After an episode, the sun has become bright and dazzling, and the two groups of courtiers standing in front of the hall, all wearing heavy court clothes, are so exposed to the scorching sun that they can't open their eyes, and they keep wiping their sweat with their sleeves.

At this time, the little eunuch who went to supervise the ice came to report that Qian Youcai, the head of the warehouse department of the Sinong Temple of the household department, was waiting outside with the ice ling.

Xuanyuan left the road and it was hot, so he came in quickly, lest the ice melt away.

Hearing the summons, Qian Youcai, the head of the warehouse, immediately brought Ling Ren into the room to meet Xuanyuanli, Xuanyuanli was in good spirits at this time, smiled and asked the two to be flat, and stood aside and waited first.

Then, according to the usual practice, Xuanyuan Li smiled and said some high-sounding words of praise to the courtiers, praising the courtiers for their good character of loyalty and filial piety for the country and the people.

The two groups of courtiers hurriedly knelt down, thanked the Holy Lord Hong's grace, and sang praises to Xuanyuan for a while.

After the emperor and his courtiers blew rainbow farts on each other for a while, Xuanyuan Li began to reward each other according to the merits of the past year, and the first person to be called by name was Qian Youliang, the head of the household department.

Qian Youliang's name sounds auspicious and pleasing, since he became the head of the household department, it is not an exaggeration to make money every day in the warehouse of the household department.

In recent years, there have been no major natural disasters, and the relationship with the surrounding foreign countries is good, although the border is still small friction, but there is no major war, the people are stable, and the taxes are also stable and stable.

However, in the past few years, the emperor has indulged in cultivation and alchemy, pampered two Taoist priests in the rivers and lakes, and was named the immortal master of the protector. In the imperial city, the Taoist temple of the immortal master was built, and it was the alchemy of precious medicinal materials, and it was the extravagant reward for the two immortal masters, and a large amount of money was constantly allocated from the household, which made the household anxious.

However, Qian Youliang, the head of the household department, still submits a satisfactory answer to the emperor every quarter, which shows that Qian Youliang's head of the household department really has two brushes, and he does not just rely on the good luck brought to him by his name.

Qian Youliang, the head of the household department, heard that Emperor Xuanyuan was the first to call his name, and hurriedly thanked Dade for kneeling down to thank him.

Yan Zhou absorbed the wisdom of his predecessors and improved the ancient copper jian used to ice food, removed the inner box inside, and elongated the original boxy three-foot copper jian into a rectangle, the size of a long board car, which was used to carry tribute ice.

On this rectangular ice book, there are carved bats and other auspicious clouds representing blessings, as well as auspicious clouds such as pines and cypresses representing longevity, but the shape does not look so festive, like a coffin.

After Xuanyuan Li finished talking about the amount of Gong Bing's reward, Qian Youcai, the head of the warehouse, immediately recorded it, and then Ling Ren would trot outside the gate of the courtyard, notify the waiting cart to pull it to the gate of the imperial city, and then put a horse on the outside and transport it to the house of Qian Youliang, the head of the household department.

However, the Nineteenth Prince is here today, and he likes to find trouble when he has nothing to do, so he naturally won't let the reward go on like this, so he has to ask Xuanyuan Li to reward him with more tribute ice, so that he can take it back to get the ice cheese he learned from the Khitans.

said that the taste "seems to be greasy and refreshing, only to condense and want to float; The bottom of the jade plate is broken, and the snow is eliminated at the mouth", taste a bite, and never forget it, and when he gets it right, he must have a good taste of Xuanyuan Li.

Xuanyuan Li smiled and nodded, Dao will reward the nineteenth prince with some more tribute ice, but the nineteenth prince is still not satisfied, and has to see with his own eyes whether this year's tribute ice is "clear as nothing, sweet as sucrose".

Because, only such an excellent high-grade tribute ice is the most suitable for making ice cheese cold drinks.

