The first day of June is the first day of summer vacation, although there is no need to go to school, but the children of the Yan family still get up early, because today is the day of asking for peace, as usual to go to the room to ask the old lady and his wife to say goodbye, after everyone has breakfast together, the young masters are all gone, and the girls are hiding back in the room, in the room with ice to cool down.

"The six girls are here. "Summoning the girl to report outside.

Yan Qi was sitting on the small kang by the window covered with ice and reading idle books, and when he heard the words, he put his shoes off the kang and went to the door to greet Yan Liu. Yan Liu's girl is only more than four months older than Yan Qi, she was born very much like her biological mother Aunt Yang, with light moon eyebrows and clear eyes, and a melon seed face, smiling with a little shyness, slender physique, and a very soft long neck, which makes the whole person look very elegant, the soft long hair is simply curled, a tortoiseshell hairpin with a magnolia flower head is inserted, and the body is a tailor-made lotus-colored embroidered daffodil daffodils.

"I suddenly stopped, and I didn't know what to do for a while, so I came to talk to you," Miss Yan Liu didn't seem to be embarrassed, "I didn't bother you, did I?"

"I'm idle, too. Yan Qi let Yan Liu's girl into the house, and the two of them sat opposite each other on the kang.

Yan Liu girl only occasionally comes to Yan Qi once, every time she comes back to this room, she can't help but sigh slightly: unlike other sisters who are decorated with warm and elegant boudoirs, Yan Qi's room is too simple and distinct, Kyoto's home style is affected by the natural environment and cultural heritage, mostly tall and spacious and luxurious and exquisite, so even the daughter's boudoir is also built very spacious, and young ladies who like exquisite can use screens, curtains, Floor-to-ceiling covers or blue gauze cabinets divide the room, which also looks delicate and ingenious.

And Yan Qi's bedroom is such a spacious and spacious room, a moon hole bed, a set of combination wardrobes with drawers, a dressing table, and a small stone kang built by the window, which are all the furniture. There is no calligraphy or decoration on the snow-white walls, all the wooden furniture is painted with a shiny black lacquer, and even the floor tiles are black marble without the slightest variegation.

It's either black or white, where does the main color of such a room look like a girl's boudoir?

Fortunately, the bamboo on the bed and on the kang is emerald green, lovely and fresh, and the texture in the hand is also smooth and warm, like nephrite.

"'The curtain is quietly rolling three mountains and rain, and the ice incense is divided into four dreams' is about you here. Yan Liu's girl turned her head to look out of Yan Qi's window, a huge plantain was covered above her head, and there was a flower handkerchief on the plum blossom stone used to decorate the scenery on her head, and then she looked closely, it turned out to be a big butterfly, lazily hiding in the shade to enjoy the shade.

"If you say that, I want to lie down and sleep now. Yan Qi pushed the candy saucer on the kang table in front of Yan Liu's girl.

Miss Yan Liu took a candied fruit, but didn't put it in her mouth, only gently threw it into the teacup in front of her, and said with a smile: "But there is still the sentence 'The dream of the ice and silver bed cannot be realized, and the blue sky is like water and the night clouds are light'." ”

"I'm really sleepy if you read poetry again. "Yan Qidao.

Miss Yan Liu lowered her eyes and smiled embarrassedly, took a sip of tea, and said, "Good fragrant tea, nectar moistens the lotus heart." ”

"The eldest lord rewarded our girl," Boiling Yu said quickly next to him, "I heard that it is this year's Xia Gong, there is a drought in the south, and there is not much in total, Zhuang Wang Ye asked for a few times from the Lord Long Live but failed to get it, the eldest lord directly let people take a jar and reward our girl, and later said that it is better to drink green tea with glassware, and let a branch send a set of glass tea sets, lined with green fluffy tea leaves, it is really clear and thorough, and it looks tight......!

"Headache......" Yan Qidao.

Boiling Yu shut up, obediently went out and asked the mother-in-law in the small kitchen to give Yan Qi and Yan Liu's girls the fruit.

The two sisters chatted with each other, nothing more than what color clothes were embroidered, what kind of flowers looked good, what to eat in the hot summer season, which flowers bloomed in the garden, which flowers thanked which flowers, and bees...... Later, Miss Yan Liu sent someone back to the room to get a needle and thread, and sat cross-legged on the kang with Yan Qi and embroidered for a while, and only said goodbye at noon.

After lunch, I want to sleep beautifully, the summer afternoon sun is scorching, don't say that the courtyard is full, the whole house is quiet, people can hide to sleep, can not hide in the shade against the wall to nap, know that they also quiet, one by one hanging on the willow branches to stand up.

Yan Qi fell asleep and was woken up by the heat, opened his eyes and looked at the ice basin in the corner of the house, after turning into water, it had evaporated a small half basin, the rain and cooking clouds were not in the room, and the courtyard was still quiet, and there was no half a figure.

Yan Qi sat up and fanned his fan, and it took a long time to hear the footsteps outside and enter the hall with all his thoughts, and then it was the voice of Cooking Yun who lowered his voice: "The Mojiao girl knows about this matter, and she is not angry." ”

"The girl is not stupid, can you still not notice that the ice in the house is gone?!" said Boiling Rain.

