"In winter and November, yin and yang fight, and blood and qi disperse. The winter solstice is five days each day, and the inside and outside of the bed are separated. Buy a white dog and raise it for your ancestors. On the day of the winter solstice, millet (cake made of millet flour) is recommended. First recommend Xuan Ming, as well as Zu You. He entered the wine and food, and congratulated the elderly. The inkstone was frozen, and the young children were ordered to enter primary school and read the chapters of "The Book of Filial Piety" and "The Analects". It can be brewed and cut bamboo. ”

The grain was put into the warehouse, and the house was continued. After the warehouse building was built, the next thing to be built was the water tower.

The shape of the water tower resembles a watchtower. It stands in the west of the front yard, parallel to the well railing.

The body of the tower is framed with solid wood, the soil is tamped, and the brick wall is covered, which is very firm. Inside, there is a staircase to the top of the tower.

The biggest difference from the watchtower is that the upper pavilion is not used to stand people, but to store water. Building a watertight tank is not a difficult task. You don't see that the boats and boats on the big rivers are not leaking, let alone a hexagonal box.

The keel was made first, then put together with wooden planks, and the gaps were sealed with tung putty, and the craftsmen quickly completed it. Just in case, Liu Bei ordered the craftsmen to reinforce it with hemp rope and then build a brick wall.

Here's the big problem.

From the well bar to the box, a keel overturn is erected to draw water!

That's not a problem.

Inclined ladder overlay, volley flying frame. Just fill the gaps so that they don't leak.

What's so hard about it?

Take the fish gelatin, finely fill the caulk, and the watertight inclined ladder cover is completed. Then place the overturned car in the override, and it will be completed in a few days!

When the water runs out, you can go upstairs and step on the overturned car to draw water again. This repetition is less worry-free and labor-saving than the previous bucket of water.

November is a good time to cut down wood and bamboo.

This is also the reason why Liu Bei first built the water tower and underground pipes.

The new picture scroll has been given to Geng Yong. Geng Yong prepared samples according to the drawing, sent them to the dragon kiln, and fired them into celadon. It's just that......

What is the purpose of this artifact, which has a square shell and an oval inside?

Liu Bei replied: Bathtub.

Geng Yong suddenly realized.

Liu Bei wants to build a bathroom that can boil hot water.

In ancient times, bathhouses, also known as mixed halls, were usually made of large stones and domes were built with bricks. There is a large cauldron in the back that communicates with the bath, and there is a special person to boil the water, and the hot water is transmitted to the pool water through the wheel and mixed with it for people to bathe.

"Wu bath, the big stone is the pool, the dome is brick, and the back is the giant cauldron, so that the pool is passed, and the roller leads to the wall and is stored. One person is in charge...... The pool water swallows each other, and then it becomes a boiling soup, and the name is mixed hall. "That's what we're talking about, public baths.

It's not complicated.

There is no difficulty in making it. The only difficulty is marble.

It doesn't hurt if you don't.

Besides, it doesn't need to be as big as a public bath for a family.

So Liu Bei found another way and replaced it with a celadon bathtub.

Bathing and toileting, this is the most critical role of the water tower.

Laying water pipes is also a priority. Fortunately, the ground in the courtyard is paved with bricks. Carefully uncovered, excavated into a ditch, built a brick wall on three sides, and laid bamboo pipes, covered with loess, and then covered with floor tiles, and the pipes were completed.

It took another full month, and the water tower and pipes were built.

It was planned to rebuild the corridor on the wall and the corner towers on all sides. Unexpectedly, Cui Jun wrote that a guest came to visit with heavy gifts and asked Liu Bei to expand the stable in case of need.

Where are the guests? Or a big gift?

The words were unknown, and Liu Bei was confused. However, Cui Jun is a sincere gentleman and will never talk nonsense. In that case, let's build a stable first.

The newly built backyard is deep and wide. Leaning against the west wall of the backyard, a whole row of large stables was built.

The stables are on two levels. The ground floor is a single-row stable, in which the horses are arranged in a horizontal row and one side is a passage. Holds 20 horses. The upper floor is a warehouse, separated by a forage room, a saddle room, a tool room and other ancillary buildings.

