Gu Yanzhang smiled and said: "The old bamboo used in the White Emperor City is large, the bamboo tube is large, and it is convenient to enter the water, most of the small bamboos planted in this part of the capital are not used, if you really want to use it to divert water, I am afraid that it will not be used very much, and the smaller the bamboo tube, the more difficult it is to get through the bamboo, and you have to go to other places to get some big bamboo back, it is cheap." ”

Ji Qingling said: "I see that the bamboo in the yard is not small, when we are about to return to Beijing, why not buy a few bamboo tubes here with the store and use them for water diversion?" Last time, we ...... in Yongzhou"

When she said this, her face suddenly turned red, and she paused for a moment before she continued: "We are in Yongzhou, either we see someone or use a bamboo tube to draw water for bathing, and draw water from the well, which is much more convenient than asking others to carry water, but it is more troublesome to get through the bamboo tube, and it is just necessary to clean it regularly." ”

She seemed to think of something, and said with a smile: "Fifth brother, when I was very young, it was easy to choke on drinking water and medicine, and I had always been a close person to watch carefully, once taking advantage of the good weather in spring, it was rare for my father and brother to take me out to play, because there was no one to wait around, it was time to take medicine, and I couldn't delay, so my father asked my second brother to go to the side of the road to find a reed pole, and called me to use the reed pole to suck medicine and drink - I was three or four years old at that time, according to reason, I should be sensible, but somehow, I suddenly became confused, stupid, I can't smoke it, and I can't drink the medicine in my mouth, and my second brother can't hold it back for a while, laughing at me for being a 'stupid sister'......"

Gu Yanzhang saw Ji Qingling talking about things when he was a child, his face was full of memories, and he didn't feel sad, he just smiled, standing there a few steps away from him, his face was smiling, and his smile was sweet.

He was sitting on the bed, but at this time, he couldn't help but move to the end of the bed, leaning closer to Ji Qingling, so that he could see the smile on her face, and replied in his mouth: "Where is stupid?" ”

As he spoke, he laughed and said, "If I was here that day, I was afraid that I would have to fight with your second brother, and I would have talked like this, and I would have refused to spare my brother-in-law again!" ”

Ji Qingling heard it funny and said, "You didn't know me at the time." ”

He also said: "But the second brother laughed at me for being stupid, and when I turned my head, I was chased by my father and my eldest brother with a whip and beaten all the way - in fact, my father and my eldest brother were just making a naughty joke, but the second brother took it seriously, and in the end he was not beaten, he took care of hiding, but he accidentally slipped and fell, half of his face was swollen and came back, and he almost lost a tooth, and the reed pole he found was finally used by himself." ”

Gu Yanzhang couldn't help laughing and said, "Why do you need to use reed poles?" How old was he then, and did he still use a reed pole to drink medicine? ”

Ji Qingling's eyes were crooked with a smile, and the corners of his mouth were hooked, and he said: "I don't need it on weekdays, but he broke his face, his mouth was broken, and it hurt when he touched the water, and he applied medicine, so he had to use the reed pole to drink water, drink porridge and soup, if it weren't for the reed pole being too small, the rice, noodles, and stews couldn't be sucked in, and he was afraid that he would have to use this to deal with it even if he ate!" ”

She said while laughing, but turned her head inadvertently, and secretly glanced at Gu Yanzhang's face.

Gu Yanzhang said with a smile: "It's better to make the noodles into a mush, and you can suck them in if you can't say it." ”

While the two were talking, the little girl outside finally came in with a pot of water, lifted the kettle high, and poured the water into the copper basin placed on the shelf at the end of the bed.

The kettle is also made of copper, and there is a curved spout at the front end, and the little girl lifts the kettle, and an arc-shaped stream of water pours out from the spout, which falls into the basin.

Gu Yanzhang looked at the spout, and a thought came to his heart, and he turned his head with a smile and said to Ji Qingling: "It's okay not to use a bamboo tube, that thing has been filled with water for a long time, and it is easy to get moldy, when I return to Dejing, I will hire a coppersmith with good craftsmanship to help build a copper waterway is ......."

He was smiling, but suddenly the smile was fixed on his face, as if he had been knocked on the head by something, and his brain was buzzing, and he was sitting on the bed, and he couldn't help but stand up at this time.

——The bamboo tube can walk water, the reed pole can walk water, the spout can also walk water, as long as it is a hollow thing, it can walk water.

Not only can he walk water, Qingling's second brother also drank porridge with a reed pole, and there was rice in the porridge.

Anything as brittle as the skin of a reed stalk can suck the porridge water in the middle from the porridge bowl, so if you use a bamboo pole or a hollow copper stick, can't you take the rice out of the grain pile?

He was like an initiation, he thought about the shape and height of the grain pile in his mind, and thought about the bamboo pole he saw when he passed by, raised his head suddenly, and asked Ji Qingling: "Qingling, you said that if I take a big bamboo pole, open the bamboo joint, and ask someone to stand on the grain pile and insert it into the grain pile from top to bottom, like this, will I be able to check the grain layer by layer?" ”

Ji Qingling was holding a towel in her hand, she had already pinched the towel to a crumpled one, she said before and after, left and right, just to lead Gu Yanzhang's thoughts in the direction of the bamboo pole, at this time, seeing that the other party finally thought of what to think, he had already answered "yes" a hundred times in his heart, but he still had to pretend to hear it on his face, and he couldn't grasp how to answer, and after a while, he nodded positively and responded: "Fifth brother, insert the bamboo pole into the grain pile from the grain pile, and you should be able to take rice layer by layer. But how are you going to get the grain out? ”

Only the bamboo pole is hollow and the bottom is not sealed, so that the grain can be put into the hollow bamboo pole, but because the bamboo pole is not sealed below, when the pole is taken out, the grain that is naturally loaded in will leak out again.

Gu Yanzhang listened to Ji Qingling's words, lowered his head and pondered for a while, and then said: "This is not a difficult matter, at this time, I am afraid that there is no time for him to take care of it in a hurry, if it is time, I can find a craftsman to use copper to make rice utensils, the shell of copper things is thinner, the start is lighter, and it should be cheaper to use. The bamboo piece is sealed, and then the bamboo tube is taken out - in your opinion, how is this method? ”

Ji Qingling didn't answer directly, but threw the towel in his hand back into the basin, didn't wash his hands, didn't sleep in the afternoon, just sat back on the bed, bent down first, and replaced the embroidered shoes on his feet with riding boots three times and two times, Fu Cai stood up, stomped his feet twice, and shook the dress he was wearing outside, then he tilted his head and said very actively: "Is this method good, don't you know if you try it?" ”

She said that she was already walking in front of herself, walked a few steps, turned back to Gu Yanzhang and smiled with a smile: "Fifth brother, don't go quickly, I will cut down the bamboo in a while!" ”