Bathing (Wang Anyi)

There was no big tree on the road in front of the luggage room, the sun was so straight down, he had tied the eight bags of books to the bicycle, the bicycle could not move anymore, the young man had already paid attention to him, very confidently riding on his yellow fish cart, he pushed the cart in vain, but the car was going to fall, and he couldn't support it, the boy rode forward half a step, and then pushed back half a step, and then said: 'Where is the master going?' He looked at the man, paused, and then said, "Jing'an Temple." The young man said, "Fifteen."

money. Money "He has 1 yuan: human yuan."

"Twelve bucks." He wanted to fight again, at this time, zhi suddenly sounded, there was a tree across the road, the shadows of the trees, he was discouraged, full of energy, the young man jumped off the yellow fish car, three or five times untied the rope, the book two packs and two packs on the yellow fish car, and then, they went on the road.

On the way, the young man asked him: "Your family lives in Jing'an."

Temple?" And he said, "Yes." The young man asked, "Do you have a bathtub at home?" He became alert, wondering if this man was going to take a bath in his house? He said vaguely:

"Okay." The boy then asked, "Where do you work?" organ. "Do you have a bathtub in your unit?" The young man asked again, and he said, "Yes, yes, but..." He also wanted to vaguely go over, but the young man looked at him and waited for the following, and he had to say: "However, the bathtub is basically unused, it is too big, and it needs a lot of hot water."

The trees on both sides of the road were very sparse, the sun was roasting their vests, their undershirts were wet, from the freight station to the Jing'an Temple, almost diagonally through the whole of Shanghai, he was very thirsty, but he thought: If you drink soda, do you want to buy it for him? Thinking of this, I dispelled my thoughts.

The young man asked, "Do you bathe at home or at work every day?" He first said, "At home, but when he thought that this man might want to take a bath in his house, he changed his words to "unit." At this time, I remembered that I had just said that no one used the unit bathtub, so I added: "It depends on the situation." The man then asked, "Is your bathtub big or not?"

Small?" He had to say, "Very small." "How small?" People like me sit inside and curl up on their legs. "Then you fill it with water and soak it in it; Or stand inside and pour water on your body with a washbasin, but it is more water-saving. "Yes." He agreed, but his heart moved a little, looked at the man's sweaty body, and thought: In fact, it is nothing to let him take a bath, but thinking of some of the truths that the woman said that "the kitchen can be used, but the bathroom cannot be used", he did not think about it anymore, at this time he had arrived in the city, and the plane trees on both sides were tall and dense, and he knew that he was lazily shouting. The wind was blowing on the hot sweaty body, and it was cool. He was so thirsty that he had decided to buy two bottles of soda, one for him, one for the man, but there was no cold drink shop on the side of the road.

"In my brother's factory, there are baths every day." The lad told him. He wanted to ask the lad if he had a job, and if so, where it was. But he didn't bother to speak, and the midday sun roasted him dry. Looking at a road dangling in the morning, he didn't know where to go. He thought it was urgent to buy two bottles of soda. The man also seemed to be thirsty, and did not say much more, but just buried his head in the car, the chain creaked, and they rode silently for a while. He finally saw a cold drinks shop with the refrigerator rumbling open. When he saw the cold drink shop, he recognized the road, knew that it was not far away, and thought: Bear with it, soon you will be home. To encourage the man, he said, "It's almost here, and if you cross another road, there's a lane, and you're going to cross it." The young man perked up a little, then said; "In such weather, do you usually take a hot bath or a cold shower?" And his rambling young man said:

"It's comfortable when you take a shower in cold water, and it's comfortable after a hot water shower. However, I usually take a cold shower. His heart skipped a beat, thinking that this man was really going to take a bath in his house, just wash it, but the woman's teaching on the civilization of the bathtub sounded in his ears again, and he didn't say anything.

When he got home, the young man helped him carry the book up to the second floor. He paid for it and poured homemade orange water from the fridge for the boy to drink. The young man curiously looked at his room, which was two new public rooms, and said, "You take a shower, I'll go with a soda." This time, he almost said, "Take a shower," but eventually swallowed it back. The man sat for a while, drank the orange water, asked some questions about his home and work, got up and said goodbye, and when he went out, he said, "You can take a bath."

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