Chapter 22 The turning point of a peaceful life
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At three o'clock in the morning, the men from the Li family and Zhang family got up and started making popsicles under the leadership of Zhang Damao. Now they have dug two large pools and filled the tanks with bins, filled with wooden boxes, filled with sweet water.
It takes about two hours to turn these sweet water into popsicles.
By five o'clock in the morning, all the women working in the kitchen got up, grinding rice, kneading noodles, making steamed buns, and making pancakes, and the price was cheap. However, Li Zhan was used to eating this rice, and others didn't like it very much. Li Zhan was unwilling to be special, so he ate steamed buns with everyone. However, after that, Li Zhan still wanted to eat rice.
Until seven in the morning, the people who went out to sell popsicles also got up, washed up, ate, waited until eight in the morning, and everyone went out to sell ice outside.
Those who sell fast can come back once in the morning, and then take 600 more, and those who sell slow can come back before lunch.
Li Zhan's father Li Dafu did not make ice, but went out to sell ice. He sold the fastest because he had contact with the army. Cheng Chumo helped Li Dafu a lot. Now almost all the soldiers who come here to train will buy ice for Li Dafu, and they have to sell thousands of them a day.
"ah!"
It was ten o'clock in the morning, and Li Zhan stretched and got up from his bed. Soon, Li Jie smiled and came in with a wooden basin to wash Li Zhan. Now Li Jie is also a person with a wage.
Li Zhan made the decision and gave Li Wen the usual salary for one month to take care of him. The little guy was almost happy and became more careful when taking care of Li Zhan.
After washing up, the little guy brought the meal into Li Zhan's room. After eating, Li Zhan would go to see the sweet potatoes first, and then go to the ice-making place to chat with his grandfather.
Wait until his father comes back to sell ice and then go to talk to his father. This day has passed. Li Zhan likes such a comfortable life very much, but such a comfortable life will be broken from today.
"Grandpa!"
Walking into the ice-making bamboo shed, this is the coolest place. The men at home are basically staying here, and the two large pools are filled with air conditioning.
As soon as Li Zhan came in, Zhang Damao's originally stern face immediately laughed.
"Zhan'er, you're getting up too early today, come and sit down." Zhang Damao stood up immediately and gave up his position.
"Grandpa, sit down!" Li Zhan didn't want his grandfather to be so polite, but his grandfather couldn't bear to let him go, so Li Zhan finally sat down.
After a while, Zhang Shun and Zhang Hei also came to say hello to him. Li Zhan looked at his grandfather and uncles and smiled and said, "Grandfather and uncle, today I asked my father to go to Lantian County to sell. After the sale was finished, I would pull a little cloth for everyone. We want to make a collective clothes. When we wear them out, everyone will know that we are from the Li family Bingye."
"Do you have new clothes to wear?" Zhang Hei said happily first: "Zhan'er, you are really nice to us. Your uncle, I haven't worn new clothes for several years."
"How many items can my cousin give me?" Zhang Wen, like his father, came over in surprise.
Li Zhan laughed: "Two sets per person. When winter comes, we will make velvet coats for everyone. Anyway, I want to tell everyone that as long as you follow our family, it will always get better and better."
"Okay!" Zhang Damao looked at his grandson proudly. This pride was soaked in his bones.
"Ah by the way!" Li Zhan smiled and said, "Grandpa, uncle, I'll ask my dad to buy some wine today!"
"liquor!"
After hearing the wine, Zhang Damao, Zhang Hei, Zhang Shun and other juniors' eyes lit up. Only Zhang Damao said with some aftertaste: "I have drunk twice and it's really endless aftertaste!"
Wine was famous in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty was an era of prosperity in poetry. When we talk about the Tang Dynasty, we immediately think of the wild Li Bai, the realistic Du Fu, Wang Changling, who portrayed the sound of the frontier, and the lingering Li Shangyin. In the Tang Dynasty, wine had almost become a cultural symbol, and there were countless poems about wine writing.
It is no exaggeration to say that wine was the well-deserved number one drink at that time. People in the Tang Dynasty had to drink wine whether they gathered, made friends, chatted or even made artistic creations. The Sui and Tang Dynasties ended hundreds of years of disputes and chaos in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and people who stabilized had more reasons to enjoy it.
Why is this happening? The wines at that time were basically sweet, and it was more like a drink.
The first time modern people drink wine, they are often spicy. However, the wines of the Tang Dynasty were sweet, and poets often used wines, such as the sweet seasonings of the Tang Dynasty, equivalent to sugar in the Tang Dynasty, and yam was also a kind of malt syrup) to describe wines, such as Gao Pian's "flower branches are like fire wine," Liu Yuxi's "the fragrance of lake fish is better than meat, and official wine is more important than yam". This is also due to the problem of technology, a large part of the grains are often sugared during fermentation and did not continue to ferment, which also made the wines of the Tang Dynasty very sticky, "green yam sticky mulch".
Of course, this green, low-degree, turbid, sweet and sticky wine was the most common and easy-to-get wine at that time.
It is also because of this slightly sweet taste that has been loved by many people. Girls like to drink Jiang Xiaobai very much. Why is it because Jiang Xiaobai can always drink wine and drink it, making the taste of the wine sweet? In this way, it can arouse everyone's love.
It can be drunk and sweet, which caters to the public's taste and is more suitable for those who cannot drink. Of course, those who can drink will choose higher-end wines, and will not choose this low-alt wine.
I saw Zhang Damao's aftertaste and envious expressions of others.
Li Zhan smiled and said, "Grandpa, I asked my father to go to the county town to buy ten jars, and everyone can drink them all tonight."
"That's great!" Everyone smiled happily.
Zhang Damao also said repeatedly: "Hey, these people are really blessed to follow our family. They have money to get, meat to eat, and wine to drink!"
Zhang Damao's words made Li Zhan smile slightly. What he wanted was this effect. Li Zhan gave meat and wine, so that those people would be loyal to buying ice for the Li family. Li Zhan wanted to raise the mouths of these people and fill the pockets of these people.
In this way, this group of people will not go anywhere, and will only work diligently for the Li family.
Thinking of this, a smug smile appeared on the corner of Li Zhan's mouth. Just as Li Zhan was about to get up and leave, suddenly, Li Zhan's mother rushed in for some reason.
Li Zhan, Zhang Damao and others were stunned.
Then Yue Niang shouted in sweat: "Oh no, someone was bitten by a poisonous snake in front of her. Her life is hanging on the line. Zhan'er, help me!"
"Why are some people bitten by poisonous snakes?" Li Zhan stood up from the stool and rushed out without saying a word. This is Li Zhan's modern personality at work.
Chapter completed!