wang family, that she never turned the prisoner over to him, that she never thought of covering up his murder or killing for him.
If all of this can be turned into nothingness after he retreats, then let them go back to the beginning.
Nothing ever happened.
Everything is still in time.
Liang Peiqiu was taken aback.
Ignoring the blow that came at the head, I stood there stupidly, looking at the five lucky knots that were stuffed back into my hand, and tears filled my eyes in an instant.
he does not want.
He doesn't want anything from her.
She didn't know what to do for a moment, she only heard a loud bang above her head, and looked up to see that a citizen was pushed to the ground, and the courtyard was controlled by the inspectors who had just arrived.
Wu Yin confronted Xu Zhiliu directly before he opened his mouth, but was led aside by Xu Zhiliu to speak.Wu Yin understood, and glanced behind Liang Peiqiu who was still in a daze, seeing the tears in her eyes, he was taken aback for a moment.
"Why are you crying?"
His voice was extremely low, but the people around him still heard it.
However, he just paused for a moment and continued walking forward.
At this time, Liang Peiqiu came back to his senses, quickly wiped away his tears, picked up the old woman from the backyard, and handed it to her relatives.Then, under the leadership of the inspection department, he went back to the yamen to record today's situation.
However, the villagers were united, and the leader came out to accept the crime, leaving the rest of the villagers clean.Xu Daren wanted to say something, but Liang Peiqiu quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Director Xu, on the way here just now, I heard the conspiracies of the local people. If the county government is reasonable and releases the leader, they will stop this time. But if the county government is unreasonable, not only will the leader not be released. , if all the citizens are punished together, they will burn the yamen. Once the yamen is burned, the matter will become a big deal. What if the citizens take the papers and go to the state capital or the capital to sue? "
Xu Daren was angry: "Are you threatening me?"
"I don't dare, I just heard it just so I just wanted to remind you. Director Xu, if things really got to that point, have you thought about how to get out?"
Liang Peiqiu saw that the courtyard was old, weak, sick and disabled, and the injuries were serious, so there was a lot of trouble.Even her forehead was cut, if she hadn't been covering her hand to stop the bleeding, she might look scary.
Xu Daren followed her line of sight for a moment, and he also knew that the matter was too big, even if he only angered Zhang Wensi'an Nineteen and others, he might not be as good as him.
I hate these local people, they make trouble every day, but they still refuse to accept it!
He flicked his sleeves and swallowed the dumb loss in silence.
After Xu Zhiliu appeared, he quickly stepped forward and said a few words, then left.This movement was so fast that not many saw it in the noisy lobby, but Liang Peiqiu still saw the beginning and the end.
Recalling his attitude at the Suhu Guild Hall today, he should also want to help the people of Zhou to ease the situation, but with Xu Daren's temperament, how can he stop here?I don't know what they said.
Thinking of the news Wang Yunxian brought back earlier, it was said that Xu Daren had bought the county magistrate long ago, and he was the same as An Jiujiu and others, otherwise how would he dare to make such troubles?
Liang Peiqiu thought about what Xu Daren had said to Xu Zhiliu before he left, and his heart suddenly felt a little uneasy.
This matter lasted until midnight, after the inspection department and the yamen conducted a comprehensive trial and inquiry, the innocent people were released first, and it was already dawn at this time.
When Xu Zhiliu returned home, he didn't rest, just washed up briefly, changed his clothes, asked Shi Nian to bring a cup of strong tea, and then sat down in the study.
The candle flame flickered, casting his silhouette on the window lattice.
There was a figure in the porch outside, and secretly looked at the window, only to see that the people in the room seemed to move a little bit, then stalemate, and did not move for a long time.
Shi Nian waited quietly for a long time, thinking that the geese passed without a trace, and didn't want the young master to call at this time: "Come in."
Startled, he jumped up immediately.
Xu Zhiliu asked: "Who brought this in?"
Shi Nian thought to himself, who would dare to come in and out of this house casually, who else but him?He didn't dare to show it on his face, he clasped his hands, lowered his head and murmured: "My lord, it's me."
Xu Zhiliu said nothing.
Shi Nian was terrified, thought for a long time, and finally explained: "Son, I don't want to, it's just, it's just that when I went to the county government to pick you up, I happened to be met by that little god. He repeatedly asked me to hand over a gift What, I said it was agreed with you before, I saw it and thought it was not a valuable thing, so... this is the decision to accept it for you."
At this time, under the flickering firelight, the Five Fortune Knot placed in the middle of the desk, which seemed worn out and ugly after being rubbed for a long time, was really hard to catch the eye.
Shi Nian was coaxed by that person for some reason, and he said in a daze, because he hurriedly yelled: "My lord, if you don't like it, I'll just throw it away."
As he spoke, he stepped forward, just as he was about to meet the Five Fortune Knots, Xu Zhiliu waved his hand away.
"That's all." He said in a deep voice, "You go out first."
"Yes."
After Shi Nian retired, Mao Mao secretly observed for a while in the corridor, only to see the shadow of the window moving slightly, raising his hand to caress something.That movement was extremely slow, with prudence and determination.
He didn't know the meaning of the Five Blessing Knots, and he glanced at it casually, but he didn't notice the mystery inside.
Xu Zhiliu was tired and tired all day, knowing that Liang Peiqiu, who was like him, would not send this thing for no reason after he refused.As soon as he entered the county government office, he saw her.
And she naturally saw Xu Daren talking to him.
