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Chapter 59: Work
All the guests stood outside the toilet in the small thatched hut, looking at each other, hesitating and not daring to go forward.
After a while, Lu Yiwei said, "It doesn't smell bad."
The director smiled and said, "Of course, this is a new one."
Wen Minmin heard the words and looked at the others, "Why don't we go in and have a look first?"
Lin He, who was closest to the door, raised his hand and knocked on the door, waited for a moment, and pushed the door open after confirming that there was no one inside.
The inside was neater and cleaner than they imagined, with yellow mud walls on all sides, and a new toilet seat made of thick wooden boards underneath, which tightly covered the cesspit below.
In the center there is a squatting toilet with shoe prints on it, a downward-sloping wooden board is used to guide liquids, and a square hole at the back is where solids go down.
Obviously, the dry toilet does not have a flushing function, and there will definitely be a bad smell later.
The most important thing is that men and women do not separate toilets, which makes the female guests look bad.
Everyone stood at the door and probed, unwilling to go in.
Lin He, who was still the closest to the door, stepped in, walked around on the plank, and said, "The plank is fairly strong and can bear weight."
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief: Fortunately, fortunately, at least there is no need to worry about falling into the pit.
Xu Jianian pulled the door over and said to Lin He, "You try to lock the door."
Lin He buckled the door from the inside, and Xu Jianian pushed hard from the outside, "It's okay, the door is pretty strong."
Lin He opened the door and walked out, saying, "The height of the latch is within reach of children, but it's a bit dark inside after closing the door, so it's best for adults to accompany children when they go to the bathroom."
Everyone nodded. Although their faces were not very good, it was better than their worst imagination, and they could barely accept it.
The director waited for them to finish the tour and began to add value: "Everyone should know that ten years ago, or even five or six years ago, many rural areas in the north were still using this kind of dry toilet, and some of them were even simpler than this."
"The country's living environment improvement project includes the renovation of rural toilets. You can follow the village chief to see the renovated toilets in the village."
The village head led them to the public toilets in the village, introduced in detail the new dry toilets with a row of independent cubicles, and repeatedly praised the good national policies.
Fang Luchen: "Isn't it director, the country has such a good policy, why don't you let us enjoy it too?"
Huang Kaiwen: "That's right. Look at this new type of toilet. It's straight-line, flush-free, with warm walls, non-slip floors, and separate toilets for men and women. Then look at the one you prepared for us. The difference is too big, right?"[Note]
Wen Minmin: "That's right, director, can't the days go back and forth?"
"The purpose of the program group is to let everyone remember the bitterness and sweetness, and understand the hard-won truth of a good life." The director explained (sophistry).
"Besides, we are a survival show, and providing housing and dry toilets is already a great benefit." The director smiled wickedly, "If everyone is not satisfied, we can take it back."
Everyone: "..."
Barrage: "What? This turned out to be a survival show, not a travel show?"
"To be honest, when I saw the caravan and the house with a kang, I thought it was definitely a travel show!"
"When I saw my wife bring seasoning packets and meat and vegetable packets, I believed it was a travel show!"
"Hahaha program team: Are you polite?"
"Obviously there are new types of dry toilets, and the program team specially prepared a traditional dry toilet for everyone. It is really well-intentioned."
"Murderous heart hahahaha."
Everyone fought for the right to use the new type of dry toilet but failed, and returned to their residences dejectedly.
The director said: "Now we are distributing materials to everyone. Due to the special climate and environment, the tents provided by the program group have been replaced by houses. Inflatable moisture-proof pads and down sleeping bags can also be exchanged for bedding. This is also a benefit. If you don't want to changeYes, you can bring it up now."
"No." Fang Luchen said first, "We choose three quilts."
Xu Jianian and the others also nodded. The climate in the north is dry in winter, and moisture-proof pads are of little use to them, not as good as warm quilts.
Director: "Then the staff will distribute supplies to you one after another later. Your first task is to solve your own lunch. There are several hospitable villagers who are willing to provide you with ingredients on the condition that you will help with the work.Let's act now."
It was only 11 o'clock when they arrived there, and now it has been more than half an hour. Everyone is already hungry, so they can only hurry up to work in order to have a hot meal.
Xu Jianian and Lin He put their luggage away, and took Sui Sui to find the family with the flag of the program group.
