Su Ying found a shady place nearby, tied up the donkey cart, and then went to a restaurant to find Shen Mo.

Dog days are the hottest time of the year, and it's noon, and the sun is shining, and it's so hot that people sweat like rain.

Su Ying walked around all morning, and only then did she feel physically exhausted when she stopped, looking at the silence on the other side of the road waving to her, her vision became more and more blurred.

Suddenly, it was dark, and the man was planted.

When she opened her eyes again, she found herself lying in a small and strange room.

"The girl is awake." A kind-looking old woman helped Su Ying sit up, "My old man said, you are suffering from heat stroke, he gave you two injections, now it's okay, just get up and drink a bowl of sour plum soup." ”

"Thank you, mother-in-law, by the way, what about the people who came with me?"

"That young man? When he knew you were fine, he was waiting in the living room. By the way, he was just queuing up in my restaurant. ”

It turned out that the restaurant was opened by the old woman's house.

Knowing that Shen Mo was by his side, Su Ying felt inexplicably steady, so he got out of bed and went to drink the sour plum soup on the table.

The reddish-brown sour plum soup still precipitates unfiltered tangerine peel and hawthorn and other sundries, I don't know if it has just been boiled, but there are still a few traces of invisible white gas.

On a hot day without air conditioning, Su Ying actually wanted to drink cold drinks.

Thinking of the milk tea cold drink shops on the streets in her previous life, she suddenly felt a little nostalgic.

However, the old woman was kind, even if she didn't like to drink hot drinks, she still smiled and thanked her, "Thank you, mother-in-law." ”

To Su Ying's surprise, as soon as her hand touched the bowl, she sensed that something was wrong.

It turned out to be cold.

The slightest hint of white air is not hot, but cold.

"Mother-in-law, this ......"

"Girl's first time coming back here for dinner, right?" The old woman explained: "This is a special iced drink in our restaurant, and anyone who eats in the store can drink a bowl for free to relieve the heat." ”

"No wonder there are so many people queuing up to eat outside, and it has something to do with this free ice drink, right?" Su Ying secretly guessed.

"The girl is smart." The old woman didn't hide it, and said with a smile: "Our food is no different from the ordinary restaurant, and the reason why the business is good is in this bowl of summer soup." ”

Mung bean soup can also relieve the heat, but in terms of taste and comfort, it is far less refreshing than a bowl of chilled sour plum soup.

What Su Ying is most curious about at the moment is where the ice comes from.

If she had mastered the art of making ice, she would have opened cold drink shops all over the world.

If so, we can cooperate......

When it comes to trade secrets, Su Ying is afraid that she can't inquire directly, so she knocks on the side and says: "Mother-in-law, you only do all kinds of cold drink business in summer, and you can make a lot of money, so why bother to open a restaurant?" ”

Opening a restaurant is hard, tiring and dirty, and you often have to face picky and even perverted diners, so it is impossible for such a small restaurant to make a lot of money.

If you open a few small cold drink shops in this era, and only do business for a few months in the summer, you will definitely make more money than a small restaurant.

As if knowing what Su Ying thought, the old woman waved her hand and said:

"This ice is not good, my family also has only one Xiaoice cellar, take the ice in winter and save it in the summer and then use it, the cost is not too old.

If we specialize in selling ice drinks, we can't afford to spend this amount of money alone, so our restaurant not only sells ice drinks, but only customers who come to eat can drink a bowl for free.

Even so, a maximum of 100 bowls are served a day.

Of course, the guests are free to drink, and there is no more ice in this bowl that the girl drinks, this is the young man, who has to give more silver to add more ice to the girl to relieve the heat. ”

"I see." Su Ying was a little disappointed, his way to make money was blocked before he started.

In her previous life, she knew that the ancients would also use ice cubes to cool down or make cold drinks in summer, but they were all very wealthy people, who spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to go to the river to get ice, and carry it back to keep it in the ice cellar.

Ordinary people don't even think about it.

"It's not ice-making technology."

Su Ying regretted a little at the moment, why didn't he learn some useful professions in his previous life, he didn't know anything else, it was better to learn to make ice.

After drinking the sour plum soup and relieving the heat, Su Ying soon came to the living room to see Shen Mu.

"Are you alright?" Shen Mo bounced off his chair and looked up and down with concern, "You just fell in front of so many people, and you scared me." ”

"You're just."

Just now, I thought he was considerate and safe, and he ruined his goodwill with one sentence.

Su Ying didn't bother to bother with him, walked around the customer hall, and asked, "What about the doctor who gave me acupuncture to relieve the heat?" I also want to thank them. ”

Shen Mo scratched his head and said, "That's really a strange old man, after giving you acupuncture, he won't see anyone." ”

The old woman explained to the two with a smile.

"That old man in my family has a really strange temper, he doesn't talk to people very much, you don't need to thank him, the young man just gave a lot of silver, it's enough."

Since people don't want to see people, they can't force it.

Shen Mo pulled Su Ying out, "Hungry, eat first, there are fewer people now, there is no need to queue up." ”

The courtyard shaped restaurant, the front few fronting the street are shops, and it is also a place for guests to eat.

The living room where Su Ying is located is where people live in the backyard.

There is also a side room in the yard, which should be where the ingredients and sundries are stored and the kitchen is located.

In the small courtyard leading to the front row of noodle shops, there is a well, where someone is carrying water.

Su Ying walked through the small courtyard and was about to enter the restaurant through the back door of the shop, when his eyes inadvertently skimmed over a certain part of the courtyard, and he was delighted to have made a new discovery.

"Wait a minute."

"What are you going to do?"

Shen Mo followed, and saw Su Ying ecstatic at a pile of round things.

"What is this?"

"Potatoes."

Su Ying knew that potatoes were introduced to China during the Ming Dynasty, but they were not taken seriously at that time, and they were not grown in large quantities until hundreds of years later.

The Zhou Dynasty she is now traveling through, although it has not been recorded in the history books, should be earlier than the Ming Dynasty, or at most parallel to the Ming Dynasty.

Even later than the Ming Dynasty, potatoes should not be well known in this period.

Su Ying searched through the memories of the original body for eighteen years, and there was no memory of her seeing potatoes.

How can this humble restaurant have potatoes?

Su Ying seemed to see the hope of making money, and was holding a potato and looking at it over and over.

I heard an old man say unhappily: "Hurry up and put it down, this thing is poisonous!" ”

When Shen Mo heard that it was poisonous, he quickly snatched the potato from Su Ying's hand, threw it on the ground, and told Su Ying: "It's this old man who gave you acupuncture to relieve the heat." ”

The old man is a doctor, and he said that this thing is poisonous, and it must be poisonous.

Su Ying saw that although this potato was not as beautiful as the one cultivated in later generations, he could also see that this was a potato.

How can potatoes be poisonous?