Chapter Thirteen
It was completely dark. Because Cui Zhouping was a guest, Liu Yi still lit some lamp oil. Usually he didn't eat supper and went to bed when it was dark. Now that there was a guest, he naturally couldn't do it like usual.
"There is actually a chessboard here?" Cui Zhouping looked at the chess case in the guest house and looked at Liu Yi, then suddenly said: "On weekdays, I wait for Yiqi, and I always watch from the sidelines. The night is long and I sleep too early. How about you and I play a game?"
"I don't understand this path, and I just take a look at it on weekdays." Liu Yi refused directly. The shadow of the last time he played chess with Zhuge Liang was still lingering in his heart. He didn't want to find abuse if he had nothing to do.
"It's okay, I'll teach you if you have nothing to do." Cui Zhouping did not let Liu Yi go, and just smiled and greeted him.
Liu Yi's mouth twitched for a moment. Why did he feel that Cui Zhouping was a little too enthusiastic?
Wait, the attributes of this guest house seem to be happy... This guy doesn't want to stay here and not leave, right?
Liu Yi began to hate that attribute. Do you want to entertain a famous scholar every day? I am not hospitable, and this family background does not allow me to be hospitable!
After Cui Zhouping's excessive persuasion of his nine sons, Liu Yi finally sat down. However, it turned out that some things were not something that could be made up for a year or two, even in this entry-level state, they were eventually abused.
Looking at Cui Zhouping who started to chase people with satisfaction, Liu Yi wished he could pick up the chessboard and let him sleep for a long time.
It started snowing in the middle of the night, and the chill in the air dissipated a little, but the temperature in the room was not high. After all, there was no electric fire. However, when sleeping on the newly woven mat, Cui Zhouping slept quite steadily, even more stable than before on the quiet and comfortable bed of his home. The mat didn't look very good, but sleeping on it allowed him to relax his whole body and mind and even go to sleep faster than before.
As for Liu Yi in the master bedroom, since the house was rebuilt, there has been no time to be unable to sleep.
In the next few days, the snow kept falling and the weather became a little colder. The constant heavy snow seemed to give Cui Zhouping the excuse to stay, and he just stayed there.
If Cui Zhouping hadn't given Liu Yi more than 100 Wuzhu coins and a portable jade pendant to give Liu Yi the next day, Liu Yi would have really wanted to drive him away.
The heavy snow continued, but it did not affect Liu Yi's work. Anyway, the rest were only a few ornaments and lacquerware. Liu Yi simply moved all the materials into the main hall to polish and carve them.
"You are using such an elegant hall to do such mundane things, which is really a waste!" Cui Zhouping carried his hands on his back and wandered around the courtyard all day long. He either enjoyed the snow scene in the yard and fed some dog food in the pavilion in the yard to enhance his relationship with Wangcai to see if he had the chance to attack a few chickens, or he was pestering Liu Yi to play chess with him.
As he gets along, he is not as stolen as he did when he didn't know each other. Compared to Zhuge Liang's quiet and elegant nature, Liu Yi feels that Cui Zhouping is more down-to-earth, greedy, curious, and competitive. Although he is very knowledgeable, he has the emotions and desires of ordinary people. He even occasionally tells Liu Yi about which sister in Yingfeng Pavilion in Xiangyang City is better-looking and which sister is talented and learned.
In short, he is more like a personal person than Zhuge Liang. Under Cui Zhouping's guidance, Liu Yi's chess skills have grown older these days. Of course, this thing cannot reach their level in a short while, but in the realm of beginners, Liu Yi is also the kind of outstanding.
Liu Yi was not excited about this. Anyway, he was just a coach and didn't care about winning or losing. He was just a little upset.
After a few days, the wind and snow finally stopped for several days, but the weather was much colder than before. There seems to be no saying of warm winter in this era. Even southern areas such as Jingzhou are very cold, so cold that people don’t want to go out.
"Although you, a craftsman, have a very good knowledge, and it's a pity to fall in this countryside." On the way of saying goodbye, Cui Zhouping looked at the chicken walking in the yard with some regret, but he still couldn't eat it in the end.
"How can you know the joy of fish if you are not fish?" Liu Yi smiled. After getting familiar with these days, he gradually gained a specific understanding of Cui Zhouping. I don't mention the ability, but in private, I am not the kind of person who is difficult to get along with.
Cui Zhouping was stunned when he heard this, then nodded and said, "I'm just a cliché. Well, you have done everything. Why don't you go to Kongming Village with me? He should come back now."
"Okay!" Liu Yi did not refuse. Zhuge Liang's last batch of things were also ready. Today he went to settle the settlement. He immediately carried the bamboo basket and followed Cui Zhouping to Zhuge Liang's thatched cottage.
Maybe he didn't expect Liu Yi to come side by side with Cui Zhouping. When Zhuge Liang saw the two, he was stunned and then smiled and said, "I don't want Zhou Ping to walk with Brother Liu."
"Brother Liu?" Cui Zhouping looked at Liu Yi unexpectedly when he heard this, then looked at Zhuge Liang again, shook his head and smiled, "That's right, you are with him, how can you not know the strangeness of this craftsman?"
With his understanding of Zhuge Liang, although he looked approachable, he was also arrogant in his bones. If Liu Yi had not been recognized by Zhuge Liang, he would not have been like this. After all, Liu Yi and their identities were not equal, and even some famous craftsmen were not qualified to be like this.
"Oh?" Zhuge Liang welcomed the two into the room and smiled: "It seems that the two get along quite well."
"It's easy to say." Liu Yi interrupted the two of them, put the bamboo basket on the ground, took out the things inside one by one, looked at Zhuge Liang and smiled: "Mr. Kongming, all the things you asked me to make have been done. See if there is anything wrong with it."
He came here today to check out the bill. With this money, he could leave Wolonggang. He wanted to seek a better development and a more stable place. Wolonggang was ultimately a starting point for him in this space and time. Although he had a happy time with Zhuge Liang, he did not want to influence his choice because of this kind of personal relationship.
"Brother Liu is leaving?" Zhuge Liang looked at Liu Yi in surprise and said.
"You can tell all this?" Liu Yi looked at Zhuge Liang unexpectedly.
"In Brother Liu's words, this place is not suitable for you. Now you are so anxious to settle with me. Liang guesses that Brother Liu wants to leave." Zhuge Liang smiled.
Liu Yi was silent for a moment and nodded and said, "Yes, I am not this person from Wolonggang. I have been bothering me for several months. It's time to leave."
"I wonder where Brother Liu intends to go?" Zhuge Liang asked.
"Central Plains, Xuchang is naturally the best." Liu Yi did not hide it. The more prosperous and stable the place, the easier it was to advance to him. He had done two orders with Zhuge Liang. Now his carving work has been upgraded to Level 4, but Level 4 is to Level 5, with 100,000 experience. In Wolonggang, he knows when it will be accumulated. He can't demolish the home and rebuild it, right? Only big cities have enough needs to give him the opportunity to gain more experience.
"Since that's the case, can you give me your courtyard?" Cui Zhouping, who was standing beside him, gaze lit up when he heard this. But he had realized the extraordinaryness of Liu Yi's courtyard these days.
"Sir, it's better to ask for it." Liu Yi was overjoyed when he heard this. He was not going to come back anyway. As for those attribute buildings, the higher the level, the better the houses he could build in the future. It was a good place for others, but for him, it was not so precious.
"If you don't talk about this, since Brother Liu is leaving, why not stay in this thatched cottage tonight? How about Liang holding a banquet for Brother Liu?" Zhuge Liang said with a smile.
Chapter completed!