Chapter 90 Bathroom
Zhao Yeqing found some chicory.
There are not many of them, and they are a bit old. Many of them have bloomed, and the flowers look like yellow wild chrysanthemums.
The plants that had bloomed were relatively old, so she could only pick and choose a handful of tender leaves.
But it's barely enough to eat with noodles.
There is a small ditch along the side of the mountain. There should have been a water source there before, but it is dry now.
No wonder chicory, which loves to grow near water, grows here.
Zhao Yeqing walked over, squatted down and took a look.
The water source has been dry for some time and the ditch is completely dry.
Just as she was about to get up and walk towards the sunlight, she vaguely saw something shiny in the cracks of the rocks in the ditch.
She moved the stone apart and found a piece of green transparent glass inside.
Like the slag of a beer bottle.
The piece of debris is the size of a fingernail, and the edges have been smoothed.
This doesn't look like it was left by the original owner of the cabin, not to mention that it is quite a distance away from the cabin.
The glass fragments were polished smooth and must have been in the water for a long time, as if they were washed here.
Zhao Yeqing raised his eyes and looked upstream of the ditch.
In the later division, the meadow no longer belongs to the Meishan Mountains.
This meadow is closest to Meishan and has the lowest terrain. Going further west, the altitude is over 2,000 meters.
That is the scenic area developed by the meadow.
The altitude over there is high and the temperature is lower than here. Logically speaking, if there are still people living there, they probably won't go over there.
Zhao Yeqing also hoped that no one would come, as people’s hearts were too complicated.
I just kept it in mind and took the wild vegetables home.
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The dusk deepened.
Dahuang returned home with his flock of sheep and cubs.
As soon as they entered the door, the three cubs ran to Zhao Yeqing and circled around him.
He didn't jump on her, probably because he was really tired from playing.
Zhao Yeqing fed the three children and the big one with dried meat.
Huhu and Xuebing didn’t come back, and neither did Mu Xi.
Without electric tools, efficiency is too low.
Zhao Yeqing thought about calling people back first, and doing the unfinished work tomorrow. It was too dangerous to be in the woods at night.
I heard the sound of a cart before I even went out.
She hurried out and helped pull the cart back.
Zhao Yeqing lifted up one side of the cart's armrest. The wood on the cart was heavy and she had to use all her strength to move.
Seeing her face flushed red, Mu Xi smiled and pushed her away with disdain, "Go back and serve tea to your brother."
By the time she finished pouring the water, Mu Xi had already pulled the cart behind the house.
The bathroom was built here, close to the well for easy access to water.
The two men picked out the straightest board and took the remaining black paint from the house.
He wrote the owner's name according to the ID card he found in the house and placed it in front of the grave next to the house.
I had thought about erecting a monument before, and I remembered to bring back some incense and offerings every time I went down the mountain.
The owner of the house was about the same age as my grandparents, and they treated the graves as their own elders, bowed in front of the graves and burned paper money.
Mu Xi built a bathroom at the back of the house while Zhao Yeqing cooked noodles inside.
Noodles are quick to cook, just boiling water only takes a few minutes, but the dogs’ dinner tonight gives her a headache.
After thinking about it, I steamed a big bowl of rice and picked the rabbit that I hadn’t finished eating a few days ago.
I originally planned to smoke this rabbit into dried rabbit meat so that I could eat it later when there was no prey. Now it is only half dried.
Zhao Yeqing cut the rabbit into two halves and boiled one half in water for ten minutes. The semi-dried rabbit meat was not tough at all and became easy to cut after a slight boil.
Tear the meat off with your hands and chop the bones. When the rice is ready, mix the meat and rice together.
Leave the bones aside and let the dog chew on them after he finishes eating.
Hang the other half of the rabbit back and continue smoking.
Prepare the dog food before starting to cook the noodles.
After dinner, the two went to the back of the house to build a bathroom.
The light from the oil lamp is not very bright, but the work to be done now is not delicate, so it's okay to make do with it.
The bathroom is only two square meters. Several large pits were dug under the toilet, and a lot of soil was dug out. There were also some stones left over from making the foundation of the toilet.
It's barely enough to build a small bathroom.
It is also built with wooden boards. Building a bathroom is more complicated than using wooden boards to make walls. Stability and load-bearing capacity must be considered, after all, a roof must be built on top.
Move the mud that was dug out earlier and spread it on the ground in a thick layer, about ten centimeters thick, the size of two squares, and compact the soil.
Then, build a circle of stones around these two square rectangular blocks of earth to reinforce the foundation.
Dig holes in the four corners, insert the supporting main beams, and then backfill with soil and compact it.
The main beam is the same as the wooden boards used to make the surrounding walls, a little over two meters high, and four cross beams are placed horizontally on it. Mortise and tenon joints are pre-cut between the main beam and the cross beams, and can be fixed with a hammer.
Dig a long groove in the foundation where the wooden boards are to be inserted, knock the wooden boards in one by one, and then fill it back with soil and compact it as with the main beam.
Zhao Yeqing wanted to use the bathroom to take a shower tonight, so he moved his hands very skillfully and knocked into a wooden board on the wall in just a few strokes.
After fixing the wall planks and beams with nails, seal the top with planks.
The foundation is made of mud, and when you splash water while taking a shower, it becomes muddy.
Dig out a shallow layer of soil in the middle of the foundation, sprinkle it with sand and gravel dug from the stream ditch, and then lay a layer of wooden boards on it.
Not all wooden boards are the exact size, and those with deviations in size need to be re-sawn, and a drainage hole needs to be opened in the corner.
By the time I finished cleaning the bathroom, it was already one o'clock in the morning.
Zhao Yeqing finally got to use the bathroom at night as he wished.
But it had been less than three hours since I fell asleep after taking a shower.
Zhao Yeqing was awakened by the sound of someone pulling on the door. Mu Xi woke up even earlier. As soon as she stood up, Mu Xi had already stood up and opened the door.
Huhu suddenly rushed in, shouting anxiously. Zhao Yeqing got up and saw that Xuebing, who followed him in, was covered in blood.
Zhao Yeqing's hands started shaking instantly, and he took two big steps forward to check on Xue Bing's condition. Mu Xi walked out of the door in a few steps, holding a gun.
In the moonlight, the figures of a dozen animals were vague and could not be seen clearly.
Zhao Yeqing looked out, holding the snow cake behind him, and watched the animals almost reaching the outside of the fence.
Dahuang also rushed out of the house and barked loudly a few times outside.
Perhaps seeing that the two leopards had reinforcements, one of the animals made a whistle-like sound, and then the animals slowly retreated together. After retreating a few meters away, a few of them flashed and disappeared.
Zhao Yeqing didn't recognize what kind of animal it was. It looked like a wolf, but smaller than a wolf.
It looks a bit like a fox, but is larger than a fox and has longer legs.
Mu Xi confirmed outside that the animals had not come back, then he touched Dahuang's head and went back into the house.
Zhao Yeqing picked up Xuebing and gently turned over his fur to carefully check the wound.
He finally breathed a sigh of relief after a while. His body was covered in blood and looked scary. There was only a bloody scar near his buttocks.
Zhao Yeqing cut off the hair near Xuebing's wound, cleaned the wound, disinfected it and applied medicine.
She touched Xuebing's head to comfort him, frowned in pain, and asked, "What kind of animal is that?"
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