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The entire Yangzhou marching camp retreated 300 steps back and set up camp again, completely getting rid of the radiation range of the enemy's trebuchet, but at the same time, the Song army also lost the best maneuver distance to suppress the enemy's deployment out of the city, and its own catapults lost their effectiveness.

The most depressed is Pan Mei, who lost his troops and persevered for half a month, and overnight, he returned to the original point, which means that all his previous efforts have become useless.

The weather in Yangzhou is very hot in July, but there is a burst of coolness in the handsome tent.

Pan Mei and Shi Shouxin, who came to the appointment, were looking at a huge brass tripod in the tent with surprised eyes at the moment.

In the brass tripod filled with clear water, there are countless water bubbles rising, and a thin layer of ice is gradually forming, Pan Mei subconsciously turned her head to look outside the tent, and saw the dazzling light outside the tent, only to be sure that it is not winter.

Turning his gaze, he saw Wen Zheng placing a thin brass plate on the ice surface in the brass tripod, and then pouring a white liquid into the brass plate from a wine jug.

Hearing that Shi Shouxin and Pan Mei were in a daze, he chuckled and said: "Two generals, please sit down, you are not allowed to drink alcohol in the army, this is a new food made by Ben Shuai, called cream ice cream, which is not only sweet and delicious, but also can relieve the heat."

Two generals, please taste it. ”

Wen used a wooden spoon to scoop up some cream and ice residue from a thin brass plate, put it into a porcelain bowl, and handed it to Pan Mei and Shi Shouxin.

If you want to win the war, you must unite as one, and since Pan Mei's merits have been completely denied before, it is very necessary to appease the people's hearts now.

"Thank you Wen Shuai." Pan Mei took the porcelain bowl handed over by Wen, and as soon as she started her hand, there was an instant coolness along her hands to the bottom of her heart.

Pan Mei was slightly stunned, looking at the snow-white ice slag in the porcelain bowl, her expression seemed to be a little puzzled.

Shi Shouxin took the porcelain bowl, used the wooden spoon in the bowl, put some ice residue in his mouth, and suddenly a coolness went straight into his lungs along the throat, and there was a wisp of cream fragrance, lingering on the tip of the tongue, for a long time.

"Good food." Shi Shouxin praised.

Wen smiled: "If you like it, eat more." ”

Pan Mei saw that Shi Shouxin said that it tasted good, and immediately tasted it, and a cool feeling immediately spread all over her body.

As a general, you need to wear a helmet and armor at any time, Yangzhou in July is already very hot, and now a spoonful of ice slag is ingested, and the whole body is suddenly refreshed. Pan Mei moaned involuntarily and said, "It's so refreshing." ”

"Oh, and General Pan has a sweet tooth too?" Wen Xiao asked.

"This one tastes good, but mostly cool. It's not uncommon to have ice cubes in summer, but I don't have them in Yangzhou camp! Wen Shuai can't be immortal? Pan Mei said curiously.

"This is not immortal art, this is science, Xiao Dao'er, if General Pan wants to learn, Wen can teach all the formulas." Wen said indifferently.

"Seriously!" Pan Mei was surprised. With this ability to make ice out of thin air, it will be a lot of money!

"Of course." Wen confirmed.

Seeing that the expression was not polite, Pan Mei bowed her hand and said: "Wen Shuai is generous, Pan is grateful." ”

Wen He smiled: "If General Pan learns it, I'm afraid he won't be grateful to Wen." ”

Miscanthus is not only a raw material for making gunpowder, but also a raw material for making ice, and now the army is making gunpowder on a large scale, of course, there will be no shortage of this kind of thing.

For today's ice feast, Wen deliberately asked the master craftsmen in the army to create several thin brass plates. The most important thing is that milk is not easy to find, but fortunately in Yangzhou Fushuo, people occasionally use this thing to milk their children, and there is no problem with the purchase of some from ten miles and eight townships.

However, the equipment used to make ice cream is very imperfect, and the smell is completely handmade, the milk is first boiled and sterilized, and then cooled, mixed with cold boiled water in a certain proportion. It took nearly three days to prepare for this preparation, and the ice cream produced was still far from the finished product, and the final result was ice slag instead of ice cubes. But there's nothing wrong with fooling these old antiques, after all, they haven't seen what real ice cream looks like.

"Wen Shuai, this summer ice making is a great skill, as long as you learn it, future generations will definitely have no worries about food and clothing. The grace of passing on the art, Pan must be remembered in his heart and never forgotten. Pan Mei bowed her hand sincerely and said.

The grace of passing on art is a very serious matter in ancient times, especially the skill of food and clothing related to a lifetime, that is, to set up an immortal tablet for the other party, and to worship it at four o'clock and eight festivals, which is not an exaggeration.

Wen smiled and said: "Don't be in a hurry to say big things first, when I teach you this skill, after you think about it, it's not too late to thank you." ”

Wen first picked up a copper basin from the case on the side, then scooped in some water from the water urn in the tent, placed it on the ground, and then held a piece of saltpeter in his hand and said to Pan Mei: "General Pan, do you know what this is?" ”

"Saltpeter." Pan Mei wondered.

"Yes, saltpeter. General Pan, take a closer look. ”

Hearing that, he threw a few pieces of saltpeter into the copper basin, and suddenly the water bubbles in the copper basin gurgled and the mist began to disperse.

In a few moments, thin layers of ice ballast appeared all over the water.

"Ahh ........Seeing the amazing changes, Pan Mei's boss opened his mouth and subconsciously let out a voice in surprise.

"How is General Pan? Do you want to thank Ben Shuai? Pan Mei, who was stunned, smiled.

Pan Mei, who came back to her senses, immediately picked up a copper basin from the side, scooped in clean water, and put in saltpeter, and after a while, the same effect appeared.

"So easy?" The corners of Pan Mei's mouth twitched. When I saw and heard about summer ice making just now, I thought he used some kind of witchcraft, but it turned out to be such a simple method.

"yes, it's that simple." Wen smiled.

"The last general is ignorant, please forgive me." Pan Mei bowed her hand in shame.

Seeing Pan Mei's embarrassed expression, Wen immediately invited: "Okay, let's not talk about this for now, just eat ice, it's hard to satisfy your hunger." Let's try the ice cream made by Ben Shuai first. ”

The so-called rice ice cream is just a cold boiled rice, but the only difference is the addition of frosting, which is one of the few white sugars that is refined from brown sugar.

You must know that the real snow-white sugar, at this time, is worth a thousand gold.

At this time, white sugar is not to eat, but to be used as a medicinal material, with cough and phlegm, shengjin and moisturizing the lungs, to heat and relieve dryness, etc., it is because of the smell of coming to Yangzhou that Mei Yiqi put some in the package for the purpose of relieving the heat.

In order to appease Pan Mei, the main general, Wen has invested a lot of money this time.

"How does it taste?" The corners of his mouth twitched slightly. Looking at Shi Shouxin and Pan Mei's bowl of rice, they heard that their hearts were dripping blood, this is all silver for nothing!

"Very good, the last general will definitely be able to eat a few more bowls." Pan Mei answered Wen's question and was still eating fiercely.

"Wen Shuai, give Shi another bowl." Shi Shouxin added insult to injury.

Eat! When you regret it, you laugh and say, "You're welcome, you must eat well and eat well." (To be continued.) )