I want to be emperor

Chapter 851 Warmth
Sun Xu was lucky. When he arrived at the car rental shop in the evening, although there were not many carriages in the car rental shop, there were still a few. One of them was a single-horse and two-wheeled carriage that met his requirements.

As for the coachman, there must be no more. The few coachmen who are willing to work on the New Year's Eve have already accepted the employment of some wealthy families, but it doesn't matter... Sun Xu didn't plan to hire a coachman in order to save money.

When he himself was in his hometown, he often drove the master's carriage to pick him up and down... As an apprentice, if he wanted to learn some skills sincerely, and if he wanted the master to teach him sincerely, he would naturally need to put in more effort.

So Sun Xu can drive a carriage, and his skills are not bad.

After finalizing the car rental procedures, Sun Xu got into the carriage immediately and gently urged the horses to move forward.

This is a very typical new two-wheeled single-horse carriage. The body is relatively small and can only accommodate two people. The frame is made of high-strength steel as the main material. It is black, and there is a transparent glass window on each side of the car body.

The front of the compartment is open to facilitate driving!

Generally speaking, private carriages usually drive in the front, which is different from those rented carriage drivers on the main road who drive behind... After all, private carriages do not need to charge fares, let alone worry about passengers jumping in the middle of the carriage To escape the fee, there is no need for the coachman to supervise behind.

And the carriages in the car rental shop are naturally in the style of ordinary private carriages. After all, they charge according to the time and pay in advance...their operating model is very different from that of renting carriages.

The cabin is wrapped in leather, with spring seats inside, and the rest of the interior design is also better.

The two wheels are not the early wooden wheels, but steel wheels covered with a layer of rubber.

And there are more things you can't see... such as bearings made of high-strength steel and, more importantly, load-bearing springs.

This carriage may be commonplace in the Great Chu Empire, and the price is only about [-] to [-] Chu Yuan... But don't look simple, in fact, the technical content is not low at all, and this thing is still an industrial product.

At present, except for the Great Chu Empire, no other country can produce this new type of carriage.

The horse-drawn carriage industry, to some extent, can be regarded as the predecessor of the automobile industry... How did the later generations of automobiles come about?

In fact, it is very simple, that is, an engine is installed on the four-wheeled carriage... an internal combustion engine is used instead of horses as power.

Quite a few car manufacturers in the early days, many of which were originally carriage factories.

This is why modern primitive cars in the original time and space are so similar to horse-drawn carriages.

Sun Xu drove the car unhurriedly for a while, and then gradually increased the speed, but Sun Xu only raised the speed a little, which was about ten kilometers per hour, and did not let the speed continue to increase.

In fact, with the hardened cement road surface that is running now, coupled with the new light two-wheeled carriage with high enough technology content, and the puller is a pretty good Toyoshu horse, his carriage can easily run to the second. More than ten kilometers, and the burden on the horses will not be too great.
It can be done even faster...it's just that it's rarely the case.

The hardened roads are generally the main roads of the city, and these city roads are generally busy, and accidents are prone to occur if the carriage runs too fast.

Of course, the more important thing is to preserve the physical fitness of the horses... If you let the horses pull the cart and run wildly, the speed will increase in a short time, but the horses will be exhausted before long.

Therefore, except for special circumstances, it is rare to see horse-drawn carriages driving wildly on the streets, and they generally move forward at a speed of more than ten kilometers per hour... This is still considered smooth. In fact, in places like Songjiang City, the average speed of horse-drawn carriages can reach About ten kilometers is not bad... because the traffic jam is so bad, you can run fast but there is no place for you to run!
Sun Xu drove back to the downstairs of the apartment at an unhurried speed. There is no horse shop in this apartment... Sun Xu could only trap the horses on the pillars in the doorway, and he was very sincere and asked to live on the first floor A family will help to watch, and if there is any accident, please ask yourself to come down and deal with it.

Then Sun Xu went upstairs, first entered his apartment, took off his long coat and hat and put them away, then turned around and went to the door, and when he reached Miss Meng's door, he tapped twice lightly, and said at the same time: "Miss Meng!"

