Chapter 22 on the ice

The aunt sighed and said, "My mother doesn't want to, my mother also wants you to marry an ordinary family and live this life in peace." ”

"Mother, since that's ......"

"When my mother was about to give birth to you, the family was very difficult at that time, our family had just been separated, you know who your grandmother was, and she didn't give anything, so your mother and your father moved out with the three of you and lived in an abandoned thatched house in Guashan......"

"Later, when you were born, because you didn't eat well, your body was also bad, and you got sick every now and then,...... One day, a traveling Taoist priest who passed by our house saw you in your second brother's arms, and he also glanced at you, saying that you will be rich and noble in the future, and I want our family to treat you well, and I can't suffer you for a thousand hardships. The day after the Taoist priest left, our good days came, and you were not sick, but your father went into the mountain and didn't expect to dig up a ginseng, which is why we have our current home. ”

"Following what happened at home, you also know that every time you encounter difficulties, you will turn the danger into a disaster, and my mother wants you to enjoy more happiness when you are at home."

"Mother, but my daughter doesn't want to do this."

The aunt sighed and said, "Girl! Now you're older, too. Then he sighed deeply and said, "The days with your mother are getting shorter and shorter, don't worry about these things." ”

"Mother, my daughter doesn't want to get married." Apricot said with her head bowed with a blushing face.

"Silly girl, how can a woman grow up and not get married."

"Mother, my daughter wants to accompany you and her father."

"Good, good, good......"

“……”

Li Shen, who had just laid down and fell asleep the next morning, was awakened by the sound of knocking on the door and shouting, and he couldn't sleep all night, and there were always a few mosquitoes "buzzing" in his ears.

Wearing a piece of clothing, Li Shen opened the door of the room, looked at Pang Zhong standing outside the door, looked at the sun that had not yet emerged, his whole face darkened, glared at him angrily, and said, "Is the sun out?" Are you embarrassed to disturb other people's dreams so early? ”

"Didn't you say early in the morning?"

Li Shen had nothing to say in one sentence, rolled his eyes slightly, he really couldn't communicate with the current people, and said, "Go find a carpenter and come over and make some things." ”

Li Shen decided to teach the Pang family how to make cold drinks, which was regarded as compensation for his life-saving grace.

Li Shen handed the drawing in his hand to the master carpenter standing beside him, and said while gesturing: "Master Wang, take a look, it will be built according to this look, the height is about this high, and the width is about this wide." ”

Then he asked, "How much time do you estimate?" ”

Carpenter Wang looked at the drawings in his hand, thought for a while, and said, "It is estimated that it will look like in three hours." ”

"By the way, Master Wang hopes to make this mold so that it won't leak." Li Shen said that one mold can make thirty-two popsicles at a time, and two should be about the same, and the speed of making is very fast anyway, and then said: "Please help make two." ”

"I'll bring it to you in the evening." Master Wang said.

"Li Shen, what are you doing here?" Pang Zhong on the side asked the doubts in his heart.

"It's useful, go pick once the mountain spring comes." Li Shen commanded.

He really can't remember the ratio of saltpeter and water tie into ice, and now he can only slowly experiment, using the lowest saltpeter to tie into ice, otherwise there will be more saltpeter, which will definitely affect the taste of ice.

As for whether this saltpeter will affect the health of the human body, he thinks he should not, all kinds of poisons in modern people are in their mouths every day, and they have not seen anyone poisoned, let alone this natural mineral, and gunpowder made of saltpeter seems to be able to prevent the effect of wound inflammation.

Pang Zhong picked up two buckets of mountain springs, put them down with a black face, looked at Li Shen, covered his fists with both hands, and thought in his heart; If it weren't for my sister, I wouldn't have been able to kill you.

Saltpeter has long appeared, and in ancient times, saltpeter was generally put into the refining of pills, so it is often sold in today's medicine shops.

Li Shen put the wooden basin on the ground, squatted down, poured the water in the bucket into the basin, opened a bag of powdered saltpeter in his hand, and said to Pang Zhong: "Look at it, you can write down all this, and you will have a means to make a living in the future." ”

Pang Zhong looked at him in disbelief, what did he just say? Teach yourself how to earn a living? Craftsmanship lives in today's years, and is regarded as very important by craftsmen, that is, the craftsmanship of carpenters, it takes about six or seven years to follow the apprentice, and some even longer, the master is willing to release people, and the master's unique skills are rarely passed on to the disciples.

"Li Shen, what kind of craft is this? If that's it, forget it. ”

"A small craft, which is needed in the summer, will give you a little more money every year to subsidize the family's use, I really think it is an ancestral heirloom! Heirlooms can't be given to you casually. Li Shen said with relief, just afraid of meeting those who are not greedy enough.

took out a small spoon and dug up a few spoonfuls of saltpeter and put them in a wooden plate, and after waiting for a small half a day, he couldn't see any changes in the water, Li Shen was stunned, what the hell is going on? Isn't it said that saltpeter quickly turns into ice when it encounters water? Is there less saltpeter?

After a few spoonfuls in a row, watching the rapid changes in the water surface, Li Shen showed a faint smile on his face, raised his head to look at Pang Zhong with a face full of disbelief, and said with a smile: "Remember?" Seven spoonfuls of saltpeter can turn this basin of water into ice. ”

"What the hell is going on?"

"The principle of chemistry, you can't understand it, remember, this method is too simple, don't let anyone know it, otherwise this recipe won't be saved."

Pang Zhong nodded, staring at Li Shen, it was amazing, it was beyond his imagination, he didn't expect that he would be able to tie the water into ice cubes in the summer, could this be a god's means? Don't ask, since he said so, just do it according to his method, and say, "What are you making ice cubes for?" Is it sold? But can ordinary people afford such an expensive thing? Wealthy families have refrigerators in their homes. ”

"Who said that they want to buy expensive them, I'll try now to see if it works to make ice, and when the time comes, I'll tell you a way to make money, and you can earn six or seven taels in a summer, which is better than you going out to work."

"Only earn six or seven taels?"

Li Shen smiled and said, "Is it too little?" How much do you make in a summer? I'm talking about the lowest, if you work hard, it's still easy to get a few dozen taels a summer. ”

"A few dozen taels of silver?" Pang Zhong swallowed his breath and said, stretched out his hand and began to mix, dozens of taels a year, tens of hundreds of taels in ten years, one mu of the best paddy field is fourteen taels, even if you earn forty-two taels in one summer, you can buy three acres of the best field in a year, and it is thirty acres in ten years, and it will take twenty years to earn this......