Chapter 41: The Gift (Please!!) )
"Uncle Yi, do you like to go outside and queue up for the toilet every day? It doesn't taste very good! Zhou Jianguo asked with a smile.
"Uh......" Uncle Yi was stunned, how could he like to go outside every day to queue up for the toilet, but isn't everyone like this, so Uncle Yi never thought in his heart that he could actually build a toilet by himself.
"Jianguo, when you say this, I am also a little moved." Uncle Yi said with a smile.
He was indeed moved, if Zhou Jianguo hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't have thought of this, and he wouldn't have any pimples in his heart, but now that Zhou Jianguo mentioned it like this, there would be pimples in his heart.
Recalling the smell of the toilet and the taste of queuing, Uncle Yi is now upset in his heart.
Think about it again, if you build a toilet, you don't have to get up every day before dawn (not a typo), in order to avoid queuing up when you go to the toilet, let alone smelling those 'complicated' smells when you are queuing, you can sleep until you wake up naturally every day, and when you want to go to the toilet, you can go to the toilet when you want, and the uncle is very excited.
"Okay, this matter will be handled by the uncle, and I will go directly to the factory to find it when the time comes." Uncle Yi agreed, this matter is not a difficult thing for him, that is, a matter of his words.
"That's good, this matter will be troublesome." Zhou Jianguo said with a smile.
"What's the trouble, if it weren't for your reminder from the founding of the country, I wouldn't have thought of such a good thing." Uncle Yi smiled.
Build a dedicated toilet, not only do you no longer have to go outside to queue up to go to the toilet, but also, in winter, you don't have to worry about P-shares being frostbitten, a good thing inside.
"Fix the toilet? Jianguo, you have to repair the toilet, isn't there outside. Lou Xiao'e shook the water droplets in her hand with a puzzled face, she had just heard an ending.
"Yes, I'm going to repair a few toilets, after all, it's too inconvenient to go outside and queue up to go to the toilet, especially in winter, it's too cold, so I wonder if I should get a toilet, so it's very convenient to go to the toilet." Zhou Jianguo explained.
"This is good, this is good, to be honest, when I first came to this yard, what I hated the most was this thing about going to the toilet, I had to queue up every time, and the smell was ......."
"Sister Xiao'e, don't say it, we just had dinner." Zhou Jianguo looked at Lou Xiao'e with disgust.
Lou Xiao'e stuck out her tongue embarrassedly and didn't continue.
"Uncle Yi, I'll be counted as one when the time comes." Lou Xiao'e said to Uncle Yi.
"Okay, count you in." Uncle Yi nodded, anyway, it's a matter of one sentence, one more is one more.
"Sister Xiao'e, can you get cement?" Zhou Jianguo asked, cement is indispensable for building toilets.
"Jianguo, don't worry, it won't take much cement to repair the toilet, I'll figure it out when the time comes." An uncle is ready to take over the job of making cement.
"Uncle Yi, if you only build one, you really won't need much cement, but I have to repair three here, plus Uncle Yi's own, as well as Sister Xiao'e's, you really need a lot of cement." Zhou Jianguo hurriedly reminded.
"Founding the country, you want to build three?" Uncle Yi was stunned, isn't one enough, why do you need three.
"One uncle, one grandmother, one me, one rainwater, exactly three."
"......." Uncle Yi was stunned, he didn't see Zhou Jianguo actually had to help the old lady and the rain build one, at this moment, Uncle Yi's heart was really sour, he regretted it very much in his heart, regretting that he didn't treat Zhou Jianguo well before.
Let's not talk about the rain, she is Zhou Jianguo's future wife, Zhou Jianguo should build one for her, the problem is the old lady's side.
Uncle Yi couldn't imagine that Zhou Jianguo would want to build a separate toilet for the old lady, which was obviously treating the old lady as his own grandmother, otherwise, how could Zhou Jianguo be so generous.
Don't look at it as just a toilet, but if you really want to build it, it doesn't cost one or two hundred dollars, and you don't want to build it at all.
This is one or two hundred yuan in the sixties, not one or two hundred yuan now, and one or two hundred yuan now is indeed not much, but in the sixties, these money is equal to a worker's salary for more than a year, and Zhou Jianguo spent it on the old lady without any heartache.
To put it mildly, many sons don't treat their parents so well, so it can be seen from this incident that Zhou Jianguo is definitely a person who will repay his kindness.
"Hey, if I knew that this was the case, then if I had been good to Zhou Jianguo since I was a child, why would I still have to worry about the problem of pension."
Thinking of this, the intestines of the uncle's heart were blue.
