This night, the spring rain was pouring down.

Xu Qing kept banging on the door of a scoop of drinking, the wind lamp was shaking, darkness and light intertwined, and occasionally light spots flashed, shining on the door plaque with crazy cursive writing, like a ghost.

Before Cheng Yubai stepped on a slipper and opened the door, the voice had already come out: "Do you still know to come to me?" I don't answer the phone, I don't return home, do you want to worry about me for three days! ”

As soon as the door opened, the wind raged through the hall.

He stepped forward and grabbed the man in his arms.

Xu Qing trembled all over, hugged him tightly, and his teeth trembled: "Haven't you slept yet?" ”

"Who's going to open the door for you when I'm asleep? Ghosts?! ”

said that he would celebrate, let him go, and didn't answer the phone, Cheng Yubai was so angry that he had a heart attack, "How can you let me sleep?" I'm waiting for you, I can't close my eyes for a second. If you don't show up, I'm going to call the police. ”

"I'm sorry."

Cheng Yubai didn't want to forgive her, but seeing her embarrassed appearance, she was really ruthless. After thinking about it, he finally let out a long breath, and his big hand fell down, gently grabbing the back of her head.

"Where have you been?"

She glanced up at him, said sorry, and dragged him to the backyard.

When she saw the almost complete spring and summer bowl on the long table, she suddenly lost her voice: "Have you repaired it?" She immediately stepped forward and saw the broken porcelain on the side, her heart sank, "How can this be here?" ”

"I still want to ask you, isn't it a dead beggar who is going to pass? How did you get it back? ”

"I ......"

Xu Qing thought that after the New Year, Xu Zhiliu fell into an indescribable downturn, and raised his head violently: "When will you come back?" ”

"You don't know it yourself?" Cheng Yubai's expression gradually became cold, "A scoop of drinks is monitored inside and out, to be honest, I really didn't find out how you came back." ”

Xu Qing's heart tightened: "You...... Why didn't you tell me? ”

"Don't you think it's funny? Something was given to you and returned, except for you, could it be that there was someone else? What do you want me to tell you? Or, what do you want me to say? Cheng Yubai took a step forward, "You took it inexplicably, and sent it inexplicably, and now you have an inexplicable attitude, Xu Qing, should you explain anything to me?" ”

She leaned back against the long table, meeting his speculative gaze and tilting her head.

Cheng Yubai was clear: "It has something to do with your mysterious friend?" ”

“……”

"Later, I carefully recalled what you said on the day of porcelain appreciation, and I felt strange, there are not many people who know a lot about ancient porcelain, and the possibility that your circle can contact top masters is even more rare."

On top of that, she had several strange moves, all pointing at the bowl.

On the night when she returned to Jingdezhen for the first time after five years and stepped into a scoop of drink, she suddenly pointed to a place nervously, and asked him if he could see it, and he couldn't see anything. Later, Xu Xiaohe gave him a horse, and re-elected as a guest on the show in a scoop of drink, and she pointed to "industry" one by one, which made him even more suspicious.

Wanhe Media carried out equity restructuring, and the father and son of the Xu family went to the board of directors because of Xu Hong, so the secret was that Xu Zhengnan deliberately found someone to release the news, and he knew that she had just returned to Jingdezhen, and under the premise of no connections, how could she act so quickly?

And then today, in order to find her, he even went to Luo Wenwen's cooperative factory, and the factory director told him all about the past with her, and also mentioned that the two had taken orders without authorization at the beginning of the grievance, so as to lag Luo Wenwen's order, she confronted people in front of people, but the mobile phone was able to enter the factory to take evidence, and then the factory director once thought that she had inserted eyeliner in the factory.

But after checking the surveillance, there is no surveillance, which is very strange.

Thinking about the cause and effect, plus she said that day, the answer was in the enamel vase. It was a bottle in the Qianlong period, and the spring and summer bowls also came from the last years of Qianlong, and everything she knew about ancient porcelain was closely related to the Qianlong year.

He kept an eye on it and went back to look through the surveillance. Sure enough, the night the porcelain was returned, she did not appear in the workshop.

He guessed something.

"Xu Qing, I don't use this piece of porcelain."

He picked up the spring and summer bowl and showed her that it was defective near the base, and he did not fill it, and the restoration was never completed.

The seemingly immaculate bowl still has fatal flaws, just like her lies. Cheng Yubai could feel something, although it was extremely absurd and ridiculous, but he still accepted it.

"Is your friend behind this piece of porcelain? You haven't been able to get in touch tonight, is it because of him? ”

Xu Qing finally admitted: "Yes, he is my very good friend." ”

There was a flame of jealousy in Cheng Yubai's heart, which was burning. She said that it was a good friend of hers, and he felt ridiculous, and surprised, more of a complicated mood.

He couldn't believe it, it was hard to define. He didn't know why she was crying for that person, and in a kind of depression, he tried to open his heart: "Would you mind telling me his story?" ”

Xu Qing shook his head.

