Chapter 152: Open-air baths
The peach blossoms on the human face are red.
Wang Zhuo recorded this beautiful moment with his camera, and after he went back, he didn't need any retouching, it was even more beautiful than the photos taken by the best photo studios.
The peaches in Taoyuan Village are juicy, sweet and delicious, although they can't be eaten in this season, but they won't doubt this if they have drunk peach wine, but unfortunately the traffic in the village is too poor, and the peaches can't be shipped out at all, the only value is that the peach flesh is brewed, and the peach pit is carved into small handicrafts and wholesaled outside, so as to make some money.
Such a good resource is so wasted, Wang Zhuo and Qi Fei Guan Yingying feel deeply sorry, even if they can't transport fresh peaches, peach flesh into canned food or juice, peach blossoms processed into essential oils or spices, all have a certain added value, and now not to mention peach blossoms, Taoyuan Village can't even use peaches, only a small part of the wine can be used, and all the extra ones are fermented in a warm kiln to make feed for pigs.
After passing through the peach forest, you will come to the back slope of this mountain, and at the foot of the mountain is a steaming place, which is the hot spring.
Looking down from the mountain, you can see a dense cluster of shrubs separating several hot spring pools, which are made of bluestones that can be seen everywhere in Taoyuan Village, some large and some small, surrounded by steam, and you can't really see it.
"Just hang your clothes on the peach tree by the pool, and others will know that the pool is being used." Meng Shengnan introduced with a smile: "When you come to play, you should pay attention to it." ”
Guan Yingying jumped up excitedly and shouted, "Great, Wang Zhuo, go back and help us get the swimsuit." ”
"Dressed? That's not going to work. Meng Shengnan said with some surprise: "Aunt Guan, the rules passed down by the elders are that you can't wear clothes, you can't wash clothes, you can't urinate or urinate in the hot spring, and women who are menstruating can't use the hot spring." These rules must be followed. ”
There are really a lot of rules, Guan Yingying couldn't cry or laugh, and tried to justify: "But swimsuits are not clothes." ”
Meng Shengnan shook his head: "I don't know what a swimsuit is, but I can't wear anything on my body, and I can't wrap it around with a towel." ”
Which voyeur has set the rules...... Guan Yingying and Qi Fei looked at each other, and then heard Meng Shengnan say: "My grandmother said that the hot spring is a treasure given to the Taoyuan people by the mountain god, and every time you take a bath in the hot spring, it is a new life, so wearing clothes is disrespectful to the mountain god and will bring disaster to the village." ”
It has risen to the height of the safety of the whole village! The second daughter was immediately deflated, so to speak, this swimsuit must not be worn!
"Oh, yes, do the locals, besides, I think this rule is very reasonable, what's the point of wearing a swimsuit, haha."
After rolling his eyes, Wang Zhuo smiled with a stinky face.
"What should I do, Yingying?" Qi Fei was embarrassed.
"There shouldn't be anyone peeping, right, the fellows are very simple?" Kwan Yingying hesitated.
"With me, the messenger of protecting flowers, you can rest assured that you will not be snooped!" Wang Zhuo patted his chest.
"I'm afraid that you kid is guarding and stealing."
…… There are only more than 300 people in Taoyuan Village, and at this time, some are herding sheep, some are quarrying, and there are almost all farming and fishing, almost all of them are doing business, so when Wang Zhuo and they came to the hot springs, there were only a few scattered spring pools with clothes hanging in front of them, and most of the spring pools were empty.
Meng Shengnan found four small wooden basins out of nowhere, each of them was divided into one, and they also demonstrated it, they can be used as stools to sit upside down, they can scoop water when they are turned over, and they can be used as shields on their heads, and they can be used for water fights with others.
Of course, it was a children's trick, and Wang Zhuo couldn't use it.
found a gourd-shaped hot spring pool, Wang Zhuo himself was at one end, three women were at the other, and through the rising water vapor, he could only see a vague figure on the opposite side, which made Qi Fei and Guan Yingying feel very relieved.
The temperature of the water at 40 degrees Celsius is just right, and it turns out that the temperature is higher when the hot spring first erupts from the surface, so the ancestors who built the hot spring pool first led the spring water to the ground for a detour and then introduced it into the spring pool, so that the temperature is just right, and the thick steam is also produced in this process, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.
Wang Zhuo leaned on the edge of the pool alone, his buttocks and the bluestone attached to his back were hot, neither rough nor slippery, and he felt very comfortable.
From time to time, there was a frolicking sound from the opposite side, which tickled his heart, and he didn't need to peek through the eyes of the surname.
He didn't care about the reputation of a righteous gentleman, but he felt uncomfortable when he couldn't eat it.
More than ten meters away from this pool, several half-year-old children are playing happily in a large pool, and they are still speaking Mandarin with a bit of Northeast flavor, which Wang Zhuo can understand. Since a teacher from Northeast China took root in the village ten years ago, the children in the village have begun to learn Mandarin, otherwise it would be difficult to communicate with Meng Shengnan.
Wang Zhuo looked at the past curiously, and suddenly couldn't cry or laugh, only to see three little girls using wooden buckets to splash water on the two little boys, one of the boys was struggling to fight back, and the other was only five or six years old, and he had already buckled the bucket on his head and made a turtle with a shrunken head.
Hey? Wait a minute! Wang Zhuo suddenly found a problem, both boys and girls are naked, and the eldest girl is already eleven or twelve years old!
This one...... Let's not read it!
Thinking in his heart that the folk customs are simple and childlike, Wang Zhuo retracted his gaze in embarrassment and waved the image just now out of his mind.
