Chapter Twenty-Three: Yilong Stalls (2)
This time, the god of fate didn't play tricks on Li Qing again, he got five urns full of pure crystal white nitrate, three guan money, when he put three guan money in front of the woman, she simply regarded him as a reborn bodhisattva, that kowtow and kneel, that offer coaxing, needless to say, if she is twenty years younger, if there are one hundred and ten fewer wrinkles on her face, if there are five or six fewer babies following her buttocks, then, that kind of thing happens, I'm afraid it's really a bodhisattva, and it can't be stopped, hehe! Far from it. At that moment, Li Qing hired a mule cart and brought these fortune snows home.
"Childe, are you going to make ice out of this kind of thing?" The curtain looked puzzled, these are very similar to the common hoarfrost in the corner of the stove next to the wall, it can also make ice?
"Yes! Just trust me. Having said that, Li Qing didn't have a bottom at all, what he heard and what he did was like two different things, how to match the ratio, whether to put the nitrate directly into the water, or another way, he was also confused, Li Qing looked up at the curtain with an expectant face, gritted his teeth and said: "Curtain, you go and get two buckets of water first." ”
The well water was cold to the bone, he took a big sip, his whole body trembled, and his intestines were almost solidified, and after a while, he hated and said: "With this well water, what else do you have to do with ice!" ”
So far, he can only start work hard, first pour half a bucket of water in his footbath, the curtain thought he was going to wash the basin first, but he didn't expect to put nitrate directly.
"Childe!" Her face flushed slightly, "Isn't this basin washed first?" ”
"It's not easy for you to beat these two buckets of water, it's a pity to waste it, I'll do an experiment with it first." It's a warm mouth, but if this experiment is successful, he is reluctant to throw away the ice again, it is difficult to say, he was an accountant in his previous life, and for him, a penny is also money!
He scraped a layer of crystal snow with a wooden spoon, and read in his mouth: "This is the cost of two pennies, and it will be included in the research and development expense account." Unexpectedly, the accountant changed his career to become an engineer, and his hands-on ability was poor, and with a shake of his hand, a spoonful of crystal snow was all sprinkled into the water, "Oops! He threw himself on the edge of the basin, trying to use the wooden spoon to get back the penny, but the water had already begun to change.
The nitrate powder entered the water, faintly dispersed, the water gradually became turbid, became gray-white, and then the water began to churn, as if quicklime entered the water, the basin surface came out of the steaming white gas, the curtain was also attracted by this vision, staring intently at the basin surface, soon the water no longer boiled, began to solidify, and the water surface formed a unique ripple of ice.
"Hah! It worked! Li Qing cheered, couldn't help dancing, twisting his waist and limbs, just like the Latin American players who scored the winning goal in later generations, the curtain eyes were also wide open, and he touched the ice in disbelief, and suddenly let out a coquettish cry, turned around and ran back to the kitchen to get the guy.
"Let me taste it!" Li Qing used a kitchen knife to pry off a piece easily, and was about to put it in his mouth, but his hand stopped, not that he remembered that the footbasin was not washed, but that he was worried about what to do if the ice was poisonous.
Li Qing caught a glimpse of the big yellow dog probing his brain at the door, so he rolled his eyes and beckoned with a smile, "Come!" You come first", the expression seemed to be a good man of the ninth world, taking a big bone to give disaster relief to the hungry and cold dog, maybe the big yellow dog was extremely hungry, or Li Qing's hypocrisy confused it, it came step by step, stretched out its blood-red tongue and licked the ice, took two steps back as if deceived, and refused to move again.
Li Qing felt that the amount of licking seemed to be insufficient, so he immediately broke the ice, grabbed a handful, broke the dog's mouth and stuffed it in, and said to himself: "If you die, I will bury you under the persimmon tree." ”
The dog whimpered and ran away, Li Qing was willing to let go of this young volunteer, chased him all the way, and after a long time, he came back in high spirits, needless to say, the young volunteer was naturally alive and healthy.
When he entered the house, he saw that Curtain Er was holding a piece of ice in his hand, and his brows were furrowed into a line, Li Qing lost his voice and shouted: "Curtain Child, how can you eat!" ”
"Ice is ice, it's just too salty, and the color is ugly, how can this, how can this be sold?" Curtain frowned and asked worriedly.
Li Qing was not in a hurry to answer, but looked at her carefully before and after, and made sure that there was no anomaly, so he was relieved, the limitations of this dog's experiment are very large, its stomach and intestines are very different from people, even if people don't die after eating, but it is also a troublesome thing to have a headache and brain fever and diarrhea, he wanted to try it himself, but the curtain took the lead.
"It's not a problem to be salty, I put more nitrate powder just now, just try a few more times." Li Qing took out a few hundred dollars and handed it to her, "You go buy some fruits and sugar, that's right!" Go and call the blackface blacksmith again, I have something to ask him to make. ”
Li Qing naturally does not only sell pure ice water, a wide variety is the way to make money, he then tried a few more times, and gradually found some ways, and finally only a trace of salty taste, if you add a little sugar, it is a good salt water popsicle.
