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Chapter Fourteen Someone Injured

"Steel pipes, screws, plastic cloth, heating systems, etc. As long as Uncle Ma, you can prepare all these things and give me enough staff, I will definitely build the greenhouse for you within three days!" Li Xiu smiled and said, "Of course there were no such things in the Tang Dynasty, and even if there were him, he might not have built a greenhouse in three days."

When Ma Ye heard Li Xiu’s request, he turned dark. He had never heard of these things, let alone prepared them. Seeing Li Xiu’s smile, he was probably teasing himself with these things. At that moment, he couldn’t help but blush and said, “How long do you think it will take to build it?”

"At least ten days, and you have to be prepared to demolish the house!" Li Xiu said with a smile again. Master Ma was anxious to move the princess's flowers and plants into the greenhouse. Li Xiu could only build a greenhouse as soon as possible. If everything was started over, it would be too slow, so he thought of an emergency solution.

"Demolition of the house? Aren't you going to build a greenhouse? Why did you get involved in demolishing the house?" Ma Ye said with some doubt at this time. Li Xiu jumped too fast when he spoke. This was the first time he felt that he could not keep up with the rhythm of others' speech.

"A greenhouse is actually a special kind of house. And Uncle Ma, you just want to feed the princess's flowers and plants, so I plan to convert an ordinary house into a greenhouse. As long as you ensure sufficient light and temperature, feeding some flowers and plants is not a problem at all!" Li Xiu explained patiently.

"Okay, just do what you said. You can choose the houses in the entire village, as long as you don't demolish all the houses!" Mr. Ma didn't know why he trusted Li Xiu so much, so he immediately agreed to his request.

Next, Mr. Ma personally accompanied Li Xiu to choose a house. Mr. Ma asked Li Xiu to build a greenhouse in the inner house, not far from the princess' residence, so that the princess would take care of flowers and plants. It happened that there was a large garden in the inner house, right next to the princess' residence. There was a house for storing miscellaneous items in the garden, facing north and south, and the lighting was very good, so Li Xiu immediately chose a greenhouse and built it here.

There is no shortage of people in the princess's mansion. After choosing the house, with Ma Ye's order, more than 20 people immediately came to demolish the house. Li Xiu was going to build a greenhouse unique to the north in later generations. The scientific name is the sunlight greenhouse. It is a greenhouse unique to the cold northern region. Some books say that this kind of greenhouse does not need to be heated indoors, and the effect of a greenhouse can be achieved by using only sunlight. However, Li Xiu felt that it was all nonsense. The weather in the north is changing in winter, and sometimes the sun cannot be seen for half a month. When there is heavy snow days and there is no heating equipment indoors, the plants inside must be frozen to death.

Destruction is always faster than construction. More than 20 people rushed up. Under Li Xiu's command, the roof was quickly completely removed. The walls on the south were demolished to only half a person high. The walls on the east and west sides formed a slope with a height of north and low south. These things were simple, but it took a day to demolish them. In the middle, Li Xiu had lunch at Ma Ye's entertainment. Originally, Li Xiu was looking forward to the chef in the princess's mansion, but after tasting it, he found that the food in the princess's mansion was just like this. Although the ingredients were exquisite, the cooking methods were too backward and many ingredients were wasted.

Next, it is time to build a heating system inside. It is actually something similar to a large pit in the Northeast, and it also needs to build exhaust holes so that the burning waste gas can be discharged outside the greenhouse. Li Xiu really doesn't understand these things. After all, he has never done these things at all. However, someone in the princess's mansion understands architecture, so Li Xiu only needs to put forward his own requirements. After discussion, several craftsmen nodded quickly to indicate that they can meet Li Xiu's requirements.

The day passed quickly. Although Li Xiu did not work in person, he kept directing the workers during this period. At night, he felt dry mouth and no amount of water was useless. Ma Ye kept him for dinner, and then let him go. Li Xiu fell asleep when he returned home.

It’s strange. In my previous life, Li Xiu still had the energy to surf the Internet and watch TV. But now he has just passed a lazy life and suddenly he feels a little too busy. It seems that it really corresponds to the saying “From diligence to laziness, from laziness to diligence”!

In the next few days, Li Xiu went out early and came back late every day to build a greenhouse in the princess's house. The craftsmen assigned to him by Ma Ye was very powerful, which made the entire project progress very smoothly. Seven days later, the heating in the greenhouse and the shelves on the roof were also set up. Then a huge piece of silk that had been prepared was covered on it. The silk was selected by Li Xiu himself, very thin and transparent. In order to keep it confidential, a layer of special glue was also smeared on it. This was not what Li Xiu thought of, but what the craftsmen in the princess's house had come up after he made the request.

The wisdom of the people is endless. When Li Xiu built this greenhouse, he also had a deep understanding of this sentence. Many things were only available in later generations, but after discussions by the craftsmen, he could come up with alternatives with similar effects, which also completed the construction of the greenhouse in just seven days.

