"Well, that's what I said," Aunt Liu sighed, gently patting the baby in her arms, "Seeing you two stay up all night, Qingyang, you still have work to do during the day, and Mo's body has just recovered a little, how can she withstand such hardship? I am an old woman, what's wrong with being tired? I am in good health!"
She whispered, "How about...let me sleep with one of them? Xiaoyuer will follow me, and Dongtou will follow you? This way, at least they won't make any noise separately, and Moyatou will get more sleep."
She knew it was unrealistic to let Lu Qingyang and Chen Mo sleep separately. The couple had a sweet relationship and Lu Qingyang wished he could keep his eyes on his wife.
"You still have to take care of a lot of family matters during the day, such as cleaning, cooking, sweeping... Even a railway worker can't handle it."
At this moment, Lu Qingyang suddenly came up with an idea.
Aunt Liu spends most of her daytime chores doing laundry, hanging, collecting, and folding clothes, especially since the twins have brought a surge in the amount of laundry.
"We'll discuss this tomorrow. Go to bed first!"
In the home appliance area of the space, you can exchange it for a pulsator washing machine, which makes it more convenient for Aunt Liu to wash clothes.
When he came back the next day, he brought a washing machine with him.
"Qingyang? What are you carrying? It's so big?" Aunt Liu put down the vegetables in her hand, stood up puzzledly, and brushed the dirt off her hands.
Ding Panyun put down the dish and looked at it curiously: "It looks like... a machine?"
"Mom, Aunt Liu, guess what, this is a good thing!"
He untied the rope around the sack, revealing the silver-gray machine inside. It had a simple shape but exuded a sense of luxury.
The box is upright, with a round cover with a transparent window on the top and a few simple knobs and buttons on the front.
Aunt Liu and Ding Panyun moved closer to take a closer look, and both of them had a look of confusion on their faces.
This thing looks a bit like... but not quite like what they know.
Ding Panyun was more knowledgeable after all. She hesitated and said, "This... looks like a washing machine? I went to a meeting in the village a few days ago and passed by a department store. I seemed to see something similar in the window. They said it was a new and rare product. It was called a 'White Orchid' double-cylinder one? This..."
"Mom, you have a good eye!" Lu Qingyang smiled and confirmed Ding Panyun's guess, "This is indeed a washing machine, but it's not the ordinary double-tub one sold in the supply and marketing cooperative!"
He patted the new pulsator washing machine, "This is a higher-end, newer fully automatic pulsator washing machine! It's not available for sale yet. It's a new technology sample, placed in our Material Bureau for internal trial evaluation. I thought about my two children at home, who have too many diapers and clothes to wash, and Aunt Liu is working too hard, so I shamelessly asked the leader to borrow this trial machine to take home for a while! The leader also took into account the special situation of my family and approved it."
"Fully... fully automatic?" Aunt Liu's eyes widened when she heard these unfamiliar words. She walked around the washing machine twice and carefully touched the smooth and cold cabinet. "No need to rub it with your hands? No need to take it out and spin it dry? It will do everything by itself? How much electricity does this consume? It's an expensive thing, so it must consume electricity!"
"Aunt Liu, don't worry. Think about it. It completes all the steps of washing, rinsing, and drying at once. No one has to do anything in between. You can use the saved time to rest or make soup for Momo. How great! Also, look at this lid. You can see inside while washing. How reassuring."
"As for the electricity? You don't have to worry. Don't we have three hours of electricity supply every day in our compound? That's enough."
Ding Panyun looked at it curiously: "Qingyang, how do you use this thing? It looks much more complicated than the double-cylinder one."
"It's actually very simple to operate!" Lu Qingyang immediately entered the "demonstration" mode, "Let me teach you two. Look, these knobs, one is for selecting the washing program, there are gentle wash, standard wash, and strong wash, this is for water level selection, if there are few clothes, choose a low water level, and this is the start/pause button."
As he spoke, he put two pairs of clothes that the children had just changed into the bucket: "Let's try it first." He opened the top cover and stuffed the clothes into the stainless steel inner bucket that looked like it had a large capacity.
"The most critical step is adding water."
He picked up the prepared bucket, scooped water from the large water tank next to it, and poured it into the washing machine through a special water inlet on the top:
"This port is for adding water. Of course, it will be more convenient to connect a water pipe directly to the faucet in the future. Now I will add it manually."
After adding more than half a bucket of water, he pointed to the water level scale and said, "Just fill it up to about the middle level, and then add soap powder."
"Okay, now choose a program." He turned the knob to "Standard Wash." "Finally, press this - start!"
As Lu Qingyang pressed the start button, a low humming sound came from inside the machine.
Then, through the transparent window on the top, Aunt Liu and Ding Panyun were surprised to see that the round impeller at the bottom of the inner barrel began to rotate vigorously!
The water was stirred rapidly, forming a whirlpool, in which the clothes rolled, spun and fell.
"Ouch! Move! It's really washing itself!"
Aunt Liu pressed her face against the window, staring intently, her face full of surprise: "It's quite strong! It's like someone is rubbing it with their hands!"
Ding Panyun was also amazed: "This efficiency is so high"
Lu Qingyang continued to add: "After washing, it will automatically drain the dirty water, then automatically inject clean water for rinsing, and then automatically spin at high speed to dry the clothes! The whole process takes about three or four minutes, and there is no need for human intervention. When the time comes, we just need to take out the half-dried clothes and hang them out to dry!"
"Oh my God, this... this must be such a valuable machine! Qingyang, borrow it and use it, but don't break it, or we won't be able to afford the compensation!"
"Aunt Liu, don't worry, it's very strong!" Lu Qingyang assured with a smile.
"Okay! Then... I, an old woman, will enjoy my blessing! Let's see how magical this piece of iron is!"
Ding Panyun also smiled and said, "This is a good thing. Qingyang is thoughtful."
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