Chapter 9: Toilets and Bathrooms

Chapter 9 Toilets and Bathrooms

“Repairing the castle?” Owen, who finally didn’t need to bother with those chores anymore, was holding a quill pen and writing and drawing on the parchment, when he sniffed, he looked up and said in a somewhat bewildered manner, obviously not having returned to his senses for a while.

After Maya’s patient explanation, Owen finally understood the necessity of repairing the castle, and at the same time found out in the other party’s description that it was not this world that was backward, but the border of the Northland, and it was the Hydra family.

The existence of the nobility has been as long as two to three thousand years now if you count from the elders and priests of the tribe who hold the real power.

Under the long accumulation and monopolization, the power and resources held by the nobles became bigger and bigger and more and more, and with that, they developed fancy luxuries and conveniences.

For example, the nobles of the empire have already used flush toilets, and the bathrooms are not only paved with brass water pipes, but also connected to boilers that can provide hot water, and the design is so exquisite that it is beyond the poor people’s imagination.

In terms of enjoyment alone, the imperial nobles have already reached the level of the rich in the 70s and 80s of the previous generation, and even exceeded it.

As for the reason, although there were no electrical appliances in this world, there were unscientific things like magic.

Being born in the border of the Northland, growing up in the castle, moving around in the territory, the only people he came in contact with were his parents and the butler who were sharp talkers, causing Owen’s insights to be less than that of a merchant who had traveled extensively, so his judgment of this world was out of whack.

Owen obviously did not realize that this is a world with magic, and knights and other professions are not just wielding weapons, in fact, most of the professions have their own transcendent level of inheritance, far from what he saw so simple.

There was no way, the people who came to the Northland border to explore were all losers, criminals and vagabonds who couldn’t make it in the empire, they had nothing to lose, so how could they have accumulated any heritage?
Fortunately, Maya, as the most trusted person of the countess, had contacted and understood the transcendent, and from her mouth, Owen learned the more real side of this world.

This world’s transcendental power, although not to the extent that a forbidden spell can destroy the heavens and the earth, is still not to be underestimated, I’m afraid that it is not possible to rely solely on the soldiers of the imperial era, which makes the original pressure is not small Owen doubly anxious.

Owen intended to revise his plan again, he must find a way to break through the problem of the upper limit of progress value as soon as possible, as long as he had more progress value, he would be able to exchange for stronger power.

The problem was that he could never find a way to break through the current progress value ceiling, many times he had to keep revising his plan because it was either unattainable or too difficult, so it was really hard for him.

The good thing was that there was still nothing wrong with repairing the castle, anyway, there was no foreign enemy now, and it was more comfortable to repair the castle to live in, so Owen cooperated with Maya to mobilize resources to carry out a simple repair on this relic with hundreds of years of history.

However, the flush toilet and brass plumbing and other things should not be thought of, the cost of transporting them over reminds Owen of the heart pills, and can only wait until later to exchange them from the system.

Because of the limited conditions, Maya only let the craftsmen simply repair some of the damaged areas of the castle, and then focused on building new toilets and bathrooms, that is, squatting pits with waterways and large bathtubs.

For the latter two, Owen was satisfied, even if it cost some progress value, he felt it was worth it.

Instead of squatting on the floating window hole that feels like it will be sucked in by the black hole, he can move freely across the two sides of the river and lake, and that kind of feeling is so smooth and happy.

The most important thing is that Owen found grass paper, think about before the chrysanthemum kissed thatch, leaves, sticks, stone chips and other kinds of cleaning things, difficult to use not to mention, a little inattention will also be injured, more embarrassing is that, if you do not wipe clean, and so on after drying out, walking around, you will suddenly find yourself dropping slag, it is simply the scene of the social death.

In contrast, the role of the bathroom is also not small, because from memory, Owen’s life from one year to the end of the year really can not wash a few times, a layer of old skin on the body is full of dirt, so simply can not resist the temptation to take a hot bath painfully. After the completion of the transformation of the two places, Owen first unrestrained excretion, and then squatting in the hot water can give the pig back hair grit his teeth and hard soak for half a day, raw rub down two pounds of mud, which is only a transparent body to change into a new clothes.

Out of the bathroom, the clothes on the body is obviously fine soft cotton, Owen froze to feel rough, visible wash away the dirt of the skin is now in the end how delicate.

In addition to these two things, three meals a day also handed over to the two maids to take care of, so finally let Owen get rid of everything rely on their own hands to eat well.

The repair of the castle, as well as the improvement of clothing, food, housing and transportation, did not occupy too much of Owen’s time, even if some of the impulses belonging to this age were also suppressed by him, because he had too many things more important than this need to be dealt with.

Eating well and wearing warm clothes, and as a result of being slashed to death, this is considered to be preferring to die as a full death? So how dare Owen slacken off.

From his memories, Owen knew that the Northland border was not safe, or else how did Hydra I and II not have it.

In the Northland, every time the harvest and the harvest time, it is the time of the robbers.

Some of these robbers were vagrants or criminals from the empire, some were local aborigines who were now driven to the Northland barbarians, and some were lords who led the way to riches, and no matter what, killing people for food was nothing to them.

Although the border of the Northland has been developed for more than twenty years, there is not much difference with the first time when they came here, every day they don’t have enough to eat, and people are starved to death every year, so in order to survive, killing and robbing food has long been integrated into their lives.

If it were not for the fact that there are too many people within the empire who can’t survive, and that every year there are people with dreams who run to the Northland to make a living, this hell of a place would have been deserted long ago.

Unfortunately, the border of the Northland better place has long been occupied, eat no food, live no housing, do not want to sell themselves into slavery can only be robbers.

Before HYDRA I and II, alive when not less hanged robbers, not less with the neighbors to fight, robbing food and money to rob people is simply a common occurrence, otherwise the family’s heyday is how to provide hundreds of soldiers at the same time, there are three grandfathers and granduncle two uncle knights, to know that to provide for a knight’s cost is more than ten elite soldiers.

How did all this come about, of course, is robbed.

But Hydra family acted so arrogantly, naturally incurred the wrath of the people, when the grandfather and the second uncle with soldiers to eliminate bandits, the result of the three all died in battle, the soldiers also lost half, to say that there is no fishy, no one will believe.

If the bandits have this level of combat power, they would have occupied their own territory as nobles, so how these people died, understand all understand.

And this is already the norm in the northern border, where everyone is waving their fists, whoever has a big fist can fill their stomachs, become stronger, and then rob more things.

On the contrary, there is no way for cowards to live here, and compromising and backing down will ultimately lead to nothing but death, with no exceptions.

Owen did not like this kind of life, it felt like immigrating to a pretty country, but unfortunately, just like in his last life, he could only take the initiative to adapt to life, it was impossible to let life adapt to him.

(End of chapter)