There are only more than 500 people who can come back to accept the emperor's rewards and rewards in person, but it is these more than 500 people, riding on tall Hun horses, swords, guns, bows and crossbows hanging on both sides of the saddle, the armor on their bodies is broken but murderous, and the whole team is like a sharp sword out of the sheath, exuding a fierce cold.

Therefore, as the procession drew nearer, the voices of the welcoming people slowly fell silent, and at last only one could hear the sound of trumpets and the sound of horses' hooves shaking the earth closer and closer.

"Dismount~" The team stopped in line a hundred feet away from the emperor, Li Xin, who was walking in the front, roared, and five hundred horsemen dismounted at the same time.

"Salute~" Li Xin yelled again.

"Meet Your Majesty~" The five hundred soldiers knelt on one knee almost at the same time, clasped their fists and yelled at Qin Shi Huang, who was sitting on the jade chariot of the Son of Heaven, among them was a young man dressed as a scribe, who also knelt on one knee on the ground with a serious and serious face, it was Comrade Li Shun, a front-line reporter appointed by Chen Xu.

However, in two months, Li Shun has darkened a lot and lost a lot of weight, but his eyes are clear and calm, and his movements are clean and neat, which does not look much different from these more than 500 soldiers.

In the past two months, it was a rebirth for this down-to-earth young man who was bent on becoming a big husband, and he followed the Daqin soldiers into Hebei to fight thousands of miles, and indeed fulfilled his promise that he was not afraid of death.

Li Shun, who returned at this time, is no longer the Li Shun of the past, and will inevitably become a dazzling new star in the Daqin Shi clan, because the news and manuscripts of Hebei Dajie published in the Daqin Metropolis Daily, under the title of each article, the name of Li Shun, the military reporter of the Daqin Metropolis Daily, has been published throughout Daqin, and this name has already spread throughout Daqin with the special issue of the Daqin Metropolis Daily, and after reading these exciting articles, Li Shun's name is also firmly remembered by the world's scholars.

Qin Shi Huang stood up in the carriage, then got out of the carriage with the support of his attendants, and strode towards the kneeling soldiers under the protection of a group of Xuanwu guards.

The first helped Li Xin, the second helped Jiang Heng, and the third helped Li Shun.

"You are Li Shun, a newspaper reporter with the army?" Qin Shi Huang looked at this dark, thin but energetic young scribe.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Li Shun was inexplicably excited.

"Okay, very good, your army battle report is very well written, I like it very much, I will have a big reward!" Qin Shi Huang patted Li Shun on the shoulder.

"Thank you, Your Majesty, but Li Shun doesn't want a reward, Li Shun hopes that Your Majesty will reward the soldiers who sacrificed their lives to fight hard, and reward the families and heirs of those soldiers who sacrificed their bones in Hebei!"

"Don't worry, I won't forget them......" Qin Shi Huang looked at the soldiers kneeling all over the ground with tattered armor, and said excitedly with a wave of his big sleeves: "Soldiers, please get up!" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Five hundred generals roared to their feet, like five hundred murderous spears.

For Li Xin, this is a revenge battle to wash away the shame of defeat and Chu, it should be said that it was a complete success, for Jiang Hu, this battle is the battle of his rise to fame, from the Daqin Metropolis Daily spared no effort to publicize, this will be another rising Daqin general, with this raid on Hebei, the great achievements of the Xiongnu Wang Court to kill the Xiongnu Shan Yu, given time, Jiang Hu's achievements may not be worse than Wang's or even Montessori's.

As for the great victory of Li Xin and Jiang Hu, Qin Shi Huang naturally praised them without hesitation, and personally took their hands left and right to return to Xianyang by the jade chariot, and among the welcoming crowd, there were already countless reporters from the Great Qin Metropolis Daily who were still writing the carriage on the road, writing down this unprecedented welcome scene.

The 500 victorious horsemen who were able to personally accept the emperor's commendation were almost surrounded by the people of Xianyang, and the short 30-mile road back to Xianyang walked for nearly an hour, until the end of the unitary hour, when the sun set, the triumphant soldiers and the farewell team all entered Xianyang City.

And after entering the city, it is even more sensational, the crowds of people along the street are surging and cheering, many people are holding melons, fruits and eggs and stuffing them into the hands of the soldiers, and countless young girls wearing light summer skirts greet the soldiers on the horses excitedly, hoping to get the favor of these meritorious soldiers, if they can marry these soldiers, they will have no worries about food, clothing and housing in this life.

Chen Xu, as the hottest marquis lord in Daqin now, is naturally in the welcoming procession, but he also brought Xing'er and Yu Ji with two little girls, the main purpose is to watch the excitement together.

After coming and going, he never left from time to time before returning, followed by the sun for four hours, after entering the city, Chen Xu felt that he was about to collapse, and the two little girls were even hotter, and they were almost out of breath when they shouted.

Nima's weather is going to be haunted, how can it be so hot!

Chen Xu was afraid that the two little girls would suffer from heat stroke, so after entering the city, he said that he would prepare the divine thunder fireworks in advance, and after saying hello to Feng Qujian in advance, he took the two little girls back to the house first.

