Farmer's Ruyi Manor

Chapter 12 Bathing Problems (2)
Went out for a walk, it was already getting dark.Xiao Ting wants to take a bath, she has been here for so long, she has been lying down for almost 20 days, and she has never taken a bath, only occasionally her mother wiped her body.She didn't even brush her teeth. In the morning, she just broke some branches and scraped her teeth.

As soon as she got home, Xiao Ting asked her mother, "Mom, I want to take a bath, please boil some water for me." Xiao Ting felt that her whole body was dirty and smelly, and she was sticky.If she didn't wash it, she was afraid that she wouldn't be able to sleep at night.You must know that in modern times, if she wants to wash her hair and doesn't wash it before going to bed at night, she can have a nightmare at night.

"Okay, when you went out just now, I boiled some water, you can wipe yourself off first." Jingniang rarely refuses to agree to her daughter's request.Her husband is not around now, so she is probably dead, and she doesn't plan to remarry. She will rely on these two children for the rest of her life.Besides, her daughter is also filial. In fact, her son and daughter are the same in her heart, and she will not deliberately favor anyone.In addition, when the daughter marries in the future, it will belong to someone else's family.Now my daughter is 8 years old, and she won't be able to stay at home for many years.If you don't treat her well now, it will be difficult to treat her well in the future.

Xiao Ting searched every corner of the house, but she couldn't find a bucket for bathing, except for the water tank (actually a wooden bucket) at home. Xiao Ting thought to herself, if they want to take a bath, they can't use the water tank to wash it. Just fill it with water and stir-fry vegetables to drink or something, that would be too disgusting.

But the reality is that there is no other wooden barrel in the house except for the bucket used as a water tank. How can she take a bath? She still wants to learn from the TV and sit in the wooden barrel to take a bath. This makes her Difficulty.

"Mom, where is the tub? I want to take a bath." Xiao Ting gave up searching and asked directly.

"There is no bathtub at home, you can just use the tub to wash it." Jing Niang sat in the yard talking to her mother-in-law without turning her head, hugged her son in her arms, and gently coaxed him to sleep.

No bucket, use a tub to wash?where to wash?Who is doing the cleaning everywhere?Several questions floated through Xiao Ting's mind.

"Mom, where should I take a shower?" Another question was raised.

"Didn't the kitchen keep hot water for you? You can just wash it with some cold water."

"Mom, if you wash it in the kitchen, the floor won't be wet, what's the matter?"

"Just wipe your body, who told you to splash it on the floor?" Jing Niang wondered why her daughter had so many problems today.

Xiao Ting is going crazy, what she wants is to take a bath, not to wipe her body every day.Rubbing her body is not as comfortable as taking a bath. Besides, she still wants to wash her hair.It's been a few days, and she's afraid that if it goes on like this, there will be lice.That was so disgusting that she wouldn't even want to kill her.

"Mom, I just want to take a bath."

"Then if you're not afraid of the cold, come to the yard and wash it up. Anyway, it's dark now, and no one will see it." Jing Niang was a little speechless to her precious daughter. She has never seen her so pretentious. What's going on today? .

Xiao Ting definitely didn't want to take a bath in the yard, it was dark now.They have to smear and wash in the shower, and their family has no money or oil lamps, so they don't even have a lamp.In the kitchen, the hot water her mother boiled for her, there is still a little spark in the stove at the moment, so she can vaguely see something.

Forget it, just wipe it, when she has money, she has to build a bathroom bigger than this kitchen, and get a few wooden barrels that can let her take a bath horizontally and vertically, it's so depressing for her now .

"Mother, where is the hair washing thing?" Xiao Ting suddenly thought of this question.

"It's over there by the stove. I made the ashes for you, and you mixed in and washed them yourself." Xiao Ting collapsed instantly, not this one, not that one.I was crying alone over there, God is too bullying.So in my heart, I greeted the whole family again.

After a while, I heard a hoarse, slightly nasal voice from the kitchen and a coquettish voice: "Mother, I'm afraid my hair won't dry after washing at night, so you can wash it for me tomorrow. I want my mother to help me." wash."

Just as Jing Niang put her son into the room, she went out and said, "That's fine, washing your hair at night won't make you sleepy, and it won't be good for your health in the future. Mother will wash it for you tomorrow. You should wash it early and go to bed." , we have to get up early tomorrow."

There are three sleeping rooms in this thatched house, one for Mrs. Ruan, one for Jing Niang and her son (who is still young and needs someone to take care of her), and one for her daughter.Although the family is poor, they still have three rooms.In the past, when the husband was around, there was a room for the old lady Ruan, a room for the husband and wife, and a room for the sister-in-law and her daughter to sleep in.

"Okay, mom, you should go to bed early too. By the way, mom, wake me up tomorrow morning. I'm afraid I won't be able to get up by myself." At this moment, Xiao Ting plans to wipe it a few times and treat it as a bath. There is no other way. Wiping can never be compared with washing.I was afraid that I wouldn't be able to get up tomorrow morning, so I hurriedly talked to the cheap mother.

Xiao Ting swears in her heart at this moment, she must let this family eat well, dress warmly, and live well, and she does not want to be rich, but these must be satisfied, she can't stand everything now, she must If she wants to work hard, she does not believe that her new human beings in the 21st century will not be able to survive in this backward era and cannot create miracles.Although she doesn't know how to make flowers, embroider, make glass, cement, bombs and so on.But she lived to be 28 years old, received a higher education, and worked in foreign companies for so many years, so she didn't believe that with her wisdom, she wouldn't make a name for herself.Everything now is just the beginning, we can work slowly and carefully, and she doesn't want to be too ostentatious, she will use her low-key to solve all the current problems, give her a few years.

In the past two years, we will mainly solve the problem of food and repay foreign debts.Now, she has to learn a word "forbearance".Wait until you find out everything before making a decision.

Xiao Ting knew that when she traveled here, she could not speak the current language, maybe it was an instinctive reaction of her body, she could understand and speak it.The people in Chengjiakeng didn't speak Mandarin, nor the dialect of Xiao Ting's hometown, nor the dialect of her husband's.

You must know that the entire Chinese dynasty is big, and since ancient times, every place has its own dialect.That was not the era when Mandarin was common, and the country did not have a unified language, but only dialects from various places.Everything is completely different from what you see on TV and novels.Perhaps this imperial court also has the language of this imperial court, but it is different from the little Chengjiakeng where she is.

Xiao Ting didn't know how the officials in each place and the ministers in the court spoke. Words may be the best way of expression, but you must know that the pronunciation of words is still different in each place.Maybe businessmen often travel all over the country, and they also speak some languages ​​in other places, and some people write travel notes.Or some translators or something, who specialize in translating for local languages.

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