He closed his eyes, and figures like An Nineteen, Zhang Wensi, Xu Daren, and Xu Zhong kept appearing in his mind.Even if he presented the precious blue and white plum vase, An Jiu would not let him go.
Huangjiazhou's fight with weapons was a test of whether he would surrender and be loyal.
And after that, what else?
But if not, what should Anan do?What should mother do?Where is he going?
And her.
Xu Zhiliu tried his best to get rid of distracting thoughts, and opened the map of Huangjiazhou, but today the candlelight kept shaking, shaking... so that he was distracted, and his eyes moved from the piled desk to the five lucky knots several times.
He simply untied the knot, and took out a small note from the "Fu" characters printed on each silk rope.
I saw a line written on it:
Brother Liu, in the pavilion water, fish play with lotus leaves, summer is here, when will you perform the contract?Tomorrow night, the lion will wait for you, see you there or be square.
Sending you a super fat badge~~
I write till my hand hurts
(End of this chapter)
Sometimes Xu Zhong's "foresight" showed that even Xu Yao, as his daughter, lamented that a blind chicken catches worms, and every one catches one.
That day, Xu Zhiliu, uncle and nephew were talking in the front, while Shi Nian and A Yao were eating water chestnuts in the garden behind.
The first basket of fresh water chestnuts just picked from the lotus pond will be given to A Harrier every year.Ah Yao asked the girl to bring a bowl to cook, and took a few raw ones, peeled them and ate them.
This batch is still early ripening, not too big, but one by one is green and tender, the outer shell is peeled off with some skill, and the white flesh inside is crisp and sweet, and of course, a little bit astringent.
Some people don't like food very much, such as your own son.
When Nian thought of something, he said: "When you are free some other day, you have asked the young master to go to Yunshuijian to pick it yourself. You don't need to be such a small tool."
The young master meant to give some to the concubines in the backyard of Xu Dadong's house, just as a pastime, it's not some valuables, but just a little thought from him, but A Yao is not happy, even if he says it out loud.
After a long time, the son followed her.Over the years, the water chestnut of the lotus pond between the clouds and the water has been full of crazy students, and they have nowhere to go, so they can only be buried by this little ancestor.
Fortunately, the little ancestor still has a little heart, and his father can't send it to the backyard, so the managers and workers of the kiln factory can have a taste.
Speaking of this, Ah Yao got excited, slapped his head and thought of something, and said: "There are still a lot left in the basket, so fresh, we can't waste it, you go to the back kitchen to keep an eye on the fire for me, I'll go out for a while."
"Hey, where are you going?"
Before the years could be questioned, Ah Harrier had already run away carrying the bamboo basket.
Ever since Liang Peiqiu saved her life, Ah Haru would occasionally send something to Anqing Kiln after that, but she is the home of her daughter who has never left the house, so it is not good to go out often, especially when in contact with foreigners of the same age, for fear of causing misunderstandings .
But she just couldn't tell the reason, but she felt that Liang Peiqiu was what she wanted, so she could always find something in him.
The two of them come and go, and they can barely be regarded as little friends who spent a lot of time getting along with each other.
Today A Harrier visited Xiaoyou again, and specially made a detour to meet Xiaoyou from the backyard, in order not to attract attention, but she came just in time for a meeting of Anqing kiln stewards, Wang Yunxian was not serious With a loud voice, I heard it from the inside to the outside, and looked at Liang Peiqiu again, the look in his eyes was not right.
As soon as Liang Peiqiu went out, the hall was full of chatter.An acquaintance in charge asked Wang Yu straight to the point: "Has Pei Qiu turned eighteen? When will you get married?"
"Big Boss, you should take care of this matter, our little god can't be picked up by wild flowers outside..."
"That's right, at the young god's age, it's the time when you are young and angry. Even if you don't want to be married, you should arrange two maids in the room to get acquainted first."
Wang Yu almost choked himself to death with a sip of tea.
Wang Yunxian listened to the uncles discussing the affairs of the young man's room without shame, with his legs crossed, as if he was watching a play.Wang Yu glanced at him, he had eyesight, and immediately acted obediently.
After a while, the fire burned from Liang Peiqiu to his head.
The only young owner of Anqing Kiln has not discussed marriage so far, and the room is clean. If there is something wrong with this matter, in fact, the old people who have experienced the eldest son of the Wang family know that this is Wang Yu's heart disease. Young people can keep their lower body. There is nothing wrong with making more money in the kiln industry.
When I was only 16 years old, I didn't worry about it, and when I got there, I didn't worry about it. They were old guys who had half of their bodies buried in the loess, and they should worry about the inheritance of Wangjiayao.
You can put this on the agenda first.
Wang Yu looked around, nodded, and had the rules in mind.
Not to mention A Harrier, even Liang Peiqiu and Wang Yunxian didn't expect that she walked around casually, and unexpectedly promoted their respective marriages.
When Liang Peiqiu returned to Xiaoqingyuan with a small basket of water chestnuts, the meeting had already dispersed, Wang Yunxian cheekily followed inside, reached out to fetch a piece of Nenqingqing, peeled off the shell and ate it.As soon as it entered the mouth, the face wrinkled into a sore mass.
"It's so astringent." He quickly spit out the pulp, and threw the rest on the table. "What's so delicious about this thing? I even brought it here for you to taste."
Liang Peiqiu ignored him, and put the bamboo basket on the low cabinet like a calf, not allowing him to touch it again, and then cleaned his hands, thinking of the satisfied face of A Yao when he was holding the bamboo basket and pouring beans and telling the origin of water chestnut, thinking of her and The man's unfinished marriage made his thoughts drift away for a while.
