"Oh, hello, my surname is Xia" The red-haired man immediately leaned down, grabbed Xia Xun's palm and kissed it very gentlemanly, and said courteously: "This is our etiquette to meet our distinguished guests here, Mr.
Xia, welcome to the romantic country of Frank." ” Xia Xun smiled and asked curiously: "Your Chinese dialect is quite good, how can you speak Chinese?"
Duck shrugged, "I've traveled a lot, I've been to the far East, and I've lived there for years."
At this, he seemed a little sad, so he changed the subject and asked, "Sir, is there anything you need me to do for you?"
Xia Xun said: "I heard that you are at war with the British, I see that you are still very stable and prosperous here." ” Duck said, "yes, because we are far away from England, and we have never fought here in the past.
The war has been going on for more than a hundred years, and we are used to it. ” This Duck is the French man who had a crush on Jeanne that Xia Xun had met in Beshbali, but at that time, Xia Xun was full of beard and deliberately disguised, which was very different from the image at this moment, plus the two had only met once, and many years had passed, so Duck didn't recognize him, and he didn't recognize Duck.
Xia Xun said: "Okay, you take me around, I want to see this city, if you are well served, I will take my female dependents to visit this city tomorrow, and I will hire you at that time" said and took out two gold coins that he exchanged in Morocco and handed them to Duck.
Dake was stunned, put the gold coin in front of Xia Xun and bit it, confirmed Xia Xun's generosity, and immediately flattered: "Sir, you are so generous, don't worry, I, Dake, as a guide, will definitely satisfy you, although I have not been here for a few years, but I know this city well" The talkative Duck chattered while leading Xia Xun to the city.
In medieval France, although there were many magnificent buildings, the cleanliness of the streets and the planning of the city were far inferior to those of China, but the strong exoticism was more attractive.
The houses of Marseille are small and dim, and the shops are open to the streets, like the stalls of the Oriental bazaar, where all kinds of artisans: shoemakers, tanners, tailors, carpenters, do business.
The women talked about the long and short roads along the roadside, and the children made the alleys and corners their paradise.
Except for one main road, the other roads have not been paved, they are ordinary dirt roads, the roads are crisscrossed with ruts and traffic, peasant women carrying fruit baskets hawking along the streets, shepherds driving sheep and pedestrians for the way, and horse-drawn carriages stubbornly driving through the chaos, the bells of which are constantly ringing.
Many taverns don't need signboards, the huge barrel at the door is the best sign, from time to time you can see a drunken drunkard coming out of the inside, there are also places similar to the Oriental Golan Tile House on the side of the road, but they are open-air performances: juggling, flute, and six-stringed piano At this time, Paris is not much better than Marseille, but at this time the sewers of Paris have begun to imitate the style of the Romans more than a thousand years ago and are built underground, and Marseille has many drainage pipes that are open-air, so the taste on the street is not too good.
When it rains heavily, the unpaved roads are muddy, and sewage from the drainage pipes overflows the streets.
As he went, Xia Xun saw all sorts of people, neatly dressed missionaries, lawyers, and scholars on the streets, and most of them merchants and ordinary citizens, beggars sitting listlessly outside the church, not shouting, but showing their deformed or crippled bodies for mercy.
The thief walked around the crowd quietly, with a sharp blade hidden in his palm, Duck obviously knew these people, and was very loyal to his employer, these people would take a step forward before they got close to him, and stand between Xia Xun and these people, those guys knew each other very well, and when they saw this situation, they would walk away with interest.
Duck led Xia Xun all the way, guarded against thieves, and lost no time in selling what he knew to introduce the city to Xia Xun, I have to say that he is indeed a qualified tour guide.
When they passed a high, narrow doorway, two fourteen or fifteen-year-old teenagers standing by the door suddenly ran over and said something to them loudly, and at the same time made a gesture of inviting inside.