As for the rest of the officials, they could only follow the emperor and accompany Li Xin, Jiang Hu and some meritorious soldiers to Ganquan Palace to prepare for the night banquet.

Back at the Hou Mansion, Chen Xu couldn't wait to take a cold shower, change into clean and refreshing clothes, and drank a large cup of herbal tea, which made him feel a lot better, and the two little girls also took a bath and changed clothes to drink herbal tea, but they still shouted that it was so hot and hot, and they wanted to go to the city to play in the water.

It's dusk now, if it's in Xiaohe Village, this time of summer is just the time to play in the river to enjoy the coolness, but Xianyang is not very convenient, although the curfew has been canceled in the past three days, and the city gate is closed very late, but it is too unsafe to go out at this time, and the Weihe River is not the small river ditch that is only less than two feet deep in Xiaohe Village, the water is turbulent, and the black goo rumbling can't be found if he's not careful, so the request of the two girls was rejected by Chen Xu, and Xing'er shouted a few more words, Chen Jiang's directly picked up a broom and fled all over the Hou Mansion, a group of maids followed behind to block and protect, the monkeys also jumped up and down together, and the two pandas that provoked also followed the howling, and in the evening, the whole Hou Mansion chickens and dogs jumped in a mess.

Chen Xu was lying on the bamboo bed in the yard, and a few little maids who fanned and chased mosquitoes were also sweating hotly, and Chen Xu himself was embarrassed, so he got up and decided to get something to relieve the heat and cool down.

The thing that relieves the heat and cools down is naturally the best to be chilled, but ice is not easy to get at the moment, I heard that the palace and some princes and princes have it, all of which are stored in the cellar in winter, but it is not easy to preserve, the cost is very great, just to build a cellar that can store ice costs tens of thousands of money, and the storage of dozens of tons of ice and snow, it is estimated that there is not one in a hundred to be saved in this hot summer, and the preciousness is simply indescribable.

Moreover, in ancient times, there was also a device specially used to preserve food with ice, called Bingjian, which is actually a two-layer bronze vessel, which puts ice in the outer layer and the inner layer of the container to place food, but this kind of luxurious life can only be enjoyed by princes and kings.

There are several of them in the mansion of the Marquis of Qinghe, all of which were left by Lü Buwei in the past, so it can be seen that Lü Buwei enjoyed the treatment of princes and the Son of Heaven at the beginning.

After Princess Qingning died some time ago, because of the hot weather, she had to stop for three days, and the emperor specially asked people to send dozens of catties of cold ice from the palace to put them in the ice to cool down the coffin, but no one expected that Princess Qingning just fell into a state of suspended animation, and her breathing stopped for a day and a night, and she was rescued by Guiguzi.

Chen Xu is still worried about this incident, and he doesn't know how to face and deal with this matter in the future, because no one knows about this matter except him and Yu Wuya, if one day Wang Qingsleeve suddenly rides back to the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, I'm afraid that the entire Xianyang will be chaotic.

"Brother Xu, Yu Ji is so hot!"

A pair of small hands pulled Chen Xu back from his messy thoughts, and he saw Xiao Yu Ji wearing a belly pocket and small pants, bare and shaking his arm vigorously.

"Good, my brother will make you ice food!" Chen Xu wiped the sweat from his forehead, walked into his usual laboratory, found a clay pot from a corner, opened it, and inside was half a jar of white crystalline powder.

Looking at the half jar of white flower powder, Yu Ji curiously squatted down and dipped some of her fingers into her mouth, and Chen Xu spit it out with a pop before Chen Xu could stop the little girl.

"Brother Xu is deceiving, this ice is bitter and astringent, it's really unpalatable!" Yu Ji shouted loudly.

Chen Xu hurriedly closed the lid with black lines on his head, and asked a little maid to pull Yu Ji outside the laboratory, and then instructed another little maid to find a clay pot and an iron can, and a bucket of clean well water.

Soon the maid went and returned with a few cooks, some carrying clay pots, some with iron irrigs, and some with buckets.

Chen Xu took a look and found that everything was ready, so he waved everyone out of the laboratory.

The laboratory of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion is the same as the laboratory in Xiaohe Village, except for Chen Xu and Shui Rouyu Wuyan, no one is allowed to approach, let alone enter or leave, especially the two little girls are specially told not to enter, so no one dares to approach this laboratory on weekdays.

Put the clay pot on the table, pour half a basin of water, then pour almost half of the crystallized powder from the jar into the clay pot, and fill the iron can with half a jar of water and put it into the clay pot.

Soon the temperature of the water in the basin began to drop rapidly.

With the stirring, the temperature of the water in the tile basin is getting lower and lower, and the temperature around is getting lower and lower, and you can see the slightest cold air rising above the basin, Chen Xu touched the iron can with his hand, and couldn't help but shiver.

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Seven or eight minutes later, ice began to appear in the clay basin, and there was a layer of frost on the entire tabletop, and the cold was overwhelming within a radius of one zhang.

