Chapter 324: Saltpeter Ice Making
The prince came to Yun'er's room to talk to her. The prince was able to come to the master's room, and the fish was also very pleased: at first glance, the two of them did not look awkward. The prince also laughed at Mimi: "The sales volume of Nalan Guard's brother's shop is not small, you still have to prepare goods for him, don't stop." ”
"Yun'er took a total of eighty boxes of goods, how can she sell them for a few days. Yun'er is still worried that no one will buy it. ”
On the contrary, I heard Ryoko say that if it weren't for the guards and personal soldiers to maintain order, the door frame would have been squeezed out. People are curious, our goods are not available in the Qing Dynasty, and the prices are cheap. Come here, I have something to ask you. Why? I can't eat you again, what are you doing so far away? Don't worry, I won't be unserious in broad daylight. ”
"When did Yun'er say that you weren't serious?" Yun'er rubbed to the prince's side, she was most afraid of what the prince would do to her in broad daylight.
The prince whispered in Yun'er's ear: "I haven't come to you all this time, do you have any ideas?" ”
"Look at what you said, you just came back, and you have to discuss a lot of things with Fujin, how can Yun'er have ideas?"
"I'm afraid you haven't recovered yet."
Yun'er blushed and saluted the prince: "Thank you for your kindness." ”
"What's the matter with you? We're husband and wife, okay? I didn't say anything, blushing for what? ”
"Yun'er didn't blush."
The prince pulled Yun'er into his arms, "There are already three children between the two of us, and after seven years of testing, it should be an old husband and wife, right?" ”
Yun'er laughed, she couldn't pick up this topic.
The prince asked in a low voice: "Have you felt uncomfortable in the past few months?" Is that normal? Does your stomach hurt? ”
"People are breastfeeding, okay? That hasn't come yet. ”
"Yes, I made the mistake of common sense and forgot about it. I'm afraid that because you have surgery, they will not be careful and leave you some trouble. ”
"Doesn't think so? Yun'er heard that the surgeon over there was sloppy, and dropped the hemostatic forceps in the patient's stomach, and some dropped the gauze. ”
"Such a doctor should be pulled out and shot, can the patient's belly be zipped? It's too irresponsible to say that it's open. Has the wound healed? Does it hurt anymore? ”
"The wound has long been healed, and it doesn't hurt at all, but it's itchy when it's cloudy and rainy, and Sister Ling said that it will take several years to recover to its original state. No matter how good the knife medicine is, it is better not to pull the mouth, but when it comes to the danger of life, it is still important to take care of your life first. ”
That's right. I'll come over when I'm busy for a while, and you must have someone with you at night, otherwise you might be scared if such a big room is empty. ”
"Every day, the fish and the water take turns to accompany Yun'er. And baby babe is here. ”
"Don't be too careful. What's in this tea? ”
"Sister Ling added jasmine flowers to it, you can't get used to it, Yun'er changed it for you."
"I didn't mean that, I just said that today's tea was delicious and very fragrant. This Ling Juan is really a talent, and she can also make tea. ”
"The herbal tea in the foreign land is very fashionable, and Yun'er also learned a little from the eldest sister."
"Then I'll taste the herbal tea you made with your own hands in the future." The prince looked at Yun'er's young face and felt very attractive, and said that those who were looked at were blessed. Yun'er's face is duck egg-shaped, her forehead is very full, her earlobes are thick, her chin is not sharp at all, and her lip flaps are neither thin nor thick, just right, and red; The eyes that are a little hanging are originally very standard apricot eyes, but they are the feeling of hanging eyes and phoenix eyes. The large double eyelids are very beautiful, and with the curved, long eyebrows, it gives people the feeling of being radiant. With a straight nose and plump cheeks, the skin is as white as fine porcelain. It was beautiful enough in the early years, but now I think it's even more beautiful.
"Why do you look at people like that? Yun'er is ugly. ”
"Really? I see, it's very ugly, how did I, a middle-aged beautiful uncle, find an ugly monster? The prince took Yun'er into his arms and continued to look at her.
"You're bad at learning." Yun'er's hand gently stroked the prince's sword eyebrows.
"Your feeling is accurate." The prince tapped on the tip of Yun'er's nose, let go of Yun'er with a smile, stood up, stretched his body, and said to Yun'er:
"Don't do it yourself when you move the box, just let Liangzi and Nalan work hard. I still have something to do, I'll see you tomorrow. As he spoke, he patted Yun'er lightly on the shoulder twice and went out.
"Congratulations to the prince."