In the next two days, Li Qing used fruit and sugar to make iced sour plum soup and chilled watermelon juice, asked a carpenter to make some wooden molds for making popsicles, asked a blacksmith to make a few huge iron kettles, and rented a mule cart.
This day is the auspicious day of Li Qingxuan, he does not look at the yellow calendar, and he does not ask about feng shui, he only looks up at the sky, the sun is hot, and he sweats, this is the auspicious day of his zodiac.
As soon as he entered the city gate, he found that countless people were rushing towards the center of the city, as if there was a huge magnet there, sucking up the iron dust around him, Li Qing grabbed an old man and asked with a smile: "Boss, what happened in front, why did everyone rush there." ”
The old man was in a hurry, he was pulled by him, struggled twice, but did not break free, so he had to stare at him angrily, and couldn't hide the excitement in his eyes and said: "There is a lottery in front, I heard that someone touched a cow with ten cents yesterday, I also went to try my luck today, no matter how bad it is, I can touch the hoe!" ”
After speaking, while Li Qing was distracted, he broke free of his hand and ran away without a trace in two steps.
Li Qing was surprised, this king's prison head was so fast, it was only a few days, and he started, and then he was overjoyed in his heart, this touch of the prize squeezed out a stinky sweat, don't you just want to drink a bowl of iced sour plum soup?
The mule cart traveled to the parting bridge, only to see a sea of people, full of crazy men and women who dreamed of making a fortune, in the air, on the ground, fluttering with golden ingot-shaped lottery tickets, if Li Qing did not know the inside story, it would be regarded as a big family funeral!
The mule cart was too large, and soon blocked the road, and there were already impatient people roaring behind, Li Qing hurriedly pulled the mule cart to the side, and found a willow tree to set up a stall, the weather was hot, so he used the method of the popsicle aunt in later generations, made a few double-layer large wooden boxes, put them into the popsicles wrapped in paper, and covered them tightly with a few thick bedding.
First set up a table, put two large iron kettles, and then put down twenty coarse porcelain bowls, Li Qing shouted at the top of his throat: "The weather is so hot, come to a bowl of iced sour plum soup!" Everybody! Don't miss it! ”
With the experience of running a lottery, his face is a lot thicker, but the effect is not as good as the curtain, she only used a crisp and sweet voice to call softly twice, and then came up a few stout old farmers, cooing, drinking a few bowls of the cheapest saltwater ice soup, a few yellow cancan Kaiyuan Tongbao jingle into the urn, after a while, the coarse porcelain bowl on the table was changed, and the money in the urn was also thinly spread on a layer, but none of the money in it was for Li Qing's face.
Although the charm is lacking, but the brain of modern people is there, he saw a little boy next to him crying for sugar gourd skewers, his eyes rolled, he took out a red watermelon popsicle and put it up, pinched his powder and smiled: "Little brother, do you want this?" ”
The little boy was immediately attracted by the first popsicle in history, the red color, the slightest cold air, and the faint sweet fragrance, it was definitely a fatal temptation for him, the little boy licked his tongue, timidly looked up at his mother, his mother was on the lottery, she tore off the red paper that stuck to the prize number, and her extremely excited eyes suddenly dimmed, and she threw away the golden ingots paper casually, but she felt that the skirt seemed to be torn off by her son, and she hurriedly slapped her son's hand, just in time to see Li Qingzheng seducing her son with a popsicle, She only had five cents left in her hand, and she was going to touch one more, so she had spare money to buy this, and was about to scold Li Qing angrily, but she heard him say to her son: "This popsicle is for you, no money, it's just that someone asked where you bought it, so you asked him to come to me, okay?" ”
"Don't want money?" The woman immediately smiled, snatched the popsicle, stuffed it into her son's mouth, and dragged him away, Li Qing shook his head regretfully and sighed: "Doesn't she know? She's made history, and her son eats the first-ever popsicle. However, his trick seemed to have an effect, and in a few moments, a dozen children came running, clamoring to buy the red ice cube, and soon, like a snowball, more children came to buy it, and finally each of them had one, just like the balloons that were popular in later generations.
Only one hour, Li Qing has already had a few hundred dollars into the account, he and he and the curtain are shouting dry, so they each take a popsicle in the mouth, the two looked at each other and smiled, the curtain suddenly thought of something, and took one to the mule driver who drove the car, he also just touched the prize back, good luck, five cents to touch the hoe of the bright tile, not to mention it is worth fifty wen, he is in love to stroke the hoe, as if returning to the cave room candle night, suddenly saw the kind little girl handed a popsicle, quickly panicked to take it, smashed the two smiled: " This thing is good, why don't you get a prize or something? ”
Curtain Er smiled and said: "This method of touching the prize was still thought up by my son-in-law, son-in-law, right?" But he didn't see Li Qing agree, turned his head to look, only to see him staring directly at the flow of people who touched the prize, and for a long time, he suddenly slapped his head and shouted: "Why am I so stupid!" ”