Chapter Seventy-Two: The Grand View Garden Bathhouse
On the way to the Daguanyuan bathhouse, Yan Rou had already left with the little maid Xing'er, and Xiao Siming asked them to take the three horses away.
Xiao Siming reminded Yan Rou that the military dogs of the little devil's secret service are well-trained and have a very smart nose, and they must find a place to take a bath and change clothes before going home, and the clothes they are wearing now must be washed, including the three horses, they all have to be dealt with, and they can't be brought back to Yan's house, it's best to destroy the corpse, lest the devil's military dog smell the breath and chase it to Yan's house, then there will be big trouble!
The Yan family has been operating in Taiyuan for a long time, Xiao Siming's reminder, Yan Rou will naturally deal with it properly!
Having said that, Yan Rou didn't mean to go to the Daguanyuan bathhouse to take a bath, and still left with the little maid Xing'er.
Taiyuan is not as conservative as Shanghai, which is a ten-mile foreign market. In the past, there was no bathhouse, and people bathed at home, even if they stayed in a hotel, and the bath water was also delivered to the room.
During the social progress of the Republic of China, there were finally bathhouses in Taiyuan, but there were no women's departments, only male bathers.
After Chairman Chiang married Soong Meiling, who had returned from studying in the United States, the two of them vigorously advocated the New Life Movement. Song Meiling also set up a women's steering committee for the New Life Movement to advocate women's emancipation and encourage women to be literate and hygienic. It's just that the New Life Movement has been carried out for a short time, and the vast majority of women in Taiyuan City are still very conservative, for fear that they will be seen by others when they go to the bathhouse to take a bath, so they still bathe at home.
At this time, it is said that most of the women who went to the bathhouse to take a bath were prostitutes.
Yan Rou is a veritable famous lady, not a flashy wave butterfly with a smoky eye, and she will definitely not go to the Daguanyuan bathhouse with Xiao Siming and them!
Looking at Yan Rou's back that shook three times, step by step, golden lotus, and graceful and graceful, Xiao Siming remembered that Yan Rou didn't even say where her family lived!
This girl is cold enough and ruthless, and she doesn't even have the meaning of being grateful, so she saved her in vain!
Xiao Siming was an orphan before the soul crossing, followed the master to practice martial arts, went to school step by step, and joined the army after graduating from college, his life was very monotonous, and his understanding of the relationship between men and women only stayed in the perceptual understanding, and he did not have time to practice it personally, until the moment of the soul crossing, he was still a virgin despised by his classmates and comrades. It's just that he comes from later generations after all, and he has countless shots of film and television dramas and heroes and heroines in his head, shots of island country ****, the experience and perception of love by the heroes and heroines in the novel, and his own desire for love.
Xiao Siming's body is more pure, he became a Red Army at the age of 14, and he didn't even shake hands with female comrades until he died on the battlefield of Pingxingguan.
Because he is so pure, when Xiao Siming encounters a stunning and enchanting person like Mei Ying and Yan Rou, he can't help but react, embarrassing!
No, Yan Rou and the little maid Xing'er have long since disappeared, and Xiao Siming's heart is still very frizzy, so he has to stand on the side of the road with his legs between his legs and smoke.
After pumping three in a row, Xiao Siming regained his composure, thinking that after returning from the task this time, he had to seize the time to expand the troops, strive to get a regiment, and make a report to ask the organization to approve his marriage to Mei Ying. If you continue to fight like this, if you die one day, you will have to end up with the tragic fate of a singleton for two lifetimes!
Built in 1929, the Grand View Garden Bathhouse is a two-story building located in Liuxiang in Taiyuan City.
Since there is the Zhengtai Railway, Taiyuan City, which was originally only the political, military and cultural center of Shanxi, has gradually evolved into a commercial center, and the business district has expanded to the east from the Great South Gate and Nanshi Street, and businessmen gather in the area of Zhonglou Street, Liuxiang and Qiaotou Street, and the most prosperous area of Taiyuan is here.
The name "Grand View Garden" is borrowed from the name of the Grand View Garden built by Lijia Mansion in "Dream of Red Mansions" to welcome the provincial relatives of the Yuan Princess, mainly because several shareholders did not think of opening the Grand View Garden bathhouse when they were preparing to build it, but just wanted to build a good place for themselves to relax and enjoy, and its high-end luxury can be imagined.
After entering the Grand View Garden Bathhouse from the foyer on the first floor, there are the account room, the lobby, and the bath in turn, and there are more than 40 box seats downstairs for people to rest after bathing, and the second floor is a private room.
When the cousin of the Daguanyuan bathhouse saw two devils and a translator come in, he knew that it was not easy to get along, so he lowered his head and ran to the backyard to shout the manager!
The manager's surname is Pang, and he is a stocky Shanxi man with a smile on his face, and he came out to receive these three sudden Taijun.
Zhao Changshou, who was disguised as a translator, pretended to ask about the price of the bath.
Manager Pang said that it was three cents for the large pool on the first floor and five cents for the private room on the second floor.
As soon as Zhao Changshou heard this, he took out the Wang Ba box, put the muzzle of the gun against Manager Pang's chest, and said viciously: "Taiyuan people, men, women, and children all know that the big pool on the first floor of the Daguanyuan bathhouse is two cents for the Jin ticket, and the private room on the second floor is two cents and five cents for the Jin ticket. Why did Taijun raise the price fiercely as soon as he came to take a bath, did he hate the imperial army and deliberately deceive the imperial army? ”
Not to mention, when Zhao Changshou, who came back from studying in Japan, disguised himself as a Japanese translator, he was really presentable, and he played the translator's style of bullying and suppressing people to the fullest.
