The summer of the sixth year of Dazhong Xiangfu is hotter than usual, and the price of ice in the entire ice market has doubled in just a few days, and cold drinks have become an indispensable part of people's lives.

At noon, the sun scorched the pavement and the streets were steamer-like, but cool in the shade of the trees.

Under the shade of the trees, Xiao Yuan was dressed in a white brocade robe, holding a folding fan, and looked at the cold drink stalls on the opposite side of the street.

He turned his head to look at the little lady in a green coat and hood beside him, and asked, "Is it really that delicious?"

It's just a cold drink, it's worth rushing to buy under the sun?

Xu Promise snorted lightly, lifted the corner of the light veil of the hat, revealed half of his face, and said, "Just buy a taste." ”

It is not difficult to make cold drinks, but before there were only two flavors on the market, people ate them every year, and they were tired of it, but now there are new flavors and the price is affordable, and more and more people will naturally buy them.

She taught each of the three shopkeepers a new flavor of cold drink recipes.

The three shopkeepers are all businessmen, their brains turn fast, and their actions can keep up.

They made cold drinks with their own ice, and first set up a stall to sell them on West Street, and found that the sales were good on the second day, and they began to go to other places to add stalls, and gradually spread all over the streets and alleys of Bianjing City, until the third watch, there were still people lining up to buy.

The three ice shops were not staffed, and many people were recruited later, leaving only a few people to watch the business of the ice shop, and the rest went to the street to sell cold drinks.

Because of the new flavor of cold drinks, those small vendors who sold cold drinks in the past could not sell half of the cold drinks they made all day, and the ice they bought turned into water at home......

"Six ladies. I'm short on money, can you lend me five cents?"

"A cold drink only costs three yuan, why borrow five yuan?"

The ice drink list sells three articles. Two Wuwen, a small promotional means also made the sales of ice drinks a lot more.

Xiao Yuan stretched out his hand, with a somewhat playful smile on his face, and said, "I can't eat alone." ”

Promise to untie the purse and throw it to him, and said disdainfully: "When I visited the Qinglou, I threw a lot of money around, why are you so poor at this time, and I don't even have the money to buy cold drinks?"

Xiao Yuan took the purse. After taking out the money from it, he helped Xu Xu tie it back to his waist, put away the smile on his face, and said seriously: "I want to save the dowry." You have to save some money. “

Xu Yu froze for a moment, and the noise not far away became inaudible, and after hesitating for a moment, he asked in an indifferent tone, "What are you doing?"

Xiao Yuan straightened up, smiled dotingly and said, "Of course I want to marry you." ”

Under the hood. Promise's face flushed slightly.

Xiao Yuan seemed to sense the shyness of the promise. I wanted to reach out to hug her, but I was pushed away by the promise, and said bluntly: "Go buy a cold drink, I want ice and snow soaked bean water." ”

Xiao Yuan responded, walked to the other side of the street, promised to dare to lift the light veil on the hat again, and looked at Xiao Yuan's upright back, the red on his face gradually faded.

She's in her twenties. was actually shy by Xiao Yuan's words, which really confirmed the words of a colleague from the police academy in the previous life: "It's too mother!"

Wait for Xiao Yuan to come back. She asked, "You said you had something to say to me before, what is it?" Xiao Yuan came to Xu's house yesterday and handed over a name card to ask her to come out, thinking that it was an important thing.

"I'm going to join the army, become a general in three years, and come back to marry you. Xiao Yuan held a cold drink in one hand, looked at Xu Yu's indifferent but clear eyes, and said his decision in recent months.

Although the Chinese official of the court is valued, if he becomes a civil official, he is afraid that he will have to crawl and roll in the officialdom for ten years before he can reach the status of marrying her.

After joining the army, military merits can allow him to be promoted faster and have the strength to marry her earlier.

Although he had the idea of joining the army, he had not yet made a decision, nor had he told the people of the Xiao family.

He wanted to ask her first, and it would be a joint decision between the two of them.

He would not marry her when he was worthless or even ruined, which would undoubtedly add tribulation to her future life.

He wants to marry her openly and honestly, and he wants to make her future life worry-free.

Xu Yu understood Xiao Yuan's consideration, nodded, and said, "Okay, when will you leave?"

Xiao Yuan raised his head, looked at the sky to the north, his eyes were empty, and replied with a smile: "August, join the recruits." ”

He didn't expect the promise to answer so refreshingly, and the heavy knot in his heart opened in an instant, and only by promising support could he join the army without hesitation.

Xiao Yuan personally cooked for Xu Yu for dinner, and every dish was refreshing and delicious, which was very suitable for summer consumption.