There was a family at the edge of the village. Lin He went up to knock on the door, and the enthusiastic aunt led them in, and stuffed frozen pears into Suisui's hands before they could do their work.
Sui Sui quickly declined: "Thank you grandma, we will help you with work first."
The aunt touched his head curiously: "Oh, why are you so obedient."
Xu Jianian also said: "That's right, Auntie, if there is anything you need us to do, just tell me."
"That's it, let's work first." The aunt glanced at the tall Lin He, and said with a smile, "This tall man looks like a good worker at first glance."
Xu Jianian chuckled, and Lin He also nodded with a smile, "Just tell me."
The aunt said: "Okay, please help me chop the pile of firewood under the courtyard wall first."
Without saying a word, Lin He picked up his ax to chop wood.
Xu Jianian: "What about us?"
The aunt looked at the two of them, "You two will follow me to the vegetable field behind."
"Success." Xu Jianian led Sui Sui to catch up with the aunt.
The aunt led them to the shed not far behind the house, "I'm going to pickle a few jars of sauerkraut, please pick two hundred catties of Chinese cabbage for me."
Two hundred catties?How many tanks is that?
Xu Jianian was slightly surprised, looking at the large vegetable field in front of him: "Auntie, this is your greenhouse?"
"That's not right!" the aunt said proudly.
Xu Jianian smiled, and said to the camera: "It seems that Auntie's family is a big vegetable family."
Barrage: "My wife's meat and vegetables are wrapped with white belt, does my aunt have any vegetables?"
"Although, the program team will not let them eat greenhouse vegetables so easily."
"It looks more and more like a travel show/狗头"
The aunt looked back at Xu Jianian and Sui Sui wearing thick down jackets, moving down the field step by step, and said: "Be careful, don't fall into the field."
Xu Jianian led Suisui and followed his aunt into the shed. Immediately, he could feel that the temperature was several degrees higher than outside. What he saw was rows of cabbage, tomatoes, beans and other vegetables, which were growing vigorously.
"Dad, these cabbages are so big." Sui Sui said in surprise.
The aunt said: "Is it big? One is only seven or eight catties!"
One weighs seven or eight catties?
The task of two hundred catties is not difficult.
It was the first time Xu Jianian saw such a big cabbage, they looked like fat dolls wrapped in "padded clothes".
He gave the aunt a thumbs up, "It must be that you planted well, Auntie."
The aunt smiled cheerfully, brought some vegetable baskets from the side, picked up the kitchen knife in the basket, "Take off your coat, I will teach you how to pick it off."
Such a big cabbage cannot be picked by hand. Xu Jianian took off his coat and let Sui Sui hug him. He squatted next to the aunt, and saw that the other party directly cut off the root of the cabbage with a knife, and cut off the whole cabbage.code into the basket.
"It's not difficult, is it? Come and try." Aunt asked.
Xu Jianian took the knife and slashed it down.
The aunt praised: "Okay, young man, the work can be done easily."
"Didn't I learn this from you?" Xu Jianian put the chopped cabbage into the basket, "It's all taught by you."
"The young man has such a sweet mouth."
The aunt was amused by him, seeing him getting more and more efficient, the smile on her face became more and more satisfied.
After a while, Lin He came to find him.He was sweating a little from chopping wood, and now he wore his down jacket open.
The aunt was surprised: "Is it over?"
Lin He nodded: "Well, I put it under the courtyard wall for you, what else can I do?"
The aunt said happily: "Okay, okay, take a look at this basket of Chinese cabbage, can you move it?"
Without saying a word, Lin He bent down to lift up the vegetable basket, "Move it back to the yard for you?"
The aunt's eyes lit up: "That's right! Just put it in the yard."
Lin He glanced at Xu Jianian who was squatting on the ground cutting cabbage, and couldn't help saying, "Be careful."
Xu Jianian raised his eyes: "I know, you go."
Then Lin He carried the basket and walked back.
The aunt waited for him to go far away, and said to Xu Jianian: "Are you two a couple?"
Xu Jianian paused, smiled shyly, and said, "Yes, he is my lover."
Aunt: "No wonder, I think you two are a good match!"
Xu Jianian was even more embarrassed, "Thank you, Auntie."
Barrage: "Not so good! I think they are a good match!"
"Some people chop firewood like a tiger, just to rush over to help their wives earlier."
