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After scaring away Zhong Zhengping, Wolong Village no longer had to worry about anyone causing trouble for the time being.

Gan Ning brought the injured Jinfan thief to Wolong Village, which was considered to be the opening of a new world.

Gan Ning was amazed by the telescope, walkie-talkie and other things.

When he saw the water pump with his own eyes, he regarded it as a divine weapon.

The Jinfan bandits had always looted a lot of property, and Gan Ning handed it all over to Zhuge Tian.

However, Zhuge Tian only took a small part of it, and returned the rest to Gan Ning, asking him to give it to the Jinfan thieves outside and let them train well.

Another part was given to Zhuge Liang to cover the daily expenses of the people in Wolong Village.

However, even if he only took a small part, Zhuge Tian's balance reached more than 400,000.

Now there are more than 100 former Zhuge family generals, more than 300 bandits led by Liao Hua, and more than 200 Jinfan bandits in Wolong Village, totaling more than 700 people.

In terms of weapons, each person was equipped with at least a spear made of doomsday steel.

Work in the morning and practice in the afternoon.

With Gan Ning here, Old Man Huang would come over to fight him every few days.

Even Gan Ning, who had recovered as before, was still slightly inferior to Old Man Huang.

However, with the help of the two of them in training, the combat effectiveness of Wolong Village has been greatly improved.

"Gulp gulp." Gan Ning drank the whole bowl of water in just a few gulps.

"The weather is getting hotter." He wiped the sweat from his forehead. "Even under the shade of the trees this afternoon, it's still scorching hot. I'm afraid it won't be easy to practice in the afternoons anymore."

Zhuge Tian nodded. Some people have suffered from mild heatstroke in the past few days.

"From now on, we'll work in the morning and rest in the afternoon. Let's use this time to train everyone in swimming."

The water next to them is still cool. If the weather is too hot, just let them learn to swim.

"That's a good feeling!" Liao Hua nodded, drank a bowl of cold boiled water, and said with some nostalgia: "When summer comes, I think of the ice and snow in winter. I want some ice and snow now, but I don't want it to be too refreshing."

"I heard that those wealthy families all have ice cellars, so they can have ice to eat even in the scorching summer."

Zhuge Liang shook his head. "My uncle once had an ice cellar in Yuzhang. Storing ice in winter was labor-intensive, and even during the hottest part of summer, only one in ten would remain. At most, it was enough for a dozen people."

"It's a pity that there are too few things called freezers in Hanxing." Liao Hua said with some regret.

There was an old freezer in Zhuge Tian's store, but it was full of meat and there was no way to freeze ice for them.

"It's not that troublesome." Zhuge Tian said with a smile, "Didn't the sulfur and saltpeter that Kong Ming bought a few days ago all arrive? I'll make some ice for you today."

"Did you buy saltpeter and sulfur to make ice?" Liao Hua asked curiously.

Those things were escorted back by him and his men. I don’t know why Zhuge Tian bought so many of them at once.

"Saltpeter will suffice. Send someone to fetch a few dozen pounds."

After saying that, Zhuge Tian went back to his shop and found a few stainless steel basins.

Soon Liao Hua came back carrying a bag of saltpeter himself.

Zhuge Tian also found a large wooden basin and filled it with river water.

Zhuge Tian poured the saltpeter in, and then asked Liao Hua to put the stainless steel basin filled with boiled water into the wooden basin.

"Is that all?" Liao Hua had just said a few words while holding the stainless steel basin when he felt a chill coming from the water below.

"Why don't you put some rocks under the water?" Zhuge Liang said with a smile, "Why do you have to hold it like that?"

"That's right!" Liao Hua nodded: "Kong Ming's brain is still good."

Then he and Gan Ning and others squatted on the side like curious babies, and kept stirring the water in the wooden basin below as Zhuge Tian said.

"It's over!"

“It’s really getting cold!”

The two felt the chill rising from below, felt it with their fingers, and hurriedly continued stirring.

"Alright, stop stirring." Zhuge Tian called out in a bad mood, "Just wait until the saltpeter dissolves slowly."

Then you can see the water in the wooden basin outside slowly freezing, and then the water in the stainless steel basin also begins to slowly solidify into ice cubes.

"It's really frozen!" Liao Hua and Gan Ning looked at each other.

"Pour this into everyone's drinking water tank, and everyone will have ice water to drink." Zhuge Tian said with a smile.

"You're awesome!" Liao Hua and Gan Ning gave Zhuge Tian a thumbs-up, then shouted through the loudspeaker, "Brothers, put down your things and come over for some ice water."

There were four stainless steel basins in total, and I took out four basins of ice cubes and poured them into four large vats of cold boiled water.

Suddenly, four large jars of chilled boiled water appeared.

"Wow, it's so cool!"

"Comfortable, so comfortable!"

"Don't drink too much, otherwise you will have diarrhea!" Zhuge Tian reminded with a smile.

"Isn't it a waste to use all this saltpeter to make this ice?" Zhuge Liang asked with some concern.

"That's fine." Zhuge Tian pointed to the wooden basin. "Put this ice water in the room to cool everyone down. Once it melts, dry it in the sun. The saltpeter will precipitate out again, and you can scrape it off and reuse it."

Zhuge Liang's eyes lit up when he heard this and he said, "Since you have the ability to make ice, we can go to Xiangyang and sell it!"

Zhuge Liang was quick-witted. "If the sugary drink my cousin gave me were frozen into ice cubes and eaten directly, it would surely be delicious, right?"

Zhuge Tian thought about it and it made sense.

Why didn’t I think of this?

Although Deng County belongs to Nanyang County, it is at the junction of Nanyang County and Xiangyang, only about thirty miles away from Xiangyang.

Jingzhou is now a place of peace and prosperity, and there are many aristocratic families in Xiangyang City.

If you can make ice cream, you can really make some money in this hot summer.

Thinking of this, Zhuge Tian hurried back to get a pen and paper, drew a diagram, and handed it to Liao Hua: "Have someone use iron to make fifty small tubes like this."

Liao Hua looked at it and nodded, saying, "Okay, this is not difficult."

The scrap iron Zhuge Tian bought from the end of the world was melted down and directly beaten into iron sheets, which he then cut and folded into small tubes like this.

"But what is this used for?" Liao Hua asked.

"Make ice cream." Zhuge Tian said with a smile, "Just put some sugar in cold boiled water, put it in a small tube like this, and then freeze it into ice and eat it directly."

Liao Huaguang started swallowing his saliva just by listening.

"Okay, okay, type it out right away and give me one when the time comes."

After saying that, Liao Hua waved his hand and said, "Li Quezi and Deng Laosan, after they finish drinking the ice water, ask the two blacksmiths to come over and help."

Zhuge Tian took out another blueprint and gave it to the carpenter: "Make two wooden boxes according to this."

The drawing shows a square box divided into many small grids.

"This is easy, don't worry, Mr. Hanxing."