(Addendum, chap. 2.) ）

Soon, another little novice came up with a silver platter, on which was a mass of things like snow, and there were some colorful preserved fruits dotted in between, which was very gratifying.

"Hey, it's a novelty to look at."

Lu Ruolan said happily: "Cui County Order, what is this?!" ”

"Don't ask what it is, you can taste it first, how does it taste?" As he spoke, Cui Geng handed over a spoon.

Lu Ruolan gently dug a small spoonful and slowly crossed it into her mouth, "It melts in your mouth, it is cold and refreshing, sweet but not greasy, this is the best product." This... It's a lot of money, isn't it? ”

Cui Geng said with a smile: "It's not a lot of money, just such a small ball of ice cream, just to make it costs twenty yuan, and the most important thing is that it can't be preserved." How much do you say you will have to sell for if it is officially launched? ”

"Ice cream? That's a fitting name. But the cost of such a small group will cost 20 yuan? ”

Lu Ruolan was surprised: "This... This is eating, it's like eating gold! Also, such a novel thing, how did you come up with it and how did you make it? ”

Cui Geng looked at Lu Ruolan, who was startled and curious, waved his hand and smiled: "Little lady Lu, don't worry, you eat ice cream first, and listen to the official to tell you slowly......"

That's right, the snow-like thing in front of him is the ice cream, or ice cream, that Cui Geng made in imitation of what he saw in his dream.

Ice cubes can be made by the reaction of nitrate and water, but making ice cream is not so easy. Because the preparation of ice cream is different from ice cubes, the difference is that when making ice cream, it is necessary to master the heat and stir it constantly during the coagulation process.

With the reaction speed of nitrate and water, of course, it is impossible to make ice cream all at once. The only feasible solution is to put the ingredients in a porcelain bowl, and surround the porcelain bowl with ice cubes to cool and stir constantly.

Because of this most primitive production method, not only will a lot of ice be wasted, resulting in an increase in cost, but also extremely inefficient. Therefore, Cui Geng just mentioned it in passing that day, and did not expect the Lotus Temple to make it and let them focus on the Buddha ice.

But the little monk Huiming is also grateful to Cui Geng, and he is very willing to spend the money, and according to the method taught by Cui Geng, he really made the ice cream. Yesterday, he sent someone to inform him that he must come to Lotus Temple today, and for the gratitude of the Zen Buddhism of Horenan, he will offer the first ice cream in the world to Cui Geng to enjoy.

Cui Geng's enthusiasm was difficult, so he took Feng Changqing and others to visit the temple fair in Falian Temple, and met Lu Ruolan being entangled by Wang Dazhong on the spot, which was the scene of the previous hero saving the beauty and teaching Wang Dazhong a lesson.

"So, the ice cream on the plate is unique in the world?" Lu Ruolan's big black eyes flashed.

"Naturally!" Cui Geng was noncommittal.

"Huh? It's really unique......" Lu Ruolan was a little embarrassed, and said: "The concubine thought it was a mile for one person, this snow... The ice cream is so delicious, and the concubine doesn't pay attention... Here... That's all that's left. ”

Cui Geng said: "It's okay, it's okay, I know how to make this ice cream, it's not easy to eat?" It's a little lady, since she likes to eat, let's eat more. Don't push it off, eat it quickly, it will be wasted if it melts in a while. ”

As a daughter's family, Lu Ruolan wanted to be reserved again, but she really loved the ice cream for the first time, and the sweet and soft feeling lingered on the tip of the tongue, which was simply wonderful. For a while, those words of concession couldn't be spoken, so he had to blush and say in a mosquito voice: "That... The concubine is not welcome, all, all eaten. ”

"Hehe, let's eat, let's eat, I like to watch the little lady lick the ice cream."

"Huh? Why did Cui Xianling laugh so obscenely? ”

"No, no, no, leave me alone, keep licking, no, keep eating, or you'll melt in a while."

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At the same time, Ruyi Building.

Wang Dazhong knelt down in front of Wang Hongyi, pounded the ground with one hand and complained bitterly: "Dad, then Cui Erlang and Lu Ruolan are really too deceitful, you have to vent your son's anger!" ”

"Son, you get up first."