However, there is a last project today, which is to lay rolls of thick straw mats on the silk on the roof. This is mainly for keeping warm. When there is sun during the day, the straw mats will be rolled up so that the sun can shine into the greenhouse. When the temperature drops at night, the straw mats will be put down to play a warming role. If the weather is too cold, the fire inside will also rise to heat up the entire greenhouse.

"Everyone is careful, and the rope should be put down to make it easier to sweep the straw up in the future!" Li Xiu shouted below. Those who work should hang the heavy straw mat and then fix it on the top of the north wall. This kind of climbing high and low job is the most dangerous. If you fall off accidentally, you will definitely be injured.

With Li Xiu's call, the craftsmen above agreed, but they were in a good mood today, because as long as the straw mat is done and the entire greenhouse is built, they can not only take a break, but also receive rewards. A few guys are already discussing where to drink a few drinks for a while.

"Li Xiu, can the greenhouse be built today?" Li Xiu was about to scold the craftsmen to concentrate on their work, but saw Ma Ye walking quickly from outside the garden and asked excitedly. He often came here to wander around these days. After learning about the structure and principles of the greenhouse, he became more confident in the greenhouse.

"Uncle Ma, you came just right. The greenhouse has actually been built. It needs to be ignited and heated up inside. Why not just let Uncle Ma, please ignite this fire?" Li Xiu also smiled and said, although the straw mat on the top has not been set up yet, it does not affect the fire raising inside. As long as the temperature in the greenhouse rises, the growth of flowers and plants will not be a problem.

Ma Ye was also very interested when he heard Li Xiu's proposal. At that moment, the two entered the greenhouse and saw that the greenhouse had been cleaned up long ago, and the ground was replaced with a thick layer of new soil. Although the silk on the top of his head was not as transparent as the glass and plastic films of later generations, it was also quite good. The light in the greenhouse was enough to supply the normal growth of plants.

There is a long earth pit under the north wall, but it is much narrower than the earth pit. There are stoves for burning fires in front and behind. Ma Ye put the charcoal into the stove and ignite it, and then closed the specially made iron door outside the stove. There are air inlet holes and air outlet pipes outside the stove, so there are no need to worry about being stuffed. Moreover, as the charcoal burns, the heat passing through the fire pit, causing the fire pit to begin to rise, and the temperature in the greenhouse is also slowly rising. With temperature and light, plus the appropriate temperature, the conditions for plant growth are almost complete.

"Haha, only nephew can think of such ingenuity. Ma is an eye-opener today!" Mr. Ma also laughed at this time. Although this greenhouse has not been practiced, his intuition told him that the princess's flowers and plants should be able to survive here.

Hearing Ma Ye’s praise, Li Xiu was about to be humble, but unexpectedly, he suddenly heard a "bang" sound outside, accompanied by a scream, and then someone shouted: “No, someone fell from the room!”

Li Xiu and Ma Ye in the greenhouse heard the movement outside, and immediately shouted "Not good" and rushed out immediately. As a result, behind the north wall of the greenhouse, a craftsman was screaming with his thighs. There was still a lot of blood flowing from the ground. The craftsmen around him also rushed over, but they didn't know what to do, and they all showed anxious expressions.

"Why are you standing there? Go and call the doctor!" Mr. Ma roared in anger at this time. The greenhouse was about to be built, but someone was injured and bleeding. This was too unlucky.

Before the doctor came, Li Xiu stepped forward to check the craftsman's injuries. However, when he tore open the craftsman's blood-filled pants, he couldn't help but frown, because the other party's wound was very long and deep, and the blood kept pouring out. It should have been scratched by something sharp when it fell. It was difficult for such a wound to stop the blood. He asked the craftsmen around him and confirmed that when the other party fell, his thigh was pierced by a sharp bamboo, and then the whereabouts were torn apart.

There was an imperial doctor in the princess's mansion. Soon, he saw a middle-aged man running towards him with a medicine box. When he saw the wound on the craftsman's leg, he was shocked and hurriedly washed the wound with clean water, then took out a large bag of medicine powder from the medicine box and poured it on the wound. It seemed that this should be a medicine to stop bleeding, but the wound was too big, and blood kept flowing out, causing the medicine powder to be washed away quickly, and the effect of stopping bleeding was not achieved at all.

Seeing that the bleeding-resistance powder was ineffective, the middle-aged doctor was obviously a little panicked. He changed several kinds of medicine powder again, and even asked the injured craftsman to take a few herbs raw, but he still couldn't stop the bleeding. The middle-aged doctor was also helpless now.

"I'll do it!" Li Xiu finally couldn't help but sigh and said, "He likes this kind of life without any pressure now, but sometimes he feels helpless about the backward living conditions of the Tang Dynasty.
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