Chapter 54: New Business
"Poof!" The spatula fell onto the stove, rebounded in the other direction, and landed at Pan Erniang's feet. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
"You...!" Pan Erniang didn't know what to say about her husband, and from getting up in the morning to now, her mind was not here at all. She picked up the spatula and put it in the sink, urging Shu Lao Er to leave, the more she helped, the more she kept adding to the mess, it was better for me to fix it myself!
"It's okay, I'll wash it..."Shu Lao Er came back to his senses and planned to wash the dirty dishes.
"No need, no need," before her husband could finish speaking, Pan Erniang hurriedly waved her hand, "You go out and rest, there are no guests here, I am busy to win." ”
"Then, you can get it first." Shu Lao Er didn't force it anymore, and returned to the tent a little absent-mindedly.
Today is the day of his daughter's college exam, Shu Lao Er feels a hundred times more nervous than his own exam that year, since last night, the Ding family's family Ding came to report the good news, saying that Qingqing and Xiaobao have successfully passed the government exam, and his heartbeat has not slowed down.
Huh~~~ Shu Lao Er told himself to relax, his daughter is still young, can she really be so serious in the exam? This children's test is just to let the girl "practice her hands", even if she can't pass the test, it's good to have a long insight.
When Shu Lao Er thought of this, he felt that his internal organs had returned, he picked up the pen and recorded the loss this morning: bowls, two; Meat burned, seven...
Xiaobao, who returned to the city, looked extremely relaxed (noisy), he and Thirteen Mingyu galloped all the way and ran to the county seat in one go.
"Ha, Lao Tzu Ding Xicheng is back again!" Xiaobao pinched his waist and yelled on his horse.
Qinglan, who was eating cherries in the carriage, heard this, and accidentally sprayed the kernel into Mr. Ji's collar, and she looked at her apologetically, and Mr. Ji kept a (extremely unhappy) back of her head and entered the inner room of the carriage.
Qinglan endured internal injuries, hahahaha, why is this line so familiar!
This year's summer seems to have come very early, and it has not yet entered May, and Xiaobao feels that the ghost weather is almost hot and out of breath.
There are ice basins in the four corners of the classroom in Tingxiang Academy, but despite this, Xiaobao and Thirteen are still sweating like rain, and they keep fanning.
"It's hot..."Xiaobao lay on the table, greedy for that little bit of coolness, and almost stuck out his tongue.
"The mind is calm and naturally cool." Since Qinglan was sick last time, even in the hot summer, her body was cold, Pan Sanniang found it by chance, and she slept with her at noon.
At this time, the wind becomes a disadvantage - the wind is too hot.
Thirteen was sweaty, sitting motionless, he was particularly afraid of the heat, so he slept on the couch in the garden for the past few days.
Mingyu couldn't open his eyes a little, looking at those ice basins greedily, how good it would be if this ice could be eaten.
"What did you say?" Qinglan heard her brother muttering to herself, but she didn't hear what he was muttering.
"Huh?" Mingyu reacted and said, "If only that ice could be eaten..."After speaking, he touched his head embarrassedly, those ice were snow water from last winter, and if you eat it, you will get sick.
Hey! Why didn't you think of it? Qinglan was overjoyed, "Mingyu, we're going to get rich!" “
The three boys looked at the elated Qinglan indifferently, this kid can't be hot and confused...
"Xiaobao!" Qinglan jumped to Xiaobao's table, and the latter looked at her vigilantly, really frightened by Qinglan's pranks from time to time.
"You still have a lot of ice in your house!" Last winter, there was a lot of snow in Weixian, and Mrs. Ding asked the family to prepare more ice, "I'm afraid it will be hot in summer." “
Unexpectedly, his grandfather made a prophecy, if it weren't for the family sending ice every day, he wouldn't be able to live!
"Yes, what do you want to do?" It won't be selling ice all over the street, if my dad knew, he would have to kill me!
"I'm going to make you guys ready!" Qinglan picked up her school bag, she was going out to buy something.
"Sister, class is coming soon!" Mingyu sat up and reminded.
"Can't go far!" Qinglan ran away without looking back.
Thirteen glanced at the white yard, the cracks in the bark of the trees under the scorching sun, "It's not too hot!" ”
(I am the dividing line of the author's painstaking meditation for the monthly pass)
It was already around nine o'clock in the evening, and Shu Lao Er took a homemade whisk and was bored in the store to fight mosquitoes and flies. After only two waves, the underwear on his body was soaked with sweat, and the shower just now was washed in vain.
Hearing the sound of horses' hooves, he walked quickly to the door to look, and saw that it was not a carriage, and was a little anxious in his heart, these two children, why haven't they come back so late!
