It wasn't until the end of October, more than four months from late June, that the weather had begun to get cold, and the manor in Xiao Yao's dream was completely completed.
In addition, she let the school and small hall built in the village also be completed.
In order to celebrate, Xiao Yao asked the men in the village to kill two pigs, called a dozen women and Sister-in-law Liu, made a fifteen-table banquet, treated seventy or eighty craftsmen, and invited everyone in the village to have a big meal.
After the celebration banquet, Xiao Yao paid the craftsmen, specially told the old man in the craftsmen that he was not allowed to tell everything here, and gave an additional 100 taels of hush money for him to distribute to the apprentices, and the craftsmen left happily.
Xiao Cui, Steward Liu's family and the five Zhuang Ding couldn't wait to move into the new house as soon as possible, Xiao Yao dragged it out for ten days, first, to let the smell of paint in the house be put in again, and secondly, to decorate the house again in order to buy some things.
She took Xiaocui and Sister-in-law Liu to drive three carriages to the capital, and asked everyone to buy the screens and curtain fabrics for the screens in their respective rooms according to their own preferences, and bought a lot of satin fabrics, as well as some room furnishings and kitchen utensils.
He also went to the homes of farmers who grew cotton in neighboring villages to buy a lot of cotton.
Of course, everything is paid for by Xiao Yao.
Xiaocui and Liu's sister-in-law called a few more women in the village who were good at needlework, and sewed dozens of thick quilts, mattresses and sheets from brand new cotton and fabric.
Xiao Yao distributed a new set of bedding and bed sheets to each person living in the manor according to the head, and asked Xiaocui to put away the rest temporarily.
She also decided to recruit two little maids in the house, she couldn't always let Xiaocui serve her, and Xiaocui should also enjoy Qingfu.
Everything was ready, Sister-in-law Liu chose a good day, set off a firecracker, and everyone happily moved into the new house.
The new house, the new furniture, the new window paper, the curtains, and even the bedding are all new, and the house with bright and clean windows makes people feel very happy, and everyone is laughing in and out.
Xiao Yao sent Xiaocui to guide everyone in the afternoon of the same day, and when the big iron guy who didn't know what to do with was filled with sawdust and lit it, the excitement in everyone's hearts could no longer be controlled, and even Steward Liu couldn't help cheering with his son and Zhuang Ding.
Xiao Cui and the housekeeper's face turned red with excitement.
This thing is a heating stove!
This winter can be spent warmly and comfortably.
Xiao Yao installed a big iron bucket in each room, and it was the sawdust stove that she asked Qiusheng to find a blacksmith in the capital to customize according to the appearance she had drawn.
Speaking of sawdust stoves, we have to talk about Xiao Yao's grandfather, Mr.
Yao Honghan.
During this period, Yao Honghan was sent to work as a factory doctor in a timber processing factory in Tumendun, Qilihe District, Lanzhou, which was littered with mountains of sawdust, which everyone thought was a pile of waste.
There is an old worker who is worried about not being able to afford heating coal in winter every year because he has many children and a heavy burden, and the winter in Lanzhou is much colder than in Xi'an.
Xiao Yao's grandfather often lent money to the worker.
One day, the old worker told Xiao Yao's grandfather that he had been thinking about it for a long time and wanted to make a sawdust stove to keep warm.
This idea was strongly supported by Xiao Yao's grandfather, and he found an acquaintance to get him a discarded large iron oil drum, and the old worker asked a friend from the iron factory to equip the oil drum with a stove plate and a furnace lid, drilled a hole with a large bowl mouth in the middle and upper part of the oil drum side, welded an iron chimney more than ten centimeters long, and sealed it into the fire wall.
(Blue smoke explained: the so-called fire wall, is a hollow wall, a wall is empty in the middle, until the roof to make a smoke outlet, this wall is equivalent to a furnace flue, not only to retain the heat of smoke to the greatest extent, so that both sides of the house are warm, but also to make the house clean without the smell of smoke, Lanzhou originally many bungalows are covered with fire walls.
Drill a two-centimeter-diameter round hole in the center of the bottom of the barrel, weld a bottom about five centimeters high at the bottom of the oil drum, and open a three-centimeter-diameter round hole in front of the bottom of the welded barrel to make an ignition port and a sealing port that can be covered and opened, and the appearance and function are the same as the place where the ash is removed under the iron furnace or honeycomb coal furnace.
When using, first remove the stove plate, use a wooden stick or iron rod with the same thickness as the hole at the bottom of the barrel into the hole and straighten it, just on the center of the barrel, load the sawdust into the iron bucket, fill it with tamping, and then slowly pull out the wooden stick or iron rod to form a long circular empty passage straight to the furnace door.
Put the stove tray, cover the stove, light it with a handful of shavings or a piece of paper, stuff it through the door at the bottom of the barrel, and the stove is lit.
