happy event

Chapter 11 Keep it secret, there are buns!
Dong Rong and Sha Zhu quietly returned to the Wang family's wing, happily wondering where to hide the money, and finally stuffed it into the skirt of their clothes to feel at ease.Whether he can live a good life in the future and get rid of the current predicament depends entirely on these money.Although she wanted to think about the money-making plan again, she was too tired after tossing around for half the night, and soon fell into a deep sleep.

Silly Zhu'er, who was lying one arm away from her, stopped snoring at this moment, and slowly opened his eyes.In the dark night, his eyes shone like stars, full of cunning.

"Is the matter settled?"

"Yes, master. The subordinates made up the money, even if the original owner went to look for it, he would never find it." I don't know if it was a low sound of reply from the corner of the room or somewhere on the roof, silly Zhu'er raised his brows, and the corners of his lips smile more...

When you stand on the bridge and look at the scenery, don't you know that there are also people standing upstairs looking at you.

Dong Rong didn't know that the pure and innocent fool in her eyes had already observed her as an interesting new toy.

That night, in her dreams, the sky was full of white money. She sent Dong Ping to study, bought new clothes for herself, ate fine rice noodles, and finally found a beautiful place with picturesque scenery. A spacious and elegant yard was built here, and they lived a happy pastoral life.Her new life has no resentment, and she doesn't have to work hard to make money. It's a mess of relaxation and comfort...

Sweet dreams are always short-lived, as if just closing his eyes, Wang's rooster sang good morning outside the window.

Dong Rong was thinking about going to the city to buy saltpeter, and when she heard the sound, she quickly got up to wash and tidy up, and finally picked up the reluctant silly Zhuer.

It happened that Uncle Cao was going to the city to sell a load of tied Chinese toon buds, and the two of them went with him all the way.

Rongshu Village is located in a remote place. If you want to enter the city, you need to detour for seven or eight miles. Dong Rong has hope in her heart and doesn't feel tired. Looking at the fields and forests along the way, she only feels that the scenery is very beautiful.

In this way, the three of them arrived at the gate of the city very quickly, and the soldiers guarding the city actually collected a gate tax of two Wen per person.Dong Rong didn't think about this, and naturally she didn't prepare copper coins. If she took out the silver in her arms, she was afraid of arousing Uncle Cao's suspicion, so she could only watch in embarrassment as Uncle Cao counted the copper coins and paid the tax for them.

She blushed and thanked, "It cost my uncle a lot. I really don't know that I have to pay taxes when I enter the house."

Uncle Cao was a kind person. He waved his hands and smiled when he heard this, "You don't know that if you don't go to the city often, uncle can still afford the four renminbi. If each person asked for ten renminbi a few years ago, uncle just wanted to help Neither."

The three entered the city talking and laughing. Uncle Cao kidnapped him and went to the north of the city to find a buyer, leaving Dong Rong and Sha Zhu'er completely free.Silly Zhu'er didn't have enough for breakfast, so he stood in front of the small stall selling meat buns, refusing to move.Dong Rong was also really greedy, so she took out a silver curry and went to a shop to exchange it for broken silver, and bought ten white and fat meat buns.

The two of them leaned against the corner and had enough to eat. With their round bellies, they went to a grocery store and bought two catties of saltpeter powder, and then they wandered back to Yiyipo.

Seeing the two of them rushing back to eat, Mrs. Cao muttered and complained, "His aunt's family is too calculating. She helped them with work for two days, and she sent them back without even leaving lunch."

Old man Cao didn't want anyone to speak ill of his sister. He gave the old woman a hard look, and said to his son and daughter-in-law, "You have worked hard these two days, sit down and eat."

At this moment, Dong Rong still felt that her stomach was full and she couldn't eat anything, so she hurriedly waved her hands and said, "No need, Dad, we are not hungry. We are just a little tired from the journey, so we will go back to the room." After finishing speaking, she So he pulled Silly Zhu out of the main room.

Granny Cao thought she had captured her daughter-in-law, and she was very proud, she snorted coldly, "She still has some winks."

Old man Cao knocked his chopsticks hard, and reprimanded in a low voice, "How many times have I told you, you should leave the matter of Zhuzi alone. Now that he is married to a wife, don't meddle in their affairs!"

Mrs. Cao was so wronged that she threw down her job and yelled, "What are you talking about? I am his stepmother, but I have treated him badly all these years? Tell your conscience, when you went out to work, money Didn’t make much money, but gave birth to this fool and took it back. Did I say anything? Not only didn’t I say a word, but he treated him like his own, and he took care of everything. Now his wife is back , I put on airs of a mother-in-law and enjoy the blessings of a daughter-in-law, won't it work?"

Old man Cao felt very annoyed at being snatched by the old woman. He opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but swallowed it back for some reason, and finally got up and walked away with a flick of his sleeves.Leaving Mrs. Cao grabbing the dishes and beating them to vent her anger, she finally looked at the unmoved east chamber, feeling even more angry in her heart.

Dong Rong didn't know that Mrs. Cao had put all the grievances on her head again, and of course she wouldn't care if she knew it. Right now, she was devoting herself to the experiment of making ice.

In the center of the room in the East Wing, there were two clay pots, one large and one small. The small pot was filled with half of the cold water and seated in the big pot. Silly Zhu'er was holding a gourd ladle in one hand and a wooden bucket in the other, and carefully poured it into the big pottery pot. Fill the basin with water.When the amount of water reached half, Dong Rong opened the oiled paper bag in her hand, sprinkled a small half of the saltpeter powder into the large clay pot, and then picked up a wooden stick to stir vigorously.The saltpeter powder reacted violently with water and quickly absorbed all the heat from the outside world, so the clear water in the small pottery basin froze immediately.

Dong Rong looked happy, and reached out to tap the ice surface but found that it was not frozen solid.She frowned and carefully recalled the details of her father's ice making when she was a child, but she couldn't find out what went wrong. Later, a small lump in the saltpeter powder fell into the pool and made a ding-dong sound to remind her.The production process of saltpeter powder in this time and space is much inferior to that of modern times. The purity is not as good as it is in many aspects, and the proportion of natural release is also higher.

Find the crux of the problem, and things will be much easier to solve.Sure enough, another large amount of saltpeter powder was sprinkled in, and the ice cubes in the small pottery basin were frozen solid.Dong Rong picked up the small pottery basin and pressed it to her face, feeling the coolness in her heart, she was so happy that she wished she could jump up and down a few times.

Silly Zhu squatting aside seemed to be surprised by this miraculous change, his face changed rapidly, and his eyes looking at Dong Rong contained many inquiries and doubts.

(End of this chapter)