Heavenly Dao Formula Chapter 248: More comfortable things
Shenzhou, Jinxia City.
Time came to December unknowingly, and even in the always hot seaside Yancheng, there was a hint of chill in the air.
For the residents of the city, they have seen more changes in the past few months than in the previous half of their lives. The bureau has fully fulfilled its promise. Not only did it repair all the houses that were burnt down in the pirate invasion before the winter, but also built a large number of new-style houses.
These neat row houses are beautiful and atmospheric, one by one spreading along the street, making the originally empty inner city much denser and compact.
Especially the section from the Inland River Terminal in the north of the city to the East Office of the City will pass through the large factory building, the Bureau of Mechanical Engineering and the residential area. Any outsider can feel the city’s location after seeing this streetscape. Exuding surging vitality.
Along with this, the shops and pedestrians on the street have obviously increased.
Even though it has officially entered the winter, commerce still seems to show no signs of abating. At this time in the past, there were often only two things available on the market, one is charcoal, which is expensive, and the other is meat, which is also expensive. The former needs to compete with the salt-cooking field, while the latter is a must-have for the Chinese New Year.
But this year this situation has changed.
First of all, the price of charcoal is very low, and you can always buy a basket of copper plates; secondly, there are also a lot of fresh seafood on the meat market. Although it is a little bit worse than pork, sheep and beef, it is also restrained in disguise. The price of those red meat.
Except for these two types of goods, other commodities are still abundant-from fabrics to ready-made clothing and footwear, from paper, pen and ink to various daily utensils, everyone does not want to close the door in advance. As if the wallets in the pockets of residents swelled up overnight, there are always people patronizing the bazaar. Faced with this change, the businessman also postponed the plan to close the New Year's Eve, hoping to make more money.
But the deepest difference that makes the locals feel is the price of salt in Yancheng.
After the fall of the Wang family, there was a saying in the neighbourhood that salt production could not keep up, and the price of salt might go up soaring. Coupled with the closure of the salt-boiler, this rumor has been furthered.
Until the bureau itself sold salt publicly.
The price of salt is only one-fourth of that of a weekday, and anyone can buy a bag. Such good news spread throughout the city in an instant. At this moment, people really believe that the new saltworks on the east coast is not a lie, and after the Bureau of Affairs released the list of saltworks recruitment, applicants quickly filled the quota.
The story of people in Yancheng who can't eat salt has since become history.
These changes have made the bureau's reputation unprecedentedly high. Everyone understands that it is not the government office that brings these benefits, but the princess who lives in Fengyang Villa, and her substitute Xia Fucheng.
The first thing the newly moved residents heard from their neighbors was the anecdote of these two people.
Of course, it is not just ordinary people in Jinxia City that are affected by the changes, Xia Fan himself is also included.
Under the strong suggestion of the princess, he moved out of the alchemist dormitory where he was originally located, and moved into the new house in the south of the city.
Ning Wanjun’s original words were: “I don’t mind if you live in the villa, but as the head of the Privy Council and the Bureau of Affairs, you shouldn’t even have a mansion of your own. My face. Chengnan District itself is a place where officials and wealthy businessmen gather. Now that there are so many places empty, you can pick a house by yourself. You can build it yourself."
So Xia Fan had a permanent home for the first time.
He did not choose the residences of the officials, but chose to rebuild them—the mansions each occupies dozens of acres, there are small bridges in the garden, and seven or eight houses, which seem to be very magnificent, but there are not dozens of them. The servant can't take care of it at all. Therefore, he razed a compound directly, used part of it as the base of his own mansion, and built a two-hundred-square-meter "large flat" on it, plus the area of the front yard and the back yard, the overall size is almost similar. Five hundred flat.
According to the perspective of this era, although a mansion with less than an acre of land is not impressive, it is already an extremely spacious house for Xia Fan.
After the housewarming banquet, he and Li moved into a new home.
Shanhui was arranged to live in a house across the street, so they can take care of each other.
"I thought you would also let me live in the opposite or next door." Li looked around the new house, his brisk tone undoubtedly showed that she was in a good mood at the moment.
"If you want to have a solitary space." Xia Fan walked to a copper pipe, pressed his hands on the surface, and performed a shaking technique, "but no matter when, the door of this house is open to you. "
"It doesn't have to be so troublesome. Just arrange it like this." Li also followed and asked curiously, "What is this?"
"A heating device, commonly known as floor heating, can keep the house at a comfortable temperature without burning charcoal." Xia Fan laughed. Although Jinxia City is a southern city, the average temperature is not low, but because it is close to the sea, the humidity is heavy, which is the magic attack that ordinary clothes and bedding can hardly resist. Therefore, at the beginning of the construction, he considered the need for independent heating.
Several copper pipes, fine sand filling the bottom of the house, and wooden floors laid throughout the house form a simple and reliable heating device. This floor heating does not need a water pump to maintain the warm water running. The heating method is electric heating. Apart from the manual heating once a day, there are no other shortcomings.
"So that's it," Li immediately understood its principle, "It's the same as the stone chamber where you burn salt water, right?"
"Smart." Xia Fan praised. The reason why he spends his energy to do this is very simple. He doesn't want to wrap the three-layer and three-layer outside of the fox demon in winter, so that when he comes home, he can still enjoy the whole picture of the other party~IndoMTL.com~ Besides, you can take it off as soon as you arrive Running around barefoot under your shoes is also a very pleasant thing in itself.
"What is this bench?" Li turned his head and looked at the deerskin sofa in the living room, ran over to touch it, "It feels so soft!"
"It's stuffed with cotton, so it's fluffy. By the way, so is the bed."
"You can enjoy it." The fox demon lay up and supported himself, "It's so comfortable...Is this news that the listener can only know?"
"Probably." Xia Fan was too lazy to argue that he was not a listener. "Yes," he cleared his throat. "There is something more comfortable, but it needs some help to complete it."
"Oh? What?"
He took a box from his pocket and opened it, revealing a few fine needles and pompoms inside.
"Put this in your ears to clean up earwax. I heard that it is ten times faster than tickling."
"Are you sure? I have never tried...what if you stabbed your ear?"
"Or, let me do a demonstration first."
Li tilted his head suddenly, a smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, "I said, you just want to make an excuse to touch my ears?"
Xia Fan's expression froze. Has his intention been seen through?
Indeed, it has been months since Li agreed to let him stroke his tail, and he has often been thinking about how to go further-but after all, the ears are on the top of the head, and it is always unsuitable to speak directly. In case of rejection, it is undoubtedly a That’s why I came up with a method of curve research, using my ears to achieve a breakthrough.
Unexpectedly, his idea has been understood by the other party before it was implemented.
"In fact, you don't need to make so many excuses. I know you are curious about demons. This is not a bad thing..." Li lay down and said, "So you can, do it as you want."