In the prince's palace, Jun Moxi was practicing writing as before, grinding ink with black medicine, while Chuyue and Hongxue were fanning hard, and from time to time Chuyue would come forward to carefully wipe the faint sweat on Jun Moxi's forehead.

Jun Mo Xi straightened up after writing the last stroke, lowered his eyes and put down the brush in his hand and said, "The people from the Si Sleeping Bureau haven't sent the ice cubes yet?" ”

"The slave has already sent someone to urge, but the people from the dormitory bureau said that the supply of ice cubes is too large, and the ice taken out today has been used up, and there will be new ice cubes tomorrow." (Note 1) Chu Yue leaned over and replied, Jun Mo Xi frowned slightly when he heard this.

"I haven't been urging for two days, and it seems that the people in this dormitory are not going to do things well." Jun Moxi's words were full of coldness, and he turned his head to the side of the case, and just after sitting down, he saw Qi An walking into the room with a sweat on his head and leaning over and saying, "Your Royal Highness, there is no ice today." ”

Jun Moxi narrowed his eyes when he heard this, and asked casually, "Who is it?" ”

There was hardly any doubt or dissatisfaction, just a faint question that seemed to be very inconsequential.

"Master Rocky and His Highness Six." Qi An wiped the sweat from his forehead, and he didn't know whether he was tired or frightened, and for a while the room was silent, and even the two people who were fanning the early moon and red snow didn't feel that they had stopped shaking.

Jun Moxi closed his eyes slightly, leaned back, and said lightly: "This palace hasn't visited Luo Ji Niangniang for a long time, and the sixth sister hasn't visited her when she comes back, it seems that this palace is rude." ”

Luo Ji in the Lotus Night Hall was holding a chilled melon and fruit in her hand, with a smile on her face, and wasn't it the Sixth Highness Jun Xinyu who was sitting uneasily on the side? The look of panic and entanglement made Luo Ji, who was in a good mood, frown again and again.

"Isn't it just that you took more ice cubes, and you cried for more than an hour?" Luo Ji casually threw the melon and fruit in his hand on the silver plate, stared at Jun Xinyu dissatisfied, and said.

"But...... But His Royal Highness the Prince's blame ......" Jun Xinyu said, with a look of fear in his eyes, and his submissive appearance was really annoying to watch.

"I'm the emperor's concubine, what's wrong with a few pieces of ice? Can she still cut me? Luo Ji stared at the look of annoyance, because Jun Xiruo was sent to the imperial tomb, Luo Ji's temper began to get worse and worse for some reason, and the concubine felt ashamed that Jun Xiruo's request to Luo Ji was basically responsive.

During this time, Jun Mo was busy with the imperial examination, and he never cared about Luo Ji's rampant and domineering in the harem, so rampant, and Gongsun Yun turned a blind eye and ignored it.

Now this gentleman has finally taken a leisurely time, but suddenly found that there are still a few troublesome people in this harem, and the two people in the Lotus Night Hall have just talked for a while when they hear the sound of communication from outside the hall.

"Attend His Royal Highness." Luo Ji was shocked, but she didn't have time to think about countermeasures, hurriedly tidied up her clothes, and stepped out of the door to greet her, Jun Xinyu was also full of horror, and followed closely behind Luo Ji and curtsied.

"Luo Ji is really cool in this palace, and this palace feels this coolness when I walk to the outer room." Jun Mo was wearing a dark purple undershirt, covered with a golden gauze coat, which looked particularly dazzling in the bright light, and the gold silk shoes that slowly stepped into it were even more reflected in Luo Ji's eyes, which made her jealous of this precious silk.

"The people from the dormitory bureau just brought over ice cubes, so it's cooler in the room." Luo Ji leaned over and lowered her eyes, secretly annoyed that this Jun Mo Xi came too quickly, and then thought that she had not done anything wrong, but straightened her waist, followed Jun Mo Xi into the room, and stood aside with her head down.

"Seeing that there are so many pieces of ice in the house, no wonder it is so cool, compared to the palace of the main palace, Luo Ji is really reluctant to leave the palace." Jun Mo Xi casually glanced at the ice storage containers placed everywhere in the room (Note 2), squinted his eyes slightly, and said.

"The concubine thinks it's too hot this summer, so it's like the sleeping bureau asking for a few extra pieces......"

"How many extra pieces?" Before Luo Ji finished speaking, he was interrupted by Jun Moxi's loud voice, and his calm eyes looked at Luo Ji, which made Luo Ji shiver.

"The use of ice storage is not easy to come by, but Luo Ji, as a harem concubine, does not take her own effect and shares her worries for Hanyang, and spends so extravagantly, do you know how many people are worth fighting for this piece of ice outside the palace?" Jun Mo Xi coldly hooked the corners of his mouth, and Luo Ji's face turned pale and hurriedly knelt down.

"Your Highness forgives your sins, and the concubines are only ...... in the unbearable heat for a while."

"What a sentence that can't bear the heat!" Jun Moxi raised his tone in vain, and said angrily: "You can't bear the heat, so you added a whole six pieces of ice to the house? The **** concubine who prayed for Hanyang was only four pieces, and the queen mother who was in charge of the affairs of the Hanyang Palace was only three, but there were only two pieces in the main palace house! How did you come to be so bold with such a little concubine! ”

Jun Mo Xi raised his eyebrows, the words that spit out made Luo Ji's face pale in an instant, she used a concubine much more than the concubine queen, and even made the prince palace strictly deduct it, this kind of crime is indeed not light.

"Your Royal Highness, forgive your sins! The concubine was negligent for a moment to make such a big mistake. Luo Ji leaned over to the ground, and the frightened appearance made Jun Mo hesitate to hook the corners of his mouth mockingly, this Luo Ji's ability is really not as good as Jun Xiruo.

"I think it's because you're living more and more freely in this harem, don't you also want to go to the imperial mausoleum with the third palace to stay for a while?" Jun Moxi's cold voice crossed Luo Ji's ears, and forced Luo Ji to feel the biting chill in this hot summer, and hurriedly shouted: "The concubine knows that she is wrong, please ask His Royal Highness the prince to be gracious!" ”

(Note 1: The ancient method of storing ice cubes was to dig ice cubes on the glacier in winter, and the people of the ice administration specially managed, wrapped the ice cubes with forage and cotton wool and put them in the ice cellar under the ground for refrigeration, the project was huge, so there were special ice managers to manage, and it was generally necessary to chisel three times as much when the ice was chiseled, so as to ensure that when the summer came, the ice cubes left over because of the melting of time were enough, and the ancient times could not make zuò ice cubes like modern times, but there were ice cellars deep underground that could be used, which was recorded in history, But such a project can only be done by big families and royal families, ordinary people can only rely on money to buy ice cubes to cool down, and some poor families naturally can't afford ice cubes. ）

(Note 2: In order to ensure that the ice cubes volatilize and emit cold air, some pillars in ancient palaces were hollow and specially used to place ice cubes, while indoors a kind of exquisite container with countless holes was made to place ice cubes, and most of them were left in two or three corners of the room in summer.) ）