Chapter 175: The Secret Recipe Passed Down from the Ancestors
The terrace is paved with antiseptic wooden boards, and Cuiying, Mama Cao, and Zhang's will wipe it with a rag every day, which is clean and comfortable.
After everyone sat down at two tables, Xu Jingluo poured Meng Fei a cup of chrysanthemum tea,
"It's a pity that there is no alcohol." Xu Jingluo raised the teacup with a smile, "Then replace the wine with tea, thank you Brother Meng Fei for sending us a carriage so far." β
"Thank you, Brother Mengfei." Xu Jingling and Xu Jingan also picked up the teacups.
"Meng Gongzi has worked hard." Zhang and the others raised the teacup.
Meng Fei smiled gently, although he was a military attachΓ©, he had asked Mr. to be literate since he was a child, not only with the courage of a military attachΓ©, but also with the knowledge of a literati, which can be described as both civil and military.
"Auntie, sister Jingluo, Jing'an Jingling...... Thank you all for your hospitality! We will be our own family in the future, we don't need to thank each other for helping each other, and I will do it first instead of tea instead of wine. β
After speaking, Meng Fei drank the tea.
"." Everyone also drank the tea, which is also a kind of respect for people, after all, everyone is the first time to intersect, these etiquette is still unavoidable.
After a few polite words, everyone started to eat with chopsticks.
Meng Fei took a bite of abalone, and immediately felt that every taste bud in his mouth was cheering, so delicious!
I couldn't help but give a thumbs up and praise loudly.
"This seafood is really fresh and tender, and it is a must-have in the world." As he spoke, he looked at Xu Jingluo with bright eyes, "If there is a way to transport this seafood to inland cities, I don't know how well it will sell...... In this way, I am afraid that this business alone can make countless fortunes. β
Xu Jingluo's apricot eyes narrowed slightly, she hadn't thought about this business.
No matter how much business is done in Ssangyong City, it is just so that everyone can eat meat to fill their stomachs, and when they regain their freedom and leave Ssangyong City in the future, they should indeed consider these big businesses.
By the way, saltpeter makes ice, if you can find saltpeter, let alone transport it far, it's no problem to transport it to Ssangyong City, right?
Not to mention selling to make money, bring some back to Uncle Meng, Uncle Wu, Uncle Jiang, and they can taste it!
Thinking of this, Xu Jingluo looked up at Meng Fei.
"If Brother Meng Fei is not in a hurry to return to the city, maybe I can find a way to keep the seafood fresh in a few days, so that you can bring some seafood back to the city for everyone to taste."
"Really? That's great. Meng Fei's eyes were full of surprise and admiration, and he hurriedly replied, "The work in the field is done, and I don't know how to repair the house, I have time." β
After speaking, he looked at Xu Jingluo impatiently, "It takes a day and a night to go to Shuanglong City by the sea, even if it takes a day and a night to ride a horse, what is a good way for Sister Jingluo to keep these seafood fresh?" β
The weather is too hot, even if the wild boar dies, it only takes half a day to produce a peculiar smell, not to mention, these seafood goods are more prone to spoilage.
So, what can Sister Jingluo do to keep the seafood fresh? He was really curious.
However, he was the only one who was curious, and the others ate calmly without even raising their heads.
As a member of the Xu family, who doesn't know that Xu Jingluo is a 'god' and knows spells? Isn't it normal to change some ice cubes or something?
These days, when it's hot, they can eat the same food as the 'gods', ice cream, what's the difference between that thing and ice? No one is surprised.
Meng Fei didn't notice that everyone's expressions were wrong at all, and looked at Xu Jingluo eager to hear her answer.
Xu Jingluo is being entangled in small gray ash at the moment.
Little Gray Gray kept crawling on her like a little dog waiting to be fed, and there was no hint of wolf in those blue eyes, only Erha's stupidity, grievances and complaints, as if he was constantly telling the dissatisfaction in his heart.
Whoa~~ Everyone can eat at the table, but I can't, hey~~ Don't you treat me as family anymore? Wow~~~~
Xu Jingluo had no choice but to pick up the little gray ash, sandwich a piece of abalone, a few pieces of fish meat and a few shrimps, put them in its special sterilized small bowl, and then put the small bowl on his lap.
