Dress to be a celebrity

Huan Ling had been out of Beijing for several months, and he brought back a set of usage reports to Song Shi—including a book on experience after using the vernier caliper, and a set of music describing the shape and use of the vernier caliper.

"... My younger brother gifted me a pair of rulers with a biscuit, which are used to detect the depth and length, and to calibrate the diameter of the circle. It is not as fine as a millimetre. It is a pity that it has not been given a name. I saw that it is surrounded by a small ruler. It looks like a pair of mandarin ducks hugging each other. , so it is called "Mandarin Duck Ruler"."

When Song Shi saw this name, his vision went dark.

It’s a good vernier caliper, so why not change its name?This mandarin duck...is better than Sanyuan, but, but such a change is a little sentimental, and it doesn't have the heavy feeling of a big industry!

He clearly told Mr. Huan Ge that this ruler was called a vernier caliper. How could Brother Huan Xiao not know the name when he took the ruler?Don't tell him that Huan Ge is old and has dementia. Who can get to the level of Ge Lao and not have a good memory?

It must be that he didn't mention the name of the ruler when he sent it!

Huan Ge always misunderstood me!

Song Shi let out a cry of pain, he simply didn't know how to show this article to others.Don’t let people see it. King Zhou and those craftsmen didn’t even post a short comment on the vernier caliper he drew so hard. It was so easy for Brother Huan to write him a long comment. If he didn’t spread it, his vanity would not be satisfied; Let's see, it is estimated that this ruler will have to be renamed Yuanyang Ruler in a few days...

How has human aesthetics changed in 600 years?Why do all the modern products he makes have names that are completely different from the original ones?

Song Shi closed his eyes helplessly, took out a bottle of cooling oil and rubbed it on his temples, and continued to read his experience report against the blow.Not only did he write a prose about his experience after receiving the caliper, but he also attached a set of "Parrot Song", which clearly explained the steps of measuring the outer diameter, inner diameter, and depth of the ruler from the outside:

Like mandarin ducks tailing side by side on the beach, they are always paired with each other.It must be tightly entwined with gold threads, I am afraid that the two feet will be split.

Carved plum branches are connected to form a bridge of magpies, and Gu Jiang will penetrate all over his body.Forbearance to move the lone wing to the east and west, to separate the long and short for the amount of material.

……

Song Shi wiped another handful of cooling oil on his cheeks, which made his eyes a little hot, the corners of his eyes slightly wet, and his nose a bit blocked.

This set of music should be read in future generations, it is simply a love poem.

Fortunately, in this era, it is common for poets to write boudoir grievances and romantic feelings, and all of them can be pushed to the feelings of thinking about the king and worrying about the country. Say one of his songs is "good at writing boudoir love".

Song Shi did a few times of psychological training for himself before he finished reading the set of "Parrot Song" from beginning to end, fanning his face with the letter paper, not knowing whether to praise him for his literary talent, or to say that it is too nasty for a big man to write such a thing.

Isn't it just a vernier caliper? This is a mandarin duck and a pair of wings, making it seem very ambiguous.Then next time he sends a scope to him, will he have to write "aiming for the heart" or something?

Literati are really...

Song Shizheng was seriously criticizing this kind of thinking about love, when he suddenly heard "Shiguan'er" outside the door, followed by two heavy knocks on the door.He was like a middle school student who peeked at comics in self-study class, but suddenly found the teacher's face reflected on the back door window, hurriedly put the stack of letter papers into the books on the case, stood up and turned around to answer.

The door was pushed open, but it was his elder brother who came in from the outside. When he saw him, he asked in surprise: "Why is your face so red? Why don't you open the door when you are so hot?"

Yes, it was still a little hot in August, and his desk was placed under the window, and his face was flushed with the sun.

He glanced out of the window out of the corner of his eye, only to see clouds all over the sky, and it was so hot to look at.Song Shi took a sip of the herbal tea on the side, collected himself and asked, "Brother came to look for me, but for the matter of Xiya Garden?"

The family finally decided on the Xiya house, and his father went back to Beijing to see it a few times before deciding to buy it.It happened that when he returned to his hometown, he sold the pesticide, cement, and glass factories in Fujian to his colleagues. In addition to the salary and regular money that he hadn't brought home in the past two months, it was enough to buy a house and decorate it, and there was no need to change the property of the seller. .

The yard at Xiya has been being renovated for the past two months, and when the repairs are completed, the female relatives and children can also be brought into Beijing.

During the renovation, Song Shi naturally had to be the chief designer. During the renovation, people were first arranged to dig the ground and install drainage systems underground in each courtyard. The bathroom and toilet have separate doors to the yard, which is convenient for water.

