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Chapter 73 Entering the Palace to Install Air Conditioning

Then Qian Xiaoxing picked up the quill, dipped it in ink, and wrote 1,2,3...j,q,k...

It turned out that Qian Xiaoxing wanted to make a pair of poker, so Qian Xiaoxing carefully wrote down the upper left corner of the 52 wood chips, including spades, red hearts, grass flowers, and square films.

"9527, what are you drawing?" Fang Ying asked when he saw these strange symbols.

"This is the number of our hometown, these are one to ten, and the other three represent the prince, queen and emperor." Qian Xiaoxing explained.

"One to ten? Which one is one?" Ling Yi asked.

"Well, so I'll mark the numbers for you." Qian Xiaoxing thought that they didn't know Arabic numerals yet, so he wrote one to ten in Chinese into the middle of the wood chips. After a lot of time, Qian Xiaoxing finally finished writing it.

Ling Yi saw that Qian Xiaoxing had finally finished writing and asked, "How to play?"

"This thing is called poker, and there are many ways to play. Today I will teach you the simplest one, called Run Fast." Qian Xiaoxing spread out all the cards and told the rules.

After hearing this, everyone wanted to try it. Qian Xiaoxing washed the cards and folded them. The wood chips were probably two millimeters thick, with 52 cards. Even if they were divided into four stacks, they would be stacked high.

Qian Xiaoxing asked the four of them to take turns to draw cards. After they were caught, they played the cards first. Everyone showed them, but they couldn't tell the size for a while, and the order of the cards was very chaotic.

"Brother Qian, why do you want to draw those strange symbols without writing one, two, and three directly?" Ling Yi asked.

Qian Xiaoxing also thought about this question, but in order to let them learn Arabic numerals, Qian Xiaoxing deliberately wrote it like this. As long as they learn Arabic numerals, they can teach them simple algorithms. So he said: "When you are familiar with what numbers these symbols represent, I will teach you the technique of numerals. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division can be calculated very quickly."

"Oh, is that so good." Ling Yi was very excited after hearing this.

Qian Xiaoxing reorganized everyone's cards and arranged them according to size. Butler Lu and Xiao Cui did not play, and stood by and watched.

"This is a continuous card, only five cards can be connected, this is a three-leaf two, this is a bomb, yes, the meaning of a bomb is like a thunder, and it can be bigger than any card." Qian Xiaoxing took the card that Fang Ying caught and analyzed.

After hearing this, everyone nodded. Following Qian Xiaoxing's careful introduction, everyone tried to play a few games and basically understood it.

"A pair of queens!"

"A pair of emperors!"

"I'm thunder."

Qian Xiaoxing listened to their name as they played cards and laughed secretly, but sometimes he had to follow the local customs. As long as he could understand, he would just call him whatever he wanted.

Ling Shan lost the last pair of mistresses and said happily: "Haha, I'm out of it. I now know why this gameplay is called running faster, because whoever gives out the best first wins will win, and whoever has the cards will run faster."

"How many beauties, why don't you get some excitement? Is it good if the person who loses the most will pour water?" Qian Xiaoxing said with a trick again.

"9527, can it be cool under the trees in the yard?" Fang Ying asked back without a positive answer.

"It's cool, why?" Qian Xiaoxing said in confusion.

"Let's stay there, cool, stay there." Fang Ying smiled.

"Okay, if you teach you, you won't recognize the teacher, a group of heartless guys."

Ling Shan and Lan Xiaocui replied at the same time: "We didn't say that..."

"Well, Xiao Cui and Shan'er are better to me. Some people are just jealous of me as handsome guys. If it's a mistake to be handsome, I'm already wrong." Qian Xiaoxing said stinkyly.

"Wow, it's been a long time since anyone bragged about cowhide so fresh and refined. You'll have a lot of knowledge!" Fang Ying pretended to be admiring and exclaimed.

"I tell you, don't be too obsessed with me, I'm just a legend." Qian Xiaoxing said with a shameless face.

"Vomit..." Fang Ying pretended to be vomiting.

Everyone laughed and fought hard until late at night. Since Qian Xiaoxing had to go to the palace to install air conditioners tomorrow, he reluctantly disbanded the game.

The next day, Qian Xiaoxing set out with the Air Conditioning Installation Brigade. There were a total of four installation teams, each with eight people and more than 30 people coming to the palace gate. Last time, Qian Xiaoxing was a one-day trip to the imperial kitchen and did not see a beautiful woman, which disappointed Qian Xiaoxing. This four-day trip to the palace harem made Qian Xiaoxing very expectant. Thinking of the three thousand beauties, the beauty of each country was so beautiful that he drooled.