Although the descendants of the Ding family have already come to Xin'er for a while, saying that the two children have gone to the Ding Mansion, there is no need to worry, but... Shu Lao Er took out his pocket watch again, and a minute passed from when he looked at it just now.
Aren't you too relaxed about your children? Shu Lao Er blamed himself for being too indulgent to the two children, even if he was admitted to Xiucai, he was only a nine-year-old child!
Shu Lao Er couldn't help but think that when he was nine years old, he could pick a flat shoulder of water, but his body was weak and his bones were soft, and every time he finished picking up water, a piece of his backbone would protrude. At this time, grandma always took advantage of his inattention and pressed him back with "Teng". Now that life is better, I am a little more spoiled with my children...
"Daddy!" Shu Laoer, who was immersed in memories, didn't notice it for a while, until his daughter suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Daddy." Mingyu stood side by side next to his sister, looking at Shu Laoer's eyes shining.
"Why did you two come back so late!" Shu Lao Er sank, especially Qinglan, a girl, how could she...
"Daddy!" Qinglan interrupted his father, "We have a great deal to discuss with you. “
"I'm not allowed to come back so late in the future, don't you hear it!" Shu Lao Er was unmoved.
"Dad~~~" Qinglan really has nothing to do with her father, her mind is too detailed, you see mother, she is sleeping at this time, but now is not the time to discuss this.
"What's the matter?" Shu Lao Er still had a tiger face.
"Dad, I made something new," she grabbed Mingyu's hand, "We want to sell it on vacation!" ”
The two children looked excited, and said that they were going to do something, Shu Lao Er had a headache, is it so easy to do business, and besides, "Your main task now is to study!" ”
"We won't delay our studies, really, Dad," Mingyu looked at Shu Lao Er pleadingly, and made an oath with one hand, "I promise!" ”
"What's new?" It's not going to be food again, is it? Shu Lao Er felt that his daughter had brought her greatest enthusiasm and talent into "eating".
"Confidential!" Qinglan winked at Daddy slyly, revealing a look that you know.
Forget it, just let the children relax, Shu Lao Er doesn't ask anymore, when the girl says the word "confidential", it is inseparable from the two boys of the Ding family.
"Go take a shower! The water is warm on the stove. ”
"Yes, Daddy!" Qinglan walked briskly to the kitchen.
"Dad..."The rest of Mingyu didn't dare to look at Shu Laoer's face with a weak heart, and his father told him to take care of his sister and not to concentrate on research.
"Follow your sister well." Shu Lao Er told me that I was not at ease, the main thing I was worried about was my daughter, how to read very cleverly, and I was stupid in other things!
"Yes!" Mingyu puffed up his chest, put his right hand at the corner of his forehead, and made a gesture that his sister taught yessir.
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"Okay?"
At the end of the month, she and her younger brother were busy with the things in the store, and immediately came to Ding's house, scanning Xiaobao and Thirteen's faces back and forth with big eyes.
The two of them pretended to be deep and did not say a word.
In fact, my heart has long been happy, not only is it good, it is simply amazing!
"Brother Xiaobao..."Mingyu was about to ask again, but was interrupted by Xiaobao's sudden laughter, and he immediately understood that their experiment was successful!
"Show me!" Qinglan can't wait to accept the results, it's a silver smash of white flowers!
The four of them walked quickly to the rockery, not bothering to wear thick cotton jackets.
The Ding family's storage room is at the bottom of the artificial lake in the center of the garden, with a total of three floors, and the stairs from the rockery go down, passing through the granary and vegetable cellar, and the bottom layer is the ice cellar, which is more than ten meters deep from the ground.
Pushing open the door, a cold mist mixed with cold wind rushed towards him, Qinglan hurriedly helped Mingyu wipe the sweat on his forehead, afraid that the cold air would stimulate him.
This ice cellar is one hundred and ten square meters, and a thick layer of ice bricks is built around it, these ice bricks are old, Xiaobao said that he is older than him.
There are dozens of rows of ice brick walls in the house, and the Ding family will freeze a lot of ice on the day of March 9 every year, and the mold is decades old, square and cornered, and the length, width and height are all one foot. Once the ice cube is frozen, move it to the ice cellar for the next summer.
It was too hot to store anything, and there was a museum shelf at the door of the ice cellar with some fish, meat and fruit.
"What's going on?" Xiaobao spit out a mouthful of white mist, seeing Qinglan staring at the porcelain bowl for a long time, he was a little puzzled, he had eaten with Thirteen just now, and it tasted very good!
