Chapter 40 Safety helmets
The next morning, a horse-drawn carriage slowly drove into Gangtou Village.
This was the time when the villagers were working in the fields, and except for a few children who loved to join in the fun, they ran along with the carriage for a while, but no one cared about the whereabouts of the carriage.
The carriage stopped outside the courtyard of Zhao Dalin's house.
Shopkeeper Li stuck his head out of the carriage and shouted, "Brother Zhao." “
Zhao Dalin immediately greeted him with a smile on his face.
When Lin Yunxuan came back last night, he had already informed them that there was a distinguished guest coming to the door today, and he was already ready.
"Elder Shen, shopkeeper Li, please inside. The two of them came to the house, which really made the house shine. Zhao Dalin carefully helped Shen Lao and Shopkeeper Li down from the carriage, and did not forget to say the words that Lin Yunxuan taught him last night.
Lin Yunxuan and He Cuifang stood in the courtyard, smiling to welcome their arrival.
Shen Lao walked into the courtyard with steady steps, looked around, and there were only a few thatched huts as far as the eye could see, and a few people dressed as villagers were busy killing fish on the other side of the yard, and the air was filled with a fishy smell.
I didn't expect such a vulgar and humble place to have such a beautiful girl, it seems that this is also a place where the dragon is hidden and the tiger is crouching.
"Elder Shen, welcome to come, please sit in the house." Lin Yunxuan smiled sweetly at Shen Lao and made a gesture of please.
"You haven't forgotten our agreement, have you?" Shen Lao smiled at her.
"Don't worry, it's ready for a long time." Lin Yunxuan blinked twice and smiled slyly.
Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang were confused by the dialogue between the two of them, and only the shopkeeper Li was silent but smiled.
After Shen Lao and Shopkeeper Li sat down in the hall, He Cuifang immediately brought two cups of tea.
Shopkeeper Li picked up the teacup and took a sip, and suddenly felt that the tea was bitter, there seemed to be sweetness in the aftertaste, and the fragrance of flowers, and looked down at the teacup in his hand: "Huh?" Is this a chrysanthemum? ”
Shen Lao also looked down at the cup when he heard this, and saw a few milky white chrysanthemums floating in the cup, which smelled fresh and very refreshing.
Lin Yunxuan nodded with a smile, "The countryside can't afford to buy good tea, so they have to treat guests with this ordinary chrysanthemum tea." And the weather is hot in summer, and drinking chrysanthemum tea can go to the heat. I hope the two of you don't dislike it. “
"Haha, this thing is very good, this thing is very good." Shen Lao was amused by Lin Yunxuan's candid words.
Shopkeeper Li smiled and picked up the teacup and took another sip.
After the greetings, Lin Yunxuan took out the design drawings of the new house and asked Shen Lao for some advice.
Shen Lao's eyes lit up instantly when he saw the design for the first time, and after reading it carefully, he was so excited that he couldn't even say a complete sentence: "This, this is what you painted?" “
"Not exactly, but I also had a friend who helped me a lot." Lin Yunxuan said modestly.
"This friend of yours is a talent. I'll definitely meet him when I have the chance. Shen Lao misunderstood Lin Yunxuan's words and thought that Luo Yao was the real painter.
Lin Yunxuan was slightly stunned, smiled and didn't speak.
The more Shen Lao looked at it, the more excited he became: "Girl, just rush at you for this picture, let the old man run a few more times, and the old man is willing to do it." It's so much fun. “
Zhao Dalin and He Cuifang looked at each other when they heard this, what does this big man mean?
The corners of Lin Yunxuan's mouth twitched, she knew that she would have directly taken the design drawings to attract you to come over, why spend so many lips and tongues to convince you.
After reading the design drawings, Shen Lao was itchy for a while, rubbed his hands, and said, "Girl, Brother Zhao, take me to your homestead to have a look?" ”
Lin Yunxuan turned her head to look at Zhao Dalin.
Zhao Dalin felt that it was a good thing for his homestead to be stepped on by such a big official, so he readily agreed.
When the group came to the wasteland in the west, Shen Lao turned back and forth with his hands behind his back and nodded: "This place is good, your design is also very good, it is not a big problem to build a house according to your design drawings." ”
Shopkeeper Li hurriedly gave Zhao Dalin a look.
Although Zhao Dalin is honest, he is not stupid, knowing that if his family has been planned by such an official, I am afraid that no one with bad intentions will dare to come to find fault, so he quickly knelt on the ground and thanked him.
"Alas, alas," Shen Lao helped him up, "What is this doing, brother?" To me, this is a trivial matter. What's more, I'm not unpaid, but your girl promised me, don't care if I eat and drink, three meals a day are not the same. “
"Yes, yes, then Elder Shen, let's go back to lunch now?" Lin Yunxuan said with a smile.
"Good! Good! Shen Lao returned to the thatched house in high spirits.
For lunch, Lin Yunxuan made a few home-cooked dishes that Shen Lao had never eaten: squirrel fish, steamed fish cakes, braised pork, braised lion's head, fish head and green vegetable soup and braised pork rice.
At one meal, not only did Shen Lao eat to his heart's content, but Shopkeeper Li was also unsatisfied, and he suddenly wanted to come over every day to eat.
"Girl, my cooking skills are better than those of the imperial chefs in the palace." Shen Lao touched his stomach and said.
"Shen Lao has won the award, where can my skills compare to the imperial kitchen. Compared to the imperial kitchen, it is simply a drop in the bucket. Lin Yunxuan didn't dare to take credit, and said with a smile.
