Ning Weimin has never eaten such a comfortable meal!

From hot pot to chopped green onions, there is nothing that is not joyful.

After eating and drinking, Ning Weimin's mouth was already drifted with a layer of mutton soup with oil stars and green coriander leaves, which was smooth and smooth.

His nasal cavity was also smoked by a flue-cured smoke, and he was as happy as a cloud.

Even his thinking has changed so much that he has almost subverted his original values.

Yes, life is meaningful when there is oil and water in the stomach.

Or it is said that the people take food as the sky, but the belly grows in the middle of the people.

This is life, this is the truth!

It's true, but it's not unreasonable.

Not to mention that it should have been spent for the sake of the master.

Let's just say that such shabu mutton, such mushroom mutton pot soup, is destined to be extinct in the future.

That's probably no different from eating caviar and black truffle, and there's nothing unwilling.

But to be honest, don't look at the food that has been so beautiful.

But it's still one step away from being a real little fairy.

Because in the words of Old Man Kang, the stomach is full, but you have to take a shower again to be perfect.

Out of the restaurant is Goldfish Alley.

Kang Shude and Ning Weimin crossed the street with a bag of cream fried cakes bought from the "Fengsheng Gong" next to them, and went straight to the west of the road.

In fact, you don't have to go far, it's just a matter of a few steps.

Because you can see when you look up, in the northwest corner of the eight-sided groove intersection where people come and go, there is a door with a gate hole and high steps, which is the bathhouse where the master and apprentice are going - Tsinghua Garden.

Speaking of the bath industry in the capital, the history is really not short.

As early as when the capital of the Yuan Dynasty was built, there were bathhouses.

However, in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, only the palace, temples, and government offices set up bathrooms, which were not enjoyed by civilians.

The bath industry in Beijing really flourished in the Qing Dynasty.

Due to the emergence of private baths, the capital is full of bathhouses.

Especially at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, not only the capital was full of traditional bathhouses with ponds and official ponds, but also developed a more comprehensive service items such as bathing and pedicure.

There are even "new bathhouses" with running water, boilers, electric lights, heating, and electric fans, which are modeled after the Huhai style.

As a result, a wave of industrial upgrading has been triggered.

Since then, the Beijing bathhouse has also been divided into "North Hall" and "South Hall".

Like the three-storey, brick-and-wood structure of the Tsinghua Garden bathhouse at the intersection of the eight-sided groove.

In the fifth year of the Republic of China (1916), Dong Mutang, a member of the House of Representatives of the Cao Kun military government, spent a huge amount of money to demolish the original "North Hall" - Dongxingyuan Bathhouse, and then rebuilt the "South Hall" according to the style of the Western-style building in the Tianjin Concession.

What's more interesting is that in fact, it is not more than a hundred steps south of Ning Weimin and Old Man Kang's residence.

There is also a two-story bathhouse with an equally loud name and easy to confuse with here—Tsinghua Pool.

Yes, this is where the cross talk guy who mixed "Tsinghua" education in the future will be.

It's just that at this time, Qinghua Pool is still at its original site - the location of Zhushikou West Street Road North.

That is, it is opposite Fengzeyuan Restaurant, and it has not yet moved to the Huguang Guild Hall.

It can be seen from this that the "university scholar" who is a famous teacher in the universe and shakes the world is at most a graduate of the "Tsinghua" branch.

And it is likely that the qualifications are shallow, and I am afraid that it will be "rough and clear" after the age of thirty.

So when Ning Weimin walked to the door of the bathhouse and hadn't entered yet, he was happy when he saw the stone carved door plaque with red letters on a white background on the door.

Turning his head is like Kangshude's poverty.

"Old man, look at this font hey, what a coincidence. At the door of our house is Tsinghua Pond, and here is Tsinghua Garden. I'm not afraid of confusion, I don't understand, it's all a bathhouse, except for a big one, a small one, what's the difference?"

Unexpectedly, as soon as I asked, the exit was blocked.

