Volume 1 Fangzhou Fengyun Chapter 31 The ass decides the head
Li Junwen has a slight cleanliness habit, and when he first crossed over, he came to the thatched house because of a stomachache, and was dumbfounded when he opened the door of the thatched house. This thatched house is really a thatched house, inside the huge thatched house is a big pit, there are two logs for feet to step on, the feces and urine in the pit are almost full, the flies that have just finished the "full meal" are flying everywhere, from time to time they stay on the face, there is a handle near the door, people want to go to the toilet on the pants off, squatting on two logs, holding the handle to maintain the center of gravity. In a rainy day, not to mention the wind leaking everywhere, and the log on which you step on is slippery, if you don't pay attention to your feet, you may fall down at any time, and your mouth will be full of.
Li Junwen had read from books before that an ancient monarch fell into a pit and drowned when he went to a thatched house, and at that time he was still laughing at this monarch, a living person can be drowned by. When he saw his thatched house, he immediately felt that it was very possible that he had died in a dung pit.
This kind of thatched hut will exist in later generations, and it will only exist in very dilapidated mountain villages. As a modern person, Li Junwen, although he also came out of the countryside in later generations, but he is accustomed to the convenience brought by modern life based on science and technology, how can he endure the danger of dying in a dung pit at any time?
What makes Li Junwen even more unbearable is that it is not paper that is used to wipe his butt after going to the toilet, it is not paper, it is really not paper. It's actually a piece of shiny bamboo, which is used to scrape! Excrement! Target! Thinking of this, Li Junwen still felt a pain in his buttocks. Isn't papermaking one of China's four great inventions? Could it be that the books I read when I was a child were all fake? If you have paper, why not wipe your butt with paper? Could it be that Li Yanbiao is too stingy and reluctant to wipe his ass with paper?
In fact, he really blamed Li Yanbiao. The ancient technology was not so advanced, even if Cai Lun improved the papermaking technique, the paper made was an expensive thing, which was used for reading and writing, who was willing to use it. Secondly, after going to the toilet, the so-called toilet chips are used, that is, the shiny bamboo chips that Li Junwen saw, this kind of atmosphere is also caused by the upper aristocracy, and the resulting follow-up has led to the pride of people in the world in using toilet chips. The toilet chips used by the upper nobles are carefully made, and only the well-off families who live well are used from above, and there is a matter of making toilet chips for the monks in the history books, and they also use their cheeks to test whether the toilet chips have burrs, whether they are smooth enough. Ordinary people are so particular about using a stick or piece of wood, or touching what they use. As for wiping the buttocks with straw paper, it was also slowly developed by the people after the Song Dynasty, at least the current mainstream society is still using toilets to scrape "chrysanthemums". It's really "chrysanthemum remnants, wounds all over the ground"......
As the saying goes: the butt determines the head, and the thinking determines the height. So, Li Junwen, who was in pain, found an old carpenter in the neighborhood to make and improve this simple version of the thatched house and toilet. The hut was reinforced with wooden planks, and the pit on the ground was covered with wooden planks, leaving only a round hole the size of a toilet. A wooden toilet is placed on the hole, the toilet is a funnel-like shape with a large opening and a small bottom, there is a wooden cover, a handrail and a backrest are installed around it, a small wooden barrel is placed above the backrest, the side of the wooden barrel has a handle connected to the lever piston that is set on the inside, and the lower part is connected to the toilet with a bamboo pipe, the toilet bowl is covered after going to the toilet, the handle is pulled to open the piston, and the water flow in the small wooden barrel washes the dirt into the pit, which reduces the taste of the thatched house and the convenience of going to the toilet. If you want to squat to go to the toilet like before, it is easy to fall into the dung pit, not to mention, it is easy to have numb legs after squatting for a long time, but now you can sit and go to the toilet for as long as you want, and you can sit and think about life, which is perfect. Li Junwen also threw away the toilet chips by the way, and replaced them with straw paper used by the old lady at home to burn incense and worship God on weekdays, which is not only soft, but more importantly, there are no burrs and do not hurt chrysanthemums.
At first, Li Wangshi strongly objected to Li Junwen using her divine paper to wipe his buttocks, believing that it was a blasphemy against the gods. However, after trying it a few times, everyone, including Li Wang, has already acquiesced to the fact that it really doesn't hurt the butt with straw paper.
Of course, due to limited conditions, Li Junwen couldn't make the toilet into a semi-siphon effect and automatic water storage function in the future, so this is just a semi-automatic toilet. Although wiping his stomach with paper is insulting to Sven, Li Yanbiao's family has not read many books, and they are not Sven, so they finally fell into the "gentle township" of paper towels.
After Li Junwen demonstrated the operation of the toilet, everyone fell into deep contemplation.
"This thing is good, especially wiping my ass with this straw paper, it's very much my appetite, hahaha......"
Dang Jin, the eldest man, smacked his mouth roughly, and said with a big grin while rubbing the straw paper in his hand: "I once saw the emperor in the palace, and the lieutenant handed the emperor silk!" I want that silk to be expensive and slippery, and I can't wipe my ass and feel sorry for the money and full of ass shit, hahaha...... How can this straw paper be comfortable, and what kind of sour literati can be disgusting, hahaha, very good, very good......"
Although paper was widely used in the Tang and Song dynasties, people rarely used toilet paper to go to the toilet at that time. Due to the Han nation's consciousness of "respecting the word paper", the paper used for writing is regarded as a symbol of culture, so if you use paper to wipe your cheeks, especially those who write words, it is simply a big rebellion and insulting to Swen.
"You old man, but you don't know that this paper is not much cheaper than that silk! Besides, a brute force person like you, this paper is so thin, aren't you afraid of overexerting force, piercing the paper, and staining your hands with dung? ”
Pan Mei scoffed. When everyone heard Pan Mei's words, they all laughed "sneering", as if they thought of the embarrassment of poking the paper when Dang Jin wiped his buttocks.
"The surname is Pan, why can't you get along with Lao Tzu? The paper is too thin, won't I use a few more sheets? Lao Tzu is uneducated, but not brainless, there is a kind of don't use it, continue to use your-stirring stick! In the future, the gutter will be pierced, don't shout Lao Tzu to save you! Dang Jinsheng blushed and said angrily.
"You! You pickled goods...... Hmph...... "Pan Mei saw that Dang Jin said so rudely, and she didn't know how to refute it for a while.
"You know what? Those civil officials are the best at reversing black and white, telling right and wrong, if those civil officials know that we wipe our cheeks with paper, and go to the emperor to sue me for not knowing the etiquette and insulting Sven, we won't be able to eat and walk around! Pan Mei is also really good for the old guy, and she said all the words that were heartfelt.