Everyone had a good meal and drank a lot of wine. After the meal, the slightly drunk Wang Fat Man, in order to show friendship to us, also wanted to apologize to Xiao Tao and them, and must invite us to take a Russian sauna, Colonel Alexei and the two officers who came back from the Afghan battlefield excused themselves and said that they still had something to do, so they did not go with us. When we broke up, Colonel Alexei asked Xiao Tao and them to go to the old wholesale market management office to find the person in charge the next day, he said hello to that side today, and the stall had been arranged, and then Colonel Alexey explained that if someone in the market over there was to trouble Xiao Tao and them, they would just look for him. At this time, Xiao Tao and they were completely relieved.

Wang Fatzi's police relatives took us to a suburban bathhouse, which is different from our domestic bathhouse, which is a bathhouse in the true sense of the word, and a Russian bathhouse should be called a public sauna. When I saw the Russian bathhouse, I remembered that before I went to university, there were very few buildings in the city, every family lived in a bungalow, there were almost no sanitary conditions, the toilets were all public, and going to the toilet in winter was the most painful thing, and when it was the coldest time, it could freeze your buttocks, and under these conditions, there was no bathroom at home. Everyone takes a bath and goes to the public bathhouse, buys a bath ticket, locks the clothes in the locker, first soak in the big pool, and then put on soap and wash it with water. Even if most of the bungalows in the city are demolished and built buildings, and the family has the conditions for bathing, many people still like to go to the public bathhouse to take a bath, a few people make an appointment to take a bath together, brew enough to make a pot of tea, and the brothers brag while drinking tea, how comfortable and comfortable it is, in this regard, the public bathhouse in Russia is very similar to the public bathhouse in China, and it is also a place for friends to gather. It's just that there are no such large pools for bathing in Russian bathhouses, but there are wooden sauna baths, and Russians drink not tea but wine after steaming in the sauna. Even though every family has a toilet and bathroom, Russians have a soft spot for saunas. Whether you're heading out for a weekend getaway or a get-together with friends, head to Fannya. Even if it is the welcome of the guests, it is indispensable to go to Pannia to express the enthusiasm of the host. Unlike ordinary baths, this type of bath requires a pre-existing meal of beer, sausages, bread, etc., and after steaming, you have to drink and get drunk. Rich Russians build a banya in a suburban villa, and call friends to have a sauna and drink together on the weekend, and Sasha once said that he would take us to his suburban villa for sauna fishing and barbecue. Most Russians still go to this kind of public sauna, and those who don't have money go to the public sauna to steam, and then take a big basin to flush the water, and after the sauna friends will go to the public hall or small bar to drink and brag. Wealthy people usually gather friends to this kind of public Pannia, because it is fully equipped, and it costs hundreds of thousands of rubles to rent a VIP room with everything, and even Russian beauties can be called to serve. There is a saying among Russians that if you come to Russia and have not washed Ponya, you are not considered to have been to Russia.

Wang Fatzi rented a VIP room, which has a sauna, massage room, and plunge pool, as well as a special place for drinking, and you can also order food. The waiter brought each of us a large ridiculous-looking felt hat, a few handfuls of mulberry branches tied in the shape of a broomstick, and a few cotton gloves. Wang Fatzi asked the waiter to bring beer, sausages, Baikal sashimi and bread.

After pouring the beer for each of us, Wang Fatzi raised his glass and said to us: "Everyone is happy today, especially friends from Novosibirsk who have come from afar, count me as washing the dust for you." Then he said to Xiao Tao: "Brother I offended a few days ago, and I hope that my brothers Haihan, in fact, I don't want to do this, after all, we are all Chinese." A lot of things were arranged by Oliga's police relatives, and I couldn't help it. If you need my help in the future, brothers, just talk about it. Xiao Tao held his wine glass and touched the glass with Wang Fatzi and said: "Brother Wang, everything has passed, in the future, we will cooperate well and make a fortune together, and we will go to your house another day as a guest to visit Oliga and your two little princesses." Wang Fatzi took a sip of the beer in the cup and said: "Everyone will be brothers in the future, and we will get rich together." Welcome to my home, and I will entertain you when the time comes. Okay, now let's go to the sauna. ”

