Chapter 26: Making Ice Cups(1)
Thinking like this, he couldn't help but secretly glance at the figure of the tall man who took three or four steps in front of him and turned his back to him, at this moment Yun Mubai looked in the direction of Wei Tingzhong, and found that Wei Tingzhong was also staring at Yun Mubai's busy figure in a muffled voice.
Suddenly, Yun Muxiu faintly smelled a trace of his quasi-father-in-law's body, uh, sour, it seemed to be quite dangerous...... Alas, sure enough, fortunately, he didn't show it so conspicuously before, otherwise maybe he would be the one who is now staring at him like this.
When Yun Muxiu's mental activities were flooding, Wei Qing had already begun to work with a wooden spoon between the bottles and cans. She put the bowl of ice crushed by the nurses in the bowl, piled it into the shape of a small mountain, and then scooped a spoonful of osmanthus nectar sauce and began to pour it down along the tip of the ice piled up, and then Wei Qing picked a few of the various candied fruits and sprinkled them around the ice crush. After seeing it, he was quite satisfied, so he held it with both hands and showed it to everyone: "Let's try it and see how it tastes." ”
What is it? Everyone looked at the ice cup in Wei Qing's hand that was drenched in sweet osmanthus nectar sauce and dotted with various colors of candied fruits, and somehow a cool and sweet feeling was born from the bottom of their hearts. Wei Jingshu couldn't help but ask, "Ah Qing, what are you doing here?" Is it okay to eat? ”
"That's right," Wei Qingwan smiled, urging everyone with impatience and a bit of expectation: "Hurry up and taste it, the ice will melt in a while." ”
"I'll come first," Yun Mubai stretched out his hand and copied the small wooden spoon that Fang Cai Wei Qing was holding to scoop osmanthus nectar sauce in his hand, carefully dug a little bit and put it in his mouth, the cold and sweet osmanthus fragrance lingered between his lips and teeth, and in an instant, the air around him seemed to become cool and comfortable. Immediately afterwards, the glutinous sweetness of the candied fruit began to melt little by little, and this feeling actually made people's hearts jump with the sweetness, which was really amazing.
"Ah Qing, what the hell is this, how did you come up with it?" Yun Mubai finally couldn't help but blurt out the shock and joy in his heart after enjoying the unprecedented magical taste brought to him by the cool and fragrant ice crushed ice in his mouth.
A few people in the Wei Ting had already seen Yun Mubai's intoxicated expression, and they couldn't help but taste it one after another, and they were all as shocked as Yun Mubai: This, what kind of food is this, and it can bring people such a magical feeling?
"Ah Qing, how could you make such a wonderful meal, I'm afraid the imperial chef in the palace may not have such a wonderful idea. What the hell is this? Wei Tingzhong had to admit that this little daughter shocked himself again.
Wei Qing sighed, and said regretfully: "I've been thinking about getting this time since the beginning of spring, so I have been thinking about this year's ice bricks for a long time, I originally wanted to make them for my father and sisters to cool off, but I didn't expect that now I have to rely on this to survive the catastrophe." ”
Yun Muxiu heard Wei Qing say this, and a bold idea suddenly appeared in his heart: "Ah Qing, you want to ...... this"
"That's right," Wei Qing's eyes were deep and firm, "I'm just going to sell the ice bricks given by the Holy Lord." ”
What the?! When Wei Tingzhong and Yun Muxiu heard this, they couldn't help but gasp in shock: This Wei Qing is really bold!
Ice bricks are not something that anyone can use in Tianjing, only the court officials can receive the gifts of the Son of Heaven according to their grades every year. In other words, taking an extra piece is overstepping, and improper preservation is called blasphemy, not to mention that if you take it out and sell it privately, you will definitely be involved in a big disrespectful crime.
"Ah Qing, this method is absolutely unacceptable, it is too risky." Yun Muxiu couldn't help frowning tightly, and said with a serious expression: "General Wei, this matter is absolutely impossible. ”
Wei Tingzhong was also shocked by his youngest daughter's words at first, but for a moment, an inexplicable trust occupied all of his heart, Wei Tingzhong stared at Wei Qing intently, and asked inquiringly: "Ah Qing, do you know what the crime of smuggling royal gifts is?" What should I do? ”
"I know," Wei Qing no longer had the giggling of Fang Cai at this moment, and looked at his father with a serious face: "This is a great crime of disrespect, and it will be beheaded at the worst and exiled at the lightest." But," Wei Qing said this, and paused: "What if what is sold is not the ice brick given by the Holy Lord, but this ice cup in my hand?" ”
"Ice Cup?" Yun Mubai suddenly brightened: "Ice bricks are not ice bricks, ice bricks are generally placed indoors to cool down, or ice food. The ice cup made by Ah Qing is a kind of food, so strictly speaking, although the ice cup evolved from ice bricks, it is not the same as ice bricks. ”
Wei Qing heard that Yun Mubai actually said what he wanted to say word for word, and couldn't help but playfully fly at him with an approving look: I really didn't expect that this kid could actually see through his intentions.
Yun Mubai saw Wei Qing's approval, and suddenly his heart was full of joy, and he was fluttering, of course he was happy to see the little girl: as long as his Ah Qing always treated him, he was not afraid that a son of the Zhang family and the son of the Li family would come out on the way in the future to stir things up, no, he must not let that kind of thing happen, he must find a way to firmly control the situation in his own hands.