As soon as the prince left, the fish and water in Ling Juan's room hurriedly said goodbye and returned to serve in Yun'er's room. They saw that the prince had stayed in Yun'er's room for a long time and didn't come out, so they thought that the prince and the master were "that" and didn't dare to come over. When he entered the door, he saw Yun'er looking for something in the pile of rice paper in the room, and Yu'er said, "When will you be like a master?" If you want to find a slave maid and a sister Shui'er, you can get it. ”
"Ask Sister Yu'er, what should the master look like?"
"At least you have to have the momentum of the master, cough before speaking, and hold the eunuch's wrist when you go out."
"Spare me, the old cough is easy to get pharyngitis, and he still put his arm on the eunuch's wrist, and then put on a waist bell rack. Ji Xiang Lehe is not as fast as me. Qiang Qiang walked away in a few steps and disappeared, how happy is that? The fish smiled and bent over.
"Several of you, including Sister Ling, should learn the basic skills of painting, in the future, we may produce a large number of embroidery, and we can't embroider without patterns, so first of all, you have to be able to draw patterns. Professional embroidery workshops have their own painters, specializing in drawing patterns for embroidery. ”
Ling Juan has always felt that painting is an unattainable skill. But when I heard Yun'er say this, I was moved.
"Shall I try?" Ling Juan asked uncertainly?
"Hmmm! Be sure to give it a try. ”
"But I've heard that rice paper and paint are very expensive, and you all use rice paper for writing and painting here."
"When I first learned, I wouldn't use formal rice paper for you, but I have practice paper for you to practice basic skills, and you basically don't need paint to draw patterns."
"That's fine, or it might be wasted."
"You can also learn painting and calligraphy mounting, this is a somewhat difficult skill, this is not in a hurry, step by step, we have to do things for twenty or thirty years, and you can learn the matter of painting in a few months. I'm going to have three second-class maids work as professional framers. ”
"Yunyun, you are confident, there are three framers a little less, right? Count me in? ”
"Your profession may be busy in the future, and you can't take care of framing. If you want to learn, follow them. It's not something unattainable, it's about being careful and patient. ”
"I have both. Learn as much as you can. “
The next morning, the prince came to Yun'er again and asked her about ice cream, saying that after Nalan Donggui opened and sold steadily, he asked Yun'er to start making ice cream
"Do you have a ready-made recipe for ice cream and cakes?"
"When Yun'er was in a foreign land, she had already learned more than a dozen kinds of popsicles, ice cream, and ice cream from her eldest sister, and she also knew six or seven kinds of cakes, and she still remembered the recipe. Ice cream is easy to make, and cakes must be ovened. As long as the tools and molds are found and disinfected, the ice cream can be made. ”
"Then make ice cream first. These days, I feel that we don't have enough goods, and Master said that they are arranged elsewhere, and only you can find and take them out. You're too good, aren't you? ”
"It's not that Yun'er is powerful, Yun'er's ability was given to Yun'er by the master to save us time, and it's not just a casual use. Master said that the goods placed on the big surface are basically carried by manpower, and those that are placed in the underground secret room and cannot be moved by manpower only need Yun'er to carry them. For example, food processing equipment, refrigeration equipment, gasoline and diesel and so on should not be seen by people who should not be looking. You said that if you want to make ice cream, popsicles and other cold food products, you must first find out the freezer, generator, and transformer, and use it in a hidden place, and the electrical equipment must not be exposed to broad daylight, which will be shocking and annoying. The Queen Mother and the Emperor have never heard of electricity, and if they know it, they won't care if we live or die and exploit us. We can make 100 ice creams a day, and she will ask for 1,000 or 10,000 ice creams, and she doesn't care if you can make them or not, she will treat us as a panacea, and it will be cool everywhere. Therefore, there must be a substitute for the freezer, preferably one that Daqing has, and use it to play sloppy and cover up the existence of the freezer. You can't be negligent at all, otherwise you will bring great trouble and even danger to your life. ”
When the prince heard Yun'er say this, he hugged Yun'er all of a sudden: "Yun'er, you have grown up, and you are more thoughtful than the second uncle Qianqiansui." ”
Yun'er was amused by the prince and laughed "giggle".
