I was a prince in ancient times

In the study room lit with bright candles, there were unknowingly small and broken voices, soft, soft, not easy to detect.

It was still early in the matter, and the hurried footsteps of servants could still be faintly heard outside the study door.

The two of them stayed together for an unknown amount of time, and in the end Lu Chengjiao stumbled out of the study room, the hair on his head was a little messy, his cheeks were flushed, and his bright red lips were stained with water.

Xie Anlan was half spread out on the chair, her eyes were a little distracted.

As long as he thought of such a clean and moist person like Lu Chengjie, he half-kneeled in front of him and looked up at him.

The tips of his ears couldn't help turning red to the point of burning hot, and even his breathing was slightly short of breath.

This is somewhat different from what he imagined about Lu Chengjiao.

He always thought that Lu Chengjie should be quite reserved in this regard, so he always liked to tease him with words and watch his expression change to have some fun for himself.

But he didn't think about it...

In fact, he is not reserved at all!

Xie Anlan gathered her thoughts for a while, and suddenly remembered the direction Lu Chengjie left just now, frowned, tidied up a little, and chased after him.

Lu Chengjie walked all the way to the kitchen in a nonchalant manner.

For this kind of thing, it is not easy for him to ask the servants to fetch water to wash him.

At this time, the servants in the kitchen were busy preparing dinner, and when they saw Lu Chengjia come in, they all saluted.

He waved his hand, fetched a basin of clean water, went to the corner of the kitchen, and cleaned it bit by bit.

From the hair to the eyebrows to the cheeks, every place seemed to be burning hot, and the town was calmed down with cold well water, and it was relieved.

Finally, the hand holding the handkerchief came to his lips. For some reason, he paused, licked his lips, and swallowed all the water stains on it.

Although shy, he somehow liked this feeling.

"Princess, do you have any orders?"

Although he turned his back to the servants in this series of actions, the servants were quite frightened and didn't know whether to step forward to help.

"It's okay, you are busy with your work." After cleaning, Lu Chengjiao's breathing gradually eased, and he returned to normal.

Hearing what he said, all the servants gradually felt relieved, and went down to do their own business.

Lu Chengjia was also about to leave the kitchen, when suddenly his eyes stopped, and two maidservants brought out a bucket of ice from a room.

He stopped in astonishment, turned to them and asked, "Where did this ice come from?"

Zhao Lu heard Lu Chengjiao's voice, hurried out of the closed room, and explained to him, "The prince made it out of Glauber's salt."

Lu Chengjie narrowed his eyes, "Do you know how to make it?"

Zhao Lu nodded, took him into the room, and explained to him one by one the place full of wooden barrels and thenardite.

Lu Chengjie tightened his lips, his eyes were dim under his long eyelashes, and his expression was slightly gloomy.

"Princess?" Zhao Lu saw that his expression was not good, and her tone of voice became weak.

"Huh?" Lu Chengjie came back to his senses and responded.

"No... are you okay?" Zhao Lu looked at him tremblingly, it was the first time she saw Lu Chengjiao with such a gloomy expression.

"It's okay." Lu Chengjie exhaled a foul breath, and seemed to have returned to normal.

When Xie Anlan rushed over, she happened to see Lu Chengke and Zhao Lu coming out of the ice-making room talking and laughing.

"I was wrong." Xie Anlan took his hand and admitted his mistake without thinking.

The smile on the corner of Lu Chengjiao's mouth froze, and he raised his eyes to meet those phoenix eyes that were restrained from the light, and said flatly, "Your Highness, there is nothing wrong with it, it's because I made a mistake, made a wrong move, and even disturbed you." Your Highness."

Said that Lu Chengjie withdrew his hand calmly, lowered his eyelashes, as if nothing happened.

The two walked together on the corridor of the main hall, neither of them spoke, as if nothing happened.

The calmer he was, the more uneasy Xie Anlan felt. He felt that the surrounding atmosphere was a little calm before the rainstorm.

When the two reached a secluded corner, Xie Anlan couldn't bear it any longer. She pressed her against the wall, raised her phoenix eyes, and asked in a helpless tone, "Are you angry with me?"

Lu Chengjiao looked at him in a little astonishment, his ears felt hot, he shook his head slightly, and said two words, "No."

He was the one who couldn't help but say that he was the one who pinned the person on the chair and couldn't move, and he was the one who did it first, so why was he angry.

Besides, Xie Anlan only said something to him at noon, and he didn't say anything explicit when he went to his study at night. He could be wrong, so he has no right to be angry.

Then thinking about His Highness being tormented by him last night, and having not slept for two days and one night, he just returned...

