The four of them hurried slowly, and the sky was still unceremoniously darkened halfway through them. Fortunately, it is not too far from home, Wang Shoucang and Wang Shouxin are still familiar, with the reflection of the snow, they also groped their way home, and when they got home, it was almost time. All of them were wolves, and although there was a snow-colored reflection, the light was too faint to see the road clearly. The road covered by snow could not be judged, and before they could take three or two steps, they would fall down, causing several people to have snow and mud on their bodies, and there was no dry and clean place on their bodies.

The grandfather at home did not sleep, he had been anxiously waiting for them to come back, because this situation was not suitable for sending people out to look for him, so he could only scratch his heart at home with the cat. Seeing that they finally came back safely, no matter what happened to them, grandpa could happily kowtow to God and thank him.

The hot water is also boiled a long time ago and put in a pot to warm over low heat, and the steamed buns, vegetables, and broth are served in a basin and are also warmed over low heat in the largest pot. In this way, the women of the family do not need to get up and cook food, boil hot water, etc., because they come back, and they can still sleep soundly.

After breakfast the next morning, Xiaohu told the children to be obedient and not to run around. He also asked Wang Shoucang to take him and a few girls with good needlework to find Aunt Shi, and let her start to set up the weaving room here.

Xiaohu struggled to shuttle back and forth in the ice and snow of the Northland, cursing and complaining about the freezing bad weather here every time he slid to it. Erya was in a hurry at home, hoping that it would snow. Bring the temperature down to below zero to freeze Chengdù, so that the fish that the old general Qin wants can be sent to the old general all the way while they are frozen. But now in this weather, she can only sigh heavily. I thought it would be nice to buy enough saltpeter to make ice.

In fact, it has been a long time since General Qin sent a message to her to send ducks and fish, and when she received the letter, Erya began to ask Zhao Laishu of the third group to organize those who originally weaved fish breeding boxes to make up bamboo cages specially used for transporting live chickens and ducks. She herself figured out how to make the fish not taste bad or stink when it was sent to General Qin, and it had to be fresh fish.

After the bamboo cage of the duck was made, he asked Wu Fenggang to send seven or eight specially trained students and a dozen or so horse-drawn carriages to the north first, and let Daman find someone over there to clean up the ducks, and then salt the ducks with the materials that Wu Fenggang brought over to pickle the ducks, and directly notify General Qin to send someone to take them back.

She's thinking about waiting. When it snows and freezes, you can start transporting the fish. It was freezing weather all the way. I believe that when it is transported to General Qin, this fish must still be fresh.

Who knew that the first snow of this year was delayed, and Erya had to use the most expensive method to buy saltpeter for artificial ice-making. She just did the math. The money from selling the fish is simply not enough to buy half the saltpeter. But what can be done? This first step is not opened. In the future, the aquaculture, aquaculture, and animal husbandry industries will all enter the predicament of stagnation and inability to expand. As long as the frozen meat can be successfully preserved and transported, then the families and livestock in their area can be raised with confidence, and they don't have to worry about having nowhere to sell and handle them cheaply, which will discourage their enthusiasm for production and breeding.

But even buying saltpeter here is not a simple matter, this saltpeter is not as much as you want to buy! This is still the help of Zhao's shopkeeper, the east and the west are together, and almost all the places in the area where saltpeter can be bought have been bought. I bought all the amount that Er Ya wanted.

Erya bought enough saltpeter before he dared to go to the kiln to order a rectangular tile pot specially used for transportation. When the tile pot is ready, the temperature has dropped a lot. Even if it doesn't snow, it is estimated that the ice will not melt lightly. If you get to the north, where it's snowing and icing, and the temperature is below freezing, you don't have to worry.

When she was carefully making ice with saltpeter, several children had to look around, and when Er Ya put saltpeter, she was very careful. I am afraid that it will cause the water to boil and hurt the child if it is released too quickly. When the children saw that half of the water in the clay pot in the center of the water gradually turned into ice, they clapped their palms excitedly and picked them up, Wen Yue shouted: "Mother! Look, there's really ice! ”

Wen Chao thought far, he asked his mother: "Mother! Can you do this on a hot day? ”

The second girl replied without raising her head: "Yes! Next summer, if you want to eat ice, just tell Sù Niang, and Niang will make you a bean paste popsicle to eat, which is great! ”

Qingzhu also followed: "Auntie! Can I eat it too? I really want to eat it too! ”

"Absolutely! Wen Chao and Wen Yue can eat what you can eat, you can eat it too! ”

Erya watched the water in the basin turn into ice, and the clay pot was not broken by the ice, so she knew that she had succeeded. After the success of ice making, she did not rush to catch the fish, but asked Zhao Laishu to organize people to weave bamboo covers that would protect the tile pot from being damaged due to the bumps in the road and play a buffering role.

After waiting for this time, the third uncle finally came back with the convoy. Seeing his smug and arrogant smile, I knew that the harvest of this trip must be not small.

