Lin Ming spent the night with the dancers, took a mandarin duck bath, drank kvass and other tricks that need not be mentioned one by one. Although Li Yongxun is not old, he also knows what his cousin-in-law is doing behind closed doors with a Hu girl, so of course it is not inconvenient to disturb him.
Seeing that all the lights in the brother-in-law's room had been extinguished, the originally exciting and unsettling sounds fell silent. The sound of the night watch was also heard outside. She knew it was getting late, but she still didn't want to go to bed - all the things she saw today fully aroused Li Yongxun's curiosity and made it difficult for her to fall asleep. She had to sit alone in the yard watching ants climb the tree, thinking about how to convince her brother-in-law. Take her to Lingao again.
Li Yongxun was a newborn calf who was not afraid of anything. He traveled all the way south from Nanjing to Guangzhou alone. But she didn't dare to make any mistakes when she went to Lingao here - Lin Ming had threatened her before: He said that the area around Guangzhou and Foshan was no better than the mainland, and was full of merchants who had access to the sea. When the time came, they would be tied up with a rope and sold to the East and the West, across the ocean. Again, in a barbarian land, not even the emperor could save her. Li Yongxun was so frightened that he just kept silent. Although Lingao was the territory of the Ming Dynasty, it was now in the hands of overseas barbarian Australians. There are many rumors about Australians being "lacking women", and she doesn't dare to just send them to her door rashly.
"Alas -" After she finished sighing for the tenth time, she remembered that she hadn't seen the "big plywood boat" that she was supposed to see today. She stood up and walked a few steps and seemed to feel less pain.
"I must go and see the big plywood boat tomorrow," Li Yongxun said secretly.
Suddenly, the light of a lantern lit up outside the moon hole in the courtyard wall. It seemed that someone was walking in the corridor, and some of them were muttering something. Then she heard the voice of one of the men, which suddenly brought back her memories.
This strange tone of voice left a deep impression on her at the beginning. Now hearing it again, it was like breaking a bottle of memory in her mind. She pretended to be a singer in Guangzhou and deceived a man into stealing and was caught. All of them came out. The face of shopkeeper Huang, the drug dealer whose medicine had been dumped on the ground and who had many weird goodies in his luggage, immediately came to mind. This description was lewd, and he looked at her with lustful eyes - he even wanted to strip her naked... If he hadn't found her Jin Yiwei waist badge, which made the other party fearful, he might have been bullied by him. "Being humiliated in the inn" has always been something Li Yongxun has been brooding over.
Is this wretched shopkeeper Huang also here? Li Yongxun's curiosity aroused - what is he doing here? Huang Shunlong does not sell medicinal materials here. Her curiosity aroused, and regardless of her foot injury, she shrank into the shadow of the courtyard wall and limped quietly towards the moon cave door.
The person walking by with the lantern was none other than Huang Tianyu, the "wretched man" that Li Yongxun hated. Huang Tianyu's arrival in Macau has nothing to do with the activities of the Foreign Intelligence Service in Macau - he was sent on a business trip by the Ministry of Light Industry, and his task was to provide installation services for three sets of bathroom equipment and supporting facilities ordered by the Macau Jesuits. By the way, we will also provide technical maintenance and training services for users who have installed this system.
Several complete sets of sanitary ware equipment from the Ministry of Light Industry have been exported to Macao. This set of facilities is complex and expensive, and represents inefficiency according to the standards of the old time and space. Each set of bathroom equipment must have its own small high-level water tower, water heating furnace and water lifting equipment. Steam engines currently do not have the conditions to spread on a large scale, so water lifting equipment is all tragic animal-powered pedal machines or more primitive human-powered dumpers. As for cold water heating, we don’t dare to use boilers, but use water heater designs. A coiled tube passes through a furnace, and cold water flows through the coiled tube and is heated by the heat in the furnace.
When designing and manufacturing these equipment, the three principles of sturdiness, simplicity and durability are highlighted, because it is impossible to find maintenance personnel for the machinery in this time and space - the veteran has to do it himself - not to mention that all the required parts have to be obtained from Lingao goods. The simpler and more durable it is, the less it requires after-care services from Lingao. Mechanical systems don’t have so many people to provide after-sales service.
Huang Tianyu came to Macau with several apprentices and the decoration team of Lingao Construction Company, and completed the work in a week. After finishing the work, he took the opportunity to do some maintenance work for old customers in Macau. In particular, the gears and chain transmission parts of animal-powered machines and human-powered machines should be replaced altogether - the quality of the old products is really worrying. Since a few people in the manufacturing director department set up the "Product Reliability Office" on their own, new products are at least The durability performance is much better.
The Ministry of Light Industry hopes to make a lot of money from bathroom equipment, so it attaches great importance to follow-up services - in an era when it can only provide products with poor reliability, low efficiency and expensive prices, it is business to not provide good after-sales services. suicidal behavior.
