Chapter 73: The Great Public Toilet

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Sun Yi rests from sunrise to sunset every day, enjoying the clean air and leisurely rhythm of the Ming Dynasty.

As soon as Sun Yi got up and was still brushing his teeth, Daoist Jia came to look for him.

This morning was a big day in the camp, and the newly built public toilets were put into use!

At this time, it is not popular for leaders to cut ribbons, and the public toilets can be used directly after they are repaired. But the people want to try it fresh, and Sun Yi is not exempt from vulgarity.

Sun Yi was full of interest, curious about what the public toilets of the Ming Dynasty would look like, holding a paper in his hand, and greeting the people who got up early as he walked.

At the intersection of the camp, Ha Laocai and a few people chatted while brushing their teeth, and when they saw Lideer and the Taoist priest coming, Lao Yuan shouted: "Have you eaten?" ”

The best way to respond to this greeting is to ignore the original meaning of the greeting and just say what you have to say.

Sun Yiyi raised the paper in his hand one by one, "Go to the new toilet!" ”

Ha Laocai threw away the willow toothbrush in his hand, "I'll go too." The new latrine has been repaired, and I don't know when there will be new nitrate coming down. ”

To Sun Yi's surprise, the new public toilet was not built on the side of the road with convenient transportation, and the three of them turned around and came to a quiet wood.

Several paths in and out of the woods were crowded with people, and Wang Erniu stood on a path, smiling happily.

Jia Daoshi pointed to the woods and said to Sun Yi, "The new thatched toilet is in the woods." ”

Ha Laocai saw Erniu and asked, "Niu Wa, have you eaten?" How much manure can this new latrine fill in a day? ”

Erniu smiled from ear to ear, "The latrine has just been repaired, and the people have come to make a scene, I estimate that everyone will come back once, and they will have five hundred catties a day today." ”

Sun Yi lost his hostile attitude towards dung early in the morning. The crops outside the camp need to be fertilized, the army's gunpowder needs nitrate, and in the final analysis, the raw materials are dung.

It's just that Sun Yi wondered, "Why doesn't this toilet have a wall?" ”

"Master, come with me, I'll introduce you." , Erniu himself as a tour guide.

Erniu led a few people into a small road. Sun Yi found out that there was a large area of red willow shrubs inside.

At a fork in the road separated by red willows, Erniu introduced: "This left is the place of the small solution, and the right is the place of the big solution." ”

A few people turned left, and after a dozen steps, they came to a space surrounded by shrubs, and a two-foot-thick half-human-high earthen wall stood in the center, and along the root of the earthen wall there was a ditch, connecting a square earthen pit.

Erniu introduced: "This earthen wall is built with alkaline soil, and you can hang nitrate in the future." The ditch and the pond were built with tamped triple soil, impervious to water. In the past, there was no distinction between fecal water and urine in the latrine, and urine was wasted. ”

Sun Yi and a few people stepped forward, took out the guys, and shot at the earthen wall.

Erniu reminded carefully, "Master be careful to splash it." ”

A few people came back and turned right, and after walking a few steps, there was a fork in the road separated by bushes, and Erniu led a few people straight into an intersection.

It is also an enclosed space, with a large irregular pit in the center, and a zigzag earthen wall built in the pit that allows people to walk. A few people were undressing and squatting on the edge of the pit, fiddling with shaved pieces of wood in their hands.

Erniu greeted the people loudly, "Have you eaten them all?" Lord Lidel is also here! ”

Erniu turned around and introduced, "This thatched pit and the earthen wall are alkaline soil, and what stands in the thatched pit is a back basket that produces nitrate." The toilet chips are taken casually, now they are cut from wood, and later they are replaced with corn stalks, and they are taken by themselves at the entrance. ”

Several squatting people stepped on the edge of the pit, and their lower bodies hung above the pit.

Sun Yi worried, "Won't this be unsafe, in case I fall into the pit in a flash......

Erniu said: "Don't worry, when I was in northern Shaanxi, every household had a toilet like this, and I never heard of anyone who couldn't squat and fell into it." ”

Sun Yi secretly praised that the kung fu of this Shaanxi squatting was originally practiced since childhood.

Erniu turned around, led Sun Yi back, entered another intersection, walked dozens of steps, and came to a "private room".

The environment here is much more elegant, and the squatting pit has also become a mode of "stepping on both sides of the Yellow River".

It's just that the squatting position is limited, five or six.

Erniu said: "This is specially prepared for the elderly and children, and there are special handrails." ”

Sure enough, two squatting pits were in a group, and there was a wooden stake standing in the ground in the center.

"Why is there no one here?" Sun Yi asked.

"On the first day, the people loved to be lively, and there were many people in Dakeng, so they could chat with each other." Erniu explained.

Erniu led a few people to quit and went inside.

If it was a "private room", it would have to be called a private room.

Two side-by-side but very open squatting positions, surrounded by willow trees in the middle, and a few wildflowers dotted with them. If the two of them are "in place", they only hear their voices and do not see their people.

Erniu said, "This is for those who want to say something pure. There are several more small pits like this. ”

A few people visit again, and it is a "single room".

Sun Yi didn't want to endure it any longer, so he chose a single room and walked in.

The single room is more secluded, the space is many times more than most of the compartments in later generations, and it is ventilated everywhere, you can see the sky, you can soak up the sun, in addition to a separate squatting position, there is also a separate toilet chip jar, a wooden pier where you can sit and rest, and even sleep is no problem.

Sun Yi ended quickly, and Er Niu was waiting for him outside. Jia Daoshi and Ha Laocai have not yet come out, and Sun Yi estimates that because of the hygiene habits of the Ming Dynasty, both of them have hemorrhoids, and it will take a while.

Erniu introduced to Sun Yi that this is only a part, so that there are four structures, which are located in the four directions of the southeast and northwest of the forest, and each has a separate entrance. There is also a manure road for digging manure and extracting nitrate. In the four units, the people take turns to collect the manure, and the people who collect the manure are responsible for the maintenance of the toilets. The most interesting thing is that Erniu said that there will be more people who go to whichever thatched toilet is better, so the people who have been allocated the opportunity to collect manure are thinking about how to attract more people to their own thatched toilets.

Erniu introduced that the big thatched house plans to build such a one. Later, some small pits were built at the intersection of the road.

Sun Yi asked, "This toilet is all open-air, what if it rains?" ”

Erniu replied: "It doesn't rain in this place in summer!" When the grass is harvested in autumn, add a thatched roof, and it can be changed into a thatched house. ”

"Where's the women's bathroom? What about the girls and aunts in the camp? Why didn't I see it? Sun Yi asked.

Erniu replied with a surprised face: "How can a woman mix with a man? My mother-in-law's latrine is elsewhere. The mother-in-law and aunt have a lot of things, the thatched toilet is bigger, and there is a mother-son thatched pit used by the mother-in-law and the doll together. ”

"Check it out!" Sun Yi came to be interested.

The two walked out a few hundred meters, and in another wood, Sun Yi noticed that women were gathering in twos and threes, chatting about something. Several children of five or six years old were running happily around the woman.

There are still dozens of meters away, and an aunt warned Erniu loudly: "Niu Wa, this is a woman's place, men are not allowed to come!" ”

Erniu looked at Lord Lidel in embarrassment, and Sun Yi waved his hand, indicating that he would not go.

Erniu then shouted: "Sister-in-law, we don't go over, just come to ask if you have eaten?" ”