For some reason, the weather in Kyoto is so hot this summer that even Mrs. Yan, who has never liked to use ice, has to put an ice basin every night after the summer solstice, let alone the younger generation.

Due to the hot weather, the ice basins are consumed quickly, resulting in a shortage of ice basins on the market, and some ice sellers have also come up with a trick to limit the supply, which makes the price of ice in Kyoto skyrocket, and ordinary people simply cannot afford to use ice basins.

Although the Yan family is not short of money, the daily supply is also limited, except for the old lady Yan's house, which must have two pots a day, the rest of the people, including Qi Tanying and Yan Li's main house, are all one pot a day.

Yan Wei and Du Yuanniang have no opinions, but Du Yu feels that there is only one ice basin a day, and life is very difficult. He didn't dare to hit other people's attention, but he was handy when he got his sister.

He took Du Yuanniang's ice basin as his own, and Du Yuanniang was taught by his parents to put his brother first in everything when he was at home, and he didn't say anything when he was bullied. So every time Du Yuanniang received the ice basin, Du Yu would take it away.

Such days lasted for half a month, Du Yuanniang really couldn't stand the heat, so she cheekily went to Mrs. Yan's place to cool off, and stayed every day until Mrs. Yan was about to rest in the evening.

Mrs. Yan felt strange and said to Qi Tanying: "Yuan Niang has been staying with me all day and night these days, I always feel that she has something hidden in her heart, and I refuse to say anything when I ask her. You are all young people, you help your mother probe her tone to see if something has happened? ”

Qi Tanying responded. Then I went to Du Yuanniang in the name of sending an ice basin, but I didn't know that there was something on the way and I was delayed for a while, so I went a quarter of an hour late.

As soon as I walked outside Du Yuanniang's yard, I saw a little guy with triangular eyes and eyebrows arguing with the family carrying the ice.

The little guy looked arrogant, and said impatiently: "How many times have you said it, in the future, this ice will be carried directly to our master's house." ”

"This is the example given to my cousin in the house." The man who carried the ice argued.

The little guy was like being burned by fire, and his voice was sharp and thin, "What about the cousin, let alone a basin of ice, even if she gets married in the future, she will have to give whatever my father wants." ”

After speaking, he warned: "My grandfather is the nephew of the old lady, with the old lady's importance to my grandfather, in the future, this Yan family is not my grandfather's final say, if you know each other, quickly carry the ice basin to my grandfather's house, otherwise I will let you go around without eating." ”

Qi Tanying couldn't stand it anymore, and stepped forward, "Who do you say you want to eat and walk around?" ”

The little guy blurted out: "Of course it's to let those who don't listen..."After seeing Qi Tanying, the rest of the words froze there before they could be spoken.

Qi Tanying sneered, "I don't know, when did this mansion change its surname to Du?" ”

The little servant hurriedly knelt down, "Madame's life, it's all small nonsense." ”

"Whether it's nonsense or not, I know in my heart."

Qi Tanying ordered the family to carry the ice basin to Du Yuanniang's house, and then asked the little girl to be tied up and taken to Mrs. Yan.

After everyone left, Du Yuanniang came out of the house.

The maid who was waiting for her looked at the back of the group and asked, "Cousin, should we go and see it too?" ”

Du Yuanniang tugged at the handkerchief and shook her head, "There is ice in our house, why bother to join in the fun." ”

She has never been a nosy person.

Just as Du Yuanniang was enjoying the hard-won ice basin in the house, Qi Tanying tied up the little guy and brought it to Mrs. Yan. He counted the words he had said before, word by word.

Old Lady Yan's face sank after hearing this, "Who gave you the courage to deduct the master's things, and dare to talk about the master behind your back?" ”

The little guy was so frightened that he didn't dare to come out, and he was like two people with the arrogant face before. He kept kowtowing to Mrs. Yan and begging for mercy, and the next moment he directly confessed to his master, Du Yu.

"Old lady, my grandfather asked the villain to do it. He said that the girl was just a girl, where to use an ice basin, so he asked the little one to wait outside the girl's yard every day to cut off the beard, and the girl didn't say anything when she knew. ”

No wonder Yuan Niang always comes to her these days, and the ice basin that was originally allocated to her was taken up by her brother. She glanced around, but didn't see the familiar figure.

Old Lady Yan's face sank uncontrollably, and she asked angrily: "Why do you want to say that your grandfather will have the final say in the future of the Yan family?" ”

The thief shook his body when he heard this, and hurriedly said, "It's my grandfather who said it himself when he was drunk." ”

"He said that the uncle is out every day to investigate and handle errands, maybe one day he will encounter an accident, if there is no uncle in this family, the old lady and the lady have no support, he is the old lady's nephew, and the Yan family will be his final say."

After hearing this, Old Lady Yan buzzed in her head, and her anger went straight to Tianling Gai, and she gritted her teeth and said: "How can this be reasonable, I will eat him for him to wear, and he even dares to curse my son, he is really a white-eyed wolf who can't be fed." ”

Qi Tanying was afraid that she would be angry, so she hurriedly calmed her down.

People like Du Yu look upright on the surface, but they are actually bad and stupid on the inside. The last time he molested Xiangzhi, he hadn't settled accounts with him, but now he is delusional that something happened to her husband so that he could occupy the Yan family's wealth.

Such a person can't stay in the Yan family no matter what.

She said directly to Mrs. Yan: "The cousin of the Du family is a big heart, and our Yan family is afraid that we will not be able to tolerate this big Buddha." ”

How can a nephew have a son, and Mrs. Yan didn't want to keep such a ruthless person at home, so she directly ordered someone to call Du Yu back from the shop.

Du Yu didn't know what was going on, and when he saw the little guy kneeling beside him, he thought that he had seized his sister's ice basin and was discovered by Mrs. Yan.

hurriedly confessed her mistake to Mrs. Yan, "Auntie, I know that I shouldn't take my sister's ice basin for myself. After a pause, the conversation changed, "But I'm also for her good, the girl's family is already weak, and she shouldn't be greedy." ”

After speaking, I was still a little puzzled in my heart, and felt that Mrs. Yan was making a big fuss. For a basin of ice, I had to let him run back on a hot day.

Seeing that Old Lady Yan was expressionless, he hurriedly said, "Auntie, I'll go and make amends to my sister, and I won't need the ice basin in her house anymore." ”

Mrs. Yan looked at him like a stranger, and her nephew had always given her the impression that she was sensible and obedient, but she didn't expect to be so good at quibbling.

"I didn't call you back today, and it wasn't all for the ice basin."

Du Yu looked puzzled, and Mrs. Yan said: "You have been in Kyoto for some time, your father and mother are very concerned about you, and you should be filial to the son of man, you go home to serve your father." ”

In the end, it was her own family, but Mrs. Yan still gave him some face and did not debunk his ambition.

Du Yu was stunned when he heard this, and it took a long time to come back to his senses, "Auntie, I can't go back, it was my father and mother who asked me to stay here in the first place, they hoped that I could make a career in Kyoto, and now I have nothing, how can I have the face to go back to see them?" ”