north bird south

Xu Zhiyuan is an occasional naughty child, very similar to his students - Yu Yao has always felt so in his heart.

So no matter how Xu Zhiyuan made trouble, he always had a sense of accommodating him.

When debating with adults, Yu Yao is always firm. Although he is gentle and will not lose his temper, he never makes people feel easy to bully.

Children are treated differently.

Pei Zhen ridiculed him that if he became a father in the future, he might spoil his children, so he would be a loser if he answered the phrase "a loving father".

Before Yu Yao went out, he glanced upstairs worriedly, thinking that Xu Zhiyuan would be in a little mood for many days, so when he came back, he bought a crabapple cake, intending to coax it.

... If it doesn't work, just hang him out for three days like before, and you should figure it out by yourself.

But unexpectedly, Xu Zhiyuan was waiting for him to come back at the door.Yu Yao put down a stone in his heart, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Zhiyuan, I bought something for you, let's eat in the house."

Xu Zhiyuan raised his head and looked at him coldly.Coincidentally, in the car that sent him back, Pei Zhen got off, chased after him and said, "Ah Yao, I forgot my scarf."

Yu Yao thanked him, and was about to get it, Pei Zhen first wrapped his neck tightly twice, and said: "This scarf is so finely crafted, Mrs. Xu must have put a lot of effort into it, you'd better wrap it around and don't take it off, to save you trouble Forgetfulness has failed others' good intentions."

He stroked the scarf, looked at Young Master Xu who happened to be sitting with Bingshuang, and said with a smile: "... Hurry up and go into the room, you two have a good talk, I won't disturb..."

"Is he your boyfriend?" Xu Zhiyuan asked Yu Yao.

This question is like the sun and rain on a sunny day in the blue sky, so suddenly that Yu Yao, who "has no umbrella", didn't realize it for a while: "...Huh?"

Xu Zhiyuan pointed at Pei Zhen: "He."

Yu Yao was drenched in confusion, and said, "Huh?"

Pei Zhen, who understood what he meant almost for a moment, smiled and said, "Not yet, I'm fighting for it." He added embellishments: "What's the matter, young master? Do you want to compete too?"

Xu Zhiyuan could hear him teasing himself, the gloomy look in his eyes.Yu Yao finally understood what Xu Zhiyuan was asking, frowned deeply, and reprimanded: "Doctor Pei."

Pei Zhen laughed a few times, put his hands in his pockets, and said, "Young master is very interesting."

Xu Zhiyuan was about to give him a fist, but fortunately Pei Zhen knew how to measure his jokes, and stopped in time, and waved goodbye to them after a few words.

The frown between Yu Yao's brows has not been relaxed. After Pei Zhen left and the two of them entered the room, Yu Yao still had this expression.

He put the pastries on the table, but Xu Zhiyuan, who was shrouded in the cloud, was about to go upstairs without a glance, and Yu Yao called him when he helped up the last section of the guardrail.

"Zhiyuan," he said, "why did you ask that just now?"

Xu Zhiyuan didn't say a word, only answered him with the sound of closing the door.

……

Now that Ming University's investigation has ended, the scarlet letter on the wall before was like a small stone thrown into a dead pool. No news was heard, and there was no more waves except for a circle of ripples.

Xu Zhiyuan and Fu Shubai met again in the same old place, shouting at the tavern in Chuanjie.While waiting for Fu Shubai in front of the signboard, Xu Zhiyuan snapped his fingers and thought about it. These days, it was Yu Yao who aroused his emotions from time to time.And it's funny to say, before and after every ups and downs, I have a "restaurant" with Lao Fu.

He forgot how he got acquainted with Fu Shubai. Anyway, Fu Shenzhu became his queen trash can for solving problems very early on.Xu Zhiyuan's temper is as awkward as a root growing in the sky. The more he thinks about some things deliberately, the more he forces himself to speak, but the more he hides it in his heart.Probably only when pouring wine freely, will the true feelings be revealed inadvertently.

He first found a table, and listened to the Mr. Changshan at the next table talking loudly with his eyes open, but Xu Zhiyuan's drowsy eyelids couldn't be moved.Fu Shubai didn't come for a long time, so he had no choice but to wander around the door, walking, and met the crow dragging his car head-on, and walked to him listlessly.

"Master..." He pulled out a smile and said, "Do you want to get in the car? It's free for you."

"No," Xu Zhiyuan didn't turn his head, and said with a strange air, "I don't dare to ride in your car anymore. I'll let some people see it and say that I bully the people."

"Oh, master," Crow pouted aggrievedly, "I dare not say that..."

