But the bright moon shines on the ditch

Chapter 6

An Nineteen prides himself on not being a gentleman. Of course, he is not in line with those rotten scholars in everything. If he wants to do one thing, he has to do it by any means.Ever since he was arranged by his godfather to supervise Tao in Jingdezhen last year, he knew the mission of the eunuch group well, and he took it for granted that he had fought over ten rounds with Yang Chenggong and his party.

At first he thought that Yang Chenggong's modesty was a disguise, but it took a long time to realize that old man Yang really only used virtue to convince people, he had no other skills, but he was good at winning people's hearts.

There are many helpers hiding behind him, giving advice and advice for him, so as to check and balance himself.

Among them, the one who contributed the most is probably Xu Zhiliu who is known as Xiao Kongming.

Most young people are frivolous, especially young people who are good at reading, they would rather bend than bend.He didn't like Xu Zhiliu's noble spirit, and of course Xu Zhiliu didn't like his neither male nor female gloom.

But so what?
Jingcha is a rule set by the previous court, no matter how resourceful Xu Zhiliu is, can he prevent Yang Chenggong from returning to Beijing?He has received a reply from his godfather a few days ago, and once Yang Chenggong returns to Beijing to report on his work, he will be unable to eat and walk around if necessary.

At that time, no matter how hard Xu Zhiliu's bones are, he will bow his head.

Thinking so, An Jiu put Xu Zhiliu's inexplicable glance on the day the dragon vat was opened to the back of his mind. Hearing about it afterwards, Xu Zhiliu's expression was uneasy when he left the kiln that day, so he relaxed his guard even more.

No, taking advantage of a few auspicious snowfalls, I was invited by my colleagues to go to a nearby county to soak in hot springs.

Fang came back today, dressed neatly, originally thinking of sending another letter to his godfather, praising himself, snatching the last piece of sweet pastry in Yang Chenggong's credit book, but as soon as he entered the door, a little eunuch rushed towards him.

Before he had time to attack, he heard the little eunuch prostrate on the ground and screamed: "Eunuch, something is wrong!"

An Nineteen's expression immediately darkened.

After leaving the inner court, he never wore the eunuch's clothes again, and he didn't like the young eunuch's immature and shrill voice, as if he would never get rid of the stinky bloody clothes that covered his body when he rolled around in the inner court when he was young.

So he kicked the little eunuch away, and reprimanded in a deep voice: "Hurry up, what's the matter?"

The little eunuch was stunned for a moment, then he understood immediately, hurriedly wiped the sweat from his forehead, learned to sink his dantian, and said in a low voice: "Yes, I don't understand the rules, I deserve to die."

An Nineteen was impatient: "What's the matter?"

"Big dragon tank..."

Seeing that An Jiu's face changed suddenly, the little eunuch didn't dare to say anything.

At this time, the eunuch in charge also ran over and told the story. It turned out that when the workers of the Royal Kiln Factory were shipping the giant dragon vat, they found a line written on the bottom of the dragon vat.

At that time, An Nineteen was not in the town, and the matter was reported to the county government. Yang Chenggong didn't say anything, but told the dragon tank that it was urgent and the boat would be dispatched overnight.

By the time they realized it, the boat had already passed Duchang and could not catch up.

An Jiu then clenched his fists and asked, "What did you write?"

The eunuch in charge handed over a piece of paper.

An Nineteen opened it and saw that there was a short line of words on it - During the Wanqing period of Dazong, Yang Cheng, magistrate of Fuliang County, respectfully entered.

Although there are only a dozen or so characters, An Jiu seems to be able to glimpse Xu Zhiliu's pen and ink through the dozen or so characters. His calligraphy is simple in block letters, dignified and bright, just like him, just standing there and looking at him like that makes people unable to look away, and even gets burned by his light.

An Nineteen said nothing.

Just when the little eunuch thought he would be furious, he saw him unfold the crumpled paper again, and lightly brushed the line of words with his almost transparent white hand.

After a long time, he opened his teeth and spit out a few words: "Xu Zhiliu, you are fucking me."

