Volume 1 Chapter 27 The Toilet
The construction of the house has been interrupted for a long time, and now it can be resumed after the other things have been taken care of more or less properly.
Although it is not as urgent as the first room, it is still in a state where the basic functions are not complete, and there are many inconveniences.
A dwelling is not just a room, the house is only used for the task of providing living and storing things, and other supporting facilities such as kitchens and toilets are also indispensable!
I plan to build the toilet from today, and in recent times, in order to ensure the cleanliness around the house, I have to run to a place dozens of meters away to use the toilet every time.
Of course, it doesn't matter if it's sunny, but when it rains, it's miserable!
Not only will you get caught in the rain, but the mud on the ground will also stain your feet, so the urgency in your heart will continue to rise, and it will become the most urgent.
The height of the toilet may be slightly lower than that of the house, and it is estimated that it is only about two meters, which is more convenient to build and does not look empty inside.
But before building the toilet, I was going to dig a sewage ditch 20 centimeters wide and 40 centimeters deep, which was connected to the squatting pit in the toilet at one end and extended twenty or thirty meters away from the hillside at the other end.
The purpose of this is to prevent the accumulation of a pit after a period of time if it is not installed, and the feces are directly washed away by the water after digging the sewage ditch, there is no such trouble at all, not only does it not need to be cleaned up every once in a while, but the smell is also smaller......
The drain may be exposed for the time being, so there may be some smell, but I can't spare time to take care of it with my busy daily life, so I can only close the top of the drain when I have free time in the future.
At this time, I had to complain about the difficulty of using the wooden shovel, and the low efficiency once again refreshed my perception of it.
It took me four days to dig the sewer, and I don't have any temper with it anymore, but I haven't found a better material yet, otherwise I will definitely eliminate it as soon as possible!
The toilet is located on the right side of the first room, and the second room and kitchen at the back will be extended to the left.
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The planned area is about two to three square meters, and the living conditions are now further improved than before, plus there are various containers such as clay pots and pots, and fresh water is relatively abundant.
Taking a bath has been much faster than before, from once every ten days and eight days to once every two or three days now, so the area is too small and affects the experience of use!
It has to be said that this is a huge step forward, from which it is evident that the improvement in life, especially in terms of hygiene.
And now it is more rigorous before eating, it is no longer the way to eat directly when you go to the island, and now you will at least wash it before you put it in your mouth.
The most obvious change is washing the pot, at first because of the lack of water almost did not wash the pot, fortunately during that time did not eat bad stomach, now before every meal will wash the pot!
Although I still can't take a shower every day and often have a stinky sweat, it is undeniable that life is getting better and better, and I believe it will get better in the near future.
The capacity of the well is not yet able to keep up with the rhythm for the time being, and under normal levels, it can only provide 50 to 100 catties of fresh water per day, and the current water consumption will also use more than 50 catties per day in addition to bathing.
It took another three days to build the toilet and start the final renovation, hahaha, I feel like I insulted the word decoration.
In fact, it is to find some small stone slabs to spread on the toilet floor, and the toilet must not be able to avoid flushing and drenching, etc., plus bathing, the mud floor cannot be operated at all.
At present, the toilet is very primitive, and it is only a preliminary solution to whether there is a problem.
Of course, the whole house is like this, if you can't go back for a long time, you can only wait for when the living conditions are more secure, and it may improve!
Human civilization has reached today's heritage through long-term accumulation, and I am in a similar situation now, only through long-term accumulation can it be possible to live a life of abundance and food.
At least now that I have a house and a toilet, I feel that I am a big step closer to modern civilization, and I don't have to live the life of the first savage!
The construction of the latrine took about 10 days, mainly due to the inefficiency of the tools used to dig the drainage ditch, and another two days of pumping to dig a deep pit close to a cubic meter at the far outfall to store feces and wastewater.
It is difficult for crops to make a difference in the absence of modern means such as fertilizer, in addition to plant ash, biological fertilizer can also play a more ideal role at this time!
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While thinking about fertilizer, I estimated that the green vegetable seeds should be ready to be harvested when they were ripe, and then I went to the woods to collect the green vegetable seeds.
Unfortunately, two days late, one-fifth of the seeds of the four greens fell to the ground, but fortunately there were still a lot of plants left, and I believe that planting an area of twenty or thirty square meters should not be a problem.
After drying, it may not be planted until the spring of the new year, and the temperature is relatively low now, so I am not sure whether it can take root and sprout normally.
It's just that this hurts me......
I can imagine that for a long time to come, maybe in half a year, the variety of food will be even more monotonous.