"It's really impossible to leave my wife for a while."
Xu Jianian chopped up three big baskets of cabbage for the aunt, and Lin He moved them back with one basket.
Xu Jianian wanted to help, but the aunt stopped him: "Come here, I still have strawberries in the shed next door, I'll pick some for you."
Xu Jianian's eyes lit up, and he said politely, "That's so embarrassing."
The aunt said: "Why are you being polite? It was agreed at first, and I will give you food after work."
Xu Jianian: "Then I will trouble you."
Lin He lifted the last basket of cabbage by himself, and said to him, "You take Sui Sui first, and I'll come over later."
"OK."
In the end, Xu Jianian and Lin He took away two catties of handmade noodles, a Chinese cabbage, a basket of strawberries, and three frozen pears from the aunt's house.
The more they watched, the more they liked the aunt who asked them to call her "auntie". If they weren't too embarrassed to ask for it, the aunt would still want to cut a catty of pork for them.
Barrage: "Auntie is so nice!"
"We Northeast people are warm and hospitable."
"Congratulations to my wife for having lunch."
"It's almost here, Sui Sui must be starving."
"Not necessarily, I was half full when I picked strawberries / dog head"
"In the future, if you can eat after working every day, it will indeed be similar to traveling."
Before leaving, Lin He suddenly said: "Auntie, there is one more thing to trouble you, we have never burned a kang, can you teach us?"
The aunt said, "Sure, do you have any firewood? Why don't you bring some from me?"
Lin He and Xu Jianian looked at each other, "Thank you, Auntie, please lend us some firewood. I'll chop the firewood and return it to you this afternoon."
"No, no, no." Auntie took a big backpack and filled it with firewood, and asked Lin He to carry it back.
Half of the firewood that Lin He cut just now was inside.
The program team came out to stop it, and my aunt agreed to let Lin He and Xu Jianian return her a basket in the future.
"You go to the forest in the north. Live trees can't be cut down, but there are often branches that have been crushed by the snow, and they can be burned after being exposed to the sun. If you don't have any, you can come to my aunt's house to ask for it. It's enough."
Lin He and Xu Jianian nodded to write it down, and then asked her how to burn the kang, while preparing to light a fire for cooking.
The aunt saw that they were "derelict" and didn't even have hot water, so she enthusiastically asked them to go to her house to fetch water.
The program team came out to stop them again, and my aunt told them that there was a river to the east, and they could dig ice to fetch water.
"The water in this river is clean and you can drink it when you boil it."
Lin He and Xu Jianian thanked their aunt, bid farewell to each other, picked up the wooden bucket, and took the ice box to the river.
Xu Jianian tied up the butt pad for Suisui, while he himself took a ski pole as a walking stick, holding Suisui with the other hand, and followed Lin He.
Lin He: "Aren't you going to tie up the mat?"
"I don't need it." Xu Jianian insisted.
He had originally planned to bring one butt pad for Suisui, but Lin He insisted on bringing two, which resulted in them missing one thing—bath towels.
If you bring a new bath towel, you can cut a small piece to make a face towel.Now they lack these two, and it is very inconvenient to wash up, so they can only exchange it with the program team as soon as possible.
Lin He said, "Put it on, don't fall."
Xu Jianian said: "If you want to wear it, you wear it. I have ski poles, and you have things in both hands, so you need them more."
Lin He: "..."
Barrage: "Hahahahaha real men don't need butt pads."
"Wife wearing a butt pad must be cute!"
"You can tell by Mr. Sui's appearance, he's chubby."
"Mr. Sui: Are you polite?"
"#做家欢# Chaohua already has a picture of a family of three wearing butt pads. It's invincible and cute!"
Lin He finally gave up persuading Xu Jianian and led them to find a completely frozen river in the direction pointed by his aunt.
Qin Duan and Fang Luchen have already worked together to dig the ice here.Qin Duan brought an ice hammer, while Fang Luchen used an axe.
Lin He stepped forward with an ice trowel and asked, "Is the ice thick?"
Qin Duan said, "It's about twenty or thirty centimeters thick."
Fang Lvchen: "Look, we've dug so deep, and we haven't seen water coming up yet."
Seeing the two of them panting slightly, Lin He said, "Let me come, you guys rest for a while."
Everyone has to fetch water, there is no need to dig several holes in the ice.
