Siheyuan: He Yuzhu’s Sunshine Farm

Chapter 69 Bathing Culture in Sijiucheng

"Brother, congratulations on accepting a disciple, and also congratulations on me becoming a master aunt!" He Yuzhu came to He Yuzhu's side and said with a smile.

"Haha...!" He Yuzhu looked at his sister and smiled.

At this time, Yu Haitang looked at He Yuzhu and hesitated to speak. After seeing this scene, He Yuzhu said: "Haitang, do you have anything to say?"

"Brother Yuzhu..." Yu Haitang looked at He Yuzhu and pursed his lips and said, "I have something to say, but if I don't say it well, brother Yuzhu, don't blame me."

"Haitang. If you have anything to say, just say it. How could my brother blame you?" He Yuyu laughed quickly.

He Yuzhu also nodded, and when he saw He Yuzhu nodding, Yu Haitang said cautiously: "Brother Yuzhu, I have a brother named Yu Haiyang. After graduating from junior high school, he has been doing odd jobs outside to supplement the family income.

You don’t know how difficult it is to work odd jobs. You are either working in a brick factory, which is the toughest job, or moving vegetables in a market, or helping others move furniture.

Normally, a temporary worker earns about 1.34 yuan a day. For heavier work like a brick factory, the salary is 1.64 yuan to 1.83 yuan a day.

It's okay to suffer a little bit, but the problem is that sometimes these part-time workers have jobs, but sometimes they don't.

My brother is already 20 years old. My parents have been very anxious and want to find a job for my brother, but my family has no way. I don’t know how many people have helped me, but my brother is still doing odd jobs at home.

My brother actually loves to cook, and my brother’s cooking is delicious. When we were young, he often took us down to the river to catch fish and grilled them for us to eat. He would also make his own sauce and apply it on the fish, and we would eat it no matter what. not enough.

So, I was thinking if brother Yuzhu still needs an apprentice, could I give my brother a chance? "

After Yu Haitang finished speaking, his whole body felt more relaxed, and he quickly looked at He Yuzhu with expectant eyes.

"That's it?" He Yuzhu laughed: "Of course you can. You can bring a letter back that day and let me take a look at your brother. If I like it and your brother is willing, then I can also arrange for him to enter the Hongxing Steel Rolling Mill. "

"Really. That's great. How about I go back today." After saying that, Yu Haitang looked at He Yuyu and said: "Yuyu, can you lend me your bicycle for a ride? I'll go back there." Go ahead and discuss it with your family. Actually, there is no need to discuss it. If your family knew about it, they would be extremely happy.

May I.? "

"No problem." He Yuyu said very proudly, "If the family is willing, you can come back and stay at night."

"Okay...!" Yu Haitang was overjoyed, and then he was about to leave the house and ride home, but He Yuzhu shouted: "Hey Haitang, bring back a piece of braised pork, and give your parents a taste of my cooking."

"Thank you, Brother Yuzhu.!" Yu Haitang showed a grateful look.

Soon, after Yu Haitang packed a portion of braised pork, he got on his bicycle and went back. He Yuzhu, He Yueyue, Hua Ya and Gou'er were left at home. At this time, He Yuzhu watched Hua Ya and Gou'er treat He Yu Shui Dao: "Yu Yu, these two little guys are not too clean. They are staying at home tonight. Can we take them outside to take a bath?"

"Okay. I'll take Hua Ya, and you take the dog." He Yuyu nodded with a smile.

"it is good!"

With that said, He Yuzhu went to get the bath ticket, and He Yuzhu also prepared clothes, soap, towels, etc. It was already dark outside at this time, but the bathhouse was not far from the alley, and it was basically just walking out.

There are many bathhouses in these four-nine cities. Taking a bath in winter is inconvenient, so there are many bathhouses.

This bathhouse usually uses a boiler to boil water in the morning, opens the soup at one o'clock in the afternoon, and ends late in the evening.

Bathhouse rooms are divided into elegant rooms and ordinary rooms. Ordinary rooms are sometimes divided into one or two rooms according to the size of the bathroom.The elegant rooms are semi-reclining chairs, and the ordinary rooms are seats.

A private room generally costs eight cents, and a regular room costs two cents. Children under one meter tall are charged half the price. However, there are often no seats when entering, so they share a seat with an adult.

After paying the money at the door, I entered the inner room with bamboo chips of different specifications. I only heard the door shouting: One person in the elegant room!Or one person per room!One person for two rooms!
He Yuzhu and He Yuyu entered the bathroom with a child each at the bathroom door. After entering the bathroom, they took off their shirts first.

On the high wall above the seats are rows of wooden hooks with serial numbers written on them.

When you take off your top, ask the master in the bathroom to use a long clothes hook to hang it on the wooden hook above. When you get dressed after taking a bath, ask the master to use the clothes hook to take it off.The other clothes he took off were piled on the seat, and then he went to take a shower naked.What I want to explain here is that everyone in the private room and the ordinary room take a bath in the same bathtub.

