Chen Xu asked people to find a clay basin, clean it by hand, let the water gently find a piece of clean fine linen spun gauze, wrapped almost half a catty of cold powder, filled a small half basin of water in the basin, and after washing his hands, he sat on the small bench and began to knead and scrub it.

Hearing that Hou Ye was going to make another kind of delicious food to cool off the heat, the housekeepers and housekeepers of the Hou Mansion all came over to watch, and the kitchen workers and maids also gathered in a large group, Yu Wuya, Shui Qingrou, Xing'er, Yu Ji and Chen Jiang also stood by and watched carefully.

However, looking at Chen Xu starting to wash the sackcloth in the basin over and over again, and squeezing it while washing, leaving behind the viscous liquid, Yu Wuya's face kept shaking.

"Eun Gong, how does this look like ......"

"Stop!" Chen Xu rolled his eyes fiercely.

Yu Wuya had no choice but to swallow the word 'snot' back, and watched Chen Xu's movements and continued to twitch.

After nearly twenty minutes of kneading and squeezing, the water in the basin has become very viscous, and the cold powder in the burlap bag has almost been washed clean.

Around this time, the two servants who had gone to pick lotus roots also came back covered in mud, and brought back several large lotus roots, white and tender with the thickness of arms, and looked very attractive after washing.

Break off a piece of relatively white and tender lotus root, peel off the outer skin, pound it into lotus root puree, add a little water and let it stand for a while, then pour the layer of clear liquid on top into the clay pot, stir it lightly a few times, and then put it in the wooden barrel where the popsicle is usually placed and cover it with a lid.

Ice powder will also condense into jelly when left at room temperature, but it will solidify faster if placed in a low temperature environment.

"Brother, how long will it take to eat?" Xing'er and Yu Ji watched in front of the barrel.

"It's ready to eat soon, it's much better than a popsicle, and it's not icy!" Chen Xu washed his hands and sat down to rest, and at the same time asked the kitchen to prepare more than ten pottery bowls, took fruit vinegar and honey, mixed a large bowl of sweet and sour juice, and waited for about ten minutes, opened the lid of the wooden barrel and looked, sure enough, the ice powder in the clay pot had condensed into jelly.

"Wow, it's frozen! I'm going to eat, I'm going to eat! Watching Chen Xu scoop out half a bowl of jelly-like shaking and trembling ice powder with a bamboo spoon, Xing'er couldn't wait to shout.

"It's so beautiful, crystal clear like ice crystals, I can't imagine it could be made from such an inconspicuous seed!" Shui Qingrou, who had always had a calm face, couldn't help but marvel, and a pair of beautiful eyes moved from the ice powder to Chen Xu's body, and her eyes were full of infinite surprise and gentleness.

"Wow~" Chen Xu poured a spoonful of fruit vinegar and honey water on the ice powder, and then handed it to Chen Jiang with both hands, "Mother, you taste it first, it's delicious!" ”

Chen Jiangshi took the pottery bowl and scooped up a piece of crystal clear ice powder with a small bamboo spoon and tasted it, and immediately praised it with his eyebrows stretched: "This ice powder made by Xu'er is really delicious, sweet and sour, very cool!" ”

"Brother, give me a bowl!" Apricot wanted to put her face into the pot.

"Brother Xiaoxu, Yu Ji also wants to eat good-looking ice powder!" Yu Ji pulled Chen Xu's arm and yelled with her feet.

Chen Xu hurriedly prepared a bowl for Xing'er and Yu Ji for the maid to take to the side to eat, then gently mixed a bowl of water, and then a bowl for Yu Wuya, and finally mixed a bowl for himself, handed the spoon to a kitchen worker and said: "You have to eat yourself, the amount is not much, everyone will satisfy their hunger a little bit, and go and cook a little more in a while!" ”

"Don't worry, Master Hou, let's taste it first, and we'll make a big bucket later!" Several cooks nodded excitedly, and then set out a long pottery bowl on the table, scooped a small spoonful of transparent cold powder into each bowl, and poured the adjusted fruit vinegar and honey sauce, and then each person brought a bowl to the side to taste.

"Wow, it's delicious, sweet and sour, cold and cold."

"Yes, this must be the food eaten by the gods in the sky, it looks like ice crystals, and it tastes soft and slippery!"

"Our Hou Ye is an immortal disciple, so naturally he eats the food of the immortal family."

"We can follow Master Hou and enjoy happiness in this life!"

A bowl of ice powder has become the new favorite of the food of the Qinghe Hou Mansion.

Not to mention the cheap materials, there are more, while Li Gui's family inspected the fiefdom, they hyped up the Hou Ye's purchase of mature and sun-dried thunderbolt seeds, and soon many villagers in the fiefdom knew about it, taking advantage of the summer grain harvest, the autumn grain has not yet been harvested in the slack period to collect the lily, go home to dig up the seeds, and the strong sun will be completely dry for half a day, so in the past few days, a large number of villagers have come to Qinghe Courtyard with big bags of ice powder.

Three dollars a pound may not seem like much, but it is still very tempting for villagers who earn some change to subsidize their families by collecting firewood and selling vegetables.

