In the second year of Jinghe, Jingguo ushered in the hottest midsummer amidst the long and impatient cicadas.
This year's summer seems to be hotter than before. Zeng Zuimo just finished drinking a bowl of mung bean smoothie, holding an ice pack in his hand, but his heart is still unavoidably irritable.
Of course, this irritability has nothing to do with the weather.
"Why are you leaving so soon, can't you not go?" She walked around the room, looking at Wan Ruoqing who was packing clothes by the bed and asked.
"No, Mr. Sun has already passed by first. It must be difficult for them to start over there..." Wan Ruoqing said softly, but the movements in her hands did not slow down.
"Even you are gone, what should I do?" Zeng Zuimo asked while throwing down the ice pack.
Wan Ruoqing looked back at her and said, "Why don't you go to Kyoto with us?"
"I..." Zeng Zuimo opened his mouth, really didn't want to bring up the place that had brought her endless nightmares, and said angrily: "Let's go, let's all go, you all have no conscience, let me stay here alone here!"
Wan Ruoqing finally put down her work, looked at Zeng Zuimo running out, and shook her head helplessly.
She must go to the capital. In terms of familiarity with Goulan's operating model, even Sun Lao can't compare to her. Now that they start again in the capital, it will be more difficult. She is alone at home, After all, there will be some regrets in my heart.
However, once she left, Zui Mo would have no friends here, and she couldn't even handle three meals a day by herself. Thinking of her, Wan Ruoqing felt a little uneasy.
Shaking his head, he walked outside the door, stood on the porch and looked in a certain direction... They had already set off half a month ago, and now, they must have already arrived in Kyoto, right
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This year, the summer in Kyoto is really hot. If it doesn't rain again, I'm afraid it will usher in another disaster year.
The word "year of calamity" is nothing to rich and powerful people, but to most ordinary people, it is the boundary between life and death.
Disasters have occurred frequently in the past few years, and even the capital of Kyoto has encountered a drought that has not been encountered in decades. The people at the bottom are already discussing whether His Majesty has lost his morals and caused the dissatisfaction of the heavens.
Li Xuan walked on the street in ordinary clothes, the hot sun above his head made his underwear wet after walking for a long time, but he was a little envious of those idlers who wandered the street in only short shirts. The ice has long been used up, and His Majesty does not go to the palace to escape the summer heat. Naturally, the concubines can only endure the scorching heat in the palace, which leads to a huge increase in the demand for ice storage. Now even the empress can only get a small piece every day.
"Master, do you want to come in and play..."
Even the voices of the girls standing at the entrance of the brothel were a little weak. Li Xuan looked at their horrific faces washed by sweat, like a monster, and he didn't even have the idea of going in to listen to the music.
"Fairy, give me a stick from my old grandson!" A brat with a bare buttocks and a half-human-high wooden stick in his hand pointed at the girls at the door of the brothel and said loudly.
When those girls saw a child who was only seven or eight years old running up, they laughed all over the place, pointed to a dangling gadget in his place, and said, "Hee hee, little brother, your stick is too small, why don't you use it?" Come back when you grow up!"
If a grown man had said that just now, he might have been dragged into the building after being spat lightly by them, and he would have done some indescribable things by the way, but the other party was a child with no hair yet, but he could only let him They relieve boredom when they are sleepy.
"Bah, shameless!"
A middle-aged woman next to Xiongzi spat at the door of the brothel, pulled Xiongzi away, slapped him on the buttocks a few times, and said, "Stay away from this place in the future, or you won't even You won't even be allowed to go!"
A few red marks appeared on the buttocks, and the brat was about to cry, but was frightened by the woman's last words and swallowed back his tears.
Not letting him go to the hook bar is a thing infinitely more terrifying than spanking.
"Fairy, I'll deal with you when I grow up!" The bear child wiped away his tears, carried the stick in his hand on his shoulder, and said silently in his heart while following his mother home.
Li Xuan always felt that what the brat said just now was a bit familiar, as if he had heard it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it for a while. He just thought it was when he was visiting the brothel and listening to the music, and he heard the nasty things said by the prostitutes. It's just words.
"Hey, what's going on in front?" Li Xuan asked curiously when he looked up and saw that there was a crowd in front of him, and several teams had lined up from that shop to the street.
A man behind him walked up immediately, and came back after a while, saying: "Your Highness, this shop sells something called mung bean smoothie, but for some reason, so many people buy it."
"Mung Bean Smoothie?" He had never heard of this name before, and Li Xuan showed interest on his face, and said, "Go and have a look."
After a while, after spending a tael of silver, the guard who entered through the VIP passage quickly came out again, but there were a few more porcelain bowls in his hands.
Li Xuan took one casually, it was cold in his hands, he took a sip with a wooden spoon, and immediately felt a burst of refreshing coolness, and said in amazement: "Even the palace doesn't hide ice, who is the owner of this shop, who is so extravagant!"
This mung bean smoothie must have used ice cubes, but the price is so low. It is hard to find ice in Kyoto now, so how could someone sell it so cheaply
After eating up all the smoothies in the bowl, Li Xuan suddenly felt a lot more refreshed. Li Xuan raised his head and saw the words "Ruyifang" imprinted on the signboard of this shop!
Snapped!
The bowl in his hand fell to the ground and broke into pieces.
"He's back!" Seeing His Royal Highness's excited expression, all the guards were stunned.
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"I was too impulsive that day."
"impulse?"
"… It is my fault."
"Where did you go wrong?"
"—"
"Hesitating, the attitude of admitting mistakes is not good enough, I don't accept it, try again!"
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"Don't go too far!" Miss Liu Er narrowed her eyes and looked at Li Yi, with a chilling atmosphere.
Li Yi's eyes widened, and he looked at her not to be outdone, didn't he just stare at each other, who is afraid of whom!
If she doesn't let her memory last this time, next time she will fight foolishly and desperately when she knows she can't beat her.
"It's already a stick of incense..."
Xiaohuan rubbed her sore eyes, the uncle and the second lady had already looked at each other like this for a long time, they—wouldn't their eyes be sore
Li Yi's eyes were really a little sour, and he regretted it very much in his heart. He shouldn't have stared so wide just now.
"Come here today, truce!"
The chilled grape wine on the table was almost gone. He rubbed his eyes, and when he was about to reach out, he saw the wine jug on the table disappear in a blink of an eye.
Second Miss Liu snorted coldly, leaving him with a cold back.
The time was the third day of June in the second year of Jinghe. At noon, most people in Kyoto were still complaining because of the scorching heat. Li Yi's iced grape wine was snatched away by Miss Liu Er. Emperor Jing had just taken the elixir and was about to take a nap. Jin Wang pulled Yong Ning's small face and laughed triumphantly. There was a big feast in the Shu Palace, with singing and dancing. Qin Yu, who ended his confinement two months ahead of schedule, walked out of the Qin Mansion...
It was also at this time that His Highness the Prince, who was furious, stepped into the gate of the Viscount's Mansion.