Chapter 25: Selling Ice Cream

The next day at dawn, Jiang Xiaoxiao climbed out of bed impatiently.

She was still thinking about the strawberry ice cream made yesterday, dressed early, washed up, and looked at Jiang Wei with eager eyes.

But Jiang Wei only glanced at her and said plainly: "Girls shouldn't eat cold things early in the morning. Eat it after noon."

Although it is the hot June day, the place where they live is backed by the foot of the mountain, and when the mountain wind blows, there is still a chill standing in the shade of the trees in the early morning.

Jiang Xiaoxiao could only suppress her heart, seeing Jiang Wei holding a hoe and hoeing the ground in the corner of the courtyard.

"Mother, are you going to plant something?"

"Our family has no fields, so we can go to town to sell grain, but there are not many families selling vegetables and fruits. Planting some vegetables at home is convenient for picking when you want to eat."

Jiang Wei said, picking some vegetable seeds from the space.

These vegetable seeds were cultivated by a wood-attribute ability friend of hers when she was in the apocalypse. They can not only adapt to various growth environments, but also grow fast and have high yields.

Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded when she heard this. Every household in the village has fields, and each family has about twenty or thirty mu of land.

However, the grain yield in ancient times is extremely low. After paying the grain tax, the grain in the fields is just enough for the whole family to eat. No one will use such precious fields to plant vegetables.

When they want to eat vegetables, the villagers just go up the mountain to pick some wild vegetables to eat.

Of course, there are also some diligent peasant women who will open up a piece of land in their own courtyard to plant vegetables to eat.

"Mother, let me help you." Jiang Xiaoxiao stepped forward.

"Okay." Jiang Wei pointed to the beans and leeks that had just been planted with her chin, "You use your ability to water them."

"Okay!"

Jiang Xiaoxiao followed behind her mother, and the two of them were busy, one sowing vegetable seeds and the other responsible for watering.

By the time it was almost noon, the fields were full of various vegetable seeds, and after watering, the soil was moist, and there was no sign of drought at all.

And Jiang Xiaoxiao was already sweating profusely, and her fingers couldn't release water anymore.

However, she found that every time her ability was exhausted, her ability would grow a little the next day, and the water released would be more than the previous day.

Regarding this, Jiang Xiaoxiao suddenly realized. No wonder her mother was willing to squeeze her ability dry every time. It turned out to be to train her ability!

"Tired, right? Rest for a while." Jiang Wei looked at Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was sweating profusely, and smiled, taking out the frozen ice cream from the space, and thoughtfully handed over a small spoon.

Jiang Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, and she immediately took the ice cream, scooped up a spoonful with a spoon, and sent it into her mouth.

Sweet, cool, rich milky fragrance, mixed with sour and sweet strawberry flavor...

So delicious!

It tasted almost exactly the same as the one she ate in modern times!

Jiang Xiaoxiao was moved to tears with excitement. She didn't expect to be able to eat delicious ice cream in this ancient world with poor material life. She was really too happy...

Jiang Wei looked at her appearance and couldn't help laughing: "Ice cream is delicious, but don't be greedy, be careful of getting a stomachache."

"Mm-hmm!" Jiang Xiaoxiao nodded repeatedly, and scooped up a large spoonful of ice cream to feed Jiang Wei, "Mother, try it, the ice cream you made is so delicious!"

Looking at that little face full of sweet smiles, Jiang Wei was stunned for a moment.

She opened her mouth and took a small bite of the ice cream on the spoon, then shook her head with a toothache: "Hmm... you eat it, I don't like sweets."

Jiang Xiaoxiao laughed a few times, knowing that her mother was not resistant to freezing, so she solved the ice cream in the bowl by herself.

When it was time to eat, Jiang Xiaoxiao couldn't eat the food on the table.

Jiang Wei could only pack a few oil-crisp sesame pancakes and put them on her, letting her take them to town to eat.

Yes, that's right, the mother and daughter were going to town.

The ice cream was made, so naturally, they had to go to town to test the water first.

Jiang Wei carried a small bamboo basket, covered tightly with cloth, with several small porcelain bowls and several spoons inside.

The sun overhead was scorching, and Jiang Xiaoxiao didn't walk a few steps before she was sweating on her head.

She couldn't help but look up at the cloudless sky. Why did it feel hotter than a few days ago?

Encountered many people in the village along the way, everyone was also hot, their skin was tanned, their lips were cracked, and they didn't even have time to say hello before carrying water buckets and rushing to the river.

The weather is hot, and there are more and more places to use water at home. The water that was enough for two days usually is not enough for one day now.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at the river from a distance, and many people were surrounding it to fetch water.

She secretly felt lucky that her family had dug a well, so she didn't have to run here to fetch water from far away.

Out of the village, seeing no one around, Jiang Wei took out an umbrella and opened it.

Under the large shade, Jiang Xiaoxiao let out a long breath, and she came alive...

She looked up at the umbrella. It was a common oil-paper umbrella in ancient times, and the sun-shading effect was quite good.

The mother and daughter arrived in town and found a shady place to set up a stall.

Yong'an Town was also hot, like a big steamer. Pedestrians were in a hurry, all heading to several tea houses and wine shops.

Jiang Xiaoxiao scanned a few times. Those nearby tea houses were all selling soup for relieving heat, green bean porridge, sour plum juice, Lu pear syrup...

Looking at the customer source, it was quite good. She was afraid that her family's ice cream would not be sold well...

Jiang Wei set out the porcelain bowls and spoons from the bamboo basket and scooped a few spoonfuls of ice cream into them one by one.

What they sold was strange, and soon someone came to ask: "What are you selling? Why have I never seen it before?"

"Ice cream!" Jiang Xiaoxiao answered with a smile, "Ice-cold, refreshing, and delicious ice cream!"

"Ice-cold and refreshing? It looks quite delicious. How much is a bowl?"

Jiang Wei said: "Seven wen a bowl."

"What? Seven wen! Such a small bowl of things sells for seven wen?!" The man exclaimed, "The sour plum soup in the tea house next door is only two wen a bowl. You are too expensive!"

The man left without looking back.

Jiang Xiaoxiao suddenly felt a little lost: "Mother, are we selling it too expensive?"

Jiang Wei frowned and said nothing.

In fact, the raw materials for making ice cream are not cheap, requiring eggs, sugar, and milk.

Eggs are one wen each, sugar is forty wen a catty, and milk must also be worth a lot in this ancient world.

Although these things are all in her space, which is equivalent to no cost. But since it is food made with her own heart, she doesn't want to sell it at a low price and lose money.

"Let's see, if it doesn't work, we'll lower the price."

The mother and daughter waited under the hot sun with an umbrella. Many people came to ask one after another, but they were all scared away by the price of seven wen a bowl.

Gradually, no one came to ask anymore.

Jiang Xiaoxiao also became extremely lost from her initial expectation. She thought that in such a dog-day, the ice cream they made would be very popular.

The fact was so cruel.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 26 =====