As soon as he retracted his thoughts, he suddenly saw a big blue and white snake, leisurely swimming over the water five meters in front of him, swimming towards the other end of the gourd pond.
This snake is about the thickness of a child's arm, more than one and a half meters long, although the head is not wide, but the body is colorful, Wang Zhuo is really not sure if it is a poisonous snake!
Seeing the big snake swimming in the direction of the women, Wang Zhuo was suddenly shocked, this is a remote area with a lack of medical treatment and inconvenient transportation, if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, you will not have time to be treated, but it will kill you!
"There are snakes! Get ashore! ”
Wang Zhuo shouted, plunged into the water, kicked hard with his feet on the pool behind him, twisted his body into a supine position, rowed his arms and legs, and chased the blue and white snake underwater.
A snake surprised Qi Fei and Guan Yingying, and before they could judge whether this sentence was a joke or the truth, the blue and white snake had already swayed its body freely, appeared from the vapor, and swam towards them.
This scene suddenly frightened Qi Fei and Guan Yingying, Guan Yingying was just about to stand up, Qi Fei suddenly became anxious, and shouted: "Yingying dive quickly!" ”
With the exception of water snakes, most snakes only swim meandering on the surface of the water when crossing the water, similar to crawling on the ground, and most of these snakes do not dive, as long as they dive into the water, they get out of their way.
Both of them can swim and immediately dived into the water, Guan Yingying Shui was a little worse than she could not open her eyes in the water, so she simply stabbed her heart sideways and plunged into the water in front of the side.
Wang Zhuo just dived under the big snake, and suddenly felt that a slippery thing like a swimming fish passed by him, he didn't have time to think about it, he suddenly stepped forward, and his right hand stabbed out of the water like lightning, and was grasping the neck of the big snake!
Although this dive is only a few meters away, because the speed is too fast, the oxygen in the lungs has long been exhausted, and his heart is suddenly relieved when he catches the big snake, and then he feels suffocated, and quickly stands up from the water.
The big snake was frightened, and immediately exerted all the strength of his body to coil Wang Zhuo's right arm tightly, but with its weight of a few catties, it couldn't help Wang Zhuo at all, as long as it couldn't bite it, at most it could strangle a few red marks on Wang Zhuo's arm.
"Wow!" Qi Fei saw the situation first, followed out of the water, and immediately breathed a sigh of relief when he saw Wang Zhuo holding the neck of the big snake.
Thinking of the thrill just now, she still had palpitations, coughed up the water that she accidentally choked on, her full and tall chest also trembled with the cough, and there were crystal droplets of water hanging on the two points of the red color, and Wang Zhuo stood up accidentally!
With a bang, Guan Yingying also came out of the water from the other side, Wang Zhuo subconsciously followed the sound and looked over, only to see her back to this side, as soon as she got out of the water, she showed her waist with a seductive sense of surname, turned around suddenly, and threw out a string of water curtains from her scattered hair, and the pair of little white rabbits on her chest also shook as she turned around, trembling a few times.
Wang Zhuo held the big snake in his hand, and stood in the middle of the pool in a daze, the water here was just thigh-deep, and the distance between the two was only two meters, and they had an unobstructed view of each other.
Guan Yingying was just frightened by the big snake, and suddenly saw Wang Zhuo who appeared out of thin air, and she couldn't turn her head for a while, and even forgot that she didn't have any clothes, and a pair of eyes turned two times on the big snake, Wang Zhuo, and the two snakes below him, before she suddenly woke up!
Tong! She squatted into the water, but because of too much force, she sat at the bottom of the pool, opened her mouth in pain, and then poured in a mouthful of water.
Wang Zhuo turned back to Qi Fei and smiled bitterly, squatted down and was about to swim back to his side.
At this time, Meng Shengnan was holding something in his hand, and ran back on tiptoe, the girl was naked, the slightly large-scale pigeon milk jumped up and down with the run, and Bai Shengsheng's leg meat also trembled slightly, Wang Zhuo was careless, and he looked straight in the eyes.
"Uncle Wang Zhuo, eat wild eggs!"
A gray-white egg was thrown over, Wang Zhuo hurriedly stretched out his free left hand and grabbed it, Meng Shengnan did not shy away from it, waved to him with a smile, and his small chest shook again.
The folk customs are so special and simple! Wang Zhuo praised in his heart, it was really unexpected!
"Ah, Uncle Wang Zhuo caught a big cauliflower!" Meng Shengnan saw the big snake wrapped around Wang Zhuo's right arm, and she jumped into the water excitedly, and she actually had the posture to step forward to see what was going on.
On the way to Taoyuan Village, Deputy Director Kang and He Zhishu talked about some of the characteristics of this village, among which the old and young share the same bed, and the mixed bathing of men and women are novelty to Wang Zhuo and others.
The old and the young share the same bed, to put it bluntly, a large family sleeps on the kang in a side room, and which couple wants to have sex will go to sleep in another side room.
Now they have finally seen the custom of mixed bathing between men and women, Meng Shengnan did not avoid the suspicion of men and women at all, stepped forward and took the snake off Wang Zhuo's arm, shook off his muscles and bones a few times, carried it ashore, and happily told the three of them to drink snake soup at noon, and then put on his clothes and ran away with the snake!
From beginning to end, she didn't take herself and Wang Zhuo's [***] to heart, and her clear gaze gave Wang Zhuo an illusion, maybe the person who wears clothes should feel ashamed, naked but sincere.......
(To be continued)