Once you become a boy, marry a good man, and become rich together

Chapter 247 Making Ice from Saltpeter

After a few days, I finally submitted everything I needed to submit.

Jiang Ci and Lin Jingsheng sat together and discussed the purchasing needs of the restaurant and milk tea shop.

Let’s talk about the milk tea shop first. Jiang Ci couldn’t figure out which type of milk tea was popular, nor how accepting of milk tea the people in this town were.

"After all, no one has ever had milk tea. We did some promotion and store opening benefits at the beginning, so there might be more people, but I can't foresee how many people will come to buy it. After all, it's not like a meal in a restaurant that can fill you up. It's at most a small drink in your spare time."

"Then we won't buy so many fruits. We'll see how they sell later. The weather will be very hot in ten days or so, and the milk and milk tea we ship in will be more likely to go bad. But these are the most in-demand items, and they need to last at least a day. We can't reduce them any further. We also need to buy some ice."

"Ah."

Speaking of this, Jiang Ci seemed to be thinking about something.

The ice here is not cheap. It is stored in the winter by wealthy families or shops that sell ice in the summer.

Ice blocks are mined and transported manually, and there will be a certain amount of loss after half a year of storage. Building an ice storage also costs a lot of money, and the price of ice here is really not cheap.

Jiang Ci thought that it would be great if he could find saltpeter, but no! Saltpeter can also be bought on the market!

Saltpeter can be used as medicine. When gunpowder was available, it was an important military supply. Saltpeter is also indispensable for daily tinderboxes.

The easiest way to get Xiaoshi is to buy it in a pharmacy.

But it can be used as medicine after all, and medicinal materials are not cheap. The cost of buying digestive herbs in a herbal medicine shop is still too high, and you can't buy much.

Lin Jingsheng was watching the changing expressions on Jiang Ci's face.

Lin Jingsheng put his finger on Jiang Ci's brow, "What are you thinking about? Your brows are all furrowed."

"Do you know where to get the saltpeter in the herbal medicine shop? Have you seen it in the mountains?"

"Saltpeter?" Lin Jingsheng wondered in his mind what this thing was.

Jiang Ci looked at Lin Jingsheng expectantly.

Lin Jingsheng's answer did not disappoint Jiang Ci, "I've seen saltpeter in the mountains."

"Which mountain?"

"I didn't see it in the mountains here. I saw it in a forest in the northwest of the city when I was following General Ji. There should be some in the mountains here too, but we have to look carefully. What does Ah Ci need saltpeter for?"

"Saltpeter can be used to make ice!"

Jiang Ci was very excited, but she also knew to keep her voice down.

Lin Jingsheng guessed it based on Jiang Ci's series of reactions, but was still surprised to hear the answer.

Jiang Ci became interested and wanted to show it to Lin Jingsheng.

Jiang Ci called the people who were sitting in a row making toothbrush handles over there.

"What's the matter, Boss?"

"Split up your groups and go to several pharmacies to buy saltpeter. Don't buy too much saltpeter from each pharmacy."

"it is good!"

They walked out of the courtyard and looked at each other while sitting on the ox cart.

Lin Jingsheng recalled in his mind the large area of ​​saltpeter they encountered that time, and the terrain and environment there. Fortunately, they were looking for saltpeter in this area of ​​mountains and forests.

Jiang Ci became curious again, "Did you encounter a lot of saltpeter that time?"

"There are a lot. At first, I only saw a little at the foot of the rock, but when I dug, I found there were a lot of them."

"What a pity! It would be great if it was here. Oh! What do you do with all that saltpeter?"

"We also called a group of people from the military camp to dig them up and sell them all. We used the money to buy some meat to supplement everyone."

"Haha, you're really frugal."

They all bought saltpeter, and Jiang Ci put the saltpeter from several paper bags together. In total, there was only enough saltpeter to hold in a handful.

Jiang Ci took the bag of saltpeter and Lin Jingsheng took half a bowl of water and they entered the room reserved for them.

This room has been put to use recently. I can take a nap here at noon.

Jiang Ci added all the saltpeter of different sizes, powder and lumps into the bowl and stirred it with chopsticks until it disappeared.

"It will turn into ice after a while."

He put the bowl in the room and went out to continue discussing purchasing issues for the restaurant and milk tea shop.

Suppliers of various ingredients for restaurants and milk tea shops have also been found in the past few days.

Several chefs were discussing the quantity that the restaurant needed to purchase.

No one in the milk tea shop has any idea about the situation.

Jiang Ci, the manager of the restaurant and the milk tea shop, was also picked out.

Both of them were excellent in arithmetic and stood out from the crowd because he needed a manager who could also do simple accounting.

The one who runs the restaurant is a 17-year-old boy, and the one who runs the milk tea shop is an 18-year-old girl. Although they are young, they have strong leadership skills.

Jiang Ci also particularly valued this point about them, after all, they had to manage their subordinates.

After Cong Jiangci selected them, they were sent to the soap factory's staff room and asked Han Zhao to teach them how to keep accounts.

I also learned it during classes here, but what I learned were all simple things. At most, I could calculate the expenses and income of the public accounts of their compound.

Their ability to calculate the restaurant's bills was still unsatisfactory, so Jiang Ci sent them both to be trained by specialized personnel.

Fortunately, now that we use the spreadsheet method of accounting, the expenses and income in the account book have become much simpler.

Jiang Ci thought that they would keep accounts for one month, send the money earned and the account book for one month to Linjia Village to Han Zhao, let Han Zhao review it, and calculate the profit of the store's bills for the whole year.

A man ran over and stopped in front of Jiang Ci, "Boss, the plaque has been transported over, please go and take a look."

"Okay, let's go."

When they arrived at the place, they saw a carriage pulling two plaques covered with red silk.

They started to move only when people arrived. Jiang Ci didn't need to do anything, just watch from the side.

After the restaurant's signboard is installed, it becomes a milk tea shop.

When the plaque was put up, it attracted quite a few people to watch. The plaque was hung with red silk, so people watching from the side could not see the name of the restaurant and the small shop.

"This noodle shop has changed its owner. The interior decoration looks really nice now. I just don't know what they plan to sell. I haven't seen such decoration in the town."

Some people don't know, while others have heard about what these two stores have to sell.

"That one looks like a restaurant, so what does this one run?"

The man nearby searched in his basket and found a rough piece of paper.

"Look, this was posted by someone at the intersection over there just now. I came over to join in the fun just because I saw what was written on it."

The woman took the paper, smoothed it out and read the words on it.

"Is this a milk tea shop? What kind of tea is milk tea? But the opening benefits are good. When it opens in a couple of days, come over here to take a look and buy some to try."

This piece of paper records the opening hours of the restaurant and milk tea shop, as well as the benefits on the opening day.

The benefits are very generous, and they are made to attract more people without losing money.

An hour and a half had passed since the saltpeter was added to the bowl of water.

Jiang Ci's hand stopped on the door, and she turned to look at Lin Jingsheng beside her, "Guess it has turned into ice now?"

Lin Jingsheng said without hesitation, "It turned into ice."

Jiang Ci also felt that it was time for him to turn into ice, but he was still happy to hear Lin Jingsheng's affirmative answer.

"Now is the time to reveal the answer."

The two came to the table in the room, and the water in the bowl had turned into hard ice cubes.

Jiang Ci touched it, it was very cold and hard, "Ah Sheng, touch it."

"It really turned into ice, how magical, Ah Ci is really amazing."

Jiang Ci pressed it hard with her hands, then picked up the bowl and shook it to make sure that the ice was solid.

Jiang Ci added so much saltpeter, how is it possible that there is still water after an hour and a half?