After eating the noodles, the emperor looked at the lacquer box curiously and asked Zou Tong: "What is in the lacquer box, why do you have to eat it in the hot afternoon?" Didn't you say you can't eat for lunch? ”

Cao came over to open the lacquer box, she was also very curious, why could the Lin family rely on some shoddy food to obtain the sacred heart, if the emperor did not touch the Lin family, the Cao family would not be too careful, but the emperor was fortunate to the Lin family last night, and ordered someone to solemnly record the chastity cloth into the jade, which shows that the emperor values the Lin family very much this time, and is very serious.

The Great Song Dynasty did not attach much importance to the chastity of women, and the empress of the previous emperor was a remarried woman with a drag oil bottle, so the emperor rarely recorded chastity after the concubine, and now, everything is different.

Cao Shi opened the lacquer box and was stunned, and the emperor also turned his head curiously to look, only to see a white mist slowly rising out of the lacquer box, and in the middle was a bowl of cheese, which was nothing unusual, but the porcelain bowl where the cheese was stored was covered with ice chips, and the cold mist was that the ice came out after it encountered the heat.

"Zou Tong! A few days ago, I asked you if there was ice in the ice cellar in the palace, and I remember that you replied at the time that there was no one at the end of July, yes or no? Cao's voice was even colder than the ice in the lacquer box.

Zou Tong hurriedly knelt down and said: "Qi Yu Niangniang, if you ask the slave maid now, the slave maid will also tell you that there is no ice in the ice cellar, and the slave maid will not dare to deceive the maid even if she has eighteen guts." ”

Cao's complexion softened, she also thought that Zou Tong would not dare to lie to herself in this matter, after all, she was the master of the harem, since she couldn't find a piece of ice in the palace, then there was only one source of ice here, that is, outside the palace, a concubine communicated with the outside to pass on items privately, which was a big crime, and the emperor didn't need to make a move. I can kill the Lin family.

The emperor also frowned and asked, "Zou Tong, where did you come from?" Zhao Zhen also felt that the Lin family was very ignorant, and this matter was very inappropriate, but he had no intention of handing the Lin family over to the queen for disposal. There is still room for turning around as much as you dispose of yourself.

Zou Tong looked at the emperor, and then looked at the queen and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, these ice are naturally made by Zhaorong Niangniang herself in Zizhuxuan, or are they set up by slaves, Zhaorong Niangniang does not allow others to interfere with His Majesty's diet." ”

"Do it yourself? Zou Tong, now that the sun is scorching, how to make ice in the cold winter wax moon, you dare to bully you! Seeing that the emperor had the heart to protect the Lin family, the anger in his chest continued to rise.

Zou Tong is the emperor's personal eunuch, and his status is second only to his ancestor Chen Lin. Now the ancestor is old, but the emperor remembers the kindness of Lao Chen Lin to his life, as long as he is still alive for a day, he is the head of the palace, and no one can shake his position. When the emperor sees Chen Lin now, he has to shout a big companion.

Zou Tong was trained by Chen Lin to take over, as the emperor's personal eunuch, his position naturally followed the emperor, and when he heard the emperor say such obvious words of protection, he didn't know how to speak.

Zhitian swore an oath: "Official, the life of the slave and maid is yours, how dare you deceive you." In the morning, when you received the envoys of Western Xia, Zhaorong Niangniang sent someone to ask the slave maid for ice, and the slave maid naturally did not have a piece in her hand, so she politely refused Zhaorong Niangniang's request, and Zhaorong Niangniang said strangely that the royal family is the richest place in the world. How can there be no ice, ordinary people in Shu know to make some ice to cool off when the summer is difficult.

Hearing this, the slave and maid were naturally not convinced, the ice in the ice cellar can be stored until July, and only the ice cellar in our Yuquan Mountain can do it, and the climate in Shuzhong is hotter than Tokyo, so it is impossible to do this. In addition, to store ice in winter, it is necessary to dig a large pit for water storage in advance in the drinking water river, and wait until the water completely turns into ice in 39 days, so that the craftsman can chisel this large piece of ice into a three-foot square ice brick, and finally haul it to the ice cellar of Yuquan Mountain for storage, and the ice cellar needs to be completely sealed, so that there will be ice in the palace in summer to cool off.

There is no ice at all in the winter in Shuzhong, even if it is frozen, it can't form a big ice brick, and if you want to take ice only from the mountains, it is higher than the cost of Tokyo, so the slave maid doesn't believe in Zhaorong Niangniang's words, so she plans to see how Zhaorong Niangniang makes ice, and as a result, under the nose of the slave and maid, Zhaorong Niangniang cooks for His Majesty Xià at the same time, and at the same time puts a large copper basin into the rain urn at will, and after a while, the rain urn will freeze, and after a while, the water in the copper basin will also be ice.

Zhaorong Niangniang took off the ice skin and gave His Majesty ice cheese, and the slave also took a small piece and ate it and found that it was really ice! Please Your Majesty, if the slave has half a lie, the dog will not eat it. ”

Cao's eyes widened like copper bells, the blue sky and the white sun can make ice, this is the demon, trembling and pointing in the direction of Zizhuxuan, he said to the emperor: "Your Majesty, this is a demon girl, you must make a decision as soon as possible, and you must not be confused by him and do something that will cause trouble." ”

Zhao Zhen scratched his forehead with his fingers and asked Zou Tong again: "You said that the ice came out of thin air?" ”

Zou Tong shook his head and said: "Zhaorong Niangniang said that as long as the clean saltpeter is thrown into the water, the water will freeze, and then the saltpeter water will freeze the clean water in the copper basin into ice, so that there is ice to use.