Zhou Jianguo didn't find the abnormality of the first uncle, he calculated the amount of cement needed in his heart, and then said to Lou Xiao'e: "I have to build three toilets here, so at least five bags of cement are required, plus the needs of the first uncle and Sister Xiao'e, about ten bags of cement." Sister Xiao'e, we ordinary people can't get so much cement, so this time we need Sister Xiao'e to come out, in our hospital, only Sister Xiao'e has the ability to get so much cement back. ”
"Ten bags of cement, ah....." Uncle Yi heard that he needed ten bags of cement, and he was also embarrassed, he had some relationship, and there was no problem in getting one or two packs, but it was really difficult to get ten bags of cement.
(In the sixties and seventies, things like cement were so scarce that you couldn't buy them in large quantities.) )
"Don't worry, the cement thing is on me, ten bags is enough, if it's not enough, I'll ask for more." Lou Xiao'e responded directly, and asked Zhou Jianguo if ten bags were enough, with her background, it was really simple to get some cement.
"Ten packs are enough!" Zhou Jianguo said that when he just estimated, he had already estimated more, and ten bags of cement were enough.
"Sister Xiao'e, this time you have made a lot of efforts, and I will trouble you."
"No, no trouble. Not to mention this big meal tonight, this idea from you alone is worth all this cement. Lou Xiao'e said, signaling Zhou Jianguo not to be so polite.
"Okay, Sister Xiao'e, I'm welcome." Zhou Jianguo picked up the teacup and gestured, and then said no more.
"Sister Xiao'e, I also have a gift for you here, I'm sure you will like it."
"Oh, what gift?" Lou Xiao'e looked curious.
If it was before today, Lou Xiao'e wouldn't be so curious, Zhou Jianguo before today really didn't have anything to be curious about, but after seeing Zhou Jianguo's real ability, Lou Xiao'e was really curious about the gift that Zhou Jianguo said.
Zhou Jianguo didn't make a fuss, and said directly: "I prepared a flushing toilet for Sister Xiao'e, how about it, Sister Xiao'e, my gift is not bad." ”
"Flushing the toilet?!" Lou Xiao'e shouted in surprise, "Jianguo, how did you get this flushing toilet, even if this thing is abroad, it is an extremely rare thing, did you really get it?" ”
I can't help but be so surprised that Lou Xiao'e is so surprised, it is now the sixties, and flushing toilets are only available abroad, and they are also exclusive to the rich, because the price of flushing toilets in this era is very high, which is equivalent to the price of a car, so ordinary people really can't afford it.
The flush toilet was really popularized in the seventies, and in our case, it was in the nineties that it gradually became popular after the economy developed, and there was no such flush toilet in the sixties.
Lou Xiao'e knows this very well, so she is so surprised.
"Sister Xiao'e, of course I got it, otherwise how do you think I knew about this flushing toilet." Zhou Jianguo was a little proud, in this era, flushing toilets are also a kind of high-tech, and ordinary people really can't get them.
"Are you....... Forget it, I won't ask, but I can't take advantage of you like this, I'll give you three ...... No, five hundred dollars, so I can take advantage of you. Lou Xiao'e said very directly, she originally wanted to ask Zhou Jianguo how she got this flushing toilet, but she quickly put away this idea.
Zhou Jianguo's background may be stronger than hers, so it's better not to ask about some things, so as not to cause any trouble at that time.
Their family has enough trouble now, if they cause some other trouble, hehe......
"Five hundred....... Hiss ......"
The others gasped when they heard the figure of five hundred, and they all began to wonder in their hearts what this flushing toilet was and how it was so valuable.
"Jianguo, what is this flushing toilet you are talking about? Sounds like a toilet? He Yushui asked with a puzzled expression.
"yes, I sound like a toilet too?" Aunt Yi was also puzzled.
The name flushing toilet has the word toilet in it, and most people will associate it with the toilet after hearing it, but if it is just a toilet, how can it cost 500 yuan (500 yuan in the 60s), so several people are very puzzled.
"Sister Yushui, Aunt Yi, flushing toilets are actually toilets." Zhou Jianguo hurriedly explained, he knew that if he didn't explain again, He Yushui and the others didn't know what they would associate with.
"Is it a toilet?" He Yushui's face was full of disbelief.
"Jianguo, don't lie to us, what toilet costs five hundred yuan, is it the toilet where the emperor sits?" Aunt Yi didn't believe it either, she thought Zhou Jianguo was lying to them.
"Rainwater, auntie, although this flushing toilet is not specially made for the emperor, but its price is indeed very high, it has a ......." Zhou Jianguo began to explain, and also drew a general pattern of the flushing toilet for everyone to better understand.