Yang Fan left early in the morning. He drank too much last night and stayed in the guest room of Tu Shan's house for one night. According to etiquette, it was already a bit rude.
Xiao Niangpi stayed at home, waiting to go through the formalities, and it was not appropriate to meet him again.
Yang Fan's top priority is to find a matchmaker to formally propose marriage. Three letters and six etiquette are also indispensable.
This candidate is very difficult to choose.
After Yang Fan returned to the military camp, he began to prepare for the follow-up matters.
That night, in the bedroom of the main house of the Tushan family, an iron stove was burning brightly. The room was not only warm, but even a little overheated.
The iron stove was sent by Xiao Niangpi, and she installed one for her own room, Tu Shanyong's bedroom, and her brother Tu Shanhu's bedroom.
Iron stoves and briquettes have begun to be put on the market in Xinghe Supermarket.
As soon as iron stoves and briquettes were put on the market, they immediately became popular.
There are too many rich people in the capital.
As long as the product is good, you don't have to worry about no one buying it. Compared with the charcoal basin, this thing is like heaven and earth. Once you use it once, you will never be able to live without it.
Who doesn’t want to feel as warm as spring in the bedroom in winter?
The iron stove is kept on for 24 hours a day, and there is a tin kettle sitting on it. There is a supply of boiling water at all times. If you want to make tea or drink boiled water, drink boiled water.
When I got out of bed in the morning, I no longer felt the bone-chilling cold. I hissed and hurriedly put on my clothes. The water for washing my face was also lukewarm.
At night, the whole family can soak their feet and then have a good sleep without being too comfortable. Moreover, the room will no longer be dry, and the skin of adults and children will no longer have cracks.
Especially my wife and daughter’s skin has become hydrated.
In the past, the best way to keep warm in winter was to build a ground dragon.
In this era, only princes and ministers were qualified to build floor dragons in their houses, which was equivalent to the ancient version of floor heating.
It is to build a basement made of stone and glutinous rice soil under the building. Pile it with moderately watered sawdust and old tree roots. It can burn for about a month after being ignited. After a month, the ashes are cleaned out and refilled.
ignition.
Heat is conducted upward, and the temperature is conducted to the ground through the heat-resistant stone, and the room will be as warm as spring.
This is the Nuan Pavilion.
This is what the Xinuang Pavilion of Qianqing Palace looks like.
The Ming Dynasty had strict requirements on architectural form. Most families had neither the financial resources nor the qualifications to build earth dragons.
This kind of burning is very expensive, the sawdust is difficult to collect, and the old tree roots are resistant to burning, but it is difficult to dig and consumes a lot of man-hours.
As for ordinary people, it would be good if they could have a fire pit.
Anyone who has lived in the north knows that the heated kang is not very helpful in raising the room temperature. Even if the kang is hot, the room will still be very cold.
Moreover, the firewood in the suburbs of the capital has long been exhausted. Firewood is not cheap.
As soon as briquettes came out, the winter heating pattern in Beijing was completely broken.
This new method is clean, hygienic, provides hot water, is convenient, warm and cheap.
Because of his good sales performance in Zunhua, Zhuzi has been transferred to Beijing to be responsible for the sales of briquettes and iron stoves.
After Zhu Zhu came to the capital, he also invented a special offer for installing an iron stove and giving him window slits for free. After the window slits were glued, there was no draft at all in the house and it was even warmer.
Zhuzi heard that Miss Tushan's family was also in the capital, so he quickly sent a carriage and installers to install three sets, plus three thousand pieces of briquettes.
Xiao Niangpi smiled happily and repeatedly praised Zhu Zhu for being sensible. Seeing Hong'er following Zhu Zhu, Xiao Niangpi was even happier. Looking at Zhu Zhu became more and more pleasing to the eye.
Xiao Niangpi patted Zhu Zhu's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, bitch Lin Yueru, if you dare to come to trouble, you can come to me."
Tu Shanyong was sitting cross-legged on the bed, wearing underwear, with his arms open and his chest exposed.
On the small Kang table, there is a set of exquisite wine sets with gold patterns, and the glass is French Purdeaux wine as red as blood. A silver chalice ice bucket is filled with small ice cubes frozen with boiling water in a stainless steel mold.
Tu Shanyong used stainless steel clips to clip some ice cubes and put them into his and his wife's wine glasses. Tu Shan shook the wine glasses, and the ice cubes clinked against the gold-painted cups. What a beautiful thing.
Tushan took a sip. The cold wine felt very comfortable in his throat.
"Hey, that's really good stuff!" Tu Shan nodded with satisfaction.
Mrs. Tushan also took a sip and said, "Sir, why is this wine as red as blood? It looks scary, but it tastes really good. Is this brought from the Western Regions?"
"What do you know about a woman like you? Wine from the Western Regions can't have this effect. Smell the rich aroma of wine in this room. This is a fine wine from the French country of France, and this wine needs to be made with this long mouth.
Only when the decanter bottle is sober can it have the best aroma." Tu Shan said.
Mrs. Tushan said aggrievedly: "I am not like the master, so I know so much. But this Yang Qian is really generous. One thousand taels of gold. Isn't he impulsive? Don't regret it later."
Tu Shan was so angry that he didn't want to talk to her: "If it weren't for your nonsense, he would be afraid of embarrassing everyone, so why would he give such a colorful gift? He is not short of money, but the gift is indeed too much."
Mrs. Tushan hurriedly said: "Then we have to accept it. We will have to spend a lot of money in the future."
Tu Shan said speechlessly: "What kind of person is Yang Fan? How could he eat back what he said? You thought it was your brother and your father. Just wait for the matchmaker to come to your door. When it comes to the betrothal gift, you will not miss a cent."
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"This girl is very lucky this month. She is marrying such a good husband. I wonder what kind of wife our tiger will be able to marry in the future." Mrs. Tushan said sourly.
Tu Shan rolled his eyes at her, this woman really couldn't get on the stage.
Mrs. Tushan glanced at Tushan Yong cautiously and whispered: "Master, have you heard? Our son-in-law started Xinghe Supermarket. He is making a lot of money every day. He has also recently launched the iron stove and briquette business."
Tu Shan glanced at her and asked, "What do you want to say."
"Master, Xinghe Supermarket sells very cheap rice. Although it is old rice, it only costs one cent and five cents a load. If it is sold to other places, it can be doubled. My father and my brother want to buy 100,000 loads.
Trafficked to Shaanxi for sale, they promised to give us one cent of silver per load."
"Since there is something for sale, why don't they just go to Xinghe Supermarket to buy it themselves? Why are they looking for us?"
Mrs. Tushan murmured for a while and said cautiously: "I heard that Xinghe Supermarket has changed its rules. One person can only buy ten kilograms of rice a day. Even if you want to buy large quantities, you can't."
Tu Shan couldn't help but sneer, thinking that she had changed her temper recently and had been quiet for a few days, but she didn't expect to be waiting here.
"Do you know how a Xinghe supermarket can have so much food?"
"How do I know where they got the food from?"
"Hmph, tell those two people who want money rather than their lives that the shareholder behind the supermarket is the Queen."
"Ah!" Mrs. Tushan was so frightened that she collapsed on the bed.
