Chapter 113 Change the garden into a vegetable garden, do you want to farm?
Empress Chen suddenly felt sad and said with a sad smile, "I just don't have a prince in this palace. Otherwise, how could someone else take the position in the East Palace?"
But if you want to ask Feng Mingwei for help, you have to exchange something with her.
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"Murong Xiao, I would like to borrow your study room."
After taking a bath, Feng Mingwei came over with the lamp in hand, intending to draw drawings.
Murong Xiao was reading in the study, "Can you do it?"
"No, you can help me draw?" Feng Mingwei didn't want to expose her flaws, so it was best to find someone to help, but after searching all over, she could only find him.
They just had a fight today, and she scratched his nose with a scar.
Will you help her now?
Knowing that this was not the case, Feng Mingwei didn't even speak.
"come over."
But who knew that the man actually put down his military book, walked to the desk, sat down, and picked up a pen to draw for him.
Feng Mingwei looked at him in surprise and walked over, "I told you to draw."
"Um."
"I want to change the garden into a vegetable garden, dig a pond, and build a semi-open and semi-indoor hot spring room. Isn't this enough space?"
Murong Xiao said disgustedly: "If the garden is changed into a vegetable garden, do you want to plant the land?"
"Yeah, I plan to be self-sufficient."
"My yard is not big enough. Can you give me the yard next to Xingyue Building?"
He was really pushing his limits, beating him and ordering him around, and finally turned his palace into a vegetable garden.
but……
Murong Xiao looked at the woman's eager eyes and thought to himself, forget it, it's just a courtyard, she can give it to her, then he picked up the brush and ignored her, and started painting according to her instructions.
It didn't take a while to draw it.
Feng Mingwei naturally praised it, and then pointed to one of the places, "I want to make a hut, which is connected to the bedroom."
Murong Xiao was immediately disgusted, "You want to put the latrine and the bedroom together? Don't you dislike the smell?"
"I have a way to make it not stink!"
Murong Xiao rolled his eyes at her and said, "I'm all ears."
Feng Mingwei began to talk non-stop, "First dig a septic tank underneath, then dig a channel to lead out, and seal it with soil and stone bricks. It would be great if there is cement. Then we can build a septic tank."
toilet."
"Do you know where there is a good ceramics master? Then I will make a ceramic toilet and tiles for the floor."
Murong Xiao's mind was a ball of thread and he had no idea what she was talking about, "I'll give you the pen to draw by yourself."
"No, please help me till the end. When the time comes, I can give you one of the toilets I made. You will definitely like it."
Murong Xiao was so shaken by her that she said, "Don't touch me."
Feng Mingwei jumped and immediately let go of his arm, "Sorry, I will be careful next time and try not to touch you."
"..."
"What does a toilet look like? I have never seen one before."
"When the time comes, you need to find someone to do it, and you also need the drawings!"
That's right.
"You make a mark first, and I'll paint the toilet myself later."
Murong Xiao finished painting it for her, "What is the cement you just mentioned?"
"It's the soil used to build walls. It has very good viscosity and will be very hard when it dries. The wall will be very strong and will not fall down." Feng Mingwei explained to him simply.
Murong Xiao was a little interested, "Well, let's go look for it together tomorrow."
It was a good thing to be able to go out. Feng Mingwei did not want to make him angry, so she put away the design drawings and said, "Well, let's go to bed early."
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The next day, Murong Xiao took her to a place where ceramics were fired.
"This is Master Cao, the best master and steward here. If you want to make toilets, just tell him."
Master Cao obviously knew Murong Xiao, so he came over and said respectfully: "I have met the prince and the princess."
"Whatever porcelain the princess wants, just ask."
Feng Mingwei looked around first and found a pile of white substance in the place where the porcelain was fired. Her eyes suddenly lit up. She stepped forward to check and found that this kind of thing is formed under high temperature. It contains silicic acid, a substance needed to produce cement.
calcium.
She held back her excitement and said, "How do you usually deal with these white ash?"
Master Cao said: "Just bury it in the soil."
"Princess, do you want these ashes?"
"If you want it, keep these ashes for me in the future and send them to the palace. I will use them."
Master Cao looked at Murong Xiao in confusion.
Murong Xiao saw the excitement in her eyes, "What do you want with these useless ash?"
"Don't you want to know what cement is? I'll make it for you later." Feng Mingwei said as if she wanted to discover a treasure.
If you can succeed, you might even be able to make a fortune.
Just do it.
I packed a few bags and threw them on the carriage.
"My carriage has been stained by you."
"Just wash it off then."
"Humph, if you can't make cement, I will ask you to clean it yourself."
Feng Mingwei smiled and said, "Okay, for the rest, you have someone prepare some lime for me."
Lime is now using lime mortar to build walls.
There is one in the palace.
The two of them returned home in a hurry and immediately started experiments together.
"The substances in these white ash are quite pure, which is really good."
Feng Mingwei did it herself, while Murong Xiao watched her busy and had no idea where she got those tools, gloves, and shoes. They were all very strange.
"You sit aside first." Feng Mingwei waved him away.
She used a shovel to mix the lime and white ash in proportion, then added sand, lime, and water and stirred them together.
Murong Xiao watched her perform the operation first and said, "Is this good?"
Feng Mingwei wiped her sweat and said, "Well, okay, let me build you a small house."
Murong Xiao: "..."
The woman was busy again.
After working on it for a day, I finally made a small stone house.
They look quite exquisite, but they are all gray and the colors are not very nice.
"Don't touch it now. You'll know the effect when it dries tomorrow."
Feng Mingwei felt sore in her back and was too lazy to take care of herself, "I'm hungry, please get me something to eat first."
Murong Xiao frowned slightly, obviously displeased. After waiting for a day, he showed him a dilapidated house. This woman was probably trying to trick him!
"The house still needs to be renovated. I will paint it for you tomorrow. It will definitely look beautiful and won't fall apart. You will know then." Feng Mingwei pinched her sore waist.
Murong Xiao's eyes brightened slightly, and he glanced at the small stone house covered in dirt, "You... did it to give it to me?!"
"Um."
Feng Mingwei was too tired to tell him.
He can think whatever he likes.
Murong Xiao looked at her with a complicated expression and then motioned to the secret guards to watch and not allow anyone to touch her.
"You go take a bath first, change your clothes, and then come to Jinbaixuan for dinner."
Feng Mingwei said bitterly: "Can I go to your hot spring to eat and take a bath?"
"Can."
Murong Xiao readily agreed.
Feng Mingwei immediately ran out of Xingyue Tower happily like a wild horse running wild.
The man did not follow.
Murong Xiao stayed in the yard and stared at the small stone for a long time.
Hayate couldn't understand, so he asked: "What's wrong, Your Majesty? But the little stone house is too ugly, you don't like it?!"
Murong Xiao rolled his eyes at him, "Is it ugly there?"
Gale swallowed and shook his head hastily, "It's not ugly, the princess made it for you, it's not ugly at all."
Murong Xiao ignored him, "Watch, no one is allowed to touch."
At this time, Butler Zhu came in and reported, "Your Majesty, the Queen has sent someone to invite the Princess to come to the palace for dinner with you."
Murong Xiao narrowed his eyes slightly, "Didn't you say anything else?"
"No." Butler Zhu shook his head.
"Well, let someone go back first and tell the queen that the king and the princess will enter the palace later."