Chapter 15: Finding a Hidden Spot in the Mountains of Koya (Part 1)

Because Lu Xihua is a post-determined and male, the room is not next to Sakurai Izumi, not even on the same floor, and is arranged in a Japanese-style room called 'Chickweed'.

The rooms of Japanese hospitality are divided into Japanese style and Western style, Japanese style is the system of traditional Japanese nations, and Western style is the style from the West, which is similar to the layout of star hotels in later generations.

In traditional Japan, rooms are not counted by square meters, but by the number of tatami mats, which is called a stack, and it is generally said that there are several stacks or packs in the room. The traditional size of a tatami mat is 90 cm wide, 180 cm long, 5 cm thick, and has an area of 1.62 square meters.

Tatami mats are transliterated from Japanese, and the Japanese name is stacking. In ancient times, people's home lifestyle was called the Xiju system and the banquet system, which originated in China. During the 400 years from the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty, stools and high beds gradually became popular, and the Xiju gradually declined in China.

With the changes of the times, the mat system has also changed from the original bamboo mat to the current Japanese stacking, and it has been inherited and carried forward.

Lu Xihua is not bad for money, and Sakurai Izumi is also a public expense, so the rooms booked by the two are the most luxurious, with an area of ten stacks, a separate balcony and bathroom, and a small cubicle for living and changing shoes at the door.

In Japan, you have to change your shoes when you go to and from different rooms, and strictly speaking, you need to change into specific shoes when you go to the indoor bathroom, so even if you leave your leather shoes at the main workshop, you can change them into straw slippers that you can walk around in the temple. When entering your room, you still need to change into new home shoes or go barefoot.

Based on this alone, we can know why Japan is so clean everywhere, and the warehouse knows the etiquette, and the food and clothing are sufficient to know the honor and disgrace. For ordinary people, they will no longer pay attention to the details of life when they have food and drink, because after all, in the traditional sense, thousands of years of Chinese people have not had the opportunity to study, but are busy digging in the field, which must be changed.

The room looks very new, with air conditioning, humidifier, TV and all kinds of electrical appliances, not at all the simple monk's house without any furnishings as Lu Xihua imagined. The sliding doors of the room are also painted with beautiful patterns that resemble chickweed, which is a delight.

"Bathing first, then eating, the accommodation of the monastery is only a dinner and breakfast, lunch needs to be solved by the guests themselves, although it is now half past one, but don't forget the meal you promised and the beautiful song. Sakurai Izumi had no luggage, and after walking around his room, he came and knocked on Lu Xihua's door to remind him of his treat.

But Lu Xihua didn't want to go out now, "Can you call them and ask them to send them over, and we can eat in the house?"

"Hmm~ I need to ask the monks in this workshop, I don't know if they mind. Izumi Sakurai thought for a moment.

"Then please~"

Sakurai Izumi was also missing, and used the phone in Lu Xihua's room to contact the Zhike monk at the main office, and learned that there was no problem there, and the Zhike monk also enthusiastically recommended several shops with unique flavors and high reviews.

Izumi Sakurai made a phone call, and after a grunt, he set up lunch for the two. The meal is really not cheap, and the luxury package of 35,000 yuan per person is delivered to the guest room.

"I sent it over after half an hour, first hurry up and take a bath, sit in the car all morning, so tired, all sweating, see you later. Seeing that the meal and the song were settled, Izumi Sakurai waved his hand and left shaking his beautiful collarbone.

Japan is a country that attaches great importance to bathing culture, and Japanese-style bathing is called "bathing". The Japanese are particularly fond of cleanliness, and some are keen on a way to bathe in hot springs around the country. In the early days, there was a tradition of mixed bathing for men and women, but with the pursuit of modern civilization and the gradual westernization of society, this mode of mixed bathing gradually disappeared, and only some of the more traditional mountain areas remained.

When the Japanese people have never been very good in English, and the monks of Renhua Dingyuan are no exception, Lu Xihua held the Japanese yukata provided by the temple to be replaced, and when he came to another men's and women's bathroom of the temple with Sakurai Izumi to take a bath, he saw that the building that had not been marked at the time of the previous check-in was finally hung out with the door sign of "men's bath" and "women's bath".

There was also a pair of European women at the door who were also preparing to take a bath, and the monk was loudly introducing the 'door' and 'digging the door' in broken English, which suddenly made Lu Xihua unconscious.

This pair of women from Europe were confused, but fortunately, Sakurai Izumi was the host who graduated from a prestigious school, and his English was absolutely passable, which solved the difficulty of the monk who knew the guest.

Originally, in order to receive tourists, the temple specially introduced a hot spring from the mountain for everyone to bathe, so in order to keep the hot spring clean, the hot spring pool here is naked bathing, you must wash your body before going to the pool, you can carry a small square towel provided by the temple to wipe your sweat, but you must not use any washing products in the hot spring pool.

Just now, the monk introduced the rules of this monastery to two European tourists. But his non-standard English really couldn't be understood by the guests, so he was so anxious that his head was sweating.

Fortunately, at this moment, Izumi Sakurai stepped forward and solved his problem. Otherwise, if the guests broke the cleaning of the hot springs, he didn't know how to explain it to the temple, because the English of the two European guests was also not very good.

Sakurai Izumi probably saw it too, and tried to switch to another language, and sure enough, it was much smoother. It turned out that they were Spanish tourists, and both sides had communicated with a serious local accent before, which was quite a bit of a donkey's lips against a horse's mouth.

"I didn't think you could speak Spanish?" Lu Xihua was a little surprised.

"I'm a journalism graduate from a prestigious university, and I can speak four Chinese and French. Izumi Sakurai cocked his head, finally surprised the big boy once, and his heart was actually happy.

Explain the problem and things will be easy, and the two tourists from Spain said that they must abide by the monastery's rules.

Entering the door is the changing room and the washroom, where the initial cleaning is followed by the shower room. There are a total of 10 sprinklers, all of which are designed to be Japanese-style sitting washes.

Lu Xihua doesn't care so much, he doesn't have a physical body now, his whole body is embodied by the rules of thunder, where does he need any cleaning, and he comes to shower completely to hide people's eyes, but it's okay to soak in the hot springs.

The hot spring pond in Renke-sin Temple is beautiful, with an irregular crescent moon shape and a light green water inside, which is crystal clear and steaming on the water.

There are steps made of rocks on the edge of the pool, which are not deep at all, and there are only three sections, so if you need to soak your whole body in the hot spring, you can sit at the bottom of the hot spring, so that you will only show your head, and if you need half of your body, you can choose according to your comfort level.

When Lu Xihua soaked himself from the neck down in the clear spring water, he couldn't help but smile: I'm taking a bath here, Kong Xuan, what are you doing now?

At this moment, the peacock was kneeling in front of a thin monk with white eyebrows and white beard, and said in surprise, "The gods are in the world, master, isn't your old man teasing me?"