Chen Xu didn't feel hot at all at this time, but goosebumps broke out all over his body from the cold, opened the lid and took a look, the water in the iron can had already begun to freeze, but it was far from enough to form ice cubes, so Chen Xu poured some powder into the clay pot again, and then continued to stir.

Chen Xu hid in the laboratory and stirred up the water, several little maids, kitchen workers and Yu Ji all stood outside the door and waited, I don't know what the Hou Ye was doing in the room, but occasionally I could hear the sound of Chen Xu inhaling cool air from inside, and sometimes he would mutter that Lao Tzu had frozen to death, so a group of people looked at each other!

"What are you all doing?"

Xing'er, who was beaten a few times by Chen Jiang's buttocks, cried her nose and was gently led by the water to play with Yu Ji, but she saw a group of people lying on the edge of the window of the laboratory, so Xing'er also forgot about the pain in the butt of the old lady, and squeezed up and asked softly.

"Shhhhh Yu Ji hurriedly covered Xing'er's mouth.

"Brother must be lying, where did the ice come from in the summer!" Apricot expressed serious distrust of the news.

"I don't believe it either, but Brother Xu said inside that he was going to freeze to death!"

The two little girls muttered, and Shui Gentle listened to the door for a while, then pushed the door in and closed it again.

"Lady, come on, my ice is almost ready!" Chen Xu knew that it was soft water when he heard the footsteps, and he didn't turn his head back to say hello.

Shui gently pushed the door and felt a cold breath when he entered the room, the temperature of the whole room was at least much lower than outside, and Chen Xu was still sniffing while stirring the water.

Shui walked softly to the edge of the table, and saw that the clay pot was already in a semi-solidified state of ice, and a layer of frost had appeared on the entire table.

"Hey, my husband actually made ice, what kind of immortal art is this?" Shui looked at her husband in amazement, as if she had discovered an amazing new continent.

"This is not an immortal technique, it's just a simple chemical reaction, it's a bit complicated, I'll explain it to you slowly later!" Chen Xu said a few words, opened the lid of the tin can and looked at it, poked it a few times with his fingers, and said with a smile on his face, "Look, you came just in time, the ice is almost ready to eat!" ”

Soon Chen Xu came out of the laboratory with a clay basin with a sackcloth, and instructed the two little maids to send the clay basin after making ice to the room where Xing'er and Yu Ji were sleeping, which could play a role in cooling down, and the ice in the iron pot had almost condensed into a piece, Chen Xu instructed the kitchen workers to go to the kitchen to get a few large bowls, mash the ice cubes with a spatula and put a few bowls, and ordered to send a bowl to Chen Jiang's, one bowl for a few cooks to enjoy, and the rest of the group of people began to eat rattling.

In such a hot and unbearable weather, you can eat refreshing and clean ice cubes, whether it is the two little girls or the water is gentle and a few little maids are very excited, the two little girls have no time to talk, and they can't wait to put the bowl containing the ice cubes into their arms.

"It's really delicious, my husband has a way to make ice, why didn't he make it earlier!" The water asked softly as she ate.

Chen Xu shook his head: "This method consumes a lot, remember not to spread it, otherwise it will be those mine slaves and poor people who will suffer!" ”

Shui nodded softly and stopped talking.

There is no problem with saltpeter to make ice, but the consumption is really very large, this Chen Xu has been verified, the last time Yan Le was designed to be reviewed at night, in order to create that kind of gloomy and cold environment, Chen Xu used dozens of catties of pure potassium nitrate to make several large buckets of ice water and dump it in the main hall, but even so, the water is not completely frozen, just some ice cubes, so if you want to make real ice cubes, you must use a lot of potassium nitrate.

Therefore, although the weather is hot after the summer, Chen Xu does not plan to use potassium nitrate to make ice on weekdays, one is troublesome, the second is the limited output, and the third is that the price is too high, these potassium nitrate from mining saltpeter to transporting to Xianyang, the road is long and difficult to travel, not to mention, it also requires countless miners and convict craftsmen to work hard, and once this method spreads to let the princes and princes know, I am afraid that the price of enjoying the coolness brought by saltpeter ice making in this hot summer is that more miners, slaves, slaves and convict craftsmen work hard day and night in the scorching heat.

But after enduring it for so long, Chen Xu finally couldn't bear it today.

The price of going to TM is too high, Lao Tzu is also a prince and prince, representing the aristocracy, born to be the exploiting class, and the weather is so hot, what's wrong with Lao Tzu eating some ice?

What's more, he hid in the room and made it, as long as he didn't say it, no one could force himself to say it, but even so, Chen Xu still said a few words to the two little girls and the little maid.

Eating ice cubes and chatting about the day, the two little girls no longer shouted heat, and half a jar of ice cubes in the quack was finally eaten cleanly, and finally even the remaining ice water was added with a little honey and drunk cleanly.

After eating a stomach full of ice, and being frozen in the room for more than ten minutes, Chen Xu was not hot at all at this time, and even felt a little cold and panicked, and a group of people also felt similar to Chen Xu, sitting in the yard singing and chatting with a cool body, and the time quickly reached late at night.