After Wang Yunxian yelled twice, she slowly opened her mouth: "Xu Zhiliu planted it herself."
"Oh."
"He has a private house in the town called Yunshuijian, have you ever heard of it?"
"Really? Xu Dadong's family treats him like an eyeball, and they allow him to buy a private house outside? This is really strange! I haven't even heard of it, he hides it tightly enough!"
Liang Peiqiu smiled faintly, he wasn't showing his temper at all, he just said: "He made an agreement with me that when the pond is full of lotus flowers in summer, he will invite me to his house to cool off."
Now that the water chestnuts have been delivered, it can be seen that the lotus in the pond has already bloomed.
Wang Yunxian smacked his lips, hearing some other meaning from these words, his limp body couldn't help sitting up straight, cleared his throat and said, "It's almost August, and he hasn't posted you yet?"
Liang Peiqiu shook his head.
Wang Yunxian didn't know how to comfort her for a while.
Ever since An Nineteen made a fuss earlier when Xu Zhiliu knelt down to An Nineteen almost in front of the whole city, she has been unhappy.Finally, Xu Zhiliu came here once, and she seemed to be much better, no longer sitting down day and night, but she was still not energetic.
In the past, he always felt that he had to bear some responsibility for the incident of "hiding criminals so that Xu Zhiliu was humiliated", so he was cautious everywhere, dared not say anything, dared not do anything, as if his brain was twisted, he couldn't turn around Come.
However, after the relationship eased recently, his temper of forgetting to eat and not to fight began to show up again. Seeing her sluggish, he felt unhappy, so he poured out his thoughts recklessly.
"What do you want me to say about this matter? It's just a matter of weak legs, and the past is over. Why bother to be obsessed with it? Everyone has to look forward. With the arrogant temperament of Xu Dacai, he was ridden to the head by a eunuch How can the Lord let it go? I think there will be troubles in the future!"
But after Liang Peiqiu went to see Ah Yao in the afternoon, the stewards and Wang Yu talked about Xu Zhiliu, saying that he was young at heart, daring to quarrel with An Nineteen was purely a newborn calf not afraid of tigers.After this battle, I am afraid that many things will be learned, and in the future, I will have to follow An Nineteen's lead.
It doesn't sound good to say it, and I don't like it when people mention it, but the official has two mouths, and he is justified in saying one thing and doing another. How can the common people fight with the official?Isn't Xu Zhiliu's end right there?Anqing Kiln did not intervene in this matter, and watched from the sidelines from the beginning to the end, but now it is somewhat sober.
Wang Yu only raised his mouth a little, and let no one continue.
But Wang Yunxian knew that they still wanted to talk behind closed doors, but because of his presence, it was not easy to make things clear, it was too ugly.
Ever since the father and son had a quarrel, the line separating them is now thin and tense, and it's just that they can't be seen when the time comes.
Wang Yunxian thought about this, thinking that when the Wang family fell into his hands at the time, he would become the same person as Wang Yu at the end of the day, thinking that these old gangsters had eaten more salt than he had eaten, maybe people just Such a cheap bone, right?So I persuaded Liang Peiqiu according to the old saying, "With the Hutian kiln by my side, I think the eunuch will not deceive people too much, so you don't have to worry too much about him. It's you yourself, you have to cheer up quickly. You are a dignified little god, Jingdezhen Which kiln’s fire can’t you see clearly? If you can’t see clearly for a while, it must be because of the smoke! Don’t you think so?”
Liang Peiqiu couldn't hear it when he rushed to praise her.
Only after Wang Yunxian solved it, the lingering mist that lingered in front of my eyes seemed to really dissipate a little.
She remembered the situation when she was sent to a private school by her mother disguised as a man when she was young. She asked her mother why women could not enter the private school?Why is the daughter not accepted by the father?Was she not the father's child?The same children, why should they be divided into concubines, men and women, and ranks?
The mother didn't know how to answer her many naive thoughts as a child. Perhaps in this world, having received the influence of ethics in this world, as the most despicable prostitute, everything the mother experienced was also the most inferior.
She always said that women are not as free and happy as men in this world, that women cannot be the head of the family, that women are not worthy of passing on meritorious deeds to a family, that women are confined to the backyard, and that no matter how talented they are, they can do little. Men live.
But the mother also believes that a woman can live as a woman when she possesses certain, indispensable abilities.
She didn't understand at first, but when she became a little god, she understood her mother's words a little bit.In the Anqing Kiln, she is respected because she has insight into the divine endowment of the kiln fire.Even Wang Yu once made it clear that as long as she becomes the wife of the Wang family and has a name on the family tree of the Wang family, walking in the kiln from now on will seem to strip off the shackles of the woman herself, and she can become herself.
But she still doesn't understand what is the true meaning behind these "able to break the etiquette", and why?
When she was young, she didn't understand even more, and she couldn't figure out what her mother was thinking, so she just chased a handful of bright lights with her heart.She saw every step he took from happiness to unhappiness, when, when was he ever given a little preferential treatment because he was a man?
Therefore, God is fair. Although women have all kinds of restraints and rules in today's world, no matter men or women, people are always heading towards an unhappy ending.
And this kind of unhappiness is not brought about by ethics or the difference between men and women, but by being a human being, how to behave, or how to become a superior person.
It was not until today that she vaguely understood something, and she cherished that person who was so upbeat and sleepy all the time, who was diligent in learning.