Xu Zhiyuan was walking along the side of the road, and Wu Ya dragged his car beside him, saying, "Fu Shubai asked me to bring a letter to the young master, he can't come this time."

"how?"

"Didn't you check on the students a few days ago... Although the rumors were suppressed, people found out." Crow shrank his head and said, "Who would have thought that it was a female student. I heard that the surname was Wu. The police asked her what books she usually read, and what did she read?" Who does she get in touch with? She... usually has a withdrawn temper and doesn't have many friends. Fu Shubai is in bad luck and happens to have some contacts with her. "

Fu Shubai is a good old man, his popularity spreads almost all over Zhiming, he runs around with friends, and he can chat with anyone of any temperament.It is not surprising to know a schoolgirl who is "isolated".

"However, Fu Shubai doesn't usually participate in any messy gatherings, and he doesn't have any bad remarks, so he will release them after chatting for a while."

Although Xu Zhiyuan usually didn't care about these things, he felt a subtle and chronic sense of oppression. These students were like animal trainers in shackles. There was a hungry mad dog in front of them. They wanted to take advantage of it. While it was sleeping, it killed its neck to prevent future troubles, but it also had to guard against the audience's condemnation and booing.

These people seem to want to dig out and trample the stupid thoughts in their minds.

"Master..."

Xu Zhiyuan rubbed his eyebrows and said, "What are you doing?"

Crow seemed to muster up a lot of courage and said, "Can I see Mr. Yu again?"

The folds that Xu Zhiyuan had just opened frowned again, and said decisively: "No, what do you want to do?"

The crow thought that Xu Zhiyuan was going to hit him, so he shrugged his shoulders, narrowed his eyes and said, "Young master, no, you misunderstood."

"Nonsense, do you know what I'm thinking? Just say I misunderstood," Xu Zhiyuan said while raising a hand, but suddenly found something different.There is nothing special about this difference, it's just that the white towel around the crow's neck has been washed clean.

"Master..." Wu Xiaofeng narrowed his eyes at him, saw Xu Zhiyuan stopped, and sighed again with courage, "Don't be angry with Mr. Yu from now on, he is a very good man."

Xu Zhiyuan didn't know why he suddenly dared to lift which pot without opening it, and his tone was very unfriendly: "Huh?"

"Master, listen to me," Crow hurriedly said, "...my [-]th generation of ancestors were either farmers or contemporary people, so I am the most promising. I can come to Huai City and get to know someone like Master Xu friend."

"..." Xu Zhiyuan decided that he must learn speaking skills from Wu Xiaofeng when he has time. How did he praise himself and others in a single sentence "neither humble nor overbearing".He glanced at the rusty pedals of the rickshaw, and said with disdain: "...it's quite promising."

"I've grown up so much, it's the first time a master like Mr. Yu said anything to me... Respect, and invite me to drink tea on an equal footing." Wu Xiaofeng rubbed his nose with his finger and said, "I was thinking, even if Counting two or three generations from my parents, I have never met this kind of master."

Xu Zhiyuan looked at him.

Wu Xiaofeng smiled embarrassedly: "It's no wonder that Mr. Yu is a university teacher. My parents said that those who can be teachers are the most promising and good people." Wu Xiaofeng shrank his neck: "Master, you have been looking at me What are you doing, staring at my back and panicking."

"It's okay," Xu Zhiyuan looked back.

He thought, "good man" and "promising" were probably the best words his uneducated parents could pull out from their hearts, and they just passed them on to him without embellishment.

This man seemed to be the most common and poorest weed in a land, mixed with thousands of others of his kind.Usually figure out some cunning that is conducive to survival, drifting with the wind, bending over with stepping, flattering and flattering harmlessly.If he meets someone who is willing to share a drop of rain and dew with him, his native foolishness will be revealed.

"It's just a trivial matter, how can you be a good person, am I treating you badly? If you want to drink tea, you can come to Xu's mansion casually." Although Xu Zhiyuan thought so in his heart, he still refused to back down.

Wu Xiaofeng grinned and said, "Master, you're gone."

Xu Zhiyuan: "Get out."

Xu Zhiyuan quickened his pace, and he followed quickly, saying, "I'll give you a ride."

"Forget it, I didn't bring any money." Xu Zhiyuan glanced at his rickshaw and said.

……

Looking up to the bookstore today, when Xu Zhiyuan went there for a walk, he saw the boss counting the numbers.It happened that Yue Jianliu was also there, and he was kind enough to help, and when the books were about to fall, Xu Zhiyuan went to help him.

Yue Jianliu called out to Master Xu in a daze, and Xu Zhiyuan smiled and said, "Just call me Zhiyuan."