The daily food is supplemented by the main fish and taro, mixed with a little wild vegetables and other ingredients occasionally obtained, and in general, the food is very scarce, the variety is very scarce, and it is very bad for the physical state......
The only thing I can look forward to is that I will only need to survive another three to five months, and when the next crop is ready to grow, and when the weather warms up and I can go to sea, my food system will gradually improve!
But this kind of torment is still as long as three or five months, and I want to die when I think of it!
At this time, there are still four crops left in the vegetable field near the cave, cassava, corn, ginger and peanuts, but the field may be abandoned next season.
After all, such a large area of land at the top of the mountain not only has plenty of light, is closer, and is more convenient to take care of.
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In the blink of an eye, it has been four months on this desert island, and the daily busyness makes it seem that the four months have not passed long, but looking at the numbers recorded on the paper, you can clearly know that this is not a conjecture.
Four months, I don't know what happened to her, maybe she was on a desert island like me, maybe she was rescued, maybe she was ......
I don't know what's going on at home, and I feel like crying when I think of them worrying about me.
It's mid-December, and the weather is getting colder and colder, and although the sun still rises every day, it obviously can't stop the temperature drop and the biting cold wind!
My clothes are very thin, even if I have the addition of a sweater, it is not very comfortable, sometimes I can only grit my teeth coldly, and this feeling is especially uncomfortable on rainy days.
The body was not very well during these two days, mainly manifested by fatigue and dizziness.
I don't know what the reason is for the time being, it may be caused by the singleness of food that makes the body lack some necessary vitamins and nutrients, of course, this is just my own speculation!
The firewood stored at home has been exhausted after a period of use, and is ready to collect some more, but because the pottery burns a lot of firewood, it is now necessary to collect it two or three hundred meters away, which is far less convenient than before.
Originally, life was on the right track, and it was a happy thing that the house toilets were put into use one after another, but I couldn't be happy.
On the second day of collecting firewood, he fell ill and became so sick that it became very difficult to even get out of bed......
What reassures me is that this illness is just a cold, although it is menacing, it is difficult to kill people, but it is inevitable that it will be uncomfortable until it returns to normal.
The current situation of poverty on the island has once again fallen into the dilemma of having no cure for diseases, and the only ginger that can cure colds has been planted in the ground a month or two ago!
Hehehe...... this is unlucky!
The severity of the cold makes it very difficult to get out of bed, but you can afford to get out of bed without getting up, so you have to drink the water toilet!
After getting up, I boiled a few sun-dried dandelions, and used the dead horse as a live horse doctor.
In addition, I don't know if it works with remedies such as rubbing my temples with salt, but I am almost always in bed, and I always feel that the hay on my body is not very warm.
I know that it must be a cold, and it is strange that I have been wearing thin clothes not to be cold, and at this time ginger is actually very symptomatic, but it is ......
During the period, I didn't have much appetite, and I only insisted on making a meal for two days, this meal was still grilled dried fish, or it was difficult to get up and boil some boiling water and boil dandelion water, everything was a person, and I could only take care of myself!
The cold was much worse than last time, and I lay in bed for three days until the fourth day.
After waking up, although I can still feel unwell, at least I can move normally, although it is still difficult to speak because of the sore throat, but the cough and runny nose are more than the previous two days.
My mental state has changed greatly, and I have to get up to find something to eat when I am hungry, and if I lie down for two more days, I don't have to get up, because I will be so hungry that I can't get up!
To tell the truth, the family is really destitute now, and the ready-made food is only a few taro and a little dried fish, which makes people angry.
After sighing, I lit the fire first, picked two taro peels and washed them for stewed soup, I don't really want to eat the dried fish, it is hard and the taste is not good!
dragged the weak body to the fish pond, and fished up a cod of about two catties and came back to braised it, fortunately, there were still twenty or thirty catties of fresh fish in the fish pond that could last for a few days.
Among the fish usually caught, yellow croaker and pomfret account for the largest proportion, and then a small amount will be mixed with some other fish, some of which are poisonous and inedible.
But these two relatively large fish are not my favorite food, and their taste can only be described as ordinary.
Cod tastes good, but unfortunately the number is relatively scarce, and now there are only two cod in the fish pond, but fishing is more depending on luck, and there is no way to do it.
Cod meat is very delicious and nutritious, and it is one of my favorite fish to eat, and it is almost as delicious as grouper!
The taro is already stewed, the cod is ready to be braised in a braised soup, its meat is firm and less fat, and it can be applied to a variety of methods, and I would like to exchange the number of pomfret with the number of pomfret every time I catch fish.
The rare food and physical recovery made me feel alive!