Liu Zhang's bloody accusation echoed in the room of Cao Puchen's corpse, but he heard a faint cry outside the courtyard, it was Liu Yunxian who had just been dragged out to be tortured with a cane, Yan Zike tilted his head and listened for a moment, and asked Liu Zhang: "Why did she want to cover you to carry out the murder plan?"

"Her temperament is not ordinary," Liu Zhang smiled dumbly, "She is a concubine at home, and my aunt is a Qinglou woman who was redeemed by my father, and she has not learned anything good since she was a child, and her words and deeds are frivolous and lowly routines.

"Until one time I really couldn't see it, said a few words to her, and told her what Fan Yu had advised me, who would have thought that she actually smiled and said: 'This person is good, I want to marry him, and if I can't marry in the flesh, then I will marry with spirit and spirit, and from then on I will treat him as my husband', since then I have accepted that frivolous state and followed the rules at home.

"Later, when I heard the news of Fan Yu's death, and saw that I took the initiative to ask the overseer's family to build a garden on Qingliang Mountain, she somehow stole the design drawings of Thirsty Wu, so she guessed my purpose and asked to come with me. And the reason why in addition to the rock climbing club also invited Yuan Tianchu and Yan Pianran, one is to confuse everyone by flattering Yuan Tianchu, and the other is because Fan Pian once said that he admires Yan Pianran very much, although he is young, he has a lofty heart, the two seem to have talked about planning to travel abroad, quite a bit of talk, I want to invite Yan Pianran, with Cao Pu's order to pay tribute to Fan Yuan, I hope that he has a spirit in the sky, can see the person who harmed him ambush, and the person he respects is also there, and there should be no regrets. ”

"......," Young Master Yan Jiu slowly raised his hand and lowered his eyelids, "I don't think you will make him happy by doing this. ”

"Maybe, maybe after death, people simply disappear, nothing will be known anymore, I am just doing this to give myself a comfort, human nature is selfish, in the end, I am not for the sake of making myself happy. Liu Zhang smiled miserably.

"Did you come up with your own idea, or did you learn it from a book?" Swallow interjected suddenly.

"Neither," Liu Zhang said boringly, "someone taught, and the drawings of Thirsty Wu were also given by others." ”

"Who is that man?" asked Yan Zike.

"I don't know. Liu Zhangdao.

"I don't know?" Yan Zike stared at him.

Liu Zhang smiled at this time: "Don't ask, I either don't know, or I won't say a word." ”

Yan Zike really didn't ask any more questions, Liu Zhang's eyes could be seen by anyone, and if he asked any more, there would be no results.

The case of Cao Pu's drowning was revealed, and Liu Zhang's brothers and sisters were escorted back to Kyoto by the government, and by the way, Cao Pu's family was notified to come and collect the body.

Yan Zike still has to stay for a while, because he hasn't eaten lunch yet.

Yan Qi and Young Master Yan Jiu naturally stayed with them, taking a Yuan Chang with them.

"We'll talk about that travelsday in a moment. Yan Qi said to Young Master Yan Jiu.

Young Master Yan Jiu: "......"

"Why don't you talk about hiring a carriage to prepare for the Northern Desert?" Yan Zike said to his two nephews.

Yan Qi & Young Master Yan Jiu: "......"

"The case is over, why are you still talking around a corpse wearing only obscene pants?!" Yuan Chang roared.

Uncle and nephew of the Yan family: "......"

But it was dusk when the things of the Baoxiu Mountain Pavilion turned back to the capital, and the three uncles and nephews of the Yan family entered the gate of the Yan Mansion and went back to their respective courtyards, Yan Qi took the boiling rain and just stepped into the upper room door of the fourth courtyard of the summer residence, and felt a cool breeze blowing in his face, and he blew away the sweat all over his body, and the cooking rain shouted happily: "There is ice!" Hurriedly went to see the corner of the house where the ice is used every day, and saw that the ebony enamel ice box was placed in a piece of clear and crystal ice that was carved into the shape of lotus leaves, one of the four corners of the house, all of them were lotus lotus leaf type, some were carved into the appearance of flower bones, there were dragonflies parked on the top, there were frogs sitting on the lotus leaves, and there were lotus seeds that had been born, and the end was vivid.

