Farming game: raise cubs with equipment

Chapter 637 This Is... Ice
After several days of sunny days, everyone lost their spirits.Everyone often sits in a shaded pavilion and keeps fanning themselves, but unfortunately it is almost useless.

The sun was about to set, and it was supposed to be time to go back to eat, but everyone sat in the pavilion and had no idea of ​​going back to eat at all.

"Hey, when will it rain in the sky!"

"It's better not to rain," the other person sighed. "In this kind of weather, after it rains, the house must be damp and stuffy. The days are even more difficult than now."

"If you want me to tell you, the emperor's old man lives comfortably, living in the palace, and there is a special person to deliver ice every day to relieve the heat."

"Some food is good. You don't know what the battlefield is like, and everyone is still complaining."

"Just to mention a few words. It's so hot that I can't eat food every day. If this continues, I feel like I can become a fairy right away!"

At this moment, Yun Yiyi had just finished her lunch, and her forehead was covered with thin cold sweat, so when the sun just set, she wanted to come out to enjoy the cool breeze and dissipate the heat.

It's just that the night just came, and the temperature of the air hadn't dissipated yet, and the hot air in the soil rushed out again, and the gust of wind that finally blew was full of scorching heat.

Someone saw Yun Yiyi and greeted her, "Hi Ma'am, it's really hot these days."

"Yes," Yun Yiyi sighed, "I didn't expect these few days to be really difficult. I originally wanted to go out for a walk, but I didn't expect it to be hotter than home."

When the others saw Yun Yiyi approaching, they all surrounded her.

"Hey, it's because of the weather that it's so hot that people can't eat."

"Me too, I can't eat two pieces of potatoes."

"Hey, I can only endure it a little longer. It will be much better if I survive Qiuhu."

"It would be great if there was ice. It would be comfortable to move the winter ice to the present."

"That's the emperor's treatment. Look at the people outside, everyone can't even afford food, what are they daydreaming about?"

Yun Yiyi lowered her head and pondered for a while, "Indeed, if there were ice cubes, we would be much more comfortable now."

The ice in modern society is all frozen in a refrigerator, and even if Yun Yiyi made a refrigerator, it would be useless without electricity.

Ice cubes are actually the result of water exothermic. When the temperature is lower than the freezing point, the water condenses into ice.

Then at this time, something that can rapidly lower the temperature and absorb heat is needed.

Yun Yiyi suddenly remembered that he had bought a lot of saltpeter before, and the actual demand at that time was much less than planned, so Yun Yiyi sealed up the pile of saltpeter.

When saltpeter encounters water, it begins to absorb heat to the outside, and the temperature drops rapidly, far exceeding the freezing point of water.

Just relying on this, you can make ice!
She got in the car, went back to her previous home, and brought back the sealed saltpeter. She took out two bowls of similar size. The small bowl was placed on top of the big bowl, and the gap between them was filled by Yun Yiyi. A part of the saltpeter went in, and Yun Yiyi filled a part of the water in the middle of the small bowl.

After doing this, Yun Yiyi added water little by little to the saltpeter in the gap.

After a while, a layer of condensed water formed on the surface of the large bowl, and the water droplets kept falling, while a thin layer of ice formed on the bottom edge of the large bowl.

After a while, the inner wall of the small bowl began to become cloudy, and snow-white ice crystals appeared inside, and then the ice crystals continued to spread until they covered the surface of the clear water.

Yun Yiyi lightly touched the ice surface with her white fingers, because the water in the center hadn't condensed yet, the ice layer on the surface shook slightly and overlapped.The coolness was transmitted from the fingers to the nerves of the brain, and Yun Yiyi finally felt a little bit of coolness in the scorching hot weather.

She took out a spoon and eagerly scooped up a spoonful of ice water to try to drink, but before she could take a second sip, the ice cubes in the bowl were completely frozen.

There is a trace of impurities in the middle of the transparent ice cubes, which proves that the purity of the clear water is also very good.

Yun Yiyi cooked a few pieces of cooked potatoes, added a little salt and seasoning and mashed them with ice cubes to make a potato smoothie.

She took a spoonful and put it into her mouth. The potatoes were dense and thick. The smoothie was not crushed with an ice crusher, so there would inevitably be some fine dregs, but the moment the dregs just touched the tip of the tongue, they disappeared. Only the cold touch remains.

In fact, if there are milk and eggs, the taste will be better, and even if oranges are added and mashed together, it will be orange smoothie.

But it's not bad to have ice now, Yun Yiyi thought, at least having ice would make it easier for everyone to live in this kind of weather.

The weather has been hot recently, and everyone has been complaining, and Yan Qinghe may need ice cubes to cool off.

Yun Yiyi divided the ice made for the first time into two parts, ate one part by herself, and brought the other part to Yan Qinghe.

At this moment, Yan Qinghe just came back from the outside, and saw Yun Yiyi walking towards him with something, and said mysteriously, "Sir, guess what it is?"

Yan Qinghe looked at the things in her hand seriously, "Is it a new dish?"

Yun Yiyi nodded, put the thing in front of him, but didn't allow him to open it, "It's very close, can you guess again?"

Yan Qinghe reached out his hand and touched the wall of the bowl, a smile flashed in his eyes, but he pretended to be surprised the next moment, and quickly retracted his hand, amazed, "This bowl is actually made of ice!"

Yun Yiyi opened the bowl and showed him the final result, "Yes, look, this is called potato smoothie."

"The potato itself is very soft, and it can combine the biting chill of ice cubes. Try it and see if it suits your taste."

