Chapter 12 Filtration Devices
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Early in the morning, before Li Manying got up, Li Tiezhu was woken up by the fragrance coming from the yard. He pushed open the door in a daze, as if he couldn't believe his eyes, rubbed it vigorously, and when he opened it again, he shouted happily: "Brother Yang Yun." ”
"Shh Yang Yun put his index finger in front of his mouth, signaling him to speak softer.
However, Li Tiezhu's voice still woke Li Manying up. She was dressed in a coat, her little face was sleepy, and two shallow eye bags appeared under her eyelids, as if she hadn't slept all night.
Seeing Yang Yun, she didn't have much mood swings, just smiled lightly, like a husband waiting to return home: "Are you back?" ”
"Hmm." Yang Yun also nodded at her, and said with concern, "You go to sleep for a while, I'll call you after a while." ”
Li Manying shook her head, covered her mouth and stretched her waist, the piece of pink meat exposed under the hem of the dress was like a magnet, attracting Yang Yun's gaze and couldn't move away.
"Ahem."
It was still a light cough from Li Tiezhu beside him, which recalled Yang Yun's soul.
The early morning breeze was a little cold, Li Manying tightened her clothes, didn't notice their small movements, walked to Yang Yun's side and asked, "What are you doing here?" ”
"Barbecue." Yang Yun flipped the leg of mutton on the grill, and then put his arm around Li Manying's shoulders and asked her to get closer, "Don't catch a cold." ”
"Hmm." Li Manying nodded and leaned over obediently, her whole face flushed because of the fire.
After a while, the golden-colored leg of mutton made a "zizi" sound, which made Li Tiezhu swallow his saliva.
"Come, try it and see if it's ripe." Yang Yun used a knife to cut off a piece of meat on the leg of mutton and handed it to Li Tiezhu.
At this time, Li Tiezhu didn't care if it was ripe or not, he took the mutton and stuffed it into his mouth, and after swallowing it, he felt that it was hot, and he reached out and fanned his mouth wildly: "Hot, hot!" ”
"Imp."
Yang Yun shook his head with a smile, cut a small piece from the leg of mutton, put it in his mouth and chewed it. After a moment, he nodded with satisfaction, and said to himself: It's a pity that there is no salt and cumin, otherwise it would be more perfect.
After removing the firewood, he divided the leg of mutton into three, the largest one was given to Li Tiezhu, the smaller one was given to Li Manying, and the smallest one was kept for himself.
"I'll trade it with you, I can't eat that much." said that it was slightly smaller, but Li Manying's share was also the size of her face, much bigger than Yang Yun's palm.
"I ate it before I came back, so you can eat it." Yang Yun smiled and didn't change with her, "Seeing that you are so thin, you should eat more." ”
I don't know why, hearing him talk about being small, Li Manying subconsciously looked at her chest, and when she reacted, even the neck part began to turn red, and she didn't dare to raise her head at all.
"Ahem." This time, it was Yang Yun who coughed a few times, how could he not notice Li Manying's gaze, and even secretly glanced at it a few times, "Tiezhu, you eat slowly, from today onwards, we will eat three meals a day." Especially you, drink white rice porridge in the morning, and eat meat at noon and dinner. Today is special, in order to make up for the promises that were not kept yesterday. ”
Hearing that there was meat to eat every day after that, Li Tiezhu jumped up happily, how could he still remember what he said yesterday, but his mouth was stuffed with mutton, "woo woo", and he didn't know what he was talking about.
However, Li Manying was a little worried, and quietly pulled Yang Yun aside, unwilling to let Li Tiezhu hear: "Young Master Yang, but we ...... There's not that much food. ”
"Don't worry." Yang Yun smiled and patted her head, and raised the leg of mutton in his hand to show her, "You don't have to worry about food in the future, don't you want Tie Zhu to become a general?" It's not okay not to eat enough. ”
Li Manying was not an inquisitive person, but seeing that he had other plans at the moment, she showed a sweet smile like a little daughter-in-law: "Hmm." ”
"However, when someone asks, you have to say that the Xue family sent us."
