In the middle of summer, it is the season when melons and fruits are fragrant, although they are full, but they are also unable to escape the heat.

Knowing the screams, the scorching sun baked the earth, and the heat wave steaming from the ground made people dizzy. The white clouds in the sky are like large masses of cotton, dotted on the blue sky, and there are two dark clouds in the morning, but they can't become a big climate, and they will be scattered when the wind blows.

When I looked up, there was no sign of rain on this day.

In such a hot weather, the plane tree in the courtyard has become fragrant and sweet, and many lazy maidservants have gathered in the shade under the big tree, and everyone gathered around the tree in twos and threes, or standing or standing, squatting or sitting, and sometimes laughing and talking, not caring about me who was lying on the rocking chair next to me, and in the face of the drive of the flowers, it was even more deaf.

It can be seen that if the sky is crazy, people can't care about any respectful etiquette.

I was woken up by the scolding of the flowers, got up and rubbed my eyes, stretched my waist, and then waved my hand to signal that Duobu did not need to be blamed, leaving those slaves and maids who were enjoying the cold. Laughing, I'm not a domineering person, and I can't treat a servant so harshly.

Hua Fu stood beside me and fanned me constantly, but the wind was too weak to kill my heat.

A few days ago, I was sick, so I am still tired and tired, seeing that I was in a state of weakness, Duobu went to the ice cellar to take out the only small remaining large basin of ice, and fanned the ice in the basin with a pu fan, which caused a burst of coolness to relieve me a little bit of dryness. When I got a lot of ice, I asked Duobu to give some to the maids who were enjoying the shade under the tree, and let them take the iced tea to drink.

Hua Fu was reluctant, muttering: "It's cheaper than those who partner next to it."

Duobu turned around and was discharged from the hospital, and after a while, God mysteriously brought back a bamboo basket.

I wilted and said, "What are you carrying?"

She smiled and handed me a piece of watermelon.

This sand watermelon soaked in the Xuanbing Well really tastes refreshing, and it is cold to the heart when you take a bite.

I was a wolf and a wolf in the lunar eclipse, squatting in the shade of the tree and munching on watermelons happily, leisurely looking at the gate of the courtyard.

"You're good at enjoying it!" A clean and gentle voice came from behind me, and I didn't bother to turn around, but I still nibbled on my melon pulp and sat back in my rocking chair.

I don't need to look at it, just by listening to the voice, I know it's back.

She laughed loudly: "So listless, but stupid by the heat?"

I didn't say anything, and slowly looked back at her. Today's Yu Gui is dressed in a particularly fairy spirit, a light green silk shirt and a moon white Luo skirt, like a light butterfly, with fair skin with a light soft red, and a pair of black and smart eyes revealing a sense of wisdom, which is really smart and lovely.

It's just that she's not the one I'm waiting for, and I continue to gnaw on melons.

In this hot weather, I am afraid that I will not come, and I can't help but sneer regretfully when I think of this,

Hua Fu has always been enthusiastic, and when he saw that the person who came was Yu Gui, he immediately got up happily to meet him, and the little maids shook their fans to follow, but they were all avoided without a trace.

Alas, this group of snobs.

When I approached the payment and saw the watermelon on the small table, he smiled sweetly at me, and picked up a piece without hesitation and sent it to my mouth.

"Eat a few bites, I won't have enough to eat." I lay comfortably on the chair, eating watermelon and muttering words quietly.

"Stingy!!"

Yu Gui glanced at me indifferently, the corners of his mouth rose, as if he was smiling, and only said: "I came here on a hot day, and you don't know how to say hello." Eat your piece of melon, look at the distress that makes you feel distressed, it's really stingy. Didn't you say you would go to my house today, why didn't you come? ”

I raised my eyebrows lightly and replied, "I don't go out, it's too hot to move."

"No, when you see me coming, you don't know how to get up and greet me. Seeing that you look so uncomfortable, don't you welcome me, or are you thinking about spring and impatient to ignore me? Are you waiting for Changji, he went to Swill with Baili to relieve the disaster, he only came back yesterday, and now he is still in the palace. Don't wait."

I was hard-mouthed and duplicitous: "Who said I was waiting for him!"

"If you don't wait for him, who are you waiting for, waiting for Meng Jie?"

Yu Gui didn't have a proper shape, I threw the watermelon peel away, she turned around, and dodged it perfectly.

"You said that you are married to a woman, and your behavior is still so inappropriate, and your speech is still open-mouthed. Baili is really hard, how could I marry you. Alas, he was miserable. ”

As I was talking, I raised my eyes, and suddenly saw something tucked in Yu Gui's sleeve, straightened up and took her hand and asked curiously, "Yu Gui, what good things are you hiding?" What it is, show me! ”

Yu Gui's face was crimson, but he didn't care about me, he smiled and touched it out and handed it to me: "It's nothing, a piece of Luopa." It's hot, and it's embroidered for wiping sweat for hundreds of miles. With a shake of his hand, a pale cyan brocade silk handkerchief spread out like clouds.

I fixed my eyes and stood up with a "bang".

Spread out the handkerchief and look closely, the handkerchief is embroidered with partridges and gardenias, lifelike, very exquisite, I praised: "Tut-tut, can't think of it, can't think of it, can't see that you stupid girl can still embroider." I have been in Nanzhan for many years, and I have never seen you as a female celebrity, but today I finally saw it, and the embroidery is still presentable. ”

"That's nature."

Yu Gui bent her eyebrows proudly, raised the corners of her lips with a smile, and a warm ray of light reflected down from the gap in the treetops, shining on her face, reflecting her more and more charming.

