Chen Xu opened the door with a dark face, and saw Zhao Lun, the housekeeper of the Hou Mansion, standing at the door, so he had to slow down his face and say, "Housekeeper, what's the matter?" ”

"Master Hou, Nanyang has transported a lot of goods, which look very heavy, and you still need to go to Lord Hou to inspect and dispose of them personally!" Zhao Lun said respectfully.

"Hey, the tiles have arrived!" Chen Xu suddenly understood when he heard this, and happily took Shui's gentle hand and said: "Gentle, follow me to see the tiles and bathtubs I ordered last time, the water tower and swimming pool in the annex are almost repaired in the past few days, just wait for these bathtub tiles to be installed, and you can live in it in a few days......"

The two followed the housekeeper to the gate of the Hou Mansion, and sure enough, they saw a long line of dozens of carriages lined up on the street, with the flag of the Qinghe Houfu planted on the carriages, each carriage was covered with straw mats woven of corn, dozens of horsemen and hundreds of helpers and black and thin slaves, and dozens of burly guards with weapons on their backs to escort them.

And the person at the head turned out to be Gao He, wearing a fine linen short hanger and hemp shoes, followed by two apprentices, and standing with Gao He was a young man in a gorgeous costume, who was Versace who came last time.

"Sizhe meets Master Hou!" Versace saw Chen Xu and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

"Meet Master Hou!" Gao He and the two apprentices, as well as dozens of coachmen, helpers, and slaves, all knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

"No need to be polite, hurry up!" Chen Xu waved his hand and didn't have time to say more, so he hurriedly walked to the front of the first carriage and lifted the corner of the tightly tied corn mat to take a look, and there was indeed a large bathtub inside, the porcelain on the surface was snow-white and delicate, and it was very smooth to the touch.

"Master Hou, these things are very heavy, and there are too many tiles, and it's going to rain again, see if you can find a place to put it first!" Gao He said as he looked at the gloomy sky.

"Well, it's hard work this time, it's really too much, and it's troublesome to load and unload, so let's do it, except for the porcelain vases I said last time and put them in the Hou Mansion, let everyone work harder and help me transport them to the other courtyard outside the city, and there will be a reward for the meeting!" Chen Xu nodded.

"It's not hard, it's not hard, Hou Ye will arrange someone to lead the way!" Versace hurriedly turned back and shouted a few times, and all the grooms and helpers and slaves pushed the carriage back and prepared to leave.

Chen Xu also asked the groom in the house to set up the carriage, the guards were quickly ready, Yu Wuya also came out with a sword, seven or eight days passed, the nose and face were swollen and looked much better, but the two eye circles were still a little dark.

"Where's my brother? I'm going too! Apricot ran out of the yard in a hurry.

"Brother Xu is waiting for me, Yu Ji is going too!" Yu Ji followed behind with a small skirt and shouted.

"Squeak~" A brown shadow jumped down from the courtyard wall and landed on the carriage railing, still nibbling on a peach in its mouth.

So there were two adults, two children, and a monkey in the carriage, and Yu Wuya rode a horse to follow beside him, and under the escort of the guards, the carriage went to the north of the city, followed by a long and nearly forty carriages, and the mighty procession stretched for more than a mile on the street.

The people who came and went on the street looked at the caravan with the banner of the Qinghe Marquis Mansion, and all avoided saluting on the side of the road, while secretly speculating whether the Hou Ye had done some big deal, and even more exaggerated guessing whether the car was full of money.

Chen Xu looked back at the convoy behind him with a smile, and asked Versace who was riding a horse beside him: "These goods are extremely heavy, I want to thank you Fan this time, and after I go back, I will say hello to the head of the Fan family, and ask him to come to Xianyang as a guest when he is free!" ”

"Hou Ye's words Sizhe will definitely bring it, and the head of the family also said that when he is free to come to Xianyang in June, he will definitely go to Hou Mansion to visit Hou Ye!" Versace said respectfully.

"You're welcome, I've been in a relationship with the head of the Fan family for a long time, and I'm a business partner, I naturally want to be entertained when he comes to Xianyang, by the way, are the wheels and axles of these carriages improved, otherwise I'm afraid I won't be able to bear such a heavy cargo?"

"Hou Ye's eyes are like a torch and he can see at a glance, the wheels and axles and frames of these carriages are made of solid steel, which are many times stronger than the original copper axles and wheels, and the price is much cheaper, mainly used by steel mills to transport iron ore, coal and steel, this time Hou Ye wants to transport these porcelain, I told the head of the family that after I mobilized more than 30 carriages from the Luyang Iron Works, if you use ordinary carriages, at least 70 will be used, but to pull how heavy the car, you must use two horses, The cost is actually about the same! ”

"Well, don't worry, the cost of this delivery is all on my head!"

"Hou Ye is serious, the cost of tens of thousands of dollars, how can Hou Ye break the fee, Xianyang's Huaxia Qian Zhuang is all because of Hou Ye's care, the clan sister Caiying is alone in Xianyang, and Hou Ye is taking care of ......"

Shui who was sitting next to him gently scratched Chen Xu's palm.

Chen Xu: ......

More than ten days have passed since the last time Zhang Cang was arranged to bring a group of craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences to build a water tower and design and install tap water.

