After having a sweat during the day, Yue Zhengyang and his grandfather and Master Tan took their underwear and underwear to the bathhouse. When it comes to the bathhouse, the first thing they talk about is Huaqing Pool.

This Tsinghua Pool is located on the West Street of Zhushikou, Qianmen Waimen. Old Beijingers call this public bathroom a bathhouse, and take a bath in the bathhouse.

Why do you go to a bathhouse? Because at this time, there are ponds in bathhouses.

Men who have been tired for many days first soak in the pond when taking a bath, and then ask someone to scrub the bath to remove all the mud and dirt. This is bathing. People call taking a bath in a bathhouse.

This Tsinghua Pool is on the street, next to the door, and is a barber shop. A corridor is the lobby. The lobby is large, with several rows of wardrobes connected to a bed. The size of the bed is as big as the bed in the sleeper carriage. The beds are opposite each other, and there is a coffee table in the middle, which is where guests can rest after bathing.

Walk further forward to the bathroom. There are towels placed in front of the bathroom, and guests can pick them up.

In the bathroom, there are three large pools, namely hot, medium and low temperature ponds. The high temperature is 60 degrees, the medium temperature is more than 40 degrees, and the low temperature is 36 or 7 degrees.

Next to the pool is a bath scrubbing stool. The bench is about the width of a person's shoulder, so you can scrub it on it. On the other side of the pool is a shower, and near the door is a basin for washing your face. The bathhouse has its own boiler, which is usually burned with coal.

People who go to the bathhouse will bring a little snack, then a pack of tea, go to get a haircut, then take a shower, and eat some snacks when you are hungry after taking a bath, so there is a saying that you don’t take a bath when you are hungry.

Yue Zhengyang and the other two came to the lobby. One of them stood in the hall, and loudly said, "Here you come, three! Are you three washing basins or sinks?"

Why do you ask about washing basin or washing basin? Because baths are generally divided into third-class, first-class is basin, one by one, with a white enamel bathtub inside, with hot and cold water faucets on it.

This is a type A bath coupon that can be washed every 25 cents. After washing, I have a bathrobe and an exclusive bed. I can lie down as long as I want.

The next time I waited was the shower, which was small and small. Although I couldn’t take a bath, it was also private.

The last time is a large pool, divided into the inner and outer rooms, and the inner large pool is bathed. There is no shower in the outer room, and there is only a small pool filled with clear water. You need to scoop water on your body with a wooden spoon and water it cleans your body.

Yue Zhengyang originally wanted to go to the first-class wash basin, but the old man wanted to go to the pool because he liked to soak in the hot pool. Because the pool had time limits, Yue Zhengyang each bought a double ticket, took off his watch and handed it over to the ticket seller for safekeeping.

After buying a ticket, someone handed over a set of toiletries, a pair of slippers, a towel, and a piece of soap. Soap is the kind of pancreas used to wash coarse cloth clothes. The slippers are made of wood, and two strips of cloth are tied to a wooden board, commonly known as "Zhu La board".

This kind of slippers is not divided into size or size, or left and right feet. Two of them are taken over and they are just a pair. There is a playful saying in crosstalk: "Slippers in the bathhouse - nothing right", which is described very well.

The busiest season for bathhouses is the twelfth lunar month before the New Year. The bathhouses are the busiest. People are used to keeping dirt on the New Year and not having to wear mud to celebrate the New Year.

So before the New Year, the bathhouse was crowded and queued up, and it was impossible to be leisurely.

There was not enough wardrobe, so a bamboo basket was brought in. There was another name called "Take the basket".

They came early today, and there were not many people. It was probably not long after the Chinese New Year. At this time, people were not taking a bath when they saw the sky, and it would be nice to take a shower once a week.

Of course, you will have to wait twice a week after a good family condition. Also, when there are many people, you should do it as early as possible. If you come late, I'm sorry, you can only wash the muddy water.

The three of them took off their clothes, and the old man went straight into the hot water pool, grinning and screaming when he was scalded. He couldn't forget to shout loudly, "So water!"

Yue Zhengyang couldn't enjoy that blessing, so he entered the medium pool with Master Tan, and the water temperature was just right forty or fifty degrees.

Yue Zhengyang first stood in the pool, paddled the water with his hands, poured it on his chest, and then slowly squatted down and started taking a bath.

Taking a bath can also be addicted. Some people run to the bathhouse every now and then, and such people are "puttes".

These people will not relax and lose their energy if they don’t take a bath for a few days.

A few naked people in the pool chatted while taking a bath, some sang a few fashionable songs, and some sang a few lines of "I mentioned Song Lao San,..." The voice was filled with water.

After taking a bath in half an hour, you can scrub the bath. Speaking of scrub it, it is divided into southern schools and northern schools.

The southern school is represented by Yangzhou, and the northern school is represented by Dingxing.

The bathhouse in the old capital belongs to the Northern School.

In the old capital, most of the people who push their heads, scrubbers, and shaking coal balls are from Dingxing, Hebei. Therefore, the bathing industry in the capital is crowded with people from Dingxing. There are also some specialties in the Northern School bathing scrubbers, which are all about rubbing 108 handfuls all over the body. The rub should be soft and clean, and it does not hurt at all.

Yue Zhengyang was lying naked on a wooden board wide by a man. He saw the bath scrubber flying up and down, raising Yue Zhengyang's arms up, spreading his thighs, pulling each foot back and forth, then rushing on Yue Zhengyang with a basin of water and turning over.

Soak the bath cloth on your hands in hot water again to remove dirt, wrap it around, and then another battle. After the battle, you rinse it with hot water from your shoulders to your feet. After that, the bath scrubber put soap on Yue Zhengyang's whole body and patted Yue Zhengyang, indicating that the completion was completed and you could take a shower.

After the shower, it is the last service - pedicure. Tsinghua Pool can have such a great reputation because of this unique skill of "one move".

Young and young men in Beijing usually come to Tsinghua Pool whenever they have foot pads, warts, corns, onychomycosis, athlete's foot, and curvature. The one they are looking for is the font size of Tsinghua Pool.

After this set and rest, the three of them left the Tsinghua Pool until 8 o'clock.

On the way, the old man asked Yue Zhengyang, "San'er, Master Tan has been here for some time. You can't keep asking others to serve us. You have been running a lot outside, so you can find someone to make a living."

"This uncle, don't have to worry about it. It's good here. You care about my food, my drink and my living. To be honest, I have never met someone as good as Yoko in my life. I'm very grateful to Yoko."

Master Tan is sincerely grateful to Yue Zhengyang for his unfriendly relationship. It is no longer easy to care about himself to this level. Nowadays, who has more stuttering?

You can’t be too selfish in life. If you ask others to find a job for you, it will be unreasonable.

It just so happened that Yue Zhengyang was going to ask Uncle Liu about the storefront these two days. Uncle Liu was arranging to go to the countryside some time ago, and Yue Zhengyang was embarrassed to disturb him. Yue Zhengyang responded to the grandfather and said, "Don't worry, I know what's going on."

"This, this is really not necessary! I'm causing trouble for you!" Master Tan was a little anxious, afraid that he would cause trouble for Yue Zhengyang again.

"No trouble, this will be my buddy, please help me."

"If you have something, just say a word without asking."

"Then let it be. I'll send you a letter in the past two days."

Master Tan was particularly convinced by Yue Zhengyang. Although Yue Zhengyang is young, he is vague at all when he does things.

Let’s talk about the introduction letter. When they went to the neighborhood committee to give a speech, they called the phone number and lived a few days later, the neighborhood committee personally delivered the introduction letter to their door.
Chapter completed!