Chapter 3 Lingering Fragrance House
As a veteran activist, as soon as I had an idea, I immediately started to act.
Chang Yue is waiting, just put the pen and ink ready!
Qiu Yue ran in suddenly, carrying an oiled paper bag in her hand, and her chubby little face ran red.
"The county lord... The prince asked the little maid to bring you your favorite food, the peach blossom cake in Nancheng."
He licked his lips as he spoke.
Qi Luo sneered, looked at the two girls, and said, "Leave me two pieces, and you can share the rest!" ”
Qiuyue is a simple girl who loves to eat, she eats a lot and has a lot of strength, and she is half a circle fatter than other girls.
Usually the strength of running errands is Qiuyue's errand. Qiu Yue was ordered, her smiling eyes were crooked, she greeted Chang Yue beautifully, and retreated with food.
The original owner has always been quite kind to the maids, and the maids have not been so restrained in front of her, and they are quite lively.
Qi Luo laid out the pen and paper and began to draw her thoughts.
Don't think about the flush toilet, Miss Qi doesn't understand the principle inside.
But this does not prevent her from designing the appearance and basic functions, and the art major is still very strong in hands-on ability and design ability.
After careful planning for a few days, Qi Luo began to implement the construction plan.
In the British Mansion, Qi Luo can be called a one-of-a-kind existence, she ran to her mother but was coquettish, and immediately came with thousands of taels of silver.
only said that the furnishings in the house should be renovated, and the British duchess happily flattered her daughter, and allocated thousands of taels with a stroke of the pen.
Qi Luo is a bitter child, and what he wants is definitely cost-effective, and good money must be on his nose, and he has to see it.
First, the inner room next door was vacated, transformed into a bathroom, and given the beautiful name "Liuxiangju".
The house is divided into two areas, one side is the toilet and the other side is the bathing area.
The British government and others have always asked Qi Luo to want the stars and never give the moon a style.
Qi Luo first asked the white steward to find a craftsman and dug a ditch about 20 centimeters wide and 20 centimeters deep in the ground.
At the bottom of the ditch, the green tiles are densely padded to make the bottom smooth, and produce a slightly curved arc downward.
The ditch leads from the inside of the house through the wall and directly to the outside of the house, which is high inside and low outside.
After digging the ditch, the inside of the house was covered with a square of bluestone, which just covered the dug ditch, leaving only three holes.
A hole, left at the highest point at the end of the ditch, where the cistern is located.
The pool is made of rough carved stone, the edge of the pool is irregular, the bottom of the pool is paved with white pebbles, and the surface of the pool is planted with white water lilies.
A hole was drilled at the bottom of the pool, the diameter of which was pointed directly at the end of the ditch, and the hole at the bottom, which was plugged with cork and equipped with a long copper handle.
The head of the handle is cast in the shape of a blooming water lily, which is half-hidden and half-hidden, revealing the water.
Among the white water lily bushes, there is only one golden lotus, which is like the finishing touch, which is quite beautiful. When flushing, simply remove the stem cork.
The inlet of the pool, placed on the wall above the pool, is made of copper pipe 1 inch thick, and the copper pipe penetrates the wall.
The inside is low and the outside is high, the inside of the house is a beveled copper pipe, the inclined plane is facing upward, and the upper part of the copper pipe is also embellished with a group of three-dimensional copper water lily heads.
Outside the house, the copper pipe is connected to the pool, when you need to store water, you only need to inject water into the pool, and the copper pipe in the house will gurgle water, and the water will flow into the water lily pond, and the water lilies ripple with the waves, which is very beautiful!
There is a screen in the center of the house. The screen is made of light brown muslin, and the cloth surface has magnolia flowers drawn by Qi Luo himself.
The ink is mixed with magnolia flower dew, exuding bursts of fragrance, which looks vivid and meaningful from a distance!
The toilet is separated from the sink by some distance, with its back against the screen, and the base of the toilet is also rough carved from stone.
The base is hollow designed, and the diameter of the toilet is the same size as another hole in the ditch, and the dirt falls directly into the ditch and flows away with the water.
The lid and ring are made of pear blossom wood and polished to a fine and smooth finish. The lid of the barrel is carved with intricate openwork, and some of the cores are decorated with copper stamens.
The intricately carved wood lid creates a strong contrast with the rough carved barrel.
This is also what Qi Luo said, the silver should be spent under his nose......
On the other side of the screen is the tub, which is placed directly on the top of the ditch, the bottom of the tub is connected to the last hole in the ditch, and the bottom of the bucket is plugged with a cork to facilitate drainage.
On one side of the tub, a double-walled wooden hanger stands against the wall, the upper layer is used for a change of clothes, and the lower level is used for scrubbing towels.
On the wall on the other side, a bronze mirror with an openwork edge is hung. On the washing shelf in front of the bronze mirror, a copper basin is placed.
From the ridge of the roof in front of the bronze mirror, a hemp paper lantern fell.
The warm golden light, through the screen, sprinkled on the moon-white water lilies on the quaint pool surface, reflects the warm pink color; Sprinkled on the green smoke overflowing from the copper crane incense burner, it reflects the mottled texture......
It took a total of dozens of taels, and it took only a month before and after, but this "Liuxiangju" is too amazing!
As early as the day after Qi Luo began to make a big fuss in the house, the curious British duke came.
He has always been interested in the progress of Liuxiangju, and many of the ideas and inspirations were conceived by the British public.
For example, the hanging flower bead curtain at the door, the crane incense burner on the side table, the couch next to the bath barrel, the incense balls on the edge of the bath barrel, and the calligraphy and paintings on the wall.
It is worthy of being a gentleman, and the idea is quite hedonistic.
"Luo Bao'er, look what Daddy found for you!" The British duke's face lit up, and he trotted all the way.
In his hand, he held a few small narrow silver hollow boxes, which were about the thickness of a finger and half a finger long, and they were very delicately made.
"This is a few herbs that I asked for from the hospital, and I ordered a few small boxes and placed them on the inside of the gong bucket to drive away the fragrance." An expression of triumph and praise is about pleasure, and the British public has never been ambiguous.
"Daddy's idea is very good"! Looking at the approval in his daughter's eyes, the British public patted the unnecessary dust on his body and expressed his joy.
Stop! Qi Luo really likes it from the bottom of my heart, Dad Qi is really a talent! He has a lot of ideas and insights about design.
Hanging the hollow silver box, the smell really became much better, and there was a faint herbal fragrance.
The British Duke was very satisfied with this "Lingering Fragrance House", so he allocated a larger room in his inner room for renovation.
The father and daughter "smell like" all day long, and go in and out together every day.
On the same day, Princess Yuanping sent a greeting post, prepared a letter, and visited the door for the marriage proposal a month ago......