"The ice warehouse sent ice early yesterday morning, this is the fourth time, and the ice sent each time can be used for nearly six hours, and it is just right to use it twice a day and night," Cooking Yun, who stayed at home, smiled and Yan Qidao, "The person who sent the ice also asked me what tricks the girl liked, so that the craftsman who chiseled the ice could chisel according to the tricks pointed by the girl next time." ”

"Oh my God, do you chisel every time?!, how much effort and thought does it take?!" said Boiling Rain, who exclaimed in surprise, "The girl likes meat, and she can carve it into the shape of roast chicken, roast goose, elbow, or something......

Yan Qi: "......"

"Then there is such a good skill in digging ice in Curry?"

"Uh...... It's not, "Cooking Cloud lowered his voice," Zhu Shun, who was in charge of the ice warehouse, and his subordinates who chiseled ice and transported ice, let the eldest lord leave, I heard that a colleague of the eldest lord was transferred to the north, and there were several official vacancies under his hands, and the eldest lord said that Zhu Shun looked good, he was capable, if he just took advantage of this to promote him, let him go with that colleague to take office, and it can be regarded as repaying Mama Gong's nurturing grace on behalf of the eldest wife, but Mama Gong was very happy, and the smile on her face has not been broken in the past two days, Zhu Shun is even more happy, because she had to leave yesterday afternoon, and at noon he also made a big deal to invite a few stewards outside to eat, and I heard that it was a ruthless show, the old men who chiseled the ice also let him take them with them......

"Now the warehouse management and ice chisels in the ice warehouse are the people brought back by the big man, saying that the colleague is going to leave the people in our house, and it is not good to teach us to suffer losses, so they give back a few craftsmen who are good at chiseling ice - this is of course a joke, but since it is a gift, it is not easy to arrange it elsewhere, and the eldest lady also conforms to the deacon who put people in the ice, these are very transparent, and the amount of ice sent each time is enough and all kinds of fancy, and the people in each room like it tightly!"

"Hey," Boiling Yu pursed his lips, "Zhu Shun is a good fate, he can still be an official in this life, and the eldest master treats him too well!"

"Be content! Ice is better than anything else. Chu Yun glanced at her, turned his face and smiled and said to Yan Qidao, "The eldest master also asked people to bring a lot of fresh fruits, so that the little maid ice is in the ice jian, and after a while, mix it with milk and make fruit ice porridge for the girl to cool off, okay?"

"Good. "Some people don't have an opinion when they eat Yan Qi.

Boiling Yu took Yan Qi's burden into the bedroom to clean it up, and shouted inside for a while: "Girl, you have an extra jade pillow on the bed!"

"It was brought by the eldest master," said Fu Yun, "that it is hollow, and there is a mezzanine, and there is a hole in it that can be filled with water, and in the summer before going to bed, it is poured with cold water freshly drawn from the well, and a pillow is placed on it, and the head is rested on it, which is cool and pleasant; if it is winter, warm water is poured into it, and it is very warm." ”

When Yan Qi's master and servant were enjoying the cold gossip and laughing in the ice room, Young Master Yan Jiu was standing in his study Bingjian's forehead tendons jumping straight - what the hell is this ice carving? Carving a person is carving a person, you are carving a person with a higher appearance! Carving such a mouth with crooked eyes and slanted nose and sausage mouth, this is trying to scare your father to death in the middle of the night?! The most disgusting thing is that you have to take into account that ice will melt away!

"Where was Zhu Shun taken?" Young Master Yan Jiu withdrew his gaze from the ice and asked his little boy Danqing slowly.

"Said to be the northernmost bitter cold place, covered with ice and snow all year round, but the amount of iron-containing stone under the ice is huge, the emperor wants to develop it, so let people remove the ice first, the official shortage that the lord said is just a small official with a large sesame grain, that is, the Ling people who dig ice for the imperial court, Zhu Shun took the few ice chiselings in the original library, and it is estimated that he will not be able to come back in three or five years. Danqing replied with a wicked smile on his face.

