Liu Huifang said, "Hey, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. After a while, you'll get used to it and wipe your bodies like us. Just think of it as entering a women's bathhouse. Isn't everyone in the bathhouse like this? We're all women, what's there to be ashamed of?"
Although Liu Huifang's words made sense, Luo Jingyan still couldn't stand showing her body to others, not even to other women.
"Why not build a shower room or something? There are so many people in the educated youth settlement, building one would definitely not be a waste."
“Nobody’s paying,” Shen Ruyi said. “The male educated youth all went to bathe in the river, so they didn’t need a bathhouse. The female educated youth thought it was fine to just wipe themselves down in the dormitory, and if that wasn’t enough, they would go to the bathhouse in the county town, which didn’t cost much. But building a bathhouse would have cost a lot more, and because there was no money, they didn’t build one.”
If no one else is willing to pay, Luo Jingyan won't be a sucker; she doesn't even know how long she can stay there.
She remembered the abandoned house in the yard and discussed with Jiang Manyue, "Manyue, why don't we go to the outer room to wash? When you wash, I'll keep watch for you, and when I wash, you keep watch for me."
“Okay, but that window isn’t safe either; people can see in from the outside.”
“I have a piece of cloth in my box. I pull it up when I need it and take it off when I don’t need it.”
"Okay, I'll go boil some water now."
"Um."
They went outside, and Luo Jingyan said, "You've heard the story of that house, haven't you?"
"I heard about it. Ouran told me this in private. There's nothing to be afraid of. It's not like the person died in the house."
"That's right, there's nothing to be afraid of, don't scare yourself."
"I'm going to boil some water."
"I'll go get the cloth."
After the water was boiled, Luo Jingyan let Jiang Manyue go in to wash first, while she kept watch outside.
Before long, Luo Jingyan noticed that Fang Zhiyuan would occasionally go out and glance in their direction.
But the room was dark, with no kerosene lamp lit and the curtains drawn, so he couldn't see anything.
After Jiang Manyue finished washing, Luo Jingyan went in to wash.
After locking the door, Luo Jingyan went straight into the space. She saw that Black Tiger was sleeping on her big bed. Its fluffy body was curled up and its head was buried in its fur.
Not wanting to disturb Black Tiger, she tiptoed out of the bedroom, into the bathroom, filled the bathtub with water, and lay down comfortably.
Afraid that Jiang Manyue outside would get impatient, she didn't dare soak for too long and came out as soon as she was almost clean.
Then, he splashed the water in the basin in the house a few times to make it look like he had washed the vegetables. After opening the door, he poured the remaining water into the vegetable garden to water the vegetables.
Luo Jingyan called Luo Changtian and asked him to go in and wash up too, otherwise she was afraid the child would be uncomfortable and unable to sleep at night. She didn't dare let Luo Changtian go to the river to bathe, and told him, "No matter who asks you to go to the river to bathe, don't go with them. The river is too dangerous, understand?"
"I understand, sis. I'll do whatever you say."
"Good brother."
Du Yinan and Lin Shanshan saw Luo Jingyan and Jiang Manyue taking a bath in that room, and they wanted to take a bath there too.
As Luo Jingyan took down the cloth draped over the window, Du Yinan stopped her, saying, "Luo, we also want to go in and wash up, so don't take your cloth down."
Luo Jingyan casually tore off the piece of cloth.
“If you want to go in and wash, cover yourselves with your own cloths.”
"Then don't cover it up."
"We can't leave it uncovered. There are many male educated youths in our compound. What if someone sees us?"
"What does this have to do with me?"
Luo Jingyan folded the cloth, but Du Yinan stopped her: "Luo, we don't have any cloth. Can you lend it to us? Otherwise, we won't be able to wash it."
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