The new book of the burning prairie star

"Big sister, it's too hot today. Wanfu has always had someone take care of the Qiyun Courtyard where you lived. I've also brought in some new items over the years, and you'll definitely like them." Seeing that my sister wanted to go out to the shop, Mr. Liu was worried that she would get a heat stroke, so he suggested, "Big sister, take a rest first, and ask the shopkeepers to come over later to check the accounts. I'll have someone bring some more ice cubes into the house."

Seeing Liu nod, she hurriedly gave instructions. "Come on, I'll take you to see the courtyard where your mother lived when she was a child." Liu took her daughter to Qiyun Courtyard.

"Why is the yard where my mother lived before so small?" Xia Weiwei looked around. It was too small. The yards of the servants in the city were bigger than this one.

Mr. Liu was a little embarrassed and pretended to cough, but he didn't say that this was expanded after he took over the family business.

"Xiangjia Town is not like Guangping Prefecture. Besides, the bigger the courtyard, the warmer it is." Mrs. Liu smiled and patted the back of her daughter's hand. She turned to ask Mr. Liu, "This place has expanded a lot. Why has it been empty for so many years?"

"As long as I am still here and still have breath, this yard will always be clean and tidy, and it will be reserved only for my eldest sister to live in." Mr. Liu was a little excited.

"Yeah, okay." Liu was moved and her eyes turned red.

"Sister, it's too hot outside, let's go inside and talk." Mrs. Liu, who was standing outside, felt that she was almost dying of the heat. The siblings were still being emotional. Couldn't they just go inside and talk if they had anything to say?

"Oh, yes, yes, big sister, please come in." Mr. Liu hurriedly welcomed her in.

Yang Biao was copying with full concentration. At noon, when someone brought him food, he felt that the room suddenly became cooler. Just as he was wondering, he looked up and saw the two girls who were picking lotus pods in the pond in the morning, and their personal maids were also in the room. There were two basins of ice in the room. No wonder he felt not as hot as before.

"Can I take a look?" Xia Weiwei asked softly.

Yang Biao stretched out his right hand and made a "please" gesture.

The girl chuckled and slowly flipped through the pages. Liu Ran also picked up the copied paper from the ground, stood up, walked to his cousin, and asked, "This handwriting is really good. Weiwei, which one do you think is better than your second brother's?"

"Each of them has his own merits." Xia Weiwei is a protective person. Talent is really a mystery. His second brother has been learning calligraphy for much longer than Yang Biao, and there is really no difference between them in their handwriting.

By this time, Yang Biao had washed his hands and was sitting at the table ready to eat.

"What's your name?" Xia Weiwei asked him with a smile, holding the words copied by Yang Biao in her hand.

"Yang Biao, Mu Yi Yang." After thinking for a while, he picked up the brush beside him and wrote the two words "Yang Biao" on a blank piece of paper.

"Oh, then your parents must hope that their children can become successful when they grow up." Xia Weiwei smiled.

"Every parent hopes that their children can succeed," said Yang Biao.

"It's as if you have a child. You're not very old, but you speak in such an old-fashioned way." Xia Weiwei was displeased.

You're right, I'm probably older than your mother, and I have both sons and daughters. Yang Biao complained in his heart.

"Weiwei, let's go. This guy is so boring." Liu Ran also felt that Yang Biao was a little depressed.

"Let's go and eat some iced bayberries." Xia Weiwei put down the paper in her hand, and the two of them walked out hand in hand.

Ice, Yang Biao's mind moved, yes, saltpeter can make ice, it's so hot, ice can be made to cool down. I didn't expect the wisdom and creativity of the ancients to be so powerful. Who is the inventor who discovered that saltpeter can make ice? I really want to have a friendly conversation with him, he is too smart.

I quickly asked, "Where does your ice come from?"

"Of course it's homemade ice." Liu Ran said with pride.

"Niter making ice?"

"How do you know that the ice is made of saltpeter?" Xia Weiwei was surprised. Although the clothes he wore were new, the fabric was cotton. He didn't look like a rich kid who would be willing to buy ice in the summer.

"Can you get saltpeter?" Yang Biao asked.

Both girls laughed, "Just take off the "ma". My cousin's family is in the medicinal materials business. We can have as much saltpeter as you want." Liu Canran looked proud.

The main component of saltpeter is potassium nitrate, which can be collected by mining ore and refining salt lakes. There is no ore in Wenchang County, and refining in salt lakes is not a cheese we can move, so forget it.

"Can you give me some?" Afraid that she would refuse, he immediately added, "I will buy it with money."

"I'll have someone send it to you tomorrow." Xia Weiwei said this and left with her cousin.

The ice is ready, but what should be sold with it? While eating, Yang Biao was thinking about what fruits were available in this season in ancient times.

Time soon came and the day came when Yang Biao could go home and sleep at night. Yang Biao returned to Yangjia Village with the saltpeter given by Xia Weiwei.

"Brother, what are you doing?" Yang Lin looked at Yang Biao curiously as he poured water into the big vat. "Making ice." Yang Biao wiped the sweat off his forehead and continued to fetch water from the well.

"Ice making? What is that?" Yang Xiaohua also came over.

"Just watch first, don't talk." Yang Biao didn't want to talk, he was tired, his body was too bad, he was still a teenager, not as good as me who was almost 40 years old, he sighed silently in his heart. It's time to start exercising.

I took another small jar and put it into the big vat, then put saltpeter into the small jar, added water and stirred it constantly. Saltpeter is really slow to make ice, and after waiting for a long time, there is only a little bit of ice in the water, and it is still early to form ice cubes. It seems that if you want to make ice cubes, you have to wait all night.

"Brother, have you seen our house?" Yang Xiaohua asked.

"Not yet. Have we started building our house yet?"

"No, we're still laying the foundation." Yang Xiaohua was afraid that Wang would come to make trouble, so she felt inexplicably at ease knowing that her brother was at home.

"It will take at least half a month to lay the foundation. I estimate that we will start building the house. I have also finished copying Mr. Liu's book." Yang Xiaohua felt relieved after hearing what Yang Biao said.

"Brother, why do the village head and the others have to hoe the fields at noon? It would be much better if they go in the morning or when it's getting dark. It won't be hot then." Yang Lin didn't understand why the village head and the others chose to work in the fields at noon. They were sweating so much that their clothes were soaked.

Yang Biao knew that in ancient times, before herbicides appeared, farmers chose to weed at noon, when it was the hottest time. There was a reason for that. "The grass that is hoeed off at noon will quickly dry up and die. The soil will no longer be compacted after being turned over by the hoe, and it can also protect the soil from moisture loss. Doing this at the hottest time is beneficial to the growth of crops." Yang Biao patiently explained.