NOVEL NEXT Chapter 33 Shaved Ice Machine
Nalan Jue picked up a lychee, which was crystal clear and put it into his mouth. It was juicy and softened. He took another scoop of ice and frowned: "It's just that this ice is not smooth and dense enough. Miss Millet, did you crush this ice directly with a knife?"
Lou Laner stepped forward to argue, slightly dissatisfied: "I broke the ice, do you still think it is like winter snow?"
Nalan Jue finished eating the lychee ice, stood up and said, "Miss Ah Shu, your lychee ice tastes pretty good, but there is still room for improvement in the taste." After that, he stood up, waving the paper fan and walked away.
Mao Xi thought to herself: I don’t have any tools for shaving ice!
"Do you think he's here to find fault?" Lou Lan'er was a little dissatisfied. She was already a bit sore when setting ice, and now she had to be questioned.
"Okay, Lou Lan'er, wouldn't it be better if someone suggested improvements? Today we will sell lychee ice water. When I come up with a better solution, we will sell ice again."
After comforting Lou Lan'er, Shu Xi went into the kitchen and secretly opened the virtual universal mall. It still only sold food. She clicked the upgrade button and the mall prompted:
*** L7 ***＜Mall Upgrading＞
After cleaning up the food shop, she returned to Liujia Village. As soon as she entered the house, the two local dogs Yuanbao and Preserved Egg rushed to the door, circling around Mao Xi's feet and wagging their tails, while the little spirit rat "Bamboo Tube" jumped to Ajiao teasing her on his shoulders.
Since I didn't see rhubarb, I guess I went to Lu Da's garden again. There was still some lychee ice water sold in the evening, so Mao Xi also brought it back.
"Xiaodouzi, go ask Brother Chunsheng and Brother Luda to come over and drink ice water."
After a while, Dahuang came over with Luda, and Luda was still holding two rabbit ears in his hand. Brother Chunsheng led Xiaodouzi to the yard.
Mao Xi gave everyone some ice water.
"Ah Shu, Lou Lan'er, these two rabbits are for you to eat." Luda smiled heartily, handed the rabbit to Lou Lan'er, then picked up Ah Jiao and asked, "Xiao Niu, have you ever thought about growing up?" Cow!" Ajiao grabbed Lu Da's beard and giggled.
Lou Laner first circled the rabbit alone and said happily: "Great, this kiln is just right for making smoked and roasted rabbit meat."
"Brother Luda, do you know how to do some carpentry?"
"Ah Shu, you want to sell soy milk in bamboo tubes again? It's so easy!"
"I would like to ask you to help me make a tool that can be used to shake shaved ice with your hands." After Mao Xi finished speaking, she briefly introduced the principles of the shaved ice machine to Luda.
"Ah Shao, what you said is a bit abstract. Why do I feel it is more difficult than making a concealed weapon?"
Mao Xi simply took Xiaodouzi's pen and paper and started drawing on the rice paper.
"Actually, the most difficult thing is the blade. If there are any materials you need, I will go to the town to buy them for you."
"Let me study it carefully. This is not difficult, and maybe it can be successful." Luda put away the drawings of the shaved ice machine.
"Ah Shu, your idea is really unique. If it can really be done, Nalan Jue will dare to say that our ice is not thick enough." Lou Lan'er thought of Nalan Jue, and her little face became angry.
Brother Chunsheng was a little unhappy, so Mao Xi asked, "Brother Chunsheng, what's wrong with you? Are the crops in the fields okay recently?"
"Ah Xiao, you don't know. Recently, the river upstream of our village was quietly changed by the neighboring village. There were two tributaries flowing through our village. Now they have forcibly changed the course. The flow of one tributary has become smaller, and the flow of the other tributary has become smaller. One of them is almost dry.”
Mrs. Chen frowned: "No wonder I said there has been less water in the fields recently. The second crop of rice has just been sown a few days ago. If the ground dries out, wouldn't it be a waste of time?"