The little eunuch shuddered all over, his head drooping to his chest, not daring to vent his breath.

He vaguely felt that Jingdezhen was about to change.

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When Liang Peiqiu came back from the kiln in the evening, he happened to bump into Wang Yunxian who had just come back from playing wild outside.

Wang Yunxian rushed over and hugged her shoulders with a chill in his body, and said happily: "Peiqiu, guess who I met today?"

Pei Qiu smelled the alcohol on his body, pulled him away calmly, and called the servant to prepare sober soup.

Wang Yunxian's body was limp, leaning against the door to see her stretching out for him, the figure under the candlelight was clear and upright, surrounded by a soft halo, so his heart was as sweet as drinking honey.

He couldn't help approaching her: "Pei Qiu, ask me who I met."

Pei Qiu just thought it was funny, he couldn't help talking to himself long ago at times like this.It's strange today, and he's even playing tricks on her, so he asked cooperatively, "Who is it?"

"You must not have guessed the identity of that person, it's An Nineteen! Our famous pottery supervisor!"

Pei Qiu suddenly stopped pouring water.

Wang Yunxian flew around the room like a bird, constantly sharing with her the situation in the afternoon.

"Originally, I invited a few friends to the pier to see the new horse. Who knew that it was a barbarian from the Northland. Because Xu Zhiliu had made an official post for him, he specially shipped a famous horse from thousands of miles to express his gratitude. I saw that horse was blood-red, fat and strong. Isn't it the legendary sweat-blooded horse? I had never seen it before. I wanted to go up to see something new, but I was kicked out by that barbarian! He didn't even know who I am!"

Speaking of this, he felt a little embarrassed, and dragged a stool to sit in front of her to seek comfort.

"You don't know. At that time, many people at the pier looked at me and laughed, and I was ashamed. How have I ever been so useless? I rolled up my sleeves and wanted to teach him a lesson, but at this moment..."

He changed the subject, leaned in front of Pei Qiu, stared at her smooth face, his feathers fluttered, "Master An has appeared!"

Wang Yunxian said that An Nineteen recognized him, and not only resolved the embarrassment for him, but also promised to give him a horse.

A horse a thousand times better than Xu Zhiliu's.

He was dumbfounded on the spot.

"Think of me, Wang Yunxian. When I was three years old, I ran all over the town from east to west. Who doesn't know me? This country bumpkin has never seen the world!"

Pei Qiu saw him happily describing the situation at that time. In Jingdezhen, where the shipping was well developed, there were many gangs, boat owners and porters who made a living from porcelain.

Taking a break from their busy schedule, they all turned their eyes to the bloody horse that trekked from the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Just looking at the horse, it is already a rare and rare thing. What is even more rare is that the people surrounding the horse are actually the prosperous pottery supervisor and the ancestors who are the deadly rivals of the two young masters of the kiln.

Isn't this exciting?
Wang Yunxian's talent is not well-known, but he is a well-known playboy.Needless to say, Xu Zhiliu, this precious BMW galloped thousands of miles to come for him.As for An Nineteen, the eunuch's prestige is so great that people tremble when they hear it.

When the three of them gathered together, whatever they said casually would attract people's attention, not to mention Wang Yunxian's bluffing voice, which caused trouble as soon as he heard it.

I'm afraid after today, the teahouse will listen to a new book again.

Just listening to it like this, Pei Qiu seems to be able to imagine what kind of picture it is. The so-called "pottery houses are opened heavily against the shore, and the sails of the boat cover the river day by day."

Unfortunately, it backfired.

She knew that Xu Zhiliu would go to the pier to talk about things today, and maybe he bought candied haws on the way.

But why did An Nineteen appear here?Is it a coincidence?

If it was just a coincidence, why did the eunuch, who had always had his eyes above his head, look straight at Wang Yunxian who had never paid attention to him today?

She didn't believe that there were so many coincidences in the world. Most of the so-called coincidences were deliberately done by someone, so she asked, "You have never had any contact with An Jiu, why did he suddenly give you a BMW?"

