Chapter 2640: Cold Winter Stores More Ice for Summer

"While the baby knows nothing, I will introduce you to the woman who lost her husband over there. Her child is about the same age as yours. Are you willing?"

Li Yi did not want such a situation to appear in front of him, but since it has appeared, he must face it bravely.

"My wife just died, I will find another one, I..."

The man was very entangled. He had no idea about women at the moment, just wanted to raise the child.

The child was breastfed. If no one fed him, he would cook rice soup.

Rice soup is the thick juice on the top when steaming and boiling rice.

Some of them become something like thin paper after drying, which has the highest nutritional value.

The so-called rice soup for feeding babies is this, not porridge.

This is equivalent to the top layer of milk skin in the pot when boiling milk. In ancient times, people knew how to feed babies without mothers, rice soup.

When monks beg for alms with babies, they all look for those rich families.

"Time will wear away everything. Even if you can't forget, it will eventually weigh on your heart. I'm the one who tied the knot. No one dares to say that you're hard to listen to."

Li Yi insisted on helping the two families reunite, which was equivalent to a family giving birth to a pair of twins.

The marriages of many families in the Tang Dynasty were not because they liked each other, but because they relied on each other, including physically.

"Well... OK, I wonder if the other party is willing?" The man agreed, so that the child could drink milk.

"Don't worry." Li Yi took the man to get an injection and an IV drip first, without surgery.

The appendix is ​​also very important. Medical development and research on the appendix are not useless and can be cut casually.

Turning around, Li Yi went to find the woman whose husband had passed away. He told her that he would guarantee it, and the woman agreed that at least there was another man in the family, so she would not tell the child first.

When the two met, it didn't matter whether they liked each other or not. The woman held the other's child and turned around to feed the baby, and they were considered a family.

"Li Lang, will their future life be better? People around know the situation. What if someone lets it slip..."

Princess Yongmu learned about the situation and went to find Li Yi.

"The farmers don't know, but those who know know how to talk." Li Yi answered.

"Farmers? Ah! You want to recruit them as farmers? They... um! They must be willing."

Princess Yongmu understood, and the farm added four people.

"If they don't see this sea again, they won't think about it all the time."

"Yes! Sudden accidents are the most difficult to accept."

"It shows that the pressure of survival is still small. When you can't survive, how can you have time to think about other things, such as those indigenous survivors."

"According to this, people who can feel sad are happy?"

"I didn't say that."

"I said it."

"No!"

"Said, woo..."

...

The team continued to return, getting closer and closer to home.

After Hangzhou, it was Shanghai. There was no Shanghai in the Tang Dynasty. There were big rivers, and the water rushed into the sea.

After rushing, it rushed out to the alluvial plain, and then there were immigrants.

It was dark, four o'clock in the morning. According to the sailing speed, it would arrive in Haizhou at midnight tomorrow.

At present, there are fishing lights on the sea. At night, they use lights to lure fish, and then the people on the boat cast the net.

Now there are no small fishing boats. The smallest can carry ten tons of cargo. Currently, a single-boat trawling mode is adopted, but the net does not sink to the bottom.

The net is collected after trawling, which requires high strength of the net. In the past, the hemp woven net dared to be dragged like this, but it was not enough to pay for the net.

The advantage of a large boat is that it will not be hit into the water by small winds and waves, and the safety factor is high.

The fishermen go out to sea in groups, and the fishing boats are bought through interest-free loans from Lijiazhuangzi.

Before fishing, the arrangement of work types and profit distribution are agreed upon. Fishing at night, docking at dawn, the things in the net are immediately processed, and there are people on the shore.

Fresh fish are sold to local merchants to the fish market, and other shrimps are cooked, and fish are made into dried fish. When a batch is gathered, it is still sold to merchants.

The merchants are responsible for taking the dried goods to Suzhou, transporting them to Chang'an by rail, and Chang'an continues to send them to other places.

The price depends on the sign written by the team collecting sea goods of the Tang Dynasty World Fund, and the price fluctuates up and down according to the fund price.

The prices of seafood vary according to the variety and appearance.

Now in winter, sometimes airships come to transport fish to the north, such as Gyeonggi Province, Gansu, etc. It is far from Chang'an by land and difficult to travel.

The airships bring ice cubes to the frozen places, fly over to get fresh fish, and then fly to the places where they are needed to sell.

Sometimes the wind direction is not good, the speed will be slow, and ice is used to keep fresh.

The people there can eat cheap sea fish, even iced large shrimps, oysters, scallops...

Li Yi was watching the fishing light through the glass in the room. A group of ministers were around him. They were afraid of being home and couldn't sleep. They called Li Yi to chat with them.

Fortunately, Li Yi didn't do anything tonight and had energy. Princess Yongmu and Xiaolan came with him.

Li Yi mixed the dumpling filling and was responsible for kneading the dough and rolling the dumpling skin. Princess Yongmu and Xiaolan sat there to make crescent dumplings. For breakfast, these people ate fried dumplings, not pan-fried buns.

Pan-fried buns use leavened dough, while fried dumplings use hot dough. The taste is different.

"It's the beginning of the twelfth lunar month today. I wonder if the people in Chang'an are cold?" Yao Chong looked at the fishing fire outside.

"It's even colder in the north of Chang'an." Li Yi curled his lips.

Can the twelfth lunar month still be warm? The telegram said that there have been several heavy snowfalls.

Today is January 8th in the Gregorian calendar, the second day of the twelfth lunar month. What is the weather like in the north in January?

"The ice on the river is frozen very thick. We will cut ice and store it later. The Tang Dynasty will need a lot of ice next year, which is just right for making money."

Princess Yongmu wrapped dumplings quickly and skillfully, and she didn't feel that her status had been lowered.

She came to help for fun, remembering that there would be a shortage of ice next year, and the ice sold in Li's manor would not be enough.

"Yes!" Xiaolan agreed: "Send it to Guangzhou and other places, airships, or large sea ships in Haizhou. If there is too much ice, pile it up and cover it up, it won't melt."

"That's right, Shu also needs it." Zhang Jiuling thought of his hometown, where people rarely saw ice, let alone eat it.

"Well water ice can be used to make shaved ice, or ice cubes from the manor, river ice can be used to cool down or calm water and things."

Song Jing recalled the days when he was the governor of Guangzhou. It was hot! He could only use water to cool down, and well water was the best.

Ice, even if he had money, he couldn't buy it.

If he wanted to buy it, he had to load the ice stored in winter onto a ship on the Yellow River in summer, and then change the river ship to a sea ship when he arrived at the seaside, and then send it to Guangzhou on the sea ship.

No one was willing to do this. It took two months to deliver a ship of ice, and only one-fifth of it would remain?

If you take more out, it will melt in two days.

The big ships on the sea belong to the navy, and the navy was about to disband.

"Oh!" Song Jing frowned as he thought about the past situation: "Initially, the navy was used to transport ice, and the money earned could support the army."

The people around him were silent, and they didn't say anything. How dare you say this, Song Jing? You just became the prime minister and you want to seize the power of the army generals. Would you consider that?