SC1 4.1 – Bath Hut
While Yunno and Yui did breathing exercise in the resting hut, I collected 50 fresh bamboos and put it across the cleaned bamboo cane from yesterday work. Then, right in the middle between the two piles, 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 stacked up pave blocks, stone blocks, and other things that I made out of the 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 similar triangle roof like resting hut, but only being supported with six pillars and didn’t have wall. In the middle of it, I arrange a dining table. Basically, it was a stone slab supported by two stone blocks, and I merged them using Merged Rune. After that, I put another stone block on each side of stone table to be used as chairs, and the dining hut was completed.
Then, I woke Yunno and Yui up. It’s time for their daily study. As I had planned it, today I introduced Yunno and Yui to basic math, and it went beyond my expectation. After only about two hours, Yunno and Yui had already mastered the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division up to three digit level. In short, speaking about basic operation in mathematic 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 firmly shook their head.
“I see.” I took a deep breath as I muttered, ‘They are smarter than my estimation.’
“Big Bro Sanno, do we will clean bamboo cane 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, “Is Uncle Deitoro doesn’t work with us today?”
“Yeah, he has something to take care of, but he already prepared lot of fresh bamboo cane to be cleaned for.”
““Okay.””
From their expression, I could tell Yunno and Yui slightly disappointed because they couldn’t work together with their new uncle today. In a sense, I could understand their feeling. 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.”
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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 cleaned the bamboo cane like yesterday, while I went to back yard to build a bath hut, the third construction in my list.
My first step was building two vertical water tanks. I made it using 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.
Then, by using 5-inch thick bamboo cane I connected the tank to a small underground creek below the ridgeline. The underground creek was only 18 meter away from the hut, and about 5 meter higher, so the water with ease flowed down to the tank.
After that, I build the bath hut. Its roof and wall were made of bamboo canes, while its floor made of pave block. I used Merged Rune to put everything together and the result was pretty good. I also put Conversion Rune on its roof to ensure sunlight could enter its interior. While on its ceiling I installed 2-inch thick bamboo pipeline. This pipeline had Water Heater Rune and it was connected to the base of each 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 system along with stone washbasin, big and thin stone mirror, and stone sitting toilet. Later, I would add small bamboo rack for bathroom miscellaneous and big bamboo rack for 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 would be able to enjoy it comfortably. Last but not least, I carved a few runes that ensured the water in the pool stayed clean, hygiene, and hot enough like natural hot spring.
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 it had it with various sizes. I would buy it in my next shopping. I also needed a small rolled-bamboo curtain to be used as door for the resting hut.
After building the bathroom, I built the 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 move the soil into spatial storage before I dumped it in the nearby cliff. I could also use Shadow Hand to send and arrange the pave block below the surface.
Basically, the septic tank I built had similar construction with latest system on earth. The sewer line would deliver the waste water directly to three huge waste water compartments with independent inspection port, Septic Sitter Rune, and Water Purification Rune. After passing each compartment, the water would then go to the massive drain field that had perforated pipes and gravel trenches to enable second filtration, purification, and soil absorption.
The only different was, in earth people would separate the compartment for waste water from toilet and waste water from bathing or washing. This was because the chemical on soap and detergent could negate the septic sitter for waste water from toilet. However, the Septic Sitter Rune and Water Purification Rune didn’t have such problem. Therefore, I just used one universal septic tank system for all waste water from the hut, and I built it 50 meter below the surface with drain field as big as possible.
The bath hut was the biggest construction I had made so far. It took five days of hard work to complete it and it was tiring as hell. However, the final result was very satisfying. I always considered that having a proper bathroom was a must. Therefore, 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’s construction, 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 with 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?”
“Of course you can. Not to mention, you two helped me 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 relaxing my body in the hot spring only after Yunno and Yui were deep in the breathing exercise.
‘What a bliss. Soaking in a hot spring is truly magnificent,’ I muttered as big smile bloomed on my face.
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