Nine carefully selected employees from Caoyun were hired as nurses of the Kaiguo County Government for a period of ten years, and each of them signed an employment agreement with the Kaiguo County Government. The probationary period is three months, and the monthly salary is tentatively set at 16 yuan per person per month, and 20 yuan is paid to each person as a settling-in allowance for coming to Beijing.

When the nine people were on duty in the Founding County Mansion on weekdays, they could each live in a single room, so the accommodation conditions and treatment were much better than those in Weishi County, and they were all ecstatic.

After these nine nursing homes were rehired by Wu Zhi two years ago as employees of Caoyun Company, they all went ashore to become good citizens, and they all got married and had children after working diligently, and this time their wives and children also came to the capital. In order to settle them, Wu Zhi rented a large courtyard near the Kaiguo County Mansion, which had enough rooms for their wives and children to stay in for free, and they could also come and live with them when they were free. Such a generous treatment makes these nine nursing homes and their families inexplicably grateful, and they are very dedicated to their work.

After the nine nursing homes were in place, the security force of the Founding County Mansion was suddenly strengthened, Suo Yanqing and Li Wanchun were also much more relaxed, and Wu Zhi was also a lot more relieved.

Nowadays, there are more female dependents in the founding county mansion, and security has become a thorny problem. Now with the addition of Suo Yanqing and Li Wanchun, there are eleven people in the nursing home in the Guogong Mansion, and the security is guaranteed. In addition to Zhou Dalin's usual need to follow Liu Susu to travel to protect Susu's safety and do not need to arrange the patrol work of the nursing home, Suo Yanqing divided the remaining eight nursing homes into three groups according to Wu Zhi's instructions, a group of three people, and the rest of the two in a group, engaged in three shifts every day, taking turns to inspect the Kaiguo County Mansion, each group was on duty for eight hours a day, and when the duo was on duty, Suo Yanqing or Li Wanchun took turns to join to form a trio, so that the workload of Suo Yanqing and Li Wanchun was reduced a lot. The pressure on the body has also been greatly reduced, and the work of the nursing home has been done in a decent manner and the results have been remarkable.

After there were many people in the founding county mansion, the problem of diet became prominent. As soon as there are more people, Wu Zhi can no longer let the whole family eat at the same table as before. So, after a plenary meeting and study, Wu Zhi decided to build a large canteen in the Kaiguo County Mansion, connect the room and the dining room, and then break down one room to connect it into a dining room, and put five large dining tables and more than 40 chairs in the dining room. Xia Tong and Ding Xiang assisted the Feng family and the Yang family to solve the food problem of the people in the Founding County Mansion, and the four of them completed the logistics of the big canteen on weekdays.

During the meal, Wu Xiu, Feng Niang, Wu Zhi, Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Su Su, Tianjiao and Zhou Tong sat around a table together, and the remaining twenty-nine people, such as Dahu, Erhu, Liu Yue and Xiaocui, were freely combined, and every seven or eight people sat around a table. Including Wu Zhi's table, the size, material, and workmanship of each large dining table and chair are the same, regardless of grade, and the food standards of each table are also the same.

The daily meal is divided into breakfast, lunch and dinner, and the breakfast is porridge, noodles, cakes, buns, pastries with side dishes or broth, etc., while the lunch and dinner are stipulated as four dishes and one soup per meal: two meat dishes, two vegetarian dishes, and one soup, and the portion is enough.

In addition to the nine newly arrived nursing homes who were shocked and surprised by this, the people in the mansion did not care at all about Wu Zhi's arrangement, because they were already quite accustomed to it, and this was the life characteristic of the Founding County Mansion.

Regardless of whether they are high or low, they are happy, but there is also a slight distinction between the master and the servant, which is the relaxed living environment and harmonious atmosphere of Wuzhi's ideal.

If you go outside, you must first settle inside. With a united and harmonious rear, we can not distract his mind and ensure that he can concentrate on making money and power, becoming bigger and stronger, and realizing his desire to save the people of the country from fire and water. Therefore, Wu Zhi must create an atmosphere of freedom and equality in the founding county mansion, and he needs a united and harmonious living environment in order to be calm, for everyone, and for himself.

