Ling Mengqi looked up at Aunt Zhang, pouted and said, "This is not to make an oilcloth water pipe, so that it will be more convenient to take the empty bamboo in this backyard to the stable to clean the carriage and horses!" ”

"Did you succeed then?" Aunt Zhang asked, propping her knees.

Ling Mengqi pointed to the place where the water seeped and said, "No! These needles can leak water. ”

Aunt Zhang said casually: "Then you brush a few layers of tung oil on the eye of the needle, and it shouldn't leak." Isn't this barrel also brushed with tung oil so that it won't leak, you can also try it! ”

Ling Mengqi's eyes lit up in an instant, yes! This oilcloth was originally waterproof by brushing tung oil.

Because there was only this section of oilcloth, Ling Mengqi could only wait for it to dry and buy tung oil before he could continue the experiment.

The next day, I heard that Ling Mengqi wanted to buy tung oil, so Aunt Lin brought some of the idle tung oil at home to Ling Mengqi. For Ling Mengqi, who thought that the test would be put on hold for the time being, and could only buy tung oil on the street on his rest day to continue the test, this was undoubtedly a timely rain. And Aunt Lin doesn't want tung oil money, she just says that it's all idle things at home.

Ling Mengqi didn't say anything polite to Aunt Lin, she thought that she would invite Aunt Zhang and Aunt Lin to eat delicious food when it was done later. In a hurry, I brushed tung oil on the dry soft water pipe, and then brushed it a second or third time when the tung oil was dry. After two days, Ling Mengqi finally made a soft water pipe that would not leak.

"Xiao Qi's head melon seeds are really good!" Aunt Lin gave a thumbs up and said to Aunt Zhang.

"Not really! It's really convenient to have this water pipe, and there are still a lot of places where you can use it! Aunt Zhang looked at Ling Mengqi's figure rushing out, and said with a smile: "Just let's wash the dishes, with this water pipe, you don't need to go to the corner to catch water." ”

Ling Mengqi ran non-stop to find Lin Youyou, and gave him the finished product: "Shopkeeper, look." ”

"What is this?" Lin Youyou took the soft water pipe, looked at it over and over for a long time, and couldn't guess what it was.

Ling Mengqi explained: "This is a water pipe! Connected to the empty bamboo water pipe, it will not leak, and you can pull it wherever you want, which is convenient. ”

"Oh?" Lin Youyou raised his eyebrows, after Ling Mengqi said this, he knew the principle of use when he looked at the soft water pipe in his hand again. When he arrived in the backyard with Ling Mengqi, the two old and young were squatting in the backyard fiddling with the soft water pipe, but after a while, they heard Lin Youyou say, "Okay!" Try making a long one first. ”

"The shopkeeper should be at least fifty meters long! Not only can I use this pipe to fetch water in the yard and wash dishes and vegetables, but I can also connect it from the kitchen window to the stable, so that I don't have to carry water so hard when I brush the carriage. You don't know, I'm almost crushed by the bucket. Ling Mengqi reminded.

"Okay, since you invented it, make a fifty-meter long one as you say. If it works, it's really convenient. Lin Youyou readily agreed to Ling Mengqi's request, took the twenty-centimeter-long soft water pipe, and walked away with his hands behind his back.

Ling Mengqi guessed that Lin Youyou should have gone to find Wei Yun, otherwise how could he have taken the water hose away! But Ling Mengqi didn't care, as long as she had the fifty-meter water pipe, she was satisfied, and she was about to wake up laughing when she thought that she didn't have to carry water back and forth every day.

Sure enough, in the afternoon, Lin Youyou found Ling Mengqi and gave him a reward of five taels of silver. Although this is obviously very small compared to the cost of making ice, this process cannot be kept secret, and if you see it on the market, many people will imitate it. This five taels of silver is still a reward for Wei Yun who thinks that this method can be convenient for many people, so she gives her a reward.

Because of this soft water pipe test, Aunt Zhang and Aunt Lin also helped a lot, so Ling Mengqi divided five taels of silver into Aunt Ma and Aunt Lin for one tael.

Aunt Zhang and Aunt Lin were a little surprised, you must know that one or two pieces of silver is more than half a year's salary! (The dishwasher's salary is 150 wen a month, and Ling Mengqi has also risen to 150 wen since the second month.) At first, she refused to ask for it, thinking that the little girl's family conditions were not good, but later because Ling Mengqi said that she still had three taels, the two of them were not polite to her, and happily accepted the money.

Aunt Ma was so happy that she couldn't see her face, and said to Aunt Ling Mengqi Lin in a shyd manner: "This is my private money, I have to hide it." ”

"Yes, yes, I've got to hide it too!" Aunt Lin also said happily.

Lin Youyou's speed was very fast, but in three days, a fifty-meter-long soft water pipe was made. The main process is to brush the tung oil part of the waste of time, to wait for the tung oil to rush to brush the second and third times, or the ancients to do needlework at the speed, but half a day should be able to do a good job!

The water pipe incident came to an end, and Ling Mengqi also earned a lot of merit points for the water pipes he made. And Liyu was still discussing the improvement of the machine with Mo Zhai Xianjun, and she didn't even have time to be happy when Ling Mengqi's merit points arrived.

Time flies, and everything alternates.

The cold winter is approaching step by step, and Jinfeng Lou issued a padded jacket and jacket to each worker. Compared with others, the treatment of Jinfeng Building is still relatively generous, at least a set of new clothes will be issued all year round.

Ling Mengqi was wearing the new padded jacket he had just brought back, a little happy and a little moved. From the memory in his mind, Ling Mengqi learned that the original body had been wearing a shabby cotton jacket every winter in the past and enduring the cold. Compared with the warmth close to him at the moment, Ling Mengqi was glad that he ran out more than once and met a good owner like Lin Youyou.

In the cold winter, the cold and biting water is undoubtedly a torture for dishwashers. Fortunately, Lin Youyou is not a harsh subordinate, and there is also the warm water that Ling Mengqi offered before, Lin Youyou waved his hand and allowed Ling Mengqi and the others to wash it gently, so this winter day is not so difficult.

In winter, the most comfortable thing is nothing more than a group of people eating hot pot together. It's just early winter, and there are already fewer guests in the evening. After getting off work early on this day, Ling Mengqi invited everyone to eat hot pot with great interest.

In ancient times, eating hot pot was undoubtedly troublesome. When there is no electricity, you have to constantly burn the fire to eat a complete hot pot meal, so restaurants generally do not launch a hot pot business.

Although it was troublesome, it still didn't prevent Ling Mengqi from wanting to eat hot pot at this time. Lin Youyou listened to Ling Mengqi's suggestion, thinking that everyone had worked hard for more than half a year, so he readily agreed, and provided a lot of meat and vegetarian dishes in friendship.