Chapter 3 Chapter two

Bathtubs made of wood are now hard to see.But this kind of bathtub has been a very important one among Chinese household products for a long time. The process of making wooden tubs is quite complicated. Firstly, select high-quality wood and make wood chips one by one. Each piece must be of the same thickness and size. Then wedge the wood chips together, the wood chips should be slightly slanted outward, and add hoops, usually two or three hoops, and the technique of adding hoops is extremely delicate. If you really need to study it in detail, you can find The ingenious application of mechanics, scattered wood chips in a pile, has become a bathtub after adding hoops, but the production process is not over, and it still needs to be painted.

Generally, tung oil is applied first. (The name of tung oil has almost become a historical term. Tung oil and pig bristles were once the main products produced and exported in China in textbooks. But ask the young people today, what are the uses of these two things? The young man cannot answer.) On top of the tung oil, paint.The Chinese nation has a special liking for lacquer, and it can be painted layer by layer. It is trivial to paint three or five layers of lacquer on a delicate bathtub.Lacquer can not only increase the beauty and make the wood more durable, but also play a waterproof role, which is a necessary condition for a bathtub.

And so the tub was completed, bright red lacquer, gold hoops, a new tub, brilliant, a work of art. Bathtubs are also used in water towns in the south of the Yangtze River. Big girls and young girls will use the tubs, paddle the tubs, pick water chestnuts, lotuses, and lotus roots on the lake and play. You can also have an idea of ​​the size of the tubs. Now that it is difficult to see this kind of bathtub, it is conceivable that what happened in this section, since a large oval wooden bathtub is the main prop, did not happen in modern times. Know. It doesn't matter what era things happened in. It may be a hundred years ago, maybe two hundred years, or even a thousand years, two thousand years. When watching the stories in this section, it is as good as watching a costume movie.

By the way, there is one more thing that must be explained. What happened in this section, there are only pictures, no sound, no sound at all, and everything is absolute silence. As for why this happens, the answer is very simple, but let’s leave it at that, and it will naturally be revealed in the next section. A large bathtub with red lacquered copper hoops is placed in the center of the room. The room is very elegant, with light blue terracotta bricks on the floor, and most of the corner pillars are hidden in the wall, and those exposed outside are also oily red. The windows have carved window lattices and are pasted with shiny tissue paper, which makes the room full of light, and also reflects the dragon and phoenix patterns drawn on the tub with colorful paint, making it even more eye-catching.In one corner, there is a row of screens.

There was a small half basin of water in the bathtub, which was steaming, and another stout servant woman came in with a bucket of hot water, poured the hot water into the bathtub, then went out, and then came in again.This time it was a copper pot, which was quite large, and the copper pot was obviously hot water, because there was curling water vapor rising from the spout. The copper kettle is placed next to the bathtub, which shows that the bathers like to soak in the bathtub for a period of time-if the water is cold, the hot water in the copper kettle can be used to supplement the heating.And with such ostentation, the bathers who will appear naturally are not ordinary people.

Not long after the servant woman left, a maidservant who was only fourteen or five years old came in and put her hands in the bathtub. Most likely the water was very hot and scalding hot, so she immediately withdrew her hands and shook them. His lips moved, and he didn't know what to say. (no sound, remember?) She stood up straight and went out. After a while, she came in again. There was an extremely white and tender hand pressing on her shoulder. For the jade bracelet, for a while, it was hard to tell whether the person was jade or the jade was a person. If it is a movie, the camera first points to the hand, and then the camera moves up, and what you see is a light blue sleeve, wide, with pink embroidered edges, the embroidery is extremely fine, and then moved up, it is obliquely cut Shoulder, this type of shoulder, has been hailed as a symbol of beauty for a long time, and it is called "beauty shoulder".Further up, there is the neck and a touch of crisp breasts, probably because the collar is loosened because it is about to get out of the bath, and only then can you see a touch of crisp breasts, which are astonishingly white.

Moving upwards, such a posture will naturally not disappoint people, and there must be a face that is suitable for anger and joy, with a charming smile. With few exceptions, what happened in this section is not exempt. From the looks of this beauty, she may be in her early twenties—now, a woman in her early twenties can still call herself a girl, but in ancient times, she had already matured to the point of maturity. This beautiful woman is naturally a bather. The beauty comes out of the bath. Seeing this, I am afraid that some readers will boo: In Wesley's story, there is a beauty out of the bath that has long been used in movies, which is really special (it was declared at the beginning).

The beauty comes out of the bath, you have to write in detail, you can write 10,000 to 20,000 words, or more, but I won’t write it, because that is not the main part of what happened in this section, and readers can also imagine according to their own imagination. The little maid backed out, the beautiful woman dipped her body into the bathtub, and let out a long breath, her eyebrows were always knotted, sometimes darker, sometimes shallower, she kept crooking her eyebrows, then It means that she has a certain degree of concern, her face is facing the row of screens. Out of ten beauties in ancient times, there are probably nine and a half who have all kinds of thoughts (modern beauties, why not?) Then, she closed her eyes, and when she closed her eyes, something must have happened ──It was most likely some noise that startled her, causing her to open her eyes suddenly, and then, a look of extreme surprise appeared on her pretty face.

What really makes people feel that she is terrified is not the expression shown by her facial muscles, but the look in her eyes, which can make people who touch her eyes feel the horror in her heart, And jumped up. What was it that frightened her so much?She must have seen something horrific to do this. What did she see? have no idea. I don't know, is this plausible?How does this story tell?The storyteller can tell the story, and listen to the next chapter to break it down, and you can't say you don't know.I don't know, what's the story? And slow and slow.Since I dare to say that I don’t know, there must be a reason, and the reason will be clear as soon as I say it, but it will also be placed in the next section.

The events in this section ended here--oh, and what I want to add is that the beauty's horror immediately spread throughout her whole body, and her body trembled violently, causing the water in the bathtub to shake out and flow out. On the ground, quickly absorbed by bricks.