The procurement of ingredients is the responsibility of Feng, Yang and Dahu. Every day, Feng and Yang first study the recipes, make a budget, and then submit them to Feng Niang for approval, and then withdraw the food expenses through Xiao'e's hand, and take turns by Feng and Dahu or Yang and Dahu to go to the street to purchase together every day or every other day.

Sometimes, when the mutton is tired of eating, Wu Zhi will try his best to find some beef to improve the taste, and he was killed by a grenade, and the yamen of Kaifeng Mansion had no choice but to take him

Turn a blind eye and let it go. At that time, the imperial court had very strict control over beef, and it was not allowed for the people to slaughter cattle privately, and violators would be prosecuted! After eating too much mutton and beef, Wu Zhi would also find pork that everyone disliked and refused to eat at that time, cook it himself, fry, stir-fry, braised it, stew it, etc., and do his best to cook the taste he wanted. At the beginning, everyone in the house was still resistant to the pork he cooked, but they couldn't resist the temptation of the fresh fragrance, and after tasting it, they found that the taste was endless, and everyone immediately liked the pork consumption. So, after Wu Zhi taught the Feng and Yang families how to cook pork, he let them make it.

The recipes in the Founding County Mansion were enriched in an instant, and everyone lived a good life.

After the heat, the weather becomes unusually hot. So, Wu Zhi built an ice warehouse next to the kitchen in the Kaiguo County Mansion, and put ten simple ice pots in it: that is, he bought ten extra-large clay pots and ten slightly smaller three-inch clay pots, the big clay pots were first filled with water, and the small clay pots were put in the big clay pots, and then Wu Zhi poured the potassium nitrate purified in advance into the water regardless of the cost, and after stirring with a wooden stick, all of a sudden, the water in the big clay pot became frozen, and then covered tightly with a thick wooden lid wrapped in clean flannel, and it became a real ice pot! Six of the pots are left empty and can be refrigerated and kept fresh, while the remaining four are filled with boiling cold water to make edible ice cubes. The doors and windows of the freezer are tightly closed, and the refrigeration effect is surprisingly good. Potassium nitrate dissolved in water can be re-evaporated and crystallized, reused, and replaced every few days.

When everyone saw that Wu Zhi had created a large amount of ice in an instant, they couldn't help but shout and be excited. With such an ice storehouse, the ingredients they eat in the future are almost all fresh, and they don't need to purchase ingredients on the same day, and they can enjoy ice cubes in the hot summer, which is a fairy-like beautiful life.

At that time, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, that is, Kaifeng Mansion, was in short supply, especially in the scorching summer, the ice cubes in the capital were even more scarce and hard to find, and it was very expensive! A small piece of ice is infinitely beautiful in Bianliang City and even all parts of the Song Dynasty.

The ice used by the Imperial Court and the Imperial Palace was set up by the Imperial Court from December to January every winter to collect ice on artificial pools in the Imperial Gardens such as Jinming Pond, Yichun Garden, Yujin Garden, and Ruisheng Garden, and each time the ice was "approved" by the Emperor and reported to the Imperial City Division, and ice mining could only be carried out after obtaining the permission of the Imperial City Division. After the ice is collected, it is also pulled to a special large ice cellar for storage and slowly used. High-standard logging sites, solemn mining procedures, the status of this ice cube is unprecedented!

Therefore, at that time, a small piece of ice was not available to everyone, and generally only the Imperial Palace Ouchi and dignitaries could enjoy it. Bestowing, also called awarding ice. The imperial court has customized the ice for the royal family, the three grades and above, the close ministers and the envoys of various countries, which can be said to be the best welfare. In the dog days, if the civil and military officials can get the emperor's ice, it will be the highest glory and the greatest enjoyment. Bai Juyi of the Tang Dynasty once enjoyed the honor of "Xie Ci Ice": "Today, those who are given ice by the holy decree of the proclamation are given to the ministers and other ice, and the ceremony of the imperial court is to express the special grace with its extraordinary things." The late poet Mei Yaochen of this dynasty also sang in "The Ice of Uncle Yong in the Middle Days": "The sun is like a fire, just when it is dog days. Pan Bing gave close ministers, and he galloped in the middle of the stream."

