Chapter 70 Opening
Shu Tong was busy, so Su Ruojin asked Hua Ping to find out.
There was a bamboo chair placed at the entrance of the hall, with the breeze blowing through, making it cool and pleasant. Hua lay flat on it, feeling very comfortable, as if she didn't hear what Su Erniang said, with her eyes closed, not moving a muscle.
Su Ruojin stared.
He still didn't move.
She frowned, then suddenly smiled, turned her head, and deliberately said, "Uncle Shutong, are you hot?"
It was a June day, and Shutong was running around. Of course it was hot, so he didn’t even think, “I want to eat some colorful popsicles.”
"Okay!" Su Ruojin stared at the man on the bamboo chair with a smile. When she saw him raise his eyes, her eyes met hers. "Uncle Hua Ping wants to eat too?"
With a wow, Hua Ping closed his eyes.
He would not be attracted by the colorful ice that the little kids eat. It's just ice with various ingredients and paint juice added to it. It's all ice and tastes the same. He doesn't care about it.
"Well, Uncle Shutong, let's go back."
The two turned around and shouted to the busy craftsmen, "We'll have green bean soup later. There's ice in it. Feel free to drink it!"
The master craftsman who was working on the water tower came out and said, "Thank you, little boss!"
"You're welcome, Master."
When walking out of the courtyard, Su Ruojin looked towards the hall again and saw Hua Ping tilting his head up, but when he saw her, he suddenly looked his head down and remained motionless.
She looked up at the sky speechlessly. She told him to just look at the yard. Uncle Hua Ping was really lazy. He couldn't even attract the food. She said helplessly, "Uncle, you should go and ask."
"Okay." Shu Tong rode on the donkey and went to inquire.
The weather was too hot, so Su Ruojin fastened the strap of her sun hat and ran home as fast as her calves could.
When she got home, Yang Siniang was playing catching stones with Su Sanlang in the corridor, chattering loudly. Her mother was sitting in the corridor outside the bedroom door, watching her little brother in the cradle while sewing clothes. The summer breeze blew through the courtyard, bringing tranquility and beauty.
"Mom..." Su Ruojin panted as she went up the corridor and sat down on a small stool to take a break.
Cheng Yingzhen put down her needlework and hurried into the small ice cellar to get the ice juice her daughter had prepared and put it on the small table in the corridor. "Ajin, wait until the coldness wears off before drinking!"
Girls still can't eat anything too cold.
"I know, mother." Su Ruojin said, "Pour a glass for brother and Xue Wulang first!"
"We want one too..." Su Sanlang and Yang Siniang had already gathered around the small table, looking at the beautiful ice juice with greedy eyes.
I don’t know how Ajin made it, but the ice cubes are not only round, but also have small flowers and green leaves inside, floating in the peach juice. It is so beautiful that people don’t want to be thirsty.
Su Ruojin was tired from running and too lazy to move. She just smiled at them and said, "We have them all."
Yang Si Niang took a cup and looked left and right without drinking it. After looking at it for a long time, she looked up and said, "Ajin, if there were such beautiful ice cubes in the milk tea, would the ladies like it more?"
"Ice is expensive and there is not much of it. Are you sure you want your mother to put it in the milk tea?"
Yang Si Niang pouted in disappointment, "I'm sure all the young ladies in Beijing will like it."
Of course, who wouldn’t love such a beautiful thing?
Whether in ancient times or modern times, as long as the weather is hot, people will find ways to cool down. Modern people can use air conditioning and eat ice. But what about the backward ancient times? They could only use ice.
In ancient times, people mostly used ice cellars to store ice. People started using saltpeter to make ice around the Song Dynasty. Su Ruojin traveled to the Yin Dynasty, which was similar to the Song Dynasty. Maybe some people already knew how to use saltpeter to make ice, or maybe no one did. She really didn't know.
