"It's not that it won't melt, but it melts very slowly, for example, if you put the ice outside, maybe half a column of incense will melt away in time, and after putting it in a box and covering it with a quilt, you may save four incense, six incense, or even eight incense, and this time is enough for us to sell the ice." (Ancient timekeeping is timed with incense, generally speaking, the time of a stick of incense is about half an hour, of course, there is also a tea to time, and the time of a tea is related to the season, generally 15 minutes in summer, 10 minutes in winter)

After solving the problem of boxes and quilts, the next step is how to prevent customers from seeing that it is an ice problem. For this, Ye Ming thought of a very simple method - deep processing!

If you just sell ice, you can't hold much in the box at all, and you may meet a rich person who wants it all at once, and you can't sell it much at all, so Ye Ming is going to do deep processing, so that a piece of ice can be sold for 10 pieces of ice or even 100 pieces of ice at the price, that is-making rock sugar tea!

That's right, it is to bring a large pot of herbal tea with sugar, and then bring a dozen small tea bowls, pour herbal tea into each small tea bowl, and then put in some crushed ice scraped off the ice cubes, so that a rock sugar tea that has never been seen in this era has appeared!

Of course, this is only the most basic level of deep processing, and after the opening makes money, Ye Ming will have the capital to make other products, and when the time comes, all kinds of fruit-flavored cold drink ice cream will definitely be popular in the entire Yunxian County!

Talking about their plans and the Wang Qi sisters, the sisters' eyes were suddenly full of longing and yearning, if they could really do that, would they still worry about money?

"Let's sell it and test it first, if the effect is good, we can mobilize the whole village to do it together, improve the poor life in the village, and make a fortune together." After all, this business is only suitable for summer, and it will not be able to sell after summer. ”

Wang Qi nodded, and looked at Ye Ming's eyes full of tenderness: "Well, the concubine is a princess." ’

Wang Qi looked at Ye Ming thoughtfully, and suddenly nodded in his heart, it seems that Ye Ming, this guy, can match the voice of his sister~~

On the same day, the Wang Qi sisters took out the torn quilt and washed it, and the washing was very clean and clean, after all, this thing had to be covered with edible ice, not to mention the guests, even they couldn't pass this level themselves.

As for the box, Wang Li really took less than two hours to make it, and he sent it over. Moreover, in addition to that, he also sent something that made Ye Ming's stomach scream!

Hare! A hare caught outside the stockade!

"Uncle Wang, you are..." Wang Qi asked puzzled.

"Miss, I set up a trap in the forest outside the village yesterday, and just now I asked my aunt-in-law to take a look, and found that I had a mountain rabbit trapped, so I sent it to you to make up for it."

After hearing this, Wang Qi shook his head again and again: "Uncle Wang, I understand your kindness, and now it is not easy for everyone in the village, so you better take it back and eat it yourself." ”

"No, no," Wang Li smiled: "There are still at home, eldest lady, I will put down the box and the mountain rabbit for you, I still have some work at home, go back first." ’

Wang Li left, and Sister Wang Qi looked at the rabbit on the ground, sighed in her heart, and a trace of gratitude flashed in her eyes.

Now there are still 15 households in Wangjiazhai, and there are 10 families left in addition to the 5 households in this family. Wangjiazhai is similar to the existence of a landlord, with a title deed and land in his hands, although life is tight, but at least he will not starve to death.

But outside of their own family, more people, similar to Wang Li, are almost tenants living at the bottom of society, they have no apprentices, and can only earn a little money by going out to work for others, and this money is just enough to feed the family and not starve to death. If you encounter some natural and man-made disasters, whether you can survive is a question.

Last year, there was a severe drought in Yunxian County, and dozens of acres of mountainous land in Wangjiazhai were almost unharvested, so the life of the main family was very hard, even more bitter than those tenants who worked. After all, the tenants did not have apprentices, so they did not depend on the land, but made a living by working on the job, and the poor harvest in the field did not affect them very much. But their family is different, their food comes from the crops in the field, and they really rely on the sky for food. So since last autumn, everyone in the village has had a very hard time, not to mention being able to eat meat, and even white-flour steamed buns and rice have become luxuries.

And in this case, people like Wang Li actually gave the captured mountain rabbit to Sister Wang Qi, which shows that they still have great respect and loyalty to Wang Qi and others. And this reason, naturally, is because they know gratitude.

There is not a lot of reward silver to help the county government to arrest thieves, if you only eat it yourself, a reward is enough for the family to eat for a month or two or even half a year, but Wang Qi sisters only leave a small part of the reward silver for themselves every time they are arrested, and most of them are distributed to these tenants in the village, because Wang Qi sisters know that the life of these people is not easy than them, after all, they have kung fu, and the two of them are full and the whole family is not hungry, and which of those tenants is not dragging the family, having wives and children?

"Sister, this is Uncle Wang's kindness, stay it, and I'll send a copy to Uncle Wang's house when it's done in the evening."

Wang Qi nodded and continued to wash the quilt, but his face was not so good-looking, Ye Ming, who saw it in his eyes, squatted in front of Wang Qi and comforted: "Don't be sad, lady, I promise that life in the village will gradually get better in the future." ”

Wang Qi looked at Ye Ming, then at the quilt in his hand, and smiled slightly: "Well, I believe in Xianggong." ’

....

When night fell, the washed quilt had been dried, and the box was also cleaned by Ye Ming and placed in a clean place to dry.

The fragrance of the mountain rabbit came out of the kitchen, and Ye Ming, who smelled the fragrance, really felt that this was the most beautiful taste in the world, and there was no one.

"Sister, you send this finished rabbit meat to Uncle Wang's house." Wang Qi filled a large bowl of rabbit meat and handed it to Wang Qi.

"Okay sister."

Wang Lijia.

Today's dinner is still bran mixed with more than a dozen grains of rice, plus a few wild vegetables that the mother-in-law dug back from outside. This is still because Wang Li knows a little carpenter's craftsmanship and can make some woodware to sell in the county, as for other tenants, they can only eat nests made of pure bran.

"Dad, I want to celebrate the New Year." Wang Li's child raised his head after eating a few bites and said pitifully.

"Chinese New Year? It's still the height of summer, and it's still very early before the New Year, what do you want to celebrate the New Year? Wang Li said with a glare.

"Because you can eat white flour steamed buns and eat meat during the Chinese New Year, Dad, I want to eat white flour steamed buns, I want to eat meat."