"After all, the steward of the ice storage said, it can be there before dinner, if the girl wakes up in a while, you wait and ask the girl to bathe first, I will go to other courtyards to see now, if they have any surplus, you have to be cheeky and borrow a piece first......" There was also a little unhappiness in Chu Yun's tone.

"It's just the first day of the ice offering, and something went wrong! Anyway, the ice in the library is so frozen that it's all clumped together, and it will take time to chisel it down--what did you do earlier?! Could it be that the old lady and the third lady have no ice in the house, and they have to wait? I think that Diao slave, who has a good eye and a low hand, just sees people putting down dishes! Don't take our girl seriously!" "The more he talked about the boiling rain, the more angry he became.

"Okay, dissipate your anger and eat a melon. Yan Qizhuo got out of bed and walked to the door.

"Girl......" boiled Yu's eyes and mouth, "If the old lady is in the house, it will never be like this......"

"Don't be aggrieved, you and Cooking Yun have a melon, and call Shangfeng Bayue to go to another yard to find something to play, and rub the cool air in their house by the way. Yan Qidao, "Just come back before dinner, you can't send the ice at that time." ”

The temperature today is not much different from yesterday, yesterday there was no ice and I can endure it, and today I can also endure it, although Yan Qi is afraid of heat, but he is not so squeamish, for such a little thing to find someone to theorize, it is really not troublesome enough, the weather is so hot, walking back and forth to complain is too hot to panic, besides, the person in charge of the ice warehouse heard that it is a relative of Mrs. Yan's subordinates, don't look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, if you really shout, it is someone who is embarrassed.

Of course, if it is like this every day in the future, then it will be another matter, Yan Qi is not so good-tempered that he swallows his anger.

Boiling rain and cooking clouds gnawed two melons by himself, and then fetched water to serve Yan Qi to take a bath, seeing that the two girls were so hot that their tongues were about to spit out, Yan Qi let them bring a few buckets of well water into the house, and put them all over the ground, which can also add a little coolness.

It was easy to stay up until dinner, the ice warehouse made someone bring the ice, a total of four pieces, one in each of the four corners, boiled the rain and put the ice in front of it for a long time, and used his elbow to cook the clouds: "Why do I think this ice is much smaller than the one used before?"

When Chu Yun looked at it, his eyebrows furrowed, and he lowered his voice and said, "It's too small!" I'll ask what's going on, and don't teach the girl to know first." "Saying that, he went out and went to the ice warehouse again, and came back in a half of a breath, and boiled the rain, "Zhu Shun said that it was because it was transported from the ice warehouse to the summer residence, and it was a bit of a ghost! Why didn't the ice come from the sun directly, and it was covered with a thick quilt!"

Boiling Yu jumped up and was about to rush to find Zhu Shun's theory, but was stopped by Zhu Shun's theory: "What's the use of you going! People bite the ice and melt, what can you do? What's more, there is a backer behind the person, and his son-in-law is Mama Gong's nephew, let's make trouble with him, isn't that a slap in the face of Mama Gong? Because of the eldest lady in the mansion, who won't let her score three points, let's find her unhappy, she can make us happy? Not to mention that the family's food, clothing, housing and transportation are now in the hands of the eldest lady, as long as Mama Gong speaks a few more words in front of the eldest lady, our yard will be tight everywhere, and this kind of thing has never happened before...... The arm can't twist the thigh, let's take a look first. ”

Boiling rain 10,000 disagreed: "Our girls' arms may not be as thick as their thighs!"

Cooking Yun: "......"

Yan Qi was once again awakened by the heat, took a fan and ran to the yard to cool off, but it was too hot this day, where was the coolness? The wind was hot.

Yan Qi stood in the courtyard for a while, walked from the hall to the front and entered the courtyard of Young Master Yan Jiu for the second time, and saw that the door of the hall was half hidden, so he lightly pushed the door in, and saw that the heat wave was also pressing in the house, and the sound of turning over came from the bedroom.

Yan Qi opened the bead curtain on the door and walked in, and heard Young Master Yan Jiu ask in a slow whisper, "Who?"

"Me. Yan Qi walked over and stood by the bed to look at her brother.

"What are you doing?" her brother said with no drowsiness in his voice, wearing a silk pajama as he slowly sat up.

"Is it hot?" Yan Qi asked him.

"Hmm. ”

"Running out of ice?"

"Hmm. ”

"I'll go to the freezer to ask for ice, and when it's hot, you can take a shower first, and wait for me to come back. "Yan Qidao.

"By this time, the steward of the ice storage had already gone home. Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly.

"Blame me. "Yan Qidao.

Young Master Yan Jiu knew what Yan Qi was referring to, his sister, said that she had a wide heart, and she also had a meticulous time, saying that she was not informal, and she also had a time when she had to compare, and her meticulousness, her care, was never because of herself, most of it was because of him. She is too lazy to intrigue with others, not because of any noble character, she is really stupid, she is really not good at these small thoughts, she will only use practical actions to tell the other party when she is forced to be urgent: Don't mess with me, otherwise fight to the death, it is definitely you who die, and I must be the one who lives.

