I saw nearly a hundred ice cubes about two feet in diameter and one foot high piled up in the mountain col.
Like sheets of translucent white thick pancakes, stacked into an ice gate ten feet high.
The middle of the ice gate can allow three or four people to enter together. In addition to the thick cakes piled up on the left and right sides of the ice gate, there are also several irregular stones covered with oilcloth. The top of the door is covered by bamboo.
It can be seen three-dimensionally that the top of the door is paved with bamboo about half a foot thick.
The col itself is low-lying, so the door frame is more obvious. Sitting on the carriage, you can see the entire Ice Gate.
The cool air just now was due to the wind blowing from top to bottom, passing through the mountain col and rushing towards the carriage.
"Cousin, how much money are these ice cubes worth?"
Boss Zhao swallowed nervously.
He knew that Ning Wuhuang's display of such a big ice gate was definitely not for fun.
But it was specially displayed for him and his cousin!
But he didn't know much about the market conditions of ice cubes, and he was afraid that he might show timidity in the conversation later, so he asked about it in advance.
"If my calculation is correct, one of these round cake-shaped ice cubes can weigh two hundred kilograms."
Yu Bingchuan is in the business of storing and selling ice.
His eyes are rulers.
After a little measurement, I have already calculated the weight of these ice cubes in my mind.
"A piece of ice cake weighs two hundred pounds?"
Boss Zhao was shocked when he heard Yu Bingchuan's words.
Then I thought about it, just a few ice cubes in the ice basin in my house can weigh more than ten kilograms, and these are thick ice cakes.
In the winter, the two-foot-wide pot was frozen into lumps of ice, and he couldn't move it by force.
"Cousin, his door needs at least a hundred pieces of ice, right?"
"I counted, it's exactly one hundred yuan."
Yu Bingchuan didn't know whether he was frozen or frightened, his voice was trembling.
"Cousin, this is the first time I have seen an ice gate like this."
So spectacular!
It's beyond imagination.
Boss Zhao felt that his cousin's words were a bit exaggerated. He was trying to boost others' ambition and destroy his own prestige.
"Cousin, there are so many ice cellars in your house. Just smash a few pieces of ice out and it won't be worth more than this ice door. Don't make a fuss about it. Ning Wuyao just wanted to use this ice door to show his arrogance and to show that his ice price is cheap. If we fall into his trap..."
"What do you know?!"
Yu Bingchuan excitedly interrupted Boss Zhao and pointed at the big ice gate that shocked him.
"Ordinary ice cubes are indeed not affordable for ordinary people. The price of ten kilograms of ice, depending on the softness, hardness and turbid quality, ranges from half a tael to two taels of silver. But this ice is transparent of!"
What happened to the transparent ones?
Boss Zhao was puzzled.
He remembered that in midsummer last year, when a Jin Guang specially ordered a pot of untimely summer and autumn chrysanthemums, he took a hundred pounds of ice from his cousin to encourage the flowers to bloom.
The cheapest ice he got at that time cost thirty taels after discount. He sold the potted flower for nine hundred taels. After deducting all costs, he made a net profit of three hundred taels.
He didn't care about the transparency at the time, but wasn't the ice used by Ning Wuhuang to grow flowers?
Ning Wuyan couldn't grow flowers with the most expensive ice on the market. He didn't know how much he would have to lose to make a bottle of perfume from a pot of flowers grown like that.
"Do you understand that it's transparent?"
Seeing that Boss Zhao hadn't come to his senses yet, Yu Bingchuan yelled anxiously.
"When I saw these ice doors, I knew they were edible!"
"Edible ice is sold by the pound...some are even sold by the tael. The ice eaten by rich people, the most expensive type of ice, is like ice made from fresh water in winter. The texture is Transparent and without any unnecessary impurities, this kind of ice is worth one tael of silver!"
So expensive? !
Boss Zhao has indeed heard of such ice.
But of course a man with his wealth has never tried it.
