Chapter 91: Cooking Wine and Kneading Shoulders in Winter
With the arrival of the winter solstice, even though Huangzhu Mountain is located in the southwest, it is getting colder and colder.
In midsummer, Li Xuan missed the air conditioners of later generations. In late winter, he missed the air conditioners of later generations even more. What a great enjoyment it would be to have a heating air conditioner or radiator on such a cold day!
It's a pity that he doesn't have air conditioning or heating. He doesn't even have an earthen bed because he lives in the south. These days are really not what people live!
As the weather got colder, the people outside brought a lot of charcoal at first, but his limited common sense told him that it was too dangerous to burn charcoal for heating, and one might die if he failed to do so. For the sake of his own life, he did not hesitate to do so.
I refused without hesitation.
But it’s really cold today!
In order to prevent himself from becoming the first time traveler to freeze to death, Li Xuan started his new invention of this era, the "radiator" when the winter solstice arrived and saw that the sky was gloomy and it would snow at any time.
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Although the winter in the south is very short, and it will pass after a few months, Li Xuan has been fed up with the temperature of only a few degrees these days.
This temperature is not the outdoor temperature, but the indoor temperature.
As a result, even when he was indoors, as long as he was not lying on the bed, he had to be wrapped in an extremely bloated cotton jacket.
Later, Li Xuan, who was used to living in an air-conditioned room with spring-like weather all year round, couldn't stand it. Since he didn't dare to use charcoal for heating, he could only use his knowledge that was far beyond that of contemporary people.
After much deliberation, it would be easiest to just get an original version of the radiator!
To this end, he first drew up a simple version of the radiator blueprint and asked the blacksmith in the village to make it. Oh, no, it should have been delivered to the Minister of Industry of the Tang Dynasty for manufacturing.
The so-called radiator is actually just several thin iron sheets connected together, and then connected to bamboo tubes. The bamboo tubes are connected to the outside of the house, where there is a large pot for boiling water.
The principle is quite simple. By heating hot water 24 hours a day, the hot water is circulated and injected into the bamboo tubes. The hot water flows through the bamboo tubes to the radiator made of thin iron sheets in the house to emit heat.
One end of the bamboo pipe flows out and goes outside the house.
The circulation of water follows the nature of water flowing to lower places. The large pot for heating hot water is set up at a relatively high position. After the hot water is heated, it can flow directly to the radiator until it is half cold.
At this time, someone has to use a bucket to lift the cooled water into a large pot of boiling water.
This forms a perfect cycle!
The heating efficiency is not bad at all, but the only trouble is that if you need this thing to operate normally, someone has to be beside you to carry water and add firewood to add fire.
But who is Li Xuan?
He was the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, so asking a few people to boil water for warmth was no small matter.
A few days after the winter solstice, Li Xuan used the original version, a purely natural and artificial heater!
Taking off his thick cotton-padded jacket and wearing the same thin clothes as in late autumn, Li Xuan drank Dong Yunyun's warm rice wine quite comfortably.
It was storming and snowing outside, but Li Xuan was drinking warm wine from all the ladies and beauties in the warm spring room, occasionally eating snacks made by a pretty maid, occasionally saying a few words to these two beauties, teasing them, and watching
They blushed and looked angry.
This day, not to mention how cool and unrestrained it is, I wouldn’t change it if I were to be an emperor. Alas, I’m sorry, he, Li Xuan, is already the emperor!
What is a winner in life?
This is the winner in life. In terms of status, he is the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of enjoyment, he has a lovely wife and beautiful maids. The most important thing is that he has heating, heating, heating! Say important things three times!
If Li Xuan was asked to choose between heating and the throne of emperor, he would choose heating without hesitation.
If Li Xuan is asked to choose between the heater and Dong Yunyun... well, this is more difficult to choose, because this question is like who should be saved first when my mother and wife fall into the water. It is difficult to answer, especially now that Li Xuan It was while enjoying the heating while Dong Yunyun warmed and poured the wine with her own hands.