Wang Yunxian said that it was a matter of weak legs, and even he said he didn't mind, but is it really that easy?If he was someone who could kneel when his legs gave way, then he wouldn't be Xu Zhiliu.
He was burdened with his father's blood feud, his mother's expectations, his younger brother's incomprehension and even the fate of the entire Hutian kiln. Are those twenty bangs really a setback that can be overcome with a limp leg?
And why did they think that his thin spine could bear such humiliation?
Perhaps in the eyes of outsiders, she is hurting the spring and the autumn, and is downcast, but she knows it is not, and she watched the kiln fire day by day, imagining that if it were herself, a woman who would take over Xu Zhiliu's life. God, what will happen to her?But at this moment, all she had left was fear, a fear that Xu Zhiliu could empathize with.
She was afraid that everything in the future would destroy that hard-won arrogance.
But Wang Yunxian was right about one thing, even if it went on like this, it wouldn't change the status quo, and it wouldn't help Xu Zhiliu at all.Maybe this is why the authorities are obsessed with bystanders, right?He explained the key point in one word, and let her find the foothold that had been floating for many days.
"Yunxian, you are right, thank you."
Wang Yunxian was still at a loss after finishing speaking, but she rushed to him quickly, supported his shoulders and shook: "Thanks to you, I figured it out."
She had a peach blossom face, and her smile was like a flower, so beautiful that she almost stunned Wang Yunxian.He hadn't seen her smile so happily for a long time, and after a moment of daze, he also became happy for her from the bottom of his heart.
Forget it, let's be so confused, just pretend that I owe her in my previous life and I am destined to pay it back in this life, Wang Yunxian didn't care about the messy thoughts in his head, he just raised his hand, intending to hold her arm, and happily circle around .
But as soon as she moved, she let go of her hand, found something under the pillow, and walked out quickly.
His half-raised hand froze in the air for a moment, then fell, hid behind him, brushed the hem of his clothes that was shaking with the movement, and squeezed out a slightly mocking smile.
At this time, Liang Peiqiu, who regained his senses, also stopped and looked back at him with hesitation: "But..."
Wang Yunxian saw her thoughts and waved his hand nonchalantly: "You go ahead, I will cover for you at the old man's side."
Ever since An Nineteen returned to Jingdezhen, the attitudes of the major kilns towards Hutian Kiln have become ambiguous and confusing. On the surface, they communicate normally, but in private, they are waiting for An Nineteen's next move, so as to judge the Hutian Kiln. Is the position of the world's number one kiln mouth shaken?
Even Wang Yu, who once secretly helped Xu Zhiliu, was not immune this time.
Liang Peiqiu knew what Wang Yu was worried about.As the head of the family, there was nothing to blame for his worries.As an apprentice, she should also put her master first.
She fixedly looked at Wang Yunxian, and saw that he was leaning against the door, unimpressive, with hair bun and jade hairpin, gorgeous clothes, no different from the dude who dominated in the past, as if nothing had changed.Heartstrings loosened suddenly, and she nodded to him.
"Thank you, Unzen."
When she walked away, Wang Yunxian put away her previous idle posture, glanced at the green and tender water chestnuts on the low cabinet, bared her teeth, and walked out with a toothache.
He told Wang Yu that Liang Peiqiu has practiced seclusion recently, and he will not go out for dinner tonight, but will study a new method of observing the fire in the kiln in the house.
When Wang Yu heard this, he was naturally happy, and ordered his left and right to prepare rich evening food and send it to Xiaoqingyuan.Wang Yunxian was happy to accept this task, saying that he would fight with Liang Peiqiu until dawn.
Seeing that he has made great progress recently, Wang Yu was overjoyed for a while, but then thought of his marriage, and felt a little distressed.
Then he asked cautiously: "Son, did you hear all the uncles in the hall today? What do you think about this marriage?"
Wang Yunxian sneered in his heart, the old man is really murderous, and he only picked his sad things to mention.He pretended to ask, "What's Daddy's plan?"
Seeing that he was sensible, Wang Yu felt distressed.He is just such a single seedling, how can he be willing to be wronged?He also sees it these days, he only sees it but doesn't say it.
But at this time, there is nothing to be afraid of, so he pondered for a while, and said: "If Peiqiu is a woman, have you ever thought about marrying her?"
**
But on Liang Peiqiu's side, who would have thought that the thoughts Wang Yu once had would be revived again, and only focus on meeting people whom he hadn't seen for a long time.
I don't want to be stopped by Xu Daren halfway.
Xu Daren led a large group of people, and he couldn't help saying that Liang Peiqiu was set up and went to Huangjiazhou, and he said with certainty that he wanted her to be a witness.
Xu Daren is the head of the Suhu guild hall, that is, the curator. Liang Peiqiu had met this person several times when he was singing a big opera at the Three Kilns and Nine Clubs, and held a hall meeting.
She also heard about the fights in Huangjiazhou in the past few days. Naturally, she was on the side of the people in Zhouzhou. She didn't expect Xu Daren to use force, and she didn't want to judge what is fair. It's just that they have a large number of people and their mouths are mixed. I don't know who it is After mentioning "Xu Shaodong's house has also been notified", her struggling movements slowed down.
Thinking that Xu Zhiliu might also pass by, he simply went with them.
When Xu Zhiliu got the news, he was only half a step too late, and rushed to Huangjiazhou.From a distance, I first saw the Suhu Guild Hall on the beach. It is magnificent and expensive, and it can be called a first-class guild hall.
