Chapter 107: An Investigation of Xizhou City (1)
I haven't seen him for most of the day, and now Zhao Ruiqi's appearance shocked Tianwu.
His sleeping, shrimp-like body began to straighten out, and the wrinkled skin on his body was slowly smoothed out again, barely releasing some of his skin's radiance.
The withered grass hair has darkened in color, sunken eye sockets, chapped lips, and so on. Now the appearance is actually still very terrifying, but it doesn't have the same ghostly appearance as before, a bit like the "snacks" that were squeezed dry by women in some novels.
Temporarily pulled out the wood spirit from his hand, it still exuded vitality, because far away from Zhao Ruiqi, the speed of Mu Yuanli's emitting slowed down, and it burrowed into his body little by little.
Today he had another surprise.
Zhao Ze called Tianwu and Jiang Rui to another restaurant, saying that in the future, the three of them would have another food and would no longer eat with the Zhao family.
All the foods placed on the tablecloth are high-calorie and high-protein foods, which can provide a lot of energy for the body.
Tian Wu felt at ease about this, but he was very busy with the upcoming Hundred Cities League, and he had to reduce the time he spent in reality, and now it seems that these energies cannot be used.
On the 24th day of Xizhou City, at 9 o'clock in the morning, Tianwu, who had a full nap and a hurried meal, walked on the lively and busy Anjiu Street.
When the sky was bright, Zhao Yanran reluctantly went back to the village to call people, and at most the boat could dock in the city at noon.
A city with a population of 500,000 people, not a capital city, not a royal city, not a hub or a strategic place, even if it is built with reinforced concrete, there will be such and such problems, not to mention Xizhou City, where all the houses are bungalows, he is going to leave the prosperous Pingjiu and Anjiu today and go to other neighborhoods to check.
It is a lane full of rich and noble families, and the street is narrow, but there are large families on the left and right, and horse-drawn carriages can often be seen crowded together.
A faint sour smell wafted out of the alleyway, and Tianwu avoided pedestrians, covered his nose and came to the drainage ditch on the side of the alley, and looked down.
Both sides of Anjiu Street and Pingjiu Street have a well-developed drainage system, with open channels and culverts interconnected to discharge sewage residues out of the city, and the canal bricks are all stone, diverting water from the Zhoudao River with water trucks, and continuously impacting the drainage canals.
There are also full-time staff who patrol the drains every day, and if anyone throws excrement or animal carcasses into the drains, they will be punished heavily.
Many places on the two avenues also have places to collect feces and garbage, and people put these garbage in a centralized manner, and people come to clean it every day.
This is also the reason why Pingjiu Street and Anjiu Street look clean and there is no peculiar smell, Xizhou City has used a lot of material resources to maintain the cleanliness of the two avenues, and the effect is achieved but the cost is huge, as for other areas in the city, it is basically not taken care of.
The site of Dingfu is located on a short street behind Anjiu Street, and the residents are not small families, and the drainage ditch at the door is rarely used. Their household garbage, swill and feces will all be sent by the subordinates to the nearby drainage ditch and garbage and feces disposal point on Anjiu Street, which is very clean, and Tianwu is very satisfied with this.
And this roadway is different, the drainage ditch is not brought in by live water and there is no special person to maintain, it can be seen that the nearby large families will often send servants to clean up, but the effect is not very ideal, the humus accumulated in the ditch for many years of adulthood emits a foul smell, resulting in a strange smell in the whole roadway.
At this moment, the door of the family was opened, and the four Tsing Yi guys pushed a flat wooden car out cautiously.
After confirming that the full eight wooden barrels on the wooden cart were not filled with swill, Tian Wu rolled up his sleeves and walked over to take a hand, his strength was very great, at least two Tsing Yi guys on the top, and the five of them worked together, and finally let the wooden cart go down the steps smoothly.
The little guys had Wu to help one day, and saw that he was dressed with a good temperament, so they hurriedly thanked him repeatedly.
Tianwu waved his hand and asked suspiciously: "What are you transporting these wooden barrels full of water for, and where is there a shortage of water?" ”
A guy shook his head and smiled: "Where is it, don't tell the boy, this water is used to flush this ditch." Winter doesn't matter, seeing that the weather is getting hotter and hotter now, the smell will be unbearable if you don't rinse it once in three days, and the old ladies and gentlemen will also be furious. ”
Tian Wu watched as the two servants carried a bucket of water and slowly poured it into the black ditch, one of them poking at something that was difficult to wash away with with a long wooden stick on the masonry.
The other two small servants went to each house to knock on the door, calling their subordinates to come out together to contribute, and the reaction of each family was very positive, in the sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping, a bucket of water was lifted, and the people of each family were playing and laughing while cleaning up a ditch to which each family belonged.
As buckets of fresh water continue to be flushed, most of the various suspicious substances are washed away.
This period lasted for almost half an hour, during which time the families of the two families returned in a carriage without disturbing them from their work.
Obviously, for the few families who live here, nothing is as important as the laneway cleaning, and they are only comfortable living when the air in front of the door is clean and fresh.
"Congratulations, you won't have to smell it for the next few days."
Tianwu was also full of harvest, and said to a few Tsing Yi guys with satisfaction.
A few people smirked, and one of them said, "Our situation here is actually very good, ordinary people like the place where we live, tsk, don't mention it." ”
Tianwu nodded and raised his legs to leave the laneway, and the two carriages that had been waiting for a long time slowly drove over and stopped at the door of the two houses.
The city of Xizhou is huge, and the structure of the city is divided into four urban districts except for two avenues, and then there is no way to subdivide it, and Tianwu got lost in a blink of an eye after leaving the laneway.
The streets and alleys have their own flavors.
The streets generally smell bad, the ditches are clogged with disgusting garbage that has been accumulated for an unknown amount of time, and some streets have no ditches at all. He even saw people secretly pouring swill on street corners that no one saw for laziness, and this kind of remote place was full of feces, and it was impossible for animals to excrete and pick a place, obviously it was all done by people.
In the alleys and alleys, because the neighbors are familiar with them and they are well cleaned, some of them are very clean, just like the alleys where the owners preferred to wait for people to clean the ditches before going home. But more serious situations have become more serious, and in some places they have even become complete garbage dumps, throwing everything into the corners of the walls, and you can see the carcasses of cats and dogs and discarded animal entrails from far away.
A monstrous stench spread violently in all directions, and it was only April, and it would be June or July...... Tian Wu couldn't help but shudder, thinking about it in horror.