59 years after its opening, people are still in Nanluoguxiang.

It is not surprising that there is an extra well in the Chen family's yard. Most of the large yards nearby have wells for drawing water. Many people who are reluctant to use tap water live by drawing water.

But it is extremely rare to find a well like the Chen family's that flows out by itself.

Chen Feng didn't know if he dug too deep and passed through two layers of groundwater.

But for kids, this is great!

When cooking in the evening, Chen Li, Jiang Zhongwu and Cai Xiaochen rushed over to wash the vegetables at the sink.

In the past, we washed it in a basin in the kitchen.

It is much more convenient now, you can sit on the stone slab to wash.

"Hee hee hee!"

"Haha."

Three children were holding vegetables and shaking them in the water.

"Xiao Feng, dig a pond here so we can wash clothes here." Guo Chunhua from the middle courtyard suggested at the kitchen door: "This way, we can save a few cents on water bills every month."

"Yes, Auntie, there's no need to let brother come. We'll come over after dinner to dig a canal for washing clothes." Cai Xiaoli said on the side.

They really put a lot of effort into it just to save a few cents on water.

The old lady said, "It's all right, it's all right. There are some extra stone slabs in the yard. We can use them to embed them in the soil."

The stone slabs were the floor tiles of the compound in the past. They were converted into vegetable fields last year and were dug up by Chen Jianguo and piled in the warehouse.

Before renovating the warehouse, Chen Feng used part of the stone slabs to make a ditch and piled part of it in the corner of the warehouse.

"Jiang Hongjun, you idiot, if you play with water again, I will beat you up tonight!"

When Jiang Jianguo finished inlaying the glass, he came out and saw that his son had grown so big that he took off his shoes and played in the ditch at the corner. He was so angry that he started scolding.

It's still a bit chilly in the evening in May. If you catch a cold, it will be a trouble!

Although his father was a worker at the Red Star Steel Mill, he could enjoy half-price treatment for factory families at the Red Star Steel Mill's affiliated hospital (workers were free).

But that's also money!

"Dad, I'm just washing my feet!" Jiang Hongjun got up quickly in fear.

A big kid in the backyard ran over and asked Chen Feng, "Brother Xiaofeng, can we dig the ditch bigger?"

It’s time to play in the water!

Chen Feng thought about it and decided to dig a small pond in the yard, where he could raise lotus roots, lotus flowers and fish and share some benefits with the neighbors in the compound.

This way you can enjoy the flowers in the summer and lower the temperature a bit.

When I think about how I originally wanted to build a simple "bathtub", then turned it into a swimming pool, and now further expanded it into a fish pond, I realize that I was really greedy.

"Mom, you cook the food yourself. I'll go ask Grandpa."

The old man looked at the sink in the warehouse and knocked on the glass.

"The drain is still a little small. It's troublesome to drain such a big pool when it's full of water."

Cai Jiaxing smiled and said, "It's not small. In the summer, when water is released from a reservoir in the countryside, a field of one acre can be covered with a layer of water in two or three hours."

"Don't worry, old man. I promise that this pool of water will be drained in just one hour."

The water outlet of the pool is at the bottom, and a waterway was dug through the door to connect to the ditch.

"Xiao Cai, let me ask you something. The public toilet won't be blocked, right?" The old man thought of this and asked immediately.

"That shouldn't be the case. Our public toilets are also connected to the sewer." Cai Jiaxing said, "If it really doesn't work, talk to the Red Star Commune and ask their dung pickers to come more often."

"They would love it."

There is a sense of pride in these words that comes from being a city dweller.

You can't just pick up manure whenever you want.

Due to the lack of fertilizer, villagers even fought over a pile of cow dung!

Don't laugh, this is true!

At first, people from two villages were fighting over cow dung, and then they started fighting after a disagreement. Then, brothers from two families came to fight, and it turned into a competition between villages!

In order to deal with this constant shit, many places will issue urine and feces coupons according to the situation! Calculated by jin/dan/cubic!

They all belong to the Red Star Steel Rolling Mill and provide counterpart assistance to the Red Star Commune, so the urine and feces in the public toilets have always belonged to the Red Star Commune.

When the public toilet was first built, the drain was built a little higher.

This ensures that urine and feces will not be "wasted" and saves money for other feces pickers.

"Grandpa, why don't we just dig a pond in the yard? We can put some fish fry in it and plant some lotus. When the fish and lotus roots grow up, we can catch them in the winter and share them with the whole yard."

Chen Feng came in and waited for them to finish speaking before interrupting.

Cai Jiaxing and Jiang Jianguo were both tempted, but they didn't dare to say anything and just watched the old man make the decision.

When Chen Feng saw this scene, he discovered that the old man’s prestige in the courtyard was even greater than he had imagined.

It’s no use training Xu Damao myself!

"Okay, next month when the crops in the yard are ripe, we'll dig a pond in the yard and have every household dig. I'll go to the street office to apply for a license, and the fish and lotus roots in the pond will be shared by everyone in the yard."

The old man thought about it and nodded.

Private fish ponds have big problems, but they can be replaced with collective fish ponds, which is not only not a bad thing, but also a good thing.

"Thank you, old man!"

Cai Jiaxing and Jiang Jianguo immediately expressed their gratitude.

This is equivalent to the Chen family contributing their large yard where they can grow vegetables, so that the whole yard can share some fish and lotus roots in the winter.

Lotus root is nothing, but fish meat is a good thing!

Even if the pond is not big, you can at least raise dozens of them!

Only the front yard can do it. Most of the residents in the middle and back yards will not agree.

There is no problem if you don't eat fish, but there is a problem if you don't eat grains.

The vegetable garden in the compound is the basis for many residents to save money and have access to vegetables.

When the food was ready in the kitchen, Cai Jiaxing and Jiang Jianguo were able to have a good meal again. But this time, the two children did not have such a good opportunity and were dragged back by their mother, grabbing their ears.

After drinking a few glasses of wine and finishing their meal, Jiang Jianguo instructed Chen Feng: "The weather is hot now, water the pool every two hours, and it's best to water it for a week before using it."

"Okay, I understand." Chen Feng nodded.

"Big pot, I can help you water it!" Chen Li, who was stretching her neck to look at the pool outside the yard, heard the sound from the kitchen and quickly asked for help.

"Well, let's water them together tomorrow."

Chen Feng sent away his sister who was becoming more and more active.

After everyone left, Chen Li ran to the pool from time to time to test the water.

"How about it, do you want to swim?" Chen Feng walked out and said with a smile.

"Big pot, the water is a little cold." Chen Li said disappointedly.

"Wait a month, and then you can go down and play."

Chen Feng picked up his sister and said.

"Hehe, next time I will raise fish in the pond, big fish!" Chen Li vowed.

Chen Feng carried her to the kitchen to check out the chicken coop.

Inside the chicken coop, the hen was squatting there motionless, and the rooster that Chen Li caught was guarding it on the side.

Chen Feng felt that the five eggs were about to hatch!