"Jelly is too sincere." Qinglan picked up a silver spoon and poked it hard at the frozen object, but it was too hard to freeze, and the ice did not change at all, but the silver spoon was slightly bent.
"Shouldn't it be like this?"
Xiaobao and Thirteen glanced at each other, they had just knocked down a whole lump and smashed it to eat.
"It should be soft." Qinglan was a little frustrated, the dream of ice cream was not so easy to realize.
"Can't you eat hard? Doesn't it soften if it melts? "Mingyu can't understand it, and he doesn't know what state this thing is what his sister wants.
"It's not bad to be hard." Thirteen opened his mouth to reassure, he still doesn't like to eat soft food.
No refrigeration, only freezing, no ice cream powder, no marshmallows, milk is not skimmed...... Qinglan filtered the steps of making ice cream one by one, and it seemed that she had to settle for the next best thing.
But if there is no plastic, what can be used to make molds?
"Let's go up..."Xiao Bao shuddered and proposed, it was too cold down there.
Qinglan took the "failed product" and planned to let a few picky Ding family ladies taste it, and it would be good to give advice.
"My teeth!" Ding Si was embarrassed to lick with his tongue like a younger brother, but the first bite was too fierce, and his teeth hurt.
Ding Liu, who learned Xiaobao to lick the ice cream, stuck his tongue to it because he hadn't mastered the rhythm yet.
Although there was some discomfort at the beginning, the Miss Ding family praised the taste after eating the sorbet, "It would be nice if it had a grape flavor." "Ding Liu loves to eat grapes, but unfortunately the grapes haven't come down yet.
"No problem!" Qinglan assured Ding Liu that she still wanted to ask her for help.
"No problem!" After listening to Qinglan's request, Ding Liu agreed without hesitation, isn't it just to invite acquaintances to taste sorbet, she is the best at this kind of thing!
There are still 20 days left before the farm vacation, and it is urgent to solve the mold.
"Rubber? What's that? Xiaobao is devoted to eating, and Qinglan said that this sorbet is not a commodity now, and there must be a unified mold.
"A soft, non-breaking, deformable... Vegetable latex. Qinglan searched for adjectives.
"Absolutely not here." Thirteen is not to hit her, if there is such material, then the father and the emperor are early... Hey, my father may not know, after all, Qiongzhou is so far away from the capital, so I have to write to ask.
"Is the mooncake mold okay?" Mingyu's weak proposal, he has only seen moon cake molds.
"It's not that it can't be..."Qinglan was going to be flexible, and she couldn't stop doing it just because she didn't have rubber.
"It's a shame that you think of it," Xiaobao felt that it was not feasible, "Could it be that the sorbet still has Wuren jujube paste printed on it?" ”
"Can we change it to a peach watermelon? I just don't know where to go to the mold..."Qinglan frowned, the mold is a kind of thing, one for a family, and it is very precious, if the mold is opened alone, the cost...
"Wait!" Xiaobao ran away with a smoke, and when he came back, he behaved properly, because he was followed by Master Ding - he was here to taste sorbet.
Ding's restaurant has special dim sum, and naturally there are molds, and they will make more in the New Year's Festival, so that guests can take them back for gifts.
Thinking of his son's basket of good words, Master Ding carefully looked at the ice cream in front of him, the shape was really not flattering - it was smashed by Wu Shiyi's fist, the taste, as a "cake", it was really not sweet enough, but it was eaten in a hot day, and it lived up to its name of ice ~ cake.
Master Ding glanced at Qinglan indiscriminately, the latter was staring at him, cough cough, this kid, can really think. Why don't you make the mold into the shape of a claw, Master Ding can't imagine what the ice cream will look like in the future, so it can't be like a dog shaved?
After successfully solving the mold problem, Qinglan needed a "refrigerator" that could move.
"Is the carriage okay?" Thirteen felt that as one of the shareholders, he had to do something about it, or he would not be upset.
In this new business, four people each accounted for twenty and a half, and Thirteen didn't want to get involved, but he couldn't beat the other three, so the money for renovating the refrigerator had to be paid by himself, otherwise he wouldn't participate.
"The carriage is pretty good," how high-class it is, Qinglan thinks of the cart that sells ice cream abroad, "but there are many small alleys where the carriage can't get in, right?" ”
"What a little alley, tell them to come out and buy it themselves! Anyway, there is only one in Weixian County, do you want to love it! "Xiaobao's business experience is still good.
yes, I'm the only one... However, this sorbet is also very easy to imitate.
"Hah! Ice cellar like ours, there is really no second one in Weixian County! Xiaobao confidently straightened his back.
Qinglan has never been like this, can't wait to have a holiday, everything is ready, and she is waiting for the opening! (To be continued.) )