When I was young, the door of the room was opened, revealing Ms. Meng's pretty face, and she said with a faint smile: "Mr. Sun is back, has the car been rented?"

Sun Xu said: "Fortunately, I rented one and it's parked downstairs now."

Ms. Meng said: "That's good... Just wait a little longer, the meal will be ready soon!"

Having said that, Miss Meng paused, looked up at Sun Xu, then lowered her head, and said, "Why don't you... come in and wait."

Sun Xu looked at Ms. Meng whose ears were already a little red, but there was no smile on her face, let alone any witty words, but nodded with a serious look: "Then bother!"

After following Ms. Meng in, Sun Xu didn't close the door casually, but left the door ajar... Although he didn't turn around after entering, he still looked at the house a little bit with his eyes.

The layout of this room is similar to that of the apartment he rented with Fa Xiao Sun Dawei. After entering the door, there is a living room first. Although it is not big, it basically has everything that should be there. There is also a door inside, which should be horizontal.

There is a large balcony on the left side of the living room, and there is also a semi-open-air small kitchen outside the balcony... These days, urban residents use briquettes for cooking and boiling water.

For safety, coal stoves are not moved into the house, and are placed in relatively open and ventilated places, such as balconies.

Moreover, many apartments do not even provide you with an in-house kitchen, but instead set up a communal kitchen in the corridors and other places outside, just to avoid coal burning poisoning.

Coal-burning poisoning, even if the government conducts various propaganda for three or two days, warning the public to use coal stoves in open and ventilated places, and absolutely not in closed rooms, otherwise it is very easy to cause carbon monoxide poisoning.

But coal-burning poisoning still occurs frequently in the contemporary Great Chu Empire.

Not to mention the current Great Chu Empire, even in China in the 21st century, the cultural level of the people is not low, and the information is very popular, but a large number of people still die of gas poisoning every year... Often a whole family is poisoned death thing.

Today's Ms. Meng, after inviting Sun Xu to come in and sit on the sofa, brought him a cup of warm tea.

"Sun Gongzi, sit down and have a cup of tea first, I'll be fine soon!"

Sun Du said: "Miss Meng, you go ahead and don't worry about me!"

So Ms. Meng went back to the kitchen on the balcony and got busy.

And although Sun Xu didn't look at Miss Meng intentionally most of the time, he always cast his eyes there after a while.

Today's Ms. Meng is not wearing a cloak or coat, nor is she wearing gloves or a hat, but she has not changed into a homely dress, but is still wearing the long embroidered dress with a stand collar, and even the shoes are still the same pair of pointed toes and low heels. Leather shoes are not the cotton slippers that many women wear at home in winter.

But because I have to cook, I tied a very long apron on my body.

In fact, not only Ms. Meng is still dressed in social attire, but also Sun Xu. He still wears the business attire made of fine cashmere, and the top-quality leather shoes made by his father... business attire There is also a pocket watch hanging in the inner pocket, and a fine jade pendant hanging on the waist.

Just no coat and hat.

This New Year's Eve dinner...is not a family reunion dinner, but a banquet in a social occasion.

Under such an occasion, and the relationship between the two of them is still between unfamiliarity and familiarity, the conversation in the previous afternoon was indeed good, but it was not to the extent of an open and in-depth conversation.

The reason why we can still get together to have a New Year's Eve dinner, and even prepare to go to the riverside to watch the fireworks together!
Probably... just two single dogs working alone in a big city with no family or friends.During the Spring Festival, which seemed to be lively, but actually seemed extremely lonely to them, stimulated by the environment, after seeing the other party who was quite suitable in all aspects, they chose to go together.

But in any other time, in another environment...it would be impossible for this kind of thing to happen.

As for changing someone with unequal conditions... that's even more impossible.

It's hard to be lonely, but it's even more unacceptable to go out with someone who doesn't like you or who doesn't have the right conditions to go out or even have a New Year's Eve dinner together.

