Era: Retired from the army at the beginning and returned home - Chapter 28 Flashlight

“The boards are pretty clean, not bad.”

Entering the toilet, Luo Cheng shined a flashlight and found that it was indeed a traditional large-tank latrine with two large wooden boards on top. To his relief, there was no uncleanness on the wooden boards used to step on as he had imagined. There’s big shit on it.

In fact, in some remote places in later generations, some places are still very backward and poor. Such toilets still exist, and people are not actively cleaning up the feces. Someone accidentally got it on the wooden board, and of course no one cleaned it up in time. It is really disgusting.

Within a few minutes, Luo Cheng solved his personal problem comfortably. However, the rice dumpling leaves he used to wipe his butt were not soft and felt that they could not be wiped clean. The leaves were almost used, so Luo Cheng thought it was better to go back and wash them.

On the way back, Luo Cheng still handed the flashlight to Luo Bing. In fact, he didn’t use it. How could he not walk a few hundred meters away. But if you are not familiar with it, people with night blindness may really go in the wrong direction.

What Luo Cheng didn’t know was that people in this era still had a tendency to gossip hidden in their hearts. In the short time it took to go to the bathroom, the two younger sisters went to their parents’ room to tell them about the beautiful flashlight that their elder brother had. From now on, it will be convenient if you have something to do at night. Usually, even in the city, every family will have one, and whoever needs it can get it.

So as soon as they came back, their parents were waiting for them at the door. Seeing Luo Bing holding a flashlight, his father Luo Wen immediately came forward.

“You kid, be careful, hold it steady, don’t drop it on the ground.”

Luo Bing held it very steadily, but because of the preciousness of the flashlight, Luo’s father didn’t care so much and just gave him a preemptive lecture. If Luo Cheng had held the flashlight, his attitude would have been different.

“Dad, don’t worry, I’m so strong that I can’t hold a flashlight steady.”

“We’re all back. Why are you turning on a flashlight? You don’t know how to save power. Go to bed quickly and show me the flashlight.”

Come on, nothing is uncertain. As the second son with no status, I don’t want you to think, I just want what I feel. The majesty of the head of the family was vividly displayed in front of Luo Bing, and the flashlight was naturally handed over to his father Luo Wen.

“Dad, look at this flashlight. Push it down and it turns off. Push it up~~ You shine it into the distance and it lights up. Push it up again and it shines far and brightly. With this, it will shine brightly at night. Don’t worry about not being able to see anything anymore.”

The flashlight was given to his father, but Luo Bing also showed how to use this thing in front of his father. For people with night blindness, this is really a treasure.

Father Luo Cheng also nodded. You can brag about this thing in the brigade tomorrow. If you have food at home, you can’t go outside to talk about it. But for this inedible thing, it’s okay to brag about it outside.

“That’s great, Nariko. You need to put this flashlight away, but don’t lose it.”

“Dad, Mom, why don’t we put this flashlight in your room. When we need it, we’ll ask you for it.”

Luo’s father fiddled with it for a while before handing the flashlight back to Luo Cheng. If this thing belonged to Luo Bing, he would have taken it back to the room without saying anything. But this is the eldest son’s thing. He can’t do whatever he wants. He can only tell him to put it away.

The room Luo Cheng lives in now doesn’t even have a table with drawers, and he keeps it in his bag. It would be inconvenient for family members to come and ask him for something when they need it. The room where my parents lived had at least one dressing table, which was provided by my natal family as a dowry when grandma married grandpa. The dresser has many drawers, which my mother and grandma share now. They can store needlework, matches and other small items, making it easy to find them if you need them.

As you said, how could such precious things be placed in their room? Father Luo was a little embarrassed and thought to himself, but putting it in their room would indeed be convenient for the whole family, so he and his son Luo Cheng said a few polite words, saying that his grandma was old and it was inconvenient to light a kerosene lamp at night. It was not because they wanted to open the room, but because of Luo Cheng’s grandma.

Luo Cheng didn’t expect his father to have such a naive side. He asked his younger brothers and sisters if any of them would believe it. In later generations, my father was not a farmer, and he would not tell him about many things and pressures. The world had changed, and it seemed that the way he got along with his parents felt a little bit good.

The flashlight was taken to the room by my parents and placed at the bottom of the dressing cabinet. Under normal circumstances, even if I had to go to the bathroom at night, I would not take this thing out and use it. I would rather use a kerosene lamp. Who knows how long the battery in this flashlight will last, or if it runs out of power, you have to spend money to buy it.

When Luo Cheng came back from the bathroom, the two sisters didn’t go out to wait, but they didn’t go to bed so early. When Luo Cheng returned to the room, he found that the flashlight was gone. After asking, he learned that it had been given to his parents, and he was a little disappointed. They also wanted to go to the toilet themselves. Even if they had to endure it, they would have to endure it until night. They also used flashlights to try out the feeling of going to the toilet. But the things are in the hands of the parents, and they still need to use a flashlight to go to the toilet, which is impossible to get.

If this flashlight is not needed for urgent matters at night, it should be difficult for it to be used again in the daylight.

The autumn night was a bit cool, and Luo Cheng still went to bed early today. Just like yesterday, I fell asleep not long after chatting with my two sisters.

The next day, Luo Cheng woke up early in the morning again and checked the system immediately. He should be sure that this system could be signed in every day. The system prompts that you can sign in. Nights in rural towns are so boring in this era. It is easy to fall asleep in bed. In addition, without a clock, it is difficult to wait until 12 o’clock to accurately check whether the system is refreshed at that time.

“Would you like to wash up before signing in? Some novels from later generations say that if there is a sign-in system and you are more pious, you will have better luck.”

He originally wanted to sign in immediately, but suddenly held back. Luo Cheng thought what if the system’s sign-in pattern was related to his thoughts.

The food at home is still not enough to eat. After helping relatives, the family still needs to drink water every day. It’s okay to drink water, but grandma is getting older and needs to eat some good food to recuperate.

Get up and wash up.

I don’t know if I heard the noise or if the two sisters were also awake. When Luo Cheng just got up, Luo Xiaoyu and Luo Shishi were also getting up.

Early in the morning, the two sisters were in a good mood because the eldest brother promised to go to the city to buy them cotton gauze today. The two of them planned to accompany Luo Cheng to the intersection where the shuttle bus stopped this morning, and then come back after Luo Cheng got on the bus.

My parents also got up early today. My mother lit a fire in the kitchen and cooked rice. There were also roasted sweet potatoes on the stove. Because Luo Cheng is going to the city, his mother plans to bring roasted sweet potatoes and rice balls to Luo Cheng so that he can eat them when he is hungry.

(I have used a few old-fashioned flashlights. The screw port at the bottom can be unscrewed to remove the battery. The switch has no adjustment function. The iron surface makes it feel heavy in the hand. But in this era, flashlights are really sophisticated. Expensive, high-end goods, only one per family after the reform.)

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