Chapter 35 Uses of Ice Cubes
"I haven't figured out what this thing is called yet, so I'll call it smoothie for the time being." Wei Hong was so obedient.
He handed a bowl of smoothies to Wanniang, and took out a bowl himself. The two of them sat in the main hall and started eating with great pleasure. Wanniang had never eaten such a novelty before. The bowl of smoothies was quickly eaten up. Wei Hong immediately handed her another bowl. As a result, before Wei Hong finished the first bowl, Wanniang's second bowl had already reached the bottom.
Looking at Wan Niang's amazing speed, Wei Hong sighed and said in his heart: "It seems that women are born to be unable to resist the charm of cold drinks, and they have been like this since ancient times."
While eating, Li Ye suddenly came. After all, as one of the shareholders, Li Ye needed to pay attention to the ice making process at all times. Seeing Wei Hong and Wan Niang eating happily, Li Ye picked up a bowl from the table without hesitation. When he finished eating, Li Ye's expression was basically the same as Wan Niang, and he was shocked and amazed: "Young Master Wei, this..."
Before Wei Hong could speak, Wan Niang next to her answered, "Mr. Li, this thing is the smoothie invented by her husband."
Wei Hong looked at Li Ye with a smile: "How does it taste?"
Li Ye couldn't think of any words to describe smoothie for a while, so he said several good words in a row. After saying that, he ate the smoothie in one breath and reached out to take another bowl, but Wei Hong stopped him.
Wei Hong made eight bowls in total, and now there are four bowls left. Wei Hong tightly protected the remaining four bowls and reminded him with a seemingly loyalty: "Mr. Li, you are old and have a bad stomach. It is better to eat less cold things like smoothies, so don't hurt your body."
Li Ye knew Li Ye’s body bones. Although he was old, he would taste good. Not to mention a glass of smoothie, even the ice cubes could be chewed. Looking at Wei Hong’s stingy look, Li Ye curled his lips: “Forget it, I won’t eat it anymore. When I want to eat it, I will get as much as I want. It seems that there is no problem with making ice. When the boss comes back, we will start the ice making business.”
"We started this year late, and we didn't want to make much money, we just wanted to open up the market." Wei Hong said absent-mindedly, just focusing on eating smoothies.
Li Ye couldn't eat the smoothie, and he was still greedy when he was doing it, so he left. As soon as Li Ye left, Wei Hong ordered the servant to send a bowl to the second and third ladies. Without a cup of tea, the servant came back and said that the two ladies had not eaten enough and wanted each of them to ask for another bowl. Anyway, Wei Hong wanted to eat it and could make it at any time, so he asked the servant to deliver the last two bowls to the two ladies without hesitation.
It was cooled down by itself, and the craftsmen in the workshop next door were still hot. Wei Hong originally wanted to take the ice cubes directly, but if he had to carry them so directly, it would have melted almost before he could wait. After thinking about it, Wei Hong had a plan and even made a cold storage. What's the point of being a mere insulated box? He ordered the servant to find a large wooden box, hollow it in the middle, wrap it with a quilt inside and outside, and put four buckets of ice in it. Then Wei Hong ordered the chef to boil a pot of sugar water and transport it to the workshop next door.
After transporting it, Zhou Dali was stunned at the cold ice cube, and looked at Wei Hong in disbelief: "Young Master, did you really make this ice?"
Wei Hong joked: "You are thinking about me having fun with you?"
Under Zhou Dali's shocked gaze, Wei Hong took out the two buckets of ice, smashed them into pieces the size of a thumb, put them in ceramic cups, poured the sugar water into it, and asked Zhou Dali to distribute it to all the craftsmen. Although this cold drink is simple, the taste and the degree of ice are not bad at all. The craftsmen are happy, energetic, and work harder when they work.
Wei Hong ordered Zhou Dali to make a cold drink after a while the craftsmen could not bear the heat, so they also made the remaining two buckets of ice into cold drinks.
On the way back, Wei Hong thought to himself that it would be too troublesome to make cold drinks every day. He had to think of a simple and quick way to quickly cool the craftsmen. When he got home, Wei Hong had already had a look in his mind. Why did he take that effort? Just make popsicles directly?!
Wei Hong’s favorite popsicle is the milk flavor of ‘little pudding’. Nowadays, there are no cows, Wei Hong gave up the idea of milk ice cream and made simple and quick ‘old popsicle’ directly. First, he asked a carpenter to make a batch of popsicle molds, and then used the most common sugar and lemon juice as ingredients and chopsticks as popsicle sticks. He and Wan Niang were busy from morning to night, and made nearly a thousand pieces in one breath, which was enough for the craftsmen to eat for a while.
After solving the problem of cooling down by craftsmen, the stone that Wei Hong had been hanging in his heart fell to the ground. On that day, Wei Hong and Li Ye were sitting at the gate with a popsicle in their mouths and talked about the subsequent development of the sewing machine. While talking, the third lady Li Qiulan suddenly fell from the sky and sent Li Ye away as soon as she opened her mouth: "Sir, can you retreat? Qiulan has something to do to talk to Mr. Wei."
Li Ye whispered a mouthful of popsicles, looked at Wei Hong, then looked at Li Qiulan, then nodded, and saluted Wei Hong: "Young Master Wei, let's continue chatting when you get time in the afternoon."
In the past few days, Wei Hong has become a vendor selling popsicles. The whole mansion went to ask Wei Hong for two popsicles to eat. The most he asked for was Li Ye. Therefore, the relationship between Wei Hong and Li Ye has made rapid progress, and he has been promoted from the original cooperative relationship to a friend relationship.
Wei Hong stood up and returned the greeting: "Sir, go slowly."
After seeing Li Ye away, Wei Hong sat down again and asked Li Qiulan while licking the popsicle, "Miss Three, what's the matter with Wei?"
Li Qiulan's face was a little solemn: "Young Master, have you said anything to my second sister these days? Or did you do something?"
"No..." Wei Hong thought to himself, that aunt can't hide enough, what can she do with her?
"This is strange. Since my second sister came back that day, her behavior has become very strange. She always stood alone in front of the window and stared blankly. I couldn't help but scream. My second sister has never been like this before." Li Qiulan tilted her head, looking puzzled.
"When?" Wei Hong threw the edible popsicle stick aside and asked with his head raised.
"It's the day when the second sister knew that the eldest sister was coming back, she threw the Yujing bottle."
Chapter completed!