At the beginning, Chen Xu came a few times, mainly to guide how to use steel and concrete for construction, and then to check the installation location of the water pipes on the spot, so as to facilitate the installation of equipment such as bathtubs, flushing pits, flush toilets, washbasins for washing faces, and sinks for washing dishes in the kitchen.

But I haven't been here for the last five or six days.

The main reason is that the weather is too hot, and then Chen Xu feels that there is no guidance from himself, these craftsmen have completed it perfectly, after all, this kind of thing can only be used as a technical guide, and all the hands are completed by craftsmen, and this is not the construction work of later generations, there are cement mixer trucks, grouting equipment, pumping equipment, on-site processing tools for various metal and plastic water pipes, except for cement sand and gravel, all the things that Chen Xu knows are not, so these craftsmen are reasonable construction according to the conditions they have now, Chen Xu couldn't give much guidance at all.

When the nearly forty wagons arrived at the Qinghe Annex, the entire annex was alarmed, and the officials of the Ministry of Industry and the Inner History Mansion, who were putting the finishing touches on the clean-up, ran out to greet and greet them, and at the same time, they were also interested in the goods carried on the carriage.

And when the helper untied the hemp rope tied to the car and lifted the corn mat to reveal the bathtub, toilet, squatting pit, basin and bundles of snow-white tiles of the same size, everyone was amazed by Chen Xu's generosity.

Porcelain is definitely a luxury item for the people of Daqin at the moment, a painted porcelain bowl and porcelain plate in Qinghe Store are nearly two thousand yuan, and an ordinary porcelain is also thousands of dollars, and now all the porcelain on this carriage can be piled up into a hill, if all the money is exchanged for money, it is definitely bigger than this pile of porcelain, many people silently calculated in their hearts, and then one by one they almost sat on the ground with soft hands and feet, and they all looked at these porcelains in front of them with frightened faces.

As long as there is a little leakage between Hou Ye's fingers, this group of officials can eat hair support now.

It's a pity that in the face of this young man who doesn't seem to be frightened, everyone can only swallow a mouthful of saliva with a dry mouth, and dare not think about anything wrong.

"All moved in, porcelain is fragile, don't be careless!"

Under the command of an official, the convicts who built the Qinghe Annex, along with the helpers and slaves who came with the convoy, all worked together to carefully move the tightly bound porcelain tiles in and put them where they needed to be installed, and almost all of them were transported to the swimming pool in the backyard.

"Master Hou, you said that you want to use this snow-white tile to cover all the layers of this pool?"

Standing on the edge of the swimming pool that had been built with cement mortar and stone bricks, looking at the bundles of snow-white and delicate tiles that had been unraveled, Zhang Cang's mouth was so shocked by Chen Xu's magnanimity that he couldn't close it.

And a group of craftsmen from the Academy of Sciences who accompanied them also had their mouths wide open enough to stuff a duck egg.

"Master Hou, this ...... It's too ...... It's too extravagant, this tile is worth hundreds of dollars, this pool is not paved for thousands of dollars, where is this playing in the pool, it is completely on the pile of money to enjoy the coolness! Hu Kuan stammered and said what was in everyone's hearts.

"Uh-huh!" Not only the craftsmen of the Academy of Sciences nodded along with them, but even the slaves and convicts at the scene nodded their heads.

"Husband, in fact, I see that this pool has been made very smooth, why waste it so much!" Even the water is gentle, and she can't stand her husband's extravagance and waste.

"What is the junior sister talking about, this thing is called a tile, it was originally used to pave the ground, if it is not spread in the pool, it must be spread at home, not to mention that if this pool is covered with snow-white tiles, it must be like the fairy palace Yao Pond, tsk, I am looking forward to it~" Yu Wuya did not agree with the gentle words of the water.

Chen Xu glanced at Yu Wuya, and nodded very affectionately: "Brother Yu is right, this is the floor tile I specially designed, I was going to pave the ground of each house next to each other, but now I will use it to pave the swimming pool, and the room will not be paved for the time being, you guys will come and ......."

Chen Xu instructed someone to pick up a bucket of water to soak a stack of tiles in the water, and then jumped into the swimming pool and looked at it next to each other, and called a few mud craftsmen to point to some of them and said: "If you want to make the tiles smooth and good-looking, you must first ensure that the pit wall and the bottom of the pit are flat, and there can be no potholes, these places should be smoothed with cement mortar, and in order to drain smoothly, the entire pool must be pasted to ensure that the slope of the drainage outlet is very uniform, and there can be no too much undulation......"

After Chen Xu inspected the swimming pool and pointed out the places that needed to be rectified next to each other, several craftsmen instructed the helpers to get cement and sand to mix the cement, and then began to repair the place that Chen Xu said just now.

Tiles need to soak this kind of thing, many people who have decorated their homes know that Chen Xu's hometown house was renovated once, originally after he graduated from college, his parents installed a solar water heater at home, and built a new toilet and shower room, ready to welcome him to take his girlfriend home, but his girlfriend broke up after graduating from college, and then he was hit by a car and died.

Chen Xu was very depressed, the newly built toilet and shower room were a luxury in the eyes of rural people, and it cost tens of thousands of yuan to build and decorate the bathroom equipment, but it was always empty there, and I don't know how my father and mother are now, and whether he has woken up from the grief of losing his son.