There was a feeling of shame that made me feel ashamed, and I didn't know what to say for a while, so I fell silent.

"Then why are you..." Xie Anlan felt the breath coming from Lu Chengjie's mouth, and was slightly taken aback, but swallowed the rest of the words silently.

At this moment, their faces were very close, and they could feel each other's breath.

Seeing Xie Anlan staring at his lips, Lu Chengjie stopped talking, and belatedly remembered something, and tilted his head slightly.

But Xie Anlan strangled his jaw.

Leaning closer to his lips.

"do not……"

Lu Chengjiao pushed him slightly, his face was blushing to the point of bleeding, if he knew this, he shouldn't be willful just now.

"It's okay." Xie Anlan's lips fell on his hot red lips, and she said in a soft tone that only two people could hear, "I don't mind, try my own..."

The rest of the words were stuck in his throat.

Lu Chengjie closed his eyes, completely lost in his shame.

Thinking that when he was in the study, he was not much thinner than Xie Anlan, so he simply let go.

Anyway, both of them are equal, so don't dislike anyone.

In the end, Xie Anlan carried Lu Chengjia back to the room, and neither of them had dinner.

The quarrel that was thought to have been resolved silently within a half-push.

With the recipe for making ice, Lu Chengjia was as busy as Xie Anlan.

In the early summer of July, the weather is gradually scorching hot, which is a good time to sell ice.

From kings and grandchildren to nobles and merchants, in this hot summer, who doesn't want to have ice cubes that can cool people at home.

But this ice is really too expensive, and the people who can afford to build an ice cellar will not be ordinary people, small businessmen and ordinary people, how dare they think about it.

Just when the entire imperial capital was sunburned by the scorching summer, several ice shops opened silently in every inconspicuous corner of the imperial capital.

When it opened, it didn't greet the neighbors in the neighborhood, let alone publicize it with great fanfare.

As a result, several days have passed since the opening, but the business in the ice shop is still deserted.

Until one day, when passers-by in the street hurriedly passed by, they suddenly found that there was a new store opened here at some time, and looked up at the store sign.

A huge ice character came into view.

Seeing the word ice, the person murmured, "Could it be that this store sells ice?"

Then he shook his head talking to himself, "How could there be ice for sale."

Sighing, he was about to leave.

At this moment, the clerk in the ice shop happened to see this person, and came out of the shop with a smile on his face, "Guest officer, the shop sells ice cubes, do you want to come in and have a look?"

"Eh?" The passerby was about to leave when he heard the guy's words, he was surprised for a moment and said in disbelief, "Is there really an ice shop in this world?"

"Yes, the shop is just right." The clerk coaxed with a smile, "Guest officer, why not come in and have a look, if I deceive you, you don't have to buy it."

Thinking about it, the man thought that what he said was reasonable, so he readily followed the guy into the store.

As soon as he stepped into the store door, the cold air seeping out of the store instantly took away the heat from his body, his whole body shivered, and he let out a comfortable sigh.

"There is really ice."

Although he hadn't seen any ice cubes yet, just by virtue of the cold air, he was very sure that the ice storage in this store was not low.

"Guest officer, please come with me." Lu Chuyi smiled, and led the man past the counter by the door, and uncovered the tightly wrapped wooden barrel, revealing the chilly ice cubes inside.

Seeing the ice cubes, the person nodded in satisfaction, and then asked shyly, "How do you sell these ice cubes?"

If this ice cube is kept in winter, it is worthless, but in this dog days, it is worth gold. He just sighed outside the store just now, and had no intention of buying it, and now he was brought in by this small store , Seeing the goods, it seems unreasonable not to buy some.

I just don't know if he can afford the price, if he can't afford it, then he will not have this old face at all today.

"It's always a bucket of money, and the price is not bargained." Lu Chuyi said the price openly.

This person was thinking about what excuse he should use to leave later, when he heard Lu Chuyi's quotation, his tongue rolled, "How much... how much?"

He now seriously suspects that he is deaf.

This wooden barrel is neither big nor small, at least a barrel weighs tens of catties, how could it be possible to pay a barrel all the time.

Lu Chuyi smiled again, and said with a respectful attitude, "Guest officer, you heard me right, it's always a bucket of money, and there is no deception."

This person immediately looked at Lu Chuyi as if he was looking at a fool. I am afraid that this guy may have misunderstood the master's orders and made a mistake in the price.

Sell ​​dozens of catties of ice for a penny, are you sure you won't be beaten to death by the owner when you go back?

