After the fiancé was cut off by the county owner

Chapter 80 Ice Basin
For some reason, the weather in Kyoto this summer is extremely hot. Even Mrs. Yan, who has never liked to use ice, has to place an ice basin every night after the summer solstice to sleep peacefully, let alone the younger generation.

Due to the hot weather, the ice trays are consumed quickly, resulting in a shortage of ice trays on the market. Some ice sellers even came up with a trick to limit the supply, which caused the price of ice in Kyoto to soar, and ordinary people could not afford it. ice basin.

Although the Yan family is not short of money, the daily supply is also limited. Except for Mrs. Yan’s house, which must have two pots a day, the rest of the people, including Qi Tanying and Yan Li’s main house, have one pot a day. .

Yan Wei and Du Yuanniang had no objections, but Du Yu felt that life was very difficult for only one ice basin a day.He didn't dare to draw attention from others, but he was able to trick his own sister with ease.

He took Du Yuanniang's ice basin as his own. When Du Yuanniang was at home, he was taught by his parents to put his elder brother first in everything, 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.

This kind of day lasted for half a month, and Du Yuanniang couldn't stand the heat, so she went to Mrs. Yan's place to cool off with the cheek, and stayed until the old lady Yan was about to rest every day before leaving.

Mrs. Yan felt strange, and said to Qi Tanying: "Yuanniang has been staying with me all day long these days. I always feel that she has something hidden in her heart, and she refuses to tell me when I ask her. You are all young people. Help your mother to find out her tone and see if something happened to her?"

Qi Tanying agreed.Then he went to Du Yuanniang's place in the name of delivering an ice basin, but he was delayed by something on the way, so he went a quarter of an hour late.

As soon as he walked outside Du Yuanniang's courtyard, he saw a young servant with triangular eyes and eyebrows arguing with the servant who carried the ice.

The young servant looked arrogant, and said impatiently: "How many times have I said this, from now on this ice will be carried directly to our master's house."

"This is the rule for cousin girls in the mansion." The servant who carried the ice argued.

The boy looked like he was on fire, his voice was high-pitched and thin, "What about the cousin girl, let alone a pot of ice, even if she gets married in the future, she will give whatever my father wants."

After speaking, he warned: "My grandfather is the nephew of the old lady. Based on the importance that the old lady attaches to my grandfather, it will be up to my grandfather to decide whether the Yan family is in the future. If you are sensible, quickly carry the ice basin to my grandfather's house." Go inside, or I will make you go all the way around."

Qi Tanying couldn't stand it any longer, and stepped forward, "Who do you want to eat?"

The servant blurted out: "Of course it's to make those who don't listen." After seeing Qi Tanying, he froze there before he could say the rest.

Qi Tanying sneered, "I don't know, when did the family change their surname to Du?"

The servant hurriedly knelt down, "Madam, please forgive me, it's all petty nonsense."

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

Qi Tanying ordered his servants to carry the ice basin to Du Yuanniang's house, and then had the servant tied up and brought to Mrs. Yan.

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

The servant girl who served her looked at the back of the group of people going away, and asked, "Cousin girl, do we want to follow along?"

Du Yuanniang pulled her handkerchief and shook her head, "We have ice in our house, why bother to join in the fun."

She's never been a nosy person.

While Du Yuanniang was enjoying the hard-won ice basin in the house, Qi Tanying tied up the boy and brought him to Old Madam Yan.Pluralize the words he said before.

After hearing this, Old Madam Yan's face darkened, "Who gave you the courage to withhold the master's belongings, and dare to talk about the master behind his back?"

The boy was so frightened that he didn't dare to breathe out, he was completely different from his previous arrogant face.He kept kowtowing to Old Madam Yan to beg for mercy, and the next moment he directly confessed to his master, Du Yu.

"Old lady, my father asked the villain to do it. He said that the girl is just a girl, and there is no ice basin, so he asked the little one to wait outside the girl's yard every day to cut off her beard. The girl didn't say anything when she knew about it. .”

No wonder Yuanniang always comes to her place these days, the ice basin originally assigned to her has been taken by her brother.She looked around, but didn't see the familiar figure.

Old Madam Yan's face darkened uncontrollably, and she asked angrily, "Why do you say that your master will have the final say in the future of the Yan family?"

The thief trembled when he heard the words, and quickly said, "My grandfather said it himself when he was drunk."

"He said that the uncle is investigating cases and handling errands every day, and there may be an accident someday. If there is no uncle in this family, the old lady and the lady will have no support. He is the old lady's nephew, and he will be the one who will be the one to talk about the Yan family. Calculate."

After hearing this, Old Madam Yan's head buzzed, and she rushed to Tianling Gai angrily, gnashing her teeth and said: "It's unreasonable, I gave him food and clothing, yet he dared to curse my son, what an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf. "

Qi Tanying was afraid that she would be angry, so she quickly relieved her.

A person like Du Yu looks upright on the surface, but is actually bad and stupid on the inside.The last time she molested Xiangzhi, she has not settled with him, but now she is planning on having an accident with her husband, so as to take over the Yan family's wealth.

Such a person cannot stay in the Yan family no matter what.

She directly said to Old Madam Yan: "Cousin Du is big-hearted, our Yan family probably won't be able to tolerate this great Buddha."

It's not important that a nephew has a son, and Mrs. Yan didn't want to keep such a vicious person at home, so she ordered someone to call Du Yu back from the shop.

Du Yu didn't know what happened. When he saw the boy kneeling beside him, he thought it was Mrs. Yan who found out that he had snatched his sister's ice basin.

He quickly admitted his mistake to Mrs. Yan, "Auntie, I know I shouldn't have taken my sister's ice basin as my own." After a pause, he changed the topic, "But I did it for her own good. You shouldn't be greedy for cold."

After speaking, I was still a little puzzled, feeling that Mrs. Yan was making a fuss out of a molehill.For a basin of ice, he had to run back on a hot day.

Seeing that Old Madam Yan was expressionless, he hurriedly said: "Auntie, I'll go and apologize to my sister, and I won't use the ice basin in her house anymore."

Mrs. Yan looked at him as if she were a stranger. Her nephew had always given her the impression that he was sensible and obedient, but she didn't expect him to be so good at sophistry.

"I called you back today, not all because of the ice basin."

Du Yu looked puzzled, and the old lady Yan said: "You have been in the capital for some time, your parents miss you very much, you should have filial piety, you go home and serve your parents."

After all, it was his natal family, Mrs. Yan still gave him some face, and did not expose his ambition.

Du Yu was stunned when he heard this, and it took him a long time to recover, "Auntie, I can't go back. My parents asked me to stay here at the beginning. They hoped that I could make a career in the capital. Now I don't know anything. No, how do you have the face to go back and meet them?"

(End of this chapter)