After Wen Renxiao's little servant left, Le Qiu had time to explain to Chu Ning that when the summer was about to begin, the big families who had stored ice in the winter had to open a part of the ice and give it to relatives and friends, and even the ice in the palace had to be opened on the day of the beginning of summer, and it would be given to the minister of civil and military affairs to show the emperor's favor, because the summer here is hot, and it will be better to have ice.

This also reminded Chu Ning of the way to the capital in Layue last year, when he saw the Huguo Mansion's family digging ice in the river.

However, what surprised Chu Ning the most was that Le Qiu also said that in the Great Zhou Dynasty, even in summer, ice can be made, and saltpeter is used, but the production of saltpeter is too low, so it is limited to the palace and the homes of individual high-ranking ministers, but the main way to make ice is "ice storage".

Although this incident washed away the sadness caused by Uncle Jing's injury, Chu Ning always remembered in his heart, he had to go over every day to see, Uncle Jing's recovery was not bad, although his movement was restricted, but after all, he could still take care of himself, so there was gradually a smile on his face, and Chu Ning was slowly relieved.

It was the beginning of summer, and the five children had learned the words, so Mama Zhang brought a specially woven silk mesh bag for them, and put a freshly boiled egg soaked in cold water in each of them, and hung it around the children's necks. As the saying goes: "Hanging eggs on the chest in the beginning of summer, the child does not heal in the summer", I don't know if there is a scientific basis for this, but the children who hang the eggs are very happy.

The main function of hanging this egg for children is to play - egg fighting, egg head fighting egg head, egg tail hitting egg tail, fight one by one, see whose egg persists to the end, the egg head winner egg is called the king, and the egg tail winner is called the little king.

Chu Ning watched several children compete with each other with eggs with great interest, and the sounds of exclamation, pride, annoyance, and stamping came and went with the sound of snapping eggs, which was very lively.

At this moment, Le Qiu walked in from outside, put his index finger to his lips and said to the children, "Shhhh

A few children hurriedly stopped their voices, the rules they learned these days are not in vain, this little self-control is still there, one by one under the leadership of Xiaozhou, they quietly went back to the inverted room in the front yard along the verandah.

Chu Ning also followed behind and walked out of the house, wondering in his heart who was coming, he should be the eldest brother's guest, but he didn't hear the eldest brother mention it!

But obviously I can't see it, and the guests should have entered the east wing, because there are two strong men standing at the door of the east wing, burly and sharp-eyed, and they are practicing at a glance.

Those who go out with bodyguards are not ordinary people!

"It's the third prince of Qinglian. Le Qiu whispered in Chu Ning's ear.

Chu Ning was so shocked that he almost jumped to his feet, why did such a great god come! Isn't this small courtyard too honored!

But after thinking about it carefully, I understand, I was still discussing whether the embroidery girl next door would also go to live in the big house together, after all, it was really space over there, and it was convenient for Chu Ning to exchange embroidery experience with a few of them, but everyone knew that those few had no way to make their own decisions, and they must secretly ask the three princes to do so, but they didn't expect that this person would be invited!

This matter was decided after discussion between Uncle Lai and Chu Yunzhou, since he was in Qinglian and wanted to find a reliable ally, judging from their own sources, this third prince was still palatable, and the relationship with Xiaoqing was also logical, it would not seem so abrupt, originally he only thought about the exchange of letters, but he didn't expect that this third prince was also a cheerful person, and he came over directly.