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Chapter 88 Pickles...

Jin Rong asked straightforwardly, and Qi Younian answered happily: "Returning to the sixth master, the little old man dare not lie to brother Hongzhi. The shopkeeper Hao of Honghe Tower also knows about this matter. The ice cream is really frozen with ice cubes. We The ice used today was purchased with the help of shopkeeper Hao."

Qi Younian thought, since he didn't tell Hongzhi the whole thing just now, it's not good to say it out like beans in a bamboo tube, so he can only tell Jinrong that.

"Take me to see."

This time, Qi Younian simply took out a neatly wrapped wooden barrel and lifted the lid.The outermost insulation cotton cover, followed by wooden barrels, interlayers, small tin barrels, and the innermost creamy yellow sorbet, are all clear at a glance.

Jin Rong looked at it for a moment, looked at Jiang Yifan, pointed to the ice water in the interlayer, and asked, "The ice cubes in the interlayer have melted into water, but the ice cream is still frozen solid. What's going on?"

Qi Younian replied calmly: "Back to Master Liu, salt has been added to this."

Jin Rong didn't show a puzzled expression, even the moment Qi Younian said adding salt, Jin Rong thought of the key point.

In the middle of winter a few years ago, he traveled to Beiyi with a mission and saw a lake in the hinterland of Beiyi.At that time, Beiyi was covered with ice and snow, and the wind was bitter, but the lake did not freeze.

Jin Rong also had doubts at the time. Beiyi officials explained that it was a salt lake. Even in the middle of winter when the temperature was extremely low, there would only be some ice flakes, but it would not freeze firmly.

Jin Rong glanced at Jiang Yifan again, and asked Qi Younian, "Listen to the old man, this is also the idea of ​​the old man's granddaughter? I don't know how she thought that doing this can freeze the food?"

It's not that he insisted on getting to the bottom of the matter to make it difficult for the old man of the Qi family and Ye Xinyan, but that there were too many accidents like this, so it was not a coincidence or a coincidence.

Qi Younian looked at the strong suspicion in Jin Rong's eyes, couldn't help but shuddered in his heart, and replied carefully: "We country people all know the salt soup used to pickle pickles, no matter how cold the weather is, the salt soup does not freeze. But my granddaughter is the only one who thinks of using this principle to make sorbet. I am also lucky to have such a smart and quick-witted granddaughter."

pickle……?It's that simple?Jin Rong stared at Qi Younian in disbelief for a long time, until Qi Younian's brow was sweating, and then looked away resentfully.

It's that simple, it's that simple reason, that woman from the Ye family can make the frozen dots in midsummer.And this woman is notoriously reckless and ignorant among the ladies in the capital. With such a result, how can those intelligent women in the capital feel embarrassed?
Jiang Yifan on the side didn't know the joints, especially when Jin Rong gave him a meaningful glance, he didn't understand.He asked, "What's going on? This sorbet has something to do with pickles?"

Just when Jin Rong's suspicions arose, he was ruthlessly destroyed by Qi Younian. It was the time when he was full of depression.

Hearing Jiang Yifan's question, Jin Rong said angrily: "I don't know if it has anything to do with pickles. It's just that I have seen the salt lake in the hinterland of Beiyi in the midwinter. It won't freeze even in severe winter."

Jiang Yifan still didn't quite understand, so he turned his gaze to Qi Younian.

Qi Younian explained: "Ordinary ice cubes will melt when placed in the interlayer of two buckets, but that kind of melting is our common water, and you can never make ice cream. If you add salt, the ice cubes will melt faster, but the melted salt water However, the temperature is much lower than ordinary ice water. If you keep putting ice cubes and salt in it, and if the insulation measures are done well, this low-temperature salt water that can flow can freeze the sorbet paste.”

This is Ye Xinyan's explanation to Qi Younian. Although it is not comprehensive enough, it can only be explained in this way.Ye Xinyan herself does not possess the authoritative theoretical knowledge in this area, so she is really unable to explain this physical process to the ancients in a simple way.Moreover, even if she has very professional theoretical knowledge, I am afraid that Qi Younian and others will not be able to understand.

Fortunately, Jiang Yifan basically understood, even if there were details that he didn't understand, it was inconvenient to ask more at this time.

Jin Rong was happy to see Jiang Yifan embarrassing, and asked with a sneer, "Have you never seen someone pickle pickles?"

Jiang Yifan rolled his eyes at Jin Rong: "Which family raised the children who have been educated since childhood to learn how to pickle pickles? Did you ever pickle pickles, Mr. Six?"

"Hmph, at least the sixth master, I have seen the salt lake, have you seen it?" Jin Rong argued strongly, turned his head to look at this aggrieved place, and thought that the person who was looking at the store was the young lady of Duke Anguo's mansion who had once flaunted his might. After arriving in the capital, Miss Ye's appalling reputation suddenly had other thoughts in her mind.

"Mr. Qi, let me realize that this business of yours is really not easy to do as it is now. It was originally good food. The decoration outside your small shop is unique, and the name of the shop is also good. But you see Look, you made it like this."

Jin Rong made a fuss, "The store is so small, which noble person would like to eat together with others? And the decorations in your store, especially those paintings, those things... are paintings Right? I think it can catch the eyes of a three-year-old child, with only a little childishness, but no elegance."

Qi Younian couldn't help but wryly smiled, Ye Zi of his family had already done a deep self-criticism about these things.She also turned a store that she thought was high-end into a snack shop for half-sized and children, only to realize later that she underestimated the consumption level and cultural literacy of rich people.

Her cloth stickers and dried branches in vases were actually not recognized by the rich and wealthy in Qinghe County.As Jin Rong said, these things can only show childishness, and probably only children can appreciate them.

However, adults raised by ancient families are not interested in these meaningless things because of their own literacy.Another one, in the face of harsh competition between families and brothers, these people will never openly miss their childhood and show interest in childish and childish things.

And this storefront is indeed cramped, it is difficult to accommodate people with status.

"This..., we were originally a small business, and we really couldn't make the scale you mentioned. The current situation is very good, the business of the small shop is not bad, and there are a lot of profits. Although the diners who patronize are mostly children , but they are all children from rich and wealthy families, and they spend a lot of money, and the little old man's family is quite satisfied with the income of the small shop."

Jin Rong understood what Qi Younian meant, but he didn't agree with what Qi Younian said.

If it's just Qi Younian himself, he has had many ups and downs in his life, and he has never enjoyed much wealth, so there is nothing wrong with thinking this way.But for the granddaughter of An Guogong who escaped from the capital and once enjoyed a luxurious life, the word willing to be poor and lowly could not appear in her cognition at all.

Jin Rong shifted her eyes to the direction of the store. Judging from the decoration of this small store and the types and prices of the food, Ye Xinyan's initial plan must have been to do business for the rich, but things did not develop in the direction she hoped. That's all.

　I've been a little busy these past few days. In fact, that's not accurate. It's very busy.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)