The craftsmen in the workshop are all famous craftsmen in Hangzhou, with strong learning ability, in order to avoid outsiders learning their own ways of making money, Wei Hong directly transported the saltpeter back to the courtyard where Li Fu lived.

Wan Niang looked at the mountains of saltpeter, and once again fell into a situation where she didn't understand the situation at all, and looked at Wei Hong blankly: "Husband, what are you going to do?" ”

Fortunately, Wei Hong has always been open and honest with Wanniang, what husband and wife need is trust, if they can't even trust their wives, who else can the whole world trust? Wei Hong said bluntly: "Make ice!" ”

"Ice-making?" Wan Niang's willow eyebrows frowned slightly, Wan Niang really couldn't connect the two unrelated things of saltpeter and ice cubes, but recalling the 'sewing machine' thing, Wan Niang was relieved, maybe the husband really had a way to make ice. This ghost is dying of heat, and if Fujun really makes ice, it will cool down.

There is one thing Wei Hong thought, if it is just a simple saltpeter ice, the ice will be very turbid, inedible at all, to solve this problem, you must use saltpeter to cool down to create an ice cellar, and then use the low temperature environment to convert pure water into ice. For this reason, Wei Hong vacated the west wing in the courtyard, and ordered people to find a lot of old quilts, wrap all the doors and windows with quilts, and isolate the internal walls with quilts to have the effect of heat preservation.

After the preparations were ready, Wei Hong instructed his servants to find six large ceramic jars and grind saltpeter into the porcelain jars, the amount of saltpeter accounted for one-third of the volume of the porcelain jars. After putting the saltpeter, he instructed the servants to carry water into the house, dozens of large and small buckets, all of which were placed next to the porcelain jar, and then dismissed all the servants, leaving only Wan Niang in the house, closing the door, and pouring dozens of buckets of water into the jar in one go.

Saltpeter and water contact had a violent chemical reaction, a large amount of heat in the house was absorbed, the temperature plummeted, and the unprepared Wanniang was shivering from the cold, but there was an unbelievable look on her face: "It's amazing, it's really cold!" ”

Wei Hong just smiled mysteriously, didn't say anything, walked out of the house, and personally moved twenty buckets of pure well water into the house. Although there is saltpeter to cool down, it will take a long time to freeze the water at the temperature in the house, and it is strangely cold in this house, so Wei Hong took Wan Niang out and prepared to come back tomorrow. As a result, as soon as the door was opened, a wave of heat rushed towards him, and being urged by one cold and one hot, Wei Hong and Wan Niang sneezed at the same time.

Li Ye heard that Wei Hong had transported a lot of saltpeter to the house, and felt that something was strange so he came to inquire, Wei Hong didn't want to say more, after all, this saltpeter ice making is Wei Hong's exclusive way to make a fortune, and the less people know, the better. But after thinking about it again, he should wholeheartedly help the development of the Li Mansion, and now the part-time ice making has violated the agreement, and when the ice is made in the future, Li Ye will definitely know. Rather than the East Window incident at that time, it is better to confess now, and it is a big deal to share the benefits of the Li Mansion.

When Wei Hong said about the ice-making, Li Ye was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth: "Childe, can you really make ice out of thin air?" ”

The corners of Wei Hong's mouth drew a trace of arc: "Wei doesn't know spells, how can he make ice out of thin air." ”

Li Ye smashed his mouth: "Tut, our Ma family in Hangzhou City has an ancestral ice cave, and every summer just selling ice can make a lot of money, and our owner has paid for his ice cave five times, but the other party refuses to sell it." Now that you have your ice-making secret method, see if the Ma family still dares to be arrogant! ”

Looking at Li Ye's energetic appearance, Wei Hong took a deep breath and stretched out a finger: "Mr. Li, you pay to develop the scale of ice making, and I will share one percent of the profits you earn, how about it?" Yicheng doesn't look like much, but in the future, the entire ice cube market in Hangzhou City and even the entire southern part of Datang will be monopolized by us, and this will not be a small amount. ”