He took advantage of the opportunity to show his good image of being helpful, and helped the boss clean up together with the hired porter.The boss gratefully handed them two cups of tea.

Yue Jianliu asked: "Young... Zhiyuan, do you often come to this bookstore?"

"Yes," Xu Zhiyuan met the boss's distant gaze, and said calmly and without conscience, "I usually like to read some books when I have nothing to do."

"I come here often too, I haven't seen you before."

"The fate didn't arrive before, and the time was wrong. If you missed the fate once, save it once. If you save enough, you will meet now."

Yue Jianliu said: "...I guess you usually read some indecent novels."

"Read everything." Xu Zhiyuan said, "What does Jianliu usually watch?"

"I study ancient Chinese literature, and I mostly read history on a daily basis...Recently, Mr. Yu recommended a few books to me. I told the boss to pay more attention when purchasing." Yue Jianliu said seriously, "If you are interested, young master You can go and have a look, I wrote a post-reading review, I can exchange views with each other.”

"Do you usually write?"

"It's full of comments and insights, and then there are imitations of clumsy works, and there are very few original ones... There are poems and prose." Yue Jianliu said, "What about you Zhiyuan."

"I... usually..." Xu Zhiyuan nonsense, "I'm usually tired of listening to my uncle talking about Prandtl, and I really don't have time to write some miscellaneous pens."

Yue Jianliu sighed sincerely: "It's amazing." She lowered her eyelashes and said, "Forget about being busy, it's your business that matters... I thought I could become a book friend exchanging essays with the young master."

"However..." Xu Zhiyuan couldn't bear to see the lady lost, and he bent his eyes and smiled, "I can find time to write, after all, this is also my hobby."

Yue Jianliu blinked in surprise, and said, "Okay." She handed over the notebook she was carrying, and said, "This is mine."

Xu Zhiyuan flipped through the pages, and saw the words on the first page: "The song of the birds is the echo of the dawn from the earth."

"This is an excerpt by me. It happened to be early in the morning when I bought the book, and there were birds singing outside, so I wrote this sentence on the title page." Yue Jianliu added.

"The girl who cut the willow has a sense of ceremony." Xu Zhiyuan said.

After chatting casually for a few more words, Yue Jianliu didn't say goodbye to him until he was on the verge of death.Although Fu Shubai didn't chat with him to relieve boredom this trip, Xu Zhiyuan still felt much lighter.He had the notebook in his pocket, and was thinking about how to deal with the next exchange. When he got home, he saw Xu Zhenping, Yu Yao and an old man in long gown whom he didn't know sitting together drinking tea.

Xu Zhiyuan's briskness stopped abruptly.

Seeing that Xu Zhiyuan was just coming back, Xu Zhenping called him over and asked him to respectfully call the old man "Mr." gone."

Xu Zhiyuan's heart turned cold, he glanced at Yu Yao, then at his father, and said in disbelief, "Why?"

"Why?" Xu Zhenping said, "Please A Yao teach you to read. This is your mother's whim. He is a university professor and he is busy with business. How can he have so much time to take care of other things? Now that Mr. has invited you, you will have to do it in the future." Honestly study at home..."

Xu Zhiyuan suddenly said, "I don't."

Xu Zhenping probably had never been contradicted by Xu Zhiyuan before, his expression changed solemnly, and he said, "What did you say?"

"Little uncle..." Xu Zhiyuan clenched his fists and said to Yu Yao, "Did you say you won't teach me?"

"I said it, and it has nothing to do with your uncle." Xu Zhenping said as calmly as possible, "We adults have our own arrangements."

"I'm not a child."

Xu Zhenping said sternly, "Xu Zhiyuan."

"When children grow up to this age, their self-awareness will always become stronger. This is a good thing, but there must be a limit. The father's words must not be violated, which is the bottom line." It's a single seedling in the Xu family, but it still needs more discipline."

Xu Zhiyuan glared at him, but under the gaze of these two gazes, he couldn't seem to be proud.Seeing that Yu Yao didn't say a word, he couldn't help but asked again: "Little uncle, do you think I'm naughty again?"

"No," Yu Yao finally said, "I will continue to teach you the violin, and Mr. Yue will replace me at other times...Mr. is more professional than me."

"But I don't want him to teach." Xu Zhiyuan's indignant tone was mixed with grievances, "Can you ask my opinion, at least discuss it."

What he said was to Yu Yao, but it seemed to be to Xu Zhenping.Yu Yao was startled, and when he looked at him, he had already turned his back on Xu Zhenping's reprimand, ran upstairs to the room, and locked the door.