The splendid countryside of the princess

Chapter 107 The three join forces
For Tang Dai's family, it was a hot summer. Outside, in the rice field, while harvesting, the late rice transplanting began on the flat ground. The peppers in the field were shipped to Changqing restaurants in Fengnan country in batches.

At home, Feng Ruoruo and Ouyang Qing all lived in Tang Dai's house. Tang Feng, Tang Jue, A Xi, and He Ren all returned to Tangjia Village and lived at home after half a school year's vacation. The first floor was full of people, and it was unprecedentedly lively.Tang Yushun also came to join in the fun from time to time.

Entering the three-volt period, the weather is surprisingly hot, the sun is scorching hot outside, the leaves of the trees on Baiyun Mountain are scorched, and most of the water in the Changlong River has been evaporated by the sun. .The two fur balls guarding the door were also led into the shade by Tang Dai.

Two fur balls: The owner is quite conscientious, and finally thought of them. It was so hot that they wanted to learn from dogs and stick out their tongues to dissipate heat!

Fortunately, the late rice at home was planted in the field when the rain was sufficient, and now the roots are firmly sucked into the field mud. Otherwise, Tang Dai would be in a state of anxiety. The early rice grew in good weather. If you take it home, if you lose in the late rice, the gain will outweigh the loss.

The temperature was too high and there was no air conditioner. Tang Dai, who was so hot and irritable, didn't care that the ice cubes in the cellar were getting less and less. She asked He Zhuzi and He Ren to move them out. After letting go, after the door closed, Tang Dai felt much cooler in an instant.

Dressed in one red and one white Ouyang Qing, Feng Rongruo opened the door and walked in. Seeing the appearance of the house, she not only twitched her lips, how afraid is Tang Xiaoniu of the heat?
The two walked into the hall, and saw a person lying on his back in the hall, and took a closer look, Tang Dai was sleeping on the bench with no image, sleeping soundly, saliva flowed from the corner of his mouth, holding a thin silver thread .

"Pfft...haha..." Ouyang Qing and Feng Rongruo laughed at the same time, and shook their heads again. Tang Xiaoniu never took the usual path. My daughter is lying in her living room and sleeping in such a disfigured way!

Tang Dai felt that she could not be blamed, but that the weather was too hot, and she didn't sleep well last night, so after making ice, she ran to the study to get a book, went to the room to get a pillow, and leaned on the bench in the hall I went to read a book, but I didn't expect that I fell asleep while reading it.

Although their footsteps were light and their laughter was not loud, Tang Dai, who was sleeping alertly, was awakened. When she opened her eyes, she saw two handsome men, one red and one white, standing there looking at her!
Tang Dai, who was still confused, suddenly smiled drooling, thinking she was dreaming.Wow, handsome guy, and there are two of them, Tang Dai, who suddenly felt that she was very lucky, started to play tricks again!

"Ah, this dream is so wonderful, there are actually two handsome guys, oh, handsome guys in ancient costumes, come, come, have a drink with MM, it's cool and refreshing on a hot day, haha..."

"..." Hearing Tang Dai's unusual words, Ouyang Qing was surprised and speechless.What's wrong with Dai Dai today, is she suffering from hysteria?
"..." Feng Rongruo's face darkened immediately when he heard this, the little thing didn't cut her for three days, and went to the house to expose the tiles, so he even asked him and Ouyang Qing to accompany her to have a drink.Calling him alone is barely acceptable, but calling the idiot cousin together, no, he doesn't accept it, he feels upset!
"Tang Xiaoniu, Tang Dai, do you really want to have a drink?" Feng Rongruo gritted her teeth and raised her voice with a dark face.

"Oh, my god, where is this? Oh, I'm dizzy, I'm dead." Tang Dai woke up instantly when she heard Feng Rongruo's voice. This place is not modern, but ancient. The two handsome men are ancient, not wearing Modern good-looking guy in ancient costume.

