Chapter 987: Why Do Those Backs Look So Familiar

The two strolled along the way, buying quite a few things.

Liu Chuxue kept an extra eye out; she did not send these things directly to the Fu family, nor did she take them back to the Xiao family, but instead delivered them to the small courtyard they had previously purchased not far from the Fu residence.

After putting the items away, Fu Yan Cheng spoke: "Someone will come in a few days to help renovate this house; do you have any requirements?"

Liu Chuxue had already seen the house before, and there were not many places needing changes: "Since we are renovating, can you have them put in some effort to build a bathroom?"

Finishing her sentence, she glanced around the courtyard: "That simple shed built on the west side might as well be torn down and rebuilt as a house; make the inner room a bath and the outer room a toilet; connect it to the external sewer pipes then, which will save trouble later."

Hearing her words, Fu Yan Cheng frowned slightly: "That might not be possible."

Liu Chuxue looked up: "Why?"

Fu Yan Cheng coughed lightly: "The external sewer pipes are merely the daily water pipes for each courtyard; part of the waste goes to a sewage treatment plant, but another part is discharged into natural water bodies."

Liu Chuxue slapped her forehead; how could she have been so confused? This was not the future era where kitchen water pipes and toilet water pipes were two separate independent systems; currently, all the large courtyards still shared public toilets, with someone regularly scooping out the feces.

As she worried, she heard Fu Yan Cheng say: "However, there is a solution, it's just..."

Before he could finish, Liu Chuxue said: "Speak quickly, let me hear it."

Fu Yan Cheng pointed to the simple shed Liu Chuxue had mentioned earlier: "We can tear down that area and rebuild a bath and toilet as you said, but the toilet must be built as a dry toilet, and its position must be adjusted to the back; then we can just place two large jars underneath."

Liu Chuxue was such a smart person; in her previous life, she had attended a colleague's wedding in the countryside and had used the village's dry toilet: "Fine, but I have a few requirements to raise."

Fu Yan Cheng smiled: "Go ahead."

Liu Chuxue spoke and gestured, finally making her requirements clear: "Just make the bottom a sloped surface; that shouldn't be difficult, right?"

Fu Yan Cheng nodded: "That should be no problem; later, we can open a small door at the back, and scooping out the feces can be done directly through that small rear door."

With the matter settled, the two locked the door and prepared to leave.

Fu Yan Cheng glanced toward the street corner: "Do you want to come home and sit for a while?"

Liu Chuxue waved her hand: "No, I'd better not; Du Juan is unwell, and my mother is pregnant; I should go back."

Fu Yan Cheng did not insist: "Alright, then I will walk you back."

As the two talked while walking out, they did not notice Zhang Yurong approaching from the other end.

Zhang Yurong watched the two figures disappear into the distance, thinking: Why do those backs look so familiar?

However, seeing the people quickly vanish around the bend, she did not linger long and walked briskly toward her home.

Upon entering the courtyard, she saw her own mother-in-law sweeping the yard: "Mother, did the fourth brother and fourth sister-in-law come to the house?"

Fu's mother straightened her back: "No, why do you ask that?"

Zhang Yurong wore an expression of disbelief: "Then I must have seen things."

Finishing her sentence, she saw the courtyard full of red paper scraps: "What is going on here?"

Fu's mother pointed to the several children in the living room: "They ruined an entire sheet of red paper and made work for me."

Zhang Yurong looked toward the entrance of the eldest brother's room: "Where are my eldest brother and eldest sister-in-law?"

Fu's mother naturally would not say they had gone to deliver a thank-you gift to the person in charge of housing allocation at the factory: "The two of them went out on some business."

After Fu's mother finished speaking, she finally asked: "You and Fu Yan Hong didn't go out together; where is he?"