Zhaorong Niangniang also said that the slave maid was stupid, and the cellar of the laborer moved the crowd to be cold, saying that she had taught the slave and maid a craft, and jokingly asked the slave and maid for the reward of the secret recipe. ”

Zhao Zhen laughed, patted the table and said: "One by one, they are used to being high, and they treat Tibetan ice as an elegant thing to do, but they don't know that the people have long had a way to solve this kind of trouble, and this kind of Tao is probably only known to people like Lin who have seen the suffering of the people, and the nobles in the palace probably only know how to use ice in the summer, but they don't care where these ice come from and how they come from, it's really a meat eater!" ”

Cao didn't believe it, ordered someone to find saltpeter to make ice according to Zou Tong's method, sure enough, in less than an hour when the saltpeter was thrown in, the ice skin really rose in the rain urn, and after a while, the water in the copper basin also began to freeze, Cao sighed, and went back to his dormitory sullenly, Zhao Zhen came out with the chilled cheese after the review and took a look, and said to Zou Tong while eating cheese: "Sure enough, Zi Bu is strange and confused, and the queen's energy is a little smaller, but I don't know that there are many skilled craftsmen in this world, There are countless unbelievable methods, and everything can't be attributed to ghosts and gods, by the way, this year, the royal family does not store ice, and issued an order to reward Lin Shiyu Ruyi with a pair, Zou Tong, it is the secret recipe money that I gave to others instead of you. ”

Just when Zhao Zhen sighed at all kinds of whimsical ideas in the world, Lao Bao stayed in the Jiazi camp to personally supervise the matter of making steamed wine, and the fact that alcohol can clean the affected area and reduce the suppuration of the wound was confirmed by him, and he felt that it was necessary for him to purchase a batch to take back to Bianliang City, Tokyo, and some things were more convincing for the emperor to see with his own eyes.

I took a glass of residual wine from the bamboo tube of the steamed wine, according to the veteran of the steamed wine, the rest of the things could not be made into alcohol, and could only be drunk as wine, it was still a very good wine, very strong but mellow.

After a glass of wine, Lao Bao forcibly endured the dizziness of turning over the river and the sea, and said to Zhang Fangping, who was sitting at the table, drinking new wine and eating side dishes: "Such residues can make you and me two court officials happy, and there is nothing more joy in the world than this." ”

Zhang Fangping shook his head and said: "You don't know how to drink, new wine needs to be mixed with old wine to taste, and it is better to bury these wines in the ground for a while to remove the fire." The old man even heard Yun Zheng say that after the sorghum wine is brewed, it is best to pour some boy urine in the wine, and the taste of the wine will be better. ”

Bao Zheng said angrily: "Mind, mind, you Zhang Fangping can also be regarded as a person who is rich and rich, and the idea of letting the Manchu Dynasty civil and military drink urine is really not clever." ”

Zhang Fangping put down the chopsticks in his hand and said: "No kidding, Yun Zheng's kid really said that, maybe he had a dirty mind to ask the old man to drink urine, but this method is absolutely right, don't believe it, you can try it and know, although what the kid said is angry, but he doesn't tell lies, this method will definitely work." ”

Bao Zheng sat back in his seat, took a hard sip of the rich wine in the wine shop, and said with a smile: "You believe him very much!" ”

Zhang Fangping nodded and said: "I haven't done anything else since I came to Chengdu, I've been busy fighting with Yun Zheng, although I won and drove Yun Zheng to seek benefits for the people of Shuzhong, do you know that just silk added thirty percent of the tax to Shuzhong, and I just gave him an order, and he completed this order perfectly."

So I believe in him, but I won't relax the supervision, this kid is a skin monkey, all day long whimsy, the most terrible thing is that he has a set of methods that can predict the future, as long as he sees the beginning of things, he can see the future is not far from ten, he said that it is not a strange thing, but the application of arithmetic in real life.

Just like wargame deduction, everything in the world has its own unique law of development, as long as you find the law, you can summarize one, two, three, first of all, if you want to control the impermanence of the gods, you must first learn arithmetic, everyone in the Great Song Dynasty focuses on poetry and songs, sage articles, but disdains arithmetic, which is a very important discipline for the national economy and people's livelihood, just like we are in the emphasis on literature and light on martial arts, and we all regard the most important and essential parts as dross and throw them away, which is the biggest tragedy in the world.

I am now working hard to pick up the flowers, and I am studying arithmetic with the second boy of the Yun family, and I have learned a little bit recently, but the second boy of the Su family is too naughty and has teased me several times.

Lao Bao, don't you plan to study this science? Confucius said, there must be my teacher in the threesome, you have countless cases in Kaifeng Mansion, sooner or later you will use arithmetic, lower your posture, there is no harm in learning arithmetic, and it is not a shame to bow your head in front of learning. ”

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Chapter 2, Tomorrow's Three Chapters Erupt.