Infrastructure masters in the red building

The next day, Jia Fang asked Zhao Cheng to go to the back street of Rongning to find a few craftsmen who often repair houses and build walls for the two houses. They asked them to build a brick wall in the east room of the main house, separating a small room.

Before the brick wall was built, craftsmen first made a simple wooden frame with a few wooden posts.A ceiling made of thin wood boards was added above the partitioned cell.The craftsman at work looked at the structure of the house, and asked Jia Fang, "Don't the third master think this small room is too boring?"

"It's better to be bored!" Jia Fang smiled and said nothing.

The craftsmen stuck out their tongues and continued to work—anyway, Jia Fang promised that as long as the work was done well, the wages would not be less.

All the work was completed within two days. During this period, Jia Fang brought a mason on the kang to make supporting facilities - a small hole was made on the side of the kang, and tiles with their own inclination angles were added. Made a sink.The water flowing out from here will be drained from the courtyard along the existing drainage ditch in the small courtyard.

In addition, Jia Fang also asked Zhao Cheng to find a few huge stones and put them on the earthen kang, and found a high bench next to the earthen stove.Not far from the earthen stove, there is a large bathtub used by the original owner for bathing.

Only then did Sun and the others realize that Jia Fang had built a "bathroom" for himself.

So Sun asked Zhao Cheng to fetch water, filled the water tank in the yard, and asked Fuya to light a fire to boil the water.

Jia Fang asked Zhao Cheng to pour cold water into his bathtub.This proposition immediately terrified Sun, thinking that Jia Fang was going to take a cold bath again.Jia Fang had to reassure again and again that the clay stove in this bathroom also had the effect of heating the cold water, and he must have heated the water before pouring it on his body.

Although Sun was a little dubious, she still couldn't hold back Jia Fang in the end.She also personally brought Jia Fang's copper basin for daily washing and put it on the earthen stove. After a while, the copper basin became quite hot. Only then did Sun feel relieved, and repeatedly told Jia Fang not to burn it. The wind, then lifted the curtain and went out.

Jia Fang tried the temperature of the soil kang, and then the water temperature of the bath tub, and was very satisfied. Then he took off all the clothes outside and hung them on the screen at the bathroom door. He only wore obscene clothes and sat on the bench. superior.

He stretched out his hand to try it, and the stones on the kang were already steaming hot, so he took the ladle he usually used for bathing, scooped up a ladle of cold water and poured it on the stones, and there was a sound of "呱啦", and the bathroom There is white steam in it.The steam was trapped in the small space and could not escape, and the temperature in the bathroom rose rapidly.

Satisfied, Jia Fang poured another ladle of water on the stone, enjoying the slow expansion of every capillary in the skin under the high temperature, making his limbs extremely comfortable.But soon, the small bathroom was filled with water vapor and became a closed space with high temperature and high humidity. Jia Fang was sweating profusely and his heartbeat was a little fast.He quickly took a sip of the tea that he brought into the bathroom in advance, the warm and cool tea made his body very comfortable.

Knowing that the time was up, he walked to the side of the tub and jumped into the tub, as if he was in a sea of ​​bone-cold ice, and all the pores on his body seemed to have been pricked by needles.However, Jia Fang, who had been drowsy from the high temperature and high humidity environment earlier, woke up instantly. After the brief stimulation of immersion in cold water, he felt extremely cool and comfortable.

What Jia Fang built was not a common bathroom nowadays, but a "Finnish bath" bathroom①—the kang in the house was small and thin, not suitable for sitting or lying down, so he transformed it into one for heating stones. Sauna stove.Correspondingly, the bathtub in the bathroom can no longer hold hot water, and must put cold water.

The traditional Finnish bath is hot steam plus cold bath, hot and cold cycle.It is said that this alternating stimulation of cold and heat can increase the elasticity of blood vessels and prevent the aging of blood vessels. At the same time, it can also make the pituitary gland secrete endorphins, just like dopamine, which can make people feel unparalleled happiness.