This large barrel of sawdust can be burned for ten hours, and the heating area can reach sixty or seventy square meters.
(Naturally, it is sealed when I sleep at night, and this blue smoke has been used by myself.) ） The invention of the old workers was simple and practical, and it not only saved money compared to those who burned bituminous coal or anthracite, but also convenient!
Warm!
Clean!
After a furnace of sawdust was burned, there was only half a dustpan of ashes.
The old workers in order to thank Xiao Yao's grandfather, carefully made a stove and gave it to him, the grandfather's family lived in Lanzhou for several years, and used it in winter, Xiao Yao's mother often talked to Xiao Yao about it when recalling the life in Lanzhou.
Later, my grandfather was transferred back to Xi'an for work, and he was reluctant to throw it away when he moved, so he brought it back with him.
Because I live in a building in Xi'an, there is heating in winter, and there is no place to find sawdust, so I have been idle in the gatehouse outside, Xiao Yao saw it when I was a child, I don't know what it is, I asked my grandfather, grandpa may be very nostalgic for life in Lanzhou, and told Xiao Yao in detail about the origin and use of the sawdust stove, which made Xiao Yao, who was in his teens at the time, leave a deep memory.
When escaping from the palace, he left the iron furnace in Qixia Courtyard, Xiao Yao always wanted to find a craftsman to make an iron furnace for himself, and later found that there were piles of sawdust here and there, and he remembered the sawdust stove of his grandfather's house in a flash of inspiration, so he drew a picture and asked Qiusheng to find a craftsman to do it, make one, Xiao Yao also asked Qiusheng to try to use it according to the method she wrote, but Qiusheng said that it was very easy to use, Xiao Yao asked Qiusheng to leave four for the store, and the rest were all sent back to the farm.
When the house was first built, Xiao Yao designed a fire wall for each house, so as soon as the stove was pulled back, he directly asked the craftsman to seal the chimney into the fire wall.
I never understood why Xiao Yao asked the shops in the city to keep sending truckloads of sawdust back?
The sawdust used to build a house to make furniture in the farm was also included in the warehouse like Xiao Yao's baby, Steward Liu and Xiaocui, and they didn't understand Xiao Yao's intentions until this time.
I can't complain that the young lady has built a big house full of sawdust every time she enters the yard.
It was originally for the convenience of each room.
Why does the young lady know everything and think about everything so thoughtfully?
Cui has been thinking about this question lately.
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She adores the young lady so much.
In the courtyard where Xiao Yao lives, she designed a three-story single-sided building with a large sundeck.
In front of the door is a large verandah with a half-height carved wooden balustrade.
There are two floors on the bottom floor, and the upper floor is used as a storeroom for guest rooms and valuables.
The house is designed according to the layout of one ladder and six households.
The staircase is in the middle, and each floor is lined up with three suites, and the first floor is also designed with public toilets, public baths, and communal kitchens.
There are six suites, except for the one on the right on the first floor, which is for the maids to live in.
Xiao Yao and Xiao Cui each live in one on the left, and the remaining three are used as guest rooms.
Xiao Yao was still thinking about the wishes of her previous life, and the built manor should let her dearest people come for vacation and leisure.
Now it was impossible, but she still had to prepare a room for them.
She didn't break her word!
Xiao Yao's house has two sets, one is downstairs, according to the layout of modern units, there are master bedrooms, second bedrooms, guest bedrooms, maid's rooms, study rooms, living rooms, kitchens, bathrooms, washing rooms, and toilets.
The master and guest bedrooms share a large balcony.
Although the room is a modern layout, the door is also a modern single-opening solid wood door.
The furnishings are made according to the ancient appearance, carved beds, antique wardrobes, wardrobes, wardboxes, tables and chairs, dressers, candlesticks.
Even the layout of the living room is made in the style of the ancients.
The upstairs room is completely modern and modern, and it took Xiao Yao two days to decorate it by hand.
In addition to turning the maid's room into a gym, the other rooms are the same, the bed is a two-meter by two-meter Simmons bed without a mattress, Xiao Yao has spread a full six thick mattresses on it, and it is used as a mattress.
There is a table lamp on the bedside table, (these are two biogas lamps, and when you have biogas, you can use it when you connect the pipe.)
The wardrobe is a modern six-door wardrobe, which is full of clothes, bedding, personal items, and hygiene products that I brought from my previous life.
(What worries Xiao Yao the most is that a large handful of toilet paper and several large packs of sanitary napkins she brought, although they have been saved until they can no longer be saved, they are still running out.) ） The layout of the living room is also according to the modern appearance, there is no sofa, Xiao Yao asked the carpenter to make a carved bench, on which are placed four cotton cushions, four bulging cushions stuffed with cotton.
The right is a couch.
There are also four single chairs next to it, which are also covered with cotton pads.