Muttering a word to Tang Dai, she sat up quickly, but couldn't find anyone to wipe her saliva, so she raised her sleeve and wiped the drool dripping from the corner of her mouth, then rubbed her sleeping face full of scars with her chubby little hands, and then He rubbed his confused eyes, then pretended to be stupid and looked up at the two people in front of him.

"Well, I was dreaming just now, what did I say? It doesn't matter what I said, how can the words in the dream be taken seriously!"

"You won't let the two of us go have a drink with you?" Feng Rongruo still had a dark face.

"No, no, how dare you? I was dreaming in front of me, dreaming!" Tang Dai quickly shook her head like a rattle, denying it.

Seeing her cousin bullying Tang Dai again, Ouyang Qing was not happy.

"Cousin, Dai Dai just had a dream, how can you be so serious? Dai Dai, ignore him, he is just like this, with no human touch or humor at all. Well, as you said, He has no sense of humor! He is cold all day long, as if someone owes him millions of taels of gold."

En, en, upon hearing this, Tang Dai nodded sympathetically, seeing that Feng Rongruo's face that had just calmed down turned dark again, Tang Dai immediately decided to hug Ouyang Qing's thick legs, stood up and quickly hid behind Ouyang Qing He went, pulled his sleeves, poked his head out, and looked at Feng Rongruo.

Seeing Tang Dai's claws grabbing Ouyang Qing's clothes, Feng Rongruo's face darkened even more, and his whole body began to feel cold, but that person was his cousin, so he couldn't suddenly find an excuse to slap him, and slapped him. He pursed his lips and stopped talking.

"Dai Dai, is there not much ice in the cellar?" Ouyang Qing pulled Tang Dai to sit on a chair far away from her cousin, let Tang Dai pull her clothes, and asked gently with the corners of her mouth curled up.

"Oh, yes, I'm dizzy from the heat and I don't care anymore. I took out all the ice to cool down. I guess the rest will be used up when I ship a batch of peppers tomorrow. What should I do?" Tang Dai put down Ouyang Qing's clothes .

"I know you don't think about the future. Hehe, are you so afraid of the heat? My cousin and I are fine!" Ouyang Qing smiled, the room was so cold, Dai Dai's forehead was still covered with fine sweat .

"Yeah, yeah, it's so hot that I'm dizzy. Huh? You two are not afraid of the heat? You didn't sweat in such long clothes." Tang Dai looked at the traces of sweat stains on Ouyang Qing and Feng Rongruo's clothes. No, I became surprised belatedly.

"The two of us practice martial arts, so they are more resistant to heat and cold. The problem with ice cubes has to be solved, but the weather outside is so hot, it's really hard to buy these ice cubes. It's too expensive to transport them from the far north." Ouyang Qing explained to Tang Dai that she was still worried about the ice.

After the dishes made of chili were launched in the Evergreen Restaurant all over the country, all restaurants, including the restaurant of the richest man in the country, the Jiang family, are no longer able to catch up with the Evergreen Restaurant. The income growth is not a little bit. If it stops now, the loss will be great Yes, no wonder Ouyang Qing was in a hurry.

Tang Dai also knew the importance of this, without ice, the peppers could not be transported far away from Chang'an County, seeing Ouyang Qing anxious, Tang Dai looked at Feng Rongruo, then at Ouyang Qing, she was in a battle between heaven and man , struggling whether to tell them about her ability to make ice.

In the past, she was worried that Ouyang Qing's power would not be enough to keep the interests of ice making, but what about adding Feng Rongruo?
"That, that,...Monster, Feng Shizi, if I tell you a secret, and I hope you can keep this secret, I wonder if you can do it?" Tang Dai decided to tell it after struggling in her heart.

"En? Tell me, the two of us will keep it a secret for you." Ouyang Qing and Feng Rongruo were startled when they saw Tang Dai's serious look, and then said in unison.

"If I said that I can make ice myself, you can guarantee it too! It means that now, on a hot day, I can make ice." After Tang Dai finished the first sentence, she added a second sentence of explanation.Fearing that the two of them might misunderstand, anyone can make ice in winter!
Feng Rongruo and Ouyang Qing looked at Tang Dai without daring to blink, feeling that they met a powerful little fairy, as if she waved her sleeves in the blink of an eye and flew away!Ice making on a hot day is unheard of, no wonder the chick said it was a secret and said it so cautiously!

