Chapter 84 The earthen sauna
"Where, at this time, you are still full of alcohol, and I have discussed it with Sister Qingqi, there are a few sets of changes of clothes prepared for you by our family, and by the way, I need to adapt to the process!"
Still reluctant to put away the handkerchief, Yu Ran had already run to boil hot water, Qingqi smiled and pulled him up, "You have the strength, help us to be faster, don't miss the breakfast at home, otherwise you will be misunderstood!" ”
Filling the huge iron pot in the back kitchen with water with quick hands and feet, Li Zhile said: "Yuran, you still snore when you sleep, Qingqi doesn't have much movement, but she grinds her teeth occasionally, and there must be roundworms in her stomach!" ”
"Oops, that's disgusting! Are you sure I have bugs in my stomach, though? Do you want to drink medicinal soup to beat it down? Qingqi showed a look of disgust, and there was concern in her eyes.
"As long as you eat whole grains, parasites in the body are inevitable, and they are not considered diseases, but they can be eliminated with a dose of medicine!"
"And what about me snoring?" Although she was a little embarrassed, Yu Ran stepped forward and asked, it was the first time she had been seen sleeping by a man.
"You are just recovering from your illness, and your physical weakness has not fully recovered, so it is inevitable that you will not be able to sleep, and your sleep and snoring will also be due to poor sleep, and the medicine I prescribed to you will improve after a course of treatment."
Qingqi muttered, "It's really convenient to have a doctor at home, Yuran, we are blessed!" ”
Taking advantage of the free time of boiling water, Li Zhi took the pulse of the two of them one by one, "Do you know why the ancestor lived so old?" That is her old man mastered an authentic Taoist health method, and I also copied a copy that day, you developed good habits when you were young, and lived with me to be one hundred and thirty or fifty years old! ”
Yu Ran chuckled, "Why are you living so old?" The loss of a woman's beauty means that the meaning of life has changed since then, and I would rather live in a good state forever, even if I die earlier! ”
"What kind of frustrating words are you talking about, with me here, maybe one day I will develop some Zhuyan Pill for you, you may not be able to keep your face forever, but it shouldn't be a problem to keep your beauty at the age of forty or fifty!"
"Is there such a good thing?" Yu Ran looked surprised.
Qingqi nodded, "I told you yesterday that Brother Zhengwen has a drinking and cheating method, and the specific origin is that he has a Taoist cultivator in his body similar to internal energy, with it, you can comb the internal organs and qi in your body at any time, that is an excellent way to delay aging!" ”
"Haha, our husband is really a strange man, and even the appearance of the ladies is also in charge! Hehe, Yu Ran is very proud right now! ”
Li Zhi brushed her head with pity, "Yu Ran, maybe you can find a cultivation spell that suits you in the future, so that you are as capable of self-improvement as me, so you don't need my help!" ”
"Aren't Granny Xia just cultivators? Why don't you ask them? ”
"Maybe the method they are practicing is not exclusively for women's cultivation, don't you see Granny Xia with the same gray hair now? As far as I know, the method of female cultivation, face retention is only one of its functions, and the kind of spell I said is suitable for women to practice, I am afraid that the world has long been lost. Or I still have little experience in the world, and one day I will definitely travel to the entire Tang Dynasty, and even every mountain and forest crevice, I will always find it! ”
"My God, on such a large scale, wouldn't it take at least a few decades to come and go? I don't want to practice anymore, as long as you can be by our side at all times! ”
Looking at Yu Ran, who looked reluctant, Qingqi smiled and hugged her: "Do you know what level our husband will cultivate to in the future?" I've heard that if you cultivate to a certain height, you can walk as fast as you fly, and you can travel thousands of miles a day, maybe the little marquis will have that day! ”
"I hope to stay in my heart to make life more meaningful, although I don't recognize whether that kind of immortal-like existence is true, but I promise you, I will do my best!" Li Zhi doesn't think that there is no chance at all, isn't his own origin a miracle in the world?
His words moved the two daughters, although Yu Ran was eager to express her feelings, but she first looked at Qingqi, in her opinion, at this time, it was the most important rule for her to officially express her attitude to the main palace.
"Okay, we all know your feelings for the two ladies, the water in the pot has been boiled, you pour it into a few copper plates and serve it, Sister Yuran and I will clean the bath bucket first!" Qingqi smiled and instructed Li Zhi.
On the way, she explained to Yu Ran: "It's like the words of longing that the little marquis wrote to me, which shows that he doesn't say it in his mouth, but he thinks about it in his heart!" We are the same, we don't need to talk about our inner touches from time to time, some things are too often interpreted or narrated, it is better to bury them in the bottom of our hearts than to keep them. Since this is the case for our husbands, we should also adapt to this way of thinking, and only if we pay attention to the small aspects, we will pay more attention to the big aspects. There is always a process of mutual run-in between the three of us, first of all, we will take the initiative to compromise on ourselves, and we will be more harmonious together in the future! ”
Although Yu Ran doesn't understand interpersonal communication very well, she is extremely intelligent, and Qingqi taught her the subordination of women to the lord in just a few words.
