Chapter 162
Second update.
The new house of Zhang’s family is five large suites, and Zhang Chao lives on the left.
"Sanlang, will we live here in the future?" Qiuyue and Dongqing asked Zhang Chao with excitement in their arms.
Zhang Chao's suite also has a large room in the middle and a small room on both sides. The two small rooms do not open the door to the yard, but directly open the moon door from the large room in the middle and enter.
"Well, you two will live on the right room from now on. This room in the middle is my flower hall, and my bedroom is on the left room."
"Sanlang, why don't you live in this big room in the middle?" Qiuyue was puzzled. Why did she stay the biggest room but stay in a small room?
"This is a flower hall, a place where I read books or drink tea in the future."
The three rooms have a kang, and the floor heating in the middle, which is quite luxurious. However, Zhang Chao insists that it is not normal to make himself comfortable. Although the three rooms have a kang, Zhang Chao is still used to the layout of later generations. The room in the middle is so big, it is not suitable for the bedroom. The bedroom does not need to be too big, just about the same thing, which is more conducive to sleeping. After all, the function of the bedroom is to sleep.
Even the room in the middle is an activity area, with a kang, a coffee table, and a set of spring and autumn chairs. On the other side, there are bookshelfs on one side and an ancient shelf on the other side. There are some books on the bookshelf, all of which are scrolls and albums. There is also a large desk next to the bookshelf, and behind it is a new large backrest chair. There are four treasures of the study and pen holders and pen holders on the table. There are also two large porcelain bottles on the side of the desk. These two bottles are used to hold some blank scrolls for easy access.
There are also curtains and doors on the moon door leading to the rooms on both sides. During the day, the door is opened and the curtain is lowered, and the door can be closed at night. Although the bedrooms on both sides do not open the door in the yard, a larger window is opened. Originally, the windows of the house were opened higher and small at this time, which is also beneficial to the anti-theft, but Zhang Chao considered lighting and opened a large window and laid white paper on the windows luxuriously, so that the light transmittance in the house was greatly enhanced.
"Do you want to change your shoes when you enter the house?" Dong Qing looked at the smooth and flat floor tiles on the floor, and couldn't bear to destroy the cleanliness of her shoes.
Zhang Chao smiled and said, "There is a shoe cabinet next to the door, which contains cloth shoes. You can change cloth shoes when you enter the house, so as to save you from cleaning and mopping the floor frequently."
The two girls changed into shoes, carried their bags into the room to the west, and also put on the kang inside, but they were not as big as outside.
"Wow, sister, there is also a wardrobe and a dressing table."
Although the room on the west side is a maid's room, Zhang Chao did not make it too simple, with a warm kang, a kang table, a kang cabinet, and two large camphor wood boxes. There was a dressing table on the kang, a bronze mirror and a new comb on it. On the other side, there was a new style wardrobe with clothes hangers, dresses, etc. inside.
Qiuyue couldn't put down her bronze mirror and kept looking at herself. Women all love beauty. Qiuyue and Dongqing were only fifteen or sixteen years old, and it was the time to love beauty. However, bronze mirrors were very expensive and they didn't have one before. Now Saburo actually gave them a dressing table and gave them a bronze mirror, which really made them happy.
"Sit there and see how it's going." Zhang Chao was very happy to see them. They were very happy. These two girls were their own personal maids and they usually took good care of themselves. Zhang Chao also thanked them very much.
Qiuyue sat first on the drum stool in front of the dressing table, holding a bronze mirror in her hand. The polished auspiciously smooth bronze mirror reflected Qiuyue's already rosy face.
This girl has developed a lot in the past few months in the Zhang family. Her face has become much rosy and fairer. She has grown some flesh and plump her body. She can also hold up some under her high-waisted skirt. It turns out that her dry, yellow and split hair has become much shimmering.
The two girls often wash their hair, their hair is very smooth and black, and they can also look very cute with a wooden hairpin on their double ring bun. Now they still apply some rouge that Chao gave them every day, but they completely lose the feeling of the thin and weak girl when they first came.
Especially although I was wearing a cloth skirt, it was new clothes, without patches and very clean.
When I walked out, I felt a bit like a daughter from a small landlord in the countryside.
The Zhang family now has two servants, the butler and the veterinarian. Both families are from five. The butler and his son are two daughters and one son, and the veterinarian and his son are two sons and one daughter.
Now the housekeeper and his wife still live in a cave behind the old Zhang family's old cellar, while the veterinarian and his wife live in the old cellar where they originally lived in the old cellar.
The six children of the two families, Shuanzi and Daniu Erniu, both lived in the house where the fallen seat was in the new home yard.
As for Qiuyue Dongqing and Niu Xiaomei, Zhang Chao originally arranged one in his father's house and one in his own house, and then one in his sister Lianniang and Lanniang's house, so that there is someone to take care of the house.
