Chapter 44: Wheelchairs

With a bit of curiosity and expectation, Princess Pingyang followed Li Xiu into the greenhouse, and there was a warm breath in her face, and then Princess Pingyang's eyes widened in disbelief, only to see that in this strange house, there were actually full of her beloved flowers and plants, and each flower and plant maintained an emerald green color, and even a few even bloomed.

"This ...... It's incredible, how the hell do you do it? Princess Pingyang was both excited and amazed, this surprise made her so satisfied, and she didn't have to worry about flowers and plants being frozen to death and frostbite every winter in the future.

"Hehe, this principle is a bit complicated to explain, I'll tell you slowly when I have time in the future." Li Xiu said with a smile, the family is still waiting for him to go back to take a bath, so naturally he doesn't have time to give Princess Pingyang a natural science knowledge class.

"By the way, I saw so many houses similar to this one in front of the gate before, are they all full of flowers and plants?" Princess Pingyang suddenly asked with her eyes shining at this time.

"Princess, those greenhouses are actually green vegetables, and now almost all the green vegetables in Chang'an City are supplied by us." Li Xiu was a little speechless, he suddenly found that the personality of Her Royal Highness the princess still had a bit of stupid and cute qualities, if so many greenhouses were all planted with flowers and plants, it was estimated that the nobles of the entire Chang'an City would have to change their tastes and eat flowers and plants.

"Yes, flowers and plants can be fed, and green vegetables can definitely be fed, so isn't this greenhouse more convenient than the hot springs in Xishan?" Princess Pingyang finally reacted at this time, and said to herself in surprise again, she didn't expect that she hadn't come back for half a year, and that such a big change had happened in her family.

"Princess, you have just come back, and the injuries on your body also need to be recuperated in peace, so let's go back and rest first, and it's not too late to come back to enjoy these flowers and plants when we are free." Li Xiu opened his mouth at this time to persuade that this humid and hot environment was not very good for Princess Pingyang's injuries, so it was best not to stay too long.

Princess Pingyang also felt a little tired at this time, nodded at the moment, and then motioned to the guards to carry herself out, in fact, she didn't like to be carried by others for everything now, but there was no way, so she usually tried not to go out if she could.

After returning to the room, Li Xiu helped Princess Pingyang check the wound again, and now a layer of flesh film has grown on the surface of the wound, so there is no need to worry about infection and inflammation, but this layer of flesh film is still very thin, and it may tear if you are not careful, so Princess Pingyang can't walk at all in a short time.

"Princess, can I borrow something from you?" After Li Xiu examined the wound, he suddenly smiled with some embarrassment.

"Borrow what?" Princess Pingyang asked.

"Borrow a few carpenters!" Li Xiu said with a smile.

"Carpenter? What do you want a carpenter to do? The princess asked, puzzled.

"Huh? This ......" Li Xiu thought for a while before replying, "The maid at home is too naughty, and accidentally broke the door of the house, so I want to find a few carpenters to fix it." ”

"Your maid has so much strength? Just come to me and be a guard. Princess Pingyang looked at Li Xiu with some suspicion when she heard this, and the woman's intuition told her that Li Xiu must be lying.

"Really, I swear, the junior can testify!" Li Xiu swore solemnly, and by the way, Xiao San was also involved, but Xiao San cooperated with the "woo" twice, and then buried his head in Li Xiu's chest, as if he had no face to see people.

Shamelessness also represents invincibility to a certain extent, Princess Pingyang was also defeated, anyway, there was a carpenter in the princess's courtyard, so she agreed, as for what Li Xiu borrowed the carpenter for, it was none of her business, with Li Xiu's character, she should not do bad things.

Li Xiu picked two carpenters with the best skills and left the princess's courtyard, and on the way he also went to the green vegetable greenhouse, but this time he didn't go to check the growth of the green vegetables, after all, he was not so dedicated, mainly in the military camp for so many days, he didn't see any green vegetables, and now he was very greedy, and the cucumbers in the greenhouse should be ripe when he calculated the time, so he went to the greenhouse to pick a few cucumbers, and the steward in charge saw that he not only didn't dare to stop him, but also personally brought water to help Li Xiu clean it.

Holding cucumbers in his hands while walking and eating, he also held a few in his arms to take home to Liu Er and them, of course, he didn't forget the two carpenters, each of them also gave one, at first the two carpenters didn't dare to take it, after all, they all knew what the price of cucumbers in the greenhouse was, and in the end Li Xiu forced them to stuff them, but neither of them was willing to eat, but quietly stuffed them into their sleeves, it seemed that they were going to take them home to satisfy their wives and children, Li Xiu didn't say anything when he saw this.

After arriving home, Li Xiu asked the two carpenters to repair the gate first, no need to redo it, as long as it can barely be used, anyway, he plans to rebuild a larger yard in the spring, and then the gate will have to be replaced again, so there is nothing to pay attention to.

