At the beginning of the year of famine, the lucky girl of the farm family used cheats to support the

This sugar water shop is just one of the shops owned by this boss. He has been operating in Yuzhou for many years and has deep roots. However, if you walk by the river, you will get your feet wet. This time, the feud has been established.

Before opening the store, Fubao thought carefully and decided not to make enemies with others. But now it seems that the more you retreat, the more others will treat you as a soft persimmon.

The business of the shop was not affected at all. There was a buy-one-get-one-free promotion day every month, and every time that day came, the business was extremely hot. Influenced by her, even the small vendors at the door, who had leftover vegetables and could not sell them, would offer to buy one pound and get half a pound free.

Zhang Ercui stayed in jail for four or five days, but she gained weight. When she came back, she was full of energy. However, she didn't go to the shop every few days and stayed at home to take care of Chongxi.

Two months passed and Yuzhou entered midsummer. When the sun was high overhead every day, pedestrians were almost baked to death.

The weather was too hot so fewer people came out. Fubao sat on the threshold of the shop, supporting his chin with his right hand, looking at the busy road in deep thought.

Yesterday, she invested several hundred taels of silver into the space, and the fog dissipated a lot. After the beet field, there was another orchard. The fruits in it were obviously not from the same season, but they could mature at the same time here, which made her marvel.

Fubao also started to grow from the age of five or six. The Li family was surprised to find that she had grown a lot taller overnight, even taller than Yiqiu.

But it’s not that exaggerated. When someone asks me about it, I just say that my child has grown fast recently.

Qingyang discovered that she could grow up quickly as long as she had money, and laughed and teased her that she was a "gold-eating beast."

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Li Darong felt the heat coming in from outside and said worriedly, "Why hasn't Chongming come back yet? Isn't he just buying some ice?"

Fubao: "Maybe he's on the way."

It was so hot that I couldn't get up. I was used to staying in Linzhou, where even during droughts, it was dry and hot. It was not like Yuzhou, where it was hot and stuffy. After a day, my clothes were wet and sticky to my body.

In this weather, if there is no ice in the shop, we won’t be able to keep customers.

Fu Bao looked at the carriage in the distance and waved excitedly: "Brother, you are finally back!"

Chongming drove the empty carriage and said dejectedly: "I didn't buy it..."

Fubao: "How could that be? There were some a few days ago."

Chongming clenched his hands: "They said... Xue Qingquan is so capable that he can defeat Boss Jing, so he should be able to solve the ice problem by himself."

Fu Bao suddenly realized: "Boss Jing also runs an ice cream shop? Then let's go buy it somewhere else..."

Chongming shook his head: "I asked all the ice cream shops on the whole street, and they either said they didn't have it or they didn't sell it."

Li Darong slammed the table and said, "Aren't they just ganging up to bully others?"

Fubao: "Where else can I buy ice?"

Chongming: "I have asked all the shops that can buy it. If it is a little further away, the price will melt if it is delivered. Why don't you ask them again?"

Fu Bao: "Forget it, it's better to rely on ourselves than to rely on others, let's find a solution ourselves."

The ice in this ice shop is stored in the ice cellar in winter and sold in summer. Yuzhou is close to the river, so it is not difficult to get ice in winter, so the price of ice is only slightly higher.

Fubao turned around and asked, "Uncle, do you know any other way to make ice?"

Li Darong: "Where can we get ice except in winter? Making ice shouldn't work, right?"

Fu Bao was not sure whether there was a way to make ice with saltpeter in this era, but it was obvious that the Li family did not know about it. Perhaps only those wealthy families who could afford ice cubes knew something about it.

The book in the space records the method of making ice. If it works, then the store won’t have to worry about ice anymore.

Fubao went home early that afternoon, but did not go in. Instead, he went to Han's house.

While Mr. Han was giving a lecture to Yisheng and Yiqiu, Fubao visited Mrs. Han with her latest mung bean smoothie and rose cream.

Fubao: "Grandma Han, I'm here to see you."

When Mrs. Han heard her voice, she quickly agreed: “Yishu is here, come in, come in, I haven’t seen you for several days.”

Fubao put the things on the table and chatted with Old Mrs. Han for a while.

The news of someone poisoning the shop had reached her ears. The old lady was indignant: "You should have told us when something like this happened. If we don't solve it this time, there's no guarantee that it will trip you up again next time."

Fubao agreed: "You are right, the trouble has already come."

Old lady: "Is there something wrong with the shop again?"

Fubao: "Boss Jing has bribed countless ice cream shops, but none of them are willing to sell to us."

Old Mrs. Han frowned and said, "Just do business with integrity. If you always want to harm others, how can you do good business?"

Fu Bao: "I want to ask, do you know how to make ice with saltpeter?"

Old Mrs. Han was confused by what she said: "What saltpeter, what ice making? The ice we use is stored in the winter, and I have never heard of anyone being able to make ice."

In order to verify it, she even asked the housekeeper to come. The housekeeper was well-informed and shook his head, saying he had never heard of it.

Fubao said goodbye and went home. As soon as he got home, he asked someone to buy ten kilograms of saltpeter.

Nowadays, people only use saltpeter as medicine, so this thing is available in pharmacies. There are more of this thing on the black market, so it is not difficult to find, but the price is slightly higher. Ten kilograms of saltpeter cost nearly thirty taels of silver.

Zhou Qiaoping: "What is this? You bought so much." She quickly took it from Fubao's arms.

Fubao patted the bag and said happily: "This is a treasure. Our shop is relying on it recently."

Zhou Qiaoping: "You! You keep grandma in suspense all day long."

Fubao smiled and stuck out his tongue: "I really don't know how to explain this, I'll show you when I'm done."

She took out all the pots and pans of different sizes from the kitchen, and Zhou Qiaoping and Li Huaiqing were there to help.

Fubao followed the steps in the book. He put water and saltpeter in the large basin, then filled the small basin with water and placed it in the large basin.

As the two men looked on in astonishment, the water in the small basin slowly froze.

Zhou Qiaoping exclaimed: "This is... this is ice!"

Li Huaiqing was so frightened that he couldn't speak, and when he saw Fubao, he looked as if he had seen a ghost.

Fubao poked the not-so-solid ice with his hand and said, "At least it can be used. Let's leave it like this for now." Then he put the ice in the house and said, "It will be cool now, right?"

Zhou Qiaoping nodded and said, "It is indeed cool."

Fubao: "This method of making ice is too slow. I hope it can last for seven or eight days." I originally wanted to rely on this method to survive for two months, but the efficiency is too low, so I have to think of other ways.

The next morning, Fubao got up early and took saltpeter to the shop. By the morning, he had already made more than a dozen basins of ice on the second floor, and the cool shop attracted many passers-by.

Fu Bao greeted people at the door in a serious manner: "We have a lot of ice in our store. It's too hot. Come in and have a rest."

For three days in a row, she advertised how cool the shop was. At noon on the fourth day, someone finally couldn't wait any longer and secretly peeked in from the door.