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    Chapter 705: [Pan Kang]

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    Kang is the crystallization of the wisdom of northerners who have struggled with cold weather for a long time.

    At this time in the Tang Dynasty, no one had invented such a thing as the kang.

    Li Chengqian didn¡¯t think about this when autumn entered winter.

    He somewhat blamed himself for only remembering to give Gui'e a quilt, but he didn't think of this warmer thing.

    Although he has been busy with Hou Junji's affairs recently, his thoughts have been put on this.

    ¡°If he hadn¡¯t mentioned chickens and maggots just now, he really hadn¡¯t thought of this.

    "I'll make something for you. It's called Kang!" Li Chengqian said to Gui'e.

    Just now when she mentioned eggs, Li Chengqian said he wanted to make something, so she easily thought of something related to eggs.  ¡°Can you make chickens lay eggs in the winter?¡±

    Many things Li Chengqian did before shocked him.  I already have a great image of Li Chengqian in my heart. No matter what kind of thing, it can be realized in front of Li Chengqian.

    "Yes." Li Chengqian replied.

    Hearing the expected answer, Gui'e became happy.

    "What is a kang?" Gui'e asked curiously.

    "A kind of bed, you can light a fire underneath to warm the bed and room. People can sleep on it, or you can make one in the chicken shed to warm the chicken shed, so that the chickens can live comfortably, and the eggs will naturally  You can give birth to more babies than when it's cold." Li Chengqian explained to her.

    It¡¯s just because it¡¯s too cold that I don¡¯t lay eggs. If I make a fire, I can lay eggs!

    " Such a simple truth, Gui E suddenly understood.

    Li Chengqian rolled up his sleeves.  Said: "Where's Uncle Zhou? Let Uncle Zhou prepare."

    Gui'e called Fang Niang.  Let her call Uncle Zhou.

    Li Chengqian asked Gui E: "You live in this room, are there any other empty rooms?"

    "Yes. The west wing has always been empty." Gui E looked at him curiously: "Why do you ask this?"

    "Didn't I just say that the kang is used as a bed for people to sleep on? It's very warm in winter!" Li Chengqian said, "Of course I will put a kang for you and go over there to sleep."

    Hearing this, Gui'e's eyes were watery and bright, like two stars shining!

    After she was moved for a while, she calmed down.  Then he took Li Chengqian over to see the west wing.

    Li Chengqian chose a bed and asked people to move everything there. At this time, Uncle Zhou came. Li Chengqian told Uncle Zhou the required materials and asked him to prepare them.

    He thought for a while and asked Fang Niang to call a servant to go to Huangzhuang to find Foreman Lu and bring over two experienced bricklayers.

    He knows how to play the Kang, but there must be two to do it!

    ??And one plate is enough for him.  Just let these two masters handle the henhouse and maggot room.

    Fang Niang went out, and Li Chengqian brought paper and pen and walked around the empty room.  While calculating the size of the kang.

    Li Chengqian was a southerner in his previous life, and talking about Kang seems to have nothing to do with him.  But in his previous life, he married a wife from the north, so he had the chance to see Kang.  And once when I went back to my wife¡¯s natal home.  I was pulled by my brother-in-law to make a bed, so I know how to make a bed.

    Kang is a kind of bed that is about 1.7 to 2.3 meters wide.  A masonry building facility whose length can be determined by the length of the room.  Building a kang is called a pan kang in the north, and the kang walls are built with bricks inside.  There is a flue in the wall of the kang room, which is covered with relatively flat stone slabs (or Dacheng bricks). The stone slabs are covered with mud (usually a special yellow mud mixed with loess, crushed wheat straw and lime) and smoothed. After the mud is dry, it is covered with mud.  The kang mat is laid out. In some areas, a thick layer of wool felt is laid on top, and a special oilcloth is placed on top of the felt, which can be used later.

    The kang has a stove mouth and a smoke port. The stove mouth is used to burn firewood. When the smoke and heat generated by burning firewood pass through the wall between the kang room, it heats the stone slabs above to generate heat, causing the kang to generate heat.  The smoke is finally discharged from the chimney to the outside.  In northern China, the stove mouth of the kang is usually connected to the stove, so that the firewood for cooking can be used to heat the kang, so there is no need to burn the kang separately.

    The position of the heated kang adjacent to the stove mouth is called "Kang head" ("Huo Huotou" in Shanxi dialect); the position adjacent to the smoke outlet is called "Kang slightly".  Generally, the ¡°kang head¡± is reserved for the most senior owner or distinguished guests in the family to sleep, while men or young people sleep in the ¡°kang slightly¡±.

    This west wing is Gui'e's bedroom, so of course it cannot be connected to the stove.

    Li Chengqian planned to get a water boiler at the end of the kang, so that there would always be warm water available in the room.

    At this time??Uncle Zhou has prepared the materials and came in to report to Li Chengqian.

    Fang Niang went to Huangzhuang herself and brought the masons over.

    I saw Foreman Lu hanging with a white gauze and Dahuang holding a tool.

    These two are the bricklayers that Fang Niang mentioned.

    Before Li Chengqian could speak, Gui E took Fang Niang and asked, "This master is injured, why did you call him here?"

