Chapter 10: Selling Ice
In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, unlike in later generations, when the weather is hot, go out to buy a popsicle to eat.
In these days, if you want to sell popsicles, it is definitely a big deal, no matter what time it is, monopoly is the most profitable.
"Ice?" Mu Yi squinted his eyes and laughed, thinking about how to make some money? Unexpectedly, Miao Xiaodie's words reminded him.
Mu Yi looked back at Miao Xiaodie with a smile: "I'll give you a task when I go back in a while, if it is done well, I can help you rescue your family." In the past few days, I have also inquired, and if you want to get out of your father and mother, you need a total of 50,000 yuan, and it depends on you whether you can save your family. After all, he is not a philanthropist and is not obligated to help you with this money. ”
When Miao Xiaodie heard this, she was overjoyed, as if she had forgotten the heat of the weather, and fell to her knees with a plop and bowed her head.
"Alright, alright, get up quickly! On such a hot day, I would have hired a car when I knew I would have come out......"
The distance of ten miles is not close, but it is not far. Half an hour later, the two finally returned to their doorstep.
But at this time, there were more than a dozen people surrounded at the door of the house, these people were of different ages, and everyone was carrying weapons, and they knew at a glance that they were from the rivers and lakes.
Seeing Mu Yi coming back, a little maid picked up her dress and ran to Mu Yi, and said with a frightened face: "Ah ...... Ah Lang, these people came to the door, saying that they were looking for Ah Lang to compete......"
"Got it!" Mu Yi nodded and stepped forward and arched his hand: "What do you mean by this?"
"You are Mu Yi who is "invincible in the world" by the emperor? ”
"Yes and no, yes and no?" Mu Yi was speechless to the extreme, and a brand finally ushered in the first wave of troublemakers.
"That's right! Saying that you are invincible in the world, we are not very convinced, but in fact, there is nothing to do, I just want to have two tricks with you!"
For these people, Mu Yizhen didn't want to be polite. If you don't show your strong side today, who knows how many challengers there will be in the future? Now that everyone has come to the door, he doesn't mind having a killer monkey.
Mu Yi smiled faintly: "If you don't wait a little bit, you don't know that the pot is made of iron!" Let's talk about it, who will strike first? ”
"Nanyang Yue Chongshan, please advise!" A young man in his twenties approached with a spear in his hand.
"Teach you~ Mother's legs, can you kid be a little more shameless, day~ You immortal banban, you are holding a weapon, and you actually came to challenge the master, didn't you see the master with his bare hands?"
While speaking, he didn't give the other party a chance to react, and when the other party was stunned, Mu Yi stepped forward and slammed the left hook and right hook, smashing it on the opponent's face one after another.
It's just a moment of effort, and the other party's face is swollen like a pig's head, and it is estimated that he ~ Mom doesn't know him anymore!
Until the other party covered his face with his hands and begged bitterly, Mu Yicai rubbed his fists and snorted: "The pheasant has no nameless straw sandals, and you are a soy sauce maker who also comes to join in the fun."
Picking up the spear that the man had dropped on the ground from the ground, Mu Yi pulled a spear flower, carried the spear on his shoulder, and shouted, "Who else?"
This roar can startle the people in front of them, and they take a few steps backwards one by one.
"A group of timid people dare to run to the door to challenge even if they have this guts."
Immediately, Mu Yi walked to the stone lion at the door, raised a stone lion placed at the gate high, and put it next to the road in full view of everyone: "If you want to challenge in the future, put the stone lion back in place, otherwise don't say the word challenge!"
After that, he didn't pay attention to the crowd anymore, and walked into the door with his hands behind his back.
The little maid and Miao Xiaodie who followed behind them were full of adoration in their eyes at the moment.
Every girl has her own prince charming in her heart, and in this troubled world, there are two kinds of men who attract the attention of girls the most. One is a hero who crosses the field, and the other is a learned and talented literati.
Looking at Mu Yi's back as he gradually moved away, the people who came to challenge looked at each other one by one, but no one dared to step forward.
What remained in their hearts was only a silent sigh: there is no vanity under the fame!
Mu Yi's approach is really good, and the people who came to challenge heard that the stone lion was moved to its original position, and they all dispelled the idea of challenge.
den
Mu Yi told Miao Xiaodie what he needed: "As long as this matter is done well, you will be the housekeeper of the house in the future."
The female housekeeper that Mu Yi said was actually to let her be the housekeeper and preside over all the chores at home.
But Miao Xiaodie doesn't think so, in her opinion, the housekeeper is the mistress of this house, since Mu Yi said this, is she prompting herself to marry herself?
The more I thought about it, the redder my little face became.
"What's wrong? Why is your face red? Are you sick? ”
"I didn't ...... No, Ah Lang don't worry, the slave will do it...... "After that, he jumped up and ran out like a little white rabbit.
Miao Xiaodie's efficiency is quite fast, and after more than an hour, she has found more than a dozen carpenters, and more than 20 years of youth.
Qingzhuang was arranged by Mu Yi to dig the cellar at the back, and the carpenter was called together alone.
Mu Yi held a few pieces of rice paper in his hand, handed them to the carpenter and said: "Let's pass them on to each other, the things you need are drawn on it, work here, take care of three meals a day, and each person can get a thousand yuan a month, and the wood you need will spend, so you can go to the Miao housekeeper ......."
