Shen Mingjun was a little surprised when Lin Dai called Chen Xi his brother. Although this girl looked young, she was more than a fist taller than Chen Xi.

However, the girl developed earlier than the boys, so he didn't want to ask what was going on. At this moment, someone pushed open the side door of the yard from outside, and then a slim old man in his forties and with a goatee appeared. After the old man came in, he narrowed his eyes and looked at Chen Xi and Lin Dai's eyes, and then he said to Shen Mingjun: "The roof of the backyard kitchen is tiling, and there is not enough staff, so go over and help."

Shen Mingjun said respectfully: "Butler Liu, I'll settle here and go there right away."

The old man nodded, looked at Shen Xi and Lin Dai again before turning around and leaving.

When the old man's figure disappeared behind the side door connecting the back garden of the main house, Shen Mingjun touched Chen Xi's head and ordered: "Go to the kitchen and say something to your mother. If there is something wrong with the main house, I will come back soon. If you are hungry, you will eat first, don't wait for me."

Chen Xi nodded: "Go to Daddy."

Shen Mingjun returned to the main room and cleaned up briefly, stuffed a bag into the drawer of the large wardrobe against the wall. He was serious about it, and there might be something valuable inside.

Shen Mingjun left, hid at the door and raised his cheap father to see clearly Chen Xi, and wanted to go over and see what it was, but Lin Daiyi grabbed him.

Lin Dai said dissatisfiedly: "Brother, you can't just watch it, that's Dad's thing."

Chen Xi looked at the black-bellied little loli and asked back, "Since it's my father's thing, it's my own. I just saw it and didn't want to take it. What's wrong with it?"

As he said that, Chen Xi opened the cabinet by himself, opened the drawer and took out the bag, and put it on the table to open it. The first thing he saw was two old clothes. Although the material was poor and they were almost washed white, they were very clean and had no patches. There was a small purse inside, containing some scattered silver.

Chen Xi has been in this world for more than half a year and has basically never seen the silver. Zhou’s daily use of copper coins. He expected that these broken silver were saved by his father. Even if Shen Mingjun was down-to-earth and steady, he was not pedantic. He knew that in addition to paying the monthly wages to the old lady, the fragments of silver that the owner rewarded on weekdays would be hidden for his wife and children. This is the main source of the small treasury in Zhou’s hands.

Originally, Chen Xi felt that he and Zhou were left in the city without a place, but now he has a place to live, and with the money, he thought that the problem would not be very big.

Chen Xi put the things in, carefully restored the bag, sent them into the big cabinet and stuffed the drawer back, and then said to Lin Dai, who was directly supervising him from behind, "Look, I put the things in place, so no one will notice it, right?"

"oh."

Lin Dai pouted and responded, feeling a little dissatisfied.

Chen Xi was not afraid that she would sue the trick. The child was curious. Even if he had seen the things in the bag, as long as he didn't move the slightest, his parents would not care about him even if they knew it.

Seeing Lin Dai's depressed look, Chen Xi said, "Let's go to the kitchen to tell my mother about my father's work at the master's house, and then go outside to see what's fun."

When he arrived at the kitchen, Zhou was burning fire. Because there was no hair dryer, Zhou's forehead was stained with black gray. Seeing his son coming in with his young wife, Zhou stood up and wiped the sweat beads on his face. After asking about the situation, he said: "You go to the yard to play, don't go out. Mom will prepare the meal soon."

Chen Xi said with a heartache: "Mom, don't be too busy, why don't I help you with fire?"

Zhou's face was stern: "Silly boy, don't make trouble, go out quickly."

Chen Xi still wanted to persevere, but the little loli Lindai ran forward and held his hand: "Listen to my mother, let's go outside to play."

Chen Xi could not twist the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who had a consistent temper, had to go to the yard outside with Lin Dai. The yard was not big. In addition to the kitchen of the main hatchback, there was also a storage room with some wooden boards and carpenter tools inside. However, these things were covered with dust and no one had used them for a long time.

Chen Xi looked at things ready, and his mind was filled with inspiration: "Dai'er, you see that my mother worked so hard to cook, and you were still shouting to come out to play. This is because you don't know how to be considerate. Now, if you help me, you can reduce my mother's fatigue, are you willing?"

Although Lin Dai didn't understand what Chen Xi wanted to express, she nodded and agreed: "Yeah, as long as you are good for your mother, I will listen to you."

Chen Xi has read many woodworking books and knows that my country already had metallurgical skins as early as the Warring States Period. In the early Eastern Han Dynasty, Du Shi, the prefect of Nanyang, designed and manufactured a kind of hydraulic blower for metallurgical casting. However, the bellows used in the kitchen stove appeared in the middle of the Qing Dynasty and were still in use in many rural areas in the new century.

Chen Xi is familiar with the structure of the bellows. Now he has ready-made tools, so he is inevitably a little itchy and wants to try whether he can make it.

Chen Xi was just a child under seven years old. He was weak and it was difficult to use the carpenter's tools normally. Moreover, he did not have ready-made paper and pen to make drawings, so he could only build a skeleton based on the memory in his mind.

Unfortunately, time was still too tight. When Chen Xi found a few wooden boards and thought about how to do it, Zhou had already gone to the yard to ask him to have dinner with Lin Dai.

