The Big Farmer of Time Traveling

Chapter 172

After selling the cold prawns for a few days, Zhou Xiaozhu told Lin Xiazhi that using well water to freeze the cold prawns could not keep up with the speed of sales. There have been several customers who have reported that the cold prawns they ate were not cold enough.

If you want to make cold cakes and cold shrimps cool enough, you can actually add ice to them. However, there were no refrigerators in ancient times, and ice was always used by wealthy people. Their families did not dig icehouses to store ice in winter. Where can they use ice?

I believe that the Cheng family has an ice cellar, but the ice cellar is definitely only enough for the whole family. They are doing business and need a lot of food every day, not to mention the Cheng family.

Lin Xiazhi's body hasn't recovered in the past two years. He doesn't feel too hot in summer, and he has never thought about the issue of ice.

This year, his health is better and he is starting to feel the heat. This is not too difficult. If there is no refrigerator to compress ice, then think of other ways to make ice.

In the previous chemistry class, the teacher said that saltpeter dissolves in water to absorb heat. In theory, saltpeter can be used to make ice.

Moreover, Lin Xiazhi also heard from others that some students majoring in chemistry bought saltpeter to put in their dormitory, making the dormitory without air-conditioning as cool as if it had air-conditioning.

At that time, the dormitory in their school was air-conditioned, so he only listened to it as an anecdote, and never tried it himself.

Now that there is such a rumor, it is not groundless to make ice with saltpeter. Lin Xiazhi asked Zhao Nan to buy a sack of saltpeter from the drugstore in the county that day, and closed the door to study ice making with saltpeter.

Use a large jar to fill two-thirds of the jar of water, and then put saltpeter into it to fill the entire jar. After the saltpeter has reacted, the water in the jar is not completely frozen, it is a mixture of ice and water.

In this way, Lin Xiazhi can be sure that saltpeter can make ice, but the ratio of saltpeter to water is not right, so the temperature is not enough to make a can of ice-water mixture.

Anyway, I bought a lot of saltpeter, and there were many empty jars at home. Lin Xiazhi simply put a jar in every corner of the room. The ratio of saltpeter to water in each jar is different. In the end, it depends on which ratio is most suitable.

The result of the experiment is that saltpeter is [-]-[-] equal to water, and the skill can turn water into ice without wasting saltpeter.

Ice made from saltpeter must not be eaten directly. If you want to make ice that can be added to jelly and jelly, you can only separate water into the ice made from saltpeter.

Lin Xiazhi spent a lot of money to have someone go to the county town to find a blacksmith to make a batch of copper boxes with special shapes. The copper boxes are flat and have grooves of various sizes on them.

In addition to the copper box, he also asked Tang carpenter to rush to make more than [-] wooden basins.

Wooden basins and copper boxes take time, and they can’t be finished so quickly. Lin Xiazhi can only react with saltpeter and water in a large clay pot at home. Inside are some small bowls to hold water. The ice formed by a thin layer of water at the bottom of the bowl is Lin Xiazhi wanted it, and then wrapped a batch of bowls with quilts and sent them to Piaoxiang Shili.

Zhou Xiaozhu didn't expect that Lin Xiazhi would find a way to get ice, and with ice cold cakes and cold shrimps, the sales would be even better.

It is slow and time-consuming to freeze with bowls. Fortunately, Lin Xiazhi asked blacksmiths and carpenters to make copper basins and wooden basins in two days, which speeded up the freezing speed.

Fill the small grooves in the copper basin with water, and put saltpeter and ordinary water in the wooden basin. After a while, the water in the copper basin will form small ice cubes. Pour the ice cubes in the copper basin into the wooden basin. Then another pot was frozen in the bucket, and one wooden bucket was sent to Piaoxiang Tenli, finally solving the problem of not enough ice in Piaoxiang Tenli.

There seems to be an inexhaustible amount of ice in Piaoxiang Shili, which has become a mystery in the hearts of everyone in Jiangning County. Many people asked Zhou Xiaozhu where his ice came from, but Zhou Xiaozhu blocked it with sloppy eyes go back.

How Xia Geer got the ice has his own way, Zhou Xiaozhu didn’t know it at all, when others asked him, his performance didn’t look like a fake, although it’s rare that the price of ice is not low in summer, those who inquired It's not really necessary to know, besides, Piaoxiang Shili belongs to the Lin family, and the Lin family got close to the county magistrate, so they gave up when they couldn't ask anything.

Every time Piaoxiang Shili releases a new product, it will bring a round of good business. Zhou Xiaozhu is so busy that he doesn't touch the ground, but Lin Xiazhi can take a leisurely time when he solves the problem at home.

At this time, the bean shop in Linjiacun suddenly had a problem.

There are currently eight bean shops, two of which are run by elder brothers or husbands. The people in charge of them are Lin Xiazhi and Lin Chengyun who brought up together with Wei Fulang before, and it is the brothers who have problems.

Recently, Lin Chengyun's family was saying goodbye to him. While he was busy with the bean shop, he had to deal with the family. He looked a little tired. At this moment, he made a batch of unusable bean sticks.

The beanstalks in the whole room were turned into waste products because of the wrong drying temperature and time. The problem came from the night when Lin Chengyun was on duty in the drying room.