"Okay."
Saying that, in the afternoon, Xue Hu really sent someone to beat the gongs and drums, so it was not lively.
"Excuse me, is this Miss Li's house?"
When they came, Yang Yun was tinkering with some gadgets in the yard, and when he looked up and saw the contempt flashing in the eyes of the person who spoke, he didn't care, and chuckled into the house: "Miss Li, someone is looking for you." ”
"Who?"
Hearing his voice, Li Manying ran out of the back room, her hair was scattered, and she was still holding a blood-stained kitchen knife in her hand. Although she also heard the sound of gongs and drums, she only thought that it was her family who was marrying, and she never imagined that she was looking for herself.
The person who spoke knew Li Manying, and when he saw her come out, he immediately bowed, and his attitude was much more respectful than that of Yang Yun: "The younger one is the Xue family's steward, Xue Gui." We met yesterday, Miss Li doesn't know if you remember? ”
Li Manying was a little familiar when she saw him, and after thinking about it for a while, she recalled: "Ah, you were the housekeeper who took me to see Master Xue at that time. ”
"Miss Li has a really good memory." Xue Gui gave an exaggerated thumbs up, and this sycophant kung fu came easily.
Li Manying noticed Yang Yun's glances, her face turned red, and she hurriedly said, "Steward Xue, you came to me, did you bring the young master of the Xue family back?" ”
In fact, when she saw Yang Yun in the morning, she knew that Xue Yi's matter was solved, and at this moment, she was just knowingly asking.
"Yes, in order to thank Miss, Master Xue specially brought some small gifts." When he said this, Xue Gui's voice was very loud, and he deliberately looked back and asked his subordinates to take down the gifts on the carriage one by one.
At this moment, rice, pork, cloth, etc., piled up a hill in the yard, making the crowd of onlookers more and more.
However, Xue Gui just wanted this effect, and when the subordinates were moving things, he performed the process of Li Manying taking Yan Ping to the door at that time, and even saving Xue Yi from Pengjiazhai.
Of course, in his mouth, he would not mention that Yan An took people down the mountain, but Dian Wei and others forcibly killed them up the mountain and killed Xue Yi, who Peng Ziliang had recaptured.
In the end, I was afraid that they wouldn't believe it, so Xue Guiyin said predictively: "Then Peng Ziliang's head is hanging at the east gate, if you don't believe it, you can go and identify it." ”
Soon, the things were moved, and Xue Gui's performance couldn't make up new tricks, so he saluted Li Manying again: "Miss Li, if there's nothing to do, the little one will leave." The lord also said that if the young lady has time, she can also come to the house to sit. ”
The last sentence was purely polite, and Li Manying would not really come to the door, but looking at the things all over the yard, she was in a trance for a while, and she forgot the way of hospitality.
Yang Yun stepped forward to say a few words, picked out an inconspicuous small brocade box from the gift given by Master Xue, and quietly stuffed it into Xue Gui's arms. Then Xue Gui changed his disdainful attitude, said and laughed enthusiastically, and then left with a smile.
On the way back, still beating gongs and drums, Xue Gui rode on a horse and kept shouting at the county people along the road, roughly saying that the master of the Xue family eliminated harm for the people and killed Peng Ziliang at night.
After Xue Gui left, Li Manying was still not peaceful, and those who joined in the excitement couldn't disperse for a while, whether they knew her or not, they flocked to her side and said some flattering words.
It wasn't until Li Manying received Yang Yun's hint and distributed some gifts from the Xue family that the crowd gradually dispersed.
But after they left, Uncle Zhang came, smiling, looking harmless to an elder: "Manying, are they gone?" ”
"Yes, Uncle Zhang, why are you here?" Li Manying still respected him and hurriedly greeted him.
"Hehe, it's noisy, I can't think about it."