Chen Xi shook his head regretfully and put together the more handy tools. It seemed impossible to make a bellows in a short time, but now he has time and can take it slowly.

When Chen Xi saw the steamed rice and vegetables cooked with some rapeseed oil, he couldn't help swallowing. Such simple and crude meals would not even become monks in a few hundred years, but now it is a delicious dish for him.

Zhou brought the dishes up, and when he saw Chen Xi, he was about to move his chopsticks, scolding him, "There is no rule in the city? Your father hasn't come back yet, we have to wait until his family arrives before we can have dinner."

Chen Xi retracted his hand and said with a bitter face: "Mom, then Dai'er and I will go outside first and then play for a while."

Zhou frowned and said, "It's really uneasy to go out after washing your hands. Forget it, go ahead and stop playing wild. We'll have dinner when your father comes back."

After saying that, Zhou went to the kitchen to clean up again. She originally planned to stay in the city for only two or three days before going back to Taohua Village, but now she has a place to settle down and her mind is also alive.

I don’t know how many days I can live in the yard given by the master’s family, but as long as I move in, Zhou treats this place as his own and wants to clean up if he has nothing to do.

Chen Xi looked at Zhou's back and sighed softly: "Mom is so virtuous!"

I originally thought that Shen Mingjun would take a long time to tiles, but the food on the table was cold and there were still no people. Chen Xi used a saw in the storage room, knocking and hitting the bellows and nails, and the prototype of a bellows had already appeared.

He was also lucky. There was a shabby box in the warehousing room that looked very similar to the bellows. He only needed to enrich and perfect the structure inside. Although the pistons and valves were difficult to fix, he had the thinking and wisdom of an adult after all. He had assembled the bellows of the Qing Dynasty with his own hands and was very familiar with it.

After Chen Xi assembled the bellows, more than an hour had passed, and Shen Mingjun still didn't come back.

Chen Xi came to the yard with the fruits of his labor, trying to pull the bellows lever while testing whether the wind blew out of the air outlet.

Because the tightness is not done very well, the wind is not very strong, but it is much better to use it on the stove than simply blowing it with your mouth.

Lin Dai helped Chen Xi at first, but later she felt that what Chen Xi made seemed to have nothing to do with the stove, so she stood by and watched. When Chen Xi was testing the effect of the bellows, Lin Dai had already pulled Zhou to the yard.

"Mom, look, brother doesn't know what he is doing, so he made something strange." Chen Xi heard Lin Dai making a report from a distance.

Zhou instructed: "He is younger than you, so he wants to call him brother." At first, Zhou didn't take it seriously, but when he went to the yard, he saw his son holding a hammer and knocking on a wooden box. He thought his son was making trouble. He was furious and wanted to go up and beat people up. Before the person could reach it, the sound had already come:

"You stupid boy, this is a temporary residence that the master has lent to our family. You can touch the things in the house by you casually? I won't beat you to death!"

Chen Xi quickly stood up and ran for a few steps, then turned around and explained: "Mom, I made a bellows. Don't hit people without asking about the reasons."

Zhou held a broom and pointed to the wooden box and asked breathlessly: "What do you think is this?"

Chen Xi walked over and picked up the bellows from the ground, came to Zhou, and said, "I saw you blowing ashes on the stove. I wondered if I could make a bellows instead of my mother's blowing air. In this way, my mother would burn very vigorously without having to blow the fire when she burns the fire in the future, which would save a lot of time."

Although Zhou still wanted to beat Chen Xi, he also felt that it was a good thing for his son to be filial, so he couldn't beat the broom he waved.

"You stupid boy, something that adults don't know how to make, why are you doing? Why don't you restore the things quickly and let the people from the master see them, that's great?"

Seeing that my mother was no longer angry, Chen Xi put down the bellows and smiled and said, "I haven't used it before, how can I know it's not working? I'll demonstrate it to my mother, mother, just pull here, push you back and forth, and then the wind blows out."

Zhou did not believe that his son could do anything at a young age, but following Chen Xi's demonstration, Chen Xi pulled the handle, and the holes chiseled out next to him were blown out, blowing a lot of dust on the ground.

At this moment, a voice came from the gate of the side yard. It turned out that Shen Mingjun had returned from work and told him that the one who came back was also Mr. Liu who had just arrived.

The two of them were talking while entering the door, and they happened to see Chen Xi fiddling with his bellows.

Seeing that his wife and children were in the yard, Shen Mingjun quickly introduced: "Butler Liu, this is my son. This is my son and his bride will live here in the future. We will ask you to take care of you!"

When Zhou heard the word "steward", he immediately realized that the old man in front of him was her husband's immediate boss, so he hurried forward to pay his respects.

Butler Liu just nodded and said hello. His eyes fell on the bellows placed in the center of the yard. After looking at it for a while, he couldn't figure it out and asked curiously: "What's this?"

Zhou replied nervously: "When it comes to Butler Liu, the child is ignorant and he makes things out of the room. He says he can blow the air into the stove. I will let him dismantle it and put it back in the room."

Butler Liu waved his hand without leaving the bellows, squatted down and looked at him carefully before looking at Chen Xi: "How do you use this thing?"
Chapter completed!