Chapter 112 Snow Bubble Drink for Spleen Reduction
Wen Zhenyi turned his head and looked at the bags on the ground: "Of course, these are all found by you for me, and they can be reused."
Ma Yinghe also found him a small bag and filled it with some saltpeter. "Han Xing, is that enough?"
"Aunt Wen, that's enough. I just want some to show them." Shen Hanxing packed the bag, said goodbye to the two of them, and walked towards the backyard.
Ma Yinghe entered the kitchen and smelled a faint medicinal aroma: "Yiyi, what are you doing?"
"Mom, I'm making some snow bubble drink to shrink the spleen."
"What's this?"
"It's a kind of herbal tea that can relieve summer heat, eliminate thirst, and eliminate summer heat toxins, etc."
"This is quite good. Drinking a bowl on such a hot day is much better."
"Yes, mother, please help me boil some water. We can use the water to make ice cubes and put them in the herbal tea to cool down and quench our thirst."
"Okay." Ma Yinghe boiled water in the remaining pots.
Wen Zhenyi was not idle either. He made a few basins of ice with well water and placed them in the four corners of the store lobby. The room instantly became much cooler.
When Wen Chengwen came back, the carpenter's shop assistant also helped deliver two tables and benches.
When they walked into the hall, they found that it was very cool. When they turned around, they saw some melted ice cubes placed in the corner of the wall.
The shop assistants stared with wide eyes: "What is this?"
Wen Chengwen shook his head: "I don't know either."
After the guys set up the table, they squatted in the corner and began to study the contents of the basin.
Some people who were curious even touched it with their hands. It was icy cold and a little bit piercing.
Wen Zhenyi and Ma Yinghe saw this scene when they came out with the herbal tea.
Ma Yinghe saw Wen Chengwen squatting in the corner and asked, "Chengwen, what are you doing?"
Wen Chengwen turned his head and looked at the two people who came out: "Yinghe, what is this?"
"This is ice."
"Ice?" Everyone in the store screamed.
"Yeah, it's ice, cool down!"
“This is too cool.”
The guy who brought the table looked at the ice in the basin. You know, ice is as old as legend here, so how could they not be surprised when they saw it?
What surprised them even more was that the Wen family, in this small shop, actually used ice to cool the shop so luxuriously.
Ma Yinghe looked at their surprised expressions, and thought about how she looked when she saw Bing before, and then she realized that everyone was the same.
Wen Zhenyi placed the herbal tea on the table beside him and poured a bowl for each of the delivery guys: "Thank you for your help in delivering the tables and chairs. Have a bowl of herbal tea to cool down."
The guys quickly reached out to take it, and they felt the coolness as soon as they touched it. There were transparent ice cubes floating on the brown tea, and the sound of them colliding was very pleasant.
"Really, really give it to us to drink?"
"Drink it, and help me see how it tastes. I'm going to sell herbal tea."
The guys excitedly took a sip, and it was so refreshing that they felt like the hot summer heat had disappeared, and they shivered unconsciously.
This feeling is so comfortable.
Wen Zhen saw that they had finished the whole bowl of herbal tea and were still holding the bowl to savor it, so he didn't urge them: "Dad, let's open the shop door and sell some herbal tea and coconut water."
"Okay." Wen Chengwen naturally also drank a bowl of herbal tea, which made him feel a lot more refreshed.
The delivery guys really want to stay here a little longer as it is so cool here that they don't want to leave. But if they don't go back, the boss will think they are being lazy and deduct their wages.
The reopening of the Wen family shop attracted the attention of many people. After all, their shop was located at the corner of the street, and any movement would be immediately visible to everyone.
"Boss Wen, what are you going to do?"
"We're going to sell some herbal tea. Would you like a bowl?"
"Sure, how much is a bowl?"
"Three cents."
"Okay, give me a bowl, let me try it."
Wen Chengwen poured the guest a bowl of cold tea with a few pieces of crushed ice on top. "Hold it carefully, my guest. Your hands may feel cold."
The guest reached out his hand in confusion. If Wen Chengwen hadn't reminded him, he might have dropped the bowl. "What is this?"
"This is ice, it tastes cool and refreshing."
The guest took a sip with some doubt, and felt the heat in his body dissipate halfway. "This is so delicious, sour and sweet, refreshing, and cool and thirst-quenching."
Ma Yinghe smiled and said, "We also have iced coconut milk here. It's also sweet and thirst-quenching, but it's a little more expensive."
"Coconut milk?"
"Well, not only is coconut water drinkable, but the coconut meat is also delicious."
"How much?"
"Ten cents each. After you finish eating, we can help you remove the coconut meat."
"Give me one to try."
"Okay."
Wen Zhenyi's shop was full of customers not long after it opened. Many customers were still queuing outside, and they kept craning their necks to look inside, fearing that the food would be sold out.
When Wen Zhen saw that there was not enough to sell, he went to the kitchen to make two large pots.
The coconuts were sold out very quickly, and the customers who didn't buy any looked regretful. They had seen people selling them before, but they didn't know how to eat them.
Now that I have eaten it, I realize how good coconut is. You can drink the coconut milk and eat the coconut meat.
Ma Yinghe returned to the kitchen while serving the cold tea: "One by one."
Wen Zhenyi poured out the brewed herbal tea: "Mom, what's wrong?"
Ma Yinghe took out a purse from her bosom and handed it to her: "Go buy the necessary ingredients first, mom and dad will come here."
Wen Zhenyi looked at the copper coins in his purse, which probably contained one or two taels of silver. "Okay, I'll go."
Ma Yinghe brought out the herbal tea, and the couple were too busy to handle it.
The guests did not leave until the sun set.
The three of them were exhausted. They hadn't expected that selling herbal tea would be so tiring.
Wen Zhen got up and prepared tonight's dinner.
Ma Yinghe glanced at Wen Zhenyi's back, then turned to Wen Chengwen and said, "When Xiao Taozi comes back, we'll find two more people to help. If we add herbal tea, it will be enough for us to handle."
"I think it's okay. This business is so good that my body feels a bit miserable."
Ma Yinghe smiled and pinched his waist: "Hurry up and help your daughter. She's been busy from morning till night, and now she has to cook dinner for us."
"I'll go right away." Wen Chengwen said as he stood up and went to the kitchen.
Ma Yinghe closed the door of the shop and prepared to clean up the bowls used by the customers.
Wen Yongnan, Wen Yongman and others had already returned. When they saw the bowls in the yard, they rolled up their sleeves and helped wash them.
When Ma Yinghe was collecting the dishes from the hall, she saw Mr. Shen and his grandson and her two sons helping to wash the dishes. "Uncle Shen, Han Xing, please sit down and have a rest. You don't need to wash these dishes."
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Tips:
Xuepao Shupi Drink is recorded in the Taiping Huimin Heji Fangju, a popular pharmacy manual compiled by officials during the Northern Song Dynasty. The recipe for Shupi Drink contains six Chinese herbs: Amomum villosum, black plum pulp, stewed tsaoko fruit, roasted licorice root, kudzu root, and white lentil. It is believed to have heat-clearing and cough-relieving properties, strengthen the spleen, and provide a mild and moderate effect.
Among them, black plum and licorice are the main ingredients of sour plum soup. Black plum brings rich sourness, and licorice highlights sweetness, which condenses into the taste of shrinking spleen drink.
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