Prompted by Xiaomiao, everyone quickly came back to their senses; while still in shock, they didn't forget to move the goods.
They first carried the buns, steamed bread, dumplings, and sweet rice balls back and had people start cooking them.
Miss Jiang had said that the buns and steamed bread could sit for a while and be saved for dinner, but the rest had to be eaten quickly; otherwise, in less than half an hour they'd all stick together into one big lump.
These dumplings, sweet rice balls, wontons and such, all frozen rock-hard and icy cold, plus some that didn't even look like dumplings, made people feel they were incredibly magical.
No one had ever imagined that these things could actually be kept with ice?
Beneath all this, Xiaomiao had placed some crushed ice, laid an oiled cloth over it, and only then set the food on top so it could stay properly chilled.