Young Master Yan Jiu curled the corners of his lips: It's not just three or five years, the difficulty of digging ice is not much different from opening a mountain, and that place is still extremely cold, and a cup of hot water splashed in the air will directly freeze into ice and fall. Throughout the ages, those emperors who opened mountains and built tombs did not know how many craftsmen had died of exhaustion, and those ices that had been frozen for hundreds of years and thousands of years were only as hard as the mountains and rocks, and when they saw the heavens chiseling ice in such a cold environment, they would die of exhaustion if they did not freeze to death, and if they were tired and did not die, they might die of illness, and the cases of having chilblains all over their bodies and causing their skin to ulcerate and die were not uncommon every year.

Three or five years?

"Is there anything else going on in the mansion in the past two days?" Young Master Yan Jiu sat down next to the bookcase and picked up the fruit ice porridge that his sister had sent over.

"There is no big thing, but there is such a thing," Danqing suppressed his voice slightly, "The eldest lord somehow, he originally said that he took the fourth young master and the fifth young lady to accompany him to the palace of Qiandao Lake to escape the summer, and suddenly gave up, which caused the fifth lady to cry and toss a lot, but the eldest lady still refused to agree, and even the eldest lady interceded, and then the fifth lady moved out of the old lady, but she only got the eldest master's words, 'If you are not at home, you will go to the family temple to cultivate your self'......

I vaguely heard the eldest lady say to the eldest lady that after the summer vacation, he would invite a well-known female Confucian from outside to teach the fifth lady, and the sixth lady must also follow along...... The eldest lady's face was a little ugly, and she didn't say anything, but in private, she asked a few henchmen to go around the bottom to find out what Miss Fifth had done and said in the past few days......

"The next morning, Aunt Yang and Miss Six were sent to the nunnery to eat vegetarian food, saying that the old lady was not good, and she should have been a daughter-in-law to go to the nunnery to recite scriptures and pray for the old lady......

Young Master Yan Jiu paused for a moment in the air with the hand of the cup, and the tip of his eyebrows moved slightly for a while-Yan Liu?

Thoughtfully lowered his eyes, a cold smile on the corner of his lips, and said the same sentence: Some people just can't see that others are better off than themselves.

There is also the one who was unfortunately pit by his own daughter, and his face is ugly. I'm afraid that the whole person will feel embarrassed. Uncle rarely interfered in her own affairs, and gave her enough respect and face in front of the people of Hefu, but unfortunately, she lived up to her husband's trust and kindness.

In a family like them, it is the mother's duty to teach her daughter, and it is strange that her husband, who works hard to support the family, is forced to work hard in his busy schedule.

As for Yan Wu, heh, teaching people like her, scolding and punishment have long been useless, for her, the most unbearable thing that hurts her heart the most, is that the more she wants to get it, the more she can't get it, and the more she wants to go, the more she can't go, for example, the Imperial Island Palace.

Jiang is still old and spicy, Young Master Yan Jiu took a sip of porridge slowly, and as soon as he made a move, he hit the key point, and he had to hit the snake for seven inches, and that's what he said. After hitting so many times, she remembered the pain deeply from her bones to tendons, and the next time she wanted to bite indiscriminately, she would reflexively hurt first, and if it hurt too much, it became a lesson, and after a lot of lessons, she changed her habits.

……

Early in the morning of the sixth day of the first month of June, a few girls boiled the rain and cooked the clouds turned out Yan Qi's clothes from the cabinet and put them on the outer clothesline to expose to the sun, because this day was almost on the eve of the summer heat, the highest temperature in the year, the longest sunshine time, and the strongest day of Yangguan radiation.

Yan Qi made an appointment with Wu Yue and Lu Lotus to go out to visit the temple fair, so he changed into a convenient Hu clothes, and his hair was braided into a few braids, which were always curled into a flower-like bun at the back of his head, and fixed with a glass hairpin fired into a cyclamen fancy style, which looked like a neat little fat mass.