Most of the Suhu guild halls were businessmen from Suzhou and Huzhou. They sold silk and Huzhou pens to Jingdezhen, bought porcelain and shipped them to Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai.As time went by, the guild hall naturally showed the same momentum of wealth and wealth as the people inside.
Xu Zhiliu walked all the way in, and when he opened the door, he saw a stone carving wall several meters long, and went deep along the north and south corridors on both sides of the wall.As soon as you enter the gate of the courtyard, four thick nanmu pillars support the beams of the house. On the beams, there are gilt plaques with four big characters written in dragons and phoenixes - Suhu Guild Hall.
There is also a statue of Guan Gong more than three feet high in the courtyard. In front of the incense table is a huge curtain made of fine silk, embroidered with hundreds of operas, flowers, birds, insects and fish, and countless birds and animals.
It's not the first time we've met Xu Zhiliu, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, looking calm and breezy.Xu Daren came to pick him up in person, looked at it for a while and smiled and said: "As expected of Xu Shaodong's family, I saw that the little god is far worse than you, when he came just now, his eyes were rolling around, obviously he hadn't seen anything big occasion."
Xu Zhiliu paused slightly: "The little god is here?"
"Yes!" Xu Daren said with a smile, "The previous big bosses came here in a hurry, and I didn't treat them well, no, I took the opportunity to offer tea to the young bosses to apologize first."
"Don't dare to take it, Director Xu is too polite."
The two of them came to the main hall while they were talking, Xu Daren's voice was not low, and everyone present heard it, and immediately some people rolled their eyes and turned their faces away in disdain.
Today's appearance is obviously because Xu Daren didn't get a good face in front of those old gingers, so he turned the curve and started attacking them young gingers.You said it beautifully, if you really want to apologize, why don't you just return the territory to the original boundary, so as to avoid this trouble!
Therefore, without waiting for Xu Daren to open his mouth, someone first tore off his hypocritical veil and brought the matter to the surface.They are different from Zhoumin, they stand upright, they just want to judge right from wrong by looking at the black and white.
Xu Daren was forced to take out a new contract.
From this point of view, the deed is brand new, without any traces of age. Those who understand the color of ink can judge the handwriting on the document to be new ink. In addition, the writing standards such as inscriptions and identification are somewhat different from the past. It is obvious that the deed was changed only in the New Year.
Xu Daren didn't quibble, he just said that during the rainy season, the library was damp and the old deed was bitten by mosquitoes, rats and ants, so he went to the county government to replace it with a new one.
The other end was still arguing, but Xu Zhiliu was ushered into a seat and served tea.
Jiangsu-Zhejiang tea Mingqian Longjing, the first batch of young buds picked, just the aroma after brewing, is wrapped in the breath of gold and jade.
Liang Peiqiu watched him from a distance drinking tea with his head down and whispering to others, but he never looked at himself, and the joy he had gathered at the goodbye was blown away by the wind.
She looked at him across the noisy crowd, her gaze was undisguised and scrutinized.
When the young man led the way just now, he obviously wanted to take him to the seat he was holding, but he seemed to glance at it casually, and went to the opposite side.
Was he avoiding her on purpose?
Yunxian found the Wang family, but he didn't send it to the government in time or inform him. Although he couldn't escape An Jiujiu's schemes, he still had a thorn in his heart, right?If it were her, it would be hard not to mind.
Liang Peiqiu didn't even have the face to meet Xu Zhiliu, but now seeing his shy attitude, he didn't dare to go any further, only indescribably bitter in his heart.
At this time, Xu Zhiliu opened his mouth and said to Xu Daren: "Director Xu, the people in Zhou are all doing small business, but just pick up some rough pottery and porcelain to make ends meet. Even if the curator doesn't have the land on the river beach, The business is also spread all over the north and south, so there is no need to be angry with ordinary people. Moreover, Jingdezhen has always believed in a saying that craftsmen come from all directions, and the craftsmen go all over the world. Everyone in the country is a bosom friend, and those who do business are in harmony. Do you think this is the truth?"
Xu Daren brushed the hem of his clothes wrinkled by some dog during the dispute with a smile, and said: "What Xu Shaodong's family said means that I am not friendly in doing business?"
"That's not what I mean. It's just that the local people have been entrenched on the riverbank for several years, and the climate has formed. For the long-term plan, Director Xu really doesn't need to go to war. If you really want to expand your business, you might as well sit down with me and have a talk with kilns Long-term cooperation between factories and porcelain shops?"
These words really touched Xu Daren's heart.
It is really not easy for Suhu merchants to infiltrate the local folk kilns in Jingdezhen. There are too many rules here, the kiln industry system is huge, and the rule is strict. Outsiders have always been discriminated against. Room for him to speak?
If the folk kiln forces headed by Xu Zhiliu are willing to cut their own legs and discuss the method of sharing wealth in exchange for Huangjiazhou's peace, of course it is an excellent idea!
It's just that, can Xu Zhiliu still call the shots on this kind of thing?
Xu Daren leaned in front of him, and said with a shy smile on his old face, "How does Mr. Xu's family want to cooperate?" Looking around again, "I don't know, young masters and stewards, can you give me Xu Daren's face? Establish diplomatic relations with the Suhu Chamber of Commerce , It’s a good thing for all of you, but nothing harmful!”
"You've bullied me from Duchang, and you still want to take advantage of us? I think you're full and daydreaming!"
