Chapter 246
Lin Feilu ran in hurriedly. She sweated profusely throughout the entire walk home, so she squatted down beside the ice bucket and enjoyed the cooler atmosphere. She picked up a small wooden stick and poked it. The popsicles in the bamboo tube were still a little soft— it didn’t meet her expectations, so she could only consider these as ‘ice blended’ instead.
She could not help but feel a little disappointed.
Yunyou said, “Princess, if you want to make it into ice, I’m afraid you have to take it to the ice cellar.”
Lin Feilu thought so too. After she rested for a while, she ate the semi-frozen popsicles as ice blended smoothies.
She used rose milk and honey to make it taste very delicious. It was considered pretty good to be having ice blended smoothies in a place like this.
After eating, she prepared an appropriate amount of rose milk and poured them into the prepared bamboo tubes respectively. Then, she had Songyu and Yunyou hold them as they went to the Imperial Household Department with her.
Although there was no refrigerator at this time and era, as an extremely luxurious palace, it had a large artificial underground ice cellar. Ice cubes were stored in it throughout the year. The ice cubes used to cool the summer heat in the palaces were all transported from here.
Lin Feilu explained her intentions. Naturally, the imperial Household Department would not refuse such a small request from the Little Fifth Princess. After receiving permission, she put all of her bamboo popsicles in the ice cellar.
When school ended on the next day, Lin Feilu didn’t return to the Mingyue Palac; instead, she went to the Imperial Household Department.
According to her request, the palace staff had packed the frozen popsicles in an ice box. Lin Feilu asked Song Yu to hold them while she took one out to eat. After one bite, the milky icy ice shavings crumbled in her mouth. With the fragrance of roses and the sweetness of honey, it was so cooling to have one in this scorching summer.
After finally being able to eat some similar foods that were in abundance in her previous life, Lin Feilu was moved to tears.
Songyu looked at her expression and couldn’t help but wonder, was it that delicious?
The ice box could guarantee that the ice popsicles will not melt for an hour. After returning to the Mingyue Palace to have lunch, Lin Feilu gave one to each of the palace staff. For a certain time, there were only the sounds of the crunching bites of ice and Lin Zhanyuan’s sloppy licks of the popsicles that resounded throughout the entire palace.
In the end there were two sticks left in the ice box. She resolutely refused Lin Zhanyuan’s request for another one under the pretence of getting diarrhoea should one have too much of the ice popsicles. Then, she took the two ice popsicles and ran off.
She hasn’t been to Cuizhu Villa for a while.
Currently, she wasn’t as carefree as before because she was watching every move and paying attention to everything around her. Song Jinglan stayed behind closed doors recently because that was the best way to protect himself. If she visited him frequently, things might instead become detrimental to him.
The sun was extremely hot during that particular afternoon. She felt like she was almost tanned after running throughout her journey.
The weather was hot and not many people were willing to go out, which was why the palace remained quiet. Only the sounds of the cicadas rang from time to time, which adds to the overall atmosphere of summer.
The bamboo door of the Cuizhu Villa was closed. When Lin Feilu ran to the door, she had planned to knock on the door as usual, but when she glanced at the courtyard wall that wasn’t too high next to her, she felt that it was time to show her real skills.