The stables are simple. Materials, manpower and footage, will be completed in a few days.

I found Su Shuang from the horse market and took a closer look. Su Shuang said that it is best to spread a layer of river sand in the horse room. It not only absorbs moisture and keeps warm, but also prevents odors. Liu Bei thought so. Find someone to sell the river sand immediately. Rush before the ice breaks the river, spread all over the horses.

The most surprised is Su Shuang.

I haven't seen it for a few months, and Liu Bei's house has changed greatly!

A large stable that can hold twenty horses, Rao is a horse market Hu businessman is nothing more than that!

If it's just Sheng Huang Bi and Qing Qi, and the foal Bai sacrifice, why be so extravagant.

Su Shuang was secretly speechless. And then I thought about how much it would cost to fill the stable. A good horse is twenty gold. Seventeen good horses, three hundred and forty gold!

The old craftsman's surname is Su, and they are all called Su Bo.

After the family moved to Lousang Village, the construction of the village did their best and contributed a lot. So the people of the Liu clan also called him Su Bo. And because Liu Bei's family built the most, the craftsmen imitated Su Bo and called Liu Bei's young owner.

Screaming and shouting, Liu Bei got used to it.

Liu Bei's dock fort is not a day's work. Liu Bei was not in a hurry, and built them one by one. Anyway, I'm only eight years old, and I have time. You don't see the old mansions that were built in one or two hundred years in later generations, and they abound.

After the winter, the horse market was closed, and Hu Shang withdrew his account and left. Before the heavy snow closed the road, it was necessary to rush back to the Saibei grassland.

Liu Bei left Su Shuang to live with his parents. Su Shuang did not postpone it, and kept horses for Liu Bei all day long, and he was never tired of it.

Not long after Liu Bei sent the letter, Geng Yong came with the ship.

In addition to continuing to bring all kinds of miscellaneous books to Liu Bei, Geng Yong wanted to see what Liu Bei's bathroom looked like.

Liu Bei led Geng Yong to take a look.

The bathroom is still in the west wing of the central hall. It's just that the original wooden floor has become a green tile. At present, celadon has a dense and hard fetus, and the tire color is light green. The knock sound is crisp. The glaze layer is uniform. The tire glaze is tightly combined, the glaze color is green, and the glaze surface is uniform.

The Geng family of Lao Yadu is one of them. The blue tiles in Liu Bei's house are from Geng's dragon kiln.

The price is not cheap, a hundred dollars a piece.

Geng Yong saw the real thing, only to know the beauty of green tiles.

Among them is a celadon bathtub, surrounded by a linen blanket to absorb water. A separate account was also set up. The cover is made of nitrate and dehaired cowhide supported on all sides, hazy and transparent. Surrounded by a bathtub, I don't know what to do. asked Liu Bei, and said: warm tent. For winter warmth.

It seems that there are some copper pipes connected to the ground, and I don't know what to do.

I asked Fangzhi to use bamboo pipes for well water and copper pipes for boiling water. It's all hidden on the ground. There are wooden stoppers in the tubes. Pull out the water stream and plug it in. It's very convenient.

Liu Bei said that the cold water needs to wait for the water tower to be completed, and the hot water needs to wait for the boiler to be completed.

I had to go to see the boiler room again.

The so-called boiler refers to the pot and furnace. A large iron cauldron larger than a marching pot rests on top of the stove. The cauldron and the tub are connected by copper pipes. Hot water is sent to the bathtub through a wheel, where it is mixed with well water from the water tower for bathing.

Geng Yong, who thought about it carefully and wanted to get through the customs, couldn't help but be impressed.

Such a kit coincidence, is it just for bathing?

Liu Bei is not a person!

Of course, if Geng Yong asked, Liu Bei would answer seriously, in addition to taking a bath, there is also going to the toilet.

Around Liu Bei's old house, look left and right. Geng Yong was more and more amazed.

A glimpse of the whole leopard.

Liu Bei's effort in building an old mansion, as well as those unprecedented ingenuity designs, are absolutely unattainable!

What if we wait for him to reach the crown?

At that time, will he still be satisfied with the deep mansion compound and the heavy building?

With a stomach full of questions, Geng Yong returned to Lao Yadu alone.