The well was dug in one day, but the toilet took several days longer. By the time the toilet was finished, it was already the day before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
Zhuang Zhimeng and Jiang Yanxia made mooncakes together after lunch.
"Zhimeng, what fillings are we making for our mooncakes?"
"Xiazi, whatever filling you want, we'll make it."
"I really don't want to eat mooncakes with five-nut filling. The candied fruit peel inside is awful! I can't swallow it every time I eat it!"
"Haha, what a coincidence! I don't like candied fruit either. Back home, I always gave the candied fruit to my dad when we ate mooncakes. I never ate the candied fruit in mooncakes!"
"Haha, Zhimeng, we're in the same boat! I'm giving it to my dad too!"
"Then let's make mooncakes with red date paste and black sesame and peanut fillings."
"Great! Both kinds of mooncake fillings are delicious!"
Zhuang Zhimeng took out the ingredients needed for the filling.
Jiang Yanxia and Zhuang Zhimeng worked together to prepare the ingredients for mooncake fillings.
Zhuang Zhimeng asked.
"Xiazi, where did Mengge go?"
Jiang Yanxia answered while preparing the filling.
"Didn't you and Brother An finish building the toilet in your new house? Now quite a few people have gathered around to see what's going on, and Meng-ge'er has gone over too, he wants to learn as well!"
"Hmm, it would be good to go and learn something!"
"Speaking of that toilet, it was quite a journey, not easy to build. The main problem was finding the materials; Qingbai spent several days just searching for them!"
"Didn't Brother An go to the Mangrove Forest Brigade to learn from them? Where did they find the materials?"
"I asked the people from the Mangrove Forest Brigade, but when Brother Qingbai went to the place they provided, it was already sold out."
The main problem is that not many people build this kind of toilet, so the materials were no longer sold!
Later, after contacting several more teams, they finally managed to purchase the most crucial materials.
"Huh? That's so complicated! It sounds so complicated!"
"It's definitely not easy!"
A large crowd has gathered around An Qingbai and Zhuang Zhimeng's new home.
They eagerly toured the new-style toilets and asked all sorts of questions.
"Old Man An, how much does it cost to build one of these outhouses?"
An Qingbai did not tell the truth directly, but only gave a vague answer.
"Anyway, it's not cheap. A lot of red bricks are needed, and the key materials are also quite expensive and hard to find. Finding materials is the most time-consuming part!"
An Leping stepped forward.
"If you want to build this kind of outhouse, come to me. I'll tell you how much it will cost based on your family's situation, provided you can find the key materials!"
Jiang Yanxia also asked Zhuang Zhimeng this question.
"Zhimeng, how much does it cost to install a biogas toilet like this?"
It cost about five hundred in total!
"So expensive? Five hundred yuan for a toilet?"
"Well, it's not too expensive. The one built by the mangrove forest team is bigger than ours, and he said it cost more than a thousand! The main problem is that a lot of red bricks are needed, and the key material is also expensive!"
Moreover, this 500 yuan was only for the cost of materials. Uncle Leping didn't charge us this time, otherwise we wouldn't have been able to afford 500 yuan!
If we hire someone else, we'll have to pay them for building the biogas digester!
When the villagers surrounded An Leping, asking him all sorts of questions, some even got tempted to take him home to discuss the toilet renovation.
Su Mengmeng looked at An Qingbai and asked the question that had been bothering her.
"Brother An, how long can this kind of toilet be used?"
"I heard from the people in the Mangrove Forest Brigade that it can be used for several years! What? Mengmeng wants to change to this kind of toilet too?"
"Hmm, I have an idea, but Xiazi and I might not be able to use it. Brother An, how much does this kind of toilet cost?"
An Qingbai waited until no one was paying attention to him before whispering in Su Mengmeng's ear.
"It cost 500 in total, and that was after we negotiated the price for the materials! If we hadn't negotiated, it would have been 600!"
"Hmm, it's alright. I'll discuss it with Xiazi later!"
An Qingbai made a suggestion to him.
"I don't think you need to change the toilet, Mengmeng."
Think about it, you're sent-down youth, and you can't stay in the village forever; you'll have to go back to the city eventually. If you finish building the toilet and then suddenly get told to go back to the city, wouldn't all that work have been for nothing?
Let's build it. Regardless of whether Zhizhi goes back to the city or not, at least she'll have a house to live in in the village. So let's make it nice and comfortable for her to live in!
If it's just for using the toilet, then you and Yanxia can come here to use it, right? It'll also be raw material for biogas production!
Su Mengmeng scratched her head.
"Hehe, Brother An, I understand. I was just thinking that if Xiazi and I get married in our village, it would be convenient to build a toilet like this!"
"There's really no need for that. Besides, they won't approve a homestead for you when you get married. Wouldn't that just be you spending money for someone else?"
"In a few years, when you go back to the city, who knows who will benefit from the house you live in now!"
“Brother An, you’re right. I didn’t expect that. The homestead isn’t mine!”
"When we leave, we should be able to sell this house to the village, right? After all, we paid for its construction!"
"Of course! If you can't wait any longer, just sell it to the village! The village will usually buy it, since they can still allocate land for other people to use as residential land!"
Su Mengmeng was persuaded and decided not to change the toilet.
Brother An is right. Maybe he'll be able to go back to the city anytime. It's just a waste of money for others. One generation plants the trees so that another can enjoy the shade. He should leave this kind of thing to someone else!
On the Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhuang Zhimeng asked Qingbai to take some of the mooncakes she had made to her home, and An Qingbai also brought her some flaky mooncakes made by his mother.
Zhuang Zhimeng looked at the flaky mooncake and quickly asked.
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