Chapter 33 Ice Cellar
After staying in the inn for three days, in order not to arouse suspicion, Lu Jiu started packing up his things early in the morning to go home.
But it was not going back to the apartment I lived in before, but to the Lu family's ancestral home.
Perhaps because the weasel is still in Lu Jiu's hands, Yin Yue is particularly concerned about helping Lu Jiu buy his ancestral home. After returning to Mudan Tower yesterday, he immediately asked someone to go to the money house to ask.
Facts proved that Lu Jiu's decision to ask Yin Yue to come forward to buy a house was quite correct. The latter's special status in Qingding City destined her to have a natural advantage in dealing with such things.
Especially after she specially asked her maid to the money house who was in charge of the auction of the Lu family's ancestral home in the money house to say when the matter could be solved and when he could play for two nights for free in the Peony Building, the review and other cumbersome procedures that should have were immediately carried out at an extremely fast speed under the impetuous heart of someone.
So early this morning, Yin Yue asked someone to go to the inn to send a message to Lu Jiu, saying that she had already agreed with the money house before purchasing the Lu family's ancestral home. At about 9 a.m., she would go to the money house to sign the document, and asked Lu Jiu to wait for her at the restaurant outside the money house first, so that the handover would be convenient.
Lu Jiu naturally had no reason to refuse this. He carried a bamboo cage containing a weasel and got on the car and went to the money house in Qingding City.
With this "popular little flower" from Qingding City taking action personally, the whole process went smoothly beyond Lu Jiu's expectations.
After spending more than half an hour in the money house, Yin Yue went out with a smile on her face with a respectful look from the money house staff.
The most important thing to get the mortgage deed, the rest was simple. The two of them first found a place nearby to hand over. Lu Jiu paid 3 golden leaves and also had a bamboo cage of weasels. Yin Yue originally wanted to lower the price for Lu Jiu, but he decisively refused.
Lu Jiu didn't want to owe the other party favors just for some money.
He took the land deed in his hand, but Lu Jiu did not rush to go to his ancestral home. Instead, he went back to the inn where he stayed last night. He did not return the room here, and he would temporarily use it to store the two boxes and bamboo cages.
Although according to Lu Jiu's idea, the faster it is, the better it is, the more you can move into your ancestral home, it is not that easy to do it.
On the one hand, because there is no one living in that house for many years, even if the money house regularly asks for someone to clean it, it only takes superficial work, and each room still needs further tidy up.
On the other hand, the clothes, important furniture and other things in the apartment where I lived in my predecessor had to be moved here. No matter how strong Lu Jiu was, he would never be able to finish it in one trip, so he had to find a helper. Before the ancestral home was actually sorted out, these important things could not be taken back.
After leaving the inn, they immediately returned to the apartment where they lived and found Uncle Zhao's family who was also resting. Without saying a few words, the enthusiastic couple took Xiao Wanhua to join Lu Jiu's moving operation, and were temporarily responsible for helping him get things from the house.
Afterwards, Lu Jiu found Zhou Ze without stopping, not only dragging others to help, but also asked him to drive out the car at home as a transport tool.
With five people plus a car, the efficiency of moving is naturally higher than that of Lu Jiu alone. After two round trips, all the things in the apartment were transported to the door of the house, and the rest was only tidying and cleaning.
One of the Zhao couples is strong, and the other is a housewife who has been more than ten years old. They are undoubtedly skilled in tidying up the room. In addition, the two new forces of Lu Jiu and Zhou Ze, Xiao Wanhua, who cannot do the hard work, is responsible for weeding with a small hoe in the yard, and occasionally grab two grasshoppers to come back to offer treasures.
The entire moving project is progressing extremely smoothly.
Until Zhou Ze began to organize the utility room.
"Lu Jiu, there seems to be a cellar in your utility room."
With Zhou Ze's scream, Lu Jiu, who was cleaning the aisle on the second floor, poked his head out of the window.
There is indeed a cellar in the Lu family’s ancestral home, which used to store vegetables grown in the backyard vegetable garden and some wine jars.
"That's the place used by the older generation of my family to store things. I probably won't use it in the future, so you don't have to worry about it."
Standing at the window and shouted, Lu Jiu didn't expect Zhou Ze to go down to clean the cellar.
Who knew that not long after, Zhou Ze trotted over, holding a piece of stuff in his hand. When he arrived downstairs of Lu Jiu, he raised his hand and raised his head and shouted, "Show you a baby!"
A translucent ice crystal was dripping water in his hands.
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The two large tanks or basins with a height of about one foot and a diameter of nearly one meter are placed inside them, and a copper cauldron that is only one-third the size of the former.
Lu Jiu and his friends were attracted by the ice in Zhou Ze's hand. The first thing they saw when they followed him down the cellar was these things.
When you get closer, you can see that the tank is filled with water and the copper cauldron is filled with large pieces of ice.
"I have seen the method of making saltpeter ice in the factory many times. The raw materials only require a bag of saltpeter... I found it."
Uncle Zhao is a man who works in the factory all year round. He just looked at the things in the cellar and understood what it was for. He turned around and walked a few steps against the wall of the cellar, and soon put forward a bag of white crystals from the corner.
"When I entered your utility room just now, I saw that the edge of the cellar was very clean. I originally wanted to come down to see if someone had stored wine here, but now it seems that someone used your cellar as an ice cellar."
The method of making ice in saltpeter is not a mysterious craft. Zhou Ze obviously knew that he had handed the ice that had been melted half in his hand to the side of his tiptoe and tried to pick up the ice in the copper pot. He turned his head and stared at Xiao Wanhua, who was watching him, then continued,
"Maybe the people in the money shop thought that they would get hot soon this day and planned to make a fortune on this, but the amount was not large, and it might not be necessary for them to use it themselves."
"Maybe."
Lu Jiu stood on the edge of the big tank, holding a piece of ice in his hand, but the expression on his face was a bit strange.
In fact, Lu Jiu felt something was wrong since he walked into the cellar just now.
It’s not that there is something here that confuses him. As Uncle Zhao said, saltpeter ice making is very common, and the problem is that the low temperature environment in this cellar and the ice in his hands.
Lu Jiu suddenly realized that she enjoyed this low temperature very much...
This feeling is not the comfort of entering the air-conditioned room in summer. It is necessary to be a metaphor. It is more like the freedom of a tiger entering the mountains and forests and fish diving into the deep ravine.
It seems that he should have been born to stay in this place!
The best proof of this is that as the time he stayed in the ice cellar gradually increased, Lu Jiu began to vaguely feel the flow of blood in his body. Unlike the irritability he used to be, the blood flow was soothing this time that he had to spend some of his thoughts to suppress the moans in his throat.
Obviously, it is not Lu Jiu who really likes the current environment, but the demon spirit or evolutionary genes in his body!
"It's better to ask the people in the money shop. If they have their belongings, they can move them away as soon as possible to save trouble at that time."
Lu Jiu was surprised by his special reaction. Zhao Xianzong on the other side put down the saltpeter bag, looked at the copper cauldron, and spoke.
"Well, I'll ask them now, Zhou Ze, please take me a trip."
Chapter completed!