Chapter 82: 绿豆棒冰

Chapter 82: Mung Bean Popsicle

After the weather report was posted, she went back to the drying yard or sunning ground (for drying grain, etc.) to stroll around for a bit.

Because it was going to rain tomorrow, it was a must to put the wheat into storage before the sun set today.

In the drying yard, eunuchs and palace maids were loading the tanned wheat into large jars that were also hot from the sun.

When it is time to seal up and cover it up, so that it will not be easy to mould and covered by insects.

Wait until the rainy day has passed, then they take it out to the sun in one day, only then they can start sowing.

This time, the sun is poisonous; ancient time palace maids and eunuchs in long-sleeved clothes, are soaked with sweat. 

It’s really hard to do farming work.

After Lu Yunluo turned around, she decided to make them some cold drinks to relieve the heat.

Let the kitchen chefs boil up a big pot of green bean soup. After the beans bloom, add sugar and glutinous rice powder and boil it until it thickens, let it cool and then bring it over.

She called two eunuchs to go to the west of the bamboo forest, cut some bamboo back, cut off seventy bamboo tubes, after washing, even if it is a temporary mould.

Dry by airing to preserve. 

After all the preparations were done, the green bean soup was poured into the bamboo tubes, and each one was then inserted with a bamboo stick inside, uniformly, densely and neatly discharged inside the large basin.

Because the bamboo tube is thicker, this time, she undergoes the trial ratio several times before doing it successfully.

Simple mung bean cake popsicles are ready.

Lu Yunluo thought that she might be able to get a Cold Palace’s Food department or branch that specializing in making some of these snacks to sell it to the palace.

These underlings in the palace were almost 10,000 people anyways.

That’s as many as the population of a rural town.

Besides, it’s summer now and ice is so scarce in the palace, making cold drinks must sell well.

“Sister Zhou, you used to stay in the palace for a longer period of time, and you definitely know the rules of the palace better than I do. Do you think that if I sell food in the palace, it is considered a violation of the palace rules?”

“Selling food?” Sister Zhou didn’t know how Lu Yunluo suddenly came up with this idea, but she thought carefully, “Your Highness, it seems that, at the moment, there are no rules in this regard.”

“Is that so.” Lu Yunluo stroked her chin, her mind already thinking of the next plan.

On the sunny field, several cooks handed out all the prepared green bean ice lollies.

Everyone looked at the popsicles in their hands that were emitting a slight chill and were amazed.

One must know that in the summer, this ice was a very rare thing.

It was usually given to the palace masters to use to cool down and eliminate the summer heat.

It is used to eat, yet they put the food on the ice cubes only. Moreover, those are usually only masters who can eat that kind of chilled food.

Like them this kind of lowly subordinate, is simply not qualified to eat this kind of food.

The ice cubes that the cook sent to them seemed to be different from the ones in the palace, not like the ones that were made in advance and put into the ice house in winter.

One bite down, it’s cold, sweet and delicious.

Some of them have been holding it in their hands, since they couldn’t bear to eat it, waiting until the mung bean cake melted before having a bite.

After they finished eating one, everyone felt that the heat on their bodies seemed to have gone down quite a bit.

After resting, everyone worked with more strength.

Niang Niang had treated them so well, even bringing out something as scarce as ice for them to eat, and they were still able to express their gratitude by working.

Soon, all twenty hundred liters of wheat had been put in jars and received in the storehouse.

The silver that Yin Shuang had gone to the Imperial Household Department to exchange for silver was also brought back.

Giving each person a couple of silver, Lu Yunluo waved her hand and directly took a four day holiday. 

It will rain for four days, there is no way to work on the field. If they come, they also have nothing to do, so it is better to give them a day off.

Everyone was happy and excited after taking the silver.

They had never thought that they could still get a reward for doing heavy manual labor in the palace.