Duck blasted them away and said to Xia Xun: "They invite you to go in and take a bath, a steam bath, which can help you relax your body and mind, and a masseuse."
Oh sir just got off the boat, so why don't you go in and relax?"
Xia Xun said in surprise: "This is the public bathhouse of the bathhouse, don't you never take a bath, I mean, I heard that you people here never take a bath." ” "Never take a bath" Duck exclaimed in surprise: "Oh my God, isn't that going to stink alive, how can there be such a thing, our people here take baths very diligently, there are many bathrooms in this city, very many." ” Speaking of this, Duck suddenly laughed a few times, looked obscenely left and right, and lowered his voice: "A long time ago, when we people took a bath, we stripped naked at home, and then ran naked to the bathroom to take a bath, and at that time, people could often see a father running naked in front of him, followed by his adult daughter, also naked.
But this is too uncivilized, my grandfather's father was still occasionally seen in the city when he was a child, and with the spread of aristocratic etiquette among the people, the matter of going to the street with a bare butt is now long gone, but the matter of mixed bathing between men and women has always existed, and now some clergy are strongly criticizing this matter, asking for separate baths for men and women. ” Xia Xun had heard that there was a time when men and women bathed in Europe, and he couldn't help touching his nose and said in his heart: "His grandmother's, could it be that the French people I saw on the Internet never take a bath, and the statement that the best perfume was invented in order to cover up body odor is nonsense."
In fact, Xia Xun didn't say anything wrong, and Duck didn't say anything wrong, but the time was wrong.
At this time in France, bathing was still a common thing, and there were public baths everywhere, and people not only bathed in the baths, but also met guests and drank alcohol in the baths, including haircuts and bloodletting.
The French did not bathe more than a hundred years ago, but the reason for the ban on bathing was because of a war more than a hundred years ago.
More than a hundred years ago, the Mongol armies began their expedition westward, and while they tried to capture a castle, they used their biological weapons: the bodies of some sick and dead, and some of the people in that castle fled when the city was broken.
They fled back to Europe, spreading the plague virus from the savannahs across Europe.
The European physique is obviously not able to cope with this virus from Asia, in just three months, the Black Death took a third of the population of Europe, the Black Death virus raged for three years before it stopped, but it did not disappear, and after that, almost every ten or twenty years, it will break out again, but the lethality is not as good as the first time.
About 100 years after Xia Xun set foot in the port of Marseille, French doctors made a major breakthrough in the study of the Black Death, these "Mongolian doctors" believed that when bathing, the pressure of water, especially the fumigation of hot gas, would open the pores, and the sick qi would enter the human body.
This theory led to the official ban on bathing.
The French continued to carry forward this theory, they believed that bathing would not only cause people to be infected with plague, syphilis and other infectious diseases, but also make the body's essence lose with the pores, and if men bathed in the bath, if women were asked to bathe, they would make them pregnant.
King Louis XIV was seriously ill, and after bleeding eight times, the royal physician had to clean the king's body with water, and immediately stopped the treatment with too many "side effects".
Even so, he was guided by other doctors.
Xia Xun was lucky that he came to France a century in advance, so he didn't have to deal with a group of stinky French pariahs or French aristocrats with a pungent smell of perfume, and there was no problem with the personal cleanliness of the French at this time.
When Duck found out that he had mentioned a mixed bath, the wealthy Oriental merchant fell silent.
Duck didn't know that Xia Xun was thinking hard about whether the French could take a bath or not, and thought that he was moved by the mixed bathing of men and women, for the sake of the two gold coins, he immediately smiled and said, "If Mr.
Xia is interested, I can take you to see it." ” Duck winked at Xia Xun and said with a grin: "Although some clergy are criticizing the immorality of mixed bathing for men and women, and some bathrooms with separate baths have been opened in the city, everyone still likes mixed bathing, there, as long as you are in love, you can get behind the curtain of the bathroom or in some small rooms where massage tables are placed. ” Xia Xun frowned, it is undeniable, he is very curious about the appearance of men and women naked in a bathhouse, but he doesn't have the courage to ask him to try, but to be honest, he has never bathed properly on the boat, but he wants to take a bath happily.