"A few uncles in the village have gone upstream today to fill in the ditches they secretly dug to divert water. The water level has been restored today, but we don't have time to guard it every day. We are really afraid that the river water will be diverted again one day!"
Chun Sheng had a grimace on his face. His family was still a tenant farmer and had no other livelihood. If the crops failed, they would not have a good life.
"Don't worry. If they steal water next time and call me, I might get into a fight with them. What I hate most are water thieves!" Luda said angrily.
With Lu Da's assurance, everyone was slightly relieved. If there was a real fight, they probably wouldn't be Lu Da's opponent.
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Three days later, Luda delivered a homemade hand-cranked ice machine to Mao Xi.
"Brother Ludago, are you ready so soon?"
"Ah Shao, give it a try. If it doesn't work, I'll change it again!"
Mao Xi went to the kitchen to get ice cubes and tried it. It felt good. The ice cubes were ground into smoothie along the rotating ice blades and fell into the bowl placed under the ice shaver.
Mao Xi took a spoonful and tasted it. It tasted much better than the hand-crusted ice cream before, but the texture seemed to be somewhat different from the Mianmian Ice she had eaten at the food court in her previous life.
"By the way, it's ice! Use milk for ice!"
"How's it going? Did it work? I'll try it too." Lou Lan'er stood aside and took a spoonful of it.
"Brother Lu, how did you make this shaved ice machine?"
"Well, it's not a difficult machine. I applied the method of making concealed weapons to it."
"Hidden weapon?!" Shui Xi and Lou Lan'er said in unison.
"Back then, when I was traveling around the world, I saw a rotating hidden weapon that could be used to take human heads. It was called the 'Blood Drop'. I used its rotating principle in the rotary knife of this shaved ice machine..."
"Okay, Brother Lu, stop talking!" Mao Xi quickly stopped Lu Da. Thinking again that the lychee and bayberry soup was still red, she became a little uneasy.
Mao Xi went to the back room again and opened the virtual mall:
＜Milk and tapioca flour purchased successfully＞
Then, she iced the milk and placed it in the freezer area of the space, and then started making sweet potato balls.
The sweet potatoes are first peeled and steamed, then mashed and mixed with tapioca flour and kneaded into strips, then cut into small pieces.
Mao Xi filled two bowls of sweet potato balls. After the water boiled, he put them in a pot and boiled them. When the sweet potato balls floated in the water, take them out and drain them into cold water.
Mao Xi took two more sweet potatoes and cut them into pieces, boiled the sweet potato syrup in the pot, and then put the sweet potato balls in. Little Douzi stood at the table, drooling from greed.
Just as he was about to reach out, Ma Xi patted him again: "Go get everyone a bowl!"
Lou Lan'er helped and gave everyone a bowl. After finishing the sweet potato balls, she exclaimed: "Ah millet, it's delicious, really delicious! It's so chewy and not sticky to the teeth. Add these sweet potato balls to the ice water." It will definitely sell well!"
Mao Xi sprinkled some tapioca flour on the remaining uncooked sweet potato balls and placed them in the icehouse of the space to freeze them.
The next day, milk and lychee shaved ice went on sale. Mao Xi added some sweet potato balls to him and gave the dessert a new name: "Lychee and Sweet Potato Ball Snow Ice". The price increased from the original 5 cents to 10 cents.
Nalan Jue came to Liuxiang Snacks again: "Miss Ah Shu, has the recipe of your lychee ice been changed?"
"Master Nalan, try it and see if the ice this time is denser than before?"
Mr. Nalan took a spoonful of smoothie and ate some sweet potato balls. He exclaimed, "Miss Ah Shu, this ice is not only thin, but it also smells like milk! And... and these sweet potato balls, what do you use?" made?!"
"Master Nalan, do you still want the formula?" Lou Laner laughed.
Nalan Jue stood up and said seriously: "If Miss Ah Shu is willing to tell me the formula, I can help you plant fields again!"
"That's not okay! This is my business secret!"