Yuechan and Liu'er had already boiled the bath water, Li Xiu gave them the washed cucumbers, and the two little girls also happily ran to the yard to eat cucumbers while watching the two carpenters work, Li Xiu went in and took a comfortable bath by himself.

After taking a bath, Li Xiu changed into the clean clothes prepared by Liu Er in a refreshing manner, and when he went out of the room, he found that the two carpenters had already repaired the door, and the older carpenter saluted Li Xiu and said, "Son, the door has been repaired, are you still satisfied?" ”

"The craftsmanship is good," Li Xiu looked at the gate and nodded with satisfaction, and then asked with a smile, "Do you two know how to make a car, whether it is a carriage or a trolley?" ”

The two carpenters didn't expect Li Xiu to ask like this, and the two looked at each other at the moment, and then the younger carpenter replied: "Don't hide it from the son, our brothers' craftsmanship is still passable, the princess's carriage is actually made by us, and when other cars are needed in the house, we also take other carpenters to make it together." ”

"That's good, I just designed a car myself, you two see if you can make it?" As he spoke, Li Xiu took out a wooden board and handed it to the two carpenters, which he had spent several days drawing on the road.

The two carpenters took the wooden board and looked at it, and found that there was a strange car drawn on it with charcoal, which suddenly looked like a chair with wheels, but the design was very delicate and beautiful, and there was a pattern of the chair after dismantling next to it, and even some parts were drawn, some of which they had never seen before, such as the two small wheels in front, which could make the car turn at will.

"This ...... These are all things that Childe came up with alone? After reading the picture on the wooden board, the old craftsman asked Li Xiu in disbelief.

"Haha, I'm also thinking nonsense when I'm fine, I don't know if you can make it?" Li Xiu smiled shamelessly, in fact, the wheelchair he designed was almost copied from the wheelchair of later generations, although he didn't know the structure of some places, but as long as he imagined it, he didn't need to achieve too complicated functions anyway.

"This ......" The old carpenter looked at the design of the wheelchair carefully, and then said with some uncertainty: "Childe, I am afraid that this wheelchair cannot be made by our carpenters alone, and some places need to use iron-cast parts, so I have to go back and discuss with the blacksmiths in the house, if they can make it, there will be no problem on our side." ”

"Okay, you bring the planks back with you, but you'd better hurry, this is for the princess!" Li Xiu immediately nodded, he had long seen that Princess Pingyang didn't like to be carried, but he couldn't move around, so he thought about designing a wheelchair for her.

As soon as they heard that it was for the princess, the two carpenters were immediately shocked, and immediately patted their chests and promised: "Don't worry, Childe, let's discuss it well when we go back, even if we don't sleep at night, we must make things for you as soon as possible!" ”

After sending off the two craftsmen, Li Xiu had time to sit down and ask Yuechan about the things at home during this time, but Liu Er chattered and kept talking, such as the Chinese New Year when Li Zhuangzi killed pigs and sheep, and sent them a lot of meat, and during the New Year, they called Liu Lao's vegetarian mother, and the three girls played cards until dawn, etc., although they were all inconsequential little things, but Li Xiu listened to them with relish.

After chatting about the family, Li Xiu asked about the green vegetable business again, Li Xiu was not at home during this time, Yuechan alone provoked the green vegetable business, every business needs to be booked by her hand, Li Xiu just asked, she took out the account book, Li Xiu probably flipped through it, and the result was also shocked, because the green cabbage is simply too profitable, just the income of the previous year is enough for him to build the yard into another princess courtyard.

"Master, the income of this green vegetable is too high, now all the money is in the princess's mansion, and it has not been divided proportionally, the slave is worried that if the princess's mansion sees a rebellion and does not share it with us?" At this time, Yuechan suddenly raised her worries.

"Hehe, don't worry about this, the princess and Uncle Ma are not like that, it's just that I have so much money all of a sudden, I'm a little worried about how to spend it now?" Li Xiu touched his chin at this time and said.

It is impossible for him to build the courtyard into a princess's courtyard, and it is estimated that it will not cost much in the end, and the rest of the money will be too wasteful if it is just piled up at home, but it doesn't matter if you think about it, anyway, he has no ambitions, and it is good to save some money at home, at least he doesn't have to worry about his future livelihood, as for the future days, let's take one step at a time.

Before dawn the next day, when Li Xiu was sleeping comfortably on the bed, he was suddenly woken up by the noise outside, and when he reacted, he jumped up suddenly, because the outside was not an ordinary noise, but the sound of the collision of armor leaves and weapons when a large number of troops passed by, as well as the sound of horses' hooves, etc., these sounds he had long been used to hearing in the army, but this is Chang'an, how could an army suddenly appear outside his door?