Chapter 60: Bathing with the Son

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It was already midnight, and Zhao Wuxian was lying in a wide "pestle", that is, a large wooden barrel filled with hot water, with his eyes closed and a fine kudzu cloth towel covering his face, enjoying a rare hot bath.

When I opened my eyes, I was greeted by a maiden's room with red curtains: a screen embroidered with a cloud pattern, a hazy curtain made of tulle, and a table inlaid with shells, on which were placed bronze wine jugs and red and black lacquer cups......

That's right, this is Ji Ying's boudoir.

He braved the rain to travel dozens of miles at night tonight, and after arriving at the lower palace, he knelt wet in front of Zhao Ying for a while, and the cold air entered his body. After he retreated, he ran to Ji Huan's residence to tell her that the important matter was over, and when she didn't have to worry, she sneezed several times in a row, probably because she had a cold.

Ji Huan couldn't help but say, stuffed him into his boudoir, and asked the concubines to help him change clothes and bathe.

The concubines helped him take off his shirt, and then untied the silk belt and took off the hakama, Zhao Wuxian hurriedly pulled the belt to stop him and blasted them all out. The women had also heard that the little gentleman had always disliked being waited for a bath, so they covered their mouths and smiled and left.

The Spring and Autumn Period is too far away from later generations, so far away that people will have many imaginary misunderstandings, thinking that the life of the ancients must be very dirty. But after returning here, Zhao Wuxian discovered that the ancients of this era, especially the nobles, were not as unhygienic as later generations imagined, especially compared to people from other parts of the world.

The nomads in the north believed that bathing would pollute the rivers they worshipped, so they bathed only three times in their lives, and at birth, before marriage and burial, after the Mongol conquest of Eurasia, also forbade Arabs to bathe in the rivers. In the Middle Ages, Europeans believed that illness came from the water, and as long as they did not take a bath, they could avoid getting sick, which was also considered a "way to stay healthy...... But in the Spring and Autumn period, the Chinese were probably indistinguishable from the Romans who liked baths in terms of their penchant for bathing.

Bathing and bathing, bathing is shampooing, bathing is washing the body.

Not only for expeditions, but also for major events such as sacrifices, it is necessary to bathe and change clothes, and even in normal times, people pay attention to bathing and tidying up their appearance.

As the so-called "men and women who are not crowned, the rooster crows, the salty gargle, the crow, the fashionable horn, the silk, all wear the smell".

That is to say, the first thing to do after waking up every day is to wash, comb your hair, tidy up your appearance, and even wash your hands at least five times a day.

Generally speaking, qualified scholars and Chinese people take a bath once every five days and wash their hair once every three days. But Zhao Wuxian couldn't stand the shoulder-length hair, so he had to wash it more diligently.

However, Chengyi's conditions were not flattering, and he could only pour cold water on noodles with the help of the maid Wei these days.

In the lower palace, at my sister Ji Huan, the conditions are much better, and some of the concubines here carry warm soup to add water for him.

It's just that there is no soap or shampoo now, so I can only use rice water to bathe my hair. People also summed up the rules: use millet juice for hair bathing, because it can make the hair silky, and use beam juice for washing the face, because it is easy to clean greasy and sweaty.

After soaking in the hot water for a while, Zhao Wuxian felt comfortable all over his body, and his fatigue was swept away.

At this moment, Ji Huan's voice came from outside.

"Wuxian, I went to your original residence to find some change of clothes, and your armor has been dried, so I put it outside."

Through the curtain and screen, you can still faintly see her graceful shadow.

Zhao Wuxian hurriedly squatted into the water, subconsciously protecting the key parts, and he responded: "Only ...... Sister, you should rest quickly. ”

Just because the scene in front of him made Zhao Wuxian's body and mind throb.

You know, he is now ** body, lying in the big wooden barrel that his sister usually bathes, listening to her sweet voice, thinking about her beautiful face, smelling the girl's body fragrance that she left behind in the past, and I don't know if it's an illusion.

The atmosphere is so ambiguous.

In order not to let himself be cranky, Zhao Wuxian hurriedly shook his head, recalling what happened before, this thought didn't matter, his head began to hurt again.

It's really hard......

It turned out that as early as half a month ago, during the winter hunt, Zhao Ying and Le Qi had already verbally decided the relationship between their children and their families, although they had not yet gone through a formal ceremony, but Zhao Ying and Le Qi were both trustworthy gentlemen, if nothing else, this marriage was finalized.

