The winter snow that lasted for several days was so cold that my hands and feet were numb.
Li Yan, who always talked a lot, didn't know where the cat was, and no one was seen all day long.
Chen Ziyu also stayed at home for several days, unwilling to step out of the house!
The snow in the yard has piled up to a foot high, and Chen Ziyu does not allow anyone else to clean it.
Instead, he got so playful that he personally built a snowman as tall as one person according to Zhu Houzhao's appearance!
Seeing her husband acting like a child, Zhu Xiurong couldn't help but feel her maternal instincts. She took a plush cloak from Xiaocui's hand and walked towards the center of the yard.
"Husband, put it on quickly!"
"Princess, why are you here? Go back quickly, it's too cold outside!"
Seeing Zhu Xiurong appear, Chen Ziyu quickly stepped forward and urged her to go back to the house.
"Husband, you made my brother so ugly!"
Zhu Xiurong smiled, pointed at the snowman and stuck out his tongue.
"Hehe, that may be because His Highness is ugly to begin with, and it has nothing to do with my craftsmanship!"
Chen Ziyu scraped Zhu Xiurong's nose, took her little hand and returned to the house.
Xiao Cui refilled the charcoal basin in the corner with charcoal. Since burning charcoal for a long time will produce poisonous gas, she could only open the window in the corner to provide ventilation at all times.
As a result, the temperature inside the house is actually not much higher than outside.
Unless it's like the palace heating pavilion, where charcoal is burned from below to provide heat.
"It's still warm in the Nuan Pavilion!" Chen Ziyu sighed, and couldn't help but be a little envious of this kind of attic with its own floor heating!
"Of course, in the entire palace, only my father can have this kind of treatment, not even my great-grandmother!" Zhu Xiurong's beautiful eyebrows trembled, and she subconsciously pursed her lips and said, like a little woman!
Chen Ziyu shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, as a ninth-five-year-old noble, is naturally treated differently, but..."
Speaking of this, Chen Ziyu's eyes suddenly lit up, he slapped his thigh suddenly and said regretfully: "I'm so stupid, how could I forget this!"
"What's wrong, husband, have you thought of any good solution?"
Zhu Xiurong asked eagerly. Seeing Chen Ziyu's appearance, he knew that he must have a good idea.
Chen Ziyu hugged Zhu Xiurong, turned him around a few times, and said excitedly: "My husband has thought of something. If it is done, we won't feel cold in winter!"
After that, after putting Zhu Xiurong down, he ordered Xiaocui to find the housekeepers Chen Zhong and Li Yan!
Xiaocui immediately left to call for someone, and after a while, the two people, blushing from the cold, arrived hand in hand.
"Master, are you looking for the younger one?"
Li Yan was the first to ask.
Chen Ziyu put her hands behind her back and looked at Li Yan and Chen Zhong and said, "How many vacant rooms are there in our backyard?"
"Back to the young master, the row at the back is empty, but it is usually piled with debris. Why does the young master ask this?"
Li Yan pointed to the row of rooms on the east side of the courtyard.
"Bullshit, do I need to explain to you what the young master wants to do?"
Chen Ziyu glared at Li Yan, who was so frightened that Li Yan shrank his neck and did not dare to speak.
"You, immediately go and clear out the three connected rooms and clean them up! Then dig out some yellow mud and pile it back in the yard!"
"It's the young master!"
Li Yangong cupped his hands and ran out quickly.
Then Chen Ziyu asked Chen Zhong to go out and buy some more green bricks and come back!
Now everything is ready, all we need is the east wind!
That's right, according to Chen Ziyu's idea, he just wants to have a kang at home!
At this time, the kang in the north was not yet popular. It became really popular after the Manchu and Qing Dynasties entered the customs.
After Chen Zhong left, Chen Ziyu took paper and pen and started writing and drawing to prepare a design.
Although Zhu Xiurong couldn't understand what Chen Ziyu wrote, he took the trouble to guard Chen Ziyu!
According to Chen Ziyu's experience, Kang is actually a hollow bed built in the house, shaped like a stove.
Then start a fire under the stove in the next room that is connected to the stove!
A large amount of hot air spreads along the pipes throughout the interior of the heated kang, forming a thermal cycle.
Finally, install a chimney from the other end of the kang, which is the third room, and all the thick smoke and poisonous gas will be discharged from the chimney!
It’s not difficult to say it’s difficult, it’s not easy to say it’s easy!
So Chen Ziyu planned to understand this research and let Zhu Xiurong use it as soon as possible to prevent his body from freezing.
I have to say that the execution ability of the servants of Pingjiang Bo Mansion is really fast!
As soon as Chen Ziyu sorted out the drawings, Li Yan and Chen Zhong returned together and told Chen Ziyu that everything was ready!
"Take this young master to have a look quickly!" Chen Ziyu couldn't help but walk towards the yard.
I saw a lot of yellow mud and bluestone bricks piled up outside the courtyard!
"Master, I don't know how much you need, so I decided to buy more privately!"
Chen Ziyu waved his hand, stared at the materials in front of him and said nonchalantly: "It doesn't matter, it can be used up anyway!"
After that, he handed the drawing in his hand to Chen Zhong and asked, "Steward Chen, can you understand this thing?"
Chen Zhong has been a housekeeper in Prince Pingjiang's Mansion for more than 20 years. He has never seen anything big or small, and he has already developed a sharp eye.
Seeing Chen Ziyu asking himself, he subconsciously patted his chest and said proudly: "Young Master, I am not just bragging. There is really nothing that I can't understand..."
Then after glancing at the drawings, his smile froze!
"What's wrong? Didn't you just understand everything you said?" Chen Ziyu rolled his eyes at Chen Zhong angrily. The old guy is not reliable at all!
Chen Zhong put away his embarrassed expression, pointed at the drawing and said, "Master, it's not that I don't understand, I'm just a little strange. Why did the master make the stove so big? Spanning three rooms?"
"Hahaha!"
Hearing what Chen Zhong said, Chen Ziyu immediately understood that this old guy really understood it!
"Don't worry about this. You call the people in the house to get this for me! In addition, there is no need to leave an opening for the stove in the middle. It can be directly sealed with a stone slab!"
Chen Zhong was a little anxious, "Master, what are you..."
"Stop talking nonsense and get it done quickly! If you don't do it right, the young master will break your legs!" Chen Ziyu bared his teeth and said viciously!
"Yes Yes Yes!"
Seeing Chen Ziyu getting angry, Chen Zhong immediately ordered Li Yan to call others to help!
After the others walked away, Zhu Xiurong came up, hugged Chen Ziyu's arm and said:
"Husband, you are truly the smartest person I have ever seen! You can think of such a method!"
"Princess, you can just talk about this at home from now on. You don't dare to say it outside!"
"Why is this? Is there anyone smarter than my husband?"
"Your father, your brother! My husband can only be ranked third at most, do you understand?"
"Hehe, I understand!"
It wasn't until this moment that Zhu Xiurong understood what Chen Ziyu meant by "averagely the third in the Ming Dynasty"!
