The rural life of a peasant girl

Chapter 33 Saltpeter Ice Making
In the past few days, Su Ling has been making all kinds of snacks for his family to taste, so that he can decide what to sell in the store. The cakes made by Su Ling are very common in modern times. Cakes are definitely indispensable. Cupcakes, this Everyone likes it more, and there are mung bean cakes and red bean cakes, which are more suitable for the taste of the public. The cakes pointed out about various fruit flavors have won the praise of the Su family.

In the end, Su Ling decided on about [-] kinds of pastries, and taught Su's mother first, and even Xiaocao was invited by Su Ling to help in the shop. Uncle Li and Aunt Li were very happy about this.

The matter of wanting to sell cold drinks in the store will cause Su Ling trouble, how can there be ice in this summer!Farm households are not like rich families, they store ice cubes in winter and use them in summer, and even if they store ice cubes, they don’t know whether the ice cubes are clean and can be used for food.

For the cold drink shop, in order to find clean ice cubes, Su Ling thought of a lot of ways. It is not enough to store ice cubes in winter alone, and their family does not have the habit of storing ice cubes. The best way is to Make ice cubes by yourself, but when it comes to making ice cubes, it is not easy, and it is not in modern times that you can produce ice cubes just by plugging in a refrigerator, so Su Ling can only choose the oldest method to make ice with saltpeter.

Using saltpeter to make ice was very popular in ancient China, even in the Song Dynasty, ice cubes were used to cool drinks. Of course, Su Ling would know this because she always liked to read some unofficial history in her previous life, especially She is very concerned about eating, which are her only few hobbies.

Knowing that saltpeter can make ice, but Su Ling doesn't know where to get saltpeter, or is there such a thing as saltpeter in this dynasty?She couldn't find it by herself, so she could only ask Shopkeeper Qian to help her find out. After all, in restaurants, guests come from all over the world, and there are many sources of news.

For Su Ling's request, the shopkeeper Qian was still inquiring very hard, not to mention, he really did inquire. There happened to be a mining worker who was eating in a restaurant. He said that the recent mining industry was not good. White crystals, when Shopkeeper Qian heard it, isn't this white crystals very similar to what the second owner said?Hurry up and leave the guests behind, let Su Ling invite them over.

The ore digger thought he had said something wrong, and when the shopkeeper Qian left him, he was still anxious!After all, he was only a low-level employee, and he didn't know how he offended the shopkeeper, and he was even more confused when he saw Su Ling.

"This is Uncle, hello, just now our shopkeeper heard that you dug up some white crystals when you were digging ore, may I ask, do you know where there are such white crystals?" Su Ling asked politely.

"Little girl, what you want to inquire about is this! Did you say it earlier! I thought it was something! Hey, don't mention it, the government originally asked us to dig, and said that we would be rewarded with silver if we dug the ore. Now There is no ore, and I don’t know what the thing dug out is, let alone rewarding silver, the government has not even paid our wages, so everyone has to go home and farm.” He said with a dejected expression.

"Uncle, is the white crystal you mentioned..." Su Ling was elated when he heard this intuition, and felt that the white crystal might be the saltpeter she was looking for.

"Little girl, the shape of the crystals you mentioned is true, but I don't know if it's the saltpeter you mentioned." The miner saw that the characteristics Su Ling said were very similar to the crystals she dug. But I don't know if it's what she's looking for. If I answer conservatively, if it's not when it's not, wouldn't it make me happy for nothing.

"Uncle, it's like this, can you go back and show me some of the crystals you dug up, of course I will pay for the travel expenses, and I will give you a generous reward then." Su Ling said very sincerely.

"The little girl said that there is no reward. If you want, I will take a trip for you, but the journey is a bit far, and it may take two days to get back." The miner saw that Su Ling really needed her and said. What kind of saltpeter, very generously agreed.

"Then thank you, uncle. I'll be here waiting for your return in two days." Su Ling was very grateful.

"Little girl, my surname is Chen, so please call me Uncle Chen! I'm not used to uncles either." Uncle Chen obviously liked Su Ling's neither humble nor overbearing temperament, and he didn't look down on him just because he was a miner.

"Okay then, I'll leave it to Uncle Chen. Su Ling will treat Uncle Chen well then."

Two days later, Uncle Chen suddenly brought several baskets of white crystals. The staff of Tianyue Restaurant were very interested in these white crystals, and they all came out to watch.

Su Ling was the first to come out to see it. When she saw these, it was indeed the saltpeter she wanted. She was so excited that she immediately asked someone to move the saltpeter to the backyard. She couldn't wait to see if the saltpeter could really make it. Bring out the ice cubes.

In the backyard, seeing a large crowd of onlookers, Su Ling sent them all away. It wasn't because she was narrow-minded or something. After all, the ice cubes were made in summer, and she was afraid that others would treat her as a monster. Went to Shentang.

After repeated experiments several times, Su Ling finally made ice cubes. Looking at the ice cubes with a slight chill, Su Ling was very happy. For her, the ice cubes meant the money, even if she didn't Selling cold drinks and ice cubes in summer can also make a lot of money.

Shopkeeper Qian also saw the ice cubes lying in the basin when he came in, and he was very surprised, but he also knew what to say and what not to say, not to mention, the Second Boss always had a lot of weird ideas, didn't they?

"Second boss, Uncle Chen is still waiting outside? Look?"

"Look at me, I forgot when I got busy." Su Ling patted her head, "Come on, let's go out together, I still need to talk to Uncle Chen about business!"

In the private room, Uncle Chen didn't know whether the thing he brought was what the little girl was looking for, so he waited anxiously.

"Uncle Chen, you have helped me a lot this time. I wonder if you are still interested in continuing to work as a miner?" Although the work of a miner is very hard and dangerous, the income is still good, so there are many people Choose this job.

"Of course I want to do it, but now the government doesn't dig mines anymore. I don't think there is any way. I have been digging mines all my life. I really don't understand when it comes to going home to farm. Now if there is no way, I won't do it." Come back." Speaking of not being able to continue mining and not being good at farming, Uncle Chen was very sad.

"Then if I ask you to continue digging now? Of course, what I want is this kind of spar, not the ore you dug before, are you willing to dig?" Of course Su Ling didn't dare to dig the ore, it needs the government What can only be dug belongs to the country.

"Of course, of course I am willing, little girl, you said you want this kind of white spar?" Uncle Chen was very excited when he heard that someone asked him to mine.

(End of this chapter)