But in the end, my father said that he didn't need it in the house, and Qi Niu Niu also told her to let Dongqing and Qiuyue follow Zhang Chao, so Niu Xiaomei was assigned to her two sisters' house. Qiuyue and Dongqing went to Zhang Chao's house to serve, and the three girls lived with her master, and it just so happened that the new cave in the Zhang family was all suites.
Now my father lives in one apartment, and my own, and my two sisters live in one apartment because Lan Niang is still urinating. There are two of the five suites left in the house, one is left for Lan Niang in the future, and the other can be used as a guest room.
Shuanzi and Daniu Erniu lived in the downward room opposite the yard and could still watch the night.
The Qiuyue sisters took turns enjoying the feeling of looking at the bronze mirror on the dressing table, and were very happy.
"Ah, Saburo, why is there a small room in this room?"
Qiuyue saw that there was a small door on the wall over there and folded it up with a curtain.
"You'll know what you're doing when you go and see."
Zhang Chao specially asked this small crutch room to be added, and the effect is actually to avoid the hard work of getting up at night in winter. Although Zhang Chao built two toilets in the yard, which divided men and women. But after all, it was still a bit far from the house to the yard, especially in winter, the kang in the house was warm, but it was cold outside. It was easy to catch a cold when you go in and out.
What those wealthy families do is to put a toilet in the house.
It is usually placed directly under the bed. Zhang Chao's house is a kang, which is not very elegant to place it next to it, and it will definitely taste a little. Therefore, he made a small crutch in the kiln, which is as big as the bathroom in the bedroom in later generations.
Inside, Zhang Chao asked the carpenter to make a toilet chair, which is a simplified version of the toilet bed.
A toilet chair as big as a single sofa chair can just sit on it when you get up at night when you go to the toilet, which is as convenient as a toilet. The bottom is equivalent to a large closed box, and there is a door to open.
This way you can put a toilet inside. Every morning, you can open the wooden box, take away the toilet inside, and send it to a septic tank specially dug outside the yard.
In this way, it is convenient to get up at night and you don’t need to go out of the room to go to the toilet in the yard. With this small bathroom and toilet chair, the room will not be so delicious. As long as you remember to take the toilet out every morning and smoke it in a little incense, it is still very good.
"This room is specially used to get up at night to go to the toilet?" Qiuyue said in surprise at the beautiful chair.
Zhang Chao walked over and lifted the chair surface. It turned out that a hole was exposed under the flat chair surface, and the toilet could be seen below.
"Sanlang, what is the bucket next to it for?"
"This bucket has a great effect. This bucket contains wood chips and stove ash. After going to the toilet at night, pour some wood chips and grass ash from it and pour it into the toilet so that it can cover the smell."
"Sanlang thought so thoughtful."
The two girls fell in love with this small bathroom, the toilet chair and the toilet.
Originally, Zhang Chao planned to build a real bathroom in this house and make a flush toilet. But later he thought that feces were still very important agricultural fertilizers in this era. If they were flushed, they would not only have to add a pipe, but also have to build a septic tank. The most important thing was to waste manure.
"There is also a bathroom here, which is a faucet. When you unscrew it, water will flow out. It is very convenient to wash your hands after toileting, or to wake up in the morning to brush your teeth and wash your face here."
Although the bathroom was not flushed, the tap water was still connected. Zhang Chao spent a lot of effort to drill a well in the yard, install a well truck, a tube truck and a water tower, of course, just to enjoy the convenience.
How can there be no bathroom in the bedroom and bathroom, no tap water or sewer pipe? Zhang Chao even installed a shower head and put a bathtub in it.
I can just take a shower in the house, but I can just go to the special bathroom in the yard to take a shower. It's okay. Anyway, the walls and floors in this house are covered with bricks, so I'm not afraid of water.
Anyway, you are so willful when you have money.
All five suites in the Zhang family have such bathrooms. For this reason, Zhang Chao paid a lot of money, mainly installing water pipes, using ceramic pipes, or custom-made ones. Fortunately, the house was newly built, and Zhang Chao had already designed these when it started.
Otherwise, it would be very troublesome to do these things in a built-in house.
The two girls liked this bathroom very much. They went to try the sink, twist the faucet, and then lifted the cover of the toilet chair.
If Zhang Chao hadn't been here, the two girls would have to wear loose clothes and take off their belts and give it a try immediately.
Even so, the two girls took turns to sit down.
"I will give you two the task of pouring the toilet in the morning. I asked the butler to buy some incense, and remember to inflate the incense in the morning and evening in the future."
"I know Saburo." The two girls laughed and laughed.
"Okay, you can take a good look at it yourself and put your clothes and then put them back to my house first."
"Well, if you have something to do, please call us."
"No need to call me. When you hear the bell ringing in the house, come over to my house immediately."
Zhang Chao installed a message bell in the house. When Zhang Chao pulled it in his house, the bell in the two girls' house would ring.
It looks amazing, but it is actually just a very simple device.
Chapter completed!