If it weren't for the fact that his cousin's family sells ice, people like him, whose annual income is only tens of thousands taels, would not dare to buy ice for themselves in summer.
At most, the heat is unbearable, and there are pregnant women or patients at home who are afraid of heat, so they spend money to buy winter ice that feels like running water in summer.
"One tael of ice is worth one tael of silver, a piece of ice worth two hundred kilograms is two thousand taels, and one hundred pieces of ice is..."
Boss Zhao took a breath of air-conditioning and looked at the ice gate in the col. His whole body was numb from the inside to the outside, from his feet to his head, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Two hundred thousand taels of ice.
Was it left in the mountain valley by Ning Wushu and left to melt under the scorching sun? !
What a waste of resources.
"Cousin, you made a miscalculation. Although the kind of ice I just mentioned is called pure ice, after half a year, it has never been able to reach this level of translucence!"
He had an ice cellar at home, so he naturally tried to store pure ice.
But for various reasons, all failed without exception.
It was the first time in Yu Bingchuang's life that he had seen this kind of ice. It was like the pure ice that had just been frozen in winter and suddenly came to summer. The ice cubes had just been put into storage without any loss.
I never thought that Ning Wuxu would have such a way to get such ice cubes!
If he could get these pure ice foods, he would definitely be the first in Jinling.
He also sold ice cubes for keeping cool, but he went directly to sell ice for eating. In less than two years, he replaced the deceased Ye family and became one of the top three wealthy businessmen in Jinling.
"Cousin, you sit down, I'll go down first!"
Yu Bingchuan didn't bother to explain to Boss Zhao.
He hurriedly stopped the carriage, jumped out, and stumbled towards the ice door with his clothes in hand.
In the shade of a tree ten feet away from the ice gate.
Ning Wuyang was sitting in a bamboo chair, holding a white porcelain bowl in his hand, eating chopped fruit pulp and smoothie made by Mei Xiang with a knife.
"It's so cool!"
"Cool……"
Yunfei echoed vaguely, and after removing all the fruit pulp in the bowl, he stared at the unfamiliar master and servant who were getting closer and closer.
"Sir, someone is here to grab the ice."
Don’t blame Yunfei for misunderstanding.
In fact, the crazy expression on Yu Bingchuan's face was like a hungry wolf seeing a lamb, it was very scary.
Ning Wuyang glanced at the incoming master and servant, who was as thin as a stick, and waved his hands indifferently.
"A piece of ice weighs two hundred pounds. It took me a lot of effort to move a few pieces. If he can snatch it away, he will."
Hearing this, Yun Fei thought to himself, "Young Master, you have to work hard. I can move it with just one hand."
Based on.
Yunfei continued to stare at the people who seemed to be trying to steal his ice, ready to knock them down with an ax at any time.
Ning Wuyan had just finished speaking.
Yu Bingchuan and the boy who accompanied him jumped directly in front of him, with no intention of stopping at all.
Seeing this, Ning Wukao reminded helplessly: "Xiao Yunfei, don't reveal the murder weapon when you have nothing to do. It's scary. Pick up a stick."
He had already seen Boss Zhao following the two of them and rushed over.
He guessed that the person coming was Boss Zhao's cousin, the ice seller.
He deliberately set up such a large ice gate made of pure ice, not just to intimidate Boss Zhao and the ice seller.
If the other party really jeopardized his big ice gate because of business competition, he wouldn't mind Yunfei knocking the person unconscious and stuffing him into the ice gate to experience what it means to be in the ice and fire world.
Just thinking about it.
Yu Bingchuan ran all the way to the ice gate and stretched out his hands.
Yunfei squeezed the handle of the ax tightly. Feeling the young master's hot gaze, he could only let go of the axe, bent down and picked up a piece of useless wood as thick as an arm.
Be prepared to knock the master and servant unconscious at any time.
At this time.
Yu Bingchuan's hands were about to touch the ice.
suddenly.
He woke up with a start and jerked his hand back.
"No, if you touch it, you'll get dirty."
