When the bear child ate the sugar gourd, he shook his cheeks angrily and gnawed heavily, as if the sugar gourd in his mouth was his cheeky fifth brother-in-law. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

However, as Zhu Ping'an also gave him a few copies when he bought snacks for Little Lori, the attitude of the bear child has changed 180 degrees, and the brother-in-law is long and the brother-in-law is short, and the old Huan is real, and he has long forgotten about Zhu Ping'an's "bullying" of him to the back of his head.

It's really a mother with milk.

Zhu Ping'an glanced at the grinning bear child, shook his head slightly and smiled.

In the summer of the Ming Imperial Capital, although there is no air-conditioning fan, but all kinds of cold drinks are still very rich, roadside teahouses, liquor shops and even street vendors provide all kinds of cold drinks, including sugar mung beans, watermelon juice, pear juice, ginger honey juice, lychee dew, plum blossom wine, etc., which are much less than modern cold drinks.

In addition to cold drinks, there are also shaved ice, mixed with sugar and spices for human consumption, which is the prototype of modern ice cream. But even so, the price of shaved ice is much more expensive than cold drinks, and the price is very high, even in the imperial capital, only some wealthy and noble families can afford to eat it.

Zhu Ping'an led the bear child and the little Lori into a tea stall selling shaved ice, and asked for three servings of shaved ice, ready to taste the difference between ancient ice cream and modern ice cream.

The shaved ice in a small porcelain bowl is mixed with juice, sugar, milk and spices, and is served in a porcelain bowl like rice.

The appearance is far from that of modern semi-solid ice cream, and the taste also makes Zhu Ping'an very disappointed.

However, the bear child and the little Lori eat happily, especially the bear child's face is full of food.

Looking at the other people sitting in the tea stall, they are also satisfied, and they have the feeling that this thing should only be smelled in heaven and in the world.

It's all so satisfying, if they were given a taste of modern Häagen-Dazs...... Zhu Ping'an touched his chin.

It's not very difficult.

Although Zhu Ping'an does not know chemistry, he still knows the method of using saltpeter to dissolve in water to absorb heat and make ice.

Although the ancients have long mastered the method of collecting ice in winter and storing it in ice cellars for summer use, the ice stored in this way is expensive, and only the wealthy families have the financial resources to bear it.

In addition to the ice that survives in this way, there is only the ice obtained by saltpeter ice. This was the end of the Tang Dynasty, when people mined saltpeter in the production of gunpowder, and accidentally found that saltpeter dissolved in water would absorb a lot of heat, which could make the water condense into ice.

However, judging from Zhu Ping'an's observation of the price of shaved ice and cold drinks on the market, it is estimated that there should not be many people who master the saltpeter ice-making method, otherwise it should be so expensive, the price is much more expensive than modern ice cream, and it is estimated that even if you master it, it is relatively rough.

With the saltpeter ice-making method, coupled with Zhu Ping'an, as a senior foodie, he has an understanding of the production method of modern ice cream, which is basically to mix ice, milk, jam, starch and eggs together, and a semi-solidified ice cream will be formed in about half an hour, and then use a thin crispy egg cake to make a cone. Although he didn't make it himself in modern times, Zhu Ping'an believes that if he tries a few more times, he should be able to make ice cream, at least much better than the shaved ice in his hand.

If modern ice cream appears in Daming, how can it be more competitive than Daming's shaved ice......

Of course, this is only an option.

"Brother-in-law, I still want to eat."

In a blink of an eye, the bear child's bowl of shaved ice has bottomed out, and there is still half a bowl left in the little Lori Niuniu's.

The bear child looked at Zhu Ping'an with blank eyes.

Children can't eat so much shaved ice, it will hurt their stomachs, Zhu Ping'an glanced at the bear child, and smiled slightly, "There are a lot of delicious foods on this street, keep some stomach, and I'll take you to taste something else later." ”

Although he couldn't eat another bowl of shaved ice, after hearing that Zhu Ping'an was going to take him to eat something else, the bear child licked the bowl happily.

After eating shaved ice, Zhu Ping'an led the bear child and the little Lori to wander around.

Because of the snacks, the two little ones didn't feel tired at all, especially the bear children, who ran happily.

Slowly shook to Dongcheng District.

The area around Qihuamen in Dongcheng District is also a prosperous economic area of the imperial capital, and the imperial capital is the most prosperous and lively in the Qihuamen area in addition to the "first three gates".

Zhu Ping'an led the bear child and the little Lori to carefully avoid the traffic, and stood in the shade of the trees to look at this prosperous area.

Zhu Ping'an stood in the shade of the tree and looked at the Qihua Gate from a distance, and found that the flow of people and horses from the Qihua Gate had never stopped, and the grain trucks were endless, the officials who left Beijing to see them off, the officials who entered Beijing for the pilgrimage, the merchants who went to the south from the imperial capital, and the merchants who returned to the imperial capital from the south, entered and exited the Qihua Gate.

There is a bit of a modern feeling in front of the train station, with people coming and going, and the stream is endless.

Zhu Ping'an knew that the prosperity of the Qihuamen area benefited from the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, which was opened by the Sui Dynasty and connected the north and south, which was the economic lifeline of the entire empire, and the grain used in the entire capital was transported through the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal.

During the Yuan Dynasty, Guo Shoujing presided over the excavation of the Tonghui River, which was called the Royal River in the Ming Dynasty and connected the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal.

In this way, the southern grain ships can follow the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal to Zhangjiawan in Tongzhou, and then continue along the Tonghui River to the west to the Qihuamen Wharf in the capital.

Qihua Gate is the only way for grain to enter Beijing, after the grain is unloaded from the Cao boat to the Qihuamen wharf, it is loaded into the city through Qihua Gate, and then stored in the major granaries in the city, and then through the shops to the dining tables of thousands of households. Every ration of food for the people of the capital was transported through this gate.

With so much foot traffic, this is where the business opportunities come in.

Zhu Ping'an looked around, well, sure enough, what he could think of, the ancients could also think of, and there were especially many shops in this area.

"Let's go ahead and have a look."

Zhu Ping'an held the little Lori in one hand and led the bear child in the other, and slowly walked towards Qihuamen along the shade of the tree.

As he walked forward, Zhu Ping'an observed that the foot workers unloading at the wharf accounted for a considerable proportion of the flow of people here.

Also, whether it is the exchange of merchants, the transportation of grain, or the contribution of the Quartet, as long as it passes through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal, Qihuamen is a must-pass place. The goods arriving at Qihuamen Wharf through the Beijing-Hangzhou Canal are massive, and they all need to be carried out of the ship by manpower and loaded onto the carriage.

Before approaching Qihuamen, Zhu Ping'an heard the neat trumpets of the slender men on the Qihuamen wharf, and the sound of the foot forces shouting "Come and move the ship".

Near the Qihuamen Wharf, there are many shops selling food, selling steamed buns, steamed buns, side dishes, fried rice fried noodles, selling meat broth, bean curd soup, rice cakes, cut meat, etc. After unloading the goods, the foot laborers, boatmen and other laborers had towels on their shoulders and went in groups to find food. For those who do hard work, it is important to replenish their physical strength.

The bear child stared at the various foods in the stall shop, and his saliva flowed all over the ground......