Chapter 3 Settling down

Seeing that Zhen Xing was excited, Qi Boxong couldn't help interrupting her.

"I think I want to plant the ground first. This is the season, barley and cotton are not good. Our land is still ripe. I'm thinking about how to grow some radishes and Chinese cabbage. How can I have some income? Qi Bosong said.

Zhen Xing seemed to think of something again and hurriedly said, "I remembered what you said. As soon as I arrived at this town, I saw a two-piece cabbage land in every family's land. Although the quantity is small, it is enough for a family. If you want to sell it to the people in the town, I'm afraid there is no market. Wouldn't it be good to sell it in Yili's restaurant?

Qi Boxong couldn't help smiling and deeply admired the economic mind of Zhenfei. It is true that the people around the emperor are well-informed, but their thoughts are different from ordinary people.

"That's good. I'll go to the ground tomorrow." Qi Boxong looked at Concubine as he spoke. It doesn't make sense for her to let her work, but it's not a way to stay at home now.

"Ok, you work tomorrow. Tomorrow, I'll hire someone to clean up here." Zhen Xing looked intoxicated. Qi Boxong was stunned and smiled. He had hoped to find an inn to stay in. Unexpectedly, the only inn in the town was simple and unclean, so the two had to rent half of the neighbor's house. One sleeps on the top of the kang and the other sleeps on the top of the kang.

After a night, early in the morning, Qi Bosong got into the blacksmith's shop, bought a few hoes and a few shovels, and went to the neighbor's place to hire two short-time workers to work with curiosity about the land.

Zhen Xing was not idle. First, she asked her neighbor to borrow a few pieces of papyrus and another pen. Speaking of papyrus, it's better to wipe your buttocks in the palace than this. Thinking of this, Zhen Xing thought of the toilet she went to these days and couldn't help shivering.

She is fed up with the various toilets in the countryside. There are people who dig pits casually, and half of the earth wall is blocked. In July and a half, maggots can be seen everywhere, walking back and forth under their feet. There are also dirty toilets, and there are more urinative toilets.

At the beginning, when I came out of the capital, even that kind of dirty toilet was rare. Many people were taboo and thought it was unlucky for a woman to enter their own toilet. In desperation, Zhen Xing had to find a place where there was no one to solve the problem in broad daylight.

This time, with her own home, she vowed never to live like this!

Thinking of the toilet, Zhen Xing thought it was really a big problem. Where was there a flush toilet in ancient times? The palace is just a mahogany toilet, but it is cleaned every day and sprinkled with incense. Since there is no pumping water, it's better to make one yourself.

When I came here, I saw a porcelain shop in the town. She can pay a lot of money to make a pottery master. Do what you want. Zhen Xing has figured out a good idea.

There is a small piece of wasteland outside her backyard. She can dig out a septic tank, and it is convenient to accumulate excrement as fertilizer. Zhen Xing couldn't help admiring her cleverness.

If you have a septic tank, there must be a sewer pipe. This made it difficult for Zhen Xing. She hasn't seen the sewer pipe. What should she do? In addition, there is a certain amount of pressure on the toilet. If you do this yourself, will the excrement not reach the septic tank at all?

She doesn't understand the principle of flush toilet. It doesn't matter. We can use our hands without machinery. Put a bucket in the toilet and flush the toilet with the water in the bucket, won't it solve the problem?

She first drew a sketch of the toilet, which looked like a fish tank. Anyway, as long as you can explain it clearly. Then come down, it should be the sewer pipe. After thinking about it, she thought that the thing should be round, section by section. She drew a sketch and rushed to the porcelain shop happily.

This box of Zhen Xing rushed into the porcelain shop excitedly, and that box of Qi Boxong was not so lucky. Although he hired someone, he went to work in the field for the first time. He was originally a flag man. His father and uncle died in the Opium War, and the grace of the court made him a bodyguard. Although he also bowed and shot arrows in his life, it was the first time to work in the field.

Qi Bosong didn't have the sharpness of the farmer, and he was sweating all over his head after digging a few pits. Several hired servants saw it and couldn't help laughing at him. The farmer was really. Seeing that he was not a farmer, he tried his best to help.

Ten acres of land seems so out of reach. Qi Bosong raised his head and stretched out a hand to block the sun, squinting at his land. It's better to be the flagmen, but they don't do anything, and the court will also take money to support them.

He couldn't help but think of the days when he was a flag man holding the salary of the court. He sighed, but he did not regret it at all. He bent down again and smashed the hoe down hard.

In the porcelain shop, Zhen Xing is full of anger. This porcelain-making teacher looked like an old scholar. He looked left and right for a day and didn't make anything for her.

"Master, you can do it according to my picture. I promise it's right." Zhen Xing said impatiently.