After taking off our clothes and rushing through the shower, we entered the sauna, the wooden door of the sauna is very heavy, the four walls are decorated with camphor pine planks, from the ground upwards, with thick and wide camphor pine planks to build three steps, the width of the steps is just enough to lie down a person, the length of the steps is more than four meters. In the sauna there was an iron stove in the corner of the ground wall, and the iron stove was full of fist-sized pebbles, and the door of the iron stove was outside, and the iron stove was already burned hot with wood. Next to the iron stove was a wooden barrel filled with water soaked in mulberry leaves, with a wooden spoon in the barrel, a lamp and a thermometer on the wall. Strictly speaking, the Russian sauna should not be called a sauna but a Russian bath, the sauna is invented by the Finns, also called the Finnish bath, the heat source is electricity, and the heat source of the Russian bath is wood.

I put on my felt hat and sat down on the steps, following the example of Vidaly, and Sergei poured water with a wooden spoon on the pebbles, which had burned red at the bottom, and poured three or four spoonfuls of water, and a stream of water vapor spread, and suddenly the room was filled with the aroma of mulberry leaves. After only a while, the whole body was hot and began to sweat, and I looked at the thermometer, and it was almost fifty or sixty degrees on the ground, and the temperature should be seventy or eighty degrees on the highest steps, and Yura said that it could reach a maximum of one hundred degrees. Now I understand the benefits of wearing a felt hat, which is to protect the head from hot air and the ears from burns. Vidali put on cotton gloves and grabbed the mulberry branch and told me to lie down on the steps, I obediently lay down, Vida used the mulberry branch to crack my back, and with the whipping of the mulberry branch, the heat was also accumulated into the skin, and there were bursts of burning pain, and at this time, the heat was sucked into my mouth and my tongue hurt. I couldn't take it anymore, waved my hand at Vidali, got out of the sauna in a daze, and plunged headlong into the pool, feeling a sense of pleasure from the inside out as soon as I came into contact with the cold water. After swimming in the pool, I went into the sauna again, and after repeating this three times in alternating hot and cold, my body was lightweight. Pour yourself a glass of cold beer and drink it in one gulp, which is really the feeling of beer commercials, cold from the inside out. Now I understand, why do Russians like Banya? Why is it said that if you come to Russia and have not washed Ponya, you are not considered to have come to Russia? This feeling is incomparable to the mild Finnish bath, and only a fighting nation like Russia can invent this hot and spicy Fanya, and only after washing Panya can the Russian nation have a deeper understanding. The Russian banya is painful and pleasant, especially the feeling of the mulberry branch whipped on the body, which is torture, but in the end it is a whole body of comfort. I think that this kind of beating will promote blood circulation, the pores of the sweat will be completely opened, the toxins in the body will be expelled, and the substances that are good for the health of the mulberry branches will also be absorbed by the body, no wonder the Russians are as strong as polar bears. From this moment on, I began to fall in love with Russian Panya. I remember that Tanya said that she would take me to her house to experience Siberian Pannia, what it was like to be with Russian beauties, and I couldn't help but think about it, and it seemed that I would have to find some time to go.

Xiao Tao Vidali and they also washed happily and comfortably one by one, and Wang Fatzi shouted even more comfortably. Everyone was almost washed, we sat down and started drinking, the first drink of Wang Fatty's police relatives said a toast, for the sake of the brisk sauna! The reason for the sauna was that we had a surprisingly good appetite, we quickly drank up two barrels of draught beer, and the sausage sashimi on the table was swept away, and the sashimi on Lake Baikal was absolutely delicious. Not to the end, the fat man asked the waiter again to bring vodka, sausage, pickled cucumber and brown bread. For the sake of friendship, for health, for the sake of beautiful girls, for peace, a glass of vodka, I didn't even feel a trace of drunkenness.

An unforgettable trip to Irkusko, an unforgettable first Russian Bannia.