Chapter 234: Saltpeter Ice
Seeing his eldest son rolling his eyes at him, Old Master Xu waved his hands in disgust and said, "Go away, go away, go away, don't bother me if there's nothing to do!"
“…”
Boss Xu was speechless, feeling that his father was too difficult to serve.
After coming out of the main room and returning to his own room, Boss Xu saw the small basket of lychees on the table.
"Wife, what is this?"
"Huh? Why is it still cold?"
Boss Xu reached out and grabbed a lychee, his face full of curiosity.
Zhou smiled and said, "My mother sent it over. She said it was a gift from the King of Yan. It's called lychee. Peel it and eat the flesh inside, then spit out the core."
"Is that so?"
Boss Xu quickly peeled a lychee and handed it directly to Zhou's mouth, "Wife, you have one first!"
“You eat first!”
Zhou shook her head, "You are the head of the family, you must eat first!"
"We don't talk about this in our family!"
Boss Xu smiled, waved his hand, and signaled Zhou to open her mouth.
Only then did Zhou open her mouth and take the lychee that Boss Xu brought to her.
The icy cold lychees, with their sweet and sour taste, instantly made Zhou look intoxicated.
“Good food!”
Zhou had a lychee in her mouth and her speech was a little unclear.
Boss Xu peeled another one and said, "Let me try it."
"Yeah, it's really good!"
However, although the lychees tasted good, Boss Xu was obviously not very interested.
He glanced at the tiny pieces of ice mixed in with the lychees, and was particularly concerned about them. The lychees must have been delivered from the south by express horses. Even if there had been ice in the baskets, it wouldn't have survived until now. In other words, the King of Yan possessed a method for making ice.
Boss Xu sighed. If he could get the method of making ice, he could make a fortune selling ice in the hot summer.
Unfortunately, this idea is destined to be unrealistic.
In the evening, Xu Laosan came back riding his fake Jade Night Lion.
The lychees that Old Lady Xu sent to his room were not touched at all. Although Wang was envious, she still held back.
Wang Shi has really matured since she had the twins, a boy and a girl. She is also slowly learning how to behave from Old Lady Xu and her two sisters-in-law.
This person is smart and really wants to learn, so naturally he will make great progress.
After the family had dinner and were enjoying the cool air in the yard, the eldest Xu talked to the third Xu about the ice cubes.
As a result, after hearing what his eldest brother said, Xu Laosan was happy.
"Brother, how difficult is this? Just wait a moment!"
Xu Laosan quickly got up and went to the kitchen to find a small wooden basin and a porcelain bowl.
Fill the small wooden basin with water, fill the porcelain bowl with water, and then place the porcelain bowl into the small wooden tray filled with water.
Then he went out for a walk, got a bunch of white stuff and poured it into the water in the small wooden basin.
"Third brother, is this ground frost?"
Boss Xu stared at Old Third Xu. There were quite a few of those white things under the walls of the old houses in the village.
“That’s right!”
Xu Laosan smiled proudly, "This is called the saltpeter ice making method, it's been recorded in books for a long time."
"I, the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, relied on this method to establish my power. Brother, let me tell you, this method..."
Boss Xu wasn't interested in hearing Third Xu show off, so he waved his hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense. Just tell me how long it will take for this thing to freeze!"
"Uh, I, don't know!"
Xu Laosan was instantly at a loss.
He knew how to make ice with saltpeter, but he had never tried it.
(End of this chapter)
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