Sheng Yichen received a hint from his younger sister and immediately gave his second aunt a warm smile:
"What are you talking about, aunt? We are a family, so we should enjoy such good things together. So we will transform our yard first. I thought it would be easy to fail if I used the secret method given by Gao for the first time, so I can only try it in my own place first."
"We still have a lot of that special pipe here. If we don't have enough in the future, we can use the method given by Gao to make it ourselves. We are going to install floor heating in everyone's yard after the test is successful in this yard. After renovating everyone's house, we can naturally renovate other places."
"However, the houses renovated in this way cannot be too far away from the hot springs. I'm afraid we'll have to trouble my grandparents, uncles and aunts to temporarily move to a few courtyards in the north."
After all, a lot of heat is consumed in the process of transmitting hot water. With the technology currently developed by Sheng Nancy, this spring water is enough to install floor heating in the courtyards on the north side.
But it was enough for their family to get through these three months of severe cold weather safely.
When everyone heard him say this, their faces lit up with surprise. Second Aunt was so excited that her hands and feet were a little out of control, and she quickly said:
"Hehehe - Third Sheng boy, your second aunt knows that you are filial and grateful. Since you are so filial, we will not refuse. The North Fourth and North Fifth Courtyards have already been chosen by you. The remaining largest Qixia Courtyard will naturally belong to your father and mother."
"Xiao Xi'er is young and needs someone older to play with her. My seventh brother misses her every day! Why don't we live in Cuizhuyuan, which is closest to you, and I can choose from a few grown-up brothers in the remaining courtyards."
The second aunt was a bit filial and knew to give the best courtyard to the two elders. However, Cuizhuyuan was the most spacious courtyard in the north except for Qixiayuan. It was unknown whether she just wanted to let the seventh brother and Xiaoxier play or wanted to occupy the second largest courtyard.
However, Youshi has always been tolerant and had no intention of arguing with her over such a small matter.
The two elders had already delegated the power of managing the household to the eldest son and his wife. Seeing that the eldest son's wife didn't say anything, the old lady didn't say anything.
Yu was just feeling smug about her quick reaction and grabbing the second largest courtyard, when she was suddenly met with a bone-chilling gaze from the side.
When she turned around, she saw the two elders talking to the third child of the Sheng family with a smile on their faces. The old lady was holding a small baby in her arms and was picking out amber candies from a paper bag obediently. The little brother beside her was looking at her nose with his head down, looking so obedient.
Hmm? Who was that just now?!
The two elders were talking, so it was impossible for them to do multiple things at once. The two children were innocent and cute, so it was impossible for them to have such cold eyes.
At her age, shouldn't Xi'er play more with her cousin of similar age? What's wrong with the reason she gave? !
Well, maybe she didn't sleep well these few nights, so she just had an illusion, right?
It's always like this. I've never seen a house that can be as warm as spring in cold weather before, so I think that using only charcoal basins and kangs for heating is OK. Now that I've seen this miraculous house, I feel that the house in front of me is not pleasing at all.
As soon as the Li family members sat in the main hall of the North Fourth Courtyard, they didn't want to move. Tonight's New Year's Eve dinner was moved to the Sheng family courtyard in such a gorgeous way.
Everyone's trust in Sheng San is rising sharply. He said that according to the method given by Gao, he predicted that there will be several more snowstorms in the future, and it may be even colder than now. The temperature in the next few days will be colder than before, and there may be famine and disaster.
Everyone thought that today's weather was too abnormal, and what he said was even more of a warning sign.
As soon as they finished their meal, my eldest and second uncles asked me to go and inform all the shops in the city and the people in the farms outside the city to stock up on goods as soon as possible and transport all the existing stock to the house first.
The eldest and second aunts did not dare to delay for a moment and immediately asked the people in the house to collect the remaining goods and carefully count what was missing and buy it as soon as possible. Even several cousins were infected by the tense atmosphere in the house and followed the elders to get ready.
That night, the Li family's subordinates and the subordinates in various industries in and outside the city stayed up all night.
In ancient times, the atmosphere was very lively, and after New Year's Eve, the back streets would be very lively. Even if you lived in the back house, you could hear the sound of firecrackers and fireworks exploding from outside from time to time.
These days, Nancy Sheng had no energy to care about other things. She was only focused on renovating nearly ten courtyards in the north.
Some courtyards are often abandoned and need to reinforce the walls and roofs; some courtyards have too many rockeries and pools to bury pipes in a straight line; some courtyards are too far away, and the temperature of the spring water transported by the existing pipeline system is not high enough, so the route has to be replanned...
Although it is not difficult to solve small problems that arise one by one, it is troublesome to deal with them all at once.
Fortunately, Sheng Nanxi had accumulated a lot of experience when she renovated the North Fourth and North Fifth Courtyards. Now, the efficiency has been greatly improved when renovating the remaining courtyards.
After solving those new small problems, you can just wave your hand and use the supernatural power to provide floor heating for several rooms at the same time.
As for having the secret guards digging the monastery wall day and night, it was purely to make some noise to cover up their tracks.
The renovation of nearly ten courtyards to the north of the Sheng family was completely completed on the seventh day of the New Year.
The weather became colder day by day, which fully confirmed Sheng Yichen's prediction. The Li family was very worried these days, putting off all unnecessary matters and focusing on stockpiling food and supplies.
The uncles, aunts, and cousins were busy as hell. They would only sleep for an hour or two when they were extremely tired, and then get up again to prepare for all matters related to disaster prevention.
I thought it would be a big project to renovate nearly ten courtyards. Even if the secret guards were very capable, it would take ten days or half a month. But after just a few days, Sheng San sent someone to say that the repairs were completed.
The Li family almost thought they had heard wrongly, and after confirming again and again that the maids and servants had not conveyed the wrong message, they hurried to the north courtyard.
After seeing that the houses in the courtyards were really as warm as spring in the North Fourth Courtyard, the first thing that came to everyone's mind was that even if the weather got colder the next day, their family would be able to get through it safely.
The tension that had been building for the past few days suddenly relaxed for the Li family members. When they looked at each other, they couldn't help but burst into tears.
The two uncles were so excited that they couldn't help but pat the three boys of the Sheng family one by one, and took them to the side to discuss the disaster response strategy that they would prepare together in the future.
Xiao Xier, the little pet of the Sheng family, naturally became the focus of everyone again. After being hugged by her grandparents and uncles and cousins who had not seen her for several days, she received a new wave of snacks and various small gifts.
After the excitement, the Li family began to organize the servants to move all the things in the original yard into the northern yards.
The chubby girl nodded with satisfaction as she watched the busy figures, and began the second step of your sister Xi's infrastructure plan...