Because Huang Shunlong had Jin Yiwei officers coming to his home, he was deeply afraid that when the Australians came again, they would bump into each other and cause trouble. Ask Huang Tianyu to come back in the evening. After getting up, Huang Tianyu quietly came to Huang's house with his apprentice carrying a rattan box full of tools and accessories.
However, a complete set of supporting equipment was located next to the courtyard where Lin Ming stayed. Huang Tianyu never dreamed that there was someone in the yard who was still awake, and that this person actually knew him.
Li Yongxun quietly opened the moon cave door of the yard, slowly touched the wall and walked out. Not far along the corridor, there was a small door. The door was open, the light was bright, and there was a sound of knocking. Li Yongxun's curiosity grew, and she did not dare to peek at the door - the light would reveal her figure on the ground. Then he carefully walked around to the courtyard wall - there was a hollow flower window here. She quietly leaned forward to take a peek.
There was a strange pavilion standing in the courtyard. This pavilion could also be seen in the courtyard where they stayed. It was very high, with upturned eaves and corners, and had windows on all sides, but no one had ever opened the windows. Li Yongxun even thought it was very mysterious at first - but Lin Ming said that it was probably the place where Huang Shunlong monitored the guests' movements. He also told her a lot about Huang Shunlong's "glorious history."
"This person is mentally ill, so it's natural to be cautious." Lin Ming also warned her: "Don't be too troublesome."
Now she found that something was wrong with the pavilion. The lower part of the pavilion was completely elevated, supported by masonry pillars. There were no stairs around to go up. Instead, there was something like a black iron pipe standing upward from the ground. Then he reached in from the bottom of the attic.
The iron pipe was elevated on the ground with masonry piers and extended to a bungalow at the other end of the yard. The house looks ordinary, with all the doors and windows open. The lights are bright inside, and several figures can be seen busy and knocking in the middle of the house. But I couldn't see clearly what they were doing.
Li Yongxun had learned some skills in sneaking, climbing on walls and tracking, but now he had difficulty moving, so he had to keep his eyes open and try hard to see what was going on in the yard. Fortunately, the doors and windows of the house were large and the lights were bright, so I could barely see the strange machines inside. She recalled that before the imperial army conquered Kun, they seized Ziming Tower in Guangzhou and seized several Australian machines. People gathered around to watch. She and her cousin also pestered her brother-in-law to take them to see it. It looks similar to this.
"Humph, boss Huang and the bandits are quite close." Li Yongxun thought to himself. At this time, he saw a seven-foot-tall man coming out of the house. His long coat was rolled up and stuffed around his waist. His body was covered with oil stains. , a young man next to him quickly brought a big cup:
"Master, you have tea."
Han took the tea cup and took a sip. He put down the cup and wiped his mouth. The light just shone on his face - Li Yongxun almost screamed: This is not shopkeeper Huang. He hasn't changed much. He just has an extra one on his head. The bun is probably to hide it from others.
It turns out that this wretched drug dealer who has been looking at me with lustful eyes and threatening to take off his pants and spank is really a thief or a low-level thief who works as a craftsman. Humph, now you have surrendered yourself to the trap. Li Yongxun is proud. He laughed: Whoever had his pants peeled off would get a spanking.
I was thinking wildly about my ancestral cane torture skills, how this wretched man begged for mercy, with tears streaming down my face, when I suddenly heard someone in the courtyard asking: "The pipes in the heating furnace are in good condition, why don't we replace them?" "
How did Huang Tianyu know that there was a girl just outside the wall who wanted to peel off his pants and peek at his butt. Immediately, he returned the cup to his apprentice and strode in. Two apprentices are dismantling and inspecting the heating furnace. He checked the serpentine water pipe in the heating furnace - bronze is indeed much more durable than cast iron pipes, but unfortunately there are too few sources - he picked up the wrench, took apart the pipe, looked at it, and shook his head:
"It still needs to be replaced." He pointed to the thick layer of scale in the pipe and said to his disciples, "This is scale. If it accumulates too much in the pipe, it will gradually block the water pipe. At the very least, it will cause insufficient hot water supply. If it is blocked, Seriously, it is possible for the pipe to burst. This is just a general heating furnace. If it is a boiler, scale will cause the boiler to explode. So every time you perform maintenance, you must check the scale of the water pipe."
The disciples listened respectfully. A disciple asked:
"Master, I've seen the water here. It's obviously very clear. Where does this scale come from?"
"This is the so-called 'hard water' and 'soft water' problem. We have talked about it before: natural water in nature contains various soluble minerals..."
"You're lying. How can water be hard?" Li Yongxun thought to himself, "It's still soft water."
"Replace the heating tube. Let's take this back and process it. Maybe it can still be used." After Huang Tianyu finished talking about the minerals in the water, he helped his apprentice work. The dismantled parts are recycled as usual, not only for saving, but also for the reliability office to do relevant analysis. in order to improve quality. . ..