Therefore, when everyone in the Founding County Mansion saw that Wu Zhi could magically make so many ice cubes, they were all amazed and excited. Especially Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Su Su and Tianjiao, they are even more curious and pestering Wu Zhi.

In desperation, Wu Zhi had no choice but to secretly teach the four of them ice-making as a secret. When the four girls put a lot of potassium nitrate into the water and gently stirred it with a wooden stick, they could easily make ice cubes in an instant, and they couldn't help but be a little dumbfounded, and looked at each other: "Why is it so easy?" They are starting to doubt life a little.

"Silly girl! It's this thing that's working. Without this, ice cubes wouldn't have been made!" Seeing this, Wu Zhi smiled and pointed to the shiny potassium nitrate in the clay pot and said to them.

"I see!" When the four of them heard this, they suddenly realized that the magical function of potassium nitrate had been seen by Jin Lian and Xiao'e. Seeing that Su Su and Tianjiao were still confused, the two took their hands and gave them slowly

As they explained, Su Su and Tianjiao began to have a clue, and the two of them finally understood the magic of this shiny thing that looked like salt.

In the end, Wu Zhi explained to them in detail how to make pure edible ice cubes and how to recycle potassium nitrate for reuse, that is, the operation process of evaporation and crystallization, until the four of them memorized it.

"This is the secret of our founding county mansion, I hope you don't leak it out!" After Wu Zhi saw that the four of them knew it in his heart, he solemnly told them, and the four of them nodded yes again and again. Wu Zhi didn't want to divulge the secret of potassium nitrate.

Jin Lian and Tianjiao always complained that they had nothing to do in the Founding County Mansion, and the ice-making work could be left to them and Xiao'e to complete, otherwise they would be idle. Su Su is now managing the sales of "Pan Wu Kee" Jin Mu Sanitary Ware, and she has no leisure to tinker with these things.

As for the potassium nitrate used to make ice, Wu Zhi can extract it from saltpeter at any time, and Jin Lian, Xiao'e, and Tianjiao can squander it as much as they want. In order to make ice, he has prepared thousands of catties of potassium nitrate in advance, so as not to worry about the lack of materials.

Now Su Su is no longer as cold and arrogant as when he first met Wu Zhi in the alum building, and her mood has become cheerful, knowledgeable, and very popular with everyone in the founding county mansion, and she has also gotten along with Jin Lian, like sisters. She is half a year older than Jin Lian, so Jin Lian calls her her sister, and she and Jin Lian simply call each other sisters.

After all, she is from an ordinary family, she has experienced hardships since she was a child, she is proficient in housework, she knows a lot of things, and she is also diligent, and she is deeply loved by Feng Niang. And she is relatively strong, assertive, kind-hearted, does not fight or grab, can get along with everyone in the house, and has a good relationship with Jin Lian and Su Su.

Seeing that Wu Zhi's three women have such a good relationship, the happiest ones are naturally Wu Zhi, Wu Xiu and Feng Niang. Wu Zhi is afraid of a fire in his backyard and a fight between women, which will last forever. Wu Xiu and Feng Niang are happy that the three nephews and daughters-in-law are so knowledgeable, gentle and virtuous.

At the end of June, Bianliang is already hot and dry, and it is a good time to drink cold drinks. There are now ice cubes in the Kaiguo County Mansion, and Wu Zhi will go to the kitchen every day when he goes home from duty, and he will teach Jin Lian, Xiao'e, Su Su and Tianjiao how to make cold drinks of ice fruits. Everyone in the house can enjoy the refreshing and cool in the hot summer every day, and the benefits of ice cubes make everyone happy.

The gentleman should have stayed away from the kitchen, Feng Niang, Jin Lian and others were very opposed to him entering the kitchen, and persuaded him to stay away from the kitchen several times, Wu Zhi still went his own way, adding recipes, making barbecues, making cold drinks, and was very busy.

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