My Sisters Excel in Both Literary and Martial Arts - Chapter 30

[Chapter 30 Waiting for dark]

Coming out of the house, the boy looked confused.

It had been more than half a month since he left the palace with his master, and he had long thought about going back. He was afraid that something would go wrong if he was too late, which he couldn’t afford.

So he asked: “Your Highness, didn’t you say that you can take him back to Jingzhou with you?”

Young Master Pink nodded, “Yes!”

“He also said just now that as long as he makes enough money from selling ice, he will go to Jingzhou. State, your Highness can just buy it!”

To the young man, a banknote is not a rare thing, so if you give it, you will give it. Being able to return to Jingzhou is the most important thing at the moment.

The pink young master shook his head: “Originally I wanted to buy it, but I changed my mind temporarily.”

Then he smiled and said: “I am looking for him to come back. I only value his poems first, and his poems second. With his unruly character, he can obviously make a name for himself through his poetry, but he still has to make money little by little by selling his own things. In this case, I cannot easily erase his belief in this pursuit. Yes…”

The pink young man was stunned for a moment, then laughed out loud.

“It seems like what he said. If you only say two things, it would seem a little strange!”

“…”

The young man looked at his master’s strange appearance and felt a little worried.

Could it be that he was influenced by Mr. A Kun?

“But Your Highness…if he can’t make money for a while, won’t he be able to go to Jingzhou? Can we keep waiting for him?”

“No!”

The pink young man waved his hand with a look of trust: “I think he You won’t be disappointed! Moreover, although I won’t buy his ice, it’s okay to help him along the way! I’m really looking forward to what he will do next!” He

walked a few steps and walked around. After looking at it for a few times, he then ordered: “Guizhi, let’s not stay in the inn today. There are many empty houses around here. Buy one!”

His tone was light, as if he was buying Chinese cabbage.

“Yes, Your Highness!”

…

I saw him coming, I saw him taking out a bunch of banknotes, and I saw him leaving again.

Jing Zhe was devastated by the loss of the fat sheep, but he quickly cheered up and started arranging the next matters.

He asked Hanhan to go back to Mang Mountain, because there was a large empty bamboo forest on the mountain behind Mang Mountain. He asked Hanhan to find someone on the mountain to cut more forearm-thick bamboos and cut them into bamboo tubes. At least he had to do it. One hundred and eighty tubes were transported down the mountain.

After hearing that Hanhan was asked to do such a laborious job, Fat Ball and the others finally felt more balanced.

Next, Jing Zhe sent someone to buy mung beans and a few kilograms of sugar on the street. He started to boil the mung bean soup in a big pot, boiled it and let it cool down.

There were three wing rooms and a woodshed in the backyard, which were already filled with saltpeter. Jing Zhe chose a shady wing room and asked Fat Ball to find someone to seal the windows with mud. He also found a lot of straw from outside. Cover all the floors and walls.

Afterwards, Jing Zhe took a few people out and bought two water tanks, one large and one small. He put them in the packed wing in the order of the big one and the small one, filled them with water, and cleaned the front. , all tables and chairs were wiped down and brand new.

Jing Zhe wrote the name of the store himself and gave it to one of them to frame and make a plaque. He hung it up at night and the store could open normally tomorrow.

All the work is ready, just waiting for Hanhan to come back.

Fat Ball and the others did whatever they were told, without saying a word of nonsense. When he finally got free, he asked out of curiosity: “Young village leader, what are we going to do?”

“Making ice.”

“Really making ice?”

Fat Ball seemed to have mentioned ice when Jing Zhe was talking to the pink young man before, but he never dared to imagine that ice could really be made in summer?

Jing Zhe then took the small porcelain jar, removed the blanket, opened the lid and handed it over, “Take a look!”

Fat Ball and the others looked curious. When they took a closer look, their eyes widened!

“Is this…real ice?”

When this jar of ice was brought down from Mang Mountain, it was frozen intact. After traveling all the way, and opening it once at Chunshui Tower and Zuimeng Tower on the way, the ice in the porcelain jar is now It has melted a lot, but there is still a big ice slag in the middle.

Even so, Fat Ball and the others were shocked.

“Try it and you’ll know if it’s true.”

Fat Ball was doubtful, but couldn’t help but take a sip.

“It’s great!”

The sun is shining brightly outside. It’s so refreshing to hide in a corner and take a sip of ice water!

Seeing this, several other people rushed to grab it. It didn’t take long for the jar of ice water to reach the bottom, and they were still not satisfied.

“In this breath, you drank a tael of silver!”

Jing Zhe said with a smile.

“One tael of silver? This can of ice?”

Fat Ball was speechless and exclaimed.

“Why, you don’t think it’s worth it?”

Looking at Jing Zhe’s half-smiling eyes, Fat Ball patted his thigh and said immediately: “It’s worth it! It’s definitely worth it! Although I, Fatty, am a rough man, I also know that I can enjoy ice this summer. , There is no one else except the royal family! How can one tael of silver be expensive if you can enjoy the same thing as the royal family?”

Jing Zhe nodded with satisfaction.

…

Before the sun set, Hanhan came back carrying a big baggage. Inside the baggage were pieces of small bamboo tubes. Because they had just been cut down, the inside was moist and clean.

At this time, the mung bean soup has also cooled down.

Jing Zhe added all the sugar he bought into the mung bean soup, stirred it evenly, and asked people to put it into bamboo tubes, with a bamboo stick inserted into each bamboo tube.

After preparations were completed, the bamboo tubes were tied up and put into a small tank in the room. Saltpeter was added to the water in the large tank. After doing all this, Jing Zhe left the room and closed the door.

“Okay, now that we are here today, we have to wait until tomorrow!”

Jing Zhe clapped his hands and said with a smile.

Fat Ball and the others were also rubbing their hands excitedly, ready to make a move.

“Young Village Leader, can we go see a place that all men want to go to? Hehehehe…”

Fat Ball scratched his head with a shy look on his face.

Jing Zhe looked at the sky and then said: “It’s not the time now. It’s too early. There are people outside. They can see us and they can’t let us go even if they go. Why don’t we eat first and wait until it gets completely dark before going out?” ! Then you can enjoy it to your heart’s content!”

“The young village leader is right, wait until it gets dark!”

Fat Ball and the others grinned innocently.

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(End of this chapter)