Li Ye lowered his head and rubbed his mustache for a while, then shook his head: "Yicheng is too low!" After all, engineering intake is definitely not a small amount! ”

Roaring low and throwing high is the way to cooperate, how can Wei Hong not know? After thinking for a while, he spit out another sentence: "That twenty-eight? ”

Li Ye is also an old fox who has been in business for many years, not to mention that he has a very personal relationship with Wei Hong, how can he not know the thickness of the profits? It's just that the other party has already brought the words to the table and said it, Li Ye is no longer polite, and ** returned the price naked: "Five-five!" ”

Wei Hong chuckled and shook his head, "How is Sanqi?" ”

Seeing that the other party was relieved, Li Ye breathed a sigh of relief, and Li Ye, who seized the opportunity, was also a lot more confident, and pretended to be resolute: "June Fourth, it really can't be lower!" ”

As Li Ye said, with such a large market demand, the Li family, as an investor, will not have a small intake of both manpower and capital, and this has become a favorable way to increase the proportion of capital! Therefore, Wei Hong, who planned to divide the six or four shares from the beginning, did not directly reveal his bottom line, but led Li Ye to determine the sharing ratio, and quietly achieved the purpose of being generous and taking advantage: "Haha...... Deal! However, the secrecy must be done well, the secret method of ice making must not be known to anyone, and all the mountains containing saltpeter in Hangzhou should be bought in case of emergency! ”

Li Ye nodded contentedly: "It doesn't cost much to buy a mountain, I don't need to wait for the owner to come back, I can call the shots now." ”

Wei Hong was in a state of excitement all the time, although forty percent is a lot, as long as he can rely on the Li family to make the ice business bigger, this business is not a loss!

Early the next morning, Wei Hong put on his coat and went into the West Wing, and the twenty buckets of water were all frozen. Wei Hong couldn't wait to taste the taste of ice, stretched out his tongue and licked it on the ice, the sweet well water frozen into ice, with a hint of sweetness, can be said in the hot summer only a piece of ice, is the most pleasing enjoyment.

If you just eat ice, it will be a bit violent, Wei Hong is ready to give full play to the role of this hard-won ice cube, first take out a bucket of ice, chisel out some and put it in a basin for later use. The remaining half of the bucket of ice was moved into the bedroom and fanned against the ice, and the warm bedroom was gradually cooled down by the action of the ice. Wanniang, who was asleep, let out a soft 'um' sound, as if she was enjoying the cool feeling.

After putting half a bucket of ice under the bed, Wei Hong went to the kitchen of the house. The cooks were very surprised when they saw Wei Hong coming in with half a basin of ice: "Yo, Master Wei, how much do you buy this ice?" ”

Buy? Lao Tzu is made of ice! Wei Hong didn't bother to explain to them, and asked them to find a bunch of fruits, including oranges, grapes, pears, and oranges. The ice cubes are smashed into powder form and placed in bowls, which are about four-fifths the size of the porcelain bowl. Then cut all kinds of fruits into cubes and stack them neatly on ice. Boil some sugar water and pour it evenly on top of the fruit, so that a simple smoothie is ready.

When she brought the prepared smoothie back to her residence, Wan Niang had already woken up, and when she saw the colorful and cold smoothie in Wei Hong's hand, she was very puzzled: "Husband, what is this?" ”

Wei Hong smiled mysteriously, didn't answer, took out a bowl from it, scooped out some with a small spoon, and sent it to Wan Niang's mouth: "Taste ......"

Since it was her husband who asked her to eat it, Wan Niang did not hesitate, and took the smoothie into her mouth, and the moment the strange-tasting smoothie entered her mouth, Wan Niang's eyes lit up, and she was surprised and delighted: "It's delicious, it's so cool, husband, what is this?" ”;