59 – Let’s Purify the Restroom!
Humans go to the restroom.
The cleanliness of the restroom is essential for a pleasant urination activity, in this ancient tradition that is done at least once a day.
The restroom must be clean and smell good in order to feel comfortable and have a pleasant urination activity.
“Aghh!”
But I couldn’t approach within 3m of the restroom due to the piercing stench!
It’s a restroom made by Cotton last year.
Oliver, the man in charge of waste disposal, regularly empties the toilet bowl, but he never cleans the restroom, so the stale stench of waste made me feel nauseous.
“Ugh, this stench is unbearable… It would be cleaner to do it in the bushes!”
Darn it, I’m afraid to go to the restroom.
If I enter that filthy restroom, I might suffocate from the fumes of waste gas!
I seriously debated whether to hold my breath for 10 seconds and quickly finish my business or not.
“Mr. Cheolsoo?”
At that moment, Oliver, with his head uncovered, appeared.
Oliver, a busy man who manages both the Baron’s stable and the restroom.
He had two waste bins on his shoulders, probably for emptying the toilet bowls.
“Oliver!”
“Mr. Cheolsoo, are you going to use the restroom? I came to empty the toilet bowl.”
“I want to use it, but I simply can’t because of the stench!”
If I use that cave-like restroom, I might end up spewing gibberish and waste at the same time, a double discharge!
Oliver looked embarrassed and apologetic.
It seemed like he thought the state of the restroom was his fault!
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“What have I done wrong?”
“…It’s not your fault, Oliver. I only asked you to empty the toilet bowl in the first place.”
I only asked Oliver to empty the toilet bowl.
Knowing that Oliver is busy with stable duties, I only asked him to empty the toilet bowl, but…
“But this won’t do, Oliver.”
If we leave the restroom like this, it will become so filthy that it will be unusable.
I proposed a solution!
“I think we need to clean the bathroom! It’s time for a water scrub!”
“Ugh! The bathroom smell is indeed strong. Are you going to do it right now?”
Gurgle!
I felt a sharp stomachache!
“Ugh! Let’s take care of this matter first!”
It’s urgent!
* * * *
The bathroom I had Cottonseed make was placing a toilet in a small wooden house.
Digging the ground inside the wooden house, I placed a toilet bowl on top, decorated with a toilet cover.
It had a rural bathroom vibe, unlike modern toilets where you do your business and flush with a click! It’s hard to imagine water going down.
Just collecting waste in the toilet bowl and emptying it periodically.
“Darn it, I miss using Korean toilets again!”
Just a click of the toilet lever! How convenient it is when the water flushes down.
Thinking of the Korean squat toilet, I gazed at the lavishly decorated bathroom in Roland Manor.
The damp appearance of the bathroom due to water.
With Emma’s help, the maids were wearing masks and diligently scrubbing every corner of the solo bathrooms!
Even if you only do your business in the toilet bowl, the accumulating stench seeps into the wooden walls of the bathroom.
It needs regular cleaning!
“Thank you so much, Emma.”
“It’s okay, everyone uses the bathroom.”
Emma and the maids were busy with other tasks, yet they prioritized my request.
How grateful I am!
“I’ve been hearing complaints about the bathroom smelling bad and people not wanting to use it.”
…People’s noses are indeed different.
I heard that not only me but also the maids didn’t like using the bathroom because of the smell.
Indeed, the smell is the issue.
I shook my head.
“Hmm, then I’ll clean it and put in some air freshener.”
“Air freshener?”
“Yes, it’s a thing that makes the smell more pleasant.”
I don’t plan on making anything special.
Since oranges are in season lately, I plan to collect orange peels in a corner of the bathroom.
Orange peels are famous for being natural air fresheners!
They will effectively eliminate the bathroom odor.
“Having a nice smell in the bathroom would make it more inviting to use, don’t you think?”
“Hehe, indeed.”
Smell is more important in our living space than we think.
Who would want to stay in a stinky place!
We prefer to be in fragrant places.
I left the maidens cleaning the water and rushed to the kitchen of Viscount Seong to desperately scavenge leftover orange peels!
Luckily, there were plenty of orange peels to be supplied to the bathroom, as Viscount Roland and Lady Helen would enjoy snacking on oranges.
“Drying these under the sun and crushing them finely will intensify the fragrance.”
With arms full of orange peels, I laid them out in the backyard of the Viscount’s residence!
Countless orange peels spread out on clean cloths.
These peels would transform the foul-smelling bathroom into a fragrant sanctuary!
* * * *
Two days later.
After cleaning the bathroom, the intense odor seemed to have dissipated within just two days.
Yet, a faint scent of ammonia still lingered inside the bathroom.
“Mmm~ a familiar smell.”
To Viscount Roland, it was a familiar scent from his days as a professional sewage handler, Kim Cheol-soo.
…Though these days, living relatively cleanly, my tolerance for odors had decreased.
This level of odor was bearable.
“Still, I can’t just leave it be.”
To combat this faint odor, I prepared orange peels.
A small wooden container filled with the fragrant essence of orange peels.
Placing it in the bathroom, I took a deep whiff of the scent.
*Sniff sniff.. Oh my.*
The odor gradually faded, replaced by a richer orange fragrance!
A scent reminiscent of a pristine hotel bathroom.
An incredibly pleasant aroma that would make one want to linger in the bathroom!
