Zhuzi calmed down his excitement and followed Xiaoyu into the inner hall.
"When you meet Miss Lin, keep your eyes peeled and don't look around. It's best to keep your eyes on your toes and answer respectfully, you know?" Xiaoyu pointed out the pillar.
"Sister, don't worry. I understand etiquette best and will never cause trouble to my sister." Zhu Zhu said with a sweet smile on his face and said very doggedly.
As he spoke, he picked up a small linen bag and stuffed it into Xiaoyu's hand, and said in a low voice: "This is a small token of my gratitude. Please buy some snacks for Sister Xiaoyu."
Xiaoyu's eyebrows were about to stand up when she felt her hands were heavy. She weighed them with her hands and found that they were at least one hundred cents, equivalent to one penny.
Then the little face stretched out again.
I thought this kid was going to use those shabby rouge and gouache to fool me again, but I didn't realize that he was quite poorly dressed and was quite generous.
"I won't do it next time. If the girl finds out, she will scold me again."
Xiaoyu quickly stuffed the small linen bag into her arms.
The mouth says no, but the body is very honest.
This reward is not too small. When the girl is happy when she is usually served in front of her, the reward is only ten or twenty pennies. There are even fewer girls in other rooms, and many times the reward for the maid is only a few pennies.
The guests in Tianxiang Court usually set up a banquet table in the hall, with three or five scribes and a few girls to accompany them. The normal consumption is only about three coins. Of course, the private room is definitely not at this price.
"Sister Xiaoyu, this is our newly minted pure copper coin from Xinghe. It is very exquisite. One penny can be spent as two pence." Zhu Zhu said leisurely from behind.
"What, pure copper?" Xiaoyu stopped in surprise, quickly opened his pocket and took out a Chongzhen Tongbao. It was golden and beautiful. A small bag of copper coins shone with dazzling light, giving it the visual effect of gold.
This was a reward of two coins. Xiaoyu had never experienced such treatment in her life. She was immediately elated, and this ugly and silly boy seemed to become more pleasing to the eye.
Xiaoyu immediately smiled and narrowed her eyes, giving Zhuzi a charming look, "Humph, if you are serious, when you meet the girl, be careful with your answers and look at my eyes."
After entering the main room, he turned back and entered a room decorated in very ambiguous colors. From a distance, he saw a beautiful woman lying sideways on a imperial concubine's couch.
Behind the imperial concubine's couch is a nine-leaf camphor wood hollow-carved wooden screen.
The beauty was supporting her head with one hand and holding a round fan in the other hand, shaking it gently.
There were two copper basins on the ground, and extremely precious silver charcoal was being burned in them. The room was not warm, but it was still much higher than the average room temperature.
From the two hollow-carved copper pillars on both sides of the imperial concubine's couch, green smoke of incense was rising.
The beauty on the couch, the skin on her neck is as white as ivory, and she is covered with a thin quilt, revealing her graceful curves, full of temptation.
The beauty turned her head lazily, her head full of pearls, her almond-shaped eyes full of spring, and she was looking at herself with watery eyes.
"Zhang Zhuzhu from the small Xinghe Iron Works has met Miss Lin." Zhu Zhu didn't dare to look at her, bowed and saluted, and quickly looked down at his toes.
"Well, Xinghe Iron Works," the beauty frowned and asked, "your boss asked you to come."
"Girl, my boss doesn't know about this. I did it myself," Zhang Zhuzhu replied.
"Oh, why do you want to come to me?"
"Girl, please take a look." Zhu Zhu quickly put the copper stove he had brought on his back on the ground. "The heating appliance newly produced by our Xinghe Iron Factory is far more effective than the charcoal basin. I brought it here for the girl to try out."
This copper stove is very beautifully cast, and the outside is polished to a shining gold. Even the stove barrel is made of iron sheet with a layer of gold foil.
"Hey, what is this? It looks so beautiful." Lin Yueru got up from the couch and stepped on the carpet in front of the couch with her bare feet.
Squatting down and watching the pillars being fiddled with to install the stove.
Lin Yueru's feet are very small and white, and her nails are painted with red Dankou, which is very eye-catching.
"This is a stove. It uses the briquettes invented by Xinghe. The whole thing is very warm when burned. Girl, you won't get cold even if you are wearing a summer gauze dress."
"Bold, coal is poisonous and is only used by poor people. Why did you, a silly boy, give it to our girl?" Hong'er, who had just come in, immediately shouted angrily when she heard the coal.
"Sister, you are wrong. It is true that coal is poisonous, but our stove can discharge the carbon gas from the chimney. There is absolutely no trace of carbon poison left in the house."
Lin Yueru played with it for a while with great interest, and said, "You install it, and I will try the effect of your stove. If it really works, I will buy it."
When Zhuzi heard this, he was overjoyed and quickly installed the stove and furnace barrel.
"Miss Lin, the stove must be extended out of the window, and a round hole must be drilled in the window."
"Nonsense, our girl's window is made of fine nanmu and is exquisitely carved. For your broken stove, a window will be destroyed. Do you know how much a window costs? It's fifty taels of silver."
Er scolded angrily.
"Sister, please don't be angry. We have already considered this. We have ready-made window sash with holes punched in it. All we have to do is take off the original one and replace it with ours. The installation master and the carriage pulling the spare parts are at the gate.
doorway,"
Xiaoyu looked at Hong'er and said to Lin Yueru: "Since the girl wants to give it a try, why not let him try another window sash. If the effect is not good, it is not too late to change it back."
"Okay, just pretend." Lin Yueru nodded, it won't damage anything anyway.
Soon, the stove and chimney were installed. A piece of brown igniting briquettes were first placed inside the pillar using iron clamps, and then five pieces of ordinary briquettes were placed on top.
Lin Yueru looked at the coals, which were dark and made of the most worthless coal dust. She couldn't help but wonder if this thing could be lit.
The pillar was lit with a fire sickle, and a few pieces of birch bark were used to start the fire, and then put under the ignition coal. As the birch bark burned, the ignition coal quickly burned violently.
After it was done, Zhuzi was immediately relieved. As long as the ignition coal could burn, there would be no problem.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the stove was already burning fiercely. Zhuzi opened the stove cover and took a look. The flames shot up more than a foot high. Lin Yueru, Hong'er and Xiaoyu who were surrounding them suddenly felt a blazing heat coming towards their faces.
, the temperature in the room also increased.
Zhu Zhu quickly covered the stove cover to isolate the smoke. Then he adjusted the size of the air inlet below. He bowed and said to Lin Yueru: "Miss Lin, it's okay. Look at this stove. It has a beautiful appearance, a large amount of heat, and a lot of smoke."
They are all discharged to the outside through the chimney, so there is no risk of excessive smoke. It is a great tool for heating in winter.”
Lin Yueru and the others clearly felt that the temperature in the room began to rise rapidly. After a while, the stove burned red. The people in the room were so hot that they began to sweat.
Zhuzi quickly adjusted the size of the air inlet again, and the stove began to burn slowly.
"How long can these coals be burned?" Lin Yueru asked.
"If these five pieces of briquettes are kept suffocating with the air inlets closed, they can be burned until this time tomorrow. There is no need to light them again then. Just pinch out all the coals, throw away the burned ones at the bottom, and put the ones with fire on them at the bottom.
Just put in new coals. If you keep rotating them like this, the fire will not be extinguished throughout the winter."
Lin Yueru couldn't help but marvel. I don't know how that brat's head grew. What kind of waste could turn into treasure in his hands. Almost every family in the north of the Ming Dynasty needs this thing. With such a big market, I don't know how much money I can make.
