Zhou Qiongyue really didn't have any good candidates. The number of people she had trained in the past few years was very limited, and she couldn't find anyone who could support this matter at the moment.
Yuan Bohua also noticed that the princess seemed to be worried these days. He quickly finished his work outside and rushed back to have dinner with the princess. He also wanted to know what was bothering the princess.
Zhou Qiongyue saw Yuan Bohua in the mansion before sunset, and he was quite surprised. After all, the prince had been busy helping the disaster victims outside the city gate recently, and he basically came back in the middle of the night, sometimes even staying directly at the city gate.
Zhou Qiongyue greeted him with a smile, "Your Highness, why are you off duty so early today? Are you done with your work outside?"
Yuan Bohua naturally reached out and held Zhou Qiongyue's hand. "I'll come back to have dinner with you, and then go again tomorrow morning. Big Brother is watching over there, don't worry!"
Zhou Qiongyue felt much more relieved after hearing Yuan Bohua's words. She still had confidence in her eldest brother's ability. If the three of them had a thousand minds in total, her eldest brother would have eight hundred, and she and her fifth brother would share two hundred.
Thinking of this incident, Zhou Qiongyue felt quite discouraged. She also thought she was very smart!
"Then Your Highness should have a good rest tonight!" Zhou Qiongyue was also worried that Yuan Bohua was exhausted.
Listening to the princess's concern, Yuan Bohua squeezed Zhou Qiongyue's hand tenderly, and the two of them walked into the house in the main courtyard hand in hand.
As soon as Yuan Bohua entered, he found that the room was much cooler. He immediately looked around and saw several more ice basins.
"Did Yue'er buy ice?" Yuan Bohua asked curiously.
The reason why he asked this was because there was not much ice left in the ice cellar in the mansion, and the princess had always been reluctant to use it.
Zhou Qiongyue looked at Yuan Bohua mysteriously, "I didn't buy it, but it was expensive. The prince must be sorry for your money."
Yuan Bohua waved his hand casually, not caring about this at all, "Princess, spend as you please. It is an honor for me that you can spend it."
Zhou Qiongyue felt better after hearing Yuan Bohua's words. But she still joked, "You haven't even heard how much I spent, and you dare to say such big words?"
"Anyway, if Yue'er doesn't have the money, just tell me. You can't afford to support others, but supporting the princess is definitely a good option. But I'm still curious about the source of Yue'er's ice."
As Yuan Bohua spoke, he leaned over to the nearest ice basin to take a look, and even reached out to touch it. Seeing that the ice was exactly the same as the ice in his ice cellar, it was also icy cold. He became even more curious.
Seeing Yuan Bohua like this, Zhou Qiongyue didn't want to hide it from him. "It's made with saltpeter."
"What is saltpeter?" Yuan Bohua looked confused.
In this era, there was no gunpowder, so saltpeter was still a medicinal ingredient. It was normal for Yuan Bohua not to know this.
Zhou Qiongyue patiently explained, "It's just a kind of medicinal herb. It's been so hot recently, so I looked through ancient books and found this method."
Yuan Bohua looked at Zhou Qiongyue with amazement. "Yue'er, can you let me see the process?"
Yuan Bohua had forgotten the purpose of his return, let alone the feeling of hunger. He just wanted to witness this miracle.
"What's so difficult about this? I'll let Gumei demonstrate it to you." Zhou Qiongyue told Gumei to go down and prepare while talking to Yuan Bohua.
After a while, Gu Mei came in personally carrying water and saltpeter powder.
Gu Mei bowed to the two of them and began to work. Gu Mei poured the saltpeter powder directly into the basin of water and then stirred it continuously with an iron rod.
After a while, Yuan Bohua saw that the water in the basin began to freeze.
"This is amazing! Yue'er is really smart." Yuan Bohua praised Zhou Qiongyue and curiously reached into the basin to touch it.
If Yuan Bohua hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed it was true.
Although making ice from saltpeter is magical, Yuan Bohua still remembered the purpose of his return home.
He looked at Yue'er's expression and saw that she seemed to be in a good mood. He pretended to be casual and said, "So, what's been bothering Yue'er lately?"
"Your Highness has noticed it? Is it that obvious?" Zhou Qiongyue pinched her face as she spoke.
Yuan Bohua reached out and rubbed the spot on Zhou Qiongyue's face where she had pinched it, "Why are you pinching yourself for no reason?"
Zhou Qiongyue said truthfully: "I want to open a small shop selling ice cream, but I don't have a suitable shopkeeper, so I'm worried."
Yuan Bohua didn't think this was a trivial matter. Instead, he thought about it seriously and said, "The problem isn't the people, but you probably can't do this business. This isn't the right time to show off. How about you sell it to, uh, the emperor?"
After saying this, Yuan Bohua winked at Zhou Qiongyue.
The main thing is that they had such a good thing, but they didn't present it to the emperor first, but instead used it to make a lot of money. The emperor must be unhappy.
After Yuan Bohua's advice, Zhou Qiongyue finally realized that she really couldn't earn that much money.
However, Zhou Qiongyue thought that if she presented this method to the emperor, she would probably get a lot of rewards, right?
"Your Highness is right. I will go to the palace again tomorrow. How can I not show some filial piety to my aunt when I get such good things!" Zhou Qiongyue did not plan to go to the emperor to show her presence. It was good enough to have an impression of being filial to her aunt.
"Yue'er, this is a great idea. I'll take you to the palace tomorrow morning. When you leave, I'll pick you up at the palace gate."
Yuan Bohua was mainly worried about Zhou Qiongyue's safety. Although the security in the city was okay, who knew if there were any people who didn't care about their lives in this world?
"There's no need for the prince to pick me up tomorrow. I'll let my second cousin take me there tomorrow. The people around my second cousin are no pushovers either." Zhou Qiongyue didn't have any psychological burden about ordering her second cousin around.
"No!" Yuan Bohua refused without hesitation.
Zhou Qiongyue looked up at Yuan Bohua in surprise, her eyes seemed to be asking why?
Yuan Bohua also realized that he rejected it too quickly, and explained seriously: "I am relieved about the Second Prince, but isn't that concubine in his backyard not on good terms with you? That woman is very mysterious, and I am worried. What if the Second Prince has someone of hers around him?"
Yuan Bohua didn't want Yue'er to have any mishaps.
"That's not possible! My second cousin is such a cunning person, how could anyone place someone next to him?" Zhou Qiongyue felt very worried, especially since her second cousin knew about Xie Zixin's specialness, how could he not be on guard against her.
If he didn't have this ability, Zhou Qiongyue felt that his second cousin would not be the final winner.
Yuan Bohua still shook his head in persistence. He knew what Yue'er was thinking. Before he got married, he also thought the same as Yue'er.
But after he got married, he no longer thought so. If Yue'er wanted to arrange someone around him, he would not only not reject it, but would also take the initiative to open a back door.
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