my husband

Yun Li was originally a person who could endure loneliness, staying in the room all day would not make him feel unbearable, as long as he had enough things to pass the time.

He used to be like this, with a pile of memorials in front of him, and he would not be bothered if he handled them well, and he would not be bothered no matter how many more, so for a while, the ministers in the court felt that he was really He is a born virtuous king and a talent for governing the country.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is just a workaholic.

If he hadn't been poisoned to death by someone, he probably would have ended up no better than Si Yan, who died from overwork.

Si Yan went to work in the field, and Yun Li packed all the breakfast dishes in the kitchen but did not wash them off in a hurry, but went to the yard to water all the flowers and plants, and put the dishes to be dried in the open air. After finishing all the work as quickly as possible, I went to the kitchen to clean up the dishes and the kitchen.

Just as Yun Li expected, the sun did come out a lot earlier today. Although the sun in the morning was not too harsh, Si Yan forgot to bring a bamboo hat when he went out, and his neck was still a bit tanned when he came back. redness.

Fortunately, it was not serious, and it disappeared quickly.

When there is nothing to do during the day, it is when Yunli learns to write. In the winter before, it was not convenient for Si Yan to go out because of the heavy wind and snow, so the two of them stayed at home to read and write. After spring, when things got busy, they would If there were too many, Si Yan put the study aside.

Now that it is summer, it has become a day when you can't go out and can only study at home.

If it were Yun Li, it would be impossible to calm down and study hard on such a hot day, but Si Yan is different. Si Yan is not so sensitive to heat, so when Yun Li teaches him, he can Total concentration.

Yun Li knows that he is a person with good self-control and does not need to be supervised, so every day he teaches everything he needs to do and then starts his daily state of salted fish.

Considering that it is not the hottest time in midsummer, Yun Li has already started to prepare for the more severe purgatory. He remembered that there was a method of making ice with saltpeter in the study of the palace.

In fact, this method is not too uncommon, because almost all the big families in the capital have ice in summer, but the royal family and nobles who can really use the ice cellar to store the ice that freezes in winter like the palace in summer are really not counted. Too many, this is a widely spread prescription in the capital, but it is relatively rare in this remote place.

But no matter how rare, there are still some.

Saltpeter is not hard to come by, it can be obtained from many rocks and corners of the mountain, so during the slack season, if the weather is not too bad, some folks will pick it up and sell it to the pharmacy in the town to subsidize their families.

Because saltpeter can be used to make ice, it is not too cheap to sell in summer or winter, so I guess they can only buy a little and keep it at home for emergencies. The possibility of using ice every day is still Not too big, too extravagant.

The tables in their house were originally facing the window, because the window was brighter, but now the sun is too strong, and it shines directly from the window, directly shining on the paper and pen on the table, making people's eyes a little sad .

Si Yan knew that looking at things under such strong light would definitely hurt his eyes, so he silently turned the direction of the desk.

Si Yan's progress in character recognition has basically come to an end now. Since he has simplified characters as a comparison, he has no difficulty in recognizing most of the characters. Except for some of the fake characters that may be a little confusing, there is basically no problem.

So now he is mainly practicing calligraphy.

Although he didn't intend to talk about going to the examination for fame or anything, Si Yan couldn't bear the fact that his handwriting was too ugly, anyway, he was idle anyway, so let's practice.

Si Yan can calm down by practicing calligraphy, but Yun Li, who reads scripts, gets more irritable the more he reads them. There are more taboos in ancient times than in modern times, so Yun Li only reads the scripts in the same few types, and after a long time, it will be like that , nothing new.

After all, Yun Li himself is not a person who is obsessed with the stories in the storybooks. He knows more complicated stories about the secrets of the rivers and lakes than the stories in the stories. It is not a lie that art comes from life.

Throwing away the storybook, Yun Li moved a stool and sat beside Si Yan, took a thinner pen and a piece of paper and began to draw.

Si Yan has seen Yun Li painting before, Si Yan is not an expert in this field, and Yun Li is not really, he still knows his own weight, he mainly pays attention to similarity in painting, to put it bluntly, it is like Forget it, as for those literati who valued him, you don't see much in his paintings. To paraphrase the literati, it means too much craftsmanship.

Of course, few people dared to look at his paintings and say this to him when he was in office.

