The New Year is approaching, the weather is getting colder and colder, a heavy snow after a heavy snow, I heard that even in the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the snow is five or six feet deep on the flat ground, and one foot can fall into the crook of the leg.

The south is full of this virtue, not to mention the Jingshi Shuntianfu located in the north, where the severe cold is definitely beyond the imagination of ordinary people, and the temperature is estimated to be minus twenty or thirty degrees.

In such a ghost weather, Xia Yuan directly arranged a bunch of winter vacation homework for Zhu Houzhao, and then gave him a winter vacation.

There were snowflakes outside, and he sat in the middle of his room by a brazier with charcoal burning inside.

Zhao Yuerong was also sitting next to her, her hands on the brazier to keep warm, the flames illuminated her little face, and she was satisfied and distressed at the same time, "Husband, I heard from Mother Wu that the price of charcoal is expensive now, it costs forty or fifty yuan a catty, and we have to burn a lot of charcoal every day now, which is too luxurious." ”

"And what do you mean? Just let us freeze? ”

"I think it's better to burn firewood, firewood is cheaper than charcoal."

"Don't be funny, we'll be smoked to death for burning firewood, as soon as that guy burns up, the house is like a fairyland, full of smoke."

A pound of charcoal is forty or fifty yuan, and the charcoal burned every day is worth at least two or three hundred yuan, Xia Yuan is of course distressed, but there is no way to do it.

It's a cold day, and you can only burn charcoal if you want to heat yourself in the room, because charcoal will not produce any smoke, but firewood is different.

Xia Yuan didn't think about building a stove, I remember that in my previous life, many families without heating would use honeycomb coal stoves to heat their homes every winter, and that kind of stove didn't have to burn honeycomb coal, but also firewood.

But the problem is that stoves are so easy to build that they don't even need to be made, there are similar stoves in this era.

But that kind of tin chimney is very difficult to build in this era, and he went to many blacksmith shops some time ago, and they all said that it was impossible to build it.

"How did you keep warm in winter when you were in the Zhao family before?" Xia Yuan was very curious about this, with such an expensive charcoal price in winter, the Zhao family was definitely reluctant to let Xiao Chuzi burn charcoal for heating.

"Sit next to the stove and keep boiling water so you can keep warm."

It's such a simple heating method, no wonder Wu's mother and dumb mother have shrunk in the stove room for the past few days and can't come out.

Suddenly, Xia Yuan's eyes had a glow, damn it, why didn't he think of this.

Thinking of this, he suddenly got up and walked around the room.

Zhao Yuerong was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking, "Husband, what are you looking for?" ”

Xia Yuan ignored her for the time being, and after a few laps around the house, he was a little disappointed, his idea was to make a kang in the house, although he had never slept on a kang in his two lives, but he knew that the principle of that thing was similar to the stove, the inside was hollow, and a firewood hole was dug in the outer wall to light the fire, and the whole kang was warm at one point.

It's a pity that this main house is not suitable for pankang, and there are two side rooms connected to both sides of the house, so you can only make a fuss on the front and back walls, and the back wall is the small garden in the backyard, and you have to run to the garden when burning the kang, which is too troublesome.

The main body of the front wall is almost all wood structure, if you are in this pan kang, not to mention whether it is in the way or not, once the kang is burned, the whole wall has to be burned.

"You sit in the house first, and the husband will go to other rooms to see which room in our house can be panned."

Xia Yuan put his hands in his cuffs, pushed the door and walked out.

"Kang?"

Xiao Shepherd was stunned for a while, hurriedly followed, and was just about to go out, but ran back to extinguish the brazier, otherwise it would be too extravagant.

........

There were still snowflakes outside, and the snow in the yard was several feet thick, and the two of them deliberately walked on the steps under the eaves, which was the only pure land that was not surrounded by snow.

"Husband, what is Kang?"

"The kang is the bed, the fire is burning underneath, and it is very warm for people to sleep on it, haven't you heard of it?"

Little Camelinae shook his head in confusion, he hadn't heard of it.

"If you are from Liaodong, you must know." Xia Yuan knew that the fire kang had been invented in this era, and when he traveled to Hetuara in the northeast in his last life, he also visited a large kang, and it is said that the wild boar skin, the ancestor of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, was born on this kang.

The age of the wild boar skin was born only a few decades ago, which shows that there was a fire kang in this era.

It's just that it is likely to appear only in the Liaodong region.

"But I'm from Daxing, Beizhili." Zhao Yuerong couldn't help but make a stupid sound.

"What a coincidence, so is my husband."

When passing by a wing room on the east side, Xia Yuan stopped, looked outside the house, pushed the door in, and couldn't help nodding secretly.

This room can, although the area is a little smaller, but it is definitely suitable for pankang, and the room is small and warm.

"That's it, let's make a kang in this room and live here in winter."

Xiao Chuzi readily agreed to this, without any opinion, but he couldn't help but ask: "But how do we make the kang?" ”

"Find people, find craftsmen, find bricks, and you need water... Ahem, yellow mud. ”

When Xia Yuan was squatting in the room and calculating, there was a creaking sound of feet stepping on the snow in the courtyard, and a familiar shout: "Master, master...."

"Did you see it, this is called when the time comes, heaven and earth are all working together, and the people who are on the kang for us are here."

As he spoke, Xia Yuan pushed open the door and beckoned to Xiao Zhu, "Don't shout, it's here." ”

"Master, what are you doing in the side room?"

"This doesn't matter, let me ask you, how many people did you bring out of the palace today?"

Zhu Houzhao was stunned for a moment, and then thought for a while before replying: "Three or five." ”

Xia Yuan was a little sorry when he heard this, three or five... It's a little less, it's just that, and it can be used to make a living.

Tsk, why did you forget Wang Shouren, that guy is the Yamen of the Ministry of Industry and is responsible for infrastructure construction, so it's not too much to ask him to borrow a few craftsmen, right?