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 at the pillar.
"Sister, don't worry. I understand etiquette best and will never cause trouble to my sister." Zhuzi said with a sweet smile on his face and said in a very dogged manner.
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 that her hands were heavy. She weighed them with her hands and found that it was at least a hundred cents. Equivalent to one denarius.
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. If I usually serve the girl, the girl will be happy, so the reward is only ten or twenty cents. There are even fewer girls in other rooms, and often the reward for the maids is only a few cents.
The guests in Tianxiangyuan usually set up a banquet 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, which was shining with golden light and looked really beautiful. A small bag of copper coins shimmered 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. Suddenly his heart was filled with joy, 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 on a imperial concubine's couch.
Behind the imperial concubine's couch is a wooden screen with nine hollow camphor wood panels.
The beauty rested her head on one hand. The other hand holds a round fan. Shake gently.
There were two copper basins on the ground, and extremely precious silver charcoal was burning 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, the 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 hair full of pearls, her almond-shaped eyes full of spring, and she was looking at herself with watery eyes.
"Zhang Zhuzi from the small Xinghe Iron Factory has met Miss Lin." Zhuzi 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 new heating appliance produced by our Xinghe Iron Factory is far more effective than the charcoal basin. I specially brought it for the girl to try out."
This copper stove is very beautifully cast, and the outside is polished to a gleaming gold. Even the stove barrel is made of iron 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 we invented at 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 scolded Coal when he heard it.
"Sister, you are wrong. It is true that coal is poisonous, but our stove can discharge the carbon gas from the chimney, and there will be absolutely no trace of carbon poison left in the house."
Lin Yueru played with it for a while with great interest, and then said: "You install it, and I will try the effect of your stove. If it works really well, 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 brought ready-made window sash with holes. 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 in the big hall. door,"
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. This won't damage anything anyway.
Soon, the stove and chimney were installed. A piece of brown igniting briquette was first put into the pillar with an iron clamp, and then five pieces of ordinary briquette were placed on top.
Lin Yueru looked at the coals, which were dark and made of the most valuable coal dust. She couldn't help but wonder whether this thing could be lit.
The pillar was lit with a fire sickle, a few pieces of birch bark were used to kindle the fire, and then placed under the ignition coals. As the birch bark burned, the ignition coal soon began to burn violently.
It was done, Zhu Zhu was immediately relieved. As long as the ignition coal can burn, there will be no problem.
In less than a quarter of an hour, the stove was 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.
Zhuzi quickly covered the stove lid to block out the smoke. Then adjust the size of the air inlet below. He bowed and said to Lin Yueru: "Miss Lin, that's enough. Look at this stove. It has a beautiful appearance and a high amount of heat. The smoke is discharged outside through the chimney. 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 was burning 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 go out all winter."
Lin Yueru couldn't help but marveled. 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 needed this thing. With such a big market, I don't know how much he would earn. money.
"How much does this stove cost?" Lin Yueru asked.