Saltpeter was discovered by the ancients in the process of mining gunpowder, so mining gunpowder was a government activity and ordinary people could not get it. The saltpeter used to make the round ice cubes with flowers inside was obtained from Xue Zhushi. This kind of thing is currently only available in the Ministry of Industry and is not available to ordinary people.
Therefore, it is unrealistic to put good-looking ice cubes in milk tea. I can only make it myself occasionally for fun.
Su Dalang and Xue Wulang also brought out some delicious iced juice and came to the corridor to take a break in the fresh air and join in the chat with the young ladies.
Xue Wulang asked, "Ah Jin, you asked my father for saltpeter, are you going to make firecrackers?" The Su family's shop was about to open, so it was normal to make firecrackers, "but wouldn't it be easier to buy ready-made ones?"
Cheng Yingzhen and Su Sanlang really didn't know what Su Ruojin was going to do with the nail stone. Only Su Dalang knew, and he even helped. He looked at his sister.
Su Ruojin blinked when she lied, but the kids couldn't tell. "Oh, I wanted to make a few for fun, but I accidentally spilled water on them and the saltpeter dissolved. I guess I have to ask your dad for some. Isn't that convenient?"
The summer is still long, so it would be a good idea to get some saltpeter to make ice!
Xue Wulang didn't know whether his father agreed or not, but he agreed generously, "I will study at your house every day, and I don't ask for tuition. My father will definitely give it to me."
Su Ruojin: ...This child is too honest!
Su Dalang: ...This classmate of his is really generous. He lowered his head and took a sip. The cool taste was refreshing. It’s really nice in summer!
In the evening, Shu Tongshu came back and told Su Ruojin why Xu Pozi didn't come to make trouble anymore. "Her sister's job as a steward was pushed out of the palace, and her brother-in-law's job seemed to have been demoted. Anyway, she is no longer favored in the Jin Palace."
Su Ruojin frowned, "Is there anything else?"
Shu Tong didn't look very well.
She guessed it must be related to the recipe.
As expected, Shu Tong pouted and said, "Mrs. Xu's sister sold the mansion in Kanglefang and bought a restaurant to do business. They sell all the dishes that you, Second Madam, used to cook."
She knew this day would come, but food is meant to be enjoyed by people, and if she can make a name for herself, that's her own thing.
"But one recipe is worth at least a hundred taels. Mrs. Xu got at least ten of our recipes. That's a lot of silver." Shu Tong was unwilling.
Su Ruojin didn't feel anything. Now that things had come to a conclusion, she felt that the dust had settled. They were making a lot of money by running a restaurant, so they should not have the time to target her breakfast shop anymore!
Su Ruojin doesn't know yet, but with the presence of the Princess Jin's eyeball as a deity, Mrs. Xu and others dare not act rashly for now. As for the future, who knows!
June 28th is a good day, Su’s breakfast shop opened quietly!
Su Ruojin didn't let his father take leave to open the shop, but the shop obviously supported the whole family, so how could Su Yanli not take leave? His daughter had to support the family at such a young age, and if he, as a father, didn't even take leave, what would he be like?
The Qi family yard became Su's breakfast shop. It was no longer a small shop in the front and people living in the yard in the back. Su Ruojin connected the front shop with the back and turned it into a large breakfast restaurant.
As you enter the door, there are three rows of tables, with ten tables in each row all the way inward. It can accommodate more than a hundred people for breakfast at the same time, making it the largest breakfast shop in Xiqiao Lane.
In order to make it convenient for the masters to get up early and do business, dormitories, workshops, storage rooms, etc. are set up behind the shop with everything you need.
The two brothers, Dashi and Ershi, each had a room, so they no longer had to squeeze into the small storage room of the Su family. They were very happy. This single room was so much more beautiful than the house in their hometown. They wished they could live in such a clean and bright big room for the rest of their lives.
Why didn't Su Ruojin let the two brothers live in one room? She had her own selfish motives.
(End of this chapter)
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