Because the original owner was beautiful, she looked even more beautiful when she smiled. Especially her crooked eyes, which made Qin Fang unable to take his eyes off. He couldn't help but say, "Okay." With his background, there are no rules in his family. Besides... his eyes moved to Yang Haiyan's hands. Her hands were so beautiful. They were used for writing, embroidering, and making soap. Of course, these rough jobs were left to him.
Yang Haiyan: "Is it really okay? Are you willing to wash the dishes? But wouldn't it be bad if people knew? Most families have the daughter-in-law wash the dishes." Qin
Fang: "Your hands are precious. You can read and write, make soap, and make clothes..." Just like the hands of a scholar, but afraid that she would blame herself, he continued, "And... my father washes the dishes in our family." Dad, please forgive him for lying.
Yang Haiyan heard it and said, "Husband, you are so nice." She waved at him and said, "Bend over."
Qin Fang was puzzled and bent over obediently.
Then, Yang Haiyan kissed him on the face and said, "Thank you, husband." After the kiss, she pretended to be shy and ran out of the kitchen.
Qin Fang was left in a daze for a long time. When he came to his senses, he did not forget to touch his face and then smiled silently. When he smiled, his originally cold face warmed up.
In fact, Yang Haiyan's heartbeat was a little fast when she ran out of the kitchen. It was also her first time to kiss the opposite sex. In her heart, the 20-year-old Qin Fang was like a puppy. To be honest, she felt a little embarrassed to tease him like this. However, seeing his nervous look, she thought it was very funny.
Yang Haiyan went to the storage room and scooped out a spoonful of alkaline liquid with a spoon. In addition to being used to make soap, alkaline liquid has another biggest use, which is to be used as detergent to wash dishes. Alkaline liquid can be made into soap because of its cleaning effect.
Yang Haiyan returned to the kitchen and saw that Qin Fang had already cleaned the table and was ready to wash the dishes. She said, "Husband, pour some of this alkaline liquid in when washing the dishes. This can wash away grease stains and can wash the dishes very cleanly."
Qin Fang heard her voice, his heartbeat accelerated, and his face was serious again: "Okay."
While Qin Fang was washing the dishes, Yang Haiyan went to the kitchen to paint two pictures. When she came out, Qin Fang washed the dishes. Yang Haiyan pulled him and said, "Husband, look at this. This is a sink, built next to the stove. After dinner, you can put the dishes here, so it's more convenient to wash. And this is a clay oven, built in this corner." Speaking of this clay oven, Yang Haiyan saw it in a farmyard when she was traveling in Northeast China. It can bake bread, handmade cakes, ducks and chickens. Yang Haiyan found it interesting, and after returning home, she asked the village stove master to make one for her.
Qin Fang listened. He was a farm boy, and because he was used to doing rough work, he understood the sink and the earthen kiln oven as soon as he heard Yang Haiyan say it and looked at the drawings: "I'll get some materials and make it for you today."
Yang Haiyan: "Thank you, husband, you are the best. After it's done, I'll bake bread for you."
Qin Fang thought of her craftsmanship and couldn't help looking forward to the bread she mentioned. However: "I don't have any silver on me. It will cost silver to prepare the materials. You have to give me some." It was a bit embarrassing to say it.
Yang Haiyan gave him the one or two silver coins he handed in today.
Qin Fang: "No need for so much."
Yang Haiyan: "You use it first, and give me the extra when you come back."
Qin Fang: "Okay."
Qin Fang went to buy materials. There was no such materials in the town, so he had to go to the countryside, so he hired a donkey cart. Yang Haiyan was not idle either. She went to the blacksmith shop and ordered three baking pans. One was a rectangular iron pan, which was used for baking bread, fish, and pancakes. There was also a baking iron rack, which was used for baking. The last one was an omelette baking pan, which was used for making omelettes.
However, omelette baking pans are more difficult to make in this era, so it takes time, while the general rectangular baking pan is faster and can be picked up tomorrow morning.
Three baking pans, two of which cost 70 wen, and the omelette baking pan cost 100 wen, a total of 240 wen.
Yang Haiyan returned home, Qin Fang had not returned yet, so she took out the quilt in the room to dry it. Just after drying her hair, she heard the sound of a donkey cart. She saw it stop at the door of her house and Qin Fang got off the cart.