Du Wen only hesitated for a moment, and stopped thinking about those miscellaneous things. After all, this small shopkeeper himself said the price, even if he was fined by the owner, he can't be blamed.

Feeling guilty about taking advantage, he readily took out a bunch of copper coins strung with hemp rope from his bosom, and handed them to Lu Chuyi, "Here is a bucket."

"Okay guest officer." Lu Chuyi accepted the money, went to the counter to enter the account, and then brought him a bucket of unopened ice cubes, and confessed, "Guest officer, this wooden box for storing ice The bucket is specially made, and after the ice is used up, you can take it to the store to recycle a hundred cash."

Du Wen raised his eyebrows when he heard that the wooden bucket could be used to recycle one hundred coins. After this calculation, the bucket of ice only cost nine hundred coins in total?

Thinking about it feels like a dream.

Looking at the attitude of this small store, he smiled at him from the moment he entered the store, and gave him a bucket of unopened ice cubes. After all, he felt a little guilty, "Small store, I am Du from the Du's Tea Shop in the third lane of Dongjie. Boss, if you go back and get punished by the master, you can come to the teahouse to find me."

Lu Chu understood what he meant immediately, smiled and didn't explain, just nodded in agreement, and sent him out.

Carrying a bucket of ice, Du Wen tried his best to walk in a remote alley without sunlight. Halfway through the journey, he suddenly remembered that he was out to buy tea.

The tea in his tea shop is almost running out, and his wife is still waiting for him to buy tea and go back to entertain guests. How should I explain to my wife if I don’t get any tea to go back with?

I wanted to go back with the ice bucket, but I couldn't get rid of that face, so I had to go back to the tea shop with the ice bucket in my heart.

"Are you back?" Seeing him coming back, his wife Liu wiped the water stains from her hands on the apron, walked over neatly, and chattered as usual, "You've been delayed for a long time this time, There are several tables of guests waiting impatiently, next time you have to be quicker."

Mrs. Liu wiped her hands clean and reached out to pick up the tea leaves her husband had bought, but in vain, she didn't see the tea leaves. Instead, she saw her husband come back with a bucket and asked, "Where's the tea leaves?"

Du Wen smiled sheepishly, and replied honestly, "I didn't get any tea, but I was attracted by an ice shop on the way, so I bought a bucket of ice and came back."

"Ice?" Mrs. Du frowned, and said with some doubts, "The money I gave you is not enough to buy a bucket of ice."

"It's true." Du Wen was afraid that his wife would not believe it, so he took the initiative to lift the lid of the wooden barrel, letting the cold air inside float out.

Seeing the ice, Mrs. Liu regained her composure, and it took her a while to realize that her husband spent a lot of money to buy a bucket of useless ice and returned.

Their tea shop is not big, it can barely accommodate ten tables of guests, and the tea is sold with small profits but quick turnover. Fortunately, after one month, apart from the rent and costs of the shop, they can earn some hard money.

Life used to be good, but since the children of the family went to school last year, life has become tighter.

A tael of silver can't wait to split it in half.

Now the husband spends a tael of silver lightly.

Seeing his wife's face darken, Du Wen's heart also rose.

"Miss Boss, let's add some tea. If you continue to dawdle like this at the tea shop, you won't come to patronize it next time."

Just when Mrs. Liu was about to have a fit, the guests of the teahouse started making a fuss, so Mrs. Liu had no choice but to say yes and greet the guests first.

Because there was no tea, Liu had no choice but to take the brown sugar jar stored on the stove and pour some brown sugar into the teapot with only tea dregs left.

This brown sugar is expensive, so it must be used to entertain guests, and the guests will not complain.

But she was still a little angry in her heart, angry with the bucket of ice her husband bought.

Apart from bringing some coolness to people, this thing will melt after today and tomorrow, so what's the use of it!

Wait, coolness.

Mrs. Liu looked at the teapot, then at the ice bucket, and instead of doing anything else, she knocked some ice cubes in the ice bucket and threw them into the teapot. The impatient guests outside.

"Sorry for the long wait." Mrs. Liu kept apologizing, put the ice-cold teapot on the guest's table, and said a little apologetically, "This is a new herbal tea from the shop. If the guests don't mind , this pot of tea is for you to taste."

"Herbal tea?" The three impatient guests at a table were a little confused when they heard what she said.

One of them twitched the corner of his mouth, and said with disdain, "Herbal tea, could it be that you have ice in your teapot?"

As he said this, the man went to pick up the tea pushed by Mrs. Liu, and when he touched the cold water, he said in surprise, "Ah, there is really ice!"