Cheng Yubai couldn't figure out what she meant: "Don't want to or don't mind?" ”

"He wouldn't mind." She thinks back now, when Xu Zhiliu wrote on the ground: It is the good scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and it is the season of falling flowers.

It turned out that he didn't want to see Cheng Yubai, but he didn't want to meet him in the falling flowers. Such a late spring point must have heralded the end of life.

Originally, he already knew that he would not live long, no wonder he had been depressed, and there was a lingering sorrow between his eyebrows.

The more Xu Qing thought about it, the more he blamed himself, stepped forward and hugged Cheng Yubai, and explained to Xu Zhiliu: "He is sick, very sick, if he can, he must be more willing to talk to you in person, because you are also his very good friend." ”

Unspeakable, a warm overflow process surpasses Bai Xintian.

The story is very long, Xu Qing has been telling it for a long time, and Cheng Yubai has been listening quietly without interrupting her. Later, she became more and more choked up, almost unable to speak.

Cheng Yubai asked her to stop first, holding the spring and summer bowl, looking at the rows of brushstrokes and cracks on it.

A warbler in spring.

Cicadas in summer.

The voices, the images, the yellowed and brilliant memories seemed to pass before his eyes. He sat in front of the patio steps all night, cold all over, until he clenched his fists against his side to stabilize his trembling mind.

Xu Qing leaned on his shoulder, tired of speaking, and gradually closed his eyes.

In a daze, she heard Cheng Yubai ask her, "I want to meet him, is it okay?" ”

She said, "Okay." ”

He was asked again, "If the spring and summer bowls were broken again, would he stay?" ”

Cheng Yubai followed the clear light of dawn and looked at her sleeping face. Her eyes were closed, her eyelashes were still teardropping, her eyes were swollen, her nose was red, and her lips were chapped. She was still restless in her sleep, and a small hill was piled up in her eyebrows.

Her hands were in the crooks of his arms, her fingers so hard.

As if in this way, something can be caught.

Cheng Yubai didn't speak again.

In the afternoon, Xu woke up, and he sent her back to the apartment. Xu Zhiliu was still unconscious, and she put the spring and summer bowl in his hand in the hope of restoring his mental and physical strength. Cheng Yubai took advantage of her inattention to look at the bowl, and there was no broken porcelain in it.

He still couldn't see Xu Zhiliu, but through Xu Qing's comparison and description, he had already seen the young man from hundreds of years ago.

He met his eyes silently, then sighed softly.

Since he was a child, he didn't believe in ghosts and monsters, and often slept with unearthed cultural relics. His mother could not accept the appearance of excavated relics at home, and if she was a little closer, she would definitely have nightmares at night, feeling cold on her pillow, and someone was watching her. There are also many people who say that the unearthed things are heavy and will lose their life, which is why it is necessary to set up a museum and put together those things that are buried in the ground.

The use of display is one thing, and on the other hand, it is rationalized and fixed. Many museums pay attention to the five elements of feng shui in the placement of cultural relics, and there are endless stories about the haunting of museums, and he often laughs at them.

Ghost stories never scare him.

"Do you remember? One year, when we went out to collect wind, when we passed by the Wind and Fire Temple, Qin Feng made a bet with the fat man, saying that he would enter the temple gate at night and go to visit the tomb of Tongbin. We all went that night, and in the end I was the only one who went into the mountains, and Qin Feng also made fun of me about this, saying that I was a ghost fetus and was not afraid of ghosts. Actually, I don't believe that there are ghosts in the world at all, but I didn't expect ...... In my lifetime, I have encountered such a strange thing. ”

Cheng Yubai sighed with emotion, and felt that the world was wonderful, and it was really difficult to understand.

Xu Qing accepted this early, seeing that he had words in his mind, it was also fresh. Thinking of something instead, and asked about the results of the talks, Cheng Yubai flicked her fingers at the door of her head: "You finally remembered me." ”

"I'm sorry."

"There's no need to say anything like that." Cheng Yubai hugged her waist, and the two looked at the river view on the balcony, "The result of the meeting is not very satisfactory, I don't think Zhang Shuoyang means that he has to establish a hall of fame, I guess he just wants me to suffer a little." It's also my fault that I didn't handle the relationship with him well the first few times. ”

Speaking of which, investors are the largest. Zhang Shuoyang, like Zhu Rong, does not tolerate being offended in the face of authority.

"There's no rush in this matter, I'll think of a way, anyway, I won't let them come nonsense." Speaking of this, he laughed again, "Liu Hong is about to blow up my phone." ”

Xu Qing laughed: "Me too." ”

As soon as she was defeated, the world was in chaos, and all kinds of condolences and temptations came one after another, but fortunately, there were losses and gains. Cheng Yubai was pleased with her growth, and said that it was no wonder that her right eyelid kept jumping in the morning, and it turned out that neither of them was good.

It's a pity that the bunch of sunflowers was ruined when he beat Liao Yifan. It was the first time he had seen a man with such green tea, and he didn't know how much higher than his cultivation in college.