In fact, no child wants to stay at home on such a day, even if the sun is blazing outside. Even the fifth girl Yan Wu, who was still having a temper with Yan Zike and didn't eat or drink for several meals, walked out of the room, painted exquisite makeup, wore a dazzling skirt, and although her face was still very unhappy, it couldn't stop the attraction of this day to her.

Why is such a hot day so appealing?

Because every year today, the people of Beijing can "Xuanwu City South Dust, sweat and look at the elephant." ”

There are elephants in Emperor Lao Tzu's guard of honor! Two tigers and leopards, and six elephants. Otherwise, how do you think the "elephant" in chess came about? Whenever the emperor is in the court, sacrificial, or touring, in order to show his supreme imperial might, he has to put out a huge honor guard composed of chariots, horses, elephants, drums, and umbrellas, among which the strong and mighty elephants are indispensable members, and even these elephants are specially given Fenglu according to their ranks, and the official ranks range from samurai to generals, and they enjoy different treatment according to their ranks.

I heard that the emperor raised a total of 50 elephants in the old womb, most of them were tributed by some neighboring small countries, each elephant was equipped with a tall elephant house, and a felt quilt each, a rice bucket and a bucket of water, each elephant ate about three buckets of official rice, 160 catties of straw, and each head was equipped with a few elephant slaves, only the elephant slaves and mahouts added up to more than 100 people, each elephant had the same name as a person, and the elephant slave had to live with the elephant, and trained it every day until it could understand human will and be driven by people.

When the festival or the emperor is in a mood, these elephants can also pull out the show, and these elephants can also be part-time as security guards, I heard that when the court meeting is held, before the emperor goes to court, the elephant slave will command six elephants on each side of the three to line up outside the palace gate, carrying a treasure bottle on their backs, strolling on the field and grazing and waiting.

When the emperor went to court, the elephant stood quietly on both sides of the royal road according to etiquette, and sent the ministers of the court into the main gate motionlessly. Then, the elephants will stretch out their long trunks in front of each other, two by two, to block the way, and prevent others from entering. Then they were wrenched together with the palace guards for a long time, and they would not return to the elephant's original position until they heard the order to disperse the dynasty, and when the hundred officials withdrew from the imperial city and the ceremony was over, the elephant could return to the elephant house.

The reason why the emperor reused elephants is said to be because elephants have the special function of "nose inspection iron tools", whenever anyone carrying an iron murder weapon passes in front of it, it will shake its nose and sniff, so no one dares to break through their defenses.

——To put it bluntly, it is the emperor's bag, as the biggest trench in the world, people who are rich are capricious! You can show off your wealth as much as you want, and if you want to do more, you have to do more, if it weren't for the fact that the dinosaurs have long been extinct, Yan Qi pondered that today, who is known as the most pompous emperor in history, is afraid that he would even dare to have the idea of getting a few Tyrannosaurus rex to give him a care home.

Since we have raised elephants, we must take a good bath at the right time to clean up the elephants, right? One of the folk customs on June 6 is to bomb the cats and dogs in the water to take a bath on this day, so the emperor also designated this day as the "elephant washing day" Every year on June 6, the elephant slaves will drive the elephant team out of the palace, and then travel along the street, all the way to the Yanggu River, and then bathe the elephants and clean up, the emperor himself will sometimes watch the elephant washing by the river in person, not to mention the flat-headed people who can rarely see the elephant once, so every June 6th, the elephant team will pass on both sides of the street and the Yanggu River will be crowded with onlookers, and the rich people will even occupy a good position of the nearby wine shop and tea house in advance, in order to feast their eyes at that time, and the lively energy is not much worse than the Dragon Boat Festival.

Although the children of the Yan family can also watch the elephant washing every year, how can such a fun thing be enough to watch only once a year, and there is an elephant show on this day, and the program is different every year, and the program is more exciting every year, and this excitement cannot be missed anyway.

So everyone went to the upper room to greet Mrs. Yan and his wife, and then ran to the street with the people who went out as standard.

Yan Qi brought Young Master Yan Jiu with him this time, the elephant animal is very tame, but it is also terrible to start a madness, so Yan Xiaojiu, who is slower than the turtle, can only be more relieved to follow her.