Wang Yunxian was still excited, without thinking about it, he said: "Of course I want to win over me!"

"Then why did he win over you?"

"It must be that Xu Zhiliu doesn't know how to play. I think they came from the same direction, and maybe they had a conflict. Mr. An is not very happy to see it. Although he pretends to be deep, but what kind of person am I? You can see it at a glance! Haha, if you offend Mrs. An, Xu Zhiliu may be in trouble."

When Pei Qiu heard it, it was exactly as she expected.

Xu Zhiliu must have done something to annoy An Nineteen.An Nineteen went to the ferry today to inquire about Xingshi's crimes. Unexpectedly, this ancestor caused trouble, so he took advantage of the situation and used Wang Yunxian to remind Xu Zhiliu. It was both a warning and a provocation.

Although the Hutian kiln is powerful, the Anqing kiln is not bad either.

Wang Yu is old-fashioned, he doesn't eat oil and salt, and he refuses to accept An Jiu's olive branch. Wang Yunxian is different.

Look at that fool, what a trick.

He was happy all the way for a horse, and after a few glasses of wine, he didn't need to inquire about it. He took the initiative to throw out beans about the Anqing kiln.

Pei Qiu listened, the more she listened, the colder her heart became, thinking of all the things that had happened in the past few days, she couldn't take care of Wang Yunxian for a moment, and ran out.

That night, she and Wang Yu talked for half the night in the study.

The next day, under the name of Yu Kiln Factory, An Nineteen posted a post to invite Wang Yu to watch a play. Wang Yu beat Wang Yunxian with a bruised nose and swollen face when he was still hungover, and then angrily pinched the post and left.

When they arrived, they found that Xu Zhong was also there. Wang Yu stopped and laughed for no reason.

Xu Zhong didn't know which song he sang today, but when he saw his deadly enemy smiling at him for the first time, the hairs all over his body stood on end.He hurriedly moved aside and started talking to other kiln owners.

After a cup of tea, seeing that An Nineteen hadn't shown up yet, several people couldn't help feeling puzzled.

Looking at it now, I realized that the stage has not been set up yet, and no one has come out to make arrangements.

There was no sound in the meeting hall immediately, what about going to the theater as agreed?
As a result, the owners of several big kiln mouths looked at me and I looked at you, sitting on the bench for a long time like a stick in the throat, and then they were sent back.

Xu Zhong held back his breath, and went back to share his bitterness with Xu Zhiliu: "He was called over in the cold weather, thinking it was some great theater troupe, who knew he was playing empty city tricks for us old guys! Tell me, what does he mean?"

After hearing this, Xu Zhiliu also guessed An Jiujiu's intentions.

On the way to the ferry yesterday, he was suddenly stopped by An Nineteen's carriage. Fortunately, Zhang Lei had quick eyesight and quick hands, and pulled the reins in time. Otherwise, an accident that happened in broad daylight would not end easily.

Sure enough, An Nineteen failed to make one move, so he made another move.Today's big empty plan is to give the big folk kilns a show of power.

In the final analysis, he made a mistake and was tricked by someone to go to the hot spring of Laoshizi, so that there was an omission in the dragon tank's knowledge. This matter cannot be retaliated with a big fanfare on the surface, but he can show off his prestige in private.

Xu Zhiliu was afraid that Xu Zhong would be unhappy if he found out about the Dragon Cylinder's inscription from others in the future, so he pondered for a moment, and finally told him the truth.

When Xu Zhong heard it, he jumped up immediately: "You, you, how dare you!"

Thinking of the key point, I couldn't help but wonder for a moment, "Why didn't you discuss such a big matter with me beforehand? If it wasn't for today's event, would you still want to hide it from me?"

Xu Zhiliu was irrefutable, Xu Zhong was so angry that his beard was twisted, he walked away on the spot.

It was not a small matter, it was spread in a few days, Liang Peiqiu just knew what Xu Zhiliu had done, wiped away the sweat that he secretly pinched in his heart, and then felt unspeakable amazement.

