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Volume 4 Drunk Cold Wine 16, Into the New Era 5

Ice kettle, which preserves food when it is hot. Legendary ...... Refrigerator? Xia Xiaoman clicked his eyes, what is a refrigerator? - It's just a box, and it's full of ice...... The joke is as cold as the refrigerator. =_=|||

Xiao Wei's sister-in-law saw that Xia Xiaoman didn't move, and said that she didn't understand, because she remembered that it was winter after she woke up, and she forgot about using ice in summer, so she explained with a smile: "Second grandma I'm afraid I don't remember." You also know that these vegetables, meat, and fish should be stored in the kitchen, and it will not be bad when it is cold in winter. The summer is not successful, but the side is fine, but the meat and fish can't be saved......"

Xia Xiaoman snorted, interrupted the content of her kindergarten class education, and said, "Sister-in-law Wei, I know this truth, but I don't know how to store ,—— ice kettle full of ice cubes, and then put fish and meat on the ice?" ”

Xiao Wei's sister-in-law said: "If the meat is whole, put it in the cellar." The chopped meat and fish were put in copper boxes, and then stored in an ice kettle, and the ice was buried. Get up again when you use it. ”

"Barrels?" Xia Xiaoman said. What is that? Bamboo tubes and boxes? Fish in a barrel? It seems that there is such a ......

"Second grandma wants to see?" Do you have to see, or don't you make jokes in the summer? Xiao Wei's sister-in-law hurriedly instructed the little maid to go to the housekeeper's daughter-in-law to get two copper boxes.

Qing Ying smiled on the side: "The second grandmother has seen it. In the month of Layue, I picked up the stove and found a copper box in the cellar to send meat and fish over in the summer, but somehow I didn't take it away, and the slave remembered that the second grandmother was steaming dumplings on the stove that day. ”

Xia Xiaoman recalled vigorously that he was learning to cook home-cooked food in the kitchen at that time. She remembered what the dough tasted like, but what did the box look like......? I was completely impressed, so I had to shake my head and say with a smile: "You still have a good memory, I can't remember." ”

Qing Ying smiled: "Because the second grandmother asked the slave and maid a lot of things that day, the slave and maid remembered." The second grandmother asked if there was a housekeeper at home, why didn't she check the inventory. The slave replied that it must be checked. I'm afraid that the cellar has given too much, and I have forgotten it. You have to pay for it out of pocket. The second grandmother asked again, why don't you ask people from this house left and right? That one box......"

"That box is made of pure copper, even if the wall is thin, it doesn't use much copper, but it's worth a lot of silver. ......" Xia Xiaoman patted his forehead. Her mind is full of money, and her memory pattern is amazing. As soon as she mentioned the money, she remembered it all. =_=|||

Qing Ying nodded and smiled, "That's it." ”

Xia Xiaoman secretly stuck out her tongue, it turned out that she was talking about a "copper" box, she thought about it, and remembered that it seemed to be something like a copper lunch box, and it was also carved, but when she looked at the pot, she didn't pay much attention to it, just as an ordinary container. Didn't ask what it did.

Copper conducts heat better than iron, and she still knows this. It turned out that I didn't think of this stubble without mentioning it, but I only thought about using iron to make molds, but now it seems that the ancients were still clever, and it is better to use copper to make molds. However, bronze is much more expensive than iron. If you don't have a few sets of molds, you still have to think about how to turn over ,—— ice cubes to eat and make freshly? Did you pour it out and store it in a box? How can you ensure that they don't stick together......

