Cannon's little husband

"This, isn't this really a fairy technique?" Seeing the ice cubes slowly appearing, Ming Jun's eyes widened, and he even stretched out his hand to touch the basin wall, "Really? cold!"

"Of course it's true!" Lian Qi put his hand into the ice cube, feeling refreshed, it's not too refreshing.

"But these ice cubes are not edible. We have to find another way to make edible ice cubes."

"How to do it?" Ming Jun also imitated Lian Qi's appearance, and put his hand into the ice, "It's so ice!"

"I asked my brother to get two jars, one big and one small."

"Jar?" Ming Jun didn't quite understand what Lian Qi meant.

"The principle that saltpeter can freeze is actually that when saltpeter dissolves in water, it will absorb a lot of heat, and the temperature in the water will drop, thus freezing."

"Then?"

"We can first fill the small pot with clean water, then put the small pot into the big pot, put water in the big pot, and add saltpeter, so that once the water in the big pot freezes, it will not bring the small pot with it. Does the water in the jar cool down and freeze together?"

"That's right! In this way, the saltpeter doesn't need to touch the water in the small jar, and the ice cubes in it can be eaten directly! Aqi, how did you come up with this?" Ming Jun sighed.

"Ahem, this is the inspiration from my senior brother." Lian Qi scratched his head, he was standing on the shoulders of giants to pick apples.

"However, it seems that a lot of saltpeter is needed to freeze." Ming Jun looked at the basin of ice water. They put all the refined saltpeter into it, but in the end only half of it froze.

"That depends on how well-informed those little beggars are." Lian Qi also sighed, "When he comes again, I will tell him that it doesn't have to be from Jinshi County, if there are other places. also."

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However, to Lian Qi's surprise, when the little beggar came to Lian Qi again, he actually asked this question first.

It turned out that it was a friend of the little beggar who knew that there was a place where hoarfrost would appear on the ground in autumn. The little beggar thought it was salt at first and was very excited. smell……

"Is there a lot of hoarfrost there?" Lian Qi asked.

"Yes, there are a lot!" Another little beggar followed, and when he heard Lian Qi's question, he immediately nodded heavily.

"That's good." Lian Qi was also unambiguous, "I'll go and see first, if it's really a lot, I'll give you ten times the reward."

"Really?!" The eyes of the two little beggars immediately showed surprise.

Lian Qi nodded, "I keep my word, but the premise is that the information you give is correct."

"We won't lie." The two little guys also nodded solemnly. Although their faces were dirty, their eyes seemed to be lacquered.

This time, Lian Qi didn't let Mingjun go with him when he was shoveling the soil. Instead, he pulled Tang Wuyu along and asked Mingjun to boil the saltpeter dissolved in water at home.

After several days of busy work, the saltpeter collected was finally enough.

After making edible ice cubes, Lian Qi first made smoothies for the little ones at home.

In fact, it can't be regarded as a smoothie, because it is different from the thin smoothies eaten in modern times. The smoothies made by Lian Qi have relatively large particles, but are smaller than common ice cubes.

In short, it is the most broken state that Lian Qi can make at this time.

I also prepared milk, fruit cubes, maltose, sesame seeds and the like. When eating, mix them into crushed ice according to your own taste. It tastes sweet and icy, and it can also quench your thirst. It is really a must in summer. Choice!

Several children in the family like this snack called smoothie very much, but Lian Qi has shown the demeanor of a big parent at this time, and each person can only eat two cups a day at most!

If you eat too much, you will have a stomachache!

But, children, they are really greedy for cold and gluttonous food. I heard that they can only eat two bowls a day. Ah Yao and Lian Yu were the first to quit.

"Why! I finally got ice cubes. If you don't eat them in summer, it will be hot to death!" Ah Yao plausibly said.

"Don't worry, I will put ice cubes in your room, it will definitely not kill you from the heat."

Although Lian Yu didn't speak, Lian Qi almost didn't hold on when he looked at him with big flickering eyes with aggrieved eyes.

Lian Qi turned her head away, determined not to look at Lian Yu's aggrieved appearance, "No way! Ayu, you don't want to have diarrhea, do you?"

"But I'm so hot!" Lian Yu put some water on his forehead, "Big Brother, Big Brother, look, I'm so hot that I'm sweating profusely!"

Lian Qi: ...

"Pfft—" Ah Yao was the first to laugh out loud, "Hey, can you be more serious when you lie?"

"But I didn't lie. Brother Wan Xia said that a child who lies is not a good child, but I am a good child!" Lian Yu seriously retorted.

"Then what were you doing just now?" Ah Yao was not convinced.