So she suddenly realized: "It turns out that the emotional things that I think are important are more engraved in my heart than in my heart than in my heart, thank you sister for teaching, my sister will pay attention to it in the future!" ”
Qingqi scraped the bridge of her nose with her hand, "Our sisters don't need to be polite, purely in terms of family background, the little marquis is far inferior to you and me, but why should I take the initiative to put down my body to please him?" Men marry women, which is intended to be playful; A woman marrying a man is intended to tame him, not a joke. How well you treat him, he will return with greater respect, this is alternative domestication! ”
Yu Ran grinned, "Then his cheap words to us are a joke?" ”
"But it's not just flirting, and it has nothing to do with obscenity, it's just flirting between lovers, and it's a blessing for women at that time to suffer, and it's also a kind of training to let him ask for some cheap occasionally! It's just that our so-called training should be based on loving each other deeply, and we are appropriately satisfied with him, which also prevents him from going out to look for flowers and ask Liu Nian. ”
"My sister understands this, Brother Zhengwen's flirting is just a normal affair between men and women, but he always thinks that his sister is very young, but how to solve it?"
"Isn't it easy? After a while, while he is washing his body, you can rub more oil, don't just care about being thin-skinned, that is also a small means to force him to be more intimate with you in the future! ”
"Could it be that my sister did the same way in the first place? Shame on you, he's naked! ”
"I can't see the bottom in the bath, and I didn't let you do anything more out of the ordinary! At the beginning, there were still two of my personal maids, I didn't care! ”
"My sister will teach me later!"
They didn't know that the conversation between them had already been overheard by Li Zhi, who came later, and he was so comfortable in his heart at this time, and suddenly he was full of expectations for the bath that he had always stayed away from.
The bathrooms here already have all kinds of cold-proof measures and equipment that can only be found in the palace, such as painting the walls with pepper and mud, placing the bath barrel in the recess of the enclosure, and setting up a fire place, a charcoal place, and a kang burning place.
Moreover, there is a separate underground fire tunnel under the bath barrel, which is a complete set of warm pavilion structure, which makes Li Zhi amazing.
Qingqi put on a disgusted look at him who had never seen the world, "Everyone has been popular in big families for a long time, and only a family like you will show ignorance and ridiculousness when you witness some!" ”
Li Zhi smiled disapprovingly, this kind of warm pavilion burial, to put it bluntly, is a sealed space of the nature of a local sauna, but it requires at least seven or eight subordinates to stick to it all the time, and the consumables are laborious, and non-luxury and wealthy families can afford it.
In just one hour of bathing process, it takes half a day to prepare, and in the Tang Dynasty, when coal coking was still in the bud, it was a senior civil servant who ate the official family, and the monthly bituminous coal ration was also according to a few catties and a few cents, which shows how luxurious it was to cook rice with coal at that time.
The kind of combustible stone called charcoal at that time, if it was used as a heating pavilion structure for heating, it would not consume hundreds of catties at a time, and perhaps the inner courtyard of the imperial court could not afford it.
Therefore, the only place to support the heat source of this kind of bathroom is wood, and it is inevitable that seven or eight people will not be dizzy and bathing people who have smooth ventilation and will not be dizzy.
Of course, at this time, this bathroom did not have the effect of heating the pavilion, and Li Zhi only had a trace of curiosity about this kind of extravagant behavior of laboring and wasting money, or doing him to preside over family affairs, and he would definitely not tolerate such extravagant behavior.
However, because of this, Li Zhiyousheng also wanted to build an earthen sauna by himself, but he just needed to find the special ore called sauna stone by later generations, and its real scientific name was Maifan stone.
This type of Maifan stone is a volcanic rock in which lava ejected from volcanoes is buried in the ground and formed by the high humidity of the volcano, the acidic substances produced by the hot spring, and the pressure generated by the changes in the earth's crust.
What's more rare is that it is also a natural medicine ore, containing potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus macro elements necessary for the human body and more than a dozen trace elements such as zinc, iron, selenium, copper, etc., and is non-toxic, harmless and has a certain biological activity of the composite mineral medicinal rock.
"Are there rumors of a volcano near Chang'an City?"
Li Zhi's sudden words aroused the great curiosity of the second daughter, and Qingqi replied, "Where is there near Chang'an City, it is said that the Nanzhao State is stated, and there are many tribes in the Erhai region there. A few months ago, King Xingzong sent an envoy to the county palace as a guest, and his father personally received him! How did you remember to ask this? ”
"On the way west, I saw a foreign tribe villager who made a fumigation bath made of volcanic rock, which cost very little firewood, but it could make the seal prevent steam generation for a long time! And that kind of ore is non-toxic and harmless, it is a natural medicine stone, and it is perfect to use it to build a bathroom! ”
"Isn't it a fairy stone? After Ambassador Meng came, he brought some fairy stones, and no one in our family paid attention to it, but it was discovered by Mr. Yang its unique adsorption properties, and later he used medicine to remove a part, which is said to be used as a traditional Chinese medicine for skin diseases, especially to pull out pus, the effect is very good. ”
Li Zhihuan said happily, "That's it, there are many tiny holes on it!" How many are there in the house? ”
"At that time, when Ambassador Meng brought it, he said that it could be used to change the impurities in the water, and because of the long distance and inconvenient transportation, the original huge fairy stone was crushed into grape-sized granules, and there was a bag in the house, probably so much!" Qingqi gestured with both hands to make a gesture of the thickness of a man's waist.
"It's a pity! However, it would be nice to have these fine debris to do a preliminary test, but I wonder if we will be able to get that kind of huge mineral rough in the future. ”
"The Southern Zhao Kingdom is obedient to the Tang Dynasty, and in recent years, the Tubo has successively conquered and whipped the barbarians of the Xi'er River, and the military exchanges between the two countries are very frequent, and there are several large-scale personnel movements almost every year!"
"That's good, we'll spend money on it, or reward it with special vehicles to escort manpower, as long as we bring in a large piece of rough next time! You will know in the future that with the fumigation bath room I built, bathing will be a pleasure in the future! ”