At the same time, the two of them were also happy, what does this mean?It shows that the two of them are different in Tang Dai's heart!But, why are there two people, not him alone? A certain son muttered in his heart after he was happy. He had to think of a way to keep this idiot cousin away, so that the little things would see him less .

Poor Ouyang Qing, who didn't know that he had already signed up in front of his cousin, was starting to plot against him, and was about to drive him away.

"Yes, we can guarantee it." The two solemnly promised and nodded to Tang Dai at the same time.

Tang Dai breathed a sigh of relief, and said, "You two follow me!", and walked ahead to lead the way, leading the two of them to the cellar of their house.When they went down to the cellar, Feng Rongruo and the two saw a large vat that could be lifted by two people and put it on the cellar mouth. There was more than half of the water in the vat, and inside it was the ice brought by Ouyang Qing and the wild boar meat that had been stored. , Dry goods, etc. are piled up with most of the cellar.

Tang Dai went to a corner on her own, took out a bag, took a big copper basin, went to the big vat, filled the copper basin with water and put it in the water of the big vat.Open the bag and pour the white stuff inside into the jar.

After a long while, after Tang Dai poured about half of the contents of the bag, a miraculous scene appeared, the water in the copper basin began to freeze...

Ouyang Qing was dumbfounded, and Feng Rongruo also opened his eyes wide in surprise.Tang Dai put away her baggage, and waited for a while, and saw that the ice in the copper basin had become thick, and all the water in it had turned to ice.

"Take it out and have a look." Tang Dai instructed Ouyang Qing.

Ouyang Qing picked up the copper basin, looked at the basin full of ice, and grinned so much that he thought about it day and night, trying to solve the source of the ice cubes, but he didn't expect Dai Dai to solve it easily.

"What is this white one?" Feng Rongruo asked curiously, not looking at the ice in the basin, but staring at the bag in Tang Dai's hand, the white crystal.

"Saltpeter. Medicinal materials." Tang Dai briefly explained that it is only natural for her to understand medicinal materials when she studies medicine.As for the modern method of making ice with saltpeter, it is inconvenient for her to disclose it!
After hearing this, Ouyang Qing also took Tang Dai's bag, looked at the contents again and again, and said.

"Dai Dai, this thing will be gone when it's used up, where can I get so many of it?" Ouyang Qing was thinking about the long term.

"This can be used repeatedly, hey, you two take this tank of water out, let it dry, and it can be taken back for use again."

Feng Rongruo and the two listened to Tang Dai's instructions, and easily carried the big vat outside, put it there to dry, and took it out after drying.

The three of them left the cellar and were about to go back to Tang Dai's house. Mrs. Li, who came to the cellar to cook, couldn't help being surprised. What did her little girl bring two sons to the cellar for? He didn't ask anything about hello.

The three returned home. This time, the three of them cautiously went back to Tang Dai's study on the third floor to talk. Outside, Chu Mo and Xiaoqing were guarded, and no one was allowed to approach within a hundred steps.

"Dai Dai, I really don't know how your little head grew? You can think of such a clever way." Sitting on the couch in the study, Ouyang Qing looked at Tang Dai and sighed again.

"I also discovered this by accident. As you know, I often deal with these medicinal materials." Tang Dai said modestly.

"That is to say, as long as there is this white thing called saltpeter, no matter where, as long as there is water, it can be made into ice. This method can not only be used for commercial ice production, but also can be used for battlefields at certain times. Up, or other places." Feng Rongruo added a sentence calmly on his face, but the excitement in his words revealed that he was also excited in his heart.

"Yes, it can be said that Feng Shizi's command of soldiers and horses is more far-reaching than we thought. This is why I haven't explained it to Ouyang Qing, and I haven't explained it to you, so that you can keep it a secret." Tang Dai is serious With a frown, he took Feng Rongruo's words seriously.

