mtl008 Chapter 174 Toilet
Chapter 174 Toilet
After taking a short break after lunch, the two began to work on the unfinished work from yesterday. Although the sun was hot, today's work was much easier than yesterday.
The pits were dug yesterday. Today we just need to open holes in the inner and outer walls, then spread the yellow mud evenly on the surface and let it harden naturally before it can be used.
Gu Zhou used a hoe inside the wall to break through the last bit of earth wall without damaging the excavated tunnel as much as possible. Shen Wu took a backpack and went outside to carry the earth. There was a pile of earth as high as a mountain at the foot of the wall outside. That was the earth she and Gu Zhou had dug out. Thinking it might be useful, they placed it at the foot of the wall. While Gu Zhou went to clear the last opening, she carried the earth towards the yard.
She planned to use the soil to raise the floor of the toilet a little to prevent rain from flooding into the dry toilet.
Gu Zhou watched her carrying one basket after another, and finally found an opportunity to talk to her: "Do you think this is okay?"
The opening that Gu Zhou opened was exactly the same size as the one she had drawn, no more and no less.
Shen Wu just felt that she had carried enough, so she took a break and wiped the sweat off her face and said, "The opening... is just right. It would be better if it could be more slanted." As she spoke, she used her own arm and palm as an example to show Gu Zhou the slant she wanted.
"But you take a break first, wait until I cover the ground with this soil and raise it a little bit. What you dug is just right. If there is more manure and water, it will flow back. After I raise the ground, we just need to add some soil to the excavated dry toilet to make it higher."
As she spoke, she dumped the last basket of soil nearby, borrowed the hoe from Gu Zhou and started to work on it.
First, make it roughly flat, then use wood to tamp down layer by layer to create a hard surface, and then put new soil on top. This way it will be harder and will not be softened by rain. Then use a layer of yellow mud on the outside and there will be no problem.
She asked Gu Zhou to go back and rest for a while, and she would take over the rest of the work.
In fact, compacting the ground is a very time-consuming job, but Shen Wu did not plan to do it so solidly. Anyway, there are two sides connected to the wall, one side needs to be made of bamboo strips wall, and the other side needs to be made into a door. He thought that as long as it is solid, it will be fine.
Shen Wu only raised the ground by a few centimeters with the basket of soil on her back. This was too slow a process. She used a hoe to hook the soil she had carried earlier to the nearby area bit by bit. At this moment, she began to miss the benefits of a shovel, which was fast and convenient to use.
However, she didn't plan to make the ground too high and it wouldn't take much soil, so she put all the soil she carried on her back on the ground, followed by the thin layer she had made before, and then she picked up some firewood from the pile and used it to tamp the ground.
There were some large and handy light woods at home, so Shen Wu first gave it a rough pounding to make the shape of the foundation regular, then he found some water and used his hands to dust some of it before starting the second pounding.
She used this method only because the weather was hot and the thin layer of soil on top was gradually loosening. When tamping up and down, some dust was raised. Although not much, it was really uncomfortable.
Just a little water is enough to prevent dust from flying around.
Shen Wu was sweating profusely. He exerted all his strength to gradually make the loose ground under his feet into a harder surface.
Not only does she focus on the ground, she also uses wood to hit the side. As long as it doesn't deform when people stand on it, it's almost OK.
In order to ensure the quality, she planned to go to the river to carry some small stones and yellow mud to embed them on the sides, and then add a layer of yellow mud on the outside to complete the job.
Shen Wu worked so hard that she was sweating profusely and her clothes were soaked again and again before she stopped. She estimated that about 40 minutes had passed. She didn't expect that the job could be done so quickly.
After Gu Zhou washed her hands and returned to the house, she picked up the little brother and changed his diaper. She didn’t know if it was because of her period, but the little brother looked more like a fair and tender little Fuwa.
After Gu Zhou changed his younger brother's diaper and tidied his thin clothes, he suddenly noticed the changes in his younger brother. He looked at his younger brother in silence without saying a word.
The younger brother thought he was going to play a trick on him and started to chuckle.
Gu Zhou was afraid that his younger brother would wake up Xiao Wei, so he hurriedly took the child to the main room and put him on a bamboo chair. The diaper had been pulled a lot, and the baby's excrement was as smelly as ever, but Gu Zhou had long been used to it.
He first placed his younger brother in a place in the main room where he could still see him but not reach the sunlight. He then walked to the entrance of the yard with the diaper in hand, found a young branch that was not used for bacon, and carefully hung the filth on it into the pit at the bottom of the slope.
He didn't dare to go out for too long, for fear that his active little brother would knock over the bamboo chair, so he quickly covered it up and went back.
When he entered the yard, she was still working seriously. Although Gu Zhou didn't quite understand what she was doing, he understood that she was tamping the ground. When the family yard was first built, a group of people were hired to help tamp the foundation.
He didn't bother her, threw the diaper into a special basin for washing, then washed his hands in the basin and brought out a lot of water from the house.