33. Ice making in summer

Jingwen and the chefs in the imperial dining room didn't expect that it was the crown prince Li Chengqian who came to steal the ice, and he even caught him. It's good now, Li Chengqian has a grudge against them. However, Jingwen was also complaining in his heart, how could this prince do such a thing, and actually came to the imperial dining room to steal ice cubes? Is this a child's personality, or is he born to like it? Later generations once said that Li Chengqian liked to steal cattle to eat meat, which seems to be not groundless!

"Jingwen! What do you think we should do? Now that the prince has a grudge against us, what should we do? You have a good relationship with the emperor, can you intercede with the emperor for us? Master Hu asked anxiously.

Master Hu was completely anxious this time, because he was actually hated by the prince, and this problem was very big. Because if you offend the emperor, the emperor will not bother with a chef, because ordinary chefs are nothing in the eyes of the emperor and are not worthy of letting the emperor care. But the prince is different, the prince changes his posture to a child, and the child holds a grudge the most. Now that they have offended the prince, I am afraid that there will be no good fruit for them to eat! For children, who is good to them, then they are afraid that they have a deep memory. But if it's not good for them, the memory will be very deep. Now that the chefs have put a trick on him, will he be able to make a good impression?

Therefore, now Master Hu can only ask Jingwen for him, hoping that Jingwen can ask to see the emperor and let Emperor Li Shimin keep their imperial dining room. However, the answer is clearly in vain.

"Master, I can't help this! The emperor is in charge of every day, how can he pay attention to these small things? What's more, letting the emperor come forward is also a symptom rather than a root cause, and it is impossible to fundamentally solve the problem. Even if we look for the emperor for a while and let the emperor come up to get through the prince's idea, maybe the prince just takes this complaint to heart and will break out in the future! Jingwen said.

"What should I do?" Master Hu said helplessly.

Jingwen had no choice but to say: "The bell must be tied to the bell, since the prince has a grudge against us, we can only solve the problem from the prince." As long as we keep the prince from hating us, then won't we solve the problem? ”

"But how can the prince not hold a grudge against us?" Master Hu asked.

"Since the prince stole the ice from our imperial dining room because he wanted to cool off the heat, then let's make a fuss about cooling off the heat." Jingwen said.

Jing Wen already had an idea in his heart, and he immediately found a few copper basins, and then found a large water tank again. In the end, Jingwen called a few senior brothers.

"Senior brother, you go buy some seasonal fruits at this time, and then go buy some milk and goat milk to come back." Jingwen said.

The senior brother said, "The seasonal fruits are okay, but we don't have much milk and goat's milk here." This thing is only drunk by the Turks, and we Han people drink milk and goat's milk! ”

"Senior brother, I have to buy it back, I'm here to let the prince lose his anger!"

When the senior brother heard that he wanted to let the prince dissipate his anger, he didn't dare to despise it, and immediately went out of the palace to plan to buy it back. And Jingwen also went out of the palace, found some medicinal herb shops, bought some things that looked like powder, and sold several large bags. And at this time, the chef who bought the fruit and milk returned.

"Senior Brother Jingwen, I bought the fruit back. There are apples, oranges, and kiwis. However, I only bought three catties of milk, which I bought from a Turkic merchant, who brought live cattle to the Central Plains, so I could buy them. If I buy it on the grassland, I'm afraid I will stink when I get the Central Plains. ”

"Senior brother, you peel these fruits, and then press the city jam, the oranges have to be seeded, and the apples have to be pulped into jam. Kiwi you can peel and chop with a knife after that. Jingwen arranged it immediately.

The senior brother soon began to follow Jingwen's practice, and Jingwen also began to check the quality of the milk, and found that the milk was still very fresh, and the milk flavor was very strong, not at all the pure milk that had no milk taste at all in later generations. Although this is only three catties of milk, it should be enough.

"Master, you can help me heat this milk, and it needs to be boiled." Jingwen said.

"Okay!" Master Hu also said.

Although Jingwen knew that there would be a lot of nutritional deficiencies after the milk was boiled, Jingwen was not trying to pay attention to nutrition at present, but to please the prince. If you take the milk that has just been squeezed out and give it to the prince, it will be fine if there is no problem, but if it does, it will be a big sin. Therefore, Jing Wen would rather let the nutrition of the milk be lost, but he could not let the prince have some problems. This is called risk reduction.

When the milk boiled Huang Zihua, the jam was ready. Jingwen put the boiled Year of the Ox into three copper basins, and then put the three kinds of jam into the milk and slowly mixed well.

"Okay, it's finally done, and the next step is to freeze it!" Jingwen said.

"What? Frozen? What is it to freeze? Master Hu asked.

"Freeze them until they clump and become solid. I'm going to make ice cream. Jingwen said.

Master Hu said incredulously, "Are you going to make ice cream?" It's summer! Even if you put ice cubes in the ice cellar, it will only delay the melting of the ice cubes, and it will not turn new things into ice cubes. But you're going to turn this into ice? That's ridiculous, isn't it? ”

"Master, what's wrong with making ice in summer? Look at me! Jingwen said very confidently.

Jingwen put the three copper plates into the water tank, and then saw the three copper basins floating in the water tank, and then Jing Wen poured the bag of things in his hand into the water tank.

Soon, the temperature dropped by several degrees all around, which made everyone shudder. Everyone is very strange, why is there a place to lower the temperature even though it is a hot day?

Soon, they noticed that the water in the tank was steaming white. Unlike other water vapors, this white vapor is rising at first, but then it is falling. It didn't take long for the white gas to fall to the ground and disappear.

"What is this?" Master Hu was stunned, they didn't expect that the dairy products in the copper basin were solidifying and ready to freeze.

"What a miracle! What a miracle! It's freezing in the summer, which is really auspicious! I'm going to report to the emperor that there is auspiciousness. ”

When Jingwen heard this, he immediately stopped the senior brother, if he went to report Xiangrui, I am afraid that he would be suspected of bullying the king.