The master who made porcelain looked indifferently and stretched out his hand and waved it. I have learned to make porcelain from my father since I was twelve years old, and I have never seen such strange things in my life. I can't make this kind of thing. Besides, what's the use of this? The porcelain master asked doubtfully.

Zhen Xing swallowed the word "wma tong" abruptly. The teacher is so stubborn that he won't be kicked out by him if he is sitting in the toilet with his buttocks down?

"Don't worry about this. I'm sure it's useful. Good master, take a look, but you are the only one who makes porcelain in the town. Just help me." Zhen Xing said as she acted coquettishly.

The master who made porcelain didn't believe in Zhenxing at all. He stretched out his hand and shook it. He looked at the sketch of Zhenxing with slanting eyes and only said, "No, I won't do it."

Zhen Xing bit her lip. If it's soft, come hard. She only sneered twice and pointed to the drawing and said, "Master, I don't think you can do it, can you?"

Unexpectedly, the master was more vigilant. Seeing that Zhenxing stimulated him so much, he stretched out his hand and said, "Girl, the door is over there. I really can't do it. You can ask me to be smart.

Zhen Xing sneered twice, pointed to a sign in his store and said, "Master, when I came in, I saw your store written Jingdezhen's ancestral craftsmanship. It turned out that it was just bragging. I'm holding this thing, but it's the most popular in Jingdezhen today. It will be newly launched this year and will be mass-produced next year!"

When the teacher heard the three words "Jingdezhen", he couldn't help but stand up. His ancestors were porcelain-burning craftsmen in Jingdezhen. When he came to this place, he did not lose his ancestral craftsmanship.

"Don't talk nonsense. How can Jingdezhen burn such strange porcelain?" The teacher said.

Seeing that he was a little hooked, Zhen Xing couldn't help laughing in her heart.

Zhen Xing shook in front of the master with the drawings, and pointed to the toilet like a small water tank above and said, "Master, you don't know anything about this. Since the heyday of Kangqian, Jingdezhen's export porcelain has been really famous among the foreign devils. The drawing I showed you is the best-selling porcelain in Jingdezhen this year. Most of them were bought by foreign devils. This year, they are just trying to sell it. By next year, it will be popular all over the country.

The teacher was stunned by Zhen Xing's words. Although he did not fully believe it, the charm of the three words Jingdezhen deeply attracted him.

"Can this thing be liked by foreigners?" The master couldn't help grabbing the drawing and looking at it again.

Zhenxing smiled secretly. This thing will be used by every family a hundred years later.

"Of course, can I still lie to you? As long as you make this, your level will be the same as that of the senior craftsman of Jingdezhen!" Zhen Xing said with a smile.

The master glanced at her with his slanted eyes and muttered, "I was the same as them."

Zhen Xing pointed to the small water tank above and said, "I'm thinking that you will collect this bottom, but it should be strong and can stand. On the top, put it away. Look, I have written the approximate size for you. As long as there is a layer of coarse porcelain, it doesn't need to be too meticulous.

Just after saying that, Zhen Xing was looked at by the master again.

"With me, there is no rough work!" The master said unhappily. Zhen Xing smiled awkwardly. Unexpectedly, her excitement was successful.

"In addition, please help me make some pipes like this. You have also seen the picture. You can do it at your convenience, but the texture must be strong. Zhen Xing pointed to her sewer pipe and said.

The master squeezed a word "hum" out of his nose, raised his chin, and said proudly, "Don't worry, the porcelain I go out here is absolutely excellent as long as I don't need to hit it with a hammer!"

Zhen Xing smiled "hey hey" and reached out to touch the money bag.

"I want to pay the deposit first, right?" Zhen Xing said with a smile. As the master stared at the drawing, he stretched out two old fingers full of wrinkles.

"Two taels?" Zhenxing's heart suddenly bloomed. The people here are really simple. It's also a good deal to make a toilet and sewer pipe with two taels of silver.

Unexpectedly, the master raised his eyes and looked up and down at Zhen Xing with contempt.

"Twenty taels." The teacher said.

"Why don't you rob it?" Zhen Xing shouted in surprise.

The sun rises higher and higher, and it is the hottest at noon in the first half of July. The poisonous sun shone on the ground, and the experienced Liba hid. Qi Boxong put down his hoe and followed Liba to hide in the shade of the ridge.

Qi Bosong looked at his land from afar and fantasized about planting wheat or cotton next spring. In autumn, he could harvest a piece of golden yellow.

At this time, a familiar figure hung a basket in his hand and stumbled towards this side. Seeing Qi Bosong from afar, she stretched out her hand and waved.

Qi Boson waved his hand in a panic and hurriedly greeted him. Seeing Zhen Xing's flattering smile on her face, Qi Bosong suddenly felt a little puzzled.