Xu Qing laughed at him: "Do you still know green tea?" ”

"You think I don't go online?"

But he couldn't figure it out, Liao Yifan's tricks belonged to White Lotus, or Green Tea, in short, it was very bad, "He won't have a lot of lawsuits this time, and I guess I won't have the time to trouble you again." Don't be afraid, it's not a big deal to get up again if you fall. ”

"I thought you were going to say, you're going to raise me."

"It's not that I haven't thought about it, when you are against me again and again, I want to tie you to a scoop of drink as an ancestral offering, but I'm afraid that when the time comes, you will make a fuss and lift my roof, think about it, it's up to you to go." Cheng Yubai knows her, and none of them are people who are satisfied with the status quo.

Her ambition, her spirit, her vision.

All of them are dazzling.

Such a girl can't be tethered.

Xu Qing turned his head and looked at Cheng Yubai quietly. She can feel Cheng Yubai's tolerance for her, he does not restrict her freedom, and he is willing to let go, he sincerely hopes that she will fly high, and he is willing to be the back.

"Why are you so good?"

"You just found out."

She stepped on the top of his feet, tiptoed slightly, and touched his neat short hair. A whole winter has passed, and he still has short inch-long hair, hard and pointed, without any compromise, but his eyes are so calm and affectionate.

Xu Qing involuntarily held his face and whispered, "I found out earlier, but I just refused to give in at that time." ”

Their sweetness always seems to be accompanied by bitterness. Maybe there is only their love in the world, independent and lonely, burning in the fire and extinguishing in the water.

They looked at each other for a while, and Cheng Yubai lowered his head first and touched her lips: "If you can be soft, it won't be you." ”

"You won't give in."

"So I'm Cheng Yubai, you're Xu Qing, we don't have to be the same as everyone else."

His lips were pressed against hers, and she took them in her mouth, and then said, "Why do you always see people so clearly?" ”

"Let's not say that what I'm doing is this business, and then another, if I don't even know what you're thinking, these ten years will be in vain."

This must not be an easy process, Xu Qing doesn't know how he has spent all these years, but Cheng Yubai said, we don't emphasize suffering, we must look forward, she firmly believes that they will have a future.

Like the old yellowed objects in his cupboard.

"Why are you keeping what I used to make?"

Cheng Yubai knew that she couldn't hold it back, and she would ask one day. That night, when he left her behind to pretend to be crazy and watched her look around for the quilt to open the cupboard, he asked himself if he wanted to gamble, and fortunately he won.

"Xu Qing, I knew from the first time I saw you that we were not all the way. Industrial design, traditional handicraft, modern ceramics, traditional ceramics, local royalty, Jingpiao, are there fewer barriers between us? At that time, no one would believe in my hard work, believe in my hard work and dedication, they saw the brilliance of the Cheng family, could not see its decline, saw that I was among the master porcelain circles at a young age, and could not see my life in the past ten years. I said that I was also in the mud, and no one would believe it, so don't say it, right? I don't want to say anything, the voice that I don't understand will never understand, I follow what the teacher said, I don't have to be responsible for other people's lives, I only need to be responsible for Cheng Yubai's life. Unfortunately, I've met you for a long time, and that's all I can do. But I must admit that I admire you very much, being attracted to you is an act of unawareness, I am good at enduring, not used to confession, I can wait, but I can't afford humiliation, you can understand me as a proud and contradictory bastard, I love you very much, but what I can do is too limited, collecting your old things is the only way out I leave for myself. ”

He said that he would never doubt his beliefs, that he would not feel sorry for the wrong choice, and that he had been looking forward for years.

He doesn't look back, so he has no way back. And her existence, the longing and unwillingness that poured into her throat in the dead of night, countless nights, is the only way out.

Xu Qing couldn't help but want to cry: "Since you are determined to be not the same person as me, why are you still ......?"

"Why do you still think about you?" Cheng Yubai chuckled, "If only I could control it." I don't know why, when I meet you, I just can't control it. ”

He couldn't control his mind, he couldn't control his will, he couldn't control the balance of reason, he knew that their hearts were hard and fragile, but he still couldn't control and wanted to break it, and then make it up with his own hands.

"To be honest, I didn't expect that in ten years, I would only love one woman, give her all my patience, and it seems that I still have a lifetime of patience and want to go down with her."

"This is the first time you've told me." She stepped back a little and cupped his face again, "Thank you, Yibai." ”

"What do you call me?"

"One white."

Cheng Yubai rarely saw her so gentle, and the happiness of bitterness rose in his heart, "In the future, I can't listen to them call you Qingmei indiscriminately, my liver hurts when I think about it, whoever wants to call you like that again, I will hammer him to death." ”

He hugged her tightly with his big hands and pressed her against the guardrail.

Not far away, the river is surging, the clouds are shining, and they kiss in the cold wind, which is the future that cannot be seen at a glance, and at this moment, it is all a gift.

Xu Qing said softly, Cheng Yubai, I will be very good to you in the future.