"Hey, what are you doing?" Old Man Xu came over to take a look while drinking water, and was shocked to see that the water in the basin was freezing!
"Hey, did the gods teach you magic?!" Old Man Xu opened his drooping eyelids to the extreme, and Xu Ning found that his eyes had become half a circle bigger.
"Master, this is a method of making ice, not a spell!"
"Oh my god, if this isn't magic, then what is it? How can people create ice in such a hot day?" Old Man Xu refused to believe it and thought it was magic that only gods could do.
Xu Ning sighed, and suddenly thought that Old Man Xu had not been exposed to these things for so many years, and his cognition and concepts had actually been solidified. No matter how she explained, he would still stick to his set of rules in his heart.
In this case, Xu Ning will not explain.
In short, don’t force others to understand things you don’t understand. It’s good for both yourself and others.
"Grandpa, wait a minute, I'll make you something delicious with ice!" How can we have fruit smoothies in summer?
Xu Ning exchanged for a small iron shovel and carefully scraped off the ice covering the copper basin bit by bit. When Mr. and Mrs. Xu came back with the first basket of mushrooms, Xu Ning had just scraped out half a basin of slush.
This time, Mr. and Mrs. Xu came back late because they washed the mushrooms before carrying them back.
The weather outside is getting very hot again, and the water will evaporate soon. Old Mrs. Xu is afraid that she won’t be able to find water to wash by then, so it’s better to wash it first and dry it in the sun.
"Daya, what are you doing?" Xu Da put down the mushrooms, walked to Xu Ning and drank a bamboo tube of water before he recovered.
"Dad, wait a minute, I'll be ready soon. Eat something before you come over! Mom, come here quickly!" Xu Ning shouted while communicating with the treasure chest in his mind. He used fifty points to exchange for two bottles of strawberry jam.
She was in a hurry, so she opened the jam and poured it on the smoothie. She stirred it a few times with the prepared bamboo spoon and scooped a bowl for Xu Da.
"Daya? What's this? It's so refreshing!" Xu Da was holding the red strawberry smoothie and was at a loss as to what to do. Xu Ning put down the portion he was about to scoop for Old Man Xu and explained to Xu Da: "Dad, this is strawberry smoothie, it's good for cooling off. Come and try it!"
Worried that Xu Da didn't know what strawberries were, he exchanged another pound of strawberries, washed them with clean water, and put them in the bowl. "This is the fruit. After cooking, it will look like the one just now."
After finishing her work, Zhang came over, pinched a strawberry with her hands and tasted it, "Daya, this strawberry is really delicious, sour and sweet, and has a fragrance, even better than the small red fruit!"
"Is it really that delicious?!" Xu Da tentatively took a sip of the strawberry smoothie, and was startled as soon as he put it in his mouth!
“It’s so cold!”
Xu Daha exhaled a puff of mist, his face full of shock and excitement, "Oh my god, this is ice?!"
Xu Ning gave the good portion in his hand to Zhang first, "Mom, you try it too!"
"Dad, this is smoothie, it must be made of ice! It tastes good, right?" Xu Ning filled two more bowls, gave one to Dad Xu first, and then took the first bite himself.
It's cool and sweet, and after one sip I feel like all the heat in my body has subsided.
"Daya, did you make this ice?" Xu Da's face was full of disbelief. Xu Ning nodded while eating. Old Man Xu stopped after taking two bites and told Xu Da and his wife what happened in the morning.
Like Old Man Xu, Mr. and Mrs. Xu thought that this was magic that only gods could do.
Xu Ning was helpless and explained the principle of ice making again, but they still didn't believe it, so Xu Ning just let them do as they pleased.
After Xu Ning finished his portion of the smoothie, he put the rest into a bamboo tube and asked the Xu couple to take it to Old Lady Xu and Xu's second child to try.
Then Xu Ning continued to stir her ice cubes, prying the solidified ice out of the basin, and pouring water into it to continue making ice.
When Old Lady Xu and the others came back at noon, Xu Ning had already made a large basin of ice cubes of different sizes.
Of course, this is not made from one pot of saltpeter, but from three pots of saltpeter.
In order to make ice quickly, Xu Ning not only replaced two basins of saltpeter, but also specially replaced two small copper basins and placed them in the middle of the saltpeter, so that the ice would solidify much faster!
"Sister, it's so cool in there!" Xu Xiaobao's hands touched the outside of the ice basin and he screamed with excitement.
Xu Ning had already frozen some fruits in a basin. She asked Xu Xiaobao to wash his hands and personally handed him an apple.
"Thank you, sister!" Xu Xiaobao held the red apple in his hand and was reluctant to eat it. He had never seen such a big apple before and was afraid that it would be gone after he finished eating it.
As if she could see what Xu Xiaobao was thinking, Xu Ning touched his little head and said, "Hurry up and eat, Xiaobao. I have plenty more apples here! If you don't eat apples, they will go bad. Bad apples can only be eaten by bugs."
Xu Xiaobao quickly took a bite, and the sweet taste made him squint his eyes with joy!
"tasty!"
"If it tastes good, eat more!"
"Daya, you are a girl, you can't eat too much ice. It's not good for you." Old Mrs. Xu was afraid that she would not keep a close eye on him and Xu Ning would eat too much ice.
"Got it, grandma. Come and try the lychees. These are Cantonese lychees. Most people can't eat them!"
"Brother, don't just stand there. Take what you want to eat. These are prepared for everyone!" The weather was so hot that it was really impossible to eat hot meals. Old Mrs. Xu and the others came back just to rest. The temperature outside was not suitable for anyone to stay in.
Zhang and Xu Da went out to turn over and dry the mushrooms and came back sweating. They only recovered after drinking a sip of water in an ice basin.
"Mom, let's go out later this afternoon. I think the weather is like this, the mushrooms can be dried in one day. The mushrooms outside are probably dried up too, so there won't be many left to pick. Let's see if there are any wild vegetables later and pick as many as we can."
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