Chapter Four hundred and Thirty Ways to Relieve the Heat
As soon as the group of people entered the room, they heard a roar from the sky, rain shot down like arrows, and with the deafening thunder, the storm suddenly started falling.
The thunder was roaring, getting louder and louder, the wind was also roaring in response, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier. As a bolt of lightning fell, it hit the tree behind the small pavilion where they had just rested.
Witnessing this scene with his own eyes, Zhao Yulong's face turned pale and his body trembled uncontrollably. Perhaps because of fear, in order to cover up his inner embarrassment, he quickly withdrew his gaze and walked to a corner to sit down.
Ling Yun glanced at Zhao Yulong who was sitting in the corner, thinking that this man's mouth was really a crow's mouth. He just said something about a storm, and in an instant the storm came down.
Faced with this situation, he couldn't help but feel a little funny. At the same time, he was glad that Zhao Yulong didn't go as he pleased and stayed in the small pavilion. Otherwise, under the thunderstorm and heavy rain, he might have had some accidents.
What's more, behind their small pavilion, there are woods not far away. It is unknown whether the lightning strike just now will hit the small pavilion where they rest.
The rain did not last long. After about half an hour, the dark clouds dispersed and the storm quietly stopped.
Although the rain came and went quickly, because of the heavy rain, a lot of rainwater accumulated in the small pits on the ground.
Ling Yun left the room and came to the construction site, where he found that many people's clothes were soaked. However, as soon as the storm stopped, they started working non-stop without taking any care of the wet clothes on their bodies.
This scene fell in Ling Yun's eyes, and it inevitably reminded him of the difficult life of the Ling family when he was a child, and he was full of emotions.
The air or temperature after the rain is many times better than before the rain. This may be why people go out to work as soon as the rain stops.
The construction of the summer resort took nearly twenty days, and it only rained like this.
In the following days, because it didn't rain, the weather returned to the previous hot and dry weather. Zhao Yulong either brought ice cubes to cool down or made herbal tea to relieve the heat. He lived quite comfortably.
Because the ice cubes are placed under the sun for a short period of time, they almost melt as soon as they are exposed to light.
What opened his eyes was that Zhao Yulong was a real rich man. The endless supply of ice cubes made him very greedy, and he wished he could transport them back to the Li family.
Because the ice cubes of the Daqian Dynasty are too difficult to store, they are not only expensive but also extremely rare, with a price but no market.
Ice cubes are only sold to people with connections or power. Even his master, Li Chengyou, can't do anything about it. There are only a few cubes in the ice cellar anyway.
So when I saw Zhao Yulong being so wasteful, he saw it in his eyes and felt pain in my heart. I wanted to ask for more from him several times, but I was too thin-skinned and never dared to ask.
Fortunately, Zhao Yulong was here, otherwise the life of the supervisor would have been difficult. Shan Yu went into the construction and walked around, and then returned to the small pavilion again. Not only was he sweating, but his mouth was also dry.
With the presence of Zhao Yulong, as long as you stay in the little plum, you will have both ice cubes and herbal tea, which is quite moist.
Even for the wealthy Zhao Yulong, when the project was about to be completed, the number of ice cubes dropped sharply, whether because the inventory was exhausted or because it could no longer be used.
Anyway, in the next few days, Zhao Yunlong started complaining and nagging again for several days, and finally completed the construction of Emperor Qianxi's summer resort.
Ling Yun looked at the completed summer resort and breathed a sigh of relief. Now he no longer had to come to this ghost place.
He suddenly discovered a phenomenon, that is, as long as he sat on the pavilion by the lake in the summer resort, his whole body would be very cool. In addition, there were trees shading the lake, and the wind from the fan was icy and cold. No wonder Emperor Qianxi always I like to come here to escape the summer heat.
It's just that he is about to leave and has no chance to experience this feeling.
The carriage was walking slowly on the street. Ling Yun and Zhao Yulong were sitting in the carriage. The latter took out a fan to fan the wind. At the same time, he opened the curtains of the carriage, looked at the sky, and murmured with a bitter look on his face, "What the hell kind of weather is this? Why is this?" It’s so sweltering, I’ve run out of ice cubes, how will I spend the next days!”
When Ling Yun heard this, his heart skipped a beat. He was originally thinking about asking Zhao Yulong for some ice cubes, but now that he heard these words, he felt discouraged.
No wonder Zhao Yulong's ice cubes continued to decrease in the next few days. It turned out to be the reason for the bottom of the inventory.
After being depressed for a while, he was disappointed and opened the curtain on the other side. He was shocked to find that the street that was originally bustling with people was now filled with only a handful of people.
If you look closely, you can see that most of these people are children. A group of people are playing together. They seem to be holding bamboo dragonflies in their hands. They are having a great time!
In this summer, only children can play like this. After all, children are more resistant to heat than adults.
The bamboo dragonfly in the hands of the children was tightly held in their palms. They rubbed it back and forth vigorously. In an instant, the wings of the bamboo dragonfly were rotating rapidly, and the sound of "whirring" kept sounding. The bamboo dragonfly left the children's hands and slowly soared. , spinning in the air.
Rotation, bamboo dragonfly blades...these words kept appearing in Ling Yun's mind, making people fall into ecstasy for a moment. Isn't this the origin of the fan?
Just as his ecstatic heart soared, he suddenly thought that this was ancient times, and even if he could make fan blades, he couldn't make electricity.
When it comes to electricity, there is no need to even think about it without an engine.
Just by regaining his consciousness and without electricity, he could make a manual rotating shaft!
As long as the blades of the fan are made, coupled with a rotating shaft, and shaken manually, if a basin of ice cubes is placed in front of the fan, the thing will definitely be comparable to an air conditioner.
Thinking of this, Ling Yun stood up suddenly. Because he was on the carriage, his head suddenly hit the roof of the carriage, causing him to frown slightly in pain and take a deep breath.
Zhao Yulong was shocked when he saw the children playing with bamboo dragonflies and bumping into the roof of the car. He didn't care about it, but he couldn't help laughing.
Perhaps he felt that he had not comforted Ling Yun, but instead found that he felt a little embarrassed. Then he stopped laughing and asked with concern, "Ling Yun, what were you thinking just now? Why are you so excited?"
He squinted his eyes and looked out again, confirming that there were only a group of children playing with bamboo dragonflies on the roadside, so he wondered, "Isn't this the bamboo dragonfly? Do you like it? If you like it, I will ask someone to buy a few and give them to you. But don't get excited, otherwise you will hit your head and it will hurt you."
Ling Yun rubbed his head back and forth with his right hand, making the pain gradually disappear. He breathed a sigh of relief, sat back down again, looked at the children outside the carriage, and explained, "This is not a simple matter of bamboo dragonflies, but because of bamboo dragonflies." The dragonfly reminded me of a way to relieve the heat without using ice cubes!"