"That's right, if you want to cooperate, you are begging grandma to tell grandpa to come to your door. There is no reason to force me to wait here."
"Today, I'm going through this for the sake of your curator Xu. Let's not mention the rest for now. Let's talk about returning to Huangjiazhou."
Everyone in the seat either turned the table and left, or talked about him from left to right, and few took Xu Zhiliu's fault.
Xu Daren observed carefully, in the end it was the young man who couldn't hold his breath, and when he picked it up casually, they would cast their eyes randomly, seeing that Xu Zhiliu was no longer the old Xu Zhiliu, and they all played sloppy eyes.
Only the little God of Anqing Kiln sat quietly in his seat all the time, and said at the right time: "Everything is up to Xu Shaodong's."
Xu Daren couldn't help shaking his head.
These local folk kiln forces say that they are scattered and beautify their reputation.
When he was Xu Daren, what kind of begging kitten or puppy?
"So, since the young masters and managers don't like the signboard of my Suhu Guild Hall, I won't force you to stay. Let's wait and see."
Seeing him pretending to be profound, everyone felt a little restless for a while.At this time Xu Zhiliu wanted to say something, but Xu Daren held down his arm.
He clung to Xu Zhiliu's ear, and warned in a low voice: "Don't Xu Shaodong's family understand? There are wolves, tigers and leopards here. They are jealous when others grab the land, and they want to get a piece of the pie. If you say that I will take over, who will not?" Do you know their ugly thoughts? Don’t let them sell Huili, even if they encounter the slightest benefit, they would like to swallow you alive. Just these bastards, I hope they will understand the general situation and strive to make progress together. It seems that Xu Shaodong's family should stop dreaming... I know you want to save the people of Huangjiazhou, but this method is not advisable."
The implication is that there is no need to try to persuade the folk kilns to cooperate together. Xu Daren is the king of Suhu, and he doesn't like the "fly legs" of Hutian Kiln and Anqing Kiln.
Instead of this, it's better to grab the site and do things yourself.
"I have received a letter from Mr. Zhang a few days ago. I think Xu Shaodong's family will help me settle Huang Jiazhou's troubles. In this way, I will wait for Suhu merchants and follow your orders."
Xu Zhiliu frowned and didn't speak.
Xu Daren is a smart man, and he has seen the fatal injury behind Jingdezhen's thriving kiln industry-the folk kilns are independent, competing and splitting. They seem to be united, but in fact they are divided.
Because of this, he dared to attack the Duchang people, a local gang with a large number of people.
Huangjiazhou is indeed a rare and good site - located in the dock fortress, where merchants gather and shipping is prosperous, it can be described as a place that must be contested by military strategists.
Looking at these people in the seat, it may not be that they have no other thoughts.
Xu Zhiliu swallowed the words as they came to her lips.
Liang Peiqiu saw all this in his eyes, although he didn't know what Xu Daren said, and he didn't know much about the factional disputes in the secret kilns in Jingdezhen, just watching, Xu Zhiliu's prestige was not as good as before An Nineteen did anything before.
She felt very sad for a while, and planned to go back to discuss with Wang Yu. Although only Hutian Kiln and Anqing Kiln were the first, but as the first of the two blue kilns in Jingdezhen, this gimmick must be enough to impress the Suhu Chamber of Commerce to carry out the next negotiation.After a long time, the cooperation between the hatchback may not be as good as the territorial struggle, so it can be regarded as amicable.
Just as he was about to speak, he suddenly heard a commotion.
She immediately followed the sound, and saw a group of thick men in coarse short jackets rushing in with clubs or hoes, and slashed at the resplendent and resplendent wall.
"They want to cut off our livelihood, so we'll take our jobs back!" Gritting their teeth, the leader of the Zhou people climbed onto the stage in three steps and said loudly, "Tear down the stage and cut off the flagpole!"
The local people behind him echoed in unison, and they rushed forward and knocked down the stage shelf, and chopped off the flagpole with the thick mouth of the bowl.The colorful flag of "Suhu Academy" was originally hung on the flagpole, but it was torn into pieces and stepped on the feet of the people.
Obviously this was a well-prepared demonstration.
The citizens of the continent were aggressive, and the way they held their hands frightened everyone in the hall for a moment, Xu Daren reacted immediately, yelled a few times, and rushed out from behind a group of strong guards who were also prepared.
They are armed with three-section sticks, iron chains, whips, and pestles, which are undoubtedly a greater provocation in the eyes of the red-eyed locals.
So without waiting for Xu Daren to speak out, and without giving anyone a chance to turn around, the two gangs immediately scuffled together.The strong and loud sound of sticks and fists falling on the flesh really frightened a group of frail young housekeepers.
In the chaos, she didn't know who stepped on Liang Peiqiu's foot. Enduring the pain, she immediately rushed to Xu Zhiliu in the corner, subconsciously protecting him in front of her.
There was a force on her shoulders, but in an instant, she was pushed back.A familiar aura lingered in front of her. Although she couldn't see his face, she couldn't help but smile when she thought of the strength on Cai Cai's shoulders just now.
At this moment, Xu Zhiliu tried to persuade the people to lay down their weapons, but the people thought that they gathered together to discuss how to suppress them, so naturally they ignored them, and rushed to threaten them with their teeth and claws. He didn't do anything directly, he just pushed and shoved a few times at random, and then returned to the battle circle to fight hand-to-hand with the guards.