When they heard that they were in charge of three meals a day and that they were paid a high salary every month, everyone was excited.
One of the older carpenters looked at the drawings carefully and said, "These things painted on rice paper are old and dare to guarantee that they can be made, but these things are strangely shaped, and we are all doing it for the first time, so it is estimated that the speed may be a little slow."
"Defenseless! It's a little slow the first time, but it's naturally faster when you get familiar with it later! As long as you work hard, you dare to guarantee that you will be able to earn a family business in three or five years......"
Following
Mu Yi arrived at the Praetorian Guard Camp early in the morning and quit his current job. If it is a peaceful and prosperous world, it is not necessary to have this one job to support the family. If it is put in the future generations, it is equivalent to Zhongnanhai guards, and it can be regarded as a good job.
But Mu Yi has a new goal, and of course he won't waste time in the palace.
Twenty young men worked quite quickly, and in two days they had dug a cellar.
More than a dozen carpenters worked day and night to seal the cellar with wooden planks to prevent water leakage, and at the same time made dozens of wooden basins. Although everyone didn't understand what to do, but they were in charge of three meals and had money to take, so no one asked.
After six or seven days of fanfare, Mu Yi lay on a bamboo recliner with his eyes closed, and Miao Xiaodie stood behind him to help him pinch his shoulders.
Muyi uses saltpeter to make ice: dozens of wooden basins are filled with clean water, then the wooden basins are placed in the cellar, and the raw nitrate is placed in the cellar, and then the water is poured into the pool. Saltpeter dissolves in water and absorbs a lot of heat, cooling the water to the point of freezing.
At that time, you only need to wait until the wooden basin filled with water freezes into ice cubes, and then you can take it out.
In addition, Muyi also specially asked the carpenter to make dozens of small wooden boxes, which were filled with several layers of quilts to prevent the ice from melting.
Mu Yi had people cut the ice cubes in the basin into palm-sized pieces with a saw, and then took them out and sold them.
This time, Luoyang City is a sensation. The streets and alleys are full of ice sellers, including children and women.
"Sell ice...... Two copper coins and one piece of ice, quench the heat and quench your thirst......"
The sun is scorching, the weather in June is in full swing, no one has ever thought that someone will sell ice in summer, which is absolutely rare in Luoyang City.
There is no shortage of rich people in Luoyang City, some people are curious, some people want to be fresh, so the first batch of ice cubes was sold out in less than a day.
The rules of the two copper plates were set by Mu Yi, and those who sold ice in the streets and alleys could earn a copper coin as long as they sold one piece, and Mu Yi himself hated one.
Just on the first day, Mu Yi earned thousands of copper coins, which is really a daily gold! It also indirectly feeds a group of people who live in poverty.
Miao Xiaodie said with a look of adoration: "Ah Lang is so amazing, he can turn ice into ice in such a hot weather, which is even worse than a fairy!"
Mu Yi shook his head helplessly and smiled bitterly: "This is not conjured, okay, don't flatter, you have already opened up the relationship, you will go and take all your family out in a while!" If they don't have a place to go, they should move to the house first, because there is a shortage of people at home anyway. ”
After finishing speaking, Mu Yi closed his eyes, shook his rocking chair and hummed a pop song.
"Ah Lang is very gracious, and the slave and maid are toothless and unforgettable......"
Mu Yi, who was lying on the rocking chair, secretly sighed in his heart, if he was not in a troubled world, with his more than 1,800 years of knowledge, how good would it be to be a rich man in this era?
At the same time, the three counterinsurgency armies all had good news.
Nanyang Taishou Qin Jie beheaded Zhang Mancheng. The Yellow Turban Army changed to Zhao Hong as the commander and occupied Wancheng with more than 100,000 people.
Huangfu Song and Zhu Junjun continued to attack the Yellow Turbans of Runan and Chen, and finally defeated Peng Tuo in Xihua, and the remaining Yellow Turban troops fled to Wancheng.
On the other hand, Lu Zhi broke Zhang Jiao in Jizhou and killed more than 10,000 people.
In desperation, Zhang Jiao could only retreat to Guangzong City.
Faced with Zhang Jiao, who could not retreat from the city and defended it, Lu Zhi could only dig deep trenches, build fences to keep away horses, and manufacture a large number of siege equipment.
However, Guangzong City has hundreds of thousands of thieves, and if it is attacked, the official army will definitely suffer heavy casualties.
And hundreds of thousands of people in Zhang Jiao are trapped in the city, and the daily consumption of grain and grass is a huge number, without the support of grain and grass, with only the grain in Guangzong City, Zhang Jiao will not last long.
Thinking about all this, Lu Zhi dispelled the idea of besieging the city and changed it to a siege.
It stands to reason that Lu Zhi's approach is not wrong at all, but who knows that at this moment, the imperial court sent Zuo Feng to inspect the military situation.
As soon as Zuo Feng arrived at Lu Zhi's military camp, he began to ask for bribes, but Lu Zhi hated eunuchs, not to mention that he had no money to bribe Zuo Feng, so he refused Zuo Feng on the spot.
Zuo Feng didn't ask for the money, so he held a grudge right away, and immediately put on small shoes for Lu Zhi when he returned to the capital.