It's always like this in autumn. After the heavy rain, the sky cleared up again.

Early this morning, Gu Yanzhang followed Chen Xuanxuan's request and led the whole family to dig a pit not far behind the house.

That's how it is in the countryside. People basically poop and pee in the manure pit. In order to save trouble, some families build outdoor manure pits that are particularly large and deep.

Gujiagang has had several tragic incidents. In the middle of the night, someone ran to someone's backyard and accidentally fell into the manure pit, maybe because he was drunk or wanted to steal something... These people drowned.

From then on, the elders of Gujiagang repeatedly demanded that the dung pit of the Gu family must not be dug too big or too deep, and that a large shed must be built.

If the dung could not be contained, a few more pits would have to be dug...

Gu Yanzhang was also worried that someone would steal things from their house and accidentally kill themselves, and then ask the Gu family to pay for it. After thinking about it, Gu Yanzhang had no choice but to build a more exquisite dung pit according to his wife's request.

As for this dung pit, he planned to spend some money to buy the kind of earth bricks that the Gu family burned.

Gu Yanzhang felt that these earth bricks were not as good as the earth bricks sold by the Jiang family in Tongzhen. But using this thing to build a toilet is already quite luxurious.

After all, this thing costs a lot of money.

Gu Yanzhang spent 600 coins a few days ago and bought almost 100 earthen bricks.

Fortunately, the earthen bricks made by their family are very large and thick. Otherwise, he felt that his new toilet could not be built.

Thinking that his wife was becoming more and more particular, Gu Yanzhang gritted his teeth, ran to Tongzhen, and spent another two hundred coins to buy a batch of the cheapest earthen tiles.

Later, he took his father and several sons to cut some trees on the mountain and built a door.

...

However, just such a small wooden door has caused the villagers of Gujiagang to start talking about it.

After all, everyone here knows that poor country people are never particular.

Because they simply don't have the conditions to be particular.

Who would deliberately put a wooden door in their toilet?

Such a large piece of wood, isn't it free?

Besides, if this toilet has a door, it will stink in the summer, and the stench inside will not dissipate at all. If someone is accidentally suffocated by the stench, wouldn't that cost another life?

As a person who has relatively high requirements for living standards, Chen Xuanxuan strongly suggested that her husband take these issues into consideration when building a new toilet.

So, she thought about it herself, spent a dime to buy 50 sheets of yellow straw paper on the Qiongheihei app, and spent another cent to buy a small black oil pen.

After repeatedly designing on the yellow draft paper, she and Gu Yanzhang really came up with a relatively reasonable plan.

If you want to make the toilet not smelly, you have to use a pipe. Moreover, this pipe must bend.

It took Gu Yanzhang more than half a month to perfectly solve the problem of going to the toilet at home.

...

There are many inconveniences in rural life.

Chen Xuanxuan had to pat her chest and tell the truth. She had never seen the power of the rural dry toilet before.

But since she traveled through time, she felt that every time she wanted to go to the toilet, it was like being tortured.

Because the toilets in the countryside were really horrible.

Every time Chen Xuanxuan didn't want to go to the dry toilet to solve the problem, her parents-in-law would always tell her, "As the saying goes, good things should be kept within the family. We are all authentic rural people. If you don't pee and poop in the toilet, you really don't know how to live..."

Being reminded by her parents-in-law in front of the whole family, Chen Xuanxuan really felt embarrassed, and she also felt that her face was not standing at all.

In addition, what bothered her the most was that in this era, farmers who had not yet solved the problem of food and shelter had no clean white paper to use after going to the toilet.

Moreover, they could not use rough straw paper.

Regarding this problem, Chen Xuanxuan had asked Gu Yanzhang many times how other people solved it.

Gu Yanzhang told her seriously, "In our place, each family has its own way."

"Some people are very good at living. They are reluctant to use the ashes from burning wood in the stove. They will use water to scrub."

"And some people are a little more particular. They will use leaves, or bark peeled from trees, or uncrushed dirt and scrape hard there..."

Although Chen Xuanxuan didn't have a mirror in her hand, she could imagine that when she heard this, the expression on her face could be described as shock.

She actually wanted to refute and said, "It shouldn't be possible..."

However, after careful consideration, she felt that her man should not lie to her about such a thing.

Moreover, she actually felt that those peasants who were hungry, had no clothes to wear, never paid attention to hygiene, and were covered with lice all over their bodies, what else could they do after going to the toilet except thinking of such a solution?

After all, she had been living like this for more than half a year!

However, after such a long and hard life, Chen Xuanxuan felt that she really couldn't stand it anymore.

She felt that if she saw such a dry toilet again and smelled the smell that made people's eyes hurt, she felt that she would really be driven crazy.

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Although Gu Yu'an and Yu Shi were very dissatisfied with Gu Yanzhang spending a lot of money to build a new toilet during this period. However, after everything was bought and the money was spent, Chen Xuanxuan insisted that she would not let anyone in the family go out to make money unless they had a clean toilet. Gu Yu'an felt that he had no choice but to follow the wishes of his son and daughter-in-law and make a fuss about it.

How could Gu Yu'an not hate his daughter-in-law for being too particular about her life and delaying his son's chance to make money?

He just hid this hatred in his heart and didn't want to express it.

He thought to himself that making buns and snacks still depended on the craftsmanship of his daughter-in-law.

When he, his sons and grandsons learned all the skills of his daughter-in-law, he would settle the accounts with her.

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After the Gu family built the new toilet, Chen Xuanxuan went to take a closer look.

She found that the toilet was built beyond her expectations. It was clean and sanitary, without any peculiar smell. When she walked in, she saw that it was all flat and solid earth bricks. After closing the wooden door, she could still see an earthen platform for placing buckets. Chen Xuanxuan nodded with satisfaction.

Not bad, not bad, this place can finally guarantee personal privacy.