Promise naturally swept away the food on his table.

When the two of them were full of wine and food, the window had been turned into a golden patch by dusk.

The days are hot, and the nights are much cooler.

On both sides of the Bianhe River, the breeze blows through the branches and leaves, and also blows away the heat of the day.

The two of them lay on the roof, looking at the stars in the sky, and chatting about the past......

"At that time, King Zhou often went out of the palace to look for me in Xiao's mansion, and on the hottest days, we played all day, and our clothes were wet with sweat several times. When King Zhou was about to return to the palace, my mother brought out two cold drinks for us, and we ate them happily, and not a drop was wasted. ”

Those days were his happiest days, and every bit of them was engraved in his mind.

Although he is a royal nobleman, he has been more noble than others since he was a child, and he has never used this to maintain his identity, and he is very friendly to others. He taught me a lot of things when we were playing together, and I couldn't save him......"

Xu promised to listen to Xiao Yuan tell the story of his childhood, listen to him talk about the king of Zhou, and talk about his mother, and couldn't help but think of his etiquette that was not inferior to that of the nobles.

Whether it is clothing or food, it is a habit left by him when he got along with King Zhou as a child.

They used to be the closest friends, trusting each other and willing to give their backs to each other.

And now, everyone thinks that he killed the king of Zhou and thinks that he is an ominous person.

Since the departure of King Zhou, his life has been difficult to move on, and those words have been entangled under him like a haze.

"You don't need to regret it. Xu Yu turned over, stared at Xiao Yuan's face, and said seriously.

Xiao Yuan said expressionlessly: "However, I obviously had a chance to save him, but because of my negligence, I caused him ......"

Gu promised to know that King Zhou died of illness, and as Xiao Yuan, who was younger than King Zhou, it was really beyond his power at that time.

But now that Xiao Yuan said this, could it be that there was something else hidden in the matter back then?

King Zhou, as the prince, affected not only a few people, nor a few families, but the development of the entire history.

"On that day, I went boating with the king of Zhou, and when I went ashore, the king of Zhou shouted that he was hungry and asked people to prepare snacks, and as soon as we were seated, a little eunuch came up with snacks, and he put down the plate and left in a hurry. I looked at the eunuch and wanted to ask more, but King Zhou had already started to eat at that time, so I didn't care. ”

As soon as I heard the promise, I knew that someone had designed a frame-up.

The people around King Zhou were all picked out by Queen Guo, if most of the faces were also the people that Queen Guo added to King Zhou, who would think of anything else?

"I remember very well that the first dim sum that King Zhou ate was plum blossom cake, and he said to me after eating one, 'Shiro, you can try to make it in the future, make two boxes, one for my mother, and one for your mother, and they like to eat these things.'" ’”

Everyone said that Xiao Yuan was recruited into the palace with his good cooking skills.

But even if he was less than ten years old, no matter how talented he was, his cooking skills could not compare to those imperial chefs, this was just a name for entering the palace.

When he had said this, he fell. ”

And I, not even having time to say a word, watched him fall, and I also fell down in the exclamation of the eunuch and the palace maid. ”

"When I woke up again, it was already ten days later, and the doctor said that it was a miracle that I could wake up. ”

Through the moonlight, he promised to see the deep sadness and remorse in Xiao Yuan's eyes, and asked, "What about King Zhou?"

Xiao Yuan clenched his hands and said in a calm voice: "He, he died on the second day of his coma, and I never saw him again." ”

"I can only go down to the ground after half a year in bed, and everything starts again, but all the remarks outside the house about the death of King Zhou and about me are so unbearable. When I was fully recovered, my mother hanged herself. It's not because I can't stand the remarks of the outside world, but to give the queen an explanation, and to save my life. ”

The calm voice could not hide the sadness in his heart, and in the moonlight, his eyes were blazing, but there were tears.

Xu promised to hold Xiao Yuan's hand, but did not speak, just quietly held his hand.

Xiao Yuan's mother is undoubtedly smart, if she doesn't use her life as a bargaining chip, the royal family is likely to let Xiao Yuan go to guard the tomb of King Zhou.

In that way, he was ruined for the rest of his life.

After Xiao Yuan finished speaking, the two were silent for a long time.

Xu Yu hesitated for a moment, and then spoke: "Now, have you found the person who killed King Zhou?"

Everyone knows about King Zhou's death, but they don't know how he survived the half a year of being in bed and the days of re-toddler.

With his temperament, whether it is for King Zhou or for himself, he will find out the murderer behind the scenes. (To be continued.) )