Uncle Zhang looked at the grain all over the ground and smiled very sincerely: "It seems that with the help of the Xue family in the future, you and Tiezhu don't have to worry about food anymore." ”
"By the way, you smelled meat in the morning, and the Xue family gave it to you?"
Li Manying glanced at Yang Yun and replied without a trace: "Yes, when I came back last night, the Xue family gave some, just to make up for the iron pillar." ”
"Yes, it's to make up for the iron pillar." Uncle Zhang nodded approvingly, then moved his gaze to Yang Yun, and asked strangely, "Young Master Yang, what are you doing here?" ”
"Nothing." Yang Yun raised his head and smiled, pouring some boiled hot sand and gravel into the bamboo tube, "It's just idle and boring, make some...... Uh, carpentry. ”
"Carpentry?" Zhang Bo took a closer look, it was a polished bamboo tube, which was hollowed out, leaving a small hole at the bottom, "Won't this sand and gravel flow out?" ”
"No, I've put a layer of stone on the bottom." Yang Yun shook the bamboo tube, and sure enough, there was a sound of stones colliding inside.
"Oh...... This is really ......" Uncle Zhang smashed his mouth, he really couldn't figure out what the use of this thing was.
Li Manying also walked over and made an angry expression towards Yang Yun: "He's been fiddling with this since the morning, and he doesn't know what the use is." Gentleman ......"
Seeing that she was going to say something like a gentleman's cooking, Yang Yun hurriedly stood up and couldn't cry or laugh: "I said it earlier, I'm not a gentleman......"
"Hehe, young people are just good."
Seeing that the two of them quarreled with red faces on this issue, Uncle Zhang shook his head helplessly, saw the opportunity, and asked seemingly casually: "By the way, Yang Gongzi didn't come back yesterday?" ”
"yes." The two stopped fighting, and in Li Manying's nervous eyes, Yang Yun smiled and nodded.
And then there was no then, and the two men fell into an awkward silence.
In the end, it was Uncle Zhang who reacted, smiled awkwardly, and relieved himself: "People are getting old, and there are many words." Yang Gongzi's private affairs really shouldn't be asked. ”
"It's fine." Yang Yun smiled and replied calmly, "I just happened to encounter something and slept outside for a night." ”
"Well, Yang Gongzi still has to pay attention to his body, he is recovering from his illness, you scholars, this body is not as good as ours."
After saying that, Uncle Zhang had no reason to stay any longer, so he took a small bag of rice that Li Manying had just stuffed over, waved his hand, and left.
"Whew." Finally, no one bothered again, Li Manying exhaled a long breath and quickly closed the door.
"Come on, come on, see if this thing of mine works."
Seeing that there were no outsiders, Yang Yun beckoned to her mysteriously, took the bamboo tube, and walked to the well.
Then, under Li Manying's curious gaze, Yang Yun fished out a bowl of water from the well, slowly poured it into the bamboo tube, and then filtered it through sand and stones, and slowly flowed into the porcelain bowl from the small hole at the bottom.
When the bowl was full, Yang Yun picked it up and looked at it in front of him, tasted it lightly, and then handed it to Li Manying with a smile: "Come, taste it." ”
"Isn't it just a bowl of water, it's so complicated."
Li Manying glanced at him, but after taking a sip, his expression immediately changed, and he was pleasantly surprised: "Drink it well, how did this water become so delicious?" ”
A bowl of water was quickly drunk by her.
Seeing that she was learning to filter the water in her own way, Yang Yun breathed a sigh of relief, finally this simple method was useful, there was no need to deal with the turbid and astringent well water every day, he could not drink water for the past two days.
"Drink less, remember, this water will have to be boiled on the fire before you can drink it, and this bowl will have to be washed with boiling water in the future before you can use it."
"Okay."
What Yang Yun said, Li Manying can always agree, even though it sounds so absurd.
"Young Master Yang, why is the water so delicious through this bamboo tube?"
Throughout the afternoon, Li Manying pestered Yang Yun and asked, the small bamboo tube seemed to be more important in her heart than the gifts piled up in the yard.