Wang Ye asked: "Do we have the refrigeration equipment substitutes you said in Daqing?" I've never heard that we can freeze ice in the summer. ”
"No wonder the kings of the vassal states call themselves widows, that is, lonely and unheard. You are on the same level as the princes, so you should call yourself a widow. When we were in a foreign land, the eldest sister said that when she was young, there was no ice in the summer, so she used something called wall frost and saltpeter to freeze out ice cubes to relieve the heat and cool down. Didn't we buy some from the Outlands? Use it first, and then find the wall cream from us. ”
"Wait a minute, you said that something called wall frost can freeze out of ice in the middle of summer? The ice in the Forbidden City is taken from the river in the winter of the first year and transported to the ice cellar for storage. ”
"Do you think the Queen Mother and the Emperor dare to use wall cream? They are more afraid of death than anyone else. In fact, wall frost is saltpeter, which is called calcium nitrate, which can absorb heat in the process of melting and freeze water. However, calcium nitrate cannot be directly ingested, although it will not be poisoned to death when eaten in the stomach, but it will have diarrhea. The process of making ice is also a bit troublesome, so many people dare not use it. The eldest sister is an old Beijinger, and when she was young, her family used saltpeter to make ice, which means that there are saltpeter sellers in Beijing. If there is a sale, let's use saltpeter ice to make some cold drinks, and then use the freezer to refrigerate to make some ice cream ice cream or something. If the queen mother and the emperor ask, we will say that it is the credit of saltpeter, so that saltpeter can be sloppy for the freezer. It is important to make money for the treasury, it is also important to fulfill our mission, and our lives are even more important. Without life, everything is equal to zero, and with life can we accomplish our mission, so safety is the most important thing. ”
"You can do it, the stuff in your head is all strategy."
"Thanks to the praise, we must be careful in everything in this social environment where the imperial power is supreme. To make ice cream and iced tea, you have to find saltpeter first. Even if there is no one in the city, there will be one in the surrounding counties, and the eldest sister said that this kind of thing does not belong to rare elements. You can send your men out to find wall frost, the price of this thing is very cheap, the eldest sister said that in the Song Dynasty, it was only a penny a catty, and in the Yuan Dynasty, it was two pennies a catty. ”
"There was such a thing in the Song Dynasty and the Yuan Dynasty?"
In fact, this kind of thing is recorded in the books of the Han Dynasty, and it is not a valuable thing. Speaking of ice cream, ice cream has already had a prototype in the Tang Dynasty, they put chiseled ice cubes on sugar and milk, which is a very primitive ice cream, they call it 'ice cream'. The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty only allowed people in the royal family to enjoy this food, and did not allow the common people to use it, and punished whoever used it. ”
"That's too overbearing, isn't it?"
"Don't worry, I'll find the freezer and the generator and that transformer or something. Let Ryoko install a generator in a hidden place, use a freezer to cool down, and then after you find the saltpeter, send someone to use the earth method to make ice cream, so that no one can figure out what is going on. The common people of our Qing Dynasty are very poor, because the imperial court is very poor, it does not mean that the royal family and civil and military officials at all levels are poor, nor does it mean that some families with great heritage or the descendants of those officials in the Ming Dynasty, the old and the young are also poor. There are many people who can afford to enjoy ice cream and ice cream. Even ordinary people can buy ice fruits with a lot of ice such as popsicles to enjoy. After we have built an ice cellar, even if we use well water to freeze ice and store it in the ice cellar in winter, it will be a way to make ice. But I'm tired to death, and my cheeks are wooden. Yun'er threw herself on the bed.
"Okay, okay, just according to the three-pronged method you said, saltpeter, freezer, ice in winter, why didn't our strategist open his eyes?"
"Yun'er is very sleepy, I thought about it late yesterday, I was thinking about how to explain it to you today, no, my eyelids are so heavy. By the way, Yun'er forgot to tell you that saltpeter is still the best material. The Exotic side also used it to make an atomic bomb, and that explosive was called TNT. After the report is completed, the chief is in charge. Then he turned over and went to sleep.
"That's sleeping? Fish and water, you two come to serve your master, and this king will go to find saltpeter. The smile on the prince's face when he turned around.
Yu'er Shui'er, who was waiting in the hall for orders, hurriedly entered the house, put a pillow under Yun'er's head, and covered it with a thin quilt.
The prince asked Yu'er Shui'er: "Which of the two of you has heard of wall frost?" It's saltpeter, which can freeze ice in summer? ”
Yu'er blessed and said to the prince: "Back to the prince, when the slave and maid were young, they lived in the house with their parents, and they saw the wall frost at that time. ”
"You mean that there is a wall cream seller in our capital?"
"There should be, at that time, there were many slaves and maids, and in the summer, there were housekeepers who took people to make ice cubes to cool off. Fill a large plate with water, then fill a large plate with sugar, milk in a small plate, and add wall cream to the water in a large plate. Then the water in the small plate is also frozen into ice, and the contents are ready to eat. The water in the large plate can also freeze, but it can't be used, and if you use it, you will have diarrhea. ”