Chapter 108: Making a business out of toilets
After the wedding banquet, Ye Xuan and Ye Peng had to go back to class at noon the next day.
The two men were dressed in scholar's robes and stood at the door, preparing to get on the ox cart.
Old Mrs. Ye, Old Man Ye, and Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei were all seeing them off.
"Grandma will catch two chickens for you. Take them to the teacher and stew them tomorrow to share with your classmates." Old Mrs. Ye handed the two tied chickens to Ye Xuan.
The twenty chicks we caught last time have grown up.
"Thank you, grandma." Ye Xuan took it with a smile.
Ye Peng stood aside with a conflicted look on his face.
Wei asked with concern, "What's wrong?"
"I... Mom, can I not go to school?" Ye Peng said anxiously, "I don't want to study anymore! It's not fun at all!"
Wei's face changed: "What nonsense! How can you not study!"
Old Mrs. Ye and Old Man Ye looked at each other.
Old Man Ye said, "Your mother is right."
If my family didn’t have the conditions, I wouldn’t have gone to school, but now that I have this opportunity, I should cherish it.
Ye Peng's face fell: "The teacher's lecture is like a monk chanting sutras. I fall asleep as soon as I listen..."
When he first started going to school, Ye Peng was very curious and felt that being a scholar was too pretentious.
But when he started school, he realized how hard life was...
"It's better for me to plow two acres of land than to listen to a class!" Ye Peng said this and almost cried.
God knows how much he misses his family's fields now.
"You little bastard, what nonsense are you talking about!" Old Mrs. Ye scolded with a smile.
"Xuan'er is so attentive, but you are so stubborn!" Wei said with a stern face.
"Okay." Old Lady Ye glanced at her and sighed, "No matter what, you have to study until the New Year."
Old Man Ye also nodded: "If you really don't want to miss it next year, we'll talk to the teacher again."
Ye Peng was delighted when he heard this: "Okay, I'll listen to grandpa and grandma."
Wei frowned, stepped forward and twisted his ear: "Pay attention to me."
“It hurts, it hurts…hiss…I know.”
Just then, Ye Bajin and Ye Erquan came out carrying some spicy soup.
Ye Peng hurried forward to help.
"Erquan, when we get to town, go catch six big hens so that our family can have eggs every day. When you move out, each family can have two." Old Mrs. Ye took out six hundred coins.
Ye Erquan took the money and went out.
The price of egg-laying hens is twenty-two cents per pound, so six hundred cents is about the same.
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A few days passed in a flash.
The walls of Ye Erquan's house have been completed. Once the walls are completely dry, he can put up the beams and build the roof.
You have to wait at least seven or eight days.
In addition to delivering goods, Ye Erquan also came to Ye Caiping's construction site to work.
Ye Caiping looked at Ye Erquan laying bricks and said with a smile, "Second brother is really amazing. He lays the bricks in an orderly manner. Among so many people, second brother has the best skills."
Ye Erquan applied the lime mud to the brick surface and smiled innocently: "I'm not bragging. In the whole Qinghe Village, no one is better than me in building walls and houses."
"I think so too." Ye Caiping praised generously.
Ye Erquan is different from Ye Daquan. Ye Daquan is a brute force who is only suitable for digging foundations and heavy work. He can't even build a wall properly.
Ye Erquan is different. He is more reserved and careful. He can do everything from leveling to laying walls.
"Second brother, don't do it yet, let's go home, I have something to tell you." Ye Caiping said.
"Oh, okay!" Ye Erquan finished laying the bricks in his hand, then jumped down and yelled at the people on the construction site, asking the villagers to continue working and not to be lazy.
Then he went to the mountain stream, washed his hands and face, and then went home with Ye Caiping.
After entering Ye Caiping's room, Ye Erquan asked, "What do you want to tell me, little sister?"
"Here." Ye Caiping took out a blueprint, "I want to build a toilet... a latrine."
Ye Caiping really wasn't used to the toilets here.
The toilet here only has one bucket, and all the toilets, big and small, are pulled in.
Sometimes it would splash up and Ye Caiping was really unable to handle it.
Now that I build my own house, I must improve the toilet environment.
Besides, the new house can bring in stream water, making water use much more convenient, so Ye Caiping plans to build a modern squat toilet.
You can flush it directly after use, which is convenient and clean, and there is no odor.
Fortunately, she often washed the floor in her previous life and had seen how septic tanks were built. The principle and construction method were very simple.
Ye Erquan looked at Ye Caiping's drawing, confused: "Is this... a toilet?"
"Yes, this squat toilet can be customized. After use, just flush it and the waste will flow into the pool at the back. The pool will decompose the waste..."
Ye Caiping explained one by one: "Second brother, can you build it?"
As Ye Erquan listened, he began to understand: "Sure. As long as you have someone make that squat toilet and sewage pipe, I can build it for you. So... this decomposition means that the land absorbs it, right?"
"right."
"But manure is a good thing, it must be kept for composting. Even if you are in a hurry outside, you can't bear to defecate, you have to go home to relieve yourself. Little sister, you are going to waste it?"
Ye Caiping sighed: "There's no other way. If you want cleanliness and hygiene, you can only sacrifice this."
Ye Erquan said: "How about you put wood ash in the toilet?"
"Where can we get so much wood ash? It's a waste of firewood."
The most important thing is that the smell of wood ash is also very strong! After all, people don’t just need to pee, they also need to pee, right? You have to pay even if it’s full!
"Can you build one for me? If you really don't want to, I'll find someone else."
"No, no, I'll build it for you!" Ye Erquan said anxiously. He looked at the blueprint again and again and said with a smile: "Although it's a bit wasteful, your toilet is really exquisite."
"I've never seen it before. People in our village don't like it, but maybe people in the town do."
"If I learn this, maybe someone will ask me to build a house in the future. Haha!"
Ye Caiping said, "Of course you can. You don't have to build houses for people. You can also make a business and income by making a hut for others."
Ye Erquan's eyes lit up: "Really?"
"Of course!" Ye Caiping had originally planned to let everyone in the family have their own skill or livelihood.
The second brother is good at building houses. He can easily form a team to build huts for people.
As Ye Erquan said, rural people don't like this because they want to keep it for composting.
The townspeople and wealthy families have no need for composting. What they pursue is cleanliness and hygiene, and most importantly, no odor.
Squatting has a future. Ye Erquan has learned it and no longer has to worry about lack of business.
Ye Erquan looked excited, but then he frowned slightly: "That's what I said...but to do this, we need to make a stone floor, and the cover of the pool also needs to be a big stone. I can't move it by myself."
"It takes at least two or three people to do it together. But I've taught this to my companions, and it will spread quickly."
"That's not easy. You can form a three-person team and implement shareholding... that is, dry shareholding. Then sign a contract and no one is allowed to tell the method to others. When you make money, you can divide it according to the shares."
Ye Erquan was confused when he heard about stocks.
I didn't understand until it said later that the money earned would be divided according to shares.
"I understand." Ye Erquan nodded with bright eyes, and then he became a little disappointed: "But... who would come to us to do this?"
"Don't worry. I'll find customers. Don't worry. At least wait until my house is built and the workshop is up and running, then there will be customers."
"Now think about who to get to do it. I think three people would be the best."
Ye Erquan was still a little confused. He was just helping his little sister build a toilet, but he actually turned it into a business?
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