With the participation of more than 600 personal guards, plus the original village, more than 500 farmers, and hundreds of children, the speed of harvesting rice suddenly accelerated a lot.
Seeing this, Li Xuan nodded with satisfaction.
Then, he took Cui Mi, who was already blushing from the sun, back.
After returning to the other courtyard, Li Xuan did not rest. Instead, he called two servants and walked to the backyard again.
"What are you doing, Saburo?"
Cui Mi was a little confused.
"The weather is so hot that standing in the sun for an hour can make people unbearable. I want to make some cool ice for the farmers to cool down!"
Li Xuan explained.
"Give those farmers some cold ice?"
Cui Mi was surprised again and a little unbelievable. In her impression, cold ice was a luxury item. Even though she was the direct daughter of the Cui family, the amount of cold ice she could eat every year was limited.
As for what Li Xuan said about making cold ice, Cui Mi subconsciously ignored it.
"Exactly!"
Li Xuan nodded.
Seeing this, Cui Mi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but he saw that Li Xuan had stopped in front of a small house.
At the door of the cabin, there is a small plaque hanging, Liangbingfang.
Liangbingfang?
Cui Mi felt something was wrong.
At this moment, Li Xuan had already opened the door and walked in.
The two servants who followed him automatically stopped at the door.
Seeing this, Cui Mi became more curious, followed Li Xuan, and walked in slowly.
As soon as I entered, I shivered subconsciously. I didn't expect that it was very cold inside this small room, but because of the glass windows, the room was still a little bright.
Then, Cui Mi looked around. After seeing clearly, his mouth subconsciously grew slightly.
Only then did she understand why there was such a small plaque hanging outside this hut.
It turns out that this is really a small workshop, specialized in making cold ice.
The entire hut, starting from the entrance, slopes towards the depths of the ground, and is surrounded by ice cubes, all of which are contained in clean glass jars. Cui Mi estimates that there are at least hundreds of ice cubes.
Moreover, from the outside, although this hut only has one room, it is as big as at least three houses extending from the ground floor.
In a small room on the middle side, there is also a large ice pool with a cold mist inside. After a while, two servants wearing thick clothes will pull out several large pieces of cold ice from it.
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"Sanlang, can you make cold ice?"
Cui Mi has now adapted to it, but it can be said that he has become numb.
I'm afraid that the heads of the aristocratic families in Aye have underestimated their husband's amazing talent.
Even though she has been in Lijiazhuang for so many days, this is the first time she knows that her husband can actually make cold ice.
Moreover, looking at the amount of ice stored in the house, I have been stocking up for a long time.
"Um!"
Li Xuan nodded lightly, but he had some doubts in his heart. He had been eating cold ice for many days, and Cui Mi didn't seem to know that he could make cold ice?
"King!"
"I've met the king, I've met the princess!"
Hearing Cui Mi's words, several icemakers who were concentrating on making ice in the hut quickly turned around, saw Li Xuan and Cui Mi, and saluted quickly.
“No need to be polite!”
Li Xuan waved his hand casually and asked: "Hengyun, how many ice cubes have been stored in Liangbingfang in the past few days?"
Hengyun, named Li Hengyun, was a servant in Prince Jin's palace. He had a son in his family. He was trusted by the housekeeper Li Chang, so he was sent to Liangbingfang to be responsible for the production of cold ice in the palace.
"Back to your Majesty, since your order, we have started to increase the speed of ice production. In the past few days, we have accumulated 800 kilograms of cold ice."
Li Hengyun quickly raised his hands and replied.
"Very good!"
Li Xuan nodded, a trace of satisfaction flashed in his eyes.
"Pack a hundred yuan and send it to the farmers and guards in the paddy fields!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!"
Hearing this, Li Hengyun didn't ask any more questions and directly answered with his hands.
Immediately, he began to direct the ice craftsmen in Leng Bingfang to load Liangbing into trucks and send them out of Liangbingfang.
Outside the house, people from the family had already received her.
During the autumn harvest, the whole farm is busy.
Even the people in the house were arranged by Li Xuan to deliver cold drinks to the farmers in the fields.
Under Li Xuan's special request, no one in Lijiazhuang was allowed to drink the raw water. It must be boiled before drinking.
At the beginning, people were not used to it.
However, after drinking it for a period of time, the farmers all found that they rarely got sick as they drank boiled water, and they even did not have stomach discomfort so often. They immediately began to actively drink boiled water.
Each piece of cold ice weighs fifty kilograms.
One hundred pieces of cold ice equals five hundred kilograms.
It took five small flatbed trucks and ten servants to work together to transport it to the ridge.
There were also ten servants, carrying hundreds of glass bowls and knives, following behind, chopping up the cold ice and distributing it to the guards and farmers.
For this, all the dealers and guards were filled with gratitude.
In the past, every autumn harvest was a matter for farmers like them. How could a proprietor not only ask a group of personal guards to help, but also provide farmers with precious cold ice to relieve the heat?
"I am truly blessed to have spent ten lifetimes cultivating myself to meet such a good proprietor!"
An older banker had a face full of excitement.
Then, when he looked up, he suddenly found that everyone around him was looking at him, and his face turned red.
However, there was nothing unusual about his tanned face, and he shouted directly: "What are you looking at? Why don't you hurry up and harvest the food?"
"The rice grains in Dawang's paddy field are so plump and at least a bit larger than the rice in the past. This year will definitely be a bumper harvest!"
"Exactly, such huge rice can only make people feel at ease if it is returned to the warehouse as soon as possible!"
"I'm waiting for so many people. I just need to speed up and harvest them all back into the warehouse today!"
"Work, work..."
After saying this, the farmers began to work hard to harvest rice, as if they had been given a shot of blood.
At the same time, in Lijiazhuang.
Li Chang also began to instruct the cooks in his house to prepare meals.
Usually when farming is busy, the lunch meal is very simple and needs to be large and filling.
Therefore, lunch consists of stewed pork, fried pork and other dishes, plus steamed buns, rice soup and porridge.
Although the farmers in the village are no longer short of meat, the large portions of meals with plenty of meat still make them feel satisfied.
After the meal, everyone began to rush to the paddy field again.
I kept working until midnight, when it was getting dark, and the thousands of acres of paddy fields began to become bare.
Only small pieces of muddy pool were left, and occasionally some fat fish jumped out of the water and breathed freely.
But the originally wide square was now filled with piles of golden rice.
All the farmers stood aside with excitement on their faces, excitedly looking at these rice piles the size of small hills.
This year, the food jars in their homes will definitely be filled with food.
For dinner, there was fragrant fish soup and chicken soup.
Every farmer and guard was satisfied with their food. All the rice in the fields was taken back and they were able to eat with peace of mind.
The next day.
All farmers got up early and started threshing millet.
After weighing, half was distributed to the farmer, and the rest was kept in the house and piled in the barn.
At the end of the day, all the dealers’ faces were filled with joy and their mouths couldn’t close!