In the hall, the grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, second and other Wang family members were crowded, and Wang Shoucheng said novelty: "Oops! It was really after listening to my nephew and daughter-in-law that I would go to those places on the beach. The place I used to go to was a seaside, and the real sea is beautiful! As far as the eye can see, the color is blue. Sometimes the water surface is calm and beautiful tight, and sometimes the waves rise higher than the two roofs of our house, which scares people to death. In one day the sea rose up and down, and fell and rose again, as if it were alive. I can't tell how much fruit there is, and I eat it all year round. It's a pity that I can't hold those fruits, otherwise I would have been able to bring back some of them for everyone to be rare.

This time I went to a village closer to the sea, and stayed for a long time, looking for things that my niece and daughter-in-law wanted. It made me bargain."

This trip to the seaside of Uncle Wang was indeed a big bargain. In the past, when he followed Yang Chengwu to the south, he went directly to the dock. Sell what you bring to the maritime merchants who are waiting to buy it at the docks, and then bring back what you can find in the hands of those people to make a difference. Drop some hard-earned money.

After that, he made a few trips to the south alone, and he still followed the old way, so he was disappointed every time he came back to Erya to see his pitiful and worthless things.

Erya always thought that the maritime business at that time was not developed enough, and some seafood did not have a chance to circulate. Later, it was only through small talk that Uncle Wang and the others had never really been to the seaside market and the seaside house. On the one hand, they did not dare to walk around because of the language barrier, and on the other hand, they also listened to the rumors of others that the seaside was inhabited by pirates who killed people without blinking. If you get too close to them, you will be killed.

Erya couldn't cry or laugh, so she had to borrow what she wanted. asked the third uncle to go to the beach to inquire nearby, and the third uncle Wang had to enter the seaside people's homes.

Once they get close to the sea, they will benefit, and they will stay long enough to stay just past the fishermen's off-sea. It is possible to go into the sea for operations. Fishing, touching mussels, seaweed, corals. Some Uncle Wang had never seen them before, and some he had never had a chance to get started with them, and he couldn't afford to buy them.

This time, Uncle Wang brought enough silver, it was because of the things that Erya wanted, and I hoped that after the third uncle inquired, if he could buy it back, he would buy it back directly, so he gave enough spare silver. There were several things he inquired about, but none of them could be bought immediately, and the spare money was used by the third uncle to buy the things that the fishermen had fished from the sea.

No one grabbed these things from Uncle Wang. Although he is not very good at the price, he has not suffered a loss. On the contrary, because the fishermen came according to the market price, he bargained a lot. Fishermen used to sell their catches at the seafood market at the end of the year. At the end of the year, there were few foreign merchants in the market, and there were many local fishermen, which caused the disadvantage of having more goods and cheaper prices. Now there are foreign merchants who come directly to get the goods, which is also a good thing for these fishermen, who only sell their things to Uncle Wang at a slight point higher than the seafood market.

After eating enough seaside fruits and aquatic products, Uncle Wang was loaded with pearls, corals, shells, sun-dried kelp, dried seaweed, dried jellyfish, and dried sea stone flowers, some of which he didn't even know Erya.

Fruits include coconut and grapefruit. When he took the fruit out of the car, the third uncle said: "It's better than the particularly delicious fruit over there, but I can't bring it back, but it's a pity that I died." Just these two things they said they could put for a long time before I dared to pull them home. ”

The third uncle handed over all these things to Erya, and Erya accepted them politely. A lot of sea vegetables and fruits are left behind, and their own and uncle, second uncle, mother's family, uncle's family, and the children in the town also have to try it, and the rest are given to the grandfather, who will be assigned to each family, whether more or less, it has nothing to do with the second child.

As for the coral, Erya chose a coral tree that had been formed, like a welcoming pine, and gave it to her grandfather, and she put away the rest.

The pearls were of different sizes, but there was one of the largest ones, about the size of a pigeon's egg, and the purchase price was one hundred and twenty taels of silver. The third uncle was a little trembling, for fear that it would be expensive. Erya shook her head and said with a smile: "This price is not expensive, I think it is worth it." ”

There are many of them, there are three big boxes, and a total of one hundred taels of silver was spent. There were more small ones that were a little bigger than a grain of rice, and there were twelve boxes in them, and the boxes were all full. Erya held a box of open ones, which contained white, dividends and light ink, and thought about how to use them to maximize their value. The third uncle saw the second girl frowning and looking at Xiao Pearl, and thought she was unhappy, so he hurriedly explained: "Nephew and daughter-in-law! This is really cheap and like giving it away for free, so I bought it ruthlessly. At that time, the fishermen saw that I was willing to give the silver for the pearls before I bought them, so they took out all these small pearls that could not be sold before, saying that I could take them if I gave some money. However, I thought that I would go over to do business with them next year, so I might as well give them more money and give them a favor, so I gave them thirty taels of silver to buy it. I didn't buy it for nothing! ”

Erya shook her head and comforted Third Uncle Wang: "Third Uncle! Although you let go of things, you know more than I do when you run around for a long time, and you only make your own decisions about what you do outside. I was just thinking about how to use these little pearls, it is obviously impossible to wear necklaces, and if they are used on headwear, earrings, and clothes, how to design these things so that they can be sold for a higher price.

Third uncle, you relax, I must have a way to let these useless little pearls in the eyes of others that you buy back with thirty taels of silver, and be able to earn three thousand taels or more of silver. (To be continued......)