Chapter 11: Building public toilets
"Erlang, Erlang..."
It was still dawn, and the sleeping Xi Yunfei was dug up.
When I opened my eyes, it turned out to be an ugly lady: "Sister, what time is it? What big thing happened?"
The ugly lady was not surprised by Xi Yunfei's strange words and said anxiously: "The mountain is awake, the second master asked you to go and have a look."
"Awaken?" Xi Yunfei was stunned when he heard this, rubbed his eyes hard, and he woke up a little: "Let's go, take a look."
Because of the limited conditions, I slept in clothes for the past two days, so I had no hurdles. I opened the sheet and ran out.
When the two of them came to the second master's house, their mother Liu was already holding the third sister around the door, and there were several village women next to them, and everyone was talking and laughing.
"Give it, let it go." The ugly girl was used to being tough, so she pulled away the crowd and hurried into the house with Xi Yunfei.
In the room, the eldest brother and Dabao were standing aside, watching the second master feeding Dashan and drinking salt water.
Xi Yunfei's arrival made the originally silent mountain shine. He smiled at Xi Yunfei with difficulty and pointed to the edge of the bed to signal him to sit down.
Xi Yunfei knew that his predecessor had a close relationship with Dashan and was not pretentious. After sitting down, he first touched Dashan's forehead. Seeing that his body temperature was normal, he looked at Dashan's pupils, but there were no adverse reactions such as congestion.
"Brother Shan, do you feel uncomfortable?" Xi Yunfei asked softly.
Dashan smiled and shook his head, wanting to speak, but as soon as his mouth opened, the dry and chapped area of his lips bleeded again. This is a symptom of dehydration. After all, he had not eaten water for several days in a row, so he needed to rest more and talk less.
Xi Yunfei shook his head gently: "Brother Shan, don't say anything. It's true that you have a good body. By the way, if you can, it's better to start eating liquid food now, fish soup is OK, knead the fish into minced meat, so that it's easier to absorb."
When the second master heard this, he hurriedly replied: "If you have fish soup, you can have it at home. I'll prepare it now."
Xi Yunfei nodded and said, "Second Master, go and ask my mother for a pack of seasonings. Forget it, brother, go back and get it. It's the kind of noodles and soup we cook."
The eldest brother nodded, and said nothing, and ran to the house directly.
Xi Yunfei's idea is very simple. People who have just recovered from serious illness have no appetite. Moreover, there is no salt in the village. I guess Dashan can't drink much light soup, so it is definitely not wrong to add a package of seasonings.
Let Dashan rest well, and the group walked out of the yard. Xi Yunfei suddenly said to Dabao: "Listen to my mother, your father is a good carpenter? Is he at home? I have a job to ask him."
"My dad? Yes, I haven't had much work to do recently. He is digging the wood at home." Dabao replied honestly.
Xi Yunfei nodded: "Let's go, let's go to your house. I have something to discuss with your father."
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Dabao's house is not far from the back mountain, so it is probably convenient to cut wood. There are cut tree trunks inside and outside the yard.
Dabao's father was named Wang Laoliu, and his ancestral home was from Henan. He took his family to Guanzhong due to the war.
"Uncle Six, this is my idea. Can you see if it can be done?" Xi Yunfei spread out an A4 paper on the bluestone slab in the yard. This is the design drawing he drew overnight last night and the public toilet design drawing. [!…ABC Novel Network Free reading]
I lived in Xiagou Village for two days and could not bear it without a bathhouse. After all, after a straw mat is pulled, the corner of the yard can still be used as a temporary bathhouse.
But it’s not reasonable to have no toilet. It’s okay for a man to have an old mother and a little sister at home. I can’t let them hide in the bushes every day, right? What if there is a snake?
So Xi Yunfei made a decision, which was to build the first public toilet in Xiagou Village.
Uncle Liu tapped the table with his right hand and looked at Xi Yunfei's design drawing with his left hand for a long time. Finally, he nodded: "It's feasible, but what should I do if the pipe you draw? To drain the feces and urine into this septic tank, it takes half a mile. You can't use wood as a pipe, right?"
Xi Yunfei was stunned. The public toilet he drew was not the public toilet with a septic tank in the later countryside, but the serious flushing public toilet. There was a large water tank on the public toilet. After people inside, as long as they pulled the water tank switch, the excrement would be washed into the septic tank more than 100 meters away along the pipe for villagers to use in the fat fields. (Tang Yili is about 300 meters)
Everything else is easy to achieve, after all, it is a squat pit, but the problem now is how to fix the sewage discharge pipes. If wood is used, it will soon rot and deform, which is indeed inappropriate.
The two of them lowered their heads and thoughtfully, and Dabao, who was sitting next to them, suddenly said, "Isn't it okay to let Erye roast a few pottery pipes? Do dozens of pottery pipes are connected together, isn't it just a pipe?"
"Porcelain pipe?" Xi Yunfei was happy when he heard this: "Yes, we can use pottery pipes. Then we will bury the pipes into the soil, and we will not be afraid of being trampled."
Uncle Liu stroked his beard and nodded: "No, it's really durable, and it's not leaking from water."
"Haha." Dabao smiled foolishly when he saw that his opinion was adopted.
Xi Yunfei gave him a thumbs up, turned to Uncle Liu and said, "Then I'll ask Uncle Liu for other things. The materials and wages are priced at the market price. Uncle Liu doesn't have to be polite to me, I still have some spare money."
"That's not OK. This is a benefit to the village. We don't charge money. You can buy two meals a day at most. I heard from Dabao that the dishes you cook are awesome, haha." After all, the public toilet is at the east end of the village and is closest to Xi Yunfei's house, so Xi Yunfei still took advantage of it.
"It's certain to make up food. In this way, Uncle Six calls more helpers. I will pay the wages. Uncle Six is a foreman. We will try to complete the work as soon as possible so that the villagers can solve the toilet problem as soon as possible."
"Okay, I have the materials here, I'll call people now. Anyway, there's no work in the county. I'm almost having a problem at home these days, haha."
"Okay, if possible, we will start working at noon. Don't be polite to pay. How much should I pay? I'll pay. As for the food, hehe, let Uncle Six taste my skills in the afternoon."
"Then the relationship is good, just to eat your kid's meal, I'm happy to do it for you for free."
Having agreed on the rules for the start of public toilets, Xi Yunfei hurried home and asked Liu to borrow a bunch of bowls and chopsticks.
Then he ran back to the bedroom and bought two bags of flour, a total of 100 pounds and 360 yuan.
The yeast for steaming buns is 20 yuan.
20 pounds of sugar 120 yuan.
Anyway, my mother and elder brother are now tacitly choosing to be blind, and Xi Yunfei doesn't intend to hide it. He just says that it was the food that the family purchased before, and others won't think too much about it.
It doesn't matter to Liu. His son or son, he has to eat and drink. The family is already satisfied with harmony and beauty. He also helped Xi Yunfei to knead and make fire. He is the smartest person in the family.
The eldest brother glanced at Xi Yunfei speechlessly, and said nothing. He just sealed the unused flour and hid it under the bed.
The third sister was still heartless. She watched Xi Yunfei pour the white sugar into the batter, and hurriedly grabbed a handful and stuffed it into her mouth. She smacked her mouth happily, making Xi Yunfei so happy that she couldn't bear to beat and scold her.
The fifth day of travel.
Home head: Xi Yunfei
Balance: 10263 yuan
Chapter completed!