"What's the difference? I'll tell you, it's a big difference. This is the same as eating mutton shabu, Dashilar is a 'dragon', and this side is 'coming with the wind', although it is similar but cannot be equated, one is a restaurant, and the other is a restaurant. This bathhouse is the same, it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on. "Love the Book House

"Originally, the largest bathhouse in the capital was the Dongshengping Bathhouse on Yangmei Tree Xiejie, but unfortunately after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government changed it to the first hotel. Therefore, this Tsinghua Garden is now the best and largest bath in the capital. ”

"You see, this is a prosperous place in the center of the city, so this Tsinghua Garden is not only old, but also has always received bureaucrats and dignitaries from Dongcheng, and the sons of wealthy families. Tsinghua pool can't be compared. ”

"The Tsinghua pool in front of our house, that is a halal bathhouse, it was originally called 'Xiao Canglang', which is very small. It wasn't until the thirties that the two buildings that were bought and converted by the Ningxia warlord Ma Fuxiang were upgraded to medium-sized bathhouses. ”

"In the past, the guests who went there used to go south after visiting Dashilar and Bada Hutong, or the merchants who lived in the south. After the liberation, it was the same, all the people here were cultured and officials, and there were only peddlers and pawns left in the south. If you want to talk about the difference, it is the difference in location, the difference in grade. ”

"Let me tell you this, I won't bring you here if I want to save trouble. Of course, I know that it is more convenient to go to 'One Dragon' to eat mutton shabu and go to 'Tsinghua Pool' to take a bath than to come here. The reason why I want to bring you here is to bring you to open your eyes. ”

"It's hard to come out and spend money and enjoy it. If you want to eat, we will eat comfortably, and if you want to wash, we will wash happily today. Come on, come on with me. You invite me to dinner, I invite you to take a bath......"

Hey, I actually let the old man despise it.

But to be honest, Ning Weimin is really unconvinced.

Who is he? What bathing center have you never been to? What health care program has you not experienced?

In order to settle the relationship, the most luxurious place, a full set, hundreds of thousands of guests he also invited.

He didn't believe it, could there be any place to open his eyes?

Aren't they all bathhouses? The so-called old capital, he understands!

So, as he followed Kanshude inside, he chattered at the same time.

"I admit it, old man, you're right. But because this is Wangfujing and the location is so good, I am worried. ”

"Look here, so many people are coming out and going in, what if we have to wait for the two of us to 'take off the basket' later?

"I think it's better to go to the door. There are acquaintances to take care of, and it is shorter when you wait. Really, really, isn't it just a little bigger, where can it go......"

What Ning Weimin said was mainly that "it is difficult to take a bath".

This problem is not only real, but also long-standing and deep-rooted.

Beginning in the fifties, despite the government's efforts to expand the pond and build new baths, it could not keep up with the population expansion of the capital.

Except for large institutions and factories that have internal baths, everyone else can only go to public baths by relying on welfare bath tickets issued and bath tickets purchased by themselves to solve the bathing problem.

This is equivalent to hundreds of bathhouses, which are responsible for millions of people in the capital.

In addition, the price of bathing is too low, and the price of a bath ticket for two cents and six baths remains unchanged all year round.

The bath industry is also doing quite awkwardly.

In fact, the more people who take a bath, the more money the government loses, roughly a dime for every person who bathes.

This has caused the industry to have limited financial resources, outdated equipment can not be replaced, and the industry has shrunk, and the existing bathhouses have been repeatedly reduced.

So you can imagine what the bathhouse will look like on weekends or holidays, especially at the end of the year?

Naturally, it's overcrowded.

It is often an hour or two queue to take a shower.

It is precisely because of this that all bathhouses gradually began to "take off the basket" in fashion.

It is the bathhouse that buys a basket for picking rice in the south, so that people who do not want to queue up for a bunk can wash and leave first.

But even so, there is a long queue in the bathhouse, especially in the past few years, when the educated youth have returned to the city, which has exacerbated this situation.

That is, Aunt Bian's eldest son, Bian Jianjun, happened to burn a boiler in Tsinghua Pool, and an acquaintance took care of him.

These neighbors in the No. 2 courtyard of Fan'er Hutong don't worry too much about taking a bath.

Therefore, it cannot be said that Ning Weimin's concerns are not justified at all.

Because people like Kangshude, who regard "bathing" as a hobby, are unwilling to wash off the basket.

But what Ning Weimin didn't expect was that the old man snorted a few times with contempt, and didn't pay attention to him at all.

I walked through the stall where I was shining shoes, and then entered the second door, and came to the window where bath tickets were sold, and I was in line of three or five people.

The most surprising thing was when I bought the tickets.

Ning Weimin was still rushing to pay five cents and two, but he didn't expect the old man to block his hand and hand over the two pieces of one inside.

"Let's get a good deal. Four tickets. ”

And the person standing behind the old man couldn't help but sigh "whoop".