A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

"How did the little girl know that I took a shower?" Xiao Pingtai was a little dizzy in the corridor.

Back in the Japanese room, "Xiao Pingtai, did Aya tell you what to have for dinner?"

Xiao Pingtai looked at his old father-in-law, who was writing and drawing something there, when something suddenly occurred to him. The men A Aya usually interacts with the most are the father and son of Hosokawa Harugong and Hosokawa Kaina. What is the difference between them and herself?

He said maliciously, "Let's eat Tsukudani tonight." Then he slowly approached Hosokawa Harungong, and Xiaoping sniffed it too fiercely.

Understood!

The sixty-year-old Hosokawa Harugong has a "twilight smell" on her body, which is either a bad smell or an indescribable smell.

"How often do you take a bath?" "Hmm? About once every ten days. What's the point of asking?" Hosokawa Harumiya raised her head. It was a bit strange. You, a man, asked me how many days an old man took a bath and fucked me. Well.

"How many days ago was the last time?" "Just last night." The old man looked confused, but Xiao Pingtai already understood in his heart.

If a person doesn't take a shower for ten days in the summer, I think everyone can relate to this situation.

When Hosokawa Kaname came back from her shift, Koheita also pretended to be close and approached her brother-in-law and gave him a gentle sniff.

"Heita Koheta, what are you doing!" Hosokawa Takame always had trouble dealing with Heitai Koheta. He always felt that Heitai Koheta was actually from a peasant background and was not as good as him, a nobleman who had been born for hundreds of years.

"It's okay, it's okay. Brother, how often do you take a bath?" Xiao Pingtai retreated at the first touch, pretending to be okay.

However, Hosokawa Saime seemed to understand something. She raised her left and right hands and smelled them. As if he smelled something, he hurriedly stood up and walked out.

"How often does your adopted brother take a bath?" Xiaopingtai grabbed a maid and asked.

"Cai Nu gets up every morning to practice spear skills. After practicing, she will wipe her body with cold water. As for bathing, she only takes a bath once every ten days." The maid answered truthfully.

Sure enough, Hosokawa Zaimei, who came back from work every day, might still be clean in the morning, but it would be hard to tell at night, and her clothes were not changed every day.

After all, if you buy an undershirt on Taobao for twenty or thirty, who doesn’t have more than ten or twenty pieces in his closet? In ancient times, even a high-level samurai with three thousand swords like Hosokawa Harime definitely did not have twenty sets of summer clothes.

Clothes were one of the most important personal possessions in ancient times. He did not have the capital to change clothes every day, and naturally it was impossible to change clothes every day, even in the summer when the temperature was above 35 degrees.

Xiaopingtai recalled that he, the original owner, did not take a shower for a long time when he was poor at the beginning. But after he traveled through time, he earned some money and had an earthen stove at Uncle Tsunliang's house.

I almost started taking a bath every day, even though it was just a bucket of hot water and a cotton cloth dragging the water with me to scrub my whole body. Later, I became a middle-level and high-level samurai. Except when I was fighting outside, I could usually wash myself in a large wooden basin, so I didn't miss the firewood money.

As for changing clothes, Xiaopingtai was really not very diligent in changing her outer clothes. There was nothing we could do about it, but Xiaopingtai had more than a dozen inner and outer garments made of cheap kapok cloth, and she would change them almost every other day.

It became clear at this moment that although Xiaoheita's personal hygiene was not bad, the average samurai did not actually have the habit of bathing every day. And Xiaoping spent every day with a group of samurai who had various smells on their bodies, so he had long been used to it.

As for A Ling, who is a girl and has a more sensitive sense of smell, she suddenly found a man with no smell among a group of men with various smells on his body.

At least the first one looks good, right?

…

Personal hygiene is so important! Important enough to find a wife. Xiao Pingtai was suddenly very grateful to the kindergarten teacher. She bathed frequently, cut her nails, said thank you and said hello. Education in early childhood really affects a person's life.

From that day on, the samurai comrades in the designated enforcement office received a strange order.

You must take a bath every ten days! Check regularly!

And Xiaopingtai also noticed a business, opening a bathhouse! It is undeniable that bathhouses have become popular in Japan from the Warring States Period to the early Edo period.

But the current bathroom is a sauna and does not provide showers or baths. I can only say that I will give you a bucket of hot water after entering the bathroom and wipe it yourself, that's all.

Of course, this kind of bathroom has a very popular service, it can hire a bath master. And the bath masters are not men, they are all relatively young women. This bath also contains meat, which is completely consistent in ancient and modern times, both at home and abroad.

You can make a calculation and boil water for bathing at home alone. The heat dissipates quickly and firewood is expensive. So how did a single family bathe in the Edo period?

Does everyone know about Goemon Furo? 【Note 1】

The family builds a stove, puts a large iron pot, boils a pot of hot water, and the whole family takes turns washing it.

Xiaopingtai had taken this kind of iron pot bath once before, and it was a wonderful experience.

For a single household, this is not cost-effective. But bathing is also a necessary thing in human life. If Koheita could directly launch baths and showers, it would not be a big hit, but at least there would definitely be customers. No one wants to be seen dirty and smelly, right?

Moreover, by boiling large pots of water and building insulated rooms to reduce heat dissipation, the cost can be greatly diluted. There were a large number of public bathrooms in Kaifeng City in the Song Dynasty of my country. Wang Anshi often made appointments with Han Wei to take baths, and it is said that they even recited poems while washing. As for whether they took a dirty bath, that's not known.

There is no technical content in the bathhouse. It can be opened by heating hot water. What's more, just outside the city of Shanuchi Fuzhong is Lianchuan, so there is no problem with water. Just hire a few people to carry water.

Moreover, if Xiaoping didn’t plan to do it on his own, it wouldn’t be a big problem to open a bathhouse and make hundreds of dollars a year [Note 2]. This little money is no longer meat for mosquito legs and can be taken seriously.

First, he roped in his old father-in-law, Harumiya Hosokawa, and then roped in his old boss, Yamauchi Yoshiharu. If three people open a bathhouse together, even if each person can only share 200 yuan a year, that's still a lot of money.

You can even give the samurai a free bath ticket every month, coax them to come first, and wait until the winter is minus ten degrees to see who can forget the pleasure of taking a bath.

As for the side business of bathing, you can also start a side business. The Tokugawa shoguns all did it, so why couldn't Xiaodaita do it?

[Note 1]: It is said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi once boiled the thief Ishikawa Goemon alive in a cauldron, so the bathtub in the Edo period, or actually an iron pot, was called this name.

[Note 2]: It is mentioned in "Yi Jian Zhi" by Hong Mai of the Southern Song Dynasty that even an oil seller can accumulate ten thousand gold. He can make money from selling wine, flowers, and even shit. He can make money from anything, both large and small. Just a difference.