The house is facing the sea, and groundwater can be pumped out, so he simply asked people to drill wells in each yard, and install hand-operated water pumps on the well platforms.In this way, each family can draw water directly from their own yards, without having to crowd into a well to get water, and also don’t need to pick buckets from the main courtyard to various tanks, which saves a lot of labor and saves the use of tanks to store water not clean.

Because the house was renovated, only cement was used for reinforcement, and it was still mainly made of wood. A large water storage tank should still be placed under the window sill in case of fire.It's just that the water in this tank is not for people to drink, so you can raise a tank of lotus, a few golden-scaled crucian carp or carp, and add some scenery to the yard.

There were originally many peaches, apricots, osmanthus, chrysanthemums, poplars, willows, and elms planted in the front and back of the courtyard. In the Song Dynasty, people only planted some oleander and holly in the corners of each courtyard—the water surface in their courtyard If there are too many trees, it is easy to breed mosquitoes and flies in summer. These two kinds of trees have insecticidal effect, and more varieties can prevent mosquitoes.

In addition, in the north, kangs are burned to keep warm in winter, and thick smoke often floats out of the chimneys. These two kinds of trees also have the effect of absorbing smoke and dust.It's just that after the children move here in the future, they have to be carefully reminded not to touch the phlox.

The kang-burning stove is installed in the bathroom separated from the side room. In winter, the flue is opened, and a pot of hot water is burned for bathing at night. The hot smoke from the stove flows into the bedroom along the flue sandwiched between the walls. After taking a bath, I fell asleep lying on the warm kang.

The indoor floor was originally paved with floor tiles, but it has been used for a long time, and some places have been cracked, and some places have been dented, and it has been damp for a long time, and weeds have grown between the tiles.He simply asked people to demolish them all, re-tamped the ground, smoothed the ground with cement, and then hired carpenters to make keels and wooden floor strips, and all houses were paved with solid wooden floors.

In this way, there is a gap between the floor and the ground, moisture is not easy to come up, and there is an air layer under the floor to keep warm, so the feet are much warmer.

Not to mention the basic design of glass doors and windows, sheer curtains, shutters and the like.He also considered the principles of ergonomics, and made lift-up desks and chairs for elementary school students according to the height of the three nephews, so as to ensure that they could sit upright and do their homework with their eyes [-] to [-] centimeters away from the paper.

The interior decoration is relatively simple, and the real time-consuming landscape layout of the house and garden: pile up rockery in the garden, divert water from the pool around the mountain to pass through the courtyard, find people to make cement lake stones, and arrange them scattered in the courtyard to match the landscape of water, mountains and water. Flowers and trees in the courtyard.

The pool was also cleaned up again, clearing out the old silt, branches and debris that fell into the water, and then built cement walls on both sides of the pool, and made a step to start, and then went down to the river to clear the silt or You can walk down the steps when you salvage something.Craftsmen are invited to build a stone railing around the pool, which is as high as the chest of the person. As long as there is an iron gate on the steps, it is usually locked tightly to prevent children from climbing in and swimming.

The pond is planted with pink and white river flowers, water chestnut, water chestnut, and chicken head rice, and calamus and water chestnuts are planted by the pond, and some freshwater domestic fish are raised in it. On weekdays, the family can watch the scenery and fish by the water.

After these two months of busy work, the work in the garden has not stopped, but the houses in each courtyard are roughly installed and ready for people to live in. When the eldest brother Song Xiao came to him, it was his father who called the sons for a meeting, discussing to bring the family members over Beijing.

His brothers had long been looking forward to this day, and Song Shi was also full of joy: "Mother and my aunt are at home, so I don't know why I am looking forward to seeing my father! My father has been an official outside for so many years, and now he has finally become a Beijing official. Next, our family will be reunited, and our ancestor's spiritual throne will be moved to the foot of the emperor, so that we can benefit from the royal family."

His father scolded lightly: "At such an advanced age, if it weren't for the princes getting married one after another to delay our family, you should have married a long time ago, and the royal words are easy to talk about!"

Song Shi bowed his head obediently to listen to the training, but his elder brother persuaded his father: "Father, don't mention the matter of the prince's marriage. If someone hears about it, they will think that our family has resentment. You just wait for brother Huan Xian to come back and tell him what to do." Shi Guan'er said hello, he is a reliable person, and he will definitely let you get a virtuous daughter-in-law to come in."

The second elder brother was a little worried: "Third brother Huan has a lot of knowledge, he must be a girl from a good family for the official, so he won't let these two princes choose him?"

Song Shi silently listened to his father and brother's discussion, but in the end he couldn't bear to let them hope to see the son and daughter-in-law come to propose marriage, so he stood up and woke up their sweet dreams: "Father, I don't plan to get married. I am now being valued in the Imperial Academy , busy with business, how easy it is to be alone, and how much to worry about when you become a relative!"