She remembered the ice cubes in the cellar separated by straw mats, and asked Qingying and Xiao Wei's sister-in-law: "The ice in the cellar, wrapped in straw mats, is it used to ward off the heat, or is it for eating?" How to eat? Went outside to get grassy? ”

Xiao Wei's sister-in-law said with a smile: "I was afraid that this house was also living in a particular family, and there were still separate cellars in the ice cellar, and those who drank ice and cooled off were placed in two cellars, and the second grandmother thought that she didn't pay attention to the marks on the cellar." - This time Shen Bing and Dou Jiadi Ice are also separated. How dare you use straw mats? It is a mat made of wheat straw. The cleanest of all. It's just that when the ice is ready, I have to go to the outside layer to add ice. The middle party dared to offer it to the master. ”

Xia Xiaoman nodded, hearing this, he can still feel more hygienic psychologically, although the actual hygiene situation is really not good, it is still safe to make ice by himself. However, a summer to consume a lot of ice, Meizhou is hot, now it is only February, already feel that the wind is warm, this climate is estimated to be very hot in April and May, I am afraid that it will be hot until the end of September and October, this is more than half a year to use ice, those primitive ice cubes to cool off the heat can be, eat your own ...... How much can be done? Is the ice temperature in the inventory enough to make a lot of ice for yourself? Putting water in to freeze is to release heat, then heat exchange, and then melt...... The rest of ......

She was on the table, she had a headache, and she was terrible at physics...... If you don't count, then stock up on ice in abundance. She remembered that a book said that the ice stored in the cellar should be several times the actual amount, and it was also prepared to melt the land.

"How much ice do we have on this occasion?" She asked.

Xiao Wei's sister-in-law and Qing Ying both remembered that they were all together for a total of 500 squares, because Shen Bing and Dou Jiadi Bing were all graded, and they couldn't remember how much they waited, so they were busy looking for the account book to check.

Xia Xiaoman waved his hand weakly and said, "No need." That's all I have to say. "Because she found that even if she said it, she didn't have a concept.

Qing Ying glanced at Xia Xiaoman, and said with a little persuasion: "Second grandmother, this is going to ...... Add more? In previous years, the master couldn't use ice, and our longevity residence would be enough for more than ten squares for a summer. "Ice is not a side, it has been melting all the time, and now it is added, and it will not be used in summer, and in another winter, half of it will be lost in vain.

"Counting everyone, it only takes a dozen or so squares?" Xia Xiaoman asked. It turned out that it should only be used by the master and the big girl, but now that I buy so much, I may have brought all the fifty or sixty people, or from ten to five hundred...... It's a qualitative leap.

Qing Sakura was stunned, but she didn't know how to reply.

The sixth master is weak, and he has only used it in the hottest days over the years, and his aunt is here in the east chamber...... I don't use it much, although she has a share, but because her grandfather doesn't use ice, there is less ice in the house, and she will use it when it is her aunt's turn, and she won't squeak if it's not her turn. If you say that there are more ice collars, it is only last year, because Qinghuai has a body. In the summer, the house was stuffy, she often couldn't breathe, and she couldn't sleep well at night, so she asked her master to put some ice in her west wing.

These things...... How did she get it? But if she didn't mention it, she was afraid that the second grandmother would ask others again, which one of her brains would not be bright and return to the truth, and the second grandmother finally forgot the old things. Doesn't it annoy her?

Qing Sakura was hesitating here, but someone over there broke the siege with her. The maid sent to fetch the copper box came back, followed by the deacon's daughter-in-law Mu, who was in charge of the utensils, and the daughter-in-law was obedient, and she heard that the second grandmother wanted to see the ice house used in the summer, so she hurriedly brought two mothers-in-law over, not only took the copper box, but also brought the ice bowl, ice basin, and ice stove.

Xia Xiaoman didn't expect that there would be so much attention to the use of ice utensils in this era. The most common is the ice basin. Like the charcoal basin, put ice in it and put it directly in the house. The ice bowl is actually like a small basin, just one more layer than the ice bowl - two layers of large and small bowls, the outer large bowl contains ice, the small bowl sits in it, and the soup is served with cold drinks to ensure that the temperature continues to be low during the eating process.

