Chapter 35 The Uses of Ice Cubes

"I haven't figured out what to call this thing yet, so let's call it a smoothie for now." Wei Hong sells a good job.

handed over a bowl of smoothie to Wan Niang, took out a bowl herself, and the two of them sat in the hall and ate it deliciously. Wan Niang had never eaten such a novelty, a bowl of smoothie was quickly eaten, Wei Hong immediately handed her another bowl, but Wei Hong had not finished the first bowl, and Wan Niang's second bowl had bottomed out.

Looking at Wan Niang's amazing speed, Wei Hong sighed, and said secretly in his heart: "It seems that women are born unable to resist the charm of cold drinks, and this has been the case since ancient times. ”

While eating, Li Ye suddenly came, after all, as one of the shareholders, Li Ye needs to pay attention to the process of making ice at all times. Seeing that Wei Hong and Wan Niang were eating, Li Ye unceremoniously picked up a bowl from the table, and when it was eaten in his mouth, Li Ye's expression was basically the same as Wan Niang's, except for shock: "Wei Gongzi, this ......"

Before Wei Hong could speak, Wan Niang next to her answered: "Mr. Li, this thing is a smoothie invented by Fujun." ”

Wei Hong looked at Li Ye with a smile: "How does it taste?" ”

Li Ye couldn't think of any words to describe the smoothie for a while, so he said several good words in a row, and then ate the smoothie in one go, and reached out to get another bowl, but was stopped by Wei Hong.

Wei Hong made a total of eight bowls, and now there are four bowls left, Wei Hong tightly guarded the remaining four bowls, and seemed to be loyal and reminded: "Mr. Li, you are old, you have a bad stomach, and you should eat less cold things like smoothies, so don't hurt your body." ”

Li Ye's body bones, Li Ye himself knows, although he is old, but he eats a good taste, don't say a cup of smoothie, even if it is ice, he can chew it dry. Looking at Wei Hong's stingy appearance, Li Ye pouted: "That's it, if you don't eat it, you can eat as much as you want in the future." It seems that there is no problem with this ice-making, and as soon as the owner comes back, we will start the ice-making business. ”

"We started late this year, and we don't want to make much money, we just want to open the market." Wei Hong only cared about eating smoothies and said absentmindedly.

Li Ye couldn't eat the smoothie, and he was still hungry when he looked at it here, so he left. As soon as Li Ye left on the front foot, Wei Hong on the back foot instructed the servant to send a bowl to the second and third misses. Within a tea time, the servant came back, saying that the two young ladies had not eaten enough, and that they wanted another bowl for each. Anyway, Wei Hong can make it whenever he wants to eat, so he didn't hesitate to let the servant send the last two bowls to the two young ladies.

I'm cooling down, and the craftsmen in the workshop next door are still hot. Wei Hong wanted to bring the ice cube directly, but if he wanted to carry it so directly, it would almost melt before he could wait. After thinking about it, Wei Hong came up with a plan, and even the cold storage was built, so why worry about the incubator? He instructed the servant to find a large wooden box, hollowed out in the middle, wrapped in a quilt inside and out, and put four buckets of ice in it. Then Wei Hong instructed the cook to boil a pot of sugar water and transport it to the next workshop.

After transporting it, Zhou Dali looked at the cold ice cube and was dumbfounded, and looked at Wei Hong in disbelief: "Childe, did you really make this ice?" ”

Wei Hong joked: "What do you think I am playing with you?" ”

Under Zhou Dali's shocked gaze, Wei Hong took out two buckets of ice, smashed them into thumb-sized pieces, put them into ceramic cups, poured sugar water into them, and asked Zhou Dali to distribute them to the craftsmen. Although this cold drink is simple, the taste and coolness are not bad at all, and the craftsmen who drink it are happy and energetic, and they work harder.

Wei Hong instructed Zhou Dali, and after a while, the craftsmen couldn't stand the heat anymore, so they made the remaining two buckets of ice into cold drinks.

On the way back, Wei Hong thought to himself, if he did this cold drink every day, it would be too troublesome, and he had to think of a simple and quick way to cool down the craftsmen quickly. When he got home, Wei Hong already had eyebrows in his mind, why bother so much? Wouldn't it be okay to just make popsicles?!

Wei Hong's favorite popsicle is the milk flavor of 'Little Pudding', and there are no cows in these years, so Wei Hong gave up the idea of milk ice cream and directly made a simple and quick 'old popsicle'. First, I asked a carpenter to make a mold for a batch of popsicles, and then used the most common sugar and orange juice as ingredients, and chopsticks as popsicle sticks. He Wanniang was busy from morning to night, making nearly a thousand in one go, which was enough for the craftsmen to eat for a while.

solved the problem of cooling down the craftsmen, and the stone that Wei Hong had been hanging in his heart could be regarded as landing. On this day, Wei Hong and Li Ye were sitting at the gate with a popsicle in their mouths and talking about the follow-up development of the sewing machine. Qiulan has something to talk to Wei Gongzi about. ”

Li Ye took a sip of the popsicle, looked at Wei Hong, and then at Li Qiulan, then nodded, and saluted Wei Hong: "Wei Gongzi, when we have time in the afternoon, let's continue to talk." ”

In the past few days, Wei Hong has become a vendor selling popsicles, and the whole house has nothing to do, so he will go to Wei Hong to ask for two popsicles to eat, and the most asked for is Li Ye, so the relationship between Wei Hong and Li Ye has grown by leaps and bounds, from the original cooperative relationship to the friendship relationship.

Wei Hong got up and saluted: "Sir, go slowly." ”

After sending Li Ye away, Wei Hong sat down again, licking the popsicle while asking Li Qiulan: "Third Miss, what's the matter with Wei?" ”

Li Qiulan's face was a little solemn: "Son, have you ever said anything to my second sister these days?" Or what have you done? ”

"No......" Wei Hong thought to himself, that aunt and grandmother, she can't hide yet, what can she do with her?

"This is strange, since the second sister came back, her behavior has become very weird, she always stands alone in front of the window in a daze, I shouldn't call it, the second sister has never been like this before." Li Qiulan tilted her head, looking puzzled.

"Where?" Wei Hong casually threw aside the popsicle stick that he had eaten up, and looked up and asked.

"It's the day the second sister knew that the eldest sister was coming back, and she dropped the jade bottle."

"Oh, that's the day." Wei Hong suddenly realized, and began to think hard about Li Ruohua's words and deeds that day, but after thinking about it, he didn't come up with anything wrong, and finally Wei Hong linked Li Ruohua's weirdness to the eldest sister Li Xuanqing: "Is it because the eldest lady is coming back soon, and the second miss is worried about the Yujing bottle, so it's like this?" ”