    Fang Niang also looked a little embarrassed. She went to Huangzhuang to ask for help. They sent such a disabled person. Can she push him away?

    They don¡¯t know that these two are the most important figures in Huangzhuang¡¯s engineering team, and they are the elite among the elite.

    On the contrary, in the eyes of Fang Niang, this is a bricklayer who cannot be rejected.

    Foreman Lu naturally saw Gui E's whisper, and could guess what he meant. He smiled and said, "Mrs. Gui, don't worry. Although I, Lao Lu, am hanging with one hand, I have the other hand."  His strength can be used as another person¡¯s two hands!¡±

    When Gui E heard this, she immediately felt a little embarrassed.

    "He came to help, but she secretly talked about him, which made her a little ashamed.

    "Master, I'm sorry. I know you can do it, but you're hanging by your hands, so let me arrange two servants to help you, and you can just give instructions from the side!" Gui E said apologetically.

    Dahuang chuckled and said: "Mrs. Gui, no need, we just need to work together! We can complete any request of the master!"

    Li Chengqian waved his hand and said, "I will take care of it. No more talking now, let's get to work!"

    Hearing what Li Chengqian said, Gui E didn't say much more.

    Li Chengqian started to pull the wires in the room, decided on the size of the kang, and then asked Dahuang to go out and move the materials and start working.

    By the afternoon, the kang was finally laid out.

    The scraps in the room were cleaned up, and Foreman Lu and Da Huang took the initiative to leave.

    Li Chengqian touched the solid kang and couldn't help feeling a little happy.

    This is what I ordered!

    At this time, Gui'e saw off Foreman Lu and Dahuang, and when she came back, she saw that Li Chengqian had climbed onto the kang, as happy as a child, and couldn't help but smile.

    "The kang will be dry until tomorrow morning, then you can put firewood in it to burn the kang. After burning for a day or two, when the moisture is gone, you can sleep!" Li Chengqian ordered.

    Gui'e nodded, then looked at the kang that took up half of the room, and said, "This kang is really big!"

    "Well, two people can roll around while sleeping!" Li Chengqian said casually.

    Two people?  Gui'e's eyes widened.

    She is a widow, she is the only one in the family, how can there be two people?

    She blushed, wasn't Li Chengqian hinting at something?

    Her face turned red again, this time the redness was different from last time, it was because she was angry and had flushed her face.

    She stepped forward and stretched out her hand.

    "Ah?" Li Chengqian's ears hurt and he shouted: "My ears hurt, what are you doing to me? Let go!"

    "I told you to hold it in!" Gui E was so angry that there was no way she could let go.

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    When Li Chengqian left Wangjiazhuang, he had to pull down his hat and cover his ears.

    Although he spent most of the time today at Gui'e's bed, it gave Li Chengqian a sense of relaxation.

    Recently, he has been dealing with Hou Junji's affairs, and those investigations have to be conducted secretly. Li Chengqian has been staying in such an atmosphere, and his heart can't help but become depressed and gloomy.

    Today, he spent most of his time playing on the bed, which he had done in his previous life. It made him miss his previous life, and his mood was suddenly lifted out of his gloom.

    Now that he has left Wangjiazhuang, he feels the best in more than a month.

    But even if he likes this relaxed mood, he still needs to do what he should do.

    Old man Cheng has also become a frequent visitor to the spy courtyard.

    He has joined Li Chengqian, Li Xiaogong, and Li Jingsan in the Li class. Every time he comes to discuss things, he will come too.

    So the three-li class became the three-li class.

    The first thing Cheng Laoguo did after arriving in Chang'an was to raid the outer suburbs of Chang'an and drive away all the secret party members who might exist there. This would then facilitate Li Chengqian's subsequent work.

    Since Li Chengqian was stabbed while flying doves, and many secret gangsters were arrested in Zhuangzi during an operation, no one knows how many secret gangsters there are in the villages in the outer suburbs.

    What to do nowTo get rid of the secret party, of course, we must first deal with the potential dangers in the outer suburbs. We can't let people from outside besiege Chang'an while we are arresting Hou Junji.

    But when it comes to doing it, there are a lot of things to consider. First, we can¡¯t just alert the enemy. If we clean things up in a targeted manner, then Hou Junji will know about it before taking action, which will be bad.  Another thing is, apart from the secret gangsters on the list in Li Chengqian's hand, who knows if there are others. If only the gangsters on the list are caught and everyone else is ready, it will be even more troublesome.

    It is still easy to use Cheng Lao's method and scan directly brutally, and everything is solved.

    It is normal for a new official to have three things to burn when he takes office.  And for a character like Cheng Laoguo, no matter how angry he is, it can still be understood by everyone.

    So when Sa came out with half a battalion of soldiers outside the city, everyone was blaming Mr. Cheng, but they didn't think that Mr. Cheng's behavior was abnormal.

    In the past few days, Lian Hou Junji defended himself in front of the civil servants in the morning court, saying that it was not good for others to do this, but Cheng Guogong was a master at leading troops, so there must be a reason for doing so!

    So Cheng Laohuo¡¯s raid plan went smoothly.

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    PS: Thanks to Brother Hantang Qingqian for your monthly ticket!  #Village official who came to Datang#
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