When Shen Lao heard her words, he flattened his mouth and said: "Actually, the things made by the imperial kitchen are just average, just eat fresh, but there are many patterns, and you can't eat enough at all." “
Lin Yunxuan, if she guessed correctly, the dishes made by the imperial chef are the same as the dishes made by some star-rated hotel chefs she has been to in her previous life.
She smiled and teased: "What the imperial chef makes, is it that a chicken also has to pose as a big peng spreading its wings?" Is it possible to carve a flower from a cucumber? “
Shen Lao seemed to have found a soulmate, and laughed: "Haha, that's right. Girl, you're right. “
The shopkeeper Li on the side lowered his head and was holding back a smile, this old and young man are very compatible, and they even dare to make jokes about the imperial kitchen.
Zhao Dalin didn't know what they were laughing at, but the more they talked, the more energetic they became, and he wondered in his heart: Who is the imperial chef? Is his cooking delicious?
Over there, He Cuifang took two women who came to help cook a meal and sent it to the craftsmen.
Today's meal was braised pork brown rice with fish head and green vegetable soup. Although there are not many braised pork, and the rice is also made of mixed grains and brown rice, the marinated pork is covered with fragrant brown rice, and the marinade and rice are integrated, and all the fantasies can be satisfied in this bowl of braised rice. The craftsmen ate it so fragrantly.
The craftsmen didn't expect to eat so much meat at yesterday's opening banquet, and they still had meat for lunch today, and they were more satisfied with the main family, and they worked harder in the afternoon.
In the afternoon, Shen Lao officially started work, as soon as he put into work, his mind was all on this house, and he didn't care about anything else, anyway, it was hot in summer, and then he simply let people build a shed on the side of the homestead, hang a gauze tent, and sleep there.
At noon on this day, Lin Yunxuan was about to send food to Shen Lao, when suddenly a craftsman ran back in a panic and shouted: "Master, master, something happened!" Something happened! “
"What's going on?" Zhao Dalin took the lead in running to the gate of the courtyard, grabbed the arm of the craftsman who came back to report the news, and asked anxiously.
"Liu, Liu Shan was hit in the head by a brick and bled a lot. Quick, find a doctor. The craftsman who reported the news gasped.
Zhao Dalin's heart suddenly panicked, pressed the sudden beating heart, looked back at the courtyard, he subconsciously wanted to find Lin Yunxuan.
Lin Yunxuan walked out of the hall with the medicine box on her back, and said as she walked, "Let's go over first and see what the situation is." “
After speaking, she quickened her pace, and Zhao Dalin and the craftsman who came back to report the news hurriedly followed.
The three of them went to the homestead, only to see that the injured craftsman had been carried out, half-lying on the ground in Shen Lao's shed, holding something in his hand to cover the wound on his head, and the blood stained his hands red. The foreman Liu and Shen Laozheng were guarding him with a worried face, and said a few words from time to time. The other craftsmen stopped what they were doing, and gathered together in twos and threes to whisper and talk.
"Get out of the way and let me see his injuries." Lin Yunxuan walked to the shed and said in a deep voice.
Master Liu and Shen Lao immediately got out of the way, and Lin Yunxuan stepped forward to check on the craftsman's injuries.
Fortunately, the injury was not very serious, the wound was no longer bleeding at the moment, and there were no other injuries on the body.
Lin Yunxuan breathed a sigh of relief, quickly cleaned the wound of the injured craftsman, and then bandaged it with inflammation.
"What's going on?" Seeing that Lin Yunxuan had bandaged her wounds, Zhao Dalin asked Master Liu in a low voice.
"Liu Zhu didn't take the bricks when he moved the bricks up, and the fallen bricks just hit Liu Shan's head, who was working in the foundation pit below, and he bled at once." Master Liu briefly explained what happened, with shame on his face.
If an accident occurs in the process of building a house, even if it is caused by the worker's own mistakes, once it spreads, it will have an impact on the reputation of the owner's family. The main family was so good to them, but they didn't expect them to cause trouble for the main family.
"Is everyone else alright?" Lin Yunxuan glanced at the other craftsmen worriedly.
"It's okay, Liu Shan was injured. I've already beaten Liu Zhu hard, and he won't have to go to work tomorrow. Master Liu hurriedly said that it was his mismanagement that caused such a problem. It's rare to meet such a good master, and you can also follow the former head of the household to do things, this is a good errand that can't be found with a lantern, and he doesn't want to lose it.
"Alright, you can get on with your work. However, when the sun is shining, don't work and take a break to avoid heat stroke. Lin Yunxuan packed up the medicine box and said a few words, ready to leave.
When such an accident happened, Shen Lao was in no mood to work, so he went back to the thatched house with Lin Yunxuan and them.
The three of them didn't say anything all the way, and each fell into their own thoughts.
"Elder Shen, when you go to work on weekdays, don't the craftsmen have any safety measures?" Lin Yunxuan suddenly broke the silence all the way and asked.
"Security measures?" Shen Lao asked suspiciously.
"Say wear a helmet or something." Lin Yunxuan remembered the hard hats worn by workers on construction sites in her previous life.
Shen Lao shook his head: "I've never seen it." “
Three days later, Lin Yunxuan and Zhao Dalin arrived at the homestead with more than a dozen hard hats of different shapes.
The helmet is woven with ancient rattan, because the texture of the ancient rattan is tough, so the helmet made is not beautiful, and the size is not completely uniform, it can only be said to be shaped like a helmet. However, this helmet is quite sturdy, Lin Yunxuan has done experiments, and it can still play a certain protective role.