The father and brothers all looked at him with the eyes of a silly son, and said with a smile: "You have never met a lover before, so it is inevitable that you are a little afraid of getting married. When you get married, you will know that someone who cares about cold and heat is more lonely than a person." Much stronger."

Seeing that his father and brother didn't pay much attention to these words, Song Shi had no choice but to reveal the truth cryptically: "I told Senior Brother Huan that my father asked me to marry the elder Ge's daughter, and his family has no daughter..."

There is only one old man's grandson who hasn't married yet!

His father shook his head with a smile, and smacked him on the head: "His family has no daughter, but there is not only one court elder in the court. Besides, what father said back then was angry, and you child It's too serious, no matter which family he is talking about, let's just accept his kindness for you."

He is really kind...

Song Shi really couldn't persuade his father, listening to his father's unintentional words, it seemed that he was saying that Huan Ling was suitable for a wife, and the love letters just now came into his mind inadvertently, which made him fidget, and stood up and asked Father and brother said goodbye: "I suddenly remembered that I promised to tell my colleagues a few days ago how the yin-yang qi mass confrontation produces rain, and I need to go back and write an article to prepare. Dad, let's study the move with my brothers first!"

He left in a hurry, and behind him he heard the surprised voice of his eldest brother: "Shi Guan'er, something is wrong today, just now when I went to look for him in the room, his face turned red strangely, and when he mentioned the important matter of marrying a wife, he hastily avoided... ..."

When he booked his old granddaughter, he was so calm as if he wasn't the one who got married, why does he seem to be shy today?Could it be that I didn't grow up before and didn't understand these things, so now I have a crush on someone in private?

When he entered the door, he saw Shi Guan'er's scrambled appearance. There must be Shipa hidden in the study, right?

When the father and son discussed this point, they couldn't help feeling a little worried, fearing that Song Shi would already have a sweetheart when Huan Ling returned from the border.

——When he was leaving, he was still thinking about telling Shiguan'er his kindness in his mind, so wouldn't it be a waste of time?

The three of them sympathized with Huan Ling, but they didn't know that the letter from Song Shizang was sent by Huan Ling from the border.He put the book and the set of "Parrot Song" in books, bookcases, silver boxes, bookshelves, kangqin, cages, wardrobes...

I have hidden it all over the world, but I still don't feel at ease, afraid that his brother will find it in the study and find out that it is a love poem written by Huan Ling.

In fact, this is just a normal user experience. Didn’t the ancients have to write “leaning on the jade and snuggling against the fragrance without leaving temporarily, and being the first in style” when they wrote about playing football?

It's better to tuck it in your clothes and take it to the Hanlin Academy for safekeeping.

He returned to the courtyard very early the next day with the letter, and he still took the sages to engrave letters and books, but now he has cultivated a group of sages who can carve letters, so let the advanced lead the younger ones, and he can spare some time for himself. Time has followed the predecessors to compile the catalog of the Canon.

Now the first thing to repair is the rules and regulations of this dynasty. Because there are many official positions and laws and regulations that change frequently, it is necessary to go to the library to get old documents. His modern index catalog and call number are helping the public to edit and compile It saved a lot of searching time, so as a newcomer, I won the favor of many colleagues.

When he climbed the ladder and turned over the old gear, there were a few seniors who were ten or 20 years older than him, who looked not very strong, and took the initiative to help him up the ladder.

Song Shi tensed up on the ladder, and he didn't dare to move much, for fear that the ladder would shake, and he or the book in his hand would fall and hit everyone—he was still young and in good health, so it didn't matter if he fell. Telling the book to smash, but big things can happen.

He was just looking through the documents, when his sleeve hung up on the cabinet, a book fell out of the sleeve, the letter paper inside was too thick, instead of fluttering, it fell straight down to a senior below.He wished he could jump down to pick up the letter, but he was afraid of accidents, so he became more and more tense and didn't dare to move. He could only watch the letter fall to the ground with his face rubbed against his face, revealing that Huan Ling was worse than before because of the experience of the border customs. A stroke of color that shows the strength of the muscles and bones:

"My younger brother Song Ziqi personally entrusted it."

Song Shi only saw the huge letter in his eyes, and there was a lot of noise in his ears, as if those people under the ladder were asking why his senior brother sent him the letter and why he wrote it so intimately; In his letter, he read those "Parrot Songs" word by word.

He forced himself to calm down, curled up the muscles at the corners of his mouth, and didn't know if he was smiling, and said flatly: "This letter is from my senior brother Huan Qianxian from the border, because I gave him a vernier caliper that day. Some of them are useful, and I made articles and songs to praise the ruler. I read it yesterday, and the writing is full of vigor and melody.

It's just that he was too busy in the morning and forgot to take it out;