Yang Haiyan: "I'm back."
Qin Fang: "Yeah." He gave the remaining 500 coins to Yang Haiyan and unloaded the things from the donkey cart.
The donkey cart made quite a commotion. Sister Lu came over to see it out of curiosity. Not only her, but also the mother of another neighbor, Centurion Zhang, came over. Because Zhang's mother had asked Yang Haiyan for something before but failed, she said a lot of bad things about Yang Haiyan to others afterwards. But because Yang Haiyan didn't go out, she usually either went to the barracks to deliver meals or did needlework with Yang Dahua at home, so she didn't know about this.
Zhang's mother didn't dare to get close and watched secretly from the side.
Sister Lu: "What are you doing?"
Yang Haiyan said: "Renovate the kitchen and put a sink inside, so that it will be more convenient to wash dishes."
Sister Lu: "Sink? Wash dishes?" She couldn't figure it out for a moment.
Yang Haiyan: "After it's done, Sister Lu can come to visit. If you like it, you can build one at home."
Sister Lu: "Okay."
There was no cement in this era, but the walls of the buildings still existed. This is the wisdom of the ancients. People in this world use glutinous rice lime mortar to build walls.
Glutinous rice lime mortar refers to mixing glutinous rice soup into lime mortar to form a new composite mortar. The strength of glutinous rice lime mortar is much greater than that of pure lime mortar, and it is very strong. Of course, compared to glutinous rice lime slurry, ordinary people use a cheaper kind of lime slurry, which is yellow clay lime slurry. Ordinary people cannot afford glutinous rice lime slurry.
However, Qin Fang used glutinous rice lime slurry this time. First, only a sink and a barbecue are needed, so less glutinous rice lime is needed, so the cost difference from yellow clay lime slurry is not much. Second, the sink is used to wash dishes and will touch water every day, so it needs to be more moisture-resistant, that is, more sticky and stronger. To sum up the two points, glutinous rice lime slurry is naturally better.
When Qin Fang was building the sink, Yang Haiyan was watching beside him and complimenting him from time to time:
"Husband, you are amazing."
"Husband, the sink you built is so smooth."
"Husband, are you tired? Have some tea."
"Husband..."
Qin Fang's bones were numb from her calling him husband, so he worked even harder. It
was really quick to build a sink, and it was completed in less than an hour. A hole was dug at the lower end of the sink near the wall so that dirty water could flow out. Then, Qin Fang made a wooden sink plug.
Because the walls of the house were all plastered with lime, the house was bright white, so Qin Fang also plastered lime on the outside of the sink, which looked even more beautiful. After finishing it, he looked at Yang Haiyan.
The joy in Yang Haiyan's eyes was obvious. She was very satisfied with the sink: "Great, thank you, husband."
Qin Fang: "Well, I'll make another oven. But this sink needs to be put away for three days. It can't be used now."
Yang Haiyan: "I know, thank you for reminding me, husband."
After having a good meal at noon, dinner was simpler. Eating good meals every day would put too much pressure on this man who is still a big boy. So Yang Haiyan cooked brown rice and steamed sweet potatoes at night. In the eyes of others, this is the coarse grain eaten by ordinary people, and they are very poor. But in Yang Haiyan's view, this is the coarse grain for modern people to keep healthy.
Brown rice and sweet potatoes alone are too dry, so Yang Haiyan made a rice soup with loofah and shrimp.
Qin Fang was originally thinking that if he ate at noon every day, 30 coins a day would not be enough. But then he thought, she has the ability to eat well every day, and she married him but couldn't eat well, isn't this unfair to her? Seeing the food on the table, he thought again, she is a frugal person. But for some reason, he still felt a little sour in his heart: "You must have eaten well when you were in the capital, and it's really unfair to you to eat such simple meals with me. You...you can make some money yourself, so you can eat better." Just look at her fair skin and you will know that if she was not well taken care of, how could she have such skin?
Yang Haiyan: "Marry a chicken and follow the chicken, marry a dog and follow the dog. Follow you, no matter what I eat, I am willing."
Qin Fang was very touched when he heard it. He secretly vowed to work hard to climb up.
Yang Haiyan added: "Besides, we don't eat simple meals every day. We have good meals at noon."
Qin Fang: "You are the head of the family, you have the final say."
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