Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 27 Small stones, small sticks, and straw

“Brother, flashlight, you have a flashlight. This flashlight is so beautiful.”

A powerful light lit up in the room, which aroused Luo Xiaoyu and Shishi’s surprise. The flashlight provided by the system was quite good. Like most flashlights, the brightness could be adjusted.

Kerosene lamps will still exist on the historical stage for many years. A flashlight can be regarded as a household appliance in this era.

“It’s just a flashlight. There’s some paper. Give me some paper to go to the toilet.”

“Paper? Brother, not long after you went to the army, we didn’t use paper in the toilet.”

“What do you mean, then how do you wipe your butts when you go to the toilet?”

A flashlight made the two sisters envious of his abilities, and Luo Cheng felt a little satisfied with his vanity. But he was immediately confused. If you don’t use paper in the toilet, what should you use?

Paper is very precious in rural areas in this era. Even newspapers may only be available in a few government agencies. Some clean white paper for writing, etc., except for the schools in the town, can only be used in the workplace.

What Luo Cheng didn’t know was that in the Luo family, the textbooks he used to study were sold when he graduated to subsidize his family’s income, and the paper he usually used for studying was also used as toilet paper two years ago.

How can you go to the toilet without paper? In fact, there are many things that can be used. People have three urgent needs. If you are outside, it depends on the season. There are leaves and some larger grass leaves that you can use. You just have to be careful and don’t use too much force. Why should you be careful not to use too much force – the advice is there anyway, if you are curious you can give it a try.

As for what to do if there are no leaves in the second half of autumn or winter, you can use small stones and small sticks. Don’t use too big small stones. Don’t ask why, it’s not easy to use. Don’t use it too small, it’s still difficult to explain too much. You can try it and practice to get the truth.

As for the small wooden sticks, they are easier to use. Just be careful not to make them too sharp.

Of course, this generally refers to situations when you suddenly want to use the toilet outside. When prepared, straw is generally used in rural areas. When used, it is twisted into a rope and then used.

But Luo Cheng was lucky. He still had some dry rice dumpling leaves at home, the kind used to make rice dumplings during the Dragon Boat Festival. This can also be used as toilet paper.

It is impossible to use the special toilet rolls of later generations in this era, even if it is other paper. They are also things that only educated people can use at home, such as textbooks, homework books, and newspapers. In the 1980s and 1990s, many people could only afford to use these papers when going to the toilet.

Don’t ask if paper like a textbook is clean for wiping your buttocks. Just ask: it is cleaner than the leaves of a stone tree.

After taking some rice dumpling leaves, Luo Cheng went out and asked Luo Bing to take him to the toilet. It was more convenient for a man to ask Luo Bing to take him to the toilet.

The woodshed is very small, less than half the size of the adobe house. There is straw, bitter tree branches, and some wood in it, but overall there is not much. They were piled in various corners and walls of the room. The space left in the middle was relatively spacious for walking back and forth because there was not much firewood.

There are several large wooden boards leaning against the wall, which are Luo Bing’s bed boards, and several round wooden stakes with a diameter of more than ten centimeters, which are the four bed legs. The four bed legs are placed in position, and a wooden board is placed across the upper and lower ends. Then the bed board is raised up, and people can sleep.

This bed is easy to put together, and once it’s set up, there’s not much room to move around in the room. Luo Bing’s few changes of clothes were hung directly on the branches and firewood.

It has a slightly unpleasant smell, but it’s okay. After all, if people live in such a place, there will be some smell. Compared to the smell in some dormitories at school, this is pretty good. A certain dormitory is not just for boys. Luo Cheng has actually seen some girls’ sloppy rooms. Girls are not necessarily worse than boys if they are sloppy.

“Brother, this is a flashlight.”

“Yes, take me to the toilet. I don’t know the way. Come and get the flashlight.”

“Okay, I’ll take you there now to find out how to use this flashlight.”

“There is a switch here. You see, if you push it to the middle, the light will be so bright that it can illuminate nearby areas. If you are on the road, you can push it upwards and the light will be brighter and illuminate farther, but it will also consume electricity. .”

Although it was not completely dark yet, Luo Cheng had already turned on his flashlight to look for Luo Bing. Naturally, Luo Bing was also surprised by his flashlight.

Flashlights also require tickets to buy. Flashlights in this era were very traditional in style, with only on and off functions and no ability to adjust.

Luo Bing was given a flashlight because he didn’t know the road and didn’t know where to shine. Another point is that according to the nature of this system, it is impossible for this flashlight to be a super-tech product. The battery in the flashlight may be gone after it runs out.

Generally, when using a flashlight, push the first gear and the illumination is enough.

Luo Bing held the flashlight as if he were holding a great treasure. He could smile excitedly even if he turned on the flashlight.

In this era, flashlights were not very popular in cities. In the countryside, it was pitch dark at night, and people generally did not go out. When I go out, I usually go to the toilet like Luo Cheng. A kerosene lamp is enough. I am reluctant to spend money to buy this, and I don’t have the money or tickets.

And who uses flashlights the most in this day and age? People from the police station, and patrol teams in some factories. This kind of people sometimes have to move occasionally at night, and it is impossible to go out with a kerosene lamp.

Therefore, when some criminals see someone walking on the road with a flashlight at night, they will instinctively avoid them. Even for an ordinary person, if you shine a flashlight on the other person, he will probably mistakenly think that you are from a certain department, and you will answer whatever you ask. In later generations, if you take a flashlight and try to shine it on others, Luo Cheng doesn’t know the result, but being polite is rude. Anyone who has tried it can tell me.

The toilet is not far away, a few hundred meters away. There is a small wooden hut with a wooden door. There is only one room for men and women. And after entering, there is no wooden fence inside. It’s okay at night. Someone will bring a kerosene lamp to the toilet. If others want to come back, they can know that there is someone inside.

If you go to the restroom during the day, you should be careful. People who go to the restroom inside will quickly have others coming, so they have to hold them up with their hands to shout for someone else.

After being sent to the toilet, Luo Cheng took the flashlight, but Luo Bing did not go back immediately. He wanted to wait for Luo Cheng to go back together after he used the toilet. There were two main reasons. They could also meet the flashlight again. Another reason, which is also more important, is that Luo Bing has night blindness. Not only him, but everyone in his family also has it.

Luo Bing has night blindness, and so do others. It is not hereditary. It is a lack of vitamin A, and most rural people have this symptom. People with this symptom cannot see anything clearly at night. If Luo Cheng is not going to the toilet, he can easily walk back without a flashlight and by relying on the night light.

(Everyone, if there is no paper toilet, let me ask, do you use one of these types of small stones, small sticks, or straw to go to the toilet? Let alone the particularly disgusting ones, there are female readers. )

Small stones can still be used. I looked up information to find out how to use them.