Rebellious officials bow their heads

Miss Liu stood up next to her, and said with a trace of panic and embarrassment: "Xu Yan."

"Miss Liu." Xu Yan's tone was very blunt, and he raised his chin slightly to look at her, "I didn't know you liked talking about other people's family affairs so much."

Miss Liu turned pale and murmured, unable to speak, glanced at Xu Yan, turned around and left embarrassingly.

Ye Liuzhou stood up from the wooden box, feeling the solidification of the surrounding atmosphere.

Xu Yan stopped talking and began to pack up the stall. He put the paper umbrella aside, rolled up the brocade blanket, put the odds and ends in wooden boxes, and placed them on both sides of the horse's back.

Ye Liuzhou was a little uneasy in this silence, he kicked the dirt on the ground with his toes, waited for a while and asked, "Why did the wooden frame collapse?"

Xu Yan closed the lid of the wooden box and turned to look at him: "What do you want to know?"

That Senhan's tone made Ye Liuzhou pause, and understood that what the other party was referring to was not a wooden frame.

"My family's affairs are what you see now, don't try to understand what outsiders say."

Even if Ye Liuzhou couldn't see him at this moment, he could still imagine that the other party's face must be covered with a layer of ice.

"Well, let's not talk about anything else." He lowered his head, "What's the matter with the wooden frame?"

Xu Yan closed his eyes, calmed down his voice and said, "The wooden frame collapsed because the ropes were rotten. It was an accident. Ah Zhong has already been taken back by Zhou Yuan, and we are leaving now."

On the day of Qiqiao Festival, when they came, it was very lively, but after this accident, when they left, they were panic-stricken.

Ye Liuzhou found out the bamboo stick and held it, and Xu Yan held the horse rope. The two of them had nothing to say all the way back to Xu's house.

After a few days of peaceful days, Ye Liuzhou was lying in the house with nothing to do, when he heard the wooden door creak, Zhou Yuan walked in and put the porcelain bowl on the table, dissatisfied: "Every day I want to give you Yao, what happened to you and Xu Yan? He promised to make medicine for you earlier, but now he pretends not to remember."

Ye Liuzhou got off the couch, and sat down at the table with his bare feet on clogs, "Thank you for your hard work, Doctor Zhou."

"What about you and Xu Yan? You didn't even talk when we were eating together, and Mrs. Xu even asked me if there was a quarrel in the morning?" Zhou Yuan shook his folding fan.

"It's not really a quarrel." Ye Liuzhou told him about the Qiqiao Festival last time.

Zhou Yuan finished listening and said: "That's right, every time Xu Yan hears other people mentioning this matter, it's like taking poison."

"You know?" Ye Liuzhou asked.

Zhou Yuan was about to answer when he suddenly paused, looked at Ye Liuzhou and began to smile, his eyebrows were handsome and affectionate, and when he smiled, it seemed like a peach blossom in full bloom.

"Since he has already said not to try to understand what outsiders say, then I won't talk too much." Zhou Yuan said, "Why don't you ask him directly."

"I'll ask him what if he beats me?" Ye Liuzhou said, "It's better to ask Mrs. Xu."

"Don't, don't!" Zhou Yuan said quickly, "If you ask Mrs. Xu, he can drive you out of Xu's house, believe it or not?"

"Just kidding, of course I won't go to Mrs. Xu, but is it really that serious?"

"Really. For the sake of your eyesight, you should ask him yourself, he probably won't beat you." Zhou Yuan tapped his fan on the palm of his hand, "But, do you really want to know about Xu Yan?"

Ye Liuzhou propped his cheek with one hand, thought for a while and said, "I'm curious, firstly because I didn't expect Xu Yan to be different from what he is now when he was a child, and secondly because of his attitude towards this matter."

"If you're just curious, don't ask. If you want to know more, go to Xu Yan."

With a half-smile, Zhou Yuan lifted up and knocked on the porcelain wall of the medicine bowl, made two clangs, got up and left.

The rest, Ye Liuzhou, picked up the porcelain bowl, felt the steaming heat, and finished drinking while pinching his nose in distress.

At night, the garden is full of moonlight, and the leaves are white.

Xu Yan fetched a bucket of water by the well and poured it into a wooden basin. He was washing his face when he suddenly heard the sound of a bamboo stick beating the ground. The doorman turned in blindfolded, walked straight forward, and then slammed into a quilt hanging on the rope.

Xu Yan silently watched him struggling under the blanket for a while, then wiped his face dry with a cloth towel, and said, "Three steps to the left."

Ye Liuzhou paused when he heard Xu Yan's voice, and took three steps to the left.

"The first five steps."

Ye Liuzhou walked forward.

"Face north. Sit down."

He turned around, sat back, and landed on the small bench.

"What's the matter, tell me." Xu Yan leaned against the wall of the well.

Ye Liuzhou was silent for a moment, looking up at the sky, "Are there any stars tonight?"

Xu Yan looked at him without speaking.

"...Okay." Ye Liuzhou lowered his head and said directly, "Since you came back from Qiqiao Festival, you have been very wrong. What Miss Riliu said that day, I want to hear if it is true and what is going on .”

The courtyard was very quiet, the cicadas that were noisy during the day were all silenced at night, and the breeze brought the refreshing fragrance of hibiscus flowers.

Half of Xu Yan's face was immersed in the obscure darkness, and the eyes exposed from the shadows were illuminated by the moonlight. He wiped his hands with a cloth towel and threw it into the basin.

"It's been a long time." Xu Yan said, "It's easy to say, because I couldn't stand my father beating and scolding my mother, I cut off contact with their prosperous family and took my mother away. To Licheng, it is what you see now."

Ye Liuzhou didn't expect that he really said it, he was slightly taken aback, and quickly asked again: "Is that all?"

Xu Yan was silent for a moment, and said: "There is nothing else. At that time, I was young and didn't remember anything. The past is also the past. Besides, the so-called father died long ago."

"died?"

"What's your expression? His death has nothing to do with me."

"Oh. Is Madam Xu's illness caused by his beating and scolding?"

"Yeah." Xu Yan looked at him and said, "I'm telling you, it's to prevent you from thinking about this every day and worrying about it all day long."

"I don't even think about it." Ye Liuzhou said, "It's because of your attitude that it bothers you all day long."

"Okay, let's go back, my eyes are not good enough to keep me wandering around in the middle of the night." Xu Yan waved his hand impatiently.

Ye Liuzhou stood up and walked back, but almost crashed into the flower bed halfway.

Xu Yan said helplessly: "Turn right, the door is seven steps away."

Ye Liuzhou responded, and his back disappeared from the moonlight, melting into the dark bamboo shadow outside the door.

Xu Yan stood where he was, looked away, and fell into deep thought in the Changli courtyard.