When Manager Pang heard this, he shouted that he was wronged, saying that he was not deliberately deceiving the imperial army, but that the tickets in Taiyuan City were too hairy, and the Zhengtai Railway was blown up by the Eighth Route Army, and the coal in Yangquan could not be transported in, and the food in the city was also tight, and the imperial army only sent everyone a piece of bread and a bottle of cold water every day, and the things were surprisingly expensive. If the price of the Daguanyuan bathhouse does not rise, it will not even be able to afford coal for hot water!
As he spoke, Manager Pang hurriedly took out a few tickets from his pocket, including fiat currency, Jin tickets, Korean tickets for the Japanese army, and old man tickets for the Japanese army, which seemed to be business income, and secretly stuffed them into Zhao Changshou's pocket.
Zhao Changshou put away the Wang Ba box at this time, scolded and said Don't be embarrassed, Taijun can come to the Daguanyuan bathhouse to take a bath, it is to give the Daguanyuan bathhouse a face. Don't be ignorant, annoyed Taijun, and burned the small building in the Grand View Garden with a fire, see what are you still burning?
Frightened, Manager Pang hurriedly led the way, led Xiao Siming and them to the private room on the second floor, opened three rooms, and shouted loudly to serve the hall!
In this way, not only did Xiao Siming and the three of them get rid of the bath ticket money, but Manager Pang also accepted Taijun's request to wash the clothes and put them on the fire to dry, and he was busy looking for someone to do it.
Since the soul crossing, Xiao Siming has been in the midst of fighting, marching, and training, and has never had the opportunity to take a good bath, feeling that his body stinks, his skin is itchy, and a piece of dirt can fall off when he rubs it. This time when he entered Taiyuan City, in addition to reconnoitring the enemy's situation, getting military equipment, medical equipment, and recruiting military talents, what Xiao Siming wanted to do most was to find a bathhouse to take a good bath.
Lying in the bathtub filled with hot water, Xiao Siming carefully examined his body for the first time, and felt very satisfied, due to the diligent practice of the Yi Jin Sutra, not only the wound has been completely healed and recovered, but also grown taller with it, with a height of 1.70 meters. If you continue to develop like this, by the time you are 20 years old, you may be able to grow to 1.80 meters!
With a height of 1.80 meters, he is definitely tall in this era!
With a height of 1.80 meters, and Mei Ying, who is about 1.67 meters, stand together, that's a perfect match!
The service of the bathhouse in Daguanyuan is very thoughtful, Xiao Siming takes a good bath, and there are people who rub their backs to rub their backs, and even their toenails and fingernails are trimmed neatly. Then the face trimmer comes in, and the face is carefully shaved clean with a razor.
After tidying up, Xiao Siming looked in the mirror, only to feel that it was like a different person, although his face was still a little childish, but he also had a little sparse eyebrows, elegant and timeless color, so he smiled and shouted in Japanese to bring the clothes.
Where can he understand Japanese, he has to knock on the door of the private room where the interpreter is bathing, and tell the interpreter that Taijun is looking for him.
Zhao Changshou knew that time was tight, so he hurriedly asked the cousin if his clothes were washed and dried?
The cousin said that the manager had found six people, made three pots of charcoal, and was roasting!
Zhao Changshou urged the hall to hurry up and bring the dried clothes, Taijun still has a task, put on the clothes and open the way!
After the cousins brought their clothes and put them on and walked out of the private room, they met in the corridor, looked at each other, and laughed, and felt that the clean face did not look like their own face!
Chen Desheng reluctantly whispered to Xiao Siming, I don't know when I can take a bath again!
Xiao Siming smiled and said nothing!
Out of the Daguanyuan bathhouse, the three of them ate knife-cut noodles at a restaurant next to the bathhouse. While eating, I saw a small group of devils running towards the Daguanyuan bathhouse with guns, and the little devils running at the front were holding a wolf dog in their hands!
Zhao Changshou's face changed color when he first appeared, knowing that Xiao Siming's inference was correct, and the little devil really asked the secret service to intervene to solve the case.
Zhao Changshou gave Xiao Siming a straight look, urging him not to eat and leave quickly!
Xiao Siming won't leave, he wants to see the ability of the little devil's military dog, and see what the little devil's military dog can smell in the bathhouse of Daguanyuan!
After about an hour, the little devil came out of the bathhouse of the Grand View Garden, and found nothing!
It can't be said that there is nothing, the little devil tied a string of people with a rope, including Manager Pang of the Daguanyuan Bathhouse, those who ran the hall, those who rubbed their backs, those who trimmed their faces, and the bathers who came to take a bath. When these people go to the little devils, I'm afraid they won't be able to get out without spending some money!
It seems that the uniform of the 109th Division cannot be worn, and it has to be changed!
It wasn't until the devil walked away that a man who lit a fire came out of the Daguanyuan bathhouse and closed the door of the restaurant, and the guests of the restaurant were so frightened that Xiao Siming got up from the stool, patted the restaurant owner on the shoulder and said Yo Xi, and said a word of Japanese.
Zhao Changshou translated to the boss and said: "Taijun said, your conscience is very good, your craftsmanship is very good, and the noodles you make are gluten and delicious!" If you can add a little vinegar and soy sauce produced in the Great Japanese Empire, it will taste even better! ”