Everyone waited at the palace gate. Soon after, a group of eunuchs came out of the palace. The leader was an old eunuch in his fifties. Qian Xiaoxing had also seen it when he arrived at the imperial kitchen last time, and it seemed that he was calling Eunuch Li.

Eunuch Li led everyone through the palace gate and headed straight to the harem.

The eunuchs who came to pick them up surrounded a group of people from front to back and left to side. Rather than picking up, they were here to supervise. The palace was so big, and if they were throwing someone to a place they shouldn't go, it would be a great sin.

After leading the way around the nine bends and eighteen bends, Eighth Bells finally stood in front of a row of yards and spoke to Qian Xiaoxing: "This is where the empresses live. Each yard has an air conditioner. Today, install four of them here."

"Okay, we'll start work soon." Qian Xiaoxing agreed, but thought in his mind that he couldn't see a concubine along the way, and only saw a few palace maids of ordinary appearance, and was very disappointed.

"These four empresses have moved somewhere else to stay for a while. Please be careful not to move things in the room. If there are fewer things, you will lose your head." Eunuch Li hinted that these people should not do anything stealing.

"Well, we are all professional ethics, and we will not do anything across industries." Qian Xiaoxing was very disappointed when he heard that his concubines had moved away.

"Okay, you can start work as soon as possible. What do you need to get the eunuchs to call me?" After Eunuch Li said that, he left with a sway.

Qian Xiaoxing arranged the work. Since they had experience and were not a troublesome, the air conditioner was arranged quickly. This time, Qian Xiaoxing saw that the number of installations was twenty, so he planned to build a large water tower on the hollowed-out ground in the courtyard, and only one water truck was made, as long as it was made taller, it was enough. This water diversion channel was built by the moat outside the palace.

Qian Xiaoxing asked Ling Yi yesterday if he wanted to bring the wood. Ling Yi said that the palace looked down on these ordinary woods. They would provide the precious woods themselves, but they saved the money for the woods. After a while, the carpenters calculated the woods and asked the eunuchs to repay them. Then a group of eunuchs carried the woods over, and the carpenters each sawed and cut them.

Taking advantage of this time, Qian Xiaoxing visited the bedroom where the concubines lived. For some reason, Qian Xiaoxing was very interested in visiting the women's boudoir. Could it be that the boudoir in ancient times was too private?

After visiting the four boudoirs, Qian Xiaoxing summarized the common points, all of which have a faint fragrance, and the utensils and objects used are extremely exquisite, which are much higher than those in Lingyi's mansion. However, in some parts, there are still some differences, such as colors and decorations, and their own characteristics. It seems that these concubines have nothing to do, so they think about these things.

After eating lunch delivered in the palace, one meat and two vegetables. Although the dishes are ordinary, the taste is good. The food cooked in the imperial kitchen really looks unique.

After eating, Qian Xiaoxing found a secluded and cool place and took a nap for a while. Because he played cards too late at night, he had a nap at noon. Anyway, there is nothing to say about installing air conditioners now, and the carpenters will do it.

After sleeping for several hours, Qian Xiaoxing woke up and looked at the sun, it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon. He thought that he had entered the palace and finally got into the harem, but he had not seen a beautiful woman. He couldn't help but feel disappointed. He thought that the concubines in the yard had all been removed, should he take the initiative to look for it?

There are four small yards with air conditioning. There is a large garden outside, which means that the four small yards share a garden. The garden is surrounded by high walls. There are many strange grasses and trees in the garden, and there is a small pond in the middle, full of lotus flowers.

Qian Xiaoxing rubbed his face with his hands to make his mind clear. He vaguely saw a small door on the side of the wall deep in the trees in the garden, so he stood up and prepared to sneak over and take a look.

Before he could walk a few steps, a little eunuch appeared somewhere and followed him and asked, "Foreman Qian, where are you going?"

Qian Xiaoxing didn't expect that his actions were all under surveillance. Is his voyeuristic plan going to be ruined? After thinking for a while, he said, "Oh, I'm checking the terrain and where the sewer is going to lead from?"

"That's right, then I'll go with the foreman of Qian." The eunuch said.

"Oh, no, no, it's so hot outside the sun, so I'll take a look in the yard, but I can't run there." Qian Xiaoxing hurriedly stopped it.

"This..." The little eunuch thought about it. There were people guarding the small door in this yard, so Qian Xiaoxing couldn't run anywhere, and the sun was quite fierce, so he replied: "That's it, Foreman Qian can take a closer look at the terrain and not make any mistakes."

"Sure, certain." Qian Xiaoxing was very happy when he heard this, so he started walking in the garden, but he didn't walk to the small door at the beginning because the eunuch was still watching there.

When I arrived at the lotus pond, I picked a lotus pod near the water. After eating it for half, I saw that the little eunuch was gone and then quickly walked towards the small door beside the wall.
Chapter completed!
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