"Cousin, Dai Dai, the three of us should join hands." Ouyang Qing said excitedly after hearing this.

"I think it's okay." Feng Rongruo continued.

"Okay, I also agree. It's just that if you want to make a large amount of ice, you need a lot of saltpeter. This requires the efforts of the evildoer and Feng Shizi. You can look for it in the whole country of Fengnan. If the opportunity is good, you can find a mountain with this kind of ice." The mine is fine. I see that there are such medicinal materials in the pharmacies on the market, but the quantity is small. You can follow the trace and source to find it, and you will be successful."

"For the profits made from the ice, the three of us will have the second and second layers, and my cousin will give the other four layers to the top. That's the safest way."

"Okay, okay, I have no objection." Feng Rongruo and Tang Dai understood who Ouyang Qing was referring to, they had no objection and agreed with one voice.

The matter was settled, Ouyang Qing and Feng Rongruo each gave orders, and started the first cooperation between the three of them.Tang Dai also let out a sigh of relief when the matter of using ice to store peppers was settled.

Time flies, Feng Rongruo is going to go back to the capital to report the situation to the emperor after watching the late rice grow stronger and stronger, and then return to Chang'an County when the late rice matures, but before leaving, she clearly explained to Tang Dai, After he left, Chu Shi and Xiao Die would go back to Tangjia Village to protect their home, and let Tang Dai contact him through Chu Shi if something happened.Thinking of the reality, although Tang Dai still repelled her in her heart, she did not dare to put her family's safety in danger, so she agreed.

Feng Rongruo has lived in Tang Dai's house for so long, and the two have gradually become familiar with each other, and there are fewer bickering moments, but occasionally Feng Rongruo's cold and vicious character makes Tang Dai angry, and she wants to chase away he goes.Now that I really have to leave, I feel a little bit reluctant, habit is really not a good thing, Tang Dai sighed inwardly!

As a result, the chili peppers gradually decreased. Ouyang Qing called Shi Xianyu back to take charge of the affairs here. He also followed Feng Rongruo back to the capital. He didn't go back to see the princess mother for a few months. To be cut by the princess mother, alas, Feng Rongruo sighed in her heart, and set off with her black-hearted cousin.

The two of them left, and the house suddenly became empty. Tang Dai, who was not used to it, saw that there were not many things to worry about in the field and the weather was getting colder, so she decided to bring up the matter of opening an embroidery shop for the second sister. schedule.

"Big sister, big girl, little girl, are you at home?" The three who were discussing about the store in the lobby looked up, and it turned out that it was the uncle and aunt who came.

"Auntie, Uncle, you are here, come in quickly." Tang Dai greeted the two of them.

Since the two learned Liangpi and noodles with Tang Dai, and sold them on the street according to the method taught by Tang Dai, the business has been improving day by day. In hot weather, the supply of cold noodles and cold noodle is in short supply. The life of the family is much better now than before.

The two were grateful to Tang Dai. They were busy with business and didn't have time to come, so they asked someone to send some vegetables to Tang Dai's house from time to time, and sometimes they gave some girls' things. Although the money was not much, it also showed their feelings. Thankfully, Tang Dai's impression of her aunt improved, so when she saw Li Mei and his wife, she warmly greeted them.

"Hey, it was hot a few days ago and the business was good, so I didn't have time to come and see you. It's getting colder today, and the business is not so good. I finally got free, so I came to see you." Li Mei explained as she walked into the hall.

"I know you are busy, but if you come today, you will delay your business for a day?" Mrs. Li answered, stood up and let the two sit down.

He tilted his head and told He Li to pour tea and bring some snacks.

The two sat down, chatted with Tang Dainiang about their business for a while, and thanked Tang Dai again and again.

Li Mei suddenly thought of the rumors she heard about the ancestral house of the big sister when she was doing business on the street. She didn't know if it was true or not. After thinking about it, she hurriedly asked Mrs. Li.

"Eldest sister, is there a niece in elder sister's husband's family who was sold to the county magistrate's house as a maid?"

(End of this chapter)