Wang Hongyi thought for a while, and asked with a calm face: "I am very puzzled by my father, then Cui Erlang helped the Lotus Temple, which is the enemy of the Northern Zen Sect." And the Zou family is very close to the Shenhui monks of Northern Zen Buddhism, so why did Cui Erlang help Lu Ruolan? ”

"Do you need to ask? He is greedy for beauty. ”

"Still not right." Wang Hongyi shook his head again and again, and said, "Even if Cui Geng is greedy for beauty, what about Lu Ruolan?" How could she be so interested in Cui Erlang? ”

"Uh...... She also likes Cui Geng, so she doesn't care about anything! Phew, this dog man and woman! ”

"How can it be that simple? Looking at the bald donkeys of Northern Zen Buddhism, as well as Zou Huozi's diligence towards Lu Ruolan, I am afraid that this woman has a great background. Although Wang Hongyi's face was heavy, his heart was moving, and he said: "It's a pity that since Lord Lai Junchen was degraded, the Lijingmen headquarters in Chang'an was almost eliminated by Li Zhaode. Otherwise, if he repairs a letter for his father and returns to Chang'an, he will definitely be able to investigate the details of this stinky girl. ”

Wang Dazhong listened to his father's words and calmed things down, and he felt a grievance in his heart, and said loudly: "What do you say, Dad?" Are we worried that Lu Ruolan has a great background, so we are afraid that she will not succeed? Could it be that your son will be bullied for nothing? ”

"It's not that I'm afraid of her." Wang Hongyi's eyes flashed suddenly, and he said, "My father just received an order from the master of the door, and he asked me to find a way to get rid of Cui Erlang. Now I'm struggling with ...... Is it only Cui Geng who is the only one, or is he taking this opportunity to stew Lu Ruolan with a spoonful? ”

"Then what are you thinking about?"

Wang Dazhong couldn't wait to shout: "Of course, the pair of dogs and men and women are arrested, the man is killed, and the woman is given to his son!" ”

"Bastard, all you have in your eyes is the crotch of your pants~ What's going on?"

"Confucius said, food and sex!" Wang Dazhong is right.

", you unlearned bastard, these words are not what Confucius said, and the words come from the article "Mencius: Confession". On weekdays, let you count more points, and do less things like chickens and dogs, and make jokes in vain! ”

"What's the matter, son, I just want Lu Ruolan, this little girl!"

"Ahem, you little brute, you're really angry! Why don't you get out of here? ”

"Okay, I'll get out!" Wang Dazhong saw that his father was angry, so he fled with a crawl, and when he went out, he didn't forget to instruct, "Dad, don't forget Lu Ruolan, my son wants to live!" Don't hurt her, let alone spend her little flower-like face! ”

"Roll !!"

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A few more days passed.

Cui Geng finally pulled out the three nail households of the Gong family, the temple and Liang Yougui, and then the other more than ten nail households suddenly lost their confidence, and under the persuasion of the Jiangdu County Ya, they received reasonable compensation and started copyright one after another.

In the matter of demolition, although Wei Miao did not help much, he made great efforts in another matter.

Now that Cui Geng's contract with the Thorn Mansion has been reached, the lake will be guaranteed to be in hand naturally. Cui Geng didn't hide it, and told Wei Miao about the idea that he would use Baohu to make a profit, and simply sold him his favor.

Wei Miao didn't understand the means of businessmen buying low and selling high and speculating on high land prices, and he didn't know whether Cui Geng's plan would work or not. But out of trust in Zhang Qian and Cui Geng, he finally took 1,000 yuan to buy a section of the Baobao Lake from Cui Geng, and took the initiative to undertake the renovation of the Baobao Lake.

There are not many official duties of the Jiangdu County Ya, and the demolition work has been completed one after another, and Baohu is not worried about Cui Geng for the time being, and for a while, he is idle again.

Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, it will be the second day of the first month of March, and tomorrow will be the "Shangsi Festival".

According to folk customs, men, women and children will go to the waterside to drink and feast on this day, and go out to the suburbs for spring vacation.

In addition, there is another wonderful thing that young people especially like about this festival, that is, you can take advantage of this festival...... Love.

That's right, it's about falling in love.

Although marriage matters are based on the words of the parents, most parents will also seriously consider the opinions of their children.