It has been more than a year since the bean shop in Linjiacun opened, and there has never been such a big mistake. There are dozens of catties of bean stalks in a room, worth more than ten taels of silver, not to mention how much it can be sold for. The two or three days of labor of the people in Doufang were wasted, and this is the reason why everyone is arguing.

The Lin family has a lot of people in Doufang, so when something like this happened in Doufang, it was natural to call a meeting of the members of the village, and Lin Xiazhi and Lin Chengzu attended on behalf of the Lin family.

"Everyone, don't make a fuss. You haven't figured out what's going on, so don't worry." Li Zheng stood up from his seat to maintain order, "Brother Yun must have never thought of such a problem—"

Before Lizheng finished speaking, Fu Lang, who was impatient, jumped up and retorted: "So what if he didn't expect it, and he just opened his mouth and said to pay money. I think he is in charge and forgot his last name, so what is the money?" can be resolved.”

Someone next to him echoed: "That's right, more than a dozen taels of silver is not a big number for us guys in Lin Family Village. Don't think it's so great to be able to take out more than ten taels of silver."

Lin Chengyun couldn't bear it anymore, he shook off his brother who was holding his arm, stood up and looked at the two husbands who were almost jumping in anxiety: "May I ask uncles and uncles, when did I, Lin Chengyun, say that I only pay money It's over."

Lin Chengyun's words stopped them. It seemed that Lin Chengyun had hardly spoken since entering the room.

Fu Lang, who was the first to speak, snorted coldly and stuck his neck: "Even if you didn't say it, I can tell from your appearance that you definitely think so in your heart!"

"How do you know what's on my mind? Could it be that you are the roundworm in my stomach?" Lin Chengyun said bluntly.

"You!" The husband slapped the table angrily.

"Okay, all of you sit down! This is a fight in front of the big guys!" Li Zheng watched their swords being tense, and the anger in his heart burst out.

After all, after more than ten years of being a Lizheng, everyone is still in awe when he really loses his face in front of the villagers.

Seeing that Lizheng was really angry, the two husbands glared at Lin Chengyun and sat down with a cold snort.

Lin Chengyun was still standing, and Ji Deli was turning his head to look at him. His brother hurriedly stood up and pushed him to sit down.

"Today, I asked everyone to discuss how to deal with this matter, not to quarrel." Li Zheng suppressed his anger, "Our village has no experience in running workshops, so it is inevitable that we will encounter problems and solve them. That's enough, don't blow it up like eating gunpowder all day long, no one is sage, no one can do anything wrong, if someone makes a mistake, everyone should be considerate to each other..."

"Lizheng, I don't read much, so you don't have to talk to me about these words, you can't understand." Another older man interrupted Lizheng impatiently. He only cared about what to do with the lost money. The family can divide the money every month.

Li Zheng was choked by the man's words, and could only swallow back the words that had been prepared, and get straight to the point.

"How much money was lost in this batch of bad bean stems? Brother Yun paid for it himself. He made such a big mistake as a manager, and his monthly salary was reduced by [-]%, which is the same as that of ordinary workers. There have been no problems with the stewardship, and he will not be removed from the stewardship position for the time being, and he will be probationary for three months, and we will see the situation after three months."

This punishment is not small, not to mention compensation for the loss, but also a fine of wages, and Brother Yun is talking about marriage now, so I don't know if it will affect his marriage.

"Everyone has never had any problems, and Lin Chengyun is the first one. If you don't punish severely, will everyone lightly expose their mistakes like this in the future, as long as they lose money, and if others make mistakes in the future, it's just not so serious. Can he bear the responsibility of not being discovered and affecting the quality of the beans sold?" Fu Lang, who was the first to stand up to speak, stood up and sang a different tune.

"What you said is too scary, as if no one would make mistakes without accident." A husband next to him curled his lips when he heard his alarming words.

"However, what Ming Fulang said is also reasonable." As long as it is true, people will believe it. At first, they thought that Rizheng's punishment was a bit harsh, but now after hearing what Ming Fulang said, they felt that it should be more severe.

This kind of indecisive and soft-hearted person is more than one, and Li often encounters it when he is dealing with village affairs, and he basically doesn't care about their opinions.

The person who has been criticizing before is Ming Fulang. His family owns shares in Doufang, his eldest son works in Doufang, and his own man is selling tofu. It’s okay for him to care about Doufang, but Lin Xiazhi always feels that his attitude is a little bit strangeness.

Lin Xiazhi didn't know exactly what was going on, except that Lin Chengzu and Lin Xiazhi asked Lin Chengzu and Lin Xiazhi for help when Doufang was inexperienced at the beginning. At other times, the Lin family didn't care how Doufang operated. Will intervene in the management of Doufang.

No matter how Lin Xiazhi thought it was strange, some people listened to Ming Fulang's words and clamored for Lizheng to deal with it seriously, so as not to leave hidden dangers in Doufang.

Speaking of the later, someone unexpectedly suggested that Lin Chengyun's situation was due to the marriage that his family was telling him, and asked him if he could not spare his energy to manage the bean farm.

When Lin Chengyun heard such words, his face became even more ugly. Not only Lin Chengyun, but even his family and several families who were close to his family became dissatisfied, and stood up to speak for Lin Chengyun.

In the end, the house became a mess again, and Li Zheng couldn't suppress it.