Alien landlady

Chapter 5 Conflict of Customs
The entry into the city went smoothly. Although there were guards, they did not check the documents. After entering the city, Bai Tongtong got out of the car and changed to the front driver's seat. Together with Laurie, they followed the route instructed by Viscountess Linden's coachman and merged into the crowded traffic. , which street to go, which landmark building to turn to when you see which intersection, control the nervous Laurie to drive safely and smoothly into Lecock Knight Garden Street where Seiya's fiancé lives.

Because the former was a military fortress, the names of the criss-crossing streets are mostly related to military history. It takes a strong memory to distinguish all kinds of awkward names for newcomers, but it is not difficult if you master the rules.

Knights are at the bottom of the noble class, so the neighborhoods named after them are mostly the preferred living places for the lower nobles and the middle class. Seiya's fiancé is a lower nobleman from his hometown, and living here fits his status.

After driving into this street, Bai Tongtong and Laurie found that they came in from the end of the street, the house numbers are 643 and 644, and Mr. Galty's address is 257, so Bai Tongtong asked Laurie to relax the rein and walk slowly , she knocked on the wall of the carriage behind her, and loudly told Seya that she had arrived at Leacock Knight Garden Street.

Seiya couldn't bear it and poked his head out of the car window, urging Lawley to go directly to No. 257 first, followed by Finn's voice of objection, not surprisingly.

Bai Tongtong also thinks that Fen's objection is justified this time. Although I can understand Seaya's eagerness to see her fiancé, it is better to find a hotel to settle down, freshen up, and then send someone to inform Galti. Sir is better.

Looking at the house number, you can tell that the street is not long, and the big signboard of the hotel can be seen at a glance. The surrounding residents are all low-class nobles and middle-class families of small and medium standards, so the environment of the hotel is not bad.

She picked a hotel as close as possible to No. 257. After checking in, Bai Tongtong found a surprise. There was a public bathhouse behind the hotel. It was open from sunrise to midnight, and rested in the latter part of the night. You could take a bath at any time.

Bai Tongtong had nowhere to go, so he also opened a room here. When choosing a room, he deliberately asked for the one on the other side of the floor, not to live next to Seiya.

Originally, her errands ended here, but Fern refused to let the hotel waiter carry the suitcases, so Laurie had to ask Bai Tongtong to help her. Seiya and Fern both sat in the room drinking water and rested, and they finally put the suitcases away. It's all over.

Laurie left first, and Seya called Bai Tongtong to him, counted fifteen gold coins to her, and gave her another one.

"Tongtong, thanks to you along the way, and you have done a lot of things you shouldn't have done, this is to express my gratitude, please don't refuse."

The itinerary was a day short, and I already got an extra gold coin, so I gave another one, how can I refuse, Bai Tongtong accepted it with a smile, "Thank you for your generosity, Miss ***, may my lord bless you all the best and have a happy life. "

Ignoring Fen's ugly face when he saw Saiduo give a gold coin, Bai Tongtong formally completed the bodyguard escort task, put the money into a small purse that could hold it, and stuffed it into the inner pocket of his clothes.

"Tongtong, please call me Seiya. The relationship between you and me should not be estranged just because the mission is over, it should be closer. By the way, Tongtong, what do you want to do next? Since we all live here, how about Let's have dinner together? Be my company? Miss Noble is having dinner alone, the scene is too bleak." Seiya looked at Bai Tongtong expectantly, the pleading eyes in his eyes made Bai Tongtong unable to bear to refuse.

"Sea, the only thing I want to do now is to go to the back bath to take a good bath." I haven't bathed in half a month since I set off, and I can wash my hair at most. I can't bear it in this summer.

"Take a bath? Take off your clothes? Is this something that a noble lady should do? It's too disrespectful." Fen was the first to strongly object. Seeing her face flushed with excitement, it seemed that taking a bath was an indecent act.

Bai Tongtong didn't bother to argue with her, but Seiya also didn't understand, so personal hygiene education really needs to be strengthened.

"Sea, bathing is a living habit of Fort Chemington. You know that this place used to be a military fortress. Soldiers drilled every day, and they were often disheveled at the end of the day, so they had to clean their bodies every day, and the military doctors also found that the skin Cleanliness helps wounds heal, so this habit was written into military regulations and enforced at first, and then it became a natural daily life. Seiya, no matter what living habits you have in your hometown, you have to do as the Romans do when you come here , you have to develop the habit of taking a bath, and you don't want to be rejected by other ladies when you meet in the future, do you smell bad?"

"I've never heard of such a custom in Fort Chemington in my life." Fern snorted, strongly objected, and almost roared.

Seya glanced left and right, not knowing who to listen to.

"Saya, when you were chatting with the Viscountess yesterday, I drank with the knights in the back. They told me this. Do you think the knights would lie? Besides, judging by the costumes of the Viscountess and Miss, If they don’t have the habit of taking a bath, the skin they reveal will definitely not be as rosy and moist and beautiful, and the skin of those who don’t take a bath will only have an ugly layer of greasy dirt. Seiya, Mr. Galty’s long-awaited The fiancée finally came, but what he saw was an ugly girl with disheveled hair after a long journey?"

"Tongtongbai, you are talking nonsense, those two women who look like fat pigs are not as beautiful as my lady!" Fen finally yelled.

Seya ignored Fen, she stretched out her hands to hold Bai Tongtong's, "Tongtong, you are right, since bathing is the local people's living habit, I have to do as the Romans do, and I can't lose Steve's name in front of other nobles." The faces of the *** family and the Galty family, as well as the face of our common lord, Viscount Phaseas."

"That's right, Seiya, you are not only the face of your family, but also the face of your fiancé's family and Fengjun. You can't lose this face. Now, do you want to pack your clothes and go take a shower with me?" Bai Tongtong didn't either. Li Jifen reversed the order of her names and even called her by her first name and last name.

"Well, let me get the clothes." Seiya got up and walked to the box where she put the clothes.

"Oh, no, my lady, if the news of your bath is known to Madam, she will cry for you." Fern ran to stop Seya from opening the box.

Bai Tongtong couldn't bear it anymore and rolled her eyes.

"My mother would have cried for me if she had learned that bathing was the custom at Fort Chemington, and that I had refused to change, and had been ostracized by the nobles of the city."

"The news that Mr. Galty's fiancée was ostracized by the circle of noble ladies in Fort Chamington came back to Steve. Not only Mrs. *** will cry about it, but even Mrs. Galty will cry, and even call off the engagement. For the noble lady, of course I know very well what it means to be rejected by the whole circle." Bai Tongtong played the side drum behind her, in exchange for Fen staring fiercely.

"It means that our two families no longer have a foothold in Fort Chamington. In order to preserve the honor of her family, Mrs. Galty is very likely to cancel the engagement, and all the faults are all my fault." Seiya thought of this He absolutely couldn't bear the consequences, and his face turned pale.

Bai Tongtong nodded approvingly, "Sea, now you know the real reason why you are asked to come here early even though your wedding date is a few months away?"

"Yes, I understand, not only to prepare for the wedding, but more importantly, to let the local circle accept me."

"Oh, my lady!" Fern was still screaming.

Seiya pushed away the maid who was blocking the box impatiently, unlocked the lock on it, and took out the clean clothes inside.

Bai Tongtong checked the closet and found that there were bathrobes and indoor soft slippers inside, so he took them out, first put the underwear into the clean cloth bag that came with it, and then helped Seiya take off the cumbersome tutu skirt, and untied the tight Tight corset, wearing only underpants and underwear, wearing a bathrobe and belt, wearing slippers on bare feet, holding a towel for wiping water, without even looking at Fen, who was already slumped on the ground covering her face and crying. , took Seiya's hand, and the two left the room together.

The two of them went back to the bright white room at the other end of the corridor and stayed for a while. She also sorted out a change of clothes, took off her coat, wrapped herself in a bathrobe and slipped on her slippers, and walked up the back stairs to the big bathhouse, talking and laughing.

It was only when I went downstairs that I found out that men left and women right, and the passage on the right leads to the women's bathhouse. Once you go wrong, it will be very embarrassing.The inside is very spacious, surrounded by mist, and there are independent changing rooms, cleaning rooms and bathing rooms. First wash off the dirt on the body in the cleaning room, and then go to the bathing room at the back to take a good bath to relax your tired body and spirit.

It was just before dinner, and there was no one else in the bathhouse. It was like a private room. The two of them had a good time, and came back wrapped in bathrobes more than an hour later.