But in those days, there was no internet, no dance parties, and no even opportunities to go to school and work together, so how should young men and women meet the opposite sex?

The Shangsi Festival is a good opportunity.

On that day, the little ladies did not shy away from coming to the small river and stream in pairs, taking off their socks and washing their slender feet.

As the saying goes, "The weather is new on March 3, and there are many beautiful people on the waterside of Chang'an." ”

Chang'an is like this, and Yangzhou is the same, so will the young Langjun naturally take this opportunity to choose the right person by the river!

Once they fall in love with a little lady, they will quickly come forward to talk, ask her where she lives and what her parents are, and then go home to inform her parents, dispatch a matchmaker, and a good marriage will become.

As for the men and women who have already had their crushes, they will take this opportunity to go on an outing with their sweethearts on this day, and even play in the water.

You don't hear the poetry and clouds: "Qin and Wei, Fang is sluggish." Taxi and woman, Fang Bingxi. Female Guanhu? Shi said, and look at it? In addition to Wei, Xun and Le, Weishi and the woman, Yi Qi scorned each other, and gave him a spoonful of medicine......"

How could you miss such a romantic opportunity?

Coincidentally, tomorrow is the Shangsi Festival, but today Cao Yuechan took the initiative to come to Jiangdu County to see Cui Geng.

Cui Geng hasn't seen Cao Yuechan for a long time, and he misses it very much.

Seeing her enter the inner house, she immediately stood up a little excitedly, stepped forward, and asked, "Yuechan, you came to look for me today, didn't you want to discuss tomorrow's holiday?" Rest assured, this official is very idle now, and he has a lot of time! ”

"Holidays?" Cao Yuechan was slightly stunned, and then suddenly realized, and said, "Erlang is talking about the Shangsi Festival, right?" The concubines are so busy that their feet don't touch the ground now, how can they have that idle time? ”

It turned out that I was wrong.

Cui Geng couldn't help but be disappointed, shrugged his shoulders, and asked, "Then you came to me today, what else is there to do?" ”

"The concubine heard that Erlang and Nanzen are on good terms, I don't know if there is such a thing?"

"Well, sort of. But it's not ...... you think."

Cui Geng was also very depressed, at the beginning, the Buddha Bing and the vulgar in the Lotus Temple really wanted to secretly help the Southern Zen Buddhism, but he repeatedly reminded the little monk Huiming that he would accept it when he saw it, and don't say that it was related to him Cui Erlang. It's just that I didn't expect that Yangzhou's Lijingmen, under the leadership of Wang Hongyi, would quickly recover its strength, and even poked out the matter of helping Southern Zen Buddhism.

Not only that, but they also shouted and publicized it everywhere, making this matter known to everyone, and naturally it also reached the ears of Northern Zen Buddhism.

This is a bit of a rush that is not human inside and out.

After listening to Cui Geng's complaints, Cao Yuechan thought about it, and said with a smile on the corner of her mouth: "According to the concubine's body, this matter may not be how powerful Lijingmen is, I'm afraid that the little monk Huiming didn't think about keeping it secret for Erlang at all, right?" ”

Cui Geng shook his head and said: "I still know the little monk's character, he shouldn't be able to do this kind of thing, but the people around him are difficult to say." It's okay, Northern Zen Buddhism itself is a predator in Qianzhuang, let's gather Fenglong and have a battle with them sooner or later, it is good to have one more ally of Southern Zen Buddhism, there is no need to delve into the little monk. ”

"No, how can you make them cheaper like this? After all, you have a great kindness to them in Southern Zen. ”

Cao Yuechan said: "Actually, as far as the concubine knows, there are a lot of money houses run by the Southern Zen Sect, but they don't have much power in the official mansion, so they don't dare to make trouble for us to gather Fenglong." The concubine came to you today, and it was also for this. I wonder if Erlang can persuade the Southern Zen Sect to let all the money banks under their names join the Jufenglong Silver Account? ”

"Huh this?" Cui Geng hesitated, just wanted to speak, and said-

"Hmph, short-sighted woman, I still think you have a lot of ability! Do you think it is a good thing for you to gather Fenglong by merging the money bank of Southern Zen Buddhism? ”

It was not Cui Geng who spoke, but a person outside the window.