Speaking of old bathhouses, the first thing that comes to mind will definitely be the authentic Beijing bathhouse. Misty baths, old-fashioned partition seats. The guests of the hall met each other sincerely, laughed and scolded, and chatted happily; When the mood comes, I will shout a few times in the bath.

Lushi County had such an old bathhouse in those years, the bathhouse at that time was different from our current one, there was neither the nozzle, nor the sauna or the like, it was a few large pools, and the people who came to bathe were all for a good soak in the hot pool soup, regardless of the weather and season, soaking in the hot water for a while, it could relax the muscles and invigorate the blood and remove the cold poison, and it was also an important place in the social circle of folk people at that time.

Going to the bath pays attention to the heat, not that the water is hot, but that there are many people. There are many people who say anything, no matter who knows or not, they can interject, and they are happy, it is like knowing each other for many years, and it looks very interesting.

Speaking of this Hu Daji, he took Lao Wu and Xiao Qi straight to the old bathhouse in the county, and he had been to soak a few times before, but it was during the day, and after noon, it was not a shady place to hide from the sun, that is, to take a bath in the steaming old bathhouse. After coming out of the hot water, the whole body was red, and it was still steaming, as if I had drunk too much liquor, and I was talking nonsense.

But Lao Wu and they came relatively late, it was already seven or eight o'clock in the evening, no one took a bath during this time period, but the old bathhouse opened from six o'clock in the morning to midnight, during which the hot water continued, how to wash how to have.

This old bathhouse is actually not big, from the outside, it looks like an ordinary flat-roofed house, and there is a square wooden sign hanging on the outer wall of the house, on which is written a big word "bath". After entering the house was a counter, and an old man was sitting on the side snoring. Hu Dazhu leaned over with a smile and suddenly shouted: "Old man Bai!" This loud voice frightened the sleeping old man, and when he looked up to see that it was Hu Dafang, he stretched his waist a few times and said, "Ah, come to take a bath?" It just so happens that no one is clean now, so I closed the door and went in with you to bubble. With that, he put on his shoes and went to lock the door. After Lao Wu put a few cents on the counter, he followed Hu Dafang into the small doorway, took off his clothes and went into the bathhouse.

It is said that this Lushi County is not the same as the bathhouse in old Beijing. The small pool lounge in old Beijing is big, just like the dipping water, go to the bathhouse to soak for a while and come out, and the outside lounge is the place to chat, drink tea, play chess, and pedicure. The one in Lushi County was the opposite, almost the whole room was occupied by two steaming pools, and a lounge was sandwiched out of the aisle outside, with a few broken wooden beds, but it was so dirty that few people remained in the cool breeze after bathing.

Lao Wu's abdominal wound was not completely healed, so he could only sit on the edge of the pool and soak his feet. Hu Da and Xiao Qi and the white old man who was the shopkeeper of the bathhouse, the three of them occupied a large pool, lying in hot water, covering their faces with wet towels, it was really a kind of enjoyment, eliminating the fatigue of their bodies for many days, relaxing and happy.

I was finally able to clean up for a while, but Hu Da's mouth couldn't be idle, and he said in a muffled voice: "Oh, don't say that you can take a bath after tea and dinner, it's more immortal than that." After finishing speaking, no one responded for a long time, so I raised my eyes to see that those people made the blisters cool, and they didn't bother to open their mouths to talk to him.

Seeing that no one cared about him, he reached out and patted the old man Bai who was closest to him, and then said nonsense to the two brothers: "Hey, I said! Hey, you know what? Just the old man Bai, his bathhouse, that was taken from his father. Oops! There must be eighty or ninety years! Don't talk about Henan, don't talk about Beijing, even the whole country can't come up with a bathhouse older than this, we are not taking a bath, that's history! ”

As soon as Hu Dabao finished speaking, Lao Wu took down the towel covering his face, squinted his eyes and said, "Second brother, you just don't know how to pretend to understand." How can the oldest bathhouse be the turn of this! Have you ever heard of a saying? Visit the south of the old city, climb the Zhonghua Gate, drink firewood wontons, and take a bath in the urn hall. This last urn hall refers to the bathhouse at No. 2 Yuelai Lane outside the Zhonghua Gate in Nanjing, don't say that this urn is our China, even if it is the territory of those foreigners abroad, there is no public bathhouse that can be older than it! "Hu Da loves to pull, and Lao Wu also accompanies him, but Lao Wu does have this urn hall.

It is said that the urn hall was built by Zhu Yuanzhang when he built the city wall in order to solve the problem of bathing more than 200,000 migrant workers. Some people also say that the urn hall is attached to the Jinling Dabao'en Temple, which is used for foreign envoys and dignitaries to take a bath, and is the highest level of bathhouse in the Ming Dynasty. So how many years ago is the Ming Dynasty? At least there are more than 600 years, and what is washed there is history.

Soaking in the bathhouse and chatting about the bathhouse, it feels a little weird, but their brothers really don't have anything to say, so they can only do some useless things and waste time.

In the steaming heat, Xiao Qi lay on the edge of the pool and said to Lao Wu: "Big brother, what do you say the fourth brother are doing now?" Are you still digging graves over there? ”

Lao Wu was rubbing the ashes on his body, and suddenly heard Xiao Qi ask him what the fourth child was doing, so he remembered the brothers, patted his thigh and said, "Oops! Forget and forget! Why, how did you forget those stupid babies! The second child and the seventh child, it just so happens that they have been fine lately, let's go to the fourth child and work with them, how about it? ”

Hu Dabao wiped his face and said: "I, I'm not going, I'm going to go by yourself, it's hard to rest for a few days, and you have to travel so far to catch me Biao?" ”

Old Wu looked at him and said, "What are you talking about?" Who doesn't you go to work? Hurry up and finish washing, find a place to sleep until dawn, and then leave early and arrive early, if you can't say it, you can still pick up some good things, how about selling money to let you drink mutton soup every day? "Lao Wu saw that Hu Dawei didn't like to move, so he even deceived him.

But Hu Da Arm didn't move, he was still sitting in the pool and looking up at the curved roof, and then muttered a sentence in his mouth, Lao Wu didn't hear it clearly, so he asked Xiao Qi: "What did the second child muttered just now?" ”

Xiao Qi swallowed his saliva and said, "Roast, roast the whole sheep!" ”

Lao Wu said suspiciously: "What roasted whole sheep, do you want to go or not?" ”

Hu Dajiao lazily turned his head to look at them, and said with a smile: "It's not enough to drink mutton soup for a while, you have to roast the whole sheep." With that, he held his breath and lay down in the steaming pool.

The next day, the little seven people had light legs and feet, and he ran back to the dormitory to get a few clothes and a pair of short shovels from Lao Wu. After the third brother picked up wontons on the street and ate enough, he went directly to the county compound to find Secretary Liu and asked him where the fourth child was working, and they would also go over to work and help dig the ancient tomb.

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