CHAPTER 370: CHAPTER 355: ABOUT THE MATTER OF CHILDREN WETTING THE BED (1)

Li Yuzhu turned over, smiled at the two, and said, "Don’t forget to empty Guoguo’s chamber pot, okay?"

The Great Princess quickly lay down to sleep, "Second Sister, you go first. Tomorrow I will go, oh no, tomorrow it’s Third Sister’s turn, I’ll go the day after. Let’s take turns."

The Second Princess grumbled, "Why should I go first?"

"Third Sister went to the county yesterday and got tired. She needs more sleep. I helped you with embroidery yesterday, so I’m also tired. Your business hasn’t been good lately, so you’re quite free. Of course, it’s your turn first," the Great Princess said solemnly.

There’s no way to argue with that...

The Second Princess had no choice but to say, "Alright then."

Li Yuzhu said, "Pour it into the manure pit by the field outside the courtyard."

Kid’s urine is the best farm fertilizer.

"Got it." The Second Princess sighed, walked out, also feeling quite sleepy herself.

When the Second Princess returned, the sky was just beginning to lighten, and she climbed back into bed.

Today is Guoguo’s first birthday banquet, and everyone didn’t have to go out, just waiting for the noon feast.

Guoguo turned over, looked at the top of the canopy, cutely yawned, suddenly smiled, and then closed her eyes to sleep again.

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The three sisters slept for another half an hour before they got up one after another.

By this time, the sun was rising to the horizon.

They took Guoguo to the kitchen to fetch water to wash their faces.

Beside the kitchen, there was a bamboo pipe with water flowing all year round.

The bamboo pipe extended all the way to the spring on Niu Tou Mountain.

With the bamboo pipe, everyone didn’t need to go to the distant pond to fetch water.

Beneath the bamboo pipe in the kitchen was an old water jar about two feet high, with a hole drilled on one side through which another bamboo pipe passed, extending outside through the bamboo fence next to the kitchen.

Outside the wall, there was another large water jar collecting the water flowing out.

Similarly, a hole was drilled on one side of this jar, connected to a bamboo pipe. When the jar was full, the water flowed through the bamboo pipe into a pit beside it.

The pit was half the size of a room and half a person’s depth, storing the water.

The irrigation of the fields depended on this water.

In fact, just across a village path from the Li Family’s fields was a swamp, but the water in the swamp was shallow and far from the fields, making it inconvenient to use for irrigation.

When Li Yuzhu started using the spring water from the mountain, she considered this. Any excess water would flow into the reservoir outside the courtyard.

Everyone took their washbasins from the shelf outside the kitchen and freshened up. The Second Princess and Great Princess went back to their room to do their hair.

Li Yuzhu washed Guoguo’s face.

She’s teaching Guoguo how to brush her teeth.

A simple toothbrush made from soft willow twigs was dampened with a little water and rubbed against Guoguo’s small milk teeth.

Guoguo was young and her teeth had just started coming in recently. Cleaning them only required water, as using the coarse salt adults used would harm her gums.

Guoguo now had six teeth, four on top and two on the bottom.

Her teething was normal, but... her speech wasn’t.

Talkative, like a human tape recorder!

"Aunt, face!" She pointed at her face to remind Li Yuzhu to wash her face after brushing her teeth.

"I know!" Li Yuzhu nodded.

"Aunt, hands!" Guoguo stretched out her hands.

"I know, I know."

"Brush!" Guoguo exclaimed again, pulling at a small tuft of her black hair.

Guoguo’s hair was black and soft but very short, just enough to make two little pigtails.

"I know, I know, but your little aunt can’t do hair. For hair, go to your great aunt; she’s the hair expert." Li Yuzhu cleaned up Guoguo’s hands and face, and took her to find the Great Princess.

The Great Princess, all dressed up, saw Li Yuzhu carrying Guoguo with her messy head of hair and gave Li Yuzhu a look, "I knew you couldn’t do Guoguo’s hair, look how messy it is."

Guoguo grinned at her, "Great Auntie, brush."

Li Yuzhu laughed, "Isn’t it just playing to our strengths? You can do hair, so you do Guoguo’s."

"That’s right, my hairdressing skills are top-notch." The Great Princess loved to be praised.

Praising her made her happy.

The Great Princess pulled Guoguo into her lap and started combing her hair with a small comb.

Even with Guoguo’s hair just a couple of inches long, under the Great Princess’s deft hands, it was styled nicely.

"You’re the little birthday girl today, so you need to look pretty," the Great Princess, like all girls who love dressing up, liked to style herself and little girls too.

She took out her collection of various small hair accessories and eagerly adorned Guoguo’s head with them.

The Second Princess, unable to wait for breakfast, grabbed a piece of dry cake she made and ate it, mumbling, "Big Sister, aren’t you afraid you’ll weigh down Guoguo’s head with all these flowers?"