Chapter 162: The Man in the House
The second more. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The Zhang family's new house is five large suites, and Zhang Chao lives on the left one.
"San Lang, will we live here in the future?" Qiuyue and Dongqing hugged their little baggage and asked Zhang Chao excitedly.
Zhang Chao's suite is also a large room in the middle, a small room on each side. The two small rooms do not open the door to the courtyard, but directly open the moon door from the large room in the middle.
"Well, you two will live in the room on the right in the future. The one in the middle is my flower room, and my bedroom is the one on the left. ”
"San Lang, why don't you live in this big room in the middle." Qiuyue was puzzled, why didn't she live in the largest room, but she lived in a small room.
"This is the flower hall, where I can read books or drink tea in the future."
The three rooms all have a kang, and there is floor heating in the middle, which is quite luxurious, but Zhang Chao insists that it is not normal to make himself comfortable. Although the three rooms are all on the kang, Zhang Chao is still used to the layout of later generations, and the middle room is so big that it is not suitable as a bedroom. The bedroom doesn't need to be too big, it's almost OK, so it's more conducive to sleeping, after all, the role of the bedroom is to sleep.
The middle room is considered an activity area, with a kang, a coffee table, and a set of spring and autumn chairs. On the other two sides of the wall, there are bookshelves on one side and Bogu shelves on the other. There are books on the shelves, all scrolls and albums. There is also a large desk next to the bookshelf, and behind it is a new style of large back chair. On the table, there are four treasures of the study, pen holders, pen holders, paperweights, these. There are also two large porcelain vases next to the desk, which are used to hold some blank scrolls for easy access.
There are also curtains and doors on the moon doors leading to the rooms on either side, which can be opened and lowered during the day and closed at night. The bedrooms on either side did not open to the courtyard, but there was a large window. Originally, the windows of the house at this time were opened higher and smaller, which was also conducive to anti-theft, but Zhang Chao considered the lighting, so he still opened a large window, and also glued white paper on the window very luxuriously, so that the light transmittance in the house was greatly enhanced.
"Do you want to change your shoes when you enter the house?" Dongqing looked at the smooth and smooth floor tiles on the ground, and couldn't bear to spoil the cleanliness of the house with her shoes.
Zhang Chao smiled, "There is a shoe cabinet next to the door, and there are cloth shoes in it, you can change cloth shoes when you enter the house in the future, and you can often clean and mop the floor." ”
The two girls changed into shoes and carried their bags into the west room, and there was also a kang inside, but it was not as big as the outside.
"Wow, sister, there's a wardrobe and a dresser."
Although the west room is a maid's room, Zhang Chao didn't make it too simple, there are warm kangs, kang tables, kang cabinets, and two camphor wood boxes. In addition, a dresser was placed on the side of the kang, and a bronze mirror was placed on it, with a new comb. On the other side, there is a new wardrobe with hangers and dresses that can be stored inside.
Qiu Yue couldn't put it down with the bronze mirror, and kept shining on herself. Women love beauty, Qiuyue and Dongqing are only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it is the time to love beauty. However, the bronze mirror is very expensive, and they didn't have it at home before. Now San Lang actually gave them a dresser and a bronze mirror, which really made them happy.
"Sit there and try it and see how it goes." Zhang Chao was very happy to see them, and he was quite happy. These two girls are their own personal rings, and they usually take care of themselves, and Zhang Chao is also very grateful to them.
Qiu Yue sat on the drum stool in front of the dresser first, holding a copper mirror in her hand, and the polished extremely smooth copper mirror reflected Qiu Yue's already ruddy face.
This girl has been in Zhang's house for a few months, and she has developed a lot, her face is ruddy and fair, and she has grown some flesh on her body, plump, and under the high-waisted skirt, she can already hold up some of it. The original dry, yellow, split hair has become much oilier and brighter.
The two girls now wash their hair often, their hair is very smooth and jet black, and the wooden hairpins on the double-ring bun can also look very cute. The two girls are still smearing some of the rouge that Zhang Chao gave them every day, but they have completely lost the feeling of the thin firewood girl when they first came.
In particular, although she was wearing a cloth skirt, she was a new one, with no patches, and it was very clean.
When I went out, I had a bit of the taste of the daughter of a small landowner in the countryside.
The Zhang family now has two servants, a housekeeper and a veterinarian, both of which are five people, the housekeeper's family is two daughters and one son, and the veterinarian's family is two sons and one daughter.
Now the housekeeper and his wife still live in a hole behind the old cellar of the original Zhang family, and the veterinarian couple lives in the old cellar where the original Zhang family lived.
The six sons and daughters of the two families, the bolt and the eldest cow and the second cow, all lived in the inverted lower house in the courtyard of the new house.
And Qiuyue Dongqing and Niu Xiaomei, Zhang Chao originally arranged one in his father's house, one in his own house, and then one in his sister Lianniang and Lan Niang's house, so that someone in the house would take care of them.
