"Today, unless you show me how to make ice, I will never believe you!"
Bai Zhi stared, as if to intimidate Xiao Chen, telling him, as long as I'm here, you can't even think of deceiving my sister!
Concubine Jing said nothing and let her sister do what she wanted. She was also a little uneasy about whether she could make ice.
"It seems that the queen still doesn't believe me."
Xiao Chen sighed, pretending to look aggrieved and looked at Concubine Jing, "You and I both know the truth. It's really sad that your concubine is like this."
He specifically emphasized the words "know the root and the bottom".
Concubine Jing blushed and spat: "Shut up! Who knows everything about you? Sister Bai Zhi is right, if you can't make ice, we will never cooperate with you!"
Bai Zhi looked at Xiao Chen and then at the sister next to her, feeling a little puzzled. Why did these two people... seem to be flirting?
As soon as this ridiculous idea arose, Bai Zhi immediately threw it away.
impossible.
How is this possible? She must be overthinking it!
"Mom, please prepare two basins, one big and one small, and a bucket of water. I will show you how to make ice now!"
Xiao Chen said with a smile.
Concubine Jing's eyes lit up, and she waved her hand impatiently, asking someone to get what Xiao Chen needed back.
Not long after, basins and water were brought up.
Concubine Jing and Bai Zhi watched Xiao Chen's every move intently, wanting to see if he was telling lies!
I saw Xiao Chen put the small basin into the big basin. After filling it with water at the same time, he opened the package in his hand and poured all the contents into the big basin.
"Is this...glauber's salt?"
Bai Zhi narrowed her eyes. Her family was in the Chinese herbal medicine business, so she was no stranger to Glauber's salt.
Then he sneered, "Is this your method of making ice? Glauber's salt is just a medicinal ingredient, it can't have such miraculous effects. You are really lying to my sister!"
Xiao Chen raised his head and said with a smile: "Isn't it too early to draw conclusions at this time?"
"I have been studying medicinal herbs for so many years. Is it possible that you, a eunuch, can understand it better than me?"
Bai Zhi curled her lips disdainfully, her eyes full of arrogance.
"Girl, just wait."
Xiao Chen is also confident.
When it comes to medicinal herbs, I am indeed inferior to you, but when it comes to basic chemistry, I am more than a thousand years ahead of you!
In the following time, the three of them focused all their attention on the wooden basin, waiting for the ice cubes to appear.
A stick of incense.
Two sticks of incense.
Three sticks of incense...
The water in the basin still showed no change, Bai Zhi sneered: "Sister, I think we can find someone to give this dog slave..."
Before she could finish her words, Concubine Jing interrupted with a look of surprise on her face, "It's frozen! It's really frozen!"
"What?"
Bai Zhi's heart skipped a beat, and she immediately looked towards the wooden basin, and then... her beautiful eyes suddenly opened wide!
Pour into the big basin of Glauber's salt, and a layer of ice has begun to condense. It's very thin, but it's still incredible!
"How is this possible? Is there really ice?"
Bai Zhi stared at the ice cubes that were still condensing in the wooden basin, and her heart was filled with turmoil.
Concubine Jing's beautiful eyes were even more brilliant. In her eyes, the things below were not ice cubes, but pieces of gold. "Sister! Our family is going to... get rich!"
The hot summer in Dachu is extremely hot. If there are ice cubes to relieve the heat, it will definitely be very popular!
Concubine Jing put herself into the situation. If she could buy ice cubes to relieve the heat, she would be willing to pay for a piece of ice!
Pfft.
Xiao Chen suddenly burst out laughing. It was really hard to resist the fact that these two beauties had such shocked expressions.
How big a deal is this?
"Your Majesty, are you confident about cooperation this time?"
Xiao Chen glanced at the two of them and asked.
"Yes, of course!"
Concubine Jing walked down from the cave with bare feet and came to Xiao Chen, with a hint of charm in her eyes.
With this ice cube, she will be able to gather huge wealth. When the time comes, whether it is used to manage relationships or win over her own power, it will be extremely easy.
My status in the palace... is not the same as it is now!
"Sister, you can't refuse your sister this time, right?"
Concubine Jing pulled Bai Zhi with a happy face.
"Do I still have a reason to refuse now?"
Bai Zhi shook her head helplessly, then turned to look at Xiao Chen, "If we want to make money, we have to buy all the Glauber's salt in the city in advance, otherwise this method of making ice will be discovered soon. By then, , even if we could make money, we wouldn’t make much money.”
Xiao Chen's eyes lit up, this girl is a talented businesswoman, she can think of the next move so quickly.
Having a partner like this makes me worry less.
He nodded and said: "Yes, it's just that my money is only enough to buy 10,000 kilograms of Glauber's salt. I want to buy all the money in the city, but I am powerless."
Bai Zhi smiled and said, "Isn't there a rich man here?"
While talking, the two of them looked at Concubine Jing at the same time.
"What are you doing?"
Concubine Jing's heart skipped a beat.
Bai Zhi smiled and said, "Sister, if you want my help, you can't do nothing? I heard that you were very favored by the emperor before, so you must have saved a lot of money."
"How much do you want?" Concubine Jing looked bitter.
Xiao Chen raised a finger, "Ten thousand taels..."
Ten thousand taels of silver? It's not much, it's acceptable... Concubine Jing was about to breathe a sigh of relief.
Then I heard Xiao Chen say two words, "Gold!"
"gold?!"
Concubine Jing was so frightened that she almost jumped. Ten thousand taels of gold was almost her entire wealth now!
After struggling in her heart for a long time, Concubine Jing looked at Xiao Chen pleadingly, "Can't...can't it be less?"
Seeing her aching look, Xiao Chen was happy. He didn't notice that the dignified Concubine Jing actually had the attribute of being a money-lover, which was surprising.
Bai Zhi obviously knew her sister's temperament. She rolled her eyes and said, "This money must be paid, not a penny less! I just estimated that the cost of one hundred yuan can make these two pieces of ice."
"We calculate a piece of ice as one tael of silver, which is ten times the profit! At that time, what comes back to you will be one hundred thousand taels of gold!"
Concubine Jing's eyes lit up, "One hundred thousand taels of gold?"
"That's still a conservative estimate. After all, this is not how ice is sold. The edible ice in the small basin is several times more expensive than the inedible ice outside... At that time, the money earned was more than 150,000 taels. "
Xiao Chen smiled and added some ingredients.
Bai Zhi glanced at him in surprise, this little eunuch was quite versed in the art of merchants!
With such a generous reward, Concubine Jing's eyes suddenly turned red, and she gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, ten thousand taels of gold, I will give it to you in a moment!"
"Thank you sister."
Bai Zhi smiled slightly, and then said something that silenced the hall for a moment, "Then, comes the most important thing."
"Then how will the money earned be divided?"