I smiled and said, "You're really interested in Baili Yuan." If you marry a wife like this, what more can a husband ask for? If I am a hundred miles away, and you marry me, you will definitely be offered as a treasure. ”

Yu Gui grinned, and leisurely spit out the watermelon seeds in his mouth, and then he talked to me unhurriedly: "That's it, it's his blessing that Baili Yuan can marry me." ，

I snorted and asked, "Praise you a few words, but you are not polite, and you accept it."

Yu Guichong rolled his eyes at me, opened his mouth and said: "Lacking, I think you should try to use as few idioms as possible in the future, if you can still not speak, it will be excellent." She took a bite of the watermelon, and then said, "That's not how you can be obedient."

I sneered, nodded awkwardly, took a bite of the watermelon and smiled without saying a word.

Yu Gui's action of eating melons paused, sighed, and suddenly spoke: "You said that you like someone, why is it so difficult." If you hide it in your heart and don't say it, for fear that he won't understand your mind, you can open your mouth to express your mind, and he thinks you are not reserved enough. Alas, it's really annoying. ”

I called to her softly, "Return... But what did Baili do to make you sad? ”

"No, he treated me well."

Her eyes were dark and her face was sad.

I opened my mouth slightly, but I couldn't say anything more.

She silently sat down with a piece of melon and thought for a long time.

I took her hand and patted it gently to comfort her.

She raised her head, changed her smile back, and said freely: "I'll just say it casually, you don't have to worry about it."

I know that she wants to make fun of it, but her acting skills are not good and she can't deceive people. Recently, I'm afraid that I'm at odds with Baili again, and every time the two of them quarrel, Yu Gui will come to me.

It was hot, and the two of them sat in a daze for a long time. After touching for more than half an hour, Yu returned to the party.

On this day, I entered the palace with Yugui to ask for peace from the Southern Emperor. The carriage galloped, the curtain swayed, and when he got off the carriage and entered the palace gate, he happened to meet Tao Ruo. Tao Ruo wore a blue and green Xiangyun official robe, with dark colored unpatterned step boots, and the blue silk was only tied up with a plain hosta, which looked elegant and very Taoist. It's just that the complexion is not very good, the eye sockets are deep, and the cheeks are like shaving.

Yu Guixin was straightforward, and said when they met: "The official duties of the Taishi Academy are so grinding, Tao Liulang, why do you look so tired?"

Tao Ruo smiled reluctantly, bowed down respectfully, and saluted, "The crown princess said with a smile. ”

After only a few casual greetings, Tao Ruo hurriedly ran away, as if he was running away from something.

For several months, there was no rain in Jiankang City, and the water in the moat was much shallower. I heard that other places in Nanzhan have also suffered from drought, but the most severely affected is Lanswill, which is known as the land of fish and rice in Nanzhan, and the drought is so severe that even daily drinking water has become a problem. There is no water to irrigate the rice, and the farmland is dry to cracking. The sky is not beautiful, a large number of seedlings have died, and the people are constantly mourning, I am afraid that this year will be another eventful autumn.

Several sacrifices have been held to ask for rain, but not a single drop of rain has been asked for so far. In order to discuss whether to accept the annexation of the Lu State or directly destroy the Lu State to enrich the territory of Nanzhan Territory, the courtiers could chatter endlessly, arguing about the last three or five days without repetition, and let them come up with a way to deal with this year's drought, but they all opened their mouths one by one, or they kept silent.

The ministers sent to the disaster relief went batch after batch, but none of them could hold on, because they could not endure the scorching heat, they only stayed for a few days and had to return immediately. The Southern Emperor was furious and demoted many officials one after another, and among them was Tao Guifei's younger brother, Tao Shuchen, the servant of the household department, and he was the most seriously demoted.

The Southern Emperor has always valued the Tao family, and Tao Guifei's grace has been unfailing for many years, whether it is Tao Shuchen or Tao Ruo, she has won the favor of the Southern Emperor, and although the position is not high, it is also a poor beauty, but this time the convention was broken, and Tao Shilang was sent to relieve the drought.

Tao Shuchen went to Banyue, returned in vain, and when he returned to report to the saint, the Southern Emperor changed his past connivance and directly dismissed his official and dismissed him.

Now he is not only disgraced at home, but also fined 100,000 silver.

Because of this incident, Tao Guifei ran to cry to the Southern Emperor every once in a while, asking for her younger brother to be reinstated. But her eyes were swollen from crying, and Nandi couldn't agree, but warned her that if there was another incident, she would be implicated. This scare, Tao Guifei is really a lot more honest.

If you don't say that accompanying the king is like accompanying the tiger, this is a natural disaster, not a man-made disaster, and it can be solved by angering and demoting officials? However, it is strange to say that although the Southern Emperor was angry with many officials and degraded their positions, the punishment for Tao Shilang was that he didn't even bother to degrade and directly dismissed other officials.

There was a lot of discussion, all speculating about the intentions of the Southern Emperor. Some say that the Southern Emperor was angry because the Tao family privately embezzled disaster relief silver, and some said that it was to suppress the Tao family's power, so as not to rely on Tao Guifei's favor and ascend step by step. Comparing the two, only the latter is the least credible. In this case, only the first guess makes sense. It's strange, and it's not enough for outsiders.

As soon as these words came out, the Tao family could not live in peace. I heard that hundreds of people gathered in front of his house every day, all of whom were refugees from outside the city who came to denounce corrupt officials and corrupt officials, poured dog blood on the gate, threw knives into the courtyard, and even climbed over the wall to enter the courtyard, which frightened the timid maid and grandmother. The Tao family is restless......

Tao Shuchen said that he couldn't afford to be sick, and all the entertainment was handed over to Tao Ruo, and he was naturally tired.