When he yelled, the other people at the table all looked at him.

When I lifted the lid of the teapot, I saw several unmelted ice cubes inside.

"Ma'am, don't lie, let us have a taste of this pot of tea." Holding the cold teapot, the guest refused to let go, and looked at Du Shi aggressively.

"Don't lie, it's the shop's apology for neglecting the customer." Mrs. Du breathed a sigh of relief when she saw that the difficult customer had finally calmed down.

Seeing that Mrs. Liu was sending her off sincerely, this person said lightly, "It's not too bad." He stopped making trouble, picked up the teapot and poured tea with the other two.

In this scorching summer that makes people feel a little irritable, drinking a pot of herbal tea with a little bit of sweetness relieves the dryness and heat all over the body, and there is no irritability left.

Seeing that the three of them had cooled off, the people at the Zhou table felt a little envious, and asked Mrs. Liu, "Miss Boss, how much is a pot of herbal tea?"

Mrs. Liu was slightly taken aback. She only thought of appeasing the guests, but hadn't thought of making money from this tea. When the guest asked her, she was stunned before uttering a number, "Fifty Wen."

"Let's have a pot."

"what?"

When Liu realized what number he had said, he was taken aback. He didn't expect someone to buy it, and he was really shocked and frightened.

"What are you still doing in a daze, serving tea."

Urged by the guest, Mrs. Liu woke up with a start, turned around and went to the back kitchen, and brewed another pot of herbal tea according to the previous steps.

As soon as the herbal tea was sipped, the guest nodded in satisfaction, "Not bad, it's worth the price."

Seeing his comments, the other guests around also nodded, "Miss Boss, we also want a pot here."

"And us."

Those who can come out to drink tea in summer are those who have some spare money. Originally, a pot of tea costs only ten renminbi, but with the addition of ice, it is understandable that the price is raised to fifty renminbi. It is getting hotter every day. It's good to spend two dollars to relieve the heat, and of course I also have the idea of ​​trying something new.

The popularity of the business made Mrs. Liu very happy. She was so busy, she didn't remember to scold her husband, but instead said to her husband with a happy face, "Hurry up and help me, where is the pestle making wood?"

Du Wen was overjoyed and got busy following his wife.

In the evening, there were still some crushed ice left in the ice bucket, and Mrs. Liu mixed it into the cold porridge to relieve the summer heat for her family.

Du Wen did the calculations on the sidelines. Today, after deducting the money for a catty of brown sugar and a bucket of ice, there is still half a penny left.

In other words, they earned half the money in just one day today.

This is their income in the past seven or eight days.

Mrs. Liu will not be angry with her husband at all, and specially counted out the money and put it in Du Wen's hands, "I will go to the ice shop to bring back a bucket of ice tomorrow morning."

Du Wen responded, and then recalled what the small shopkeeper said, and said to Liu, "The shopkeeper said that an ice bucket can be recycled for a hundred cash. I'll take it to see if I can accept it."

Mrs. Liu raised her eyebrows. Calculated in this way, their family earned six hundred wen just today?

This is really a mistake.

Early the next morning, the husband and wife were a little excited and got up early to open the door. Du Wen took the ice bucket to the ice shop yesterday to try his luck and see if he could buy another bucket of ice for a tael of silver. .

As a result, before he got close, he saw a long queue at the entrance of the ice shop, and everyone was carrying an ice bucket exactly like him.

Du Wen was unresponsive for a while, and two more people were added to the long line, so he followed the example of others and joined the long line.

After inquiring about the people in the front and rear, and hearing that they also bought a bucket of ice with consistent money, I let go of my worries.

Not long after, the ice shop opened, and everyone crowded in. Du Wen was no exception. When he saw the small shop from yesterday, he smiled at him and congratulated him, "The business of the small shop is booming."

Lu Chuyi still remembered him, and nodded to him, "I also wish Boss Du a prosperous business."

Xie Anlan looked at the overcrowded ice shop, raised her hand and poked the sleepy person in her arms who couldn't keep her eyes open, and said amusedly, "Don't worry now, business is going well, there is no need for publicity and you don't have to worry about buying. "

"En." Lu Chengjie yawned and leaned against Xie Anlan's arms, his body was weak, his eyelashes slid down again and again, wishing he could fall asleep immediately.

After listening to what Xie Anlan said, he immediately woke up by himself, and after seeing the long queue outside the store, he smiled with satisfaction.

This shop has been open for several days, and there is no movement at all, and he is also secretly anxious. What happened today that Xie Anlan didn't hold back and let Xie Anlan take him out quietly? He felt relieved when he saw the long queues up.