Yan Qinghe took the cold bowl suspiciously, scooped a mouthful of potato smoothie and put it in his mouth. It was really cold and very comfortable to eat.

But how do ice cubes appear in this dog-like weather?
It's not unusual for Yun Yiyi to open a shop and sell ice cubes, but that was in the past, and the things in the county are limited now, how did she get ice cubes?
The shortage of ice cubes is like gold, and it is estimated that only the imperial city will have the remaining stock.

But the imperial city is very far away, even if it is stolen, it will probably be melted on the way.

"It's delicious." Yan Qinghe squinted his eyes contentedly, scooped up a spoonful of ice and fed it to her mouth. Seeing that she also ate ice, there was an indelible tenderness between her brows.

Yun Yiyi raised her head, a little dissatisfied: "Why don't you ask where this ice cube appeared from?"

This is the saltpeter she saved with great difficulty, and she is the only one who has it now, but the things are limited, and now in the entire Fushan County, she is the only one who has ice.

Yan Qinghe immediately widened his eyes and said in shock, "Yiyi, did you make this ice cube yourself?"

pompous.

Yun Yiyi rolled his eyes at him, and then laughed again, "Master is really smart."

"I remember that saltpeter will cool down when it meets water, so I tried to make ice cubes, but I didn't expect it to succeed once."

Yan Qinghe praised: "My lady is really smart."

"Don't make fun of me," Yun Yiyi blushed a little after being praised by Yan Qinghe, "I still have a lot of saltpeter in my hand, I'm going to see who can help me prepare two water tanks, one big and one small, and make more ice cream for me Let's cool off, everyone."

At this time, the scorching wind blew, and Yan Qinghe's heart moved, but he just tucked Yun Yiyi's temple hair behind his ears.

Yan Qinghe apologized a little, "Go and ask the county magistrate, I'm a little busy these days, and I have to go out later, so I won't accompany you."

Yun Yiyi waved her hands carelessly, "What's the matter, just go about your business."

After Yan Qinghe finished eating the potato smoothie, Yun Yiyi packed up the bowls and chopsticks, and then went to the county magistrate Zhong.

After all, there have been successful precedents. Yun Yiyi said that the bigger the thing she wanted, the better, and it would save effort to do more at once.

Yun Yiyi had made so many things before, Zhong Shuyong almost responded to Yun Yiyi's request.He hurriedly asked his servants to find something according to Yun Yiyi's request, and then sat in the courtyard with Yun Yiyi to cool off.

But after sitting for a while, Zhong Shuyong still couldn't hold back his curiosity. He tentatively asked: "Ma'am, is there any use for preparing two tanks? If necessary, I will find two more servants for you." Give me a hand."

It doesn't need Zhong Shuyong to say, Yun Yiyi knows that the small vat inside must be very heavy, and she must not be able to lift it as a woman.

"Okay," Yun Yiyi said with a smile, "Then thank you County Magistrate Zhong first."

"Madam, we can't afford to thank you." Zhong Shuyong waved his hands again and again, "In our place, everyone says that Madam is a fairy who came down to save us ordinary people, just say what you want, don't be so polite. "

After a while, someone lifted the big tank out.

The big tank is very big, and the distance between the small tank and the big tank is about an arm's length.

Yun Yiyi asked them to find a cool place to put down the tank, and then went to find a long stick alone, and the others went with her to carry the saltpeter.

Although the tank is very large, the amount of saltpeter needed is not much. After the bottom layer was paved a little, someone pressed the small tank on top, and then continued to fill the tank with saltpeter powder for four weeks.

The distance between the saltpeter powder and the edge of the tank is only one hand, and this gap can be used to add water.

After the saltpeter was poured, they immediately poured buckets of clean water into the small pitcher in the middle.

Because the volume of ice will expand, Yun Yiyi wants to make sand ice, but he has to stir it constantly, and the physical strength of the sand ice will expand even more. After Yun Yiyi asked them to pour three quarters of the water, he let them stop.

The person looking for a long stick came in with a wooden stick. The color of the wooden stick was very dark, and water was still dripping from the end. It was obvious that it had just been cleaned.

Although there is no need for too many people at the moment, everyone is still reluctant to leave after helping, and they all stand by, wanting to see what Yun Yiyi is going to do.

Yun Yiyi took the long stick and put it in the water, then he asked another person to slowly add water to the saltpeter in the middle of the compartment.

The volume of the large tank is too large, and the large ceramic tank itself has a thermal insulation effect, so although two buckets of water have been added, the clear water in the middle has not changed.

All the people standing by were looking forward to it, and everyone was looking forward to what kind of changes would happen in that weird twin tank.

After a while, the walls of the big tank were covered with condensed water, and the tank in the middle began to gradually freeze.

Yun Yiyi stirred the frozen water in the middle. Although the others didn't see the freezing process, everyone could still feel the coldness emanating from the big tank.

"Strange, what's going on, it's so cool!"

"Ma'am, what are you doing? Why is this tank so cool?"

Yun Yiyi's hands were tired, so she put down the stick and called the nearest person to come and help.

Then Yun Yiyi stretched her arms, "Let's go cook some potatoes and mash them into a puree. I'm making a smoothie here. After it's done, let's mix the smoothie and potatoes together. It's a good way to relieve the heat in summer." cold drink."

When they heard Bing, everyone was in an uproar.

Ice is a scarce item, and only people with high positions or in the palace can enjoy it casually.And now they only need to wait for a while to eat the freezing point worth thousands of gold?

(End of this chapter)