Chapter 33: The Ice Cellar

stayed in the inn for three days, in order not to arouse suspicion, Lu Jiu began to pack his things early in the morning and prepare to go home.

It's just that instead of going back to the apartment where the former lived in, he went to the Lu family's ancestral house.

It was because the weasel was still in Lu Jiu's hands, and Yin Yue was particularly concerned about helping Lu Jiu buy back the ancestral house, and after returning to the Peony Building yesterday, he immediately asked people to go to the money village to ask.

It turned out that Lu Jiu's decision to let Yin Yue come forward to buy a house was quite correct, and the latter's special status in Qingding City doomed her to have a natural advantage when dealing with this kind of thing.

Especially after she specially asked her maid to tell the person in charge of the auction of the Lu family's ancestral house in Qianzhuang that when the matter would be resolved, and when he would be able to play in the Peony Building for free for two nights, the review and other cumbersome procedures that should have been carried out immediately at a very fast speed under the impetus of someone's restless heart.

So early this morning, Yin Yue asked someone to go to the inn to send a message to Lu Jiu, saying that the purchase of the Lu family's ancestral house had been negotiated with Qian Zhuang in advance, and she would go to Qian Zhuang to sign the document at about 9 o'clock in the morning, so that Lu Jiu would wait for her at the restaurant outside Qian Zhuang first, and it would be convenient for the handover at that time.

Lu Jiu naturally had no reason to refuse, and got into the car with a bamboo cage containing a weasel and went to the money village in Qingding City.

With this "popular little flower" in Qingding City coming out in person, the whole process was unexpectedly smooth.

It only took more than half an hour in the money bank, and Yin Yue went out with a smile on her face under the congratulations of the money village staff.

The most critical mortgage deed is in hand, and the rest is simple, the two first found a place nearby to make a handover, Lu Jiu paid 3 gold leaves to also pay about the weasel's bamboo cage, Yin Yue originally wanted to reduce the price for Lu Jiu, but he decisively refused.

Lu Jiu didn't want to owe the other party a favor for some money.

Holding the title deed in his hand, Lu Jiu did not rush to the ancestral house, but first went back to the inn where he stayed last night, he did not return the room here, and it was used to store the two boxes and bamboo cages for the time being.

Although according to Lu Jiu's idea, the sooner he moves into the ancestral house, the better, but after thinking about it, it is not so easy to actually operate.

On the one hand, because the house is uninhabited all year round, even if the money village regularly asks someone to clean it, it has only done superficial work, and each room still needs to be further tidied up.

On the other hand, the clothes and important furniture and other things in the apartment where the predecessor lived had to be moved here, no matter how strong Lu Jiu's strength was, it was impossible to finish it in one trip, so he had to find a helper, and these important things still couldn't be taken back until the ancestral house was really sorted out.

After leaving the inn, he immediately returned to the apartment where he lived in front of him, found Uncle Zhao's family, who were also resting, and without saying a word, the enthusiastic couple took Xiao Wanhua to join Lu Jiu's moving operation, and temporarily took care of helping him return to the family's things.

After that, Lu Jiu found Zhou Ze non-stop, not only dragged others to help, but also asked him to drive the family's car out as a transportation tool.

With the addition of a car for five people, the efficiency of moving is naturally a notch higher than that of Lu Jiu alone, and all the things in the apartment are transported to the door of the house in two round-trips, and the only thing left is sorting and cleaning.

One of the Zhao couple has strength, and the other is a housewife for more than ten years, and they are undoubtedly handy for the work of tidying up the room, plus Lu Jiu and Zhou Ze, two new forces, as for Xiao Wanhua, who can't do hard work, is responsible for weeding in the yard with a small hoe, and from time to time grabs two grasshoppers and comes back to offer treasures.

The whole moving project went very smoothly.

Until Zhou Ze began to tidy up the utility room.

"Lu Jiu, there seems to be a cellar in your utility room. ”

With Zhou Ze's exclamation, Lu Jiu, who was cleaning the aisle on the second floor, poked his head out of the window.

There is indeed a cellar in the Lu family's ancestral house, which used to store vegetables grown in the backyard garden and some wine jars.

"That's where the older generation of my family used to store things, and I don't think I'll need it in the future, so you don't have to worry about it. ”

Standing at the window and shouting, Lu Jiu didn't expect Zhou Ze to go down to clean the cellar.

Who knew that it didn't take long for Zhou Ze to trot over, still holding something in his hand, and when he arrived downstairs to Lu Jiu, he raised his head and shouted, "Show you a baby!"

A translucent ice crystal was dripping from his hand.

......

Two large vats or basins about a foot high and nearly a meter in diameter are placed inside a copper kettle that is only one-third the size of the former.

Lu Jiu and the others were attracted by the ice in Zhou Ze's hand, and the first thing they saw when they followed him down the cellar was these things.

When you get closer, you can see that the tank is full of water, and the copper kettle is a large chunk of ice.

"I have seen the saltpeter ice making method many times in the factory, and the raw material only needs one bag of saltpeter...... Got it. ”

Uncle Zhao is a man who has been working in the factory all the year round, just by looking at the things in the cellar, he understood what it was for, turned around and walked a few steps against the cellar wall, and quickly took out a bag of white crystals from the corner.

"When I entered your utility room just now, I saw that the edge of the cellar was very clean, and I originally wanted to come down to see if someone had stored wine here, but now it seems that someone is using your cellar as an ice cellar. ”

The saltpeter ice-making method is not a mysterious process, Zhou Ze obviously knew that he handed the half-melted ice in his hand to Xiao Wanhua, who was tiptoeing to try to dig out the ice cubes in the copper kettle next to him, and turned his head to stare at him, and then continued,

"Maybe the people in the money bank think that this day is going to heat up soon, and they plan to make a fortune from this, but this amount is not large, and it may not be for their own use. ”

"Perhaps. ”

Lu Jiu stood on the edge of the vat, also holding a piece of ice in his hand and looking at it, but the expression on his face was a little strange.

In fact, from the moment he walked into the cellar just now, Lu Jiu felt that something was wrong.

It's not that there is something here that confuses him, just like Uncle Zhao said, the saltpeter ice making method is very common, the problem is the low temperature environment in this cellar and the ice cubes in his hand.

Lu Jiu suddenly found that he was enjoying this low temperature very much......

This feeling is not the comfort of walking into an air-conditioned room in summer, I have to make an analogy, it is more like the freedom of a tiger entering the mountains and forests and a fish diving into a deep stream.

It's like he was born to be in this kind of place!

The best proof of this is that as the time spent in the ice cellar gradually increased, Lu Jiu began to vaguely feel the flow of blood in his body, different from the previous irritability, this time the blood flow was very soothing, so that he had to spend some of his energy to suppress the moans in his throat.

Obviously, it is not Lu Jiu who really likes the current environment, but the demon spirit or evolution gene in his body!

"It's better to ask the people in the bank, and if they want to move their things as soon as possible, it will save you more trouble. ”

Lu Jiuzheng was surprised by the special reaction of his body, and Zhao Xianzong on the other side put down the saltpeter bag, looked at the copper cauldron, and spoke.

"Well, I'll go ask them, Zhou Ze, please give me a ride. ”

Speaking from his heart, Lu Jiu wanted to leave these things behind, after all, the feedback from the body was here, but he couldn't say anything in front of so many people.