As soon as they thought of taking a bath, they thought of clothes, and they should also make a few new sets of clothes, if Su Ying and Tang Sai'er were to change into European-style lady and lady clothes, it should be very interesting.
Thinking of this, Xia Xun smiled and said, "In this way, you take me to find a tailor shop, and I want to buy a few sets of clothes."
Then, you take me to the kind of bathroom where men and women have separate baths, and I'm going to take a shower there. ” Duck hurriedly agreed, and along the way, he continued to persuade him to go to that kind of "" to see and understand, and lured him to say that he was dignified and handsome, and would win the hearts of many beauties, Xia Xun just smiled and said nothing.
There are many tailor shops on this street, as well as many ready-made ready-to-wear clothes, and when Xia Xun walked out of the ready-to-wear store, he had completely changed his appearance.
He wears a crisp white shirt, some thin French people will fill the placket and shoulders of the shirt with wool or other shredded fabrics to bulge, while Xia Xun has toned and thick chest muscles, which is completely unnecessary, this shirt perfectly sets off his muscular upper body.
He wore a black satin tubular shirt with loose sleeves and a slightly tightened waist, with a firm collar that just covered his ears, and a pair of pointed scalp shoes on his feet, and a free walking stick from the tailor.
When Xia Xun walked out of the ready-to-wear store with two fingers and turned his cane, he felt like a magician.
The only thing that doesn't match is probably his bun, which is not difficult for Xia Xun, he tied his hair into a ponytail and hung down casually at the back of his head, not only does not match the Western style of this dress, but also looks more handsome and energetic.
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He also bought a set of clothes for Su Ying and Tang Sai'er, and with his eyesight, the difference between body size and fat and thin should not be too big.
The clothes chosen for Su Ying were loose skirts with a high waist, some plackets, tight sleeves, lace necklines, and a pointed high hat with tulle.
We often see this kind of costume in European movies about the Middle Ages, when those princesses and noblewomen appear, I believe that after such a dress, Su Ying will change, from a female pirate to a French noblewoman, Tang Sayer's clothes are generally the same, but the style and color are more lively and playful.
"Oh my God, sir, it's true" Duck rubbed his hands, racking his brains to think about the words of praise for him, Xia Xun laughed heartily and said: "Okay, don't praise endlessly, let's find a place to bathe first, the clean kind." ” "Yes, yes, yes" Darker led Xia Xun to a bathroom, as if the nobleman was leading him, and the two doormen opened the door and invited the distinguished guest in.
Not long after Xia Xun entered, a person hurriedly walked in the distance, this person was wearing a dress that French city residents often wear, but looking at his appearance, he was a typical Oriental.
The man, who was about fifty years old, with a white face and a solemn expression, came to the door and asked a low-pitched question in French to a doorman, in a thin, feminine voice, with some middle surname.
The doorman replied, and he nodded, and hurried in.
In the lobby, Duck asked, "Sir, would you like a steam bath or?"
Xia Xun said: "Barrel bath, be clean and clean" "Good, good" Duck said Xia Xun's request to the people in the bathroom, and Xia Xun said to Jiang Xu, the interpreter, "You can also take a bath." ” Duck listened and told the man in the bathroom, "Prepare two barrel baths." ” "I'll be waiting for you in the lobby" Duck took Xia Xun's coat, leather shoes, and cane diligently, Xia Xun and Jiang Xu followed the bath boy into a bathroom, Duck sat down on the bench in the lobby, just asked for a glass of cold beer, and drank less than half a glass, the white-faced bearded fifty-year-old man hurriedly walked in, and asked the bathhouse steward urgently: "Is Mr.
Ribery still in the old place?"
To be continued: