"A flush toilet?" Xiao Qi became immediately curious and asked Lian Manman, "Sister, what is a flush toilet?"
Lian Manman had been lost in thought; hearing Xiao Qi's question, she came back to reality and realized what she had just said. A chamber pot, an object already present in this era, was also called a "descendants' pot." In farmsteads, outhouses were commonly found outside. During the day, people would go to the outhouse for convenience. But at night, especially during the winter nights, this was very inconvenient. So, every household had a chamber pot for use during the night, and come daylight, they would dump the waste from the pots into the outhouse, then wash the pots.
In farmsteads or towns where not every household had an outhouse, the chamber pot was even more widely used, making the job of emptying night soil an essential occupation.