In this world, Jia Fang is just a teenager, but what he has is the firm will of an adult.When Jia Fang just woke up, he realized that his body was not strong enough, and he had to find a way to improve his physical fitness.Cleanliness and Finnish baths are part of the plan, and no matter how hot or cold it gets, he will do it as long as his body can handle it.

Jia Fang climbed out of the bathtub, poured two scoops of hot water on the stone, and continued to feel the fumigation of the heat. When his whole body was sweating again, he jumped into the bathtub again.The water overflowed from the bathtub, most of it flowed out along the drain, and a lot of it seeped into the ground. Later, the heat from the sauna stove would drive the water vapor away.

Jia Fang was lying in the bathtub, his body had already gotten used to the stimulation of alternating hot and cold, but his mind was very clear, and he began to think about the transformation of this small courtyard.

Jia Fang's small courtyard has an obvious "advantage" in that it is very close to various facilities.Behind his yard is an empty corridor, on the other side of the corridor is the north wall of the Rong Mansion, and the outside is outside the mansion.

Although no one is using this corridor, the two northernmost wells in Rongfu: a sweet water well and a bitter water well, are located at both ends of this corridor.

In addition, Jia Fang's small courtyard is relatively close to the dry toilet in Rongfu. Although he is more likely to be smelly from time to time, it also means that it will be more convenient for him to build a modern toilet.

Jia Fang closed his eyes slightly: he can plan a modern toilet and washroom in his mind without drawings at all.He is very clear that there are two things that he urgently needs to accomplish now: one thing is that the bathroom needs to be waterproofed, and the second thing is to solve the problem of water intake as soon as possible.

The reason for waterproofing is because the house itself is a brick and wood structure, and it is not a good thing if water soaks the column foundation.Although there is a shortage of materials in ancient times, with Jia Fang's ability, it is not a problem to make a small bathroom waterproof.

Getting water is more troublesome.Jia Fang really wants to make a semi-automatic water intake device, which requires a shelf above the water source, that is, the bitter water well, and the adjacent house to place a water tank—just like the tap water pressurization system in later generations has not been perfected In the past, water tanks were installed in every building.

With the water storage equipment near the water source, Jia Fang planned to install a raised pulley next to the water tank, so that water could be directly poured into the water tank when drawing water from the well.Drill a hole at the bottom of the water tank and install a water channel, and the water will flow along the water channel from near the well to a large water storage tank in his house-this will become the source of water for various households: washing face, washing hands... …the toilet bowl will also use this as a source of water.

Thinking of this, Jia Fang suddenly had a headache - so he needed to build a stable and clean water supply pipeline between the two water tanks, but this was difficult for him: due to the lack of waterproof and sealing materials, Jia Fang could not Fa'er dug up the ground and buried the pipes like in modern times; if the pipes are installed on the surface, it is difficult to keep them clean and free from pollution.Could it be that he needed to build a grand waterway ② like the Romans to draw well water from afar?

What's more, it's already the middle of winter, even if he really builds such a waterway, it will be directly frozen into an "ice channel" under such weather.

Jia Fang has always paid attention to details and pursued perfection, but now he is limited in technology and materials, and even the simplest water intake system cannot be realized.For a moment, all his earlier enthusiasm for construction dissipated, frustration surged up in an instant, and his body quickly became cold.

He hurriedly climbed out of the tub, continued to enjoy the fumigation of the hot air, reached out for the teacup and took a big sip of tea. The hot steam and the cool tea made him feel very lazy and comfortable.

"Rome was not built in a day." Jia Fang said to himself.

"Besides, why do I have to build a tall and perfect waterway like the Romans?"

At this moment, Jia Fang, the past "one draft decides the world", made a small compromise with his present self.

To put it bluntly, he doesn't need to build any huge projects to prove his strength at present. He is just a concubine of the government who desperately needs to be healthy and healthy. If he makes a big show, he may cause trouble for himself.

Thinking of this, Jia Fang was completely at ease: Isn't it just to take two more trips to the water to exercise your body?What is so difficult for him?