But in the face of her family, she can't do this, so she is so stupid, she has to blame herself, blaming herself for not being able to fight, and letting him suffer grievances together.

She was so decisive and ruthless in the martial arts arena, and she had killed her male opponents who were taller than her, stronger than her and older than her too many times, and she was helpless in the face of such a small trap, a small stumbling block, and a small blade.

…… It looks like a normal normal person after all.

Otherwise, you will think that she is omnipotent and indestructible.

If a woman is really indestructible, isn't it too distressing?

Because that proves that there is no one in this world who can make her rely on and trust, no one who can help and comfort her, no one who can share and protect her, and no one who can make her vulnerable and soft at ease.

Thankfully, she's not hopeless.

Fortunately, God did not deprive her of the last right she could have as a woman - to be pampered.

Young Master Yan Jiu got up and got out of bed, took the folding fan at the head of the bed, and said to his sister slowly: "Anyway, I can't sleep, so why don't I go out for a walk." ”

"It's also hot in the yard. "Yan Qidao.

"Go outside the hospital. Young Master Yan Jiu said.

"There is a curfew. Yan Qi looked at his younger brother, although this product is slower than others, and his heart is dirty and poisonous, he is still quite self-disciplined in daily life, and running out in the middle of the night is not like the style of this goods.

"Don't we know how to climb trees? Young Master Yan Jiu said slowly.

The skill of climbing trees has always been indispensable for Yan Qi. A few years ago, there was news in the official circle, saying that an adult's family walked out of the water in the middle of the night, and as a result, the mother-in-law who took the key to the access control slipped home in the middle of the night to see her sick grandson, and all the people in the yard where the fire broke out were blocked in it or burned to death or choked to death by smoke, and none of them could get out.

The yard is full of either women or young children, can't open the door and can't climb over the wall, that night the wind blows, the weather is still dry, the fire instantly spread throughout the whole yard, the adult has the delusion of victimization, the courtyard wall is repaired very high, moving tables and chairs can not be turned up, this disaster killed more than 30 people, is the most tragic thing that year.

Yan Qi listened to Mrs. Yan and Mrs. Yan San chatting about this matter, and after returning to the summer residence, she fiddled with her family Yan Xiaojiu to learn to climb trees, although the wall of her own courtyard is not so high that you can't turn over the table, but after all, it is good to have the same self-protection skills, Yan Qi can not teach Yan Xiaojiu other skills, but he can't help but learn to climb trees, because in that life, Yan Qi relied on this ability and escaped death countless times.

So Young Master Yan Jiu learned the only skill that did not conform to his image of a humble gentleman and gentle as jade, and after learning it, he never climbed a tree again, and he never even mentioned it, I don't know why he was willing to self-destruct his image at this time and take the initiative to build it.

It is estimated that it was ruined by heat. Yan Qi pondered.

The two of them came out of the room lightly, and went to the third courtyard from the hall, there is a big sycamore planted in the corner of the courtyard of the second master and his wife, and the position of the main trunk is just flush with the wall.

Young Master Yan Jiu closed the folding fan in his hand, slowly stuffed it into his sister's hand, and then looked up, stretched out his hands, hugged the plane tree trunk, puff puff, pout, puff

Yan Qi pinned the folding fan and the fan in his hand in his waist, and climbed the tree with ease, and the two of them stepped over the wall and slid down against the wall, just like that, they were already soaked with the silk middle coat on their bodies, of course, not scared, but hot.

"Go to the lake. Young Master Yan Jiu took the fan handed by his sister, resumed his slow style, and slowly walked towards the lake while fanning.

The place near the water is always cooler than the other place, and the sister and brother touched the darkness and silently walked through the forest around the pavilion all the way to the lake embankment.

There is no moon in the sky tonight, only a few steaming stars are scattered, the lake is dark, there is not a trace of wind, looking at it, the distant buildings and trees are as silent as carved plates and ink, and the whole Yanfu is sleeping peacefully, except for the summer residence where people can't sit still.

"Are you angry?" Young Master Yan Jiu asked Yan Qi.

The siblings sat on the shore, took off their shoes, rolled up their trouser legs, and soaked their feet in the lake.

"I want to know the reason more than I get angry. Yan Qidao, "Although the ice in previous summers was not very pleasant, it was not as blatant as this year, there will always be a reason." ”

"What can you do if you know the reason," Young Master Yan Jiu said lightly, "The people who can direct the affairs of all parts of the mansion are nothing more than those few people, they can't beat or scold, and they can't tear their faces, you and I are not at the age when I can be in charge, and I don't have the strength to move the other party's roots, such a loss, we can only eat as much as we want at present." ”

"So what?" Yan Qi felt that Young Master Yan Jiu still had something to say.

"So," Young Master Yan Jiu slowly spit out the words, looking at Yan Qi with a pair of clear and heavy eyes, "Let's go to the frontier." ”

Go to the frontier and find your father.

Leave this narrow and cold deep courtyard well and go to see the vast desert sky.