When he picked up the little ash ash, Xu Jingluo injected it with rabies vaccine and anthelmintic medicine, and bathed it every day without any peculiar smell, so he let it be so close to humans.
Little Gray's eyes flashed with excitement, and he sighed twice to express his satisfaction, and then buried his head in eating his own food.
ate very seriously, and the slightest bit of soup didn't touch Xu Jingluo.
Meng Fei silently watched Xu Jingluo treat and feed a wolf as a family member, and there was tenderness in his eyes.
To be able to raise a vicious wolf cub into a docile dog, such a girl is kind enough, unique enough and attractive enough.
After taking care of the little gray ash, Xu Jingluo raised his head.
"Ice-making." She propped her chin and said indifferently, "I know a way to make ice, maybe I can try it." β
"Ice-making?" Meng Fei's eyes were full of shock, "Can ice still be made?" β
He only knew that every dignitary in the capital dug an ice kiln, and in winter, the ice cubes were cut into cubes and moved into the ice cellar for storage, and in the summer, the ice cubes were moved out of the ice cellar to ward off the heat.
Can this ice still be made? It's really the first time I've heard it before.
"Yes, ice-making." Xu Jingluo saw Meng Fei's look of disbelief, and repeated in an affirmative tone, "I have a way to make ice, if Brother Meng Fei is interested, let's study it together." β
Ice cubes, Xu Jingluo can naturally buy them in the space mall, if he can find saltpeter to make ice cubes, wouldn't he be able to bring the ice cubes to the surface?
This is also the real purpose of her saying this to Meng Fei, so that he can participate in witnessing that there can be ice cubes in such a hot south.
Meng Fei hesitated.
"This method of making ice should also be a secret recipe handed down by the ancestors of Jingluo girl, right? If I study it together, won't it be leaked to me? β
"It's okay." Xu Jingluo held his chin and narrowed his apricot eyes with a smile, "Didn't Brother Meng Fei say that everyone is a family?" What does the family have that is not leaked? β
Meng Fei really couldn't refute this, so he could only nod and agree.
"Okay, Brother Meng Fei will accompany me to find something after dinner, if you are lucky enough to find it, it will not be a problem to make ice." Xu Jingluo said.
"Okay." Meng Fei responded excitedly, only feeling that this girl was becoming more and more interested in him.
After eating, Xu Jingluo braided his waist-length black hair into two neat braids, carried a burden cross-body, put tools such as mountaineering ropes and fire dismantling into the baggage, and took Meng Fei and Xu Jingan to find saltpeter.
Her goal is clear, a boa constrictor hole in the cliff wall.
In addition to saltpeter mines, saltpeter will be found in the corners and floors of places such as pigsty, stables, and toilets, and it will be precipitated in the form of salt flowers when the autumn is high and cool.
The principle Xu Jingluo is not very clear, and it will always be in that kind of dirty environment.
And there is a lot of filthy decay in the python cave, and she estimates that saltpeter will precipitate on the cliff wall in eight or nine out of ten.
Xu Jingluo pointed to the cliff wall on the other side of the waterfall, "There are several caves on that cliff wall, and it is very likely that saltpeter can be found in them, but if you want to go down to the cave, you will probably have to climb to the top of the cliff, and then slide to the entrance of the cave through the rope." β
"Then leave this matter to me." Meng Fei nodded firmly.
He is a military general, although he does not have the kung fu of flying eaves and walking on walls, but relying on ropes should not be a big problem.
"Mm-hmm, let's think about climbing to the top of the cliff first." Xu Jingluo said and went north.
The terrain of the sea is low in the south and high in the north, and the further north you go, the lower the cliff becomes.
The three of them went north along the bottom of the cliff and found a suitable place to climb to the top of the cliff.
After reaching the top of the cliff, the view suddenly opens up, the endless sea in front of you, the neatly located fishing village on the left, and the dense forest of strange rocks and ancient trees on the right, all the way to the east.
And that line of waterfall is flowing out of this strange stone and ancient trees, and it is from the cliff wall that it flows down.
After walking some distance between the ancient trees on the top of the cliff, the group came to the waterfall.
"I don't know exactly where the cave is, but it's always near this waterfall." Xu Jingluo tied the two climbing ropes firmly to a big tree and looked at Xu Jing'an, "Jing'an, you pick us up at the top of the cliff, and Brother Meng Fei and I will go down." β