The real technology is the ice furnace. It is also a wrought copper floor, with a cylindrical upper end, a cone at the lower end, and a small bucket of water at the bottom. The cone is designed for drainage, and ice cubes are placed in it and melt slowly. The water dripped into the bucket through the opening at the top of the cone so that the ice would not melt faster in the water. There are also two layers of hollow leakage cover partition on the upper layer of the cylinder, the top is a semicircular hollow cover, the hollow design is for exhausting cold air, and the two layers of partitions can put cold drinks, melons and fruits, etc., and not next to ice, and can be "cold town", it is simply an indoor Xiaoice box.

Xia Xiaoman pondered for a long time, and finally she was completely convinced, so she didn't have the ability to design such a thing. She can only make a few copper molds and freeze some ice cubes. Let's do something non-technical.

Copper boxes vary in size. If there are more than three bundles long, put the whole fish ground; There is also a half-length bundle like a lunch box. Whole chickens and ducks or meat cut into pieces. The box is engraved with different patterns to distinguish the contents, and what kind of meat is engraved with the picture, and the box with the pig cannot be filled with mutton, so as not to mix it when it is used, and mistakenly use the mutton as pork.

She also secretly laughed at the pedanticy of the ancients, this has to draw a picture, directly engrave "meat", isn't it possible to hold any meat! There are a few to a dozen boxes in each picture, and there are dozens of kinds of meat, and you have to prepare 1,800 boxes? What a waste! She also pondered that she could make a slot on the box, which could put the card ground, and what kind of fish and meat would be in the future, so she could write it directly on the label and say goodbye to the slot, which was simple and clear and economical.

Later, after thinking about it carefully, I realized that it is a special utensil, such as mutton mush, if pork and mutton are used in the same vessel, it is easy to skew the flavor - although it is not serious in fact, but these tongues are surprisingly easy to use and can still be eaten by people who are exquisite.

She sighed, the label still has to be made, it is more convenient to attach it to the side, and then make a shelf, put the labeled box up, and say...... Hey, she immediately saw the steaming rice in the canteen, and the steaming box was stacked neatly in the steaming box, making a shelf, imitating the ice oven, freezing two layers of ice plates, sandwiching a gap between the two layers of ice plates, and leaving the copper box on the ground. If the indoor temperature can be guaranteed, the ice kettle will not make much sense, and it can be removed, saving a lot of space and saving a lot of things. The point is, her ice cubes can also be frozen on this shelf......

She finished pondering the box, took the pen and paper, drew a few strokes, and figured out a reasonable drawing for someone to call, as well as her ice cube mold......

The little maid outside greeted "Miss Cousin" in a stack, Xia Xiaoman looked up and saw Ji Lingshu floating in with a smile. The new upper body is a tender green shirt, like the tender grass and sprouts in the yard, and it looks like "spring".

Xia Xiaoman couldn't help laughing, fortunately, the girl's face was winter snow white, not spring sprouts, otherwise she wouldn't be able to find anyone anywhere if she threw it on the lawn. After letting the seat serve tea, he asked her, "Will you change your thick clothes?" Beware of the spring cold. ”

Ji Lingshu said with a smile: "It's a hot day, and I took a turn in the garden, and my body was full of sweat, so I changed it." ”

Xia Xiaoman said: "Then let's cover it for two days, cover it in spring and freeze in autumn, it's not fun to be cold." Why are you looking for something here? ”

Ji Lingshu shook his head and said, "It was just that I rested in the middle of the jue, and when I got up, I felt that there was nothing to do, and I turned around the garden, so I wanted to come to see my sister-in-law." When I went to the main courtyard, my cousin didn't get up, and Cai Shu said that you were here, so he came over. ”

Xia Xiaoman hummed in her heart, let's come over to see Liujo, Nian Liang is sleeping, she is busy in the backyard, and the little girl is embarrassed to pull Liujo out to play by herself - hey, I can't find it either, and Liujo doesn't follow her, it's useless.

