Chapter 706: Suddenly Remembered Ice Making

However, in such hot weather, it would be much more convenient if there were ice cubes.

Baiyunxi rubbed her chin with a twinkle in her eye. Ice was the best cooling helper during this period, but most people couldn't afford it. It was too expensive.

But for her, rapid ice-making is just a simple physical change, and the cost is lower than eating pastries.

Isn't it just making ice? She had studied it in the textbook.

With this idea in mind, Bai Yunxi walked to the corridor waving the cattail leaf fan, looked at the still scorching sun, squinted his eyes and laughed.

After all, he is also a strange soul. Take action when it is time to take action, otherwise you will have read more than ten years of books in vain.

I had known I would have stopped by the town when I came back from Xiaowangzhuang.

Making ice requires saltpeter, which is quick and easy. You only need to buy it once and it can be used repeatedly.

Thinking of this, Bai Yunxi directly called the second son over, "Go to Dr. Yang's place to see if there is any saltpeter for sale. If there is, buy some and bring it back. Mom can use it."

Saltpeter during this period was a medicinal material that could only be obtained by medical doctors.

"Hey~, I'll go right away." Bai Anyan had just taken a shower and her hair was still wet.

Baiyunxi took the cattail leaf fan and asked Du to sort out a few basins and buckets, scrub them clean and set them aside.

When Bai Anyan came in with half a bag of saltpeter, "Mom, this is all Doctor Yang has left, I brought them all.

"Okay, let's clear out another cellar and lay it with thick straw." Fortunately, when she was storing sweet potatoes and vegetables, she was worried that one cellar would not be enough, so she dug an extra cellar.

Baiyunxi looked at the saltpeter in the bag. It was gray-white in color. Although it was not pure, it was enough to make ice.

They are all ready-made things, and they will be ready in a short time.

"Okay, take the saltpeter to the corridor, prepare a large bathtub, put some saltpeter in the bag and melt it, then prepare a few small basins, fill them with water, and put them in the bathtub..."

Several people didn't know what Bai Yunxi was doing, and they were very curious. Especially Li, who held her waist and asked several times, but Bai Yunxi smiled and asked her to wait.

Although everyone was curious, they held back and did whatever they were told.

Half an hour later, several pairs of eyes were wide open. If there were no eye sockets blocking them, they would probably fall out of the window.

Wenyou leaned on the corridor pillar, looking from casual to surprised, and reached out to touch the crystals in the basin.

"This is ice."

"That's right, these are ice cubes, isn't it simple?"

The others had not recovered from the shock. Wenyou touched it, looked at the white crystal, and nodded.

"If I hadn't watched the whole process, I wouldn't have believed it was so simple."

Not everyone can afford ice cubes in summer.

Wealthy people, officials and dignitaries all have their own ice cellars to store snow and ice in winter and use them to cool down the next summer. But some people don't have such good conditions. If they want to cool down in summer, they can only buy ice cubes. The disadvantage is that the price is high.

Although she was not involved in general affairs, she had heard a lot that the price of ice cubes was ridiculously high in the summer.

The hot weather is not very friendly to the elderly. Whenever possible, you must buy some ice cubes to help the elderly survive the heat safely.

When she stayed with her former master, she heard her master's stepmother complain more than once that the ice was consumed a lot in the summer, the expenses were too high, and the government could not make ends meet.

But when she saw it today, she was a little surprised. Aunt Bai could make ice cubes so easily. The profits of those ice-making workshops can be imagined.

Three seasons of rest a year, one season of profit, and one year of food. This is a good deal.

"What are you doing? Take the basins out, change a few basins, and put a basin of freshly made ice into the house. It can cool down and relieve the heat, and have a good night's sleep."

Bai Yunxi curled her lips and waved her hands to bring the others back to their senses.

"My mother, it's really ice. It's such a hot day, why did it turn into ice?" Li held her belly with one hand and covered her mouth with the other, her eyes widening all the time.

Bai Anyan rubbed his eyes, and before he could speak, he let out a cry and turned to look at Mrs. Li,

"Why are you pinching me?"

"Hey...it hurts. It's really not a dream."

Mrs. Li chuckled, walked up to Bai Yunxi, circled her arm,

"Mom, you are so amazing. You can actually create ice cubes on a hot day. If you put this in the house, it will definitely be very cool."

"What changed? Everyone did it together."

Bai Yunxi reached out and pinched her chubby cheeks, chuckled lightly, and asked her second son to move the ice basin out and put a few more basins into the tub.

Fortunately, the tub is big enough to hold three basins at a time.

There is a lot of saltpeter and the ice is made quickly. One person can make ice in an hour.

Baiyunxi directly asked Wenyou to help with the ice that was made later, and sent it to the cellar with Lao Er for storage.

Until it got dark, Bai Anyan stood in the cellar, stacking the last piece of ice on top, feeling very calm.

His mother-in-law really thinks about things all the time. I really don’t know why she has so many novel things in her head.

The weather has not been hot for a day or two. Today, the idea of ​​making ice suddenly came to mind, and in the blink of an eye, I made a cellar.

He asked his mother how she knew how to make ice.

Since you know how to make it, why didn’t you make it before?

Unexpectedly, I just gave him a faint look and said that I always knew how to do it, but I just didn't think of it before, but now I suddenly remembered it again.

What can he do?

Bai Yunxi sat on the Arhat bed, leaning on the soft cushions, and there was an ice basin in the room. It was really comfortable.

When Wenyou came in, she saw such a lazy little old lady, and the corner of her mouth trembled.

"Aunt Bai, the ice cubes are all stored in the cellar."

"Well, take out the saltpeter in the bathtub, and we can continue to use it later."

When it was time for dinner, Xiao Si came back and felt the slight coolness in the house. After being surprised, he jumped up with a cry.

"Mom, you are biased. Why don't you think about your son when you have such a good thing? I get up twice a night to take a shower when it's hot. If I hadn't come back for dinner today, I wouldn't know that you are so moisturized."

Looking at Xiao Si's resentful eyes, Bai Yunxi glared at him, "I just made it today and was preparing to let you take it away after dinner. How could I forget you?"

"That's better."

After Xiao Si ate and drank his fill, he took a basin of ice with Shu Ren and returned to the duck farm contentedly.

Thinking of the elderly Third Aunt, Bai Yunxi called the Second Brother again, "Bring two pieces of ice, one for your Third Grandmother and one for your Aunt Song, so that they can sleep well at night. Don't forget to tell your Aunt to put the ice farther away."

Ice is cold after all, so it's fine for young people, but Third Aunt is in poor health, so she won't breathe in the cold air.

"By the way, tell them that we can't tell others about the ice in our house, otherwise, everyone will come to ask for it, and we won't be able to provide it even if we die of exhaustion."

Except for the Third Uncle and Song Wang who protected her at the beginning, she didn't plan to involve the rest of the people.