"But I said it in front of my eldest brother, and I was obviously acting like a baby."

Crowd: ...

In the end, Lian Qi still firmly resisted Lian Yu's coquettish offensive, resolutely not letting them eat more.

And those ice cubes with saltpeter added should be kept well, otherwise, it will be bad if they are eaten by greedy little guys.

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Now that the crushed ice was made and everyone agreed after tasting it, Lian Qi decided to sell it with Ming Jun!

However, because the shopkeeper of Xingqing pastries has not finished packing, Ming Jun and Lian Qi can only push the carts to Qiaoyang Street to sell them this time.

"In such a hot day, how do we keep these crushed ice?" Ming Jun looked at the bowls of crushed ice, and then at the sun outside, and asked sadly.

"It's easy, just wrap it in a quilt!" Lian Qi said confidently.

When he was very young, those who bought popsicles did that. The quilt can keep the heat in, so that the cold air emitted by the ice cubes wrapped in it will not dissipate so easily.

After everything was ready, Lian Qi and Ming Jun pushed the trolley to Qiaoyang Street, found an open space that would not hinder pedestrians, parked the trolley, and moved down two small folding tables (Tang Wuyu friendship production), eight small Mazars, even if it is open.

In order to make the appearance more attractive, Mingjun also pays special attention to the layers of color, not the kind of hodgepodge of everything mixed together, but layer by layer in the order of crushed ice, milk, fruit cubes or their homemade jam Layers have to be stacked up.

The whole bowl of crushed ice looks very appetizing~

The first thing this crushed ice attracts is children, but this is the first sold...

It was Tang Wuyu who gave it.

The moment he saw Tang Wuyu, Lian Qi thought at first that his senior brother was worried about his and Mingjun's safety and came here to protect them.

But when Tang Wuyu handed over the thirty Wen money, Lian Qi immediately understood Tang Wuyu's meaning, wasn't this just to be a babysitter for them?

Although Tang Wuyu didn't mean to be a babysitter, he just wanted to buy the first piece of crushed ice that Lian Qi sold.

But with Tang Wuyu, the first person to "eat crabs", people gradually surrounded him.

"Is this actually ice?" Soon, someone discovered the essence of the snacks that Lian Qi and the others were selling, and the person who was waiting for the money immediately shouted: "Give me ten servings first!"

After being yelled at by that person, other people who also want to buy it will not be happy. He took ten shares at a time, so what do they eat?

Lian Qi naturally thought of this question, so she shook her head directly, "I'm sorry, the purchase of crushed ice in my house is limited, and one person can only buy one."

The man who just started yelling wanted to say something, but for a moment he felt cold all over his body. When he was looking around for the reason, he happened to meet Tang Wuyu's cold gaze, and he choked on his mouth no matter how much he said. He didn't dare to say anything more, so he quickly bought a bowl of crushed ice and left.

Lian Qi's crushed ice is very popular, they brought out a total of [-] copies, and they were all sold out in less than half an hour.

People who didn't get one kept asking if they'd come over tomorrow.

Lian Qi estimated the amount of saltpeter in the house, nodded and said, "We will come over tomorrow, and we will still be here."

After explaining it several times in a row, the crowd of onlookers gradually dispersed.

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"Good luck!" As soon as she got home, Lian Qi couldn't help but shriek.

The one hundred copies prepared today were all sold out, one for thirty Wen, and the one hundred copies were three thousand Wen, three taels of silver!

And their costs, if calculated carefully, are the rewards paid to those little beggars for finding saltpeter, and the money to buy those porcelain bowls.

The trolley was also kindly provided by Tang Wuyu~

"This..." After calculating the profit clearly, Ming Jun's hands couldn't help but tremble a little. Those costs, calculated, were at most one tael of silver at most, but today's profit was actually a full two taels of silver!This, this is equivalent to the annual expenses of most families in Mingjia Village!

"Aqi, isn't our price a bit high?" Ming Jun even felt a little uneasy after getting so much money all of a sudden.

"Things are rare and expensive," Lian Qi said, "and we have spent a lot of manpower for this. Thirty Wen is already considered cheap."

Thinking of the duck egg yolk in Taihe wine, which is priced at two taels of silver each, Lian Qi instantly felt that the price he set was too close to the people!

"That's right." Ming Jun said after thinking about it, "Then we still have one hundred copies tomorrow?"

"Yes, first come, first served!" Lian Qi made a final decision, "However, it's not good for us to push a stall all the time, which is not conducive to expanding production. After the shopkeeper Qi cleans up the shop, we will sell directly in that shop! "

The location of the shop was much better than the one they were looking for, and there were more seats in the shop.