Thinking of Rokujo, she thought about whether to build a nest in the tree in the garden or something, the weather is also warm, always in the cage, although the door is not closed, it does not fly out, build a nest outside, it can be more comfortable. It's just, what kind of bird are these six, and what kind of place is this nest? A crow's nest is not the same as a magpie's nest. Why don't you make a bird's nest like a small house?

Thinking about it, Ji Lingshu looked around the room, then looked at the copper box on the table, and quietly pursed her lips after seeing the pattern, and said, "Little sister-in-law, the style is a little unbeautiful." ”

Xia Xiaoman's eyes lit up, and she hung up the smile of Snow White and her stepmother, the brush in her hand was like a poisonous apple, and said to Ji Lingshu in a coaxing tone of Snow White: "I'm thinking about changing a few tricks, Miss Biao has the best painting skills, can I do a favor?" ”

Ji Lingshu's hobby is this, and it is rare for Xia Xiaoman to praise her for using her, and she is happy in her heart, although she is humble for two sentences, she happily takes the pen and asks Xia Xiaoman what she wants.

Xia Xiaoman dipped his hand in tea, drew a rough picture on the table, and showed her that apples, pears, strawberries, grapes, eggplant, beans, radishes, cabbage, these external lines are simple and easy to cast, and they should be used for ice troughs. Then he called her an easel.

Ji Lingshu's hand holding the pen trembled a little, and he was extremely disappointed.

She also thought that Xia Xiaoman wanted her to design a pattern and chisel it on bronze, which was completely a career for a hundred generations, but she didn't expect to ask her to paint this kind of thing that anyone can paint, and it is only painted by craftsmen, and there is no artistry at all! Kill chickens with knives, kill chickens with dragon knives! Qu Cai was furious.

My sister-in-law can't read or draw. She had no choice but to comfort herself, and she was entitled to help her sister-in-law. Thinking about it this way, I feel a little more comfortable. A tendon person is not ambiguous in doing things, although she is not happy, she still seriously draws according to what Xia Xiaoman said.

Xia Xiaoman took the drawings, looked around, not to mention, in the end, it was a professional, the painting was good, it turned out that her wheelchair drawings or something, they were all called Ge paintings, and now it seems that the girl is much better than the Ge painters, but ...... is a little "elegant". So he asked Ji Lingshu to change the details, and then handed it to Xiao Wei's sister-in-law, asking her to find a craftsman to make a set of molds first, and the size of the ice cellar should be measured before the shelf.

Looking at Ji Lingshu's pouting mouth because he was overused, Xia Xiaoman smiled, changed the topic, and asked her: "Miss Biao also understands birds, do you know what the crested red nest is like?" ”

Ji Lingshu was stunned for a moment, shook his head, and said that he had only seen it in a cage.

Xia Xiaoman rolled his eyes, well, she was stupid, how could the baby in the boudoir have seen a natural bird's nest?! Just like the old reports, some of the children in the city don't know what whole vegetables look like, and all they can see is the kind of cut that is sold in the supermarket. It is not easy for this spirit book to know that the birdcage is not a natural bird's nest.

"It's getting warmer, and I'm thinking about putting Rokujo outside. It's stuffy in the cage too, right. Xia Xiaoman smiled and continued to abduct ** children: "I made a bird's nest and put it on the tree, but I don't have a score in my heart, what it looks like." Miss Cousin is rich and rich, and she is better than I came up with. Would you like to do Miss Cousin a favor? ”

Build a nest for the crested red, Ji Lingshu's mouth spread to both sides at once, and a bright smile bloomed, his eyes were also shining, and he nodded vigorously, and the big bag was all wrapped up in her.

Xia Xiaoman also smiled, but thought in his heart, what about the girl who is twelve years old, does she count as child labor?

Not counted. She quickly denied it. Because she didn't give the girl any money.

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