In front of the sofa is a solid wood coffee table made according to the appearance of the previous life, the cups and teapots on the coffee table are all brought by Xiao Yao in his previous life, and even the fruit knife and nail clippers under the coffee table are also from the previous life.
Xiao Yao made a shoe cabinet and hanger at the door of the living room, and made a decorative rack on the side of the living room, on which were placed the furnishings she had brought from her previous life.
In a word, if you put on a TV, a chandelier, an air conditioner or an electric fan, anyone will think that this is the living room of modern people.
Kitchen, Xiao Yao is also designed according to the modern pattern, the ancients did not make wall cabinets, she let it be made into wall cabinets, the countertop is laid on the solid wood cabinet with polished smooth, seamless bluestone slabs, the left window by the place, the biogas stove, separated from the vegetable case and the surface case, the right window put a ceramic vegetable washing pool, there is a ceramic fired pipe under the pool as a sewer pipe, leading to the underground drainage channel, if it is not for the vegetable washing sink next to a large water tank with a big scenery, almost no different from the modern kitchen, Of course, it is the most ordinary modern family unrenovated kitchen.
The most modern are the toilets and bathrooms.
In Xiao Yao's personal bathroom, upstairs and downstairs are impressively placed modern all-ceramic white toilets, the bathroom has a copper sprinkler, a pipe made of sheepskin has been connected to the top layer of a semi-circular thin copper jar, the tank has a mouth and a lid, you can pour water from here, there is a small round mouth at the bottom of one side of the tank, and a pipe more than an inch long is made of copper skin, and a sheepskin pipe is covered with a sheepskin pipe, and the water outlet is tied tightly with hemp rope, which is the same as the simple tin bucket shower equipment made by many families themselves in previous years.
They all rely on the sun to heat the water and use it for bathing, the main difference is that in the previous life, it was connected by a plastic pipe, and the water was loaded with a faucet, and there was a faucet switch.
And Xiao Yao can only use artificial water, connect with sheepskin pipes, and switch water with movable wooden plugs.
Xiao Yao asked the craftsman to paint the surface of the copper jar with a layer of black lacquer, in order to absorb more light and heat.
Of course, this facility can only be used in the summer, and in the winter, you still have to boil your own hot water for bathing, so the bathroom is also equipped with a large tub made of wood, which is made according to the modern look.
Xiao Yao has gone through many tests and improvements to solve the problem of water leakage at the interface.
The floor of the bathroom is paved with stone slabs, and it is made into a gentle slope in the shape of a funnel, the center of which is the floor drain, and the porcelain pipe is connected to the underground waterway.
The sink in the washroom is also all porcelain, Xiao Yao painted the appearance of the previous life and let the ancients burn these porcelain, the difficult thing is that Xiao Yao can't get the water upstairs, so he can only rely on manual water.
It's not easy to get into the water, she just came up with a way to cover the thick pipe and the thin pipe, but the ceramic pipe can only be dressed straight up and down, and it can't be bent and leak.
Just installing porcelain sewer pipes made it difficult for her, and copper pipes and iron pipes could not be made in ancient times, so she could only choose porcelain pipes.
When Xiao Yao arranged her room, Xiao Cui was also decorating her own house, originally she thought that she would live with Xiao Yao, but she didn't expect Xiao Yao to arrange two upstairs and downstairs houses for her alone, the two of them are two neighbors, but her room is not as varied as Xiao Yao's, there is no study and gym, and it is completely furnished according to the ancient furniture and style she likes, the carved bed and curtain are made of good materials, and they have caught up with everyone's beautiful decoration.
The beauty in Xiaocui's heart!
When the young lady fled to the countryside with her, she said that she would let herself live in a more comfortable house than the palace and the palace, but she didn't believe it at all, standing in the middle of the warm house baked by the sawdust oven, looking around at the unique but neat and tidy layout, beautiful, and complete to the point that you don't even need to go out to the toilet to get a wooden commode, and you don't need to pour the commode, just take a scoop of water and flush it into the weird toilet that Miss called the toilet.
This is something she didn't even think about, the palace didn't have it, she knew that although she hadn't been to the palace, she wouldn't have it!
The palace and the palace are still using charcoal basins for heating!
If you don't even have a stove, how can you have a toilet?
Miss really does what she says!
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Now I live in a house that is even more blessed than the palace!
After probably arranging the house, Xiao Yao went to his special office in the first courtyard and called Steward Liu Xiao Yao announced to him that he had officially become the chief steward of the manor. and named the manor "The Former Life Villa".
In any case, whether in the past life or now, I finally fulfilled my dream of a manor, and I also achieved my goal of only growing pure natural green grains and vegetables.
In this ancient country with beautiful mountains and rivers, no industry and chemical pollution, she couldn't do it without planting green!
(To be continued)