Don’t Show the Son

  Chapter 17 Rijin Doujin

  Picking the Moon Tower, backyard.

  Ziyuelou is located in the center of the royal capital, covering a very wide area. In addition to the main building facing the street, there are gardens, rockeries, ponds, pavilions, and some separate pavilions behind it.

  Lin Xiu stood in front of a water well, with several buckets of well water placed under her feet, and the waiter from the Moon Tower kept fetching the water.

  Because the weather is too hot, under the sun, the well water quickly disappeared after hitting it.

  Lin Xiu washed her hands and put her palms on the water in the bucket.

  After a burst of cold air emanated from the barrel, the surface of the water began to freeze quickly.

   Soon, the whole bucket of well water was frozen into one piece.

  The shopkeeper of Zieyuelou looked at this scene, and his heart could not be suppressed with excitement.

This summer is extremely hot. It’s not an exaggeration to say that ice is more expensive than gold. The ice cubes used to cool off the heat are priceless and hard to find. As long as you keep this person, you can imagine their business in the next period of time. What will it be like.

  For Zhuoyuelou, this is not just a question of profit.

  When other restaurants are like a steamer, Zhaiyuelou is the only summer resort. It can please those nobles, and it will be of great benefit to Zyuelou.

  Compared with these, a mere tens of hundreds of taels of silver is nothing.

  After Lin Xiu had frozen several buckets of water in succession, she sat aside and rested, waiting for her vitality to recover, and freezing the ice directly from the water. Although it was much easier, it was not a small waste to consume more times.

It’s not that he has never thought of using other ideas, such as the principle of using saltpeter to dissolve in water to absorb heat, but this method is not efficient in making ice, and the output is extremely low. It is also easy to be copied and copied by others. It is more convenient and efficient.

  And this method can not be copied except Lingyin.

  At this time, there was a waiter who picked the moon tower long ago, chiseling out the ice in the bucket and placing it in the ice mirror.

Bingjian is a tool for all wealthy kings to cool off the heat. It is a square and upright object that looks similar to a tripod. There are small holes on the sides and bottom. As long as the ice cubes are put in, the air-conditioning will escape from the holes. Circulation in the room.

  In later lives, even in summer, ice cubes are worthless.

But Daxia is the same as China’s ancient times. There is no summer ice-making technology here. All ice cubes are stored in the ice cellar in winter. When stored in summer, they have already melted and consumed a lot. Naturally expensive, it is not too much to say that ice is as expensive as gold. The average family simply cannot afford it, including the former Lin family.

  Therefore, even if ice cubes are not so scarce in previous years, a piece of ice cubes about the same size as a bucket usually costs about one or two silver, which is a month’s cost for a family of five meals with meat.

With this bucket of ice, Lin Xiu sold five taels of silver from the moon tower, which was five times the usual price of ice. But Lin Xiu believed that the moon tower would definitely not lose money, and it would even earn more than he earned. The moon tower took advantage.

  However, Lin Xiu didn't care about this. There was no way to make money. He worked directly with Zieyuelou. Without most of his troubles, he would naturally lose some of his benefits. He was psychologically prepared for this.

  An hour later, Sun Dali hugged a wooden box and walked out of the Zhaiyue Tower with Lin Xiu.

Lin Xiu's face was pale, his steps were vacant, and he looked like his body was hollowed out. The fact is that his body was indeed hollowed out. Although freezing a bucket of water does not cost too much energy, it freezes fifty buckets in an hour. Now he couldn't squeeze a drop of vitality out of his body.

  But the gain is also huge.

  In the box held by Sun Dali, there were twelve silver ingots, which was a full thirty.

  With the daily fixed amount of fifty taels, Lin Xiu made three hundred taels of silver in one hour, which is almost a daily income, saving a little, enough for the family's expenses for several years.

  This is the advantage of the alien magician. Even if most capable people do not go to the court and use their own abilities, they can be rich and wealthy, and they will have nothing to worry about for a lifetime.

  Sun vigorously held the box and smirked as he walked: "Three hundred taels of silver, if only it could be like this every day..."

Lin Xiu shook her head. It is impossible to do this every day. The weather will soon turn cooler. Such days will not last long. The money will also be earned one day and one day less. This winter, the great Xia dignitaries who have suffered losses, as well as the royal capital All major stores in China will retaliate against ice hoarding. By next summer, ice prices will inevitably fall sharply. At that time, it will not be so easy to make money from ice making.

  When Lin Xiu and Sun Dali returned home, they happened to see A Yue walking outside holding a brocade box. Lin Xiu asked, "Sister A Yue, where are you going?"

