Xiao Xingyu said, "Don't you think it's cute? Well, let me tell you, our Xiao family's ancestors started out making bowls. In the porcelain industry, this kind of background is very low status, so you can't expect our ancestors to have any higher education. Water can conquer fire. This is the simplest and most powerful way they could think of to defeat the enemy."

After hearing what he said, Zhang Moyan also found it very interesting: "That's right, your ancestor who established the ancestral precepts is very cute! And your descendants who have followed them for generations are also very cute!"

Xiao Xingyu smiled at her: "Whatever I say is what it is. You are really so simple."

Zhang Moyan was stunned. Why did this kind of praise seem like an insult?

"Teacher Xiao, just because the Geng family is a competitor, do you have to defeat them?" Zhang Moyan had never encountered a legendary family like the Xiao family, either at work or in life. Her mind was filled with a hundred thousand questions, and she couldn't help asking questions.

"How could it be! In nine hundred years, how could our Xiao family have only the Geng family as a competitor? Before the millennium, there was still a porcelain family named Chen who was playing with us, and we didn't have such ill will towards them."

"Does the Geng family have a deep hatred with you?"

Xiao Xingyu thought about it and said, "It can be considered a conflict between the government and the people!"

"Conflict between officials and the public?"

"Well, the Geng family's ancestors were more prosperous than us. During the Northern Song Dynasty, they served as kiln supervisors. You may not know this, but during the Northern Song Dynasty, porcelain for the imperial palace was produced by private kilns, a task assigned by the court. Kiln supervisors were officials who supervised the production of porcelain for the court and collected commercial taxes on the kilns. That high-ranking official of the Geng family was a bad person. He deceived his superiors and subordinates, abused his power for personal gain, and took bribes and perverted the law. Our ancestors of the Xiao family and the oppressed people suffered greatly because of him. That's not all. Later, this Geng family member secretly built a kiln and competed with the people for food. So our ancestors hated him so much that they decreed that all their descendants' names must contain the word "water", as water can overcome fire, to show their irreconcilable hatred."

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Because I didn't do any marketing for this book, there were very few recommendations on the first launch site, and I did it purely for the love of it.

I've already prepared myself for no one to see me.

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