SC1 4.1 – Bath Hut
While Yunno and Yui had breathing exercise in the resting hut, I collected 50 fresh bamboo poles and put it across the ready to use bamboo poles from yesterday work. Then, right in the middle between the two, I made a big trash pit. This way, Yunno and Yui could clean the fresh bamboo inside the yard.
And not far from the bamboo piles, I piled up pave blocks, stone blocks, and other things I had made out of mountain rocks.
After that, I built a dining hut. Eating in the resting hut could affect the room hygiene, while eating on the ground on the yard did not sit right with me. Therefore, dining hut became the second construction I want to build.
It had triangle roof like the resting hut, but only being supported with six pillars and didn’t have wall. In the middle of it, I arrange a dining table made a stone slab supported by two stone blocks, and I merged them using Merged Rune. After I arranged stone stools around the dining table and the dining hut was completed.
Then, I woke up Yunno and Yui. It’s time for their daily study. As I had planned it, today I introduced basic math to Yunno and Yui, and it went beyond my expectation. After only about two hours, they had mastered the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to three digit level. In short, in basic mathematic operation they were no different than a living calculator.
“Are you sure no one have ever taught you math before?”
I asked Yunno and Yui out of my curiosity, and they gave me a firm nod at the same time.
“I see.” I took a deep breath as I muttered, ‘They are smarter than my estimation.’
“Big Bro Sanno, do we will clean bamboo poles again today?” Yui asked as she gave me eager look.
“Yeah,” I showed Yunno and Yui three pieces of sweat red bean steamed bun, I wrapped in oiled paper as I happily continued, “And this is our lunch today. Warrior Deitoro gave it to me when you are deep in breathing exercise.”
After tilting her head to the side Yui asked, “Does Uncle Deitoro doesn’t work with us today?”
“Yeah, he has something to take care of, but he already prepares lot of fresh bamboo poles you have to clean.”
““Okay.””
From their expression, I could tell Yunno and Yui were disappointed because they couldn’t work together with their new uncle today. It couldn’t be help. Not many people treated them nicely. Even their blood-related uncle only spared them indifferent attitude. So, they would cherish anyone who showed them kindness.
“Hey,” I gently said. “Even if Warrior Deitoro is not around, we still have to give our best to complete the job he gives us.”
In an instant Yunno and Yui gave me determined reply, ““Okay.””
Then, after explaining that starting today we could use dining hut when we eat, I took Yunno and Yui to start today work. Yunno and Yui would cleaned the bamboo poles like yesterday, while I went to back yard to build a bath hut, the third construction in my list.
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My first step was building two vertical water tanks. I made it of pave block I put together using Merged Rune. Each tank had internal space 8x2x2 meters or 32.000 liters, equipped with Water Pumping Rune and Water Purifying Rune.
By using 5-inch thick bamboo cane I connected the tanks to a small underground creek below the ridgeline. The underground creek was 40 meter away from the hut, and about 8 meter higher, so the water with ease flowed down to the tank.
After that, I build the bath hut. I used bamboo poles for its roof and wall, and pave blocks for its floor. I used Merged Rune to put everything together and the result was pretty good. I also put Conversion Rune in its roof to ensure sunlight could enter to some extent. While on its ceiling I installed 1-inch thick bamboo pipeline. This pipeline had Water Heater Rune and I connected it to the base of each water tank.
In total, the bath hut had two entry doors, one on the left, one on the right, while its interior had three sections. The first section was shower and toilet cubicle. It was pretty much like shower cubicle from modern earth. It had shower along with stone washbasin, big and thin stone mirror, and sitting stone toilet. Later, I would add bamboo rack for bathroom miscellaneous and clean clothes.
The second section was hot spring. The pool was 8 meters long, 2 meters wide and 0.8 meter deep. It was too deep for children to sit on it, so I put two small stone stool on it. Therefore, Yunno and Yui could enjoy the hot soak comfortably. Last but not least, I carved a few runes to ensure the water in the pool stayed clean, hygiene, and hot enough.
The last section was laundry room. It had two washing washbasin made of stone. In a corner, it also had a space to hang the laundry with clear roof so sunlight could fully enter and dried the laundry.
At the doors that separated each section, I planned to install rolled-bamboo curtain with roll-up and roll-down liner. When I shopped at Sotora a few days ago, I saw they had it with various sizes. I would buy it later. I also needed a small bamboo curtain to be used as door for the resting hut.
After building the bathroom, I went to build septic tank. Fortunately, I could do it without the need to dig the ground. Essence Pulse could work as my eyes, while Shadow Hand helped me moved the soil into spatial storage before I dumped it to nearby cliff. I could also use Shadow Hand to send, arrange, and merged the pave blocks below the surface.
With ease I built the septic tank 50 meters below the surface, using the latest model on earth. The sewer line would deliver the waste water directly to three huge waste water compartments with inspection port, Septic Sitter Rune, and Water Purification Rune. After passing each compartment, the water would then enter drain field with perforated pipes and gravel trenches to enable second filtration, purification, and soil absorption.
The bath hut was the biggest construction I made so far. It took five days to complete it and it was tiring as hell. However, the final result was very satisfying. For me, having a proper bathroom was a must. I didn’t mind putting a lot of effort and resource to build it.
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At the morning, exactly a day after I completed the bathroom, I happily introduce the modern style of bathing to Yunno and Yui. As they entered the shower cubicle, they were looking at all direction in awe.
“Big Bro Sanno, is this really a bathroom?” Yunno curiously asked.
“It is.”
“It’s super clean and sparkling,” Yui said in amazement. “It’s very different than the dark and slippery bathroom in our house.”
“Yeah,” Yunno nodded in agreement before turning her gaze to me. “Big Bro Sanno, can we really use it?”
“We can. Not to mention, you two help me provided the bamboo poles I used to build it,” I happily replied. “Now, take your clothes off. I will teach you how to use this bathroom.”
““Okay,”” Yunno and Yui happily replied before taking off their clothes.
After teaching them how to operate the water facet and setting the water’s temperature, I then bathed the two. We only had cheap and odorless body soap, but it was more than enough for now.
Then, as Yunno and Yui were playing at hot spring, splashing the water to all direction while laughing breathlessly, I leisurely washed their clothes. I went to take a bath and then relaxing my body in the hot spring only after Yunno and Yui were deep in breathing exercise.
‘What a bliss. Hot soaking is truly magnificent,’ I muttered as big smile bloomed on my face.
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