Although the nurses in the Suhu Guild Hall are well equipped and they are all Lianjiazi, on the whole, the people in the state are united, and there are some old, weak and women in them.
Liang Peiqiu watched helplessly as the gray-haired old woman was pushed onto the stage, her forehead was smashed, and her face was covered with blood. Feeling terrified, she rushed forward to protect the old woman.
"Grandma, are you okay?"
The old woman cried bitterly: "These gangs of gods are killing me!"
But even so, she still has to stand up and fight to protect her homeland!How can such a scene not make people excited?Even if the bystanders are like her, they can't help but feel angry, wanting to tear the ugly faces of those rich and powerful.
Why?Why are they rich and powerful, so they can insult and trample the dignity of ordinary people at will?Can they take away their foundation and make them homeless?Why do they claim to be superior to others, but their hearts are so cold and humble that they can ignore the begging for mercy of the old, weak, sick and disabled?
Don't they have parents and children?
How could they push people to this point!
Why?
why!
Why does this world always have to be like this!
A stone fell head-on, and Liang Peiqiu felt his eyes go dark.When the consciousness came back, the whole group of blood slid down from the corners of their eyes, hitting their feet one by one.
Her face was pale, but her eyes were calm like never before, she just hugged the old woman and softly comforted her, no longer caring about the swords and swords behind her.
She could no longer think of that much, could no longer bear that much.
All she knew was that she wanted to protect this grandma!
However, the imagined violence did not come. After an unknown period of time, she tried to move her stiff neck and looked back, only to see a blue figure covering above.
Amidst the muffled sound of falling sticks, they met their gazes.He quickly scanned her up and down, noticed the blood on her face, his expression tightened for a moment, and then said: "Go to the backyard first."
She nodded, no longer hesitated, and ran to the backyard protecting the old woman.
When she reached the corner, she looked back and saw that more than a dozen nursing homes had been surrounded by desperate locals. Xu Daren and others were wrapped in dumplings, and they were pressed into the crowd, biting and trampling on them.
The whole yard was filled with roaring, cursing, and dripping with blood.
Xu Zhiliu retreated a few steps away from her, bowing left and right, receiving constant attacks on his face and body, but even so, he still firmly blocked her.
Liang Peiqiu's eyes couldn't help but turn red. After sending Grandma to the backyard, she immediately turned around and went to Xu Zhiliu's side, took out an object from her waist, and stuffed it into his hand.
"Brother Liu, I finished it a few days ago, but I haven't found a chance to send it to you. It's a bit ugly, I hope you don't mind."
Xu Zhiliu took it in a hurry, and subconsciously glanced at it.
It turned out to be a knot of five blessings.
It looks like she punched the lock herself.
"Why did you send me this?" he asked.
The voice seemed to be muffled in the throat, and it jumped out with all its strength, with a hint of tremor.
Liang Peiqiu smiled slightly: "There is no reason, I just want to send you off, I think this has a good meaning."
certainly not.
Xu Zhiliu wanted to say that he knew it was not that simple.Just like the pig's trotter back then, how could everything just happen to appear in his life?Even for himself, it is difficult to guarantee that on such a snowy night, he can accurately cross the mountains and report to him in the village.
Was she really ignorant?
At that time, after his father died, the family was impoverished. He was looking for work everywhere, and when he was desperate, he passed a monastery.The monastery needs a donation of sesame oil money to enter and pray for blessings. He didn't have any money for sesame oil, so he knelt down under a century-old ginkgo tree in front of the mountain.
A monk saw it and gave him a five-blessing knot, wishing him a smooth life.
He took it, received it properly, and tied it around his waist to wear it every day.
But soon, there was a plague of locusts in the village. When they went to collect food, Wu Fujie was lost.He searched for a long time, but never found it.The days after that were really ups and downs, and had nothing to do with "smoothness".
It might just be a thing that monks use to send children casually. He knew it was useless, but for some reason, for so many years in the past, he always remembered the Five Blessing Knot that he didn't know where it fell.
Maybe deep in his heart, what he always remembers and looks forward to is the so-called "successful" day?
Now, in this chaotic scene, a person risked the danger and turned back and stuffed the Five Fortune Knots into his hands.She still had a smile on her face, with a trace of caution and hope in her eyes, saying that this meant a good meaning.
Xu Zhiliu only held the five-blessing knot for a moment, then returned it.
"Keep it for yourself."
Now he won't ask her again, Xiao Liang, don't you have anything to say to me?He had asked the same thing many times, but she never said it once, just like she had never explained the above coincidences.
If so, act as if it never happened.
He pretended that she never knew the existence of the Wang family, that she never turned the prisoner over to him, that she never thought of covering up his murder or killing for him.
If all of this can be turned into nothingness after he retreats, then let them go back to the beginning.
Nothing ever happened.
Everything is still in time.
Liang Peiqiu was taken aback.
Ignoring the blow that came at the head, I stood there stupidly, looking at the five lucky knots that were stuffed back into my hand, and tears filled my eyes in an instant.
he does not want.
He doesn't want anything from her.
She didn't know what to do for a moment, she only heard a loud bang above her head, and looked up to see that a citizen was pushed to the ground, and the courtyard was controlled by the inspectors who had just arrived.
Wu Yin confronted Xu Zhiliu directly before he opened his mouth, but was led aside by Xu Zhiliu to speak.Wu Yin understood, and glanced behind Liang Peiqiu who was still in a daze, seeing the tears in her eyes, he was taken aback for a moment.
"Why are you crying?"
His voice was extremely low, but the people around him still heard it.