It is no wonder that Le Shi completely took refuge in Zhao Ying, and Zhao Ying was so furious after Le Qi was arrested that he almost did something to bring Zhao into the fire pit.

It turned out to be my in-laws......

The sad thing is that Zhao Wuxian is precisely the male protagonist among them, no wonder he has always felt that whether it is Le Qi or Chen Yin, the eyes of the two Song people have been wrong when they look at him, so they are obviously picking a son-in-law...... Now it's okay, the arrested Le Qi has become his quasi-father-in-law, and he has to be saved.

Zhao Wuxian is not completely rejecting the order of his parents, the arranged marriage of the matchmaker's words, if the other party is a beautiful and outstanding woman like his sister Ji Huan, it is easy to say. But if you want to run into strange enchantresses like Wen Jiang, Zhao Zhuangji, Luan Qi, and Nanzi, maybe they will put on all kinds of tricks and green hats for him before marriage, and let him cry?

For Wuxian, this kind of lucky way of getting married is far less attractive than the popular gentlemen and ladies of this era who went into the woods to fornicate in the Spring and Autumn Period, or openly lewd and went to the wild.

At least, that's free love.

It is said that this is how the Holy Prophet Kongqiu came......

And Zhao Ying, who was young, also had such an encounter with Ji Huan's biological mother, and it was also rumored to be a good story, but Zhao Wuxian's gossip psychology was not strong, and his understanding was not very detailed.

However, from the quality of the parents, it can also be seen how the children are in love, Zhao Wuxian has a very good impression of the humble gentleman's Le Qi, I heard that his family Le is still famous for "not being greedy", and the daughter who taught it should not be too bad.

Zhao Wuxian felt in a trance, it was only a month since he came to this era, and he was only fourteen years old, and he already had an extra fiancée. However, it seems that only his father Zhao Ying and several important retainers know about this matter, and her sister Ji Huan should not know about it, and she doesn't know what psychology it is, so Zhao Wuxian decided to hide it from her first.

Anyway, there are still several years before he is crowned an adult and can marry a wife.

The water slowly cooled, Zhao Wuxian got up, the Spring and Autumn aristocratic bathing is not only a life, but also a kind of etiquette, after cleaning the body religiously, there are a series of things to do: wipe the upper body with a fine kudzu towel, wipe the lower body with a thick kudzu towel, after coming out of the bathtub, first stand on the top of the kuai mat, rinse your feet with hot water, and then step on the pu mat, put on cloth clothes to absorb the water droplets on your body, and finally put on shoes, play the crown, and vibrate the clothes.

After that, you have to hold your hair to squeeze out the water, so there is a saying that Zhou Gongdan "holds your hair three times in one bath", and the hair is draped over the shoulders and left for it to dry before it can be combed into a fixed hairstyle.

Ji Huan didn't sleep, she kept waiting for the shirtless in the lamp, as usual, she still likes to help the shirtless comb her hair with her own hands, and the exquisite life of the female nobles is undoubtedly revealed in these small details.

"To comb the wet hair that has just been washed, use a comb made of white wood, as the hair is easy to become astringent after drying, so use an ivory comb."

Zhao Wuxian could only sit in front of the bronze jian, taking a nap with his eyes closed, and letting her nagging and fiddling.

After bathing, you will drink some thin wine, eat a few pieces of sweets made of dates and apricots, and at the same time order the music workers to ascend to the hall to play the drum and play the sheng, which is said to be good for recovering from fatigue. Zhao Wuxian felt that there was no need to be so troublesome, because with Ji Huan by his side, singing the ballad "Boxi" of Weidi, he won countless victories over Huang Zhongdalu.

"From the east of Bo, the first is like a flying canopy. If there is no anointing, who is suitable for it? ”

In the lyrics, "Who is suitable for bathing, who is suitable for bathing" means that after bathing, the hair should be anointed with oil to make it shiny and smooth. However, Zhao Wuxian is very resistant to this, he prefers to face the sky.

Listening to Ji Huan humming the innocent poem three hundred in a heavenly voice, and combing the hair for the shirtless with his hand-like hand, he was so comfortable that he almost fell asleep. Sometimes I feel that what princely hegemony and what wins the world are not as comfortable as this leisurely and comfortable day.

But in the next second, Zhao Wuxian suddenly came to his senses and pinched his thigh.

As the saying goes, born in sorrow and died in peace, he can't frustrate his spirit in Gentle Township, because the premise of all this life in front of him is that the Zhao family has to survive this crisis and maintain it in the Jin Kingdom!

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