"Your Highness, let's go back." Lu Chengjia got up from Xie Anlan's arms, patted his cheeks, and woke up completely.

"Not sleepy anymore?" Xie Anlan looked at him amusedly.

"Not sleepy anymore." After shaking his head, Lu Chengjie yawned lightly again, his eyelids began to feel sleepy again.

But it was already dawn, and he was too embarrassed to go back to sleep.

"Sleep, I'll take you back later." Seeing how hard he was working hard, Xie Anlan asked the driver to drive the carriage as smoothly as possible.

Lu Chengjie pinched his thigh to wake himself up completely, and looked at Xie Anlan curiously, "Why aren't you sleepy?"

He slept with Xie Anlan at Yinshi last night, and it has only been two hours, why is Xie Anlan not sleepy at all, but still so energetic.

Xie Anlan looked at him and smiled, "Maybe I have better physical strength."

Lu Chengjie, "..."

Lu Chengjie shyly ignored him, lifted the car window, and looked at the morning market in the imperial capital with interest.

Ever since he joined Xie Anlan, he seldom got up early, and he rarely saw such a bustling morning market.

It's just that in that bustling corner, there will always be a few sporadic people who are incompatible with this bustling world.

They were wearing filthy clothes, their hair was messed up, and their faces and hands were dirty.

Crouching in front of the breakfast stall, smelling the aroma of the breakfast, secretly swallowing.

Lu Chengjie couldn't help but frowned.

"What?" Xie Anlan looked into his eyes, lowered her head and asked, "Can't bear it?"

Lu Chengjie nodded, "They're all children, they might starve to death on the street that day."

"If you want to help, you can help. Now the palace is not short of money." Xie Anlan did the math, they already had a lot of money on hand, and accidents would happen if they held so much money in their hands, so it's better to find a way to spend some.

"I don't know how to help." Lu Chengjie shook his head, they were all children, they couldn't be allowed to burn cement or go to the grassland to do business.

He always felt that it was better to teach them to support themselves, no matter whether it was giving him money, or setting up a Salesian Bureau to adopt them.

"First set up a school building, gather these child beggars together, and uniformly train them to get rid of some of their bad habits. When they are no different from normal people, you can let them do what they can for you, such as you are now It’s not like there is an ice shop, and you can make some popsicles later, and let these children sell them in the streets and alleys, and you can save the money for them, or let them keep it themselves.” Xie Anlan thinks this is not a difficult task.

"In the future, if you want to train them to become adults, you can also ask some gentlemen to teach them to read and write. When they grow up, they may be able to help you." Xie Anlan lowered her head and said, thinking that as long as they have money, these things will be reborn. Simple thing.

Lu Chengjie listened quietly, the more he listened, the more fascinated he became, and the more he listened, the more he admired Xie Anlan.

When Xie Anlan spoke dryly, when he raised his head again, he met his starry eyes when looking at him, squirmed his slightly itchy Adam's apple, and coughed lightly, "Don't look at me like that, I'm afraid I can't afford you."

"I don't eat much, why can't I afford it?" Lu Chengjia frowned slightly.

Xie Anlan didn't answer, and turned her head to see a group of dusty and urgent soldiers passing by their carriage, and tapped the wall of the carriage with her fingers, "Wei City has been taken back."

The author has something to say: Don’t be a fool (pat your face)

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"The Book of Death Is Always Carrying Revenge" by Su Liqing

One-sentence introduction: Lao Gong is a notebook

Copywriting: Zhao Liyi received two death notices the day after he knew his sister was missing, one was a brain tumor diagnosis from the hospital, and the other was a locked notebook sent to him by his sister.

Holding two death notices, Zhao Liyi was exhausted, avoiding the gods of death, evil spirits, and the end of the world time and time again... One day, that death notice became a mess...

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Cheng Nianmian: Did I tell you not to turn the next page?Are you not allowed to pick the lock?Did it tell you not to tear the paper on the books?Are you happy now?

Zhao Liyi: Happy, rarely happy.

1v1, Zhao Liyi x Cheng Nianmian, who is delicate and frail and is about to die of illness, snake spirit patient x serious, super vengeful death attack, sand sculpture, looking for fun.

——感谢在2020-07-1423:55:29~2020-07-1523:50:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angel who threw the bazooka: so because of 1;

Thanks to the little angel who threw the mine: 41929718, 1 Wu Yunzhi;

Thanks to the little angel of the irrigation nutrient solution: good night, hey, what’s wrong with 5 bottles; sugar-loving piglet, 37839621, and 1 bottle of dye;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!