Yun Li took the things and sat opposite Si Yan, and began to draw Si Yan.

He didn't say to take a look and draw a line or something, but just started to write, because ancient paintings are not as good as modern ones, if you are not satisfied with the line drawing, you can just wipe it off, if you draw it with ink, you can only throw it away if you are not satisfied .

Because he wanted to finish the painting well, Yun Li forced himself to calm down and began to draw the outline of Si Yan. I don't know if it was because he didn't want to destroy the painting, but it was rare for Yun Li to be there. Calm down in the hot environment.

Seeing that he was serious about painting, Si Yan didn't bother him, poured him a cup of warm tea and put it beside him, then sat back and practiced his calligraphy.

After dinner in the evening, Yun Li and Si Yan took fans and sat in the pavilion to enjoy the coolness. Si Yan was not too hot, so he put the fan aside and said to Yun Li, "I'll go to town tomorrow, for a while I haven't been there."

Since the beginning of summer, Si Yan hasn't been to the town very much. If you don't worry about it, you still have to run tomorrow. It's his own shop after all, how can you really let it go.

Yun Li asked while fanning himself: "Then you will live in the store directly tomorrow?"

"It's not sure. If there are many things to do, stay in the town for one night, and then come back after dealing with them. If there are not many things, I will come back on the same day." Si Yan thought for a while, and didn't say it so deadly, after all, it took a while He hadn't been to the town yet, and he wasn't too quick to read the books, and he wasn't sure if he could finish it.

During this period of time, Yun Li was very irritable, and Si Yan was unwilling to let Yun Li go to the town by himself. Now that Yun Li had started to get used to it, he could adjust a little by himself, so he thought about going to the town.

"Then I won't go." Since the experience of going to the town last time was not very good, Yun Li didn't really want to go this time either.

Although he and Si Yan are very clingy sometimes, they are really not inseparable. If Si Yan goes to town, it will be fine if he stays at home.

Si Yan and Yun Li went back to their room to rest after a while of coolness, almost when sleepiness struck.

To be honest, after staying in the village until now, the relationship between the two of them and the villagers is still not too close, except that the relationship with Zhuzi will be a little closer, and they are really acquaintances with everyone else .

But for the two of them, this is also a relatively good state, because there are too many secrets, and they don't want to get in touch with too many people too deeply. Just be ordinary neighbors. Occasionally, they will help each other. to help.

To put it bluntly, it is the most common neighbor relationship.

Although they are relatively cold and seem not to be easy to get along with, other people in the village are not doing much. After all, seeing that their family conditions are getting better day by day, let alone offend, some people even want to come up directly to curry favor up.

Si Yan rode out early the next morning. The weather was hot, and he had to rush to the town before the sun fully came out. After staying with Yun Li for a long time, he also imitated Yun Li and started hiding every day. The sun is out.

When he arrived in the town, he found that the restaurant hadn't opened the door yet, so Si Yan went around to the back door.

The back door is open, and Master Xie just came back from shopping, and the store has a cart full of things, please help to send it back.

Si Yan waited for the cart to go in first, then led the horse and walked in.

"Shopkeeper, you're here, why haven't you been here for so long?" Master Xie greeted Si Yan with a smile while counting.

Si Yan tied the horse in the yard, and then said: "I have something to do at home, and it just finished, so I'll come over to the shop to see if there's anything important going on in the shop these two days."

"It's not a big deal, but it's not summer recently. The business of hot pot has dropped a lot. It's too hot, and many people don't like to eat it. But I added some other dishes, such as those from Jingshui Town. Mung bean soup, ice bowls, etc., and the business is going well.” Master Xie is not a timid person, and Si Yan also told him before that if there are any dishes that need to be added or withdrawn, if he He is not making decisions based on his own situation, so he is not panicking.

Summer is here, and it is not beyond Si Yan's expectation that fewer people eat hot pot. This is not the modern age with air conditioning. You can sit in the air conditioner and enjoy hot pot without breaking a sweat. It is inevitable that fewer people eat hot pot , what he is more concerned about now is the ice bowl.

"Mr. Jiang will help settle the vegetable money here first. Master Xie and I have something to talk about." Just as the accountant came in through the back door, Si Yan asked him to take over the work from Master Xie.