The educated youth settlement shared a single dry toilet, and every morning a designated person from the team would come to handle it, taking the excrement to the cesspool at the end of the village for composting.
Since moving here, Qin Hanshu has never used that toilet. She had a spirit bird dig a toilet in her space. Although it was very simple and primitive, it could purify itself instantly into the soil, and since she was the only one using it, it was even better than a flush toilet.
Zhang Kangmei was still talking about manure, saying, "To be honest, I really don't know how to compost manure properly, I need to learn!"
Qin Hanshu: "......" Why does this girl learn everything?
"Oh, right!" Zhang Kangmei suddenly looked at Qin Hanshu, her eyes filled with doubt, "Why have I never seen you go to the toilet?"
Qin Hanshu: "...You seem to pay quite a bit of attention to me."
"Dream on! Who cares about you?" Zhang Kangmei scoffed. "I live right next door to you, we see each other all the time."
Qin Hanshu said, "But you don't necessarily watch me 24 hours a day. Do I have to report to you if I go to the toilet?"
Zhang Kangmei thought for a moment and said seriously, "Are you eating too little? Is that why you're not pooping much? Why don't you try harder? If we're going to compost ourselves, we might not have enough manure."
...If she continued talking, Qin Hanshu was afraid she would lose her appetite for dinner.
"Let's talk about that later," she quickly changed the subject. "Lately, Accountant Niu has been targeting you. Do you know why?"
Zhang Kangmei asked blankly, "Is he targeting me?"
Qin Hanshu: "...Among all the educated youth, the production team leader always only assigns you dirty and tiring work, which is obviously abnormal. Also, when recording work points every day, Accountant Niu will interrogate you for a while and ask the group leader if you have been slacking off. No one else does that."
Zhang Kangmei exclaimed "Ah!" as if suddenly realizing something. "I just felt that the way he looked at me was a bit strange. So he was targeting me."
After a pause, Zhang Kangmei asked Qin Hanshu curiously, "Why is he targeting me?"
Qin Hanshu: "...On the day we arrived, you said a few bad things about the brigade cadres, and he probably took it to heart."
Zhang Kangmei thought for a while before saying, "It seems there is such a thing! But he's too petty. I was just telling the truth!"
Qin Hanshu: "...Anyway, you'd better be more careful."
Zhang Kangmei snorted and dug down with her hoe. "I'm upright and have nothing to fear. What can he possibly do to me?"
As she spoke, Zhang Kangmei finished turning over Qin Hanshu's vegetable garden.
Qin Hanshu said somewhat shyly, "I'll cook you something delicious tonight."
Zhang Kangmei waved his hand dismissively, "No need! It's just turning over the soil, no big deal! The important thing is whether you've learned it or not."
Qin Hanshu: "...I've learned it."
That being said, when it was time to eat, Qin Hanshu still shared half of her stir-fried chives and eggs with the next table.
She used a lot of oil, making the eggs smell wonderfully caramelized.
The eggs were traded with a fellow villager, and some were also taken from my spatial storage and mixed in.
There were only a few dozen eggs in the space, and they would be gone soon. Qin Hanshu planned to raise a few chicks later.
Before it got dark, Qin Hanshu planted the cucumber seedlings and peppers she had brought from the team after finishing dinner.
There were also chive seeds, but she cleared a piece of land on the small hillside and scattered the chive seeds there, without taking up the vegetable garden in the yard.
Zhang Kangmei was tilling the soil next to Qin Hanshu's vegetable garden, wanting to plant vegetables herself. When she saw Qin Hanshu scattering leek seeds on the slope, she hurriedly said, "They won't survive! They have to be sown in the ground and carefully tended to."
Qin Hanshu knew, of course, that the soil on the small mound was not good, but she had her own plans.
"If we can't survive, we can't survive. Let's try sprinkling some on it," Qin Hanshu said.
Zhang Kangmei muttered "waste of seeds" and then said nothing more.
After everyone went to bed that night, Qin Hanshu took out a bucket of spring water from her spatial spring and watered the chive seeds in the vegetable garden and on the slope.
They didn't even spare Zhang Kangmei's land. Just in case she really started applying manure every day; in this heat, the smell would be unbearable...
Just as Qin Hanshu was diligently managing her life, the letter she had sent to Qin Feiyang before leaving Beijing finally arrived.
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