The quilt is not used to keep the ice fruit warm, but to isolate the heat wave from the outside and the cold air inside the box, so that the ice will not easily turn into water. In the past, when refrigerators were still a luxury, old ladies selling popsicles on the streets used this method.

A leather strap was nailed to the wooden box, using the principle of carrying it on one shoulder in later generations.

Not far from the alley, there is the Chen Ji somen shop that Liu said. Tian Shiyi stood still on the side of the street, mustered up the courage to shout a few times.

The sun was spreading light and heat unscrupulously, and when they heard the shouts of "Bingguo Twenty Wen", all kinds of people looked over in amazement. By the time he shouted a fifth time, he was already surrounded by the crowd. The chattering crowd kept asking what kind of fruit the "ice fruit" was, and it seemed to be very cool when it sounded.

"What is this, how does it look like ice?"

"Is this ice? How can there be ice at this time? ”

"Oh my God, it's really ice......"

The onlookers and passers-by shouted in surprise, and in a blink of an eye, the thin Tian Shiyi was surrounded and unable to see anyone.

Ice making was still a rarity in the Song Dynasty, and no one believed that it was so easy to get cool ice in the summer. There have always been rumors in the market that the wealthy families in the north have built ice cellars to store ice in winter and enjoy in summer, and the cost is not ordinarily high.

As for places like Hangzhou, even the richest people can't store ice, and if you can see a thin layer of ice flowers in winter, even if you are created, where can you taste the taste of ice.

Tian Shiyi felt that twenty wen was already very expensive. A bun costs three yuan, and a bowl of crushed ice with fruit costs twenty yuan, which can be called a black-hearted vendor.

But the ice eaters around him felt that what Twenty Wen ate in his mouth was not just a bowl of ice mixed with crushed fruits, but a vanity comparable to that of a rich man in the north.

If Tian Shiyi knew the thoughts of the gods, I don't know if he would lament that it was sold too cheaply.

Tian Shiyi didn't even have a chance to shout the sixth time, and the ice fruit had already been snapped up. People around who didn't buy it kept asking if there was anything else.

With kind words to appease the lovely gods who didn't buy ice fruits, Tian Shiyi hurriedly rushed back to continue making ice.

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It was getting late, so Eleven Lang bought a piece of cooked donkey meat, a jar of old wine, plus a fresh big fish and a few vegetables and fruits, and rolled up his arms and sleeves to make a hearty dinner.

Reciprocating a peach is not a virtue, but a necessity in interpersonal communication. No one is stupid, and there is a limit to one-sided efforts. The word "back and forth" applies to both friends and enemies.

The fifth girl and the Liu family returned home at the same time for some reason, and looked at the sumptuous wine and food on the table a little sluggish.

This is the Song Dynasty, and there may be such a thing as a man cooking, but it is limited to the two professions of cook and single dog.

Liu Shi said with some anxiety: "Shiyi Lang don't have to do this again in the future, this is a woman's work, and a man can't do it." ”

The fifth girl was full of surprise, looking at Shiyi Lang in a daze like a monster.

Tian Shiyi smiled and replied to the care of the two, and the three of them sat down around the table.

The fifth girl tasted the craftsmanship of Shiyi Lang with the mood of dying, and then her eyes lit up. Can a man cook so deliciously?

Staring at those big bright eyes, staring at Eleven Lang for a long time, the doubts in the five girls' hearts became a little thicker. The heart said: Could he be and don't want to pay back, right?

Seeing that his craft was very popular, Eleven seemed to be able to see through the thoughts of the five girls, so he took thirty strings of copper coins from the wooden box and put them on the table.

The money was skewered by Tian Shiyi himself, a string of 100 wen, just 3,000 wen.

Liu was stunned, she just wanted to raise Shiyi Lang as a son, who would have thought that he could really make so much money in one day.

The fifth girl was even more unbearable than Liu's, she looked at the 1,300 yuan pushed over by Eleven, her eyes were shocked or shocked, and her mouth was drooling in addition to not closing.

She really couldn't understand what kind of business could turn the usual money into three times in a day, and it would have to remove the sumptuous money for wine and food.

The fifth girl turned a thousand thoughts in an instant, she knew that this eleven lang was an opportunity given to her by God, a chance to let those poor people live, and this kind of opportunity must not be missed.

With a "bang", the fifth girl pushed back the 1,300 yuan to Tian Shiyi and said, "The money has always been not lent to you, but is a partnership with you to do business." ”

After that, he didn't wait for Tian Shiyi to react. The five girls skillfully picked up fifteen strings of money, and they didn't even care about eating, so they ran to the room with the money.

"I account for fifty percent, and this 1,500 Wen is my share." In the courtyard, only the voices of the five girls echoed.

Tian Shiyi was sandwiching a piece of donkey meat, and fell on the table with a "snap", and thought in horror: "This woman, could it be a robber hiding in Hangzhou City?" ”

Liu Shi drank wine and ate vegetables deliciously, and she did not plan to interfere in the affairs of the children. Maybe in her opinion, everyone is a family!

Immediately, Tian Shiyi realized that he had lost a lot. If you have to buy some raw materials tomorrow, do you have to come out of your own 1,500 documents?

What's more, will she have to share half of the money she earns in the future?

The five girls collected the money and waited for a long time before coming out of the room.

As a girl's family, how did she not know that it was a shame to do this. However, she really needed money. A penny is very small, but if you change it to bran, it may be a life.

Tian Shiyi's worries The fifth girl also thought of it, but she really didn't have the cheekiness to go to Eleven to share the money every day, so she thought of a long-term way, which was worthy of Tian Shiyi's and made a lot of money.

At this time, Eleven had already prepared two bowls of ice fruits. Liu Shi was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth when he saw the process of making ice from Eleven Lang.

The fifth girl was shocked for a while, and suddenly slammed her fist on the table and said angrily: "What? Sell only 20 wen? You should sell for thirty wen. ”

Liu Shi took a mouthful of ice fruit beautifully, and then said: "When my father-in-law was alive, I once drank sour plum soup with ice in Bianjing. He said, ah, I have never forgotten that taste in my life. That bowl of sour plum soup cost a hundred wen. ”

Tian Shiyi and the five girls glanced at each other, then lowered their heads, and the two soil buns felt inferior to themselves for their lack of knowledge.

After eating the food and tasting the ice fruits, Liu left the yard to the young man and went back to the house to rest alone.

Seeing that Liu was not there, a bitter smell of copper suddenly rose in the courtyard.

The fifth girl said: "Partnering to open an ice fruit shop, I will pay for it, and you will run it." ”

Tian Shiyi said: "Don't do it, I can open a shop myself." ”

The fifth girl sneered: "You drive it yourself?" Hum! Without me, do you know how much extortion you have to deal with every day? Do you know how much money you have to scrape away a month from the errand officials in the yamen, the splashes on the streets, the local tax collectors, and the gangs in the black fields? Do you know how much it costs to set up a shop in Hangzhou? Do you know that if you don't have a guarantor to run privately, you will be roded for thirty miles and three hundred miles in exile! ”

Tian Shiyi: "I ......"

Fifth girl: "I'm seven, you're three." ”

Tian Shiyi: "No, I'm seven and you're three." ”

Five girls: "I'm seven ......"

Tian 11: "I'm ...... seven"

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