The Blessed

“Childe Ling, what is this?”

After reviewing the drawings over and over, one of them pointed to the gaps between the walls of the main house and asked puzzlingly. Having built houses all his life, he had never seen a two-story structure like this.

Ling Jingxuan lowered his eyes to cast a light glance at them, “This is the heating plan I designed myself. Between walls it’s all double-layer hollow inside, connecting the kitchen and the heated brick bed. When they are used, the heat would get transferred to all the other rooms through the interlayers inside the walls. There’s a moveable board at the mouth of the access of each kitchen. And in summer, I can put them down to block he heat.”

In this era, there was no central heating, it was not enough to rely on the heated brick bed to keep warm. They couldn’t just stay in bed the whole winter, right? Although they could burn charcoals to keep warm, it had smoke anyhow, which was bad for health. So thinking it back and forth, he worked out this plan, which was similar to the heating system in the north of Hua Kingdom in twenty-first century, but a lot simpler, after all, the conditions here were limited.

“Here should be the toilet, right? And what is this?”

Another person pointed to one of the things he couldn’t understand and asked. Ling Jingxuan patiently explained, “That’s closestool, which needs a stonemason to make. You only need to help me with the flush.”

Speaking of which, Ling Jingxuan stretched out a finger to point at the drainage system he marked. There was no sewer in ancient buildings at all. A specially-assigned person would be responsible for the night excrement. Winder would be endurable, but in summer, meh! You could imagine the smell. After thinking it carefully, uniting what he knew in his precious life, he worked out such a plan. Actually it was quite simple. Each toilet had a squatting pot and a sitting pot. And down below was designed into a slope, and outside was the manure pit, and he would build a small impounding reservoir inside. Each time, one could scoop some water to flush. Though it was not kind of awesome idea, at least they didn’t have to carry out the chamber pot everyday.

“It's a new and convenient idea, if you can trust me, I Sun Peng would like to have a try.”

The one who first asked him questions cupped his hands, saying that he’d like to take it. The rest four looked at each other, and expressed their opinions. Though seen from the drawings, Ling Jingxuan had high requirements of the main house, they all wanted to try something new. And, if they took such a huge project, the pay would be considerable.

pαndα`noνɐ1--сoМ “Don't worry, you hear me out first. You know, I’m in a hurry to move in. So if I hire only one of you, you can’t finish it in two or three months. So I am thinking if you can work together. Each is responsible for one part, to shorten the time limit. The main house would be hard to build, so two teams could work on it together. And one team is responsible for the barns, houses for the servants, and paving, one team for the winding corridor and the factories, and the last team is responsible for all the walls. It’s 230 mu of land, from left to right, all the land needs two-meter high walls. And I want crocks for the capping of the walls, in case of thieves. What do you think?”

Raising a hand to stop them, Ling Jingxuan slowly said his thoughts his eyes swept over all of them. The main house occupied about a thousand square meters at most, as for the rest, he planned to build a factory, an orchard and a pond. He planned to leave the pond to the workers who came for land clearing to dig. As for the orchard, he’d leave it there for now. He’d build it some day. But the factory needed to be build first, since he needed to make jam there. The main problem now was the overall frame. If five teams worked together, maybe within a month?ραпdα `nᴏνɐ| сom

“You means you want us to build walls for all the 230 mu of land?”

Hearing the words, they all dropped their jaws. They had thought it was over a dozen mu at most, never expected…Who is this man? Since when Datong town got such a rich man?

“Hmm. Can you do it or not?”

Apparently not wanting to explain more, Ling Jingxuan asked with a deep voice. He only wanted a result.

“No problem, but we need to do an on-the-spot survey first. I wonder when it is convenient for you.”

The five of them gave each other a look. Then Su Peng who gave self-introduction just now asked. Only after that, they could make a plan and give the rough completion date.

“In fact, I have already hired people for the land reclamation tomorrow. So I hope the day after tomorrow, the team responsible for building the walls could start. I will prepare all the bricks and crocks needed. As for other projects, I hope you can start as soon as possible. As I said, I am in a hurry to move in, so you can bring more people. The total budget is five hundred taels of silver. And I you can accomplish it within a month, I’d add another one hundred. As for the materials, my younger brother Ling Jingpeng will be in charge. So, go to him for whatever you need.”

The price was very considerable, six hundred taels of silver a month. Even if the five teams shared it equally, each team could get over a hundred taels of silver. Except the money used to pay the workers, it wouldn’t be a problem to earn dozens of taels. Five of them nodded, actually feeling ecstatic in the heart. Ling Jingxuan smiled with satisfaction, “Then please come for the on-the-spot survey tomorrow. The one-hundred band note is the deposit. And when it’s half completed, I will pay two hundred more. As for the rest, I’ll pay it all after it’s all completed. What do you think?”

Pushing that bank note before them, Ling Jingxuan said so. In fact, he not only paid them a good price, he also planned to provide lunch for all the workers. The food he had bought was for this. Only to stuff those workers’ belly, they’d have the strength to work for him, right? Anyhow, it wouldn’t cost him much.

“Ok. Childe Ling is such a straightforward person. We got nothing to say. After measuring the land tomorrow, our construction teams would come successively. You can count on us.”

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