“Good, very good indeed.”
Lately, Viscount Roland’s visits to the bathroom had been scarce.
Once they catch a whiff of this scent, curiosity alone would draw them to the bathroom!
With a bright smile, I roughly tidied up the bathroom.
In one corner, I collected corn husks and soft leaves to serve as toilet paper. When slightly moistened, corn husks softened enough to serve adequately as toilet paper.
Nothing as crucial as the toilet paper used for business.
I neatly organized the corn husks and leaves for convenient use.
Organizing them in suitable amounts for single use would make future visits more comfortable.
“Clean and comfortable living is what I create!”
Like when I lived in Korea, my goal is to decorate my living space to be clean and convenient!
Since we’re living, might as well make it clean and tidy.
The bathroom and home should be kept clean, shouldn’t they?
With renewed enthusiasm, I placed orange peel air fresheners in Viscount Roland’s other bathrooms!
Thus, the newly opened bathrooms of Viscount Roland.
However, despite the maidens cleaning the bathrooms, the residents were reluctant to use them.
“The bathroom used to smell quickly… Do we really have to go?”
“Even after cleaning, there’s still a faint odor… Can’t we just use the bushes?”
While Viscount Roland had Kim Cheol-soo to utilize the bathroom.
Most people in this era solve their business in the bushes, on the streets, or even in the corner of their rooms. This is because they don’t feel the need for a bathroom! The maids wondered if they could just do their business in the bushes as they used to, instead of feeling anxious about the bathroom. They didn’t want to smell the stench while doing their business in the bushes. Surprisingly, there was no stench when they did their business in the bushes. The maids’ faces, which were full of wrinkles, gradually turned into expressions of astonishment. “The smell of oranges…?” “No stench.” The maids smelled the fragrant scent of oranges instead of the foul odor. They wondered how such a smell could come from the bathroom. When the maids cautiously entered the bathroom, they found a container filled with orange peels. It was the first time in their lives that they had smelled air freshener! “Ah, so this is what Chulsoo put in the bathroom.” “It’s strange that I can’t smell the stench.” The negative image of the bathroom that the maids had in their minds faded away. The bathroom, which was known as a place where smells easily spread, now became a place where the fragrant scent of oranges wafted. The combination of bathroom cleaning and orange peel air freshener had achieved results! After a while, the maids who had finished their business continued to enjoy the fragrant scent of oranges and thought that they could do their business in the bathroom from now on. This also led to an increase in the utilization rate of the bathroom by people in the Roland Viscountcy, including knights and chefs! * * * * The internal passages of the Roland Viscountcy were clean, and the streets outside were clean as well. It was a pleasant and clean place where you couldn’t see any sewage no matter where you went. I took a deep breath through my nostrils and enjoyed the freshness! “Hmm~~ This clean smell. People don’t just do their business anywhere anymore.” There were many people in the Roland Viscountcy who used to do their business in the bushes or on the streets even after the bathrooms were built. Nowadays, people from the Viscountcy line up in the bathroom to do their business. Because the bathroom doesn’t smell. This is undoubtedly the ideal Roland Viscountcy that Kim Chulsoo envisioned! “It’s definitely nice that there’s no smell on the streets of the Viscountcy.” Catherine, who was used to the unclean Viscountcy, nodded her head after experiencing the clean Viscountcy. “Hehe, cleanliness is never enough.” I’m not obsessive-compulsive, though. Cleanliness is better than dirtiness! All of this was achieved through bathroom cleaning and air fresheners. I wanted to brag about this achievement to Catherine. “Hehe, would you like to see the bathroom, Miss? Nowadays, the maids clean the bathroom frequently, and I change the orange peel air freshener often, so it’s clean.” “I’ll take a look.” I took Catherine’s hand and led her to the bathroom. There were already maids lined up in the bathroom close to the Viscountcy, so I found an empty bathroom. Roland Viscountcy had multiple bathrooms, thanks to Mr. Cotton.
An empty restroom must surely exist!
I wondered if there was an empty restroom at the outskirts, so I knocked on the restroom door.
“Is anyone there?”
There was no response from inside the restroom, even when I asked.
“It’s an empty restroom.”
That’s fine.
I swung open the restroom door and looked inside, and I was dumbfounded.
Inside the restroom, my youngest maid, Bae-ki, was crouched down, secretly eating cookies.
Bae-ki was startled and froze with the cookie still in her mouth.
…Seeing Bae-ki eating cookies without even pulling down her skirt, it seemed she had no business in the restroom.
It seemed like she was hiding in the restroom to slack off.
“…Bae-ki?”
Miss Catherine also noticed Bae-ki and her expression turned cold.
It’s obvious that Bae-ki was slacking off!
“Well.. what about..”
“Did you finish your tasks?”
“Uh.. well…”
“Why were you in the restroom?”
“…Because there was no one and it smelled nice…”
“But your work isn’t finished yet. Can you secretly eat cookies here, or can’t you?”
“I’m, I’m sorry!!”
Bae-ki bowed her head and received a scolding from Miss Catherine.
If it were Emma, she would have disciplined her with the whip of love (Emma’s main weapon), but this was a very mild punishment.
Anyway, it seems like there’s a good restroom to hide in, as Bae-ki hid and slack off.
Seeing Bae-ki, who was shrinking rapidly while listening to Miss Catherine’s scolding, I felt sorry for her.