He really wasn't afraid of the ax and the axe, and he was so majestic that he directly marked the inscription on the bottom of the dragon vat.

In this way, Yang Gong's return to Beijing to report on his duties is like a magic weapon descended from heaven.

With the amulet of supervising the construction of a giant dragon vat, no matter how the eunuchs set up their formations, at least there will be no fear of their lives.

Here, although the big guy doesn't show it on the surface, he is happy in his heart, both for Yang Gong and himself.

The eunuchs were domineering, and the Imperial Kiln Factory was an official institution, and the common people followed behind to make a living, so they usually suffered from cowardice, but this time Xu Zhiliu rebelled against the general, and it was to help them vent their anger.

As the end of the new year was approaching, the whole town was filled with tacit joy, a new year and a new atmosphere.

Except for Wang Yunxian.

After he sobered up, he slowly recalled that he was used as a gun by An Jiu at the ferry that day.

But so what?Anqing Kiln and Hutian Kiln have been rivals since ancient times. Now that Hutian Kiln is not happy with An Nineteen, Anqing Kiln should seize the opportunity and take advantage of the trend.

That's the truth, isn't it?
But Wang Yu not only beat him up, but also put him in confinement. Even Pei Qiu said that he was incompetent and almost got into big trouble.

What kind of trouble can this mess cause? !He really didn't understand Wang Yu's cautiousness, let alone Pei Qiu's secrecy, so the two took the opportunity to quarrel.

The reason was that Wang Yunxian wanted to reason with An Jiujiu, but was stopped by Liang Peiqiu.Liang Peiqiu didn't want him to be humiliated by being sent to the door, so he persuaded: "Yun Xian, even if you don't have a horse, you are doing well, so there is no need to compete with anyone. If you really like it, you will have the opportunity to go north in person in the future to pick a horse that suits you, wouldn't it be better?"

"Who am I competing with? Is it necessary for me to compete with that guy? You, Liang Peiqiu, should ask yourself, are you competing for something?"

Pei Qiu was startled and didn't dare to look him in the eyes.

But Wang Yunxian was persistent: "I've seen it for a long time. Ever since you went out to find me under the banner of urging me to make progress, you always stopped in the teahouse or in the shop casually. When I heard people talking about him, Xu Zhiliu, I have already seen that you care about him! You don't care about me at all. You are also using me. Whenever you hear things from me, especially when I talk about that guy, you always look calm, as if you are not interested, but Never interrupt again! Peiqiu, do you really think I'm stupid?"

"Yunxian, I, I am not..."

"You don't need to quibble, I don't have any other skills, but I know you very well. I grew up with you, and I thought I was your best brother. I also know that you are not a playful person, so I don't force it. Whenever I find good things outside, I always share them with you as soon as possible. Do you think that this place that is bigger than your palm is fun all day long? Do you think that the interesting scripts you read, the interesting dramas you hear, including all the news related to that guy, all fell from the sky? Do your best to inquire everywhere! But you are good, hiding it, lest I find out, you care about him..."

Wang Yunxian was approaching, with sparks in her eyes, forcing her to look at him, and asked word by word: "If it is true that you are the only suitable opponent for Xu Dacai, as it is said outside, then why don't you go out and compete with him openly? So, why bother to think about it, hide in the furnace of my Wang's kiln, and let yourself be overshadowed for nothing?"

Although he has some vague thoughts, he doesn't want her to be disturbed by the world, nor does he want her to be the target of public criticism.

But every time I see her walking through the mountains, the high and low kiln entrances lie dormant like crouching dragons.She walked normally, on the back of a giant dragon, strolling leisurely in the garden for ten years like a day, and the eyebrows rose and fell, and the world and latitude and longitude of this kiln had already been settled.

Looking at her like that, I feel that she should be dazzling, just like the coquettish fire that soars into the sky, like the blue and white flowers that are cloudless, like that person, like his beauty, his soul.

Like every moment she thinks of that person.

He really wanted to know: "Pei Qiu, why don't you dare to face him?"

　Guess: Why Qiuqiu dare not face Liu
　　
　
(End of this chapter)