Ayue followed Mrs. Pingan very early, a few years older than Lin Xiu. She saw Lin Xiu, stopped and said, "Madam asked me to take these things out for some money. Home."

  Lin Xiu walked over, opened the brocade box and looked at it, and found that there were some jewelry inside, including jade bracelets, gold hairpins, earrings and the like.

  At this time, Mrs. Ping'an came out and said with a smile: "Xiu'er is back, it is hot outside, you should stay at home more these days, it is better not to go out."

  Lin Xiu noticed that the jade bracelet on her hand was missing, and the golden hairpin on her head was replaced by a wooden hairpin.

  Lin Xiu said to A Yue: "Put these jewelry back first."

  Zhou Yun stepped forward and said, “These things are useless if they are left there. It’s better to be the first to help the family.”

  Lin Xiu smiled, and said, "Don’t worry about the silver thing, I’m vigorous..."

  Sun Dali walked forward with a smile, and opened the box he was holding. In the sun, the neatly arranged silver ingots shook Zhou Yun a little.

  I am afraid that there are hundreds of taels of these silvers. She looked at Lin Xiu in shock and asked, "Xiu'er, here, where did these silvers come from? You can't do anything bad..."

   Although the Lin family has fallen, it is still among the rich and powerful. The Qing clerk is also an official of the DPRK and China. If you want to make money, there are countless ways, but they are not the right way.

  Lin Xiu knew what she was worried about, and comforted: "Mother, don't worry, I earn this money by myself. If you don't believe me, ask Dali."

  Sun Dali immediately said: "Madam, I testify that this is really hard earned by the young master!"

Zhou Yun didn't believe it for the first time, and said, "Don't collude to lie to me. What can Xiu'er do to make so much money in such a short period of time?"

Lin Xiu helplessly, can only explain in detail: "Mother, don't you forget, I have now awakened the ability of different arts, the weather these few days is so hot, it is hard for Wangdu to get on the ice, I just use my ability, I helped pick the moon tower and made a lot of ice cubes. This is their reward for me."

   Finally convinced her, Zhou Yun looked at the rows of silver ingots in the box, and said in disbelief: "Yes, but this is too much..."

  Lin Xiu smiled, and said, “Don’t worry, mother, every money I make is clean and clean. From now on, you and Dad will enjoy the blessing at home.”

  After that, he said to Ayue again: "Sister Ayue, when it’s cool outside, you and your mother go out for a stroll. She has worn her jewelry for a long time, so it’s time to get a new batch."

  Ayue's eyes were bent into crescent moons and said, "Good son."

  Zhou Yun's mood was a little low. She looked at Lin Xiu guiltily and said, "Xiu'er, it's because your parents are not capable of doing these things..."

  In any dynasty, alien magicians are noble existences, and they will be supported by the court or various forces. Very few alien magicians surrender their status to do these lowly things for the sake of silver.

Lin Xiu shook her hand and said nonchalantly: "Mother, where did you say it, making money with your own ability is not shaky at all. You put away the money first, and there will be more and more in the future... "

  ...

  Simple cool air leaked from the ice mirror, making the whole room extraordinarily cool.

   Zhou Yun collected the money, walked slowly to the table, and said to his husband: "Master, have you noticed that Xiu'er has changed..."

  Lin Ting nodded, and said, “I also think that he will ask for the cancellation of the marriage contract with the Zhao family by himself. Isn’t he always looking forward to this?”

   "I'm not talking about this." Zhou Yun shook his head, a trace of relief appeared in his eyes, and a bit distressed, and said in a low voice: "Xiu'er has grown up..."

  She is gratified by her son’s growth. Even if they are gone in the future, he can live well with his own ability.

  What she was distressed was that he was just eighteen years old, and most of the powerful children of his age were still at the age of enjoying the horses, enjoying the shadow of his father’s generation, but he had already supported a home.

  Lin Ting also sighed slightly, and said, "It's all my incompetent dad..."

   Zhou Yun shook his hand, his expression suddenly changed in relief, and said, "Actually, this may not be a good thing. At least when we are a hundred years old, we don’t have to worry too much..."

  The body was hollowed out yesterday. After sleeping for a while, Lin Xiu was resurrected with full blood.

  At noon the next day, after having lunch, he and Sun Dali went out together, all the way to the Zhaiyue Tower.

  The two of them just walked into the gate of Zieyuelou. On the street, a figure in white clothes paused slightly, and then followed.

  (End of this chapter)