May chirping, June Jingyang, the temperature of the whole summer, after entering June, turned sharply.

The endless heat is swaying on the vast land of Shenzhou, and even in Shenjing City, which is located in the northwest, everyone wears short shirts, shakes fans vigorously, and queues up in front of the Yamen of the Ice Maker in Shenjing City, receiving ice cubes to cool off.

In fact, compared to the scorching heat that seems to be on top of the steamer, many people of Daxia prefer the cold winter, because the heat is too difficult, even if the general ingredients are immersed in a deep well, they will also rot if they cannot be stored for a few days, and at this time, the most sought-after item in the entire Daxia is ice.

The people took good care of the ice cubes in their hands and kept them for a longer time, otherwise at night, if there was no ice cubes to cool off, it would be like a stove, tossing and turning, and it would be difficult to sleep.

Fortunately, this summer, after the popularization of the teleportation stone statue tower, the ways for the ice division to obtain ice cubes in the thirty-six states have greatly increased, such as the southern part of Great Xia, the states with a huge gap in the demand for ice cubes, and can also use the scroll to teleport to the Tianmen Pass in the northwest snow field to transport a large amount of solid ice back, after all, in the northernmost part of that eternal night, the most important thing is the endless ice.

In fact, for the people living in the vast land of China, the improvement of happiness is very simple, and it is a very happy thing to receive more ice cubes every day on a hot summer day, and the home is cooler.

The Ministry of Industry of Great Xia is in charge of the vast land and mountains of Shenzhou, Tuntian, water conservancy and transportation, craftsman engineering, etc., so this Great Xia Ice Division is subordinate to the Ministry of Industry among the six departments.

Before the advent of the teleportation scroll, the work of this ice maker was not simple, it was necessary to use the natural low temperature in the winter to produce a huge amount of ice, and then transport it to the ice cellar located underground to store it, and then distribute it after the heat came.

The area of Shenjing City is huge, so there are more than 1,000 ice cellars used to store ice in the city, which are distributed in almost every corner of the entire Shenjing City.

Near noon, the dazzling scorching sun over the sky of Shenjing City poured extremely hot heat downward, accompanied by gusts of wind, sweeping wave after wave of rolling heat, and the Yamen of the Ice Maker Division located in the middle of Shenjing City was also an extremely busy scene.

A large number of ice-making priests wearing standard robes pulled carts with huge ice cubes from the underground ice cellars, and then pushed them along the long gently sloping aisle to the yamen room on the ground.

In the depths of the Yamen of the Ice Division, there was a huge room, in which a large number of carts from the underground ice cellar were neatly arranged, and then a voice that was old but full of air resounded throughout the room:

"Release!"

The roar fell, and several strong men in the room began to shake the mechanism wheel in their hands quickly, and then the rumbling sound of gear rotation suddenly sounded in the room, and then the huge gate knife hanging on the top of the room, sharp and staggered, suddenly fell, cutting the large ice cubes on the cart below into square Xiaoice blocks without any fancy eyes.

These small ice cubes will be distributed to their own people after a while, and of course, those from wealthy families can spend money to buy more ice cubes on top of the daily free quota to relieve the heat.

The cold light in the room deep in the yamen of the ice-making division was overflowing, and after the extremely sharp sluice knife cut the ice cubes, the deep old voice sounded again:

"Shut down!"

As this sound fell, the rumbling sound of the mechanism turning once again reverberated in the wide room, and in this turning sound, there was also the sound of the men cheering in unison, after all, it was undoubtedly too difficult to pull up such a heavy gate for the release of the gate.

The sound of the command to release and close the gate came from a burly old man standing with his fists in the room, although his hair was gray, but the muscles of his arms under the robe were bulging outward, proving that his strength was still not to be underestimated, and then the old man looked at the fixed gate knife slowly rising above his head with an embarrassed gaze, and continued to open his mouth and said:

"Take a break and have lunch first. ”

As soon as these words came out, the men who had been busy all morning not far away breathed a sigh of relief, and then jumped down from the platform together and walked towards the old man.

In this group of men, at the forefront was a young man who was six points similar to the old man, with the same burly body, and said as he walked:

"Grandpa, I don't remember how many ice cubes I cut out this morning, according to the share on weekdays, it should be enough, right?"

"It's still far away, and you don't want to think about what day it is. ”

A rough response came from Lao Tzu's mouth, and then he gradually took out bowls of rice from the lunch box on the side, and the voice continued to sound:

"Today is the summer solstice, the peak of the essence and yang of the year, and the whole summer has to gather together to celebrate, so this ice cube is naturally consumed quickly, and according to the experience of previous years, this year there will be a large number of people who buy ice cubes at their own expense, so after eating up lunch, you need to cut some more. ”

After the old man finished speaking, he reached out and took out the last dish from the food box, which was a large pot of hard-boiled eggs, and at this time, a whole table of dishes was already placed in front of everyone, which was extremely rich.

Then the young man who slowly came to the table had his eyes lit up, and a voice with a hint of excitement came out:

"Today's meal is a little too rich, and this basket full of eggs is appetizing to look at. ”

The young man who spoke, as the grandson of the old man, although he was not very old, was full of muscles, thick eyebrows and big eyes full of masculinity, and at this time, because he had just finished his work, even in this extremely cool ice cellar, he was still sweating.

However, the young man was thick and thin, and after walking quickly to the dining table, he stretched out his hand to help the old man set up the dishes and chopsticks, and then the young and thick voice continued to sound:

"Grandpa, I'm going to eat five of his eggs later. ”

"Don't choke on your kid, today's summer solstice, according to our Daxia customs, is to rest and take a holiday, but you also know that recently is the busiest day of our ice making division, so this table full of meals was specially ordered by the queen mother in the White Emperor's Palace to treat us. ”

"Since it's my mother's reward, then I must eat more. ”

The young man smiled, and then, under the laughter of the men around him, he slipped open an egg, threw it into his mouth, and chewed it carefully.

And while the officials of the Ice Maker Division were having lunch in full swing, a young man in a short shirt slowly walked outside the yamen of the Ice Maker Division in the central part of Shenjing City.

This young man's figure was about half a head taller than the rest of the Great Xia people, his body was well-proportioned, his face was exquisite, especially his skin, which was as white as snow, and even more transparent than most of the girls in Shenjing City.

I saw that when he walked, the corners of his mouth were slightly raised as if he was smiling, with an extremely charming atmosphere, so that the pedestrians passing by on both sides all looked back and said secretly:

"What a handsome young man. ”