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Chapter 14: Homemade Showers

Sucheng wanted a bathroom, to be precise, to be precise, to see shower equipment. In addition to personal habits, he also wanted to improve the lives of well station workers.

The work of oil production is tiring and dirty. Not to mention crude oil leakage and underground maintenance, it is normal outdoor operations, and after a day, it is covered in dust on the face.

But the oil production team's well station only has a faucet. For many years, the workers have taken off their entire body and poured them with a basin. There is nothing in summer. When it is cold, it is terrible to bathe in cold water.

In addition, it is difficult to wash oil stains with cold water. If you don’t want to fly to the factory for dozens of miles to take a bath, you can only endure the smell and fall asleep.

Oil collectors do the most basic and important work, but the conditions are the worst. Many people are already sick and have to insist on going to work before they retire.

Su Cheng thought to himself, I can't change everyone's life, but maybe I can change some people.

Dou Wanshan also hoped that there would be hot water every day, but he could only shake his head and said, "Who from our well team doesn't want to take a hot bath after coming back. But the boiler is so expensive, and the team has no money at all."

Old Wu was stubbing his feet next to him and said with a smile: "Mr. Su is a city native and is not used to it. However, we should have installed a shower and a boiler long ago."

Dou Wanshan thought about it and said, "We were over halfway through last month. I cried with the factory manager for two days. Maybe I could get a shower back, but there was definitely no boiler, so I could only use cold water."

"Old Shi is a Pixiu, can you install a shower?" Lao Wu shook his head and said, "Our oil production plant has more than 20 oil production teams, and we will give you a shower. What should other oil production teams do? The whole set of home products can be purchased, and it will not cost millions."

The more Su Cheng heard, the more wrong he was, he said, "We have our own oil pipe factory. What's the point of producing a few steel pipes? How much money can it cost to spray it? Another one, if you want to wash hot water, you don't have to need a boiler."

"How to fix the boiler if you don't want it?"

"Make a tin bucket and place it on a high place. Boil the hot water, pour it into the tin bucket, add cold water, and connect a tube below. Wouldn't it be used as a shower?" Su Cheng said, in fact, the small bathhouse of the oil production team he used.

Later oil production plants promoted the "five small" grassroots level, namely mobile bookstores, small medicine boxes, small sports fields, small toilets and small bathhouses. In areas with better conditions, toilets are equipped with septic tanks, and bathhouses also have boilers, but in areas with poor conditions, they can only adapt to local conditions.

Dou Wanshan thought for a while, but sighed: "Even if this is the case, the iron sheet has to be money. There are dozens of people in our team, so we have to make at least three iron sheet buckets. Including water pipes, it costs less than four or five hundred yuan. Three sets are only 1,500 yuan. There are also things that boil water, and you have to replace them with large items. Impossible, impossible..."

Su Cheng's eyes rolled and said, "Didn't you say that everyone wants to take a hot bath? Let's take out a little bonus of more than half of the double-double..."

"What are you talking nonsense?" Captain Dou was startled and lowered his voice: "If you dare to touch everyone's bonus, as long as one person sues you, you will not be able to take it. Taking a bath is everyone's business, and the bonus is personal business. How can you get along?"

Su Cheng looked at him speechlessly and said for a while: "Each person pays 10 yuan and can take a hot bath all the time. Isn't that happy?"

"This is not a matter of money, it is a matter of principle. If you follow your approach, will the team still bear the water and coal expenses? Do you let yourself pay for it?" Dou Wanshan said earnestly: "Xiao Su, you are still young and have to think more about things. Sometimes things are very small and you are caught and ruined for the rest of your life."

In his opinion, if a good college student had not made a mistake in principle, how could he have been left at the gas station?

After hearing what the captain said was so serious, Su Cheng couldn't argue anymore. He changed his tone and said, "Then let's find a factory to solve the problem of the shower. Then we will find a way to transform it... try not to spend money."

The latter sentence is added to the captain's strict gaze.

Dou Wanshan was a decisive person, and improving shower equipment was indeed a great thing. He saw the loophole of not working, so he took the bus back to the oil production plant.

Su Cheng was not optimistic about his trip, but it was a necessary process.

In the evening, he spread out the table and drew pictures on his own.

Xiao Hei and him were in the same room. Seeing that the best drawings were contaminated by black pencils, he said with heartache: "This paper is expensive, can't you draw on straw paper?"

"I want to draw patterns, how can I do straw paper?"

"I know that mechanical drawings are the old workers in the factory first draw on straw paper, and they only draw on white paper when they are really used." Xiao Hei said seriously.

Su Cheng was stunned when he heard this, but the pen in his hand did not stop.

There is one advantage in working in the oil production team. They eat, drink and accommodation are all in the well station, which saves money and have no place to go if they want to spend. Throughout the year, their salary is basically unchanged, and they have a leadership style.

Su Cheng was not interested in saving money, so he usually bought the leftover money into books, newspapers, and drawings were one of them.

Xiao Hei felt the blank paper for a while, and saw that Su Cheng was getting busy, he read the book silently. He graduated from junior high school and entered the oil field. In that year, it was said that being a worker was better than taking the college entrance examination, because the service years of big pot rice were more important than education, and he had a few more years of income. But when Xiao Hei worked until his peers graduated from college, the national policy began to tend toward education. Without education, he could only be a grassroots worker for the rest of his life, and he had to pick up the books again.

After Su Cheng painted for two days, Dou Wanshan came back angrily, took off his clothes, and shook his arms and said, "Old Shi Tie Rooster, I'm waiting to get tired of it."

"What did he say?"

"We need to attend the meeting, observe, and study, but we just don't pay."

This was a result that had been expected. Su Cheng turned his head and said, "Then what I said before, if we make our own shower, will they pay for the operation?"

"Coal and water? This is agreed."

Su Cheng sorted out the drawings and said, "That's fine. I'll take a break tomorrow and I'll go to beg for alms."

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