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358: Saltpeter is used to make ice.

Brother Lu and Sister Xiao, weren't they engaged since childhood?!

What fate! I really didn't expect Brother Lu and Sister Xiao to have such destiny connecting them.

This is truly wonderful.

Grandma Xiao picking up Sister Xiao and raising her for so many years—Grandma Xiao is truly too good. And Aunt Gu, Aunt Gu was previously retired from the Military Unit, and later handled some matters for the Gu Family.

He was also a bit surprised to see Aunt Gu today.

Now he finally understood why Aunt Gu came to Grandma Xiao's home.

Gao Yao tugged on Meng Ning's clothes, lowering her voice to speak to Meng Ning and Lin Shi.

"Niannian's Older Brothers are handsome and look like people from the Military Unit."

"Yes," Meng Ning nodded.

Meng Ning knew that Gu Yuan and Gu Jin studied at the Military Academy and later went to the Military Unit. But she didn't know where exactly.

"This is the first time I've seen Niannian smile so happily, like a small child," Gao Yao said with a smile.

Usually, when Niannian is at school, although she smiles, she is often as serious as an Instructor. But now, in front of her two Older Brothers, she truly looks like a child.

"Big Brother, Second Brother, you haven't eaten yet, right?"

"We already ate at the State-run Restaurant."

"We brought some food from Chuan Province."

Xiao Niannian looked at her two Older Brothers, her eyes also full of smiles.

Big Brother and Second Brother were talking with Grandma and Aunt, so Xiao Niannian got up and walked toward the adjacent room.

Grandma and Aunt sleep in the downstairs room, so she needed to tidy up the other rooms.

"Niannian, are you going to tidy up the rooms?"

Gao Yao and the others walked in.

"Mm. You guys sleep upstairs with me. I'll let Big Brother, Second Brother, and Shen Yan sleep in this room."

The bed at home was 1.8 meters wide. Xiao Niannian found a board, propped it up with several chairs in the corner, and laid blankets over it, making the bed more than two meters wide.

Upstairs, there was a bamboo bed, which Xiao Niannian also took and made ready.

"Younger Sister."

Hearing Big Brother call her, Xiao Niannian looked toward the doorway.

Meng Ning and Gao Yao immediately tactfully left.

"Big Brother, Second Brother."

Gu Yuan and Gu Jin both stood at 1.88 meters tall and were very handsome; both resembled Chief Gu more closely.

"These are gifts from Big Brother and Second Brother."

Gu Yuan handed over a bag.

Gu Jin also handed over the bag in his hand.

"Thank you, Big Brother and Second Brother."

Hearing his Younger Sister's words, Gu Yuan rubbed her head.

Gu Jin also reached out and rubbed his Younger Sister's head.

Xiao Niannian looked at her two Older Brothers. Perhaps in their hearts, this action expressed their love for their Younger Sister, so she let them rub her head.

"Hurry and open them to see if you like them."

"Older Brothers still have some gifts at the home in Capital City."

Hearing her Older Brothers' words, Xiao Niannian opened the bag.

The top item was a velvet box that looked like a watch. When opened, it was indeed a Rolex watch, with a red dial face inlaid with ten gems, and the watch itself was gold-colored.

"Big Brother specifically chose this for you. Is it pretty? The golden yellow with the red dial face."

Gu Yuan looked at Xiao Niannian expectantly.

"It's pretty, I like it very much."

Xiao Niannian remembered that because this watch model had limited stock, decades later it appeared in auctions in Hong Kong City and USA. Some models set a record high of over 100 million yuan, while others sold for tens of millions of yuan.

"Younger Sister, Second Brother chose the green model, hurry and take a look."

Gu Jin said.

Xiao Niannian opened the watch gifted by Second Brother and saw that the watch inside indeed had a green dial face and many diamonds; it was very beautiful.

"It's pretty, I like it very much."

"Hurry and open the others."

Xiao Niannian opened the large velvet box beneath.

She saw a set of jade jewelry. It could be said that the clarity and texture had reached the 'Glass Type'. Decades ago, this set would have been worth tens of millions of yuan.

"It's beautiful."

Xiao Niannian praised it.

"As long as Younger Sister likes it."

"Second Brother also gave this," Gu Jin immediately said.

Looking at the two identical sets, Xiao Niannian knew they were carved from the same stone.

"There are also two purple sets. We don't know if you'll like them, but Older Brothers also brought back some small stones," Gu Yuan said with a smile.

Gu Yuan took out another velvet box containing a set of High-Ice-Grade purple jewelry. In the burlap sack next to it was a bag full of jade stones, all of which had windows cut into them, showing that the quality of the jade inside was very good.

"I like them! Thank you, Big Brother and Second Brother, I like them very much."

Xiao Niannian truly loved jade. She had previously collected quite a lot of jade and diamonds.

"These are some rubies, which we obtained unintentionally."

Gu Yuan handed over the cloth bag. When she opened the cloth bag and saw the rubies inside, Xiao Niannian was genuinely surprised.

These rubies would be very, very expensive in the future.

"Beautiful, thank you, Big Brother and Second Brother."

Xiao Niannian also liked gems; rubies and similar gems were extremely beautiful. However, she didn't particularly care for diamonds.

"As long as you like them."

Gu Yuan and Gu Jin were very happy to hear their Younger Sister say she liked them.

"You go ahead and busy yourself. Older Brothers will go downstairs."

"Okay."

After seeing her Older Brothers leave, Xiao Niannian put the items into the wardrobe, locked the drawer with a lock, and then locked the wardrobe itself.

In reality, all these items had entered her spatial dimension.

Xiao Niannian went downstairs and saw Shen Yan talking with her Older Brothers, while Meng Ning, Lin Shi, and Gao Yao sat next to Grandma and Aunt.

"Niannian, this weather is so hot." Gao Yao wiped off a bead of sweat.

"Grandma cooked mung bean porridge for you, and it's chilling in the well in the backyard right now," Grandma Xiao said, chuckling.

"Let's make some ice cubes."

Hearing Xiao Niannian's words, everyone looked at Xiao Niannian.

"Make ice cubes? How do we make them?"

"You need a refrigerator for that, right?" Meng Ning's family had a refrigerator. Usually, they would freeze sweet water in the refrigerator, turning it into ice cubes to eat; it was very sweet.

They also froze mung bean porridge in the refrigerator, turning it into mung bean ice.

"I saved up a bit of saltpeter before, and we can use it to make ice cubes..."

Hearing this, Gao Yao happily said.

"Niannian, teach us."

Xiao Niannian brought out two basins, poured in some water, and demonstrated for them.

"It really froze."

"Oh my gosh, this is real."

"I didn't expect we could really make ice cubes ourselves."

Gao Yao and Lin Shi got busy. They also started making ice cubes using saltpeter. Shen Yan also fetched two basins and made a basin of ice cubes.

"Quick, put the pot of mung bean porridge into this ice."

"This is really interesting."

"We won't have to fear the heat this summer."

Gu Yuan and Gu Jin watched their Younger Sister. They had learned this kind of knowledge before—that saltpeter could be used to make ice cubes—but they had never actually experimented with it.

"In the evening, if we put these ice cubes in the room, it won't be so hot."

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