The bathhouse is divided into an inner room and an outer room. The inner room is a large bathtub, and the outer room is a large tub filled with clean hot water. Later, there was also a shower head.

There is a door between the inner room and the outer room. It is fixed on the door frame with a long bamboo piece, and a large wooden weight is hung on it, which functions as a movable door leaf. After people open the door, the door automatically closes with a "thud", thus ensuring Keep the heat in the bath from leaking out.

The hot water in the pool is divided into two pools, the large pool and the small pool. The small pool is also called the first hot spring pool.

The pool is made of cement and built into a square shape from the ground. People can sit on the wide cement border around it.The exquisite bathroom tub is made of cement terrazzo.

The water temperature in the small pool is extremely high, and it is often covered with wooden boards. Only the elderly with skin that is more resistant to scalding dare to bathe in this water with a towel. Young people are prone to burns when bathing in this water.

At that time, I heard many times that some young people were trying to be brave and bathed in the water of the first hot spring and were scalded.

The water temperature in the large pool is slightly lower than that in the small pool, and the human body can tolerate it.People sit around and take a bath with the hot water in the pool. After getting used to it, they can go directly into the pool to take a bath.Under normal circumstances, the pool is full of people, but during holidays, the pool is full of people.

People in Laosijiucheng pay attention to "soaking" in bathhouses. Many people stay in them for half a day.

The procedure for bathing is to soak first, then rub, then soap and finally rinse.After the skin is soaked in hot water, the mud and floating skin on the body can be easily removed during the scrubbing. No matter how dirty the body is, as long as you go through this procedure, you will feel like a different person.

Some old Sijiucheng people even pay attention to washing their hair and water when taking a bath.

In the past, the old bathhouse would replace the water in the pool with new water after closing every day. Before opening the next day, the water would be heated and the doors could be opened to welcome guests.The newly replaced pool water is clear and clean, and guests are willing to rush to wash it, so it is also called "head over water".

To enjoy this crossing, you have to get up early.Most of the people who come early are the elderly or regular bathers who have time to spare.And on Sundays, people would line up at the entrance of the bathhouse early in the morning, waiting to take a bath. This became a scene at that time. "The golden rooster has not yet sang and the soup is hot, and the red sun rises in the east and the hall is full of guests." This is what it means.

The massage and massage masters in the bathhouses in Laosijiucheng are divided into two schools: the south and the north.

The southern style is mainly based on masters from Yangzhou. The bathing techniques are delicate and pay attention to light hands and even force. The most comfortable thing is that after the bath, they will massage the guests' heads.Most of the northern bath masters are from Dingxing, Yixian and Laishui counties in Hebei Province, and their techniques are more rough and wild. They pay attention to being steady, accurate and firm, with strong hands, one after another, from top to bottom. , no more, no less, a total of 108 times.

After rubbing, the whole body must be red, which shows that the master worked hard.Finally, from the back to the calf, the whole body was slapped again.

Entering the dressing and rest hall, the scene is spectacular. Rows of bedside tables and beds with partitions are orderly distributed in the center and around the house, arranged head to head.

Here, you can chat in a towel, play chess, poker, cricket fights, read newspapers, talk about things, drink wine, drink tea, get a haircut, shave, cupping, scraping, pedicure, and even sleep beautifully on the bed Sleep.

Of course, He Yuzhu would not soak vigorously with his children. Instead, he took the dog to wash it clean with hot water in the big tub outside, and then took the dog to soak in the bathtub.

The dog in the bathhouse seemed very excited and kept swimming. Fortunately, it was a child, so everyone smiled and didn't feel annoyed.

After half an hour of washing, He Yuzhu took the dog out. After returning to his seat, the master in the bathroom came out and gave He Yuzhu two towel handles. He Yuzhu helped the dog wipe its head, face, and Back and upper body.

If you give a cigarette to the master at this time, the master will tie up the towel for you one or two more times.

After coming out of that sweltering hell, sitting on the seat to cool down for a while will feel very comfortable and comfortable.

You can also order a cup of tea and some snacks. The tea is actually tea foam, and the snacks are dried tea. A sip of dried tea and a sip of tea is really happiness.

The Red Star Steel Rolling Mill also has bathrooms where workers can take a free bath.Workers' families also took the opportunity to take a shower in the factory.However, the bathrooms in the factory are not as elaborate as the bathrooms outside. They are only responsible for supplying hot water. There is someone to guard the door, but no one to hold the towels.

However, since people from the unit take a bath inside, it is not as busy as the bathroom outside. Due to convenience, some people have developed the habit of taking a bath in the factory bathroom every day.

And just when He Yuzhu was taking the dog to drink tea and dry tea, He Yuzhu saw the uncle also in the bathhouse.

(End of this chapter)