But in the end, the father said that he didn't need it in the house, and Qi Niang also said that the two girls Dongqing and Qiuyue would still follow Zhang Chao, so Niu Xiaomei was divided into the two sisters' houses. In the autumn moon and winter sunshine, the two girls went to serve in Zhang Chao's house, and the three girls all lived with their masters, and it happened that the new caves of the Zhang family were all suites.
Now my father lives in one set, and he lives in one set by himself, and the two sisters also live in one set because Lan Niang is still urinating. There are still two of the five suites left in the house, one will be reserved for Lan Niang in the future, and the other can be used as a guest room.
The three of them, the bolt and the big cow and the two cows, lived in the inverted house opposite the courtyard, and they could keep vigil.
The Qiuyue sisters took turns enjoying the feeling of a dresser looking in a bronze mirror, and they were very happy.
"Ah, San Lang, why is there a small corner in this house?"
Qiu Yue saw that there was a small door in the wall over there, and closed it with a curtain.
"You'll know what it does."
This small corner was specially requested by Zhang Chao, and its function was actually to avoid hard work at night in winter. Although Zhang Chao built two toilets in the courtyard, they were divided into men and women. But after all, there is still a bit of distance from the house to the courtyard, especially in winter, when there is a kang in the house to be warm, but it is cold outside. In and out, it is easy to catch a cold and catch a cold.
The practice of those big families is to put a toilet in the house.
It is generally placed directly under the bed, and Zhang Chao's room is a kang, and it is not very elegant to put it directly next to it, and there will definitely be some taste. Therefore, he made a small crutch room in the kiln, which was the size of the bathroom in the bedroom of the later generation.
Inside, Zhang Chao asked the carpenter to make a toilet chair, which is a simplified version of the toilet bed.
A toilet chair the size of a single sofa chair can be sat on directly when you get up at night to go to the toilet, which is as convenient as a toilet. The underneath is equivalent to a large closed box with a door that can be opened.
In this way, a toilet can be placed inside, and every morning, the wooden box can be opened, the toilet inside can be removed, and it can be sent to a specially dug manure tank outside the hospital.
In this way, it is convenient to get up at night, and there is no need to go out of the room to go to the toilet in the courtyard, and with this small toilet and toilet chair, the house will not be so smelly. As long as you remember to take the toilet and empty it every morning, and then smoke some incense in it, it is still very good.
"This room is for getting up and going to the toilet at night?" Qiu Yue looked at the beautiful chair and said in surprise.
Zhang Chao walked over and lifted the chair, revealing a hole under the flat chair, and you can still see the toilet below.
"San Lang, what is this bucket next to here?"
"This bucket is very useful. This bucket is filled with sawdust and stove ash, and after going to the toilet at night, I pour some sawdust and grass ash from it into the toilet bowl to cover the smell. ”
"Saburo is really thoughtful."
The two girls immediately liked this small bathroom, this toilet chair, and toilet.
Originally, Zhang Chao planned to build a real bathroom in this house and get a flushing toilet. But then I thought about it, manure is still a very important agricultural fertilizer in this era, if it is flushed, it is not only necessary to install a pipe, but also to repair a manure tank, and the most important thing is to waste manure.
"There's also a handwashing station, which is a faucet, and when you turn it on, the water comes out. It's easy to wash your hands after using the toilet or to brush your teeth and wash your face in the morning. ”
Although the bathroom did not have a flushing toilet, the tap water was still connected. Zhang Chao spent a lot of effort to dig a well in the courtyard and install a well car, a tube car and a water tower, of course, just to enjoy convenience.
How can there be no sink in the bedroom bathroom, no running water, no sewer pipes? Zhang Chao even installed a shower head and a bath bucket inside.
If you want to take a bath in the house, you can wash it in the special bathroom in the courtyard, whatever, anyway, the walls and floor in this room are paved with bricks, and you are not afraid of water.
Anyway, if you have money, you are so capricious.
The five suites of the Zhang family all have such toilets, for which Zhang Chao paid a lot of money, mainly to install water and sewage pipes, using pottery pipes, or customized. Fortunately, this house is newly built, and Zhang Chao has already designed these when he started construction.
Otherwise, it would be very troublesome to do this in a repaired house.
The two girls liked this bathroom very much, one would go to the sink, one would turn the faucet, and the other would lift the lid of the toilet chair.
If Zhang Chao hadn't been here, it was estimated that the two girls would have to untie their clothes and give it a try immediately.
Rao was like this, and the two girls also took turns to sit down.
"In the future, the task of emptying the toilet in the morning will be handed over to the two of you. I asked the housekeeper to buy some incense, and remember to smoke incense in the bathroom in the morning and evening. ”
"Got Saburo." The two girls giggled.
"Okay, you can take a good look at it yourself, put your clothes and so on, and I'll go back to my house first."
"Well, if San Lang has something, call us."
"Don't call, you hear the bell ringing in the house, just come to my house immediately."
Zhang Chao installed a news bell in the house, and as soon as Zhang Chao pulled it in his room, the bell in the room of the two girls would ring.
It looks amazing, but it's actually a very simple device. (To be continued.) )