Xu Jianian heard them say that the ice was thick enough, so Suisui stepped onto the ice carefully.
Qin Duan and Fang Lvchen gave way, and Lin He raised the ice picket, and chiseled a few times at the deepest part of the circular ice trough they had already dug out, and this piece gradually flooded with water.
Qin Duan and Fang Luchen were overjoyed, and they didn't bother to take a rest, and continued to dig ice along the leaking hole.
Fang Lvchen, who was holding the axe, was the most careful, for fear that his strength would crack the ice and the big guys would fall together.
Barrage: "Finally it looks like a survival show."
After working for a long time, they finally chiseled a round ice cube and pushed it into the water. An ice hole that could hold a bucket appeared in front of them.
They each brought a bucket of water up.
Xu Jianian and Sui Sui skated around on the ice, returned to the shore, and cut a bundle of hay to use as a fire starter.
"I'm going back first, and I have to cut firewood." Fang Luchen went ashore with a bucket and said to Qin Duan, "It's better to use your RV instead of burning firewood."
Qin Duan: "But we have to find a way to exchange diesel with the program group, otherwise heating and electricity will become problems."
"At least I still have electricity." Fang Lvchen said, "My phone is frozen and turned off."
Lin He picked up a few branches and put them near the ice cave, and said, "Make a mark so that other people don't notice and fall into it."
"Just so, Teacher Huang is here." Qin Duan waved to Huang Kaiwen, indicating that he could come here to fetch water.
Lin He and Xu Jianian went home to cook.
The stove in the brick and tile house was relatively large, but they didn't have a big iron pot, so Lin He used thin wire to weave a pot rack with two notches, and put it on the stove.
The two small pots can be half-embedded on the shelf, with a slight gap on the edge, and some stones or yellow mud will be stuffed in time to prevent heat and smoke from escaping from here.
The heat and smoke have to go down the flue to the bottom of the kang before being discharged, otherwise the kang will not be heated.
Lin He put two small pots on the shelf to boil water together, one was boiled and poured into two thermos cups, and the other was used to cook noodles.
Xu Jianian filled two thermos cups. Seeing that there was still some hot water in the small pot, he mixed it with lukewarm water, washed two Chinese cabbage leaves, tore them into strips and threw them into the pot for cooking noodles, and added some meat and vegetable buns he brought.Take it with a pinch of salt.
It was nearly two o'clock, and they finally had a hot meal, and the kang in the house was heated up a little bit.
Lin He carried the small pot directly onto the kang. The chopsticks were cut from tree branches and there was no bowl. He fed Sui Sui a mouthful, Xu Jianian another, and finally he ate it himself.
Sui Sui and Xu Jianian sat on the kang after they were full, Lin He finished the remaining noodles, washed the pot, returned to the kang, and discussed the next plan with Xu Jianian.
"We don't have bowls and chopsticks, towels, paper towels, and kerosene lamps right now, so we need to exchange them with the program crew." Lin He said, "I'll chop wood first in the afternoon, get some wood back to make bowls and chopsticks, and then try ice fishing to see if I can do it."Can't get a fish or two."
Xu Jianian: "We'll go with you. I heard it gets dark here at four or five o'clock. We have to hurry up."
Sui Sui nodded.
The family didn't delay, put on their coats again, put on their hats, scarves and earmuffs, and were ready to go out.
At this time, the staff of the program team came over and said that there was a task to be released.
The four groups of families gathered in the courtyard of the brick house, and the director asked, "Has everyone finished their lunch?"
"have eaten."
"That's good." The director said, "For the next twelve days, the villagers in the village will no longer help you. Everyone must find a way to survive by themselves, or collect supplies and barter with the program team."
The guests showed embarrassment.
Xu Jianian and Lin He also frowned slightly. The icy and snowy environment was desolate to the naked eye. If they couldn't get supplies from the village, they could only go to the river and the wilderness.
Lin He turned his head and glanced at the woods to the north, there was a hill next to it, wondering if there was anything to be gained from the hill.
Seeing everyone's embarrassed expressions, the director comforted: "Everyone, don't worry, we still haven't released the main mission for this season. As long as everyone completes the mission, the program team will give you survival rewards."
"What mission?"
"Igloo construction."
Xu Jianian's eyes lit up, he was looking forward to this most.
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[Note] The relevant information of the new dry toilet in the north comes from the Internet.