He also has a trump card, but that trump card is a double-edged sword, so he has to wait until the little girl in her heart likes herself as much as she likes her......
Yun Muxiu didn't care about any ice bricks, he still felt that it was too risky: "No, I still think this method is too risky, those imperial historians don't care about this, when the time comes, you little girl still have to go to the court to tell them apart?" ”
"Naturally, my little girl won't distinguish it from that group of old men with white beards" Wei Qing had already thought of this step, his eyes were full of cunning, and said: "In order to let them make a noise first, and when the trouble starts, someone will naturally distinguish it for me." And no one should meddle in this matter, you just don't know. In this way, when the movement is too loud, I will have a way to make the Weifu Golden Cicada come out of its shell. ”
"How can we be reassured that you are so unclear about what you say?" Wei Tingzhong also didn't agree with Wei Qing's approach: "This is not a joke, in case the saint is angry, don't talk about you, even our family may not be able to end it." ”
"Daddy don't worry like this," Wei Qing continued, "Daddy, don't forget, Your Majesty still owes me a promise. In the matter of the crown prince's side concubine, because His Majesty's attitude is unclear, and I am afraid of affecting the Yun Mansion, I have no way to ask him directly, but in the case of Bingzhan, in case I can't finish it, this promise can also protect the safety of the mansion. ”
"This ......" Wei Tingzhong hesitated, if Wei Qing didn't say it, he almost forgot that the saint had made such a promise to his little daughter in front of the civil and military officials.
"The general can rest assured," Yun Mubai patted his chest and said: "This matter will be left to me and A-Qing to do it together, we two children, even if there is something terrible, it's easy to say." ”
Wei Jingshu looked at Yun Mubai's righteous and awe-inspiring appearance, and she also felt a little nonsense: "Second son, don't follow and get involved, in this way, won't you even get involved in Yunfu?" ”
"It's okay," Yun Muxiu stopped Wei Jingshu: "The two of them have been together since they were children, and even if it's nonsense, it's not unusual." And in the final analysis, it's all for the two of us, how can Yunfu promise to really shrink behind. With Mu Bai here, maybe things will be easier than we think. ”
"Why is it easier to have him here?" Wei Tingzhong seemed to have grasped something, and then asked.
"Of course, it's because I'm clever and eloquent, and with me, isn't it like a tiger for A-Qing?" Yun Mubai smiled and flattered Wei Tingzhong, who was having a cold ice cube face at the moment, and said, "General Wei, don't worry, it's for my brother, I can't mess up this matter." "Hmm...... The most important thing is for A-Qing.
In the end, although Wei Tingzhong still had lingering palpitations, he had to temporarily agree under Wei Qing's insistence and Yun Muxiu's guarantee: In fact, it is indeed not an easy task to keep Wei Jingshu from marrying the East Palace without offending the queen and the crown prince. There is no better way at the moment, it is better to gamble, even if Yunfu regrets it in the end, as long as the Weifu Mansion is safe and sound, it is a big deal to take the family back to Weijun's hometown to farm.
Now that he has made up his mind, Wei Qing can't wait to start it. If she somehow gets an ice cup to sell on the street, not to mention that no one has ever seen this thing and is willing to eat it, just the preservation and production of the ice cup in this hot summer is a big problem.
If it's difficult to do, it doesn't mean it can't be done, Wei Qing hurriedly went to find the second sister Wei Jingshu, who had just gone to school, and asked her to mobilize her good popularity, and send someone to deliver a message to the ladies of the family who were good friends with her, telling them to prepare a food box and send someone to her to pick up a good thing before dinner.
Wei Yingyu knew about the changes in this day when she asked the Lin family to say goodbye, so she naturally cooperated with Wei Qing properly. At the same time, Yun Mubai stayed in the Wei Mansion and helped Uncle Feng keep an eye on those courtyards to prepare for ice shattering. According to Wei Qing's instructions, the ice fragments should be as fine as possible, and in order to prevent them from melting, they must also take ice bricks to be held around.
Not only that, Wei Qing also instructed the cooks in the back kitchen to peel and cut the seasonal fruits such as watermelon and peach into small pieces, and also use ice bricks to calm them up for later use.
When everything was ready, Wei Yingyu's good girlfriends and poor people also came to Wei Mansion one after another. This time Wei Qing was very busy, but fortunately, Yun Mubai followed her to help her, so as not to mess her up.
At first, Wei Qing was busy with the work in his hands and didn't look at the right candied fruit under his hand, but just grabbed it casually, and then looked at the number and type. Who knew that after a few glasses of ice in succession, Wei Qing was surprised to find that the candied fruits he caught every time were exactly the ones he wanted, and the number was exactly the same.
How coincidental is this? Wei Qing couldn't help but stop the movements in her hand, and saw that the little boy beside her was standing there, guarding a few porcelain bowls, carefully picking out each kind of candied fruit she needed one by one, and then putting it under her hand. In this way, when you need it, you just grab it, and you don't have to think about the number and type of pieces, which saves a lot of effort.
Wei Qing was full of surprise, so Wei Qing couldn't help but open his mouth slightly: Yun Mubai is so careful? Looking at the little boy's serious and serious appearance, he didn't seem to notice his gaze at the moment, and was still busy picking and choosing among the candied fruit jars, well, after looking at it for a while, Wei Qing was actually surprised to find that the candied fruits picked out by Yun Mubai were still almost the same in shape and size, oh my God, this is too careful!