In this residential compound, because of the design of the houses, most rooms have flat windows without protruding balconies. Cheng Su's home was no exception, with only two windowsills extending out a slight bit, which was extremely inconvenient for drying clothes. A few items could be managed, but any more than that and there wouldn't be enough space.
Thus, like everyone else, Cheng Su and her family would hang their laundry out on the bamboo poles specially set up for drying clothes in the large compound courtyard.
The vast courtyard was filled with bamboo poles crisscrossing every which way. Some were strung with ropes to serve as clotheslines, while others were propped up by bamboo sticks, creating a spider's web of lines.
By nightfall, what had been bursting bamboo poles during the day were mostly empty, except for some freshly hung laundry dripping with water, which obviously didn't belong to Cheng Su's family.