Xuanyuan couldn't take his youngest and closest brother all along, so he ordered Ling Ren to pull a cart of Bingjian over, so that everyone could look at it together.

Ling Ren hurriedly ran into the distance, and called someone to pull a board cart and park it under the stone steps, and there was a heavy ice jam on the board cart, and the slightest cold air could be felt from a long distance.

And because of how the bronze sword looks like a coffin, everyone feels more and more cold in their hearts.

When the Nineteenth Prince saw Ling Ren open the lid of Bingjian, he immediately smiled and joked to Hubu Shangshu, "Lord Qian, the Holy Lord has given you this first honor, why don't you hurry up and take a look, are you satisfied?"

Qian Youliang, the head of the household department, didn't think that the head on his neck was too heavy, how could he dare to say that the tribute rewarded by the emperor was not good, so he hurriedly ran to the front of the cart, took a piece of tribute ice from Ling Ren's hand, and took a bite when he went up, and then the words of praise that came out of his mouth suddenly changed to retching, and Qian Youliang almost didn't vomit.

Qian Youliang, who had bitten a bite of tribute ice, had a flushed face, and the taste of a mouthful of tribute ice in his mouth was like horse urine, emitting a foul smell, he didn't put it in his mouth, nor did he spit it out, and the whole person was about to faint.

With such an obvious abnormality, everyone around was naturally aware of it, and they all exchanged their heads and ears.

Ling Ren, who was standing next to Bingjian, also vaguely smelled a foul smell coming from Bingjian, as if someone had frozen horse urine into ice, and he choked on it all of a sudden.

When Ling Ren reacted, he immediately "pounced" and fell to the ground at once, shouting "The slave should die, the slave should die".

Xuanyuan Li didn't look very happy to see the rewarded Hubu Shangshu Qian Youliang, and he had an expression of dying, and then looked at the Ling Ren who was in charge of the ice and suddenly knelt down inexplicably and shouted Damn, and immediately lowered his face and asked what happened?

The nineteenth prince, who was very curious, ran down the stone steps in three or two steps, and approached the cart.

He stretched out his head and glanced at the ice inside, and at this glance, he was almost blown away by the stench wafting from inside.

Inside the Bing Jian, which was supposed to be clear and transparent, there was a condensation of unidentified objects that looked like catkins mixed with duck egg whites, and emitted an unpleasant stench that smashed 10,000 rotten eggs in the Bing Jian.

The Nineteenth Prince, who almost didn't vomit, suddenly pinched his nose with his hand, and replied to Xuanyuan Li above, "Brother Huang, this tribute stinks." ”

Gong Bing is not pork exposed to the scorching sun, how can it stink, the two groups of courtiers couldn't help but step down the stone steps curiously.

As a result, before everyone got close to Bingjian, they smelled a strange smell.

The nineteenth prince seemed to be worried that Xuanyuan would not believe it, and described the smell of ice in Bingjian to Xuanyuanli, which was as smelly as a pit that had not been cleaned in the countryside for half a month, and Xuanyuanli, who was very far away, seemed to smell the kind of stench that seemed to be tangible in his nose.

The good Gong Bing turned into the stinky water in the stinky ditch, Xuanyuan Li slapped the chair handle violently, and ordered someone to pull in all the remaining Gong Bing to check. Also, all the people in the warehouse department of Sinong Temple, from top to bottom, were escorted.

In the blink of an eye, waiting outside, all the carts pulling Bingjian pulled in, a total of twenty carts.

Xuanyuan Li's face darkened, and he ordered someone to open all the ice jian, but as soon as the ice jian was opened, the stench that slowly wafted out suddenly filled the front of Hanyuan Palace, and everyone couldn't open their eyes.

Suddenly, a little eunuch who opened the ice book let out a scream, then sat down on the ground, stretched out his hand and pointed to the board car beside him, "There is a dead man!"

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