I am cannon fodder, but I can hug thighs

"That's true." Song Shiqiu did not refute. He knew better than Lin Jin why paper was so expensive. If bamboo could fill this gap, the price would indeed be reduced a lot.

Now that the paper problem was solved, Lin Jin planned to deal with the ink and brush problems later. She did not plan to make pencils because she did not have the machines. Although pencils were not expensive, they were difficult to manufacture, which would increase the cost.

Lin Jin noticed the sweat on Song Shiqiu's forehead, and glanced at the boy fanning him. She blinked and said, "Sir, do you feel the weather is very hot?"

"Hmm?" Song Shiqiu wanted to ask Lin Jin what nonsense she was talking about. "Tell me what you are going to do. There is still a lot of ice in the house. If you want to use it, just ask someone to get it."

Lin Jin did want to use ice, but not in this way: "I have the system, what do I need your little bit of ice? Humph."

She looked at Song Shiqiu with contempt.

"Then... Madam, do you want to go to the Mountain Resort to escape the heat?" Song Shiqiu's eyes were filled with confusion. Since they didn't need ice, what was the point?

Lin Jin groaned, feeling a little uncomfortable: "Why don't you just call me Madam? Just call me A Jin, don't call me that."

"What summer resort? Do I look like someone who has the leisure to go there?" Lin Jin's eyes were full of disdain. She was in no mood to think about the summer resort right now. "Sir, what should we do if we run out of ice?"

"Once they are used up, they are gone. We can only save them in winter." Song Shiqiu seemed helpless. If Lin Jin really needed it, he could also sacrifice his face and go to other colleagues' houses to ask for some.

Lin Jin nodded thoughtfully: "I see, so you don't know that saltpeter can be used to make ice? Then let me teach you how to make ice?"

Song Shiqiu: “…”

He also wanted to ask the other party if there was anything else he didn't know.

"I'll arrange some people for you, and have them bring this method of making ice to various states and counties." Song Shiqiu rubbed his brows, "You can arrange these things yourself."

"I made my own arrangements, but the adults said I wouldn't tell you anything." Lin Jin curled his lips, but as long as he understood what he meant, they would be sweating from the heat, and the common people would be even hotter, and not a few would suffer from heatstroke. This would reduce the number of people suffering from heatstroke.

Song Shiqiu had a smile in his eyes, but there was one thing he didn't understand: "Is saltpeter saltpeter?"

"Yeah." Lin Jin smiled and gave a thumbs up, "Smart."

Since saltpeter was mostly used in fire-related projects in this era, it is normal that people did not think of using it to make ice.

In full view of everyone, Lin Jin made ice using two basins of water. He put saltpeter into the water and began to stir it. The water began to slowly freeze. After the water in the small basin began to freeze, Lin Jin asked someone to take out the basin of ice.

The method is simple and these people can do it.

"My Lord, would you like some shaved ice?" Lin Jin looked at the ice in the basin made from boiled water, smiling, "I'll make you some ice cream, do you want some?"

She said this simply to tease Song Shiqiu, because she knew that Song Shiqiu didn't like to eat those things, so she handed the ice cubes to the maid next to her: "You can use it to make something cold to eat, to cool down."

"Thank you, Madam." The maid happily carried the small basin of ice cubes. Ice cubes were rare and only the master could use them. How could servants like them get to use these good things on a daily basis?

Song Shiqiu asked those people to remember the steps and go back to do what they should do.

He looked at the basin of ice that the maid took away and lowered his eyes: "I didn't say no."

"If you don't answer, I mean no." Lin Jin made a face, "It's just one serving of ice, why do you care? It's not like we don't have other ice."

Song Shiqiu just hummed, his meaning unclear.

Lin Jin heard a hint of disappointment in the voice. She looked at Song Shiqiu with some suspicion, wondering if it was her illusion.

"Are you unhappy? Well, no, not unhappy, just a little, depressed?" Lin Jin pondered the feeling of this "hmm" and found it a little strange. This was really completely different from the Song Shiqiu she knew.

She felt that she had committed a sin, as if she had brought a god down to earth.

"I'm not happy. I always feel that in Ajin's heart, I'm no different from others." Song Shiqiu said a little depressed. He didn't know what he was bothered about. He thought those colleagues and his wife seemed to be no different.

Lin Jin took a breath. She never expected to hear such insecure words from Song Shiqiu. She thought this situation would happen to her: "Why do you think so? Of course it's not like that. There must be a difference."

"What's the difference?" Song Shiqiu frowned slightly, and even his lips tightened.

Lin Jin is very nice to everyone around her. Even Chunzao from Meiyuan can make her care about her. It’s not that she doesn’t care about him, but he can’t feel any difference.

Lin Jin's attitude towards him was the same as that towards Xi Lilong. The only difference was that Lin Jin was not as intimate with him as with Xi Lilong.

When Song Shiqiu thought of this, he felt even more depressed and not happy at all.

"The difference lies in my trust in you." Lin Jin wondered why Song Shiqiu asked this. Wasn't it obvious that she felt different towards Song Shiqiu? She trusted Song Shiqiu unconditionally.

Song Shiqiu snorted, his smile slightly cold: "Do you only trust me? What about Xi Qi? What about Tu Huaining? Don't you trust these people?"

He knew better than anyone that if Xi Lilong and the others were in his position, Lin Jin would also ask them to do things for him.

So in the end he is no different from anyone else.

Lin Jin was stunned by the question. She opened her lips again and again, but no words came out.

She touched her nose and said, "That's what Plato said. It may seem that there is no difference, but in fact there is a difference!"

"for example?"

"Uh..." Lin Jin didn't understand why Song Shiqiu was so obsessed with this answer. It wasn't important at all. "For example... I allow them to have other friends, but I don't allow you to have another partner. Does this count?"

Song Shiqiu's breath became heavier, and he was obviously very angry: "You can't even explain it yourself."

"I really don't know how to put it. It's just different. I feel different. Do you understand this answer?" Lin Jin was a little embarrassed. This kind of feeling can only be understood but not expressed in words. "You can't ask me to cut my heart out for you, right?"

Although she was prepared that she and Song Shiqiu would have a conflict over this kind of thing one day, she didn't expect it to come so soon.

"Besides, why do you have to compare yourself with Sister Xi and the others? They are girls and you are not. Why don't you compare yourself with other men? The difference will be obvious at a glance." The more Lin Jin spoke, the more he felt that he was right. Song Shiqiu and Xi Lilong were not of the same gender at all and there was no comparison.

Although boyfriends and best friends are of different genders, they are both very important.

Song Shiqiu hesitated to speak, and finally asked: "Am I not as important as them?"

"If you insist on asking this question, then you are being unreasonable. Why don't you ask who I would save if you all fell into the water?" Lin Jin looked at him angrily and slapped him in the face.

Song Shiqiu lowered his eyes: "Who would you save if this really happened?"

Lin Jin: “…”

No, brother, you are sick!

"I'll save them all. I have good stamina. I can save them three times!"

Lin Jin stared at him with a fake smile, and the voice seemed to jump out from between teeth: "Are you satisfied, Prime Minister?"

Seeing that she was really angry, Song Shiqiu didn't know what to say for a moment. He also had no experience in coaxing people. He raised his hand again and again, and finally put it down.

He pursed his lips: "I was wrong. I shouldn't have made things difficult for you."

Lin Jin's expression froze. She didn't expect Song Shiqiu to admit his mistake so straightforwardly: "You, you just admit your mistake so easily?"

It makes her look like a shrew.