So he put aside the messy thoughts in his mind, raised his head and patted his shoulder, and then said to Pearl standing next to him: "Come on, give me a squeeze!"
Pearl didn't seem to hear him, she didn't even look at him, and she didn't move her steps. However, her little mouth pouted slightly, obviously she heard Li Xuan's words, but she didn't move!
Li Xuan said: "I'm outside today, but I've been listening to them arguing all day. I'm tired!"
As he spoke, he looked tired, but at this time, he did not look at Zhuer, but at Dong Yunyun.
Sure enough, after seeing Li Xuan's tired look, Dong Yunyun on the side showed a hint of worry: "Even if there are many things outside, don't be tired!" After saying that, she glanced at Zhu'er: "Still standing. what!"
Hearing this, Zhu'er showed a reluctant look, then walked behind Li Xuan, put a pair of small hands up, and pressed them repeatedly.
At this time, Xuan's mouth revealed a smile that showed success in conspiracy!
After staying under the same roof as Master and Servant Dong Yunyun for so long, he had already figured out the tempers of Dong Yunyun and Zhu Er. Dong Yunyun is a very traditional kind of lady, and this tradition is not just about her four obediences. The five virtues also include how to be a qualified hostess, because she has been exposed to these things since she was a child, and she already knows them without anyone teaching her.
But deep down in her heart, a traditional lady, she still carries a trace of fantasy: unrealistic fantasy about beautiful things, such as love and so on!
Pearl, on the other hand, is much more playful and even aggressive. When this little girl opens her mouth, she is a fierce person who can spit out those old ladies. What's more important is: when she can't scold them, she will bite them directly!
But this shrewd little girl respects Dong Yunyun very much. To say "respect" may be a bit inappropriate, I should say "fear"!
Therefore, Li Xuan often uses Dong Yunyun to achieve his own goals, such as asking Zhuer to beat his legs, pinch his shoulders and so on!
As a modern person, Li Xuan has never actually regarded Zhuer as a servant, but as a beautiful little girl. Zhuer can naturally feel Li Xuan's equal attitude. She knows that Li Xuan does not What will he really do to her, so he is not very afraid of Li Xuan on weekdays.
But as for Dong Yunyun, despite her delicate appearance, and despite her usual kindness to Zhu Er, Li Xuan could actually feel that Dong Yunyun did not regard Zhu Er as an equal class person at all. In her eyes, Pearl was always a servant.
Some time ago, Zhu'er lost her temper and refused to serve Li Xuan, and even threw a bowl in front of Li Xuan. At that time, Dong Yunyun said that if Zhu'er did this again, she would be rewarded directly to the soldiers outside.
Pay attention to her choice of words: not to marry, but to reward!
Although these words are just to scare Pearl, being able to say such words has fully demonstrated Pearl's status in her heart: a servant, at most a servant who has been with her for a long time and has some feelings for her, if she really offends her
I'm unhappy, but I will really reward my servant with pearls.
However, Li Xuan never interferes with the relationship between their master and servant. They have been doing this for more than ten years, and there seems to be no problem if they continue to get along like this.
And he can't really expect a lady's legitimate daughter to treat a maid as a sister, right?
The gentlemen and ladies in Dream of Red Mansions are so kind to those maids on weekdays. They all look like brothers and sisters, but in the blink of an eye they drive them away!
Another reason why he is unwilling to interfere is that with Dong Yunyun's support, he can enjoy the days of being served by beautiful maids. If there is no Zhu'er, who will dress and wash him in the future, and who will bring him tea and water?
Do you expect Dong Yunyun? If she is a eldest lady, she can't even wear clothes without Zhu'er. She is even worse than Li Xuan. How dare you expect her?
As for the others?
Those maids with yellow teeth and bad breath?
Li Xuan said: Let's stop joking. If you continue to joke, I will send the Heavenly Soldiers of the Tang Dynasty to destroy you and make you scare me!
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