I still remember when I was in school, an overseas Chinese from Japan gave us a lesson about prayer...
He said that before he came, he was praying that God would allow him to adapt to some of the more backward environments in the country. The house he lived in Japan had seven rooms and eight bathrooms...
Everyone should understand what he is emphasizing. Twenty years ago in China, the economy was developing, but there are still many things that cannot be followed, among them, there is the problem of toilets.
There was such a house, converted from an old school, with two floors above and below. The classrooms below have been converted into luxurious living rooms, and the upper floors are all rooms. A peach forest in front and lush camphor trees in the back. Next to it is a huge abandoned playground that can park dozens of cars...
The road in front of the door is narrow but exquisite, with flowers and grass on both sides and street lights at night. Do you like such a house?
I tell you, this is my house, the house that my husband and his brothers bought from the school. Big enough, grand enough, grounded enough.
However, every year when I came home for the New Year, I refused to sleep there. I always booked a room in town two miles from home—I wouldn't go to that nice-looking house.
Why? There is no toilet.
The upstairs room does not have a bathroom. Six rooms, plus an undecorated living room, no bathroom, no water pipes upstairs.
You say, would you like to live? Winter in my hometown is cold enough. Late at night I wanted to go to the toilet, stumbled down the stairs, turned to the side of the first floor of the miscellaneous house, where there is a toilet, there is a faucet...
Walking these few minutes, it was the most winter road in the world, and the body was frozen.
Sometimes with the kids, they just cry for getting up late at night to pee! Do you find it convenient? Also, couples do a love sports and have to go downstairs to run tens of meters away to find a place with hot water to wash, are you still interested in doing it?
When I first lived there, I lived downstairs. Upstairs is basically a guest room, did not go up much. Now it's been many years since it's been out, and the old people live downstairs and tell me to go back to the house without a bathroom and beat me to death. Moreover, I still have the habit of waking up in the morning and wanting to take a shower - a room, no bathroom, no guarantee of twenty-four hours of hot and cold water, no matter how luxurious, useful?
I don't know why for a long time, the old people in the hometown always have no concept of the bathroom. My neighbor, Sister Mao, is a very clean person, the kitchen is polished, and the quilts in the room are neatly folded. Every time I go back, she will warmly invite: Xia Meizi, come to my house! Don't go to town to open a house! How much money is there!
I don't have much money. However, although Sister Mao's bedroom was clean and tidy, the bathroom was still outside the room, which was not in line with my wishes.
I don't care what my family thinks, eating at home during the day, going to the hotel to sleep at night, the children can also go to the bath and wash together, which is more convenient than home. I told my dad when the bathroom would be repaired at home, when would I be able to live at home... He didn't object either.
I bought a house in my hometown last year, and my first concern was, how many bathrooms are there? I heard that the master bedroom had a bathroom, so I was relieved. According to my meaning, it is better to have a bathroom in each room, and the children have their own independent space, so it is good to wash and brush.
The old man in the family heard me say this, and he was a little upset. The mother-in-law even said, why does this toilet have to be repaired so much? Stinky.
She didn't know how I could possibly make the bathroom stink! If possible, I'm going to brush the toilet clean to the point of being a crazy pervert – the water in the toilet can be drunk! Only in this way can we be worthy of ourselves and worthy of the human rights that are unique to human beings.
If many people share a toilet, I can't make it as clean.
Ideas, ideas! Eating and drinking Lazar is important, and Lasa is equally important. I'm against fixing the living room to a golden splendour, but making the bathroom and kitchen a little black, and turning around and touching my ass... That's definitely not the life of a quality person.
I am very grateful that since I was a child, my father will make these two places in the family very advanced, so that my mother feels that it is easy to use and convenient.
Forty years ago, Dad would have put white tiles on the stove, and the bathroom and toilet were separated, and they were all clean and whitewashed cement floors. The plates that were covered were all made of cement by Dad himself designed the model... I still miss the toilet in my old house, and when I say this, my relatives and friends who have been to my house will not object.
In the countryside in the 1980s, the only one who could repair the toilet like that was my father Xia...
People my age who grew up with me won't forget what the restrooms in the country used to look like. People always repair the toilet far away from the house, even the wind and rain do not cover, two wooden boards on top of a large manure tank, shaking, smelly, unable to breathe...
Going to the bathroom is like going to hell. From time to time, there is even dirty water splashing on the ass in the manure tank... That was a sad and irritating thing.
Do you remember the woman in Jian Shu who called Shu Nian? It's my old classmate charming sister. When she married the male classmate Mr. Daogui from Xianning, Hubei Province, we had several classmates rush from Wuhan to Xianning to attend their wedding.
I don't remember anything else, but I remember that the toilets of the xianning countryside were also very terrible - it was connected to the pigsty, and there was no fence! yes! Go to the bathroom and you still have to worry about pigs coming to arch their butts... I really want to know, is there any improvement now? What a traditional habit that is...
I don't know, people who have experienced those toilet cultures, when they go to the plane, will the airport bathrooms make them feel like paradise? The countryside in Hubei, Hunan is a similar routine.
I, a Hunan native, remember the first time I went to the child's father's house, it was a blind date - my God, that toilet, I can't bear to look at it directly... I really held it for half a day before I went home to solve it.
Now I finally remember why my mother-in-law said that the toilet should be smelly, because that's how they came! She hadn't seen the flush toilet, and telling her to sit on the toilet she wasn't used to... A nation, there is no progress, just look at the appearance of the bathroom to know. It is no exaggeration to say that the history of the transformation of the bathroom is the history of the development of human rights awareness!
Everyone has heard of a lot of backward places, not even toilets! I can't imagine what kind of life it was... I heard that seventy percent of Indians still oppose building toilets in their houses... Heck, only thirty percent of people know convenience? Do you know about human rights? Do you know that you want to improve?
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A family, there is no taste, smell the smell of the bathroom can know... I always feel that the best state of life should be: one day an ignorant child under two years old at home brings you a cup of water with a cup, you know it is in the toilet, you can still drink it all...
Hahaha... Exaggerated. But on the issue of the bathroom, I personally have these feelings and positions. Dear officials, what do you think?