In fact, the ice powder is very light, a pound needs to collect hundreds of lychee fruits to make up, and all grow on the steep rock wall or hillside, although everywhere but the collection is not easy, so the hands and feet are fast and the body is flexible children to become the main force of the collection, several children together with a bamboo basket with a bamboo knife or hook knife up the mountain, one on the top of the pick, one picks, one on the spot to dig out the seeds inside and put them into the cloth bag, three people with a day can get a few pounds of dry goods, calculated down is more than ten dollars, And now it is the autumn season, and it is also the season when the lily is ripe, so if you pick it for one or two months in a row, you can earn seven or eight hundred yuan if you have more children in the family, plus there are adults to help, and this season of the lily is harvested, which is enough to be the income for several years.

Therefore, with the news of Qinghehou's large number of acquisitions of Xue Li, many villagers outside the fief also knew about it, in just three or five days, almost half of Jingyang County knew about this, and groups of villagers carrying baskets and cloth bags could be seen everywhere in the mountains and forests, most of them were children in their teens, and even children of seven or eight years old, but this age is definitely half of the labor force in today's Daqin countryside.

After the Hou Mansion collected a large number of cold powder, not only did the Hou Mansion make several large barrels for its own consumption every day, but also arranged for people to transport them to Qinghe Garden, and set up a special sales team for the production of cold noodles in Qinghe Garden, which was sold at the entrance of Qinghe Hotel, Qinghe Theater and Qinghe Store.

"Ice powder, ice powder, the latest delicious food made by Qinghehou, sweet and sour, cool and ......"

A pergola was built at the entrance of the Qinghe store, under the pergola were placed several tight wooden barrels wrapped in animal skins and linen, and the wooden barrels were still made of nitrate ice water, and a clay basin was placed on the ice water, and in the tile pot was the newly made ice powder, and several young ladies wearing Qinghe Garden uniforms were softly shouting and selling ice powder.

And the street at the entrance of Qinghe Park is usually the most lively place in the whole Xianyang, and there is no one.

Because on one side is the Qinghe Garden, which has the highest consumption in Xianyang, known as the heaven and earth, and directly opposite is the Lingering Fragrance Garden where the children of wealthy merchants in Xianyang are most concentrated.

Therefore, as soon as this ice powder stall was put out, a large group of people suddenly rushed up, among them, in addition to the common people in cloth clothes, there were many nobles with brocade robes and jade belts, but the most were those who were bored to play in the Liuxiang Garden and the children of wealthy merchants, and then they were waiting to enter the Qinghe Theater to watch the drama literati.

A large group of people instantly drained the water around the ice powder stall.

Now the entire Xianyang people know that as long as they get involved with Qinghehou, there is no bad food.

Nowadays, the steamed buns, pancakes, fruits, spring rolls, barbecue, and roasted crabs sold everywhere on the street were all invented by Qinghe.

Some time ago, it became popular to eat sauce and explode snails in Quyuan Miscellaneous House, although it was quite troublesome to make and eat, but it set off a heat wave among the scholars and princesses, no matter how much they went to that entertainment place to consume and play, they must order a pot of snails when drinking, and eat with a kind of thing called toothpicks while picking and eating, sucking the shell first, and finally adding a hand, it is said that this is the rule of eating snails, which was handed down by the Marquis of Qinghe, so the three steps of eating snails will be despised by the diners at the same table.

"Hey, this ice powder looks crystal clear, like ice crystal jade, very tempting, but I don't know how it tastes?" A middle-aged man in a scribe's uniform looked at the ice powder in the pottery bowl and was full of doubts while admiring.

"Hey, the food made by Qinghehou still tastes bad!" A young man in a fancy costume directly took out his money bag and shouted: "Little lady, how to sell this ice powder?" ”

The little lady in the short skirt uniform replied kindly with a smile on her face: "Hui Gongzi, add fruit vinegar and sugar juice for ten yuan a bowl!" ”

"Have a bowl!" The young man happily took out a handful of copper coins and counted ten of them, and put them on the wooden table.

"Childe, wait a minute!" The little lady put away the copper coins, and the other little lady next to her opened the ice bucket, scooped out a bowl of crystal clear ice powder that still exudes a cold air, and then poured a spoonful of fruit vinegar and fructose syrup and handed it to the young man with both hands, "Son, please taste, please eat fast in hot weather!" ”

"Wow, the ice powder is so cold, it feels like it just came out of the ice cellar!" The young man couldn't help but exclaim when he took the pottery bowl, and then couldn't wait to pick up a small bamboo spoon and scoop it into his mouth...... Delicious and delicious, slippery ~ sweet and sour, there is no more delicious taste in the world than it is more relieving of the heat, which can be called the ...... of fairy food"

When the young man gave generously, although the surrounding water was not clear, whether rich or not, they were all waiting for the evaluation of the first diner.

At present, I saw that a bowl of crystal clear ice powder that was like ice crystals and still bubbling cold was eaten slowly in the admiration of the boy in brocade, so many people with luxurious clothes began to take out their money bags.

"Little lady, have a bowl with me!"

"Little lady, have a bowl with me!"

With the continuous jingling of a large number of copper coins on the stall table, a few little ladies selling ice powder were also instantly busy.

And with the surprise shouts of the diners who have tasted it one after another, the whole street soon became a sensation, not only the people on the street, but even the people in the Liuxiangyuan opposite also poured out in groups, and then soon knew that Qinghe Garden was selling a kind of food made by Qinghehou, which can be called a food to quench the thirst of the summer, and what I had eaten was the fairy food made of ice powder into ice crystal chalcedony, which was not only beautiful, but also cool and refreshing, and the heat of the summer was completely eliminated in one bite......