Looking at Ms. Meng who was cooking the New Year's Eve dinner, for the first time, Sun Xu didn't pay attention to her facial features, appearance and figure, but watched her cooking, which gave him an illusion: An illusion of being at home.

In the end, I unconsciously thought of more...

After he thought about it...

Wouldn't it be great if we could often see such scenes in the future?
Sun Xu thought a lot, but soon he didn't continue to sit on the sofa, but stood up and went to the balcony and asked, "Is there anything I can help?"

"When I'm at home, I often cook."

When Sun Xu was talking, Ms. Meng on the side showed a smile: "I can't see it, most men basically don't know how to cook now. I thought you could only cook noodles and make dumplings?"

Sun Xu said: "I don't cook often in the apartment, but I often cook in my old home."

Sun Xu lives in an apartment, but it’s just living there. He basically doesn’t cook and eat in the apartment... Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all eaten in the factory cafeteria... It’s cheap and good, there’s no need to cook by yourself eat.

It's just that it's different at home. When he was working in his hometown, the factory didn't provide food and lodging. He went home to eat every day.

Most of the time, if you go home early, you also need to help your mother cook together!

During the period when his mother fell ill, he was almost always cooking for the whole family by himself.

Ms. Meng said that most men can't cook, which is actually true. This is a common contemporary social perception.

Even in those low-level families with little money, many men don’t cook...the little money they make is not enough to support the family, and their wives have to go to work or farm to make money...and when they return home, they still need their wives to cook and bring them home. child!
Although Ms. Meng doesn't get in touch with low-level men in her daily life, the situation in the middle-class families she comes into contact with is even more serious.

If it is said that in the bottom-level families, there are still some men who will undertake housework for various reasons, then in the middle- and high-income groups, the male head almost does not do housework.

Because these men often have better jobs, higher income, and can support the whole family on their own, they are more inclined to talk about men leading outside and women leading inside...

Of course, they can support the whole family, so the hostess doesn't have to go out to work, and if she just concentrates on housekeeping, she usually doesn't have any opinions.

This kind of social atmosphere is relatively common, and it has not been improved because of the economic development of the Great Chu Empire...

Sun Xu helped his mother with housework at home, so he learned to do housework and cook since he was a child.

In fact, his cooking skills are quite good, but after coming to Songjiang, he didn't have much chance to cook.

I saw Ms. Meng busy alone today, even if he is half a guest, it is impossible for him to sit there alone and watch her master busy...

Seeing Sun Xu's serious expression, Ms. Meng immediately raised the corners of her mouth slightly, with a slightly joking tone: "Then help me wash the dishes?"

Sun Xu said: "No problem!"

Immediately, she rolled up her sleeves, and when she was about to wash her hands, Miss Meng said, "Don't worry, put on your apron, don't get your clothes dirty!"

As he spoke, he handed over a slightly shorter pink apron...

Sun Xu was not polite, just took it and tied it.

He was wearing high-end business attire, which was very expensive... If it got dirty, it would be fine strictly speaking, it could be washed after all.

But if it gets dirty now, he won't have a second set of decent clothes to wear when he goes out.

He only received his salary once, and five Chu Yuan was sent home. Although he had six or seven Chu Yuan on hand, Sun Xu couldn't afford to be so extravagant as to order a set of high-quality professional clothes in a short time.

After putting on the apron, Sun Xu started to wash the vegetables and the dishes along the way.

At this time, Ms. Meng, who was on the side, couldn't help but look at him repeatedly... Finally, she laughed without any ladylike demeanor.

She smiled and said, "You...you look really weird in this pink suit!"

Sun Xu was speechless... This silly woman.

This is clothes again, it's just an apron, so why not play with color matching?

But it's hard to say, and you can't directly play verbal confrontation regardless of your demeanor... If you explain it, you will feel like a duck mouth, and in the end you can only continue to work with a sad face!
When Miss Meng saw him like this, she couldn't help laughing again.

Cheerful smiles sounded from time to time in the gradually dim apartment, making this apartment made of steel and blue bricks less cold and more warm!
(End of this chapter)