Gu Zi'an is an out-and-out mortal.

His father, his father's father, his grandfather's father, and his grandfather's grandfather were all mortals, and they all worked in Qiao's house in Tinghu Town.

Tinghu Town is located on the west side of Ruyi Lake in Dalianchi, Qizhu, at the foot of the Daniujiao Volcano.

And the Qiao family, in the last few hundred years, has always been the largest family in Tinghu Town.

Because their family is the only family in the town that has a master of life and void.

And there are two more in the family.

A master of life and void, in the Lotus City of Lotus Lake, can only be regarded as a low-level character, and he is slightly better than ordinary mortals.

However, if you are willing to give up the desire to climb the realm and return to the village or town where you were born, you can actually live a very nourishing life.

That's how the Qiao family is.

Qiao Fengjian, the head of the Qiao family, is a master of the sixth layer of real life, and there is also a doorman Chu Chenge who is a third-layer person.

Ruyi Lake was divided by the Ruyi Alliance composed of many small forces, and Qiao Fengjian and Chu Chenge were acting as minions for one of the small forces named Qinghong Society.

And Qinghong will control the shore of Ruyi Lake for nearly a mile.

The shore of Ruyi Lake is more than 500 miles away, and it is just a mile, which is simply not worth mentioning sesame mung beans.

But it is also the shore of this district that separates the Qinghong Society from those small forces that cannot be ranked.

It has mastered the Qinghong Society on the shore of the lake, but it has enough control over the territory of the entire two volcanoes on the west side of the lakeshore.

They are the Big Horn Volcano and the Little Cow Horn Volcano.

And Tinghu Town, where Qiao's family is located, is just an ordinary one among dozens of villages and towns near the Big Niujiao Volcano.

Although it is shivering to look at the shore of the lake for a mile, it means that the Qinghong Society has the right to enter the Ruyi Lake on the night of the full moon and receive the baptism of the mysterious star power, which also means that they have the right to obtain the fish and other aquatic products that have been baptized by the star power for a long time within the waters under their control.

These things may not be very valuable in Qizhu Lianchi, but as long as they are sold, a little north, less than a hundred miles, the price of these goods will immediately double.

The annual benefits that this one-mile lakeshore alone can bring to the Qinghong Society are comparable to the income brought by the two entire volcanoes and hundreds of villages and towns under their control.

The value of the lakeshore can be seen.

Although Gu Zi'an is a mortal through and through, he is fortunate that he always has the opportunity to go to Ruyi Lake, which many people need to spend a lot of yuan liquid to approach.

Because he is the only one in the Qiao family.

Ling Ren, as the name suggests, Ling Bing, the person who picks ice.

But Gu Zi'an will not only meet this.

He not only collects ice, but also makes ice, hides ice, shaves ice, makes ice drinks, and eats ice.

These skills are passed down from the ancestors, generation after generation, accumulated a lot of ice-making experience, although in the Qiao family is just a rough force, but every year, because of this craft, will earn a comparison

Others are three or five times more than three or five times the amount of silver.

The reason why he has the opportunity to come to Ruyi Lake without spending Yuan Liquid is because Qinghonghui, the top boss, in addition to collecting a certain amount of protection money from the villages and towns under the two volcanoes of Da Niu Jiao and Xiao Niu Jiao on time, will also give certain benefits to those families who serve them and serve them as minions at a fixed time every year.

And the benefit they distributed to each family was the water in the Ruyi Lake.

And the person who went to get the water for the Qiao family was not the side, it was him, Gu Zi'an, who was a mortal.

This is the rule of the Qinghong Society, the person who takes the water needs to be a mortal who cannot cultivate to the blood condensation realm.

The reason is also very simple, although there are people watching when they are fetching water by the lake, but there are people who have coagulation and above cultivation, there are certain ways to secretly get more lake water, which is something that the Qinghong Society, and even the major forces of the entire Ruyi Lake are unwilling to accept. So not only the Qinghong Society, but when everyone distributed lake water to their subordinate forces, the people who came to fetch water were all mortals.

As for the safety of whether mortals can go back after fetching water, on the contrary, there is not much need to be considered, because there are not many places under their control, the road is short, and the time to walk naturally is short, so the danger is small.

Second, there are only a few roads leading to the lake, and there are dark whistles of the Qinghong Society along the way, unless the dark whistle dies, there will be basically no problems for people who take water.

But if the outposts are really dead, then it doesn't matter if the people who fetch the water live or die, or whether the water from the lake can be returned.

Both large and small Niujiao Mountains are active volcanoes that erupt from time to time, and even when they are not erupting, they will occasionally erupt into the head with a few fires, and the surrounding environment is very hot.

At this time, it is close to the beginning of winter, but in Tinghu Town at the foot of the mountain, the temperature is higher than that of summer in ordinary places.

Not to mention mortals, as long as the cultivation does not exceed the Yuan Dan, there will not be much difference in the induction of the surrounding heat.

Although the heat tolerance of blood coagulation is stronger than that of ordinary mortals, they will also feel uncomfortable when the temperature is high.

Therefore, it is very important to be a bully like Gu Zi'an.

What a pleasure it is to be able to get ice cubes in such a hot place.

The weather around Ruyi Lake is hot, except for the lake supported by star power, the rest of the places are hot to death, and the existence of Ling Ren is very chicken, because it rains all year round, and there is no place to find snow, let alone large chunks of ice.

If you want to leave the volcanoes of Qizhulianchi and go out to get ice, then when you come back, you will have already melted by the heat of the volcano by the ice cubes over the mountains and mountains.

Therefore, in the entire Tinghu Town, for many years, there is only Gu Zi'an's lineage, who has been doing this bullying thing all year round.

It's not that he, Gu Zi'an, is different and has any talent for making ice, it's just that his ancestor discovered by chance that saltpeter will absorb heat when it encounters water, if there are many of them, even in the hot summer

, and can easily make ice cubes.

So, the ancestor dug a deep cellar under his yard, and next to the cellar was a well.

The ancestor spent some money to buy a lot of perlite with excellent thermal insulation, and together with the soil, all the floors and walls of the cellar were re-paved.

In this way, the heat from the ground and the surroundings is easily isolated, and the cold air in the cellar is not easily dissipated.

After that, things are simple.

Take water from the well, make ice from saltpeter, hide the ice in the cellar, take out the saltpeter and dry it, and then it can be reused.

This craft alone has fed Gu Zi'an and his family for several generations.

(End of this chapter) I want to talk about "One Inch of Mountains and Rivers" with more like-minded people, pay attention to "excellent reading literature" on WeChat, talk about life, and find confidants~