Villager of Daming

Chapter 1079 Ice cubes are exchanged for nothing

The team arrived at the school ground. The ground had been paved with yellow sand, additional water was sprayed, and duck soup had been cooked in a large pot in advance.

Everyone else found their own seats. The roast duck was already prepared, roasted with pure fruit wood.

The ones here were done by the palace maids and eunuchs who came here first, and two people from Xiaqiu Village were in charge of supervision.

Everyone still drinks beer. In fact, drinking wine is good. There is one in the team. The texture and taste of roast duck go very well with wine and rice wine.

But the weather is hot, so after some discussion, we decided to drink cold beer, which is refreshing.

Zhu Wentian and his friends peeled ducks for everyone, one for each person, and peeled them in a specially selected place. The rest was put aside so that it would not be wasted. There was still dinner for dinner!

You can eat roast duck with rice in the evening, provided you don't drink alcohol at night, otherwise the leftover duck will still have to be served as a meal.

Everyone didn't eat for too long at lunch. They ate a few lotus leaf cakes, a few bites of duck meat, drank some soup, and then went out to wander around again and look around.

Compared with Xiashan Village, the situation in the county town is much better, mainly because there are many people and it is lively. Despite the drought, the people growing vegetables are busy applying pesticides, and other people will use this time to do odd jobs.

Zhu Fan didn't believe it at all, and suddenly he seemed to understand something.

At this moment this year, the ice stored last year can be used, but now it cannot be sold and can only be used by the team.

A straw mat is laid on the wood, and the straw mat is covered with soil, but a stairway for entry and exit needs to be left at the pit next to it, or a wooden ladder must be erected.

This method cannot be used when the soil is melted next year, because the snow will melt first and the water will seep in, and all vegetables will be useless.

No matter how severe the drought, the Liuli River cannot be wiped out by drought, then it is not an expression of summer drought, but a single word of drought, one drought lasts for a year, and then locusts appear.

Put radishes, Chinese cabbage, green onions and other food in it. When you need to take it out, take out enough for several days at a time, and then seal the entrance and exit immediately.

"Your Highness, after the digging is completed, we will put cement on the inside, and then when the weather gets cold, we will get water from the river and freeze it here. After freezing a batch, we will take out a batch and move it to other places.

"Your Highness, the ice is dug and placed near the river. When the ice freezes in winter, it is put in and used again in the summer. If it is not sold outside, it will be difficult to transport."

This kind of vegetable cellar is relatively simple. You first dig a rectangular pit, or cuboid, and wait for the vegetables to be harvested after autumn to put them in. The top is covered with wood, just like a trap.

In a short while, we will go to the place where the ice is stored in the county. Your Highnesses' team can enjoy it. We learned that Your Highnesses were coming and prepared it in advance.

Fang Dashan knew the situation at hand, and he arranged it to find something for the people to do without losing money.

"How much ice can be stored in such a shallow pit? How to cover it?"

Temporary pits are cheaper than fixed pits. Fixed pits require a lot of bricks and are difficult to clean. There is a strong musty smell inside and there will be a lack of oxygen.

"You don't even know how to make up lies, and you knew I was waiting for you? Did you know this last year? Whose mouth did you learn about? How many tribes do you need to kill?"

Zhu Fan asked, obviously it was most suitable to be a vegetable cellar.

When Zhu Fang saw the people doing odd jobs digging holes there sweating profusely, he first thought of using them as vegetable cellars.

Or you can use well water to make ice, so you can eat the ice directly without getting sick. "

Fang Dashan endured his heartache and lied. Selling so much ice would improve the living conditions of the county officials and increase the county's spending money.

"Are you still digging a pit? Are you planning to use it as a vegetable cellar for storing vegetables in the winter?"

"Sell those ice cubes slowly. We don't want them. We can't give you money to buy ice cubes. We can't meet the budget. It's equivalent to giving you money directly. Let's...right?"

Zhu Fan said he didn't want to buy ice, but he was worried that his judgment was wrong, so he turned to look at Ling'er.

Ling'er glanced at Zhu Fan with a smile: "Your Highness is right, I won't buy it." "Is there any other way?" Zhu Fan understood. In fact, he could buy it, but Ling'er took care of his own face and said not to buy it.

Can not be done! You cannot let the local area suffer losses because of your own face.

"Look at how much ice there is. If there is too much ice, it will be shipped directly and sent to Nanjing through the canal to help sell it. If the quantity is small, it will be hauled by truck to Peking Fucheng and let people make cold drinks.

The county stores ice and sells it to a limited number of customers. It is better to cool off during the office hours and treat it as a benefit to the county government.

Let’s see if the people in the county are willing to buy it? I guess the sales aren't very good, it's been a little hot now. "

Ling'er didn't ask his own team to buy it, but contacted salespeople.

I think this is the first time for Fang Dashan to do this. He has no experience and only wants to store ice in winter and sell it in summer.

It cannot be sold, so it can only be placed in the yamen for officials to use. It is cool, and is also used in the palace and Xiaqiu Village. When used with fans, the cooling effect is very good.

"There are a lot." When Fang Dashan saw that the ice could be sold, he quickly replied: "It cost more than one hundred guan extra, and that small boat can hold twenty ships."

"How much will it cost?" Zhu Di also wondered.

"Selling a big piece, someone paid a lot of money." Fang Dashan replied again.

"If you have something to do, ask someone from the Yamen Office to buy it? Otherwise, why would they buy a big piece?" Zhu Di thought of a possibility.

"A businessman wanted to buy a jar and was in a hurry to use it. It was difficult to collect so many jars elsewhere, so he came to the Yamen.

The people who found him collected hundreds of jars, and they filled the jars with salted duck eggs and transported them away.

Going north, it seems that I want to transport it to the grassland. I guess there are people there who need it! "

Fang Dashan nodded and admitted that it was indeed someone else who needed help from the Yamen.

"The grassland needs so many salted duck eggs? This is a good market!" Zhu Fan and Zhu Ru said together.

The director looked puzzled: "They should need salt. There is a shortage of salt in the area further north of Datong Mansion. Could it be that they use salted duck eggs instead?"

"It's better to just buy salt and take it there instead of buying eggs. Salted duck eggs will easily stink over time and turn into rotten eggs."

Xu Da thinks it's impossible. Salt is very cheap now and there is no limit on the quantity you can buy.

"I know!" Ling'er said happily. When she saw Brother Hanhan's gestures, she only needed to look at a little to understand what was behind it.

"Fangzhi County, how do you pickle the salted duck eggs they buy?"

"Soak in salt water, put it in a jar, and use a sorghum stalk to make a grate to hold it down. Don't let the eggs come out of the water. Just like sauerkraut, they will rot if they are exposed, and they will stink if they are exposed." Fang Dashan replied.

"Which craftsmanship?" Ling'er asked again.

"The department store in the county taught me how to pickle salted eggs and preserved eggs." Fang Dashan gave the answer.

"They just want rotten eggs and take them back to help digestion, just like bean curd. In fact, if I had known this, I would have sold them bean curd! They always drink tea, and they also want a change of taste.

It's a businessman's problem. You need to go to the grassland first and ask others if they want to eat. If they want to eat, they will go here to buy more salted eggs and send them over.

Along the way, the salted duck eggs that had been pickled for such a long time should have become muddy and smelly, and some of them were even hard inside. "

Ling'er smiled and said that rotten eggs can help digestion, but the premise is how smelly they are. If they smell bad when exposed to the air when pickled in salt water, they must not be eaten.

(End of this chapter)