Bai Tongtong sent Seiya back to the room first, and when he entered the door, he saw that Fen was still sitting on the ground. Not only were there two obvious grooves on his face from crying, but also one part was black and white. After a closer look, he found that it was not the makeup that was stained by crying, but the face. Due to the dust on it, it looked extremely disgusting.

Seya, who had endured all the way, finally lost her temper and ordered Lingfen to leave her room, and if she didn't clean herself up, she would never appear in front of her again.

Fen, who had stopped crying, covered her face again, and ran out of the room crying loudly.

Bai Tongtong has no sympathy for this.

When taking a bath just now, Seiya talked a lot about the local life customs in Steve. Taking a bath is definitely not on the list of daily hygiene habits. If the women in the family want to take a bath, they have to drive all the men out of the house and close all the doors and windows. Rinse quickly in dim light, and usually, washing your hands a few more times a day is enough to be praised as clean. If you wash your feet before going to bed every day, it is called cleanliness.Sai Ya said frankly that he has grown up so much, and only now knows that taking a bath is also a very particular thing.

At first, Bai Tongtong thought that Steve developed such a living habit because of the lack of water, but he didn’t know that it was not. The rain in Steve was so abundant that the river would flood, there was no shortage of water at all, and the local residents would change their clothes frequently, but I don't like to take a bath.The reason is entirely due to the local religion. It is written in the teaching that nudity will attract the covetousness of the devil and pollute the human soul. In order to keep the purity of one's own soul and enter heaven, the devil cannot see the complete body. Bathing this naked body Of course, what is done is also within the forbidden range.

Bai Tongtong was completely speechless after listening to Seiya's narration about this passage, and then she was very glad that she came to Fort Chamington, where bathing was normal, otherwise how would she live.

Now that the annoying Fen has been driven away, Seiya closes the door to rest on her own, Bai Tongtong returns to her room and quickly puts on a set of clean clothes, and then returns to Seya to help her fasten her corset and put on a pair of home style clothes. Floral tutu, and packed all the dirty clothes to be washed, and rang the bell to call the waiter to take them to the laundry room.

The two helped each other dry their hair and braid it into loose braids. Afterwards, Seiya sat at the desk and wrote a letter to her fiance, telling him which hotel room she was staying in and the time to meet her.

He rang the bell again to call the waiter, handed him the letter after giving him a little tip, and then the two went downstairs to the restaurant for dinner.

These are Bai Tongtong's opinions. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the two of them getting along in the bath, they broke them apart and taught the country girl Seiya how to give her fiancé who lives and works in a big city a generous and decent fiancee image. One of the things I did was to write this letter so that Mr. Galty, who came home from work at the end of the day, would see it just in time and make some arrangements accordingly.

Bai Tongtong believes that Mr. Galty, who also came out of Steve's social custom where it is normal not to take a bath, will definitely worry about whether his fiancée can accept and get used to the living habits of Fort Chemington in the shortest time, so this report is safe. It must be mentioned in the letter that you know this, and you have accepted it happily, and you are sitting at the table clean and fragrant, writing this letter to your dear fiancé.

After the two of them had dinner, the waiter removed the plates and brought dessert and honey water, but Fen still didn't show up, and no one cared about her. Bai Tongtong listened to Seya's hypnotic vision of a new life, and the waiter brought a Guests in black maid dresses arrive at their table.

"Good evening, Miss ***, I am Mrs. Wright, Mrs. Galty's housekeeper. Mr. sent me to meet you." The woman who claimed to be Mrs. Wright was in her 40s, with her hair neatly tied behind her head. The hair is in a bun, revealing a smooth forehead, and the corners of the mouth are gently raised. The black maid skirt has a white collar and white hard double-layered cuffs.

"Good evening, Mrs. Wright." Seya and Bai Tongtong were both surprised to receive the reply so quickly, "Balbo is at home? I thought he should have a social event outside."

"Miss ***, the time of your arrival is very lucky. Mr. Galty has just finished a busy period of work. These days, he commutes normally and has no extra entertainment. When your letter was delivered to his home, he happened to be Not long after I got home, I guessed that Miss *** might already be having dinner, so she asked me to come here and hand in the reply." Then, Mrs. Wright took out a double-folded note from her skirt pocket.

Seya took it, opened it and read it, and immediately smiled and nodded to the housekeeper's wife, "Please go back and tell Balbo that I will arrive on time tomorrow."

Mrs. Wright took her leave immediately.

(End of this chapter)