However, he just paused for a moment and continued walking forward.
At this time, Liang Peiqiu came back to his senses, quickly wiped away his tears, picked up the old woman from the backyard, and handed it to her relatives.Then, under the leadership of the inspection department, he went back to the yamen to record today's situation.
However, the villagers were united, and the leader came out to accept the crime, leaving the rest of the villagers clean.Xu Daren wanted to say something, but Liang Peiqiu quickly stepped forward to stop him.
"Director Xu, on the way here just now, I heard the conspiracies of the local people. If the county government is reasonable and releases the leader, they will stop this time. But if the county government is unreasonable, not only will the leader not be released. , if all the citizens are punished together, they will burn the yamen. Once the yamen is burned, the matter will become a big deal. What if the citizens take the papers and go to the state capital or the capital to sue? "
Xu Daren was angry: "Are you threatening me?"
"I don't dare, I just heard it just so I just wanted to remind you. Director Xu, if things really got to that point, have you thought about how to get out?"
Liang Peiqiu saw that the courtyard was old, weak, sick and disabled, and the injuries were serious, so there was a lot of trouble.Even her forehead was cut, if she hadn't been covering her hand to stop the bleeding, she might look scary.
Xu Daren followed her line of sight for a moment, and he also knew that the matter was too big, even if he only angered Zhang Wensi'an Nineteen and others, he might not be as good as him.
I hate these local people, they make trouble every day, but they still refuse to accept it!
He flicked his sleeves and swallowed the dumb loss in silence.
After Xu Zhiliu appeared, he quickly stepped forward and said a few words, then left.This movement was so fast that not many saw it in the noisy lobby, but Liang Peiqiu still saw the beginning and the end.
Recalling his attitude at the Suhu Guild Hall today, he should also want to help the people of Zhou to ease the situation, but with Xu Daren's temperament, how can he stop here?I don't know what they said.
Thinking of the news Wang Yunxian brought back earlier, it was said that Xu Daren had bought the county magistrate long ago, and he was the same as An Jiujiu and others, otherwise how would he dare to make such troubles?
Liang Peiqiu thought about what Xu Daren had said to Xu Zhiliu before he left, and his heart suddenly felt a little uneasy.
This matter lasted until midnight, after the inspection department and the yamen conducted a comprehensive trial and inquiry, the innocent people were released first, and it was already dawn at this time.
When Xu Zhiliu returned home, he didn't rest, just washed up briefly, changed his clothes, asked Shi Nian to bring a cup of strong tea, and then sat down in the study.
The candle flame flickered, casting his silhouette on the window lattice.
There was a figure in the porch outside, and secretly looked at the window, only to see that the people in the room seemed to move a little bit, then stalemate, and did not move for a long time.
Shi Nian waited quietly for a long time, thinking that the geese passed without a trace, and didn't want the young master to call at this time: "Come in."
Startled, he jumped up immediately.
Xu Zhiliu asked: "Who brought this in?"
Shi Nian thought to himself, who would dare to come in and out of this house casually, who else but him?He didn't dare to show it on his face, he clasped his hands, lowered his head and murmured: "My lord, it's me."
Xu Zhiliu said nothing.
Shi Nian was terrified, thought for a long time, and finally explained: "Son, I don't want to, it's just, it's just that when I went to the county government to pick you up, I happened to be met by that little god. He repeatedly asked me to hand over a gift What, I said it was agreed with you before, I saw it and thought it was not a valuable thing, so... this is the decision to accept it for you."
At this time, under the flickering firelight, the Five Fortune Knot placed in the middle of the desk, which seemed worn out and ugly after being rubbed for a long time, was really hard to catch the eye.
Shi Nian was coaxed by that person for some reason, and he said in a daze, because he hurriedly yelled: "My lord, if you don't like it, I'll just throw it away."
As he spoke, he stepped forward, just as he was about to meet the Five Fortune Knots, Xu Zhiliu waved his hand away.
"That's all." He said in a deep voice, "You go out first."
"Yes."
After Shi Nian retired, Mao Mao secretly observed for a while in the corridor, only to see the shadow of the window moving slightly, raising his hand to caress something.That movement was extremely slow, with prudence and determination.
He didn't know the meaning of the Five Blessing Knots, and he glanced at it casually, but he didn't notice the mystery inside.
Xu Zhiliu was tired and tired all day, knowing that Liang Peiqiu, who was like him, would not send this thing for no reason after he refused.As soon as he entered the county government office, he saw her.
And she naturally saw Xu Daren talking to him.
He closed his eyes, and figures like An Nineteen, Zhang Wensi, Xu Daren, and Xu Zhong kept appearing in his mind.Even if he presented the precious blue and white plum vase, An Jiu would not let him go.
Huangjiazhou's fight with weapons was a test of whether he would surrender and be loyal.
And after that, what else?
But if not, what should Anan do?What should mother do?Where is he going?
And her.
Xu Zhiliu tried his best to get rid of distracting thoughts, and opened the map of Huangjiazhou, but today the candlelight kept shaking, shaking... so that he was distracted, and his eyes moved from the piled desk to the five lucky knots several times.
He simply untied the knot, and took out a small note from the "Fu" characters printed on each silk rope.
I saw a line written on it:
Brother Liu, in the pavilion water, fish play with lotus leaves, summer is here, when will you perform the contract?Tomorrow night, the lion will wait for you, see you there or be square.
Sending you a super fat badge~~
I write till my hand hurts
(End of this chapter)
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