Infrastructure masters in the red building

When Jia Fang returned to his small courtyard, he felt relieved, but Mrs. Sun made a fuss for a while.

"How can the men in the house go to fetch water?" Sun protested against Jia Fang's actions, especially because Jia Fang was stealthily fetching water while she was away.

"Mother-in-law, it's not like you don't know about my weak bones when I was young." Jia Fang smiled indifferently, "The old ancestors said back then, let me work hard and sweat a little, so that I can grow faster and have a stronger body. .”

Strange to say, Jia Fang's downplaying attitude is especially effective for Sun.Although she couldn't remember what the old lady Jia said before, she heard Jia Fang's words as if they were true, and immediately put away her complaints, and said quietly: "This is the third master who is sympathetic to our grandparents. You are a good person. There will be rewards."

Not long after, Baigongfang packed the broken porcelain pieces, lime and sand that Jia Fang wanted in sacks, pushed them on a trolley, and sent them directly to Jia Fang's yard.

Sun Ma took half a sling of money and came out to give the delivery person a reward, but the delivery person said that the boss had already given enough rewards, and he must not let the customer ask for money anymore, and asked Jia Fang if he wanted to help. It's all readily available.

At this time, Jia Fang was absent-mindedly playing with the broken porcelain pieces sent by the other party. Hearing the enthusiasm of the other party, he thought that choosing a day would be better than hitting the sun. Anyway, if these people don’t do this job, he will hire another person to do it.

So he opened his mouth: "Then please mix lime and sand with water, mix it with water, and then wipe it on the wall in the main landlord's room."

After lime and sand are mixed and water is added, it is earth cement.As early as the Song Dynasty, some people had used this method to paint brick walls, which were as hard as stone after drying. ①

The craftsmen who delivered the goods were not surprised at Jia Fang's order, and quickly took out the bucket and trowel for mixing mud and started to work.

Jia Xin felt emotional: the level of technology and craftsmanship in ancient times was actually not low. In addition to the lack of industrialized mass production, many materials that are familiar to modern people have long been used by ancient people.He couldn't just underestimate the ancients just because they came from later generations, especially the ingenuity of these craftsmen.

While the craftsmen were painting the walls, Jia Fang called Mrs. Sun and Fuya, and the three of them sat on the twig and began sorting the mosaics they bought... no, broken porcelain pieces.Jia Fang told Sun and Fuya to pick out porcelain pieces with similar colors and shapes.These pieces of broken porcelain are all solid colors, mainly azure glaze, occasionally white pomelo, persimmon glaze, red glaze and so on.

Jia Fang saw that the sorting was almost done, so he went into the bathroom by himself, pasted the pieces of porcelain on the wet concrete wall one by one, and finally flattened the wall. Sticks firmly to the wall.

When he pasted the tiles, he paid great attention to the matching of the color and shape of the adjacent tiles. After pasting a small piece of wall, even the busy craftsmen on the side said it looked good.

Jia Fang is also very satisfied with the results of his work.He doesn't like overly complicated decorations, and the mosaic walls with occasional changes in solid colors are very suitable for him.In addition, the natural and unmodified edge shapes of these tiles give the wall a random and varied decorative effect.

"Wonderful!" "Beautiful!" After Jia Fang finished pasting the four walls, the craftsmen who were watching Jia Fang's work praised him in unison.

Jia Fang also asked them to process the floor with cement to make it even, and leave an inclination for the gutter so that the water can drain smoothly.

These craftsmen also smeared the bathroom floor with cement until it was flat.One of them asked Jia Fang curiously: "May I ask you, is this a... bathroom?"

Jia Fang nodded.He knew that steam baths like steam baths or saunas had appeared in the Ming Dynasty, but he was not sure whether such baths existed in this time and space.

After Jia Fang finished his answer, he saw that the craftsman was silent, and curiosity appeared in his eyes, and he knew that steam baths might not be popular in this world.

But he doesn't mind if someone reveals the specifications and settings of his bathroom, just like he doesn't mind revealing the structure of the faucet or the toilet to the outside world, especially for these craftsmen-these craftsmen should be the most receptive to new things in this world People will not leak secrets easily, because keeping business secrets is their way of survival.

Jia Fang is very self-aware and doesn't think he has the ability to bring much change to the world.He did all this just to make himself clean and comfortable during his short time in this world.

But he didn't know that after these craftsmen finished their work here, collected a sliver of money as wages and left, they returned to Baigong Workshop and recounted what they saw and heard to the owner in detail.

The young shopkeeper heard that Jia Fang lived in one of the courtyards where the servants lived together, with only two people, an old man and a young man, serving him.He couldn't help laughing: "When Rong Guogong comes back early next year, if he finds out about this, he will probably be so angry that he vomits blood!"

He lowered his head and caressed a round and shiny jade finger on his right thumb, and said to himself: "At a young age, I have been guarding my father's coffin for three years. There is no merit but hard work. Mrs. Rong Guo is so jealous. There is no reason to eat well. What else is interesting? Just say it.” The last two sentences were addressed to the masons.

He also heard that Jia Fang was eclectic, and he built a "bathroom" with a unique shape and novel decoration in the main room. Finally, he couldn't help laughing, and whispered: "This little Jia Fang, It's looking more and more interesting."

Entering the twelfth lunar month, the good news of the border victory came from the west.The saint made a decree and ordered the coach Rong Guogong Jia Daishan to come to Beijing to face the saint.The border is thousands of miles away from central Beijing, and Jia Daishan has to walk for more than a month on the road.In addition, when he returned to Beijing to report on his duties, and the errands in the northwest had to be handed over, Jia Daishan had to arrive in Beijing at least around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Hearing this good news, the Rongning Second House got busy from top to bottom.

The twelfth lunar month was already a busy year, and now one more thing was added to welcome Jia Daishan's return.After all, Duke Rong has made a great contribution this time. During the New Year, there must be rewards from the palace to the mansion, all kinds of pilgrimage, meeting with His Majesty, thanksgiving...everything is indispensable.In addition, the Spring Festival is already busy, the mansion has to buy New Year's goods, buy new clothes, prepare New Year's dishes, prepare to worship the gods and ancestors, and arrange gifts and New Year's treats, all trivial matters... Almost everyone in the two mansions is too busy Stained.

But Jia Fang was only busy with one thing: Baigongfang sent people to invite him, saying that all the faucets and toilets he needed had been made.

Both of these objects are complicated in workmanship, and there are no finished products in this world to refer to. Jia Fang estimates that it will take at least a month for the craftsmen of Baigongfang to figure out how to make them. Closing inventory... He never expected that Baigongfang would actually make all the things he wanted before the New Year's Eve.

It wasn't until Jia Fang rushed to Baigong Workshop and saw two craftsmen with panda eyes on each other that he understood why things could be made so quickly.

"Mr. Jia, we at Baigongfang have no idea whether the things we make are in line with your wishes, so I would like to invite you to come and have a look. There is another unfeeling request, please be sure to agree."