Chapter 031 Basic

Crossing the long river of history and spending a lot of time, Lin Xiao seemed to sit on the time machine of Doraemon to enjoy the historical customs of ancient Egypt...

One foot in heaven, one foot in hell.

However, before Lin Xiao ran to the sun, the beach and bikini, it was a very painful custom at the beginning. Lin Xiao said that he would accept naked/body without pressure, but shaving and so on are completely intolerable~~

He used a blindfold method to knock out a nobleman, took a change of his face, and quietly walked into the Magellan Wan Chai Pier.

Not far after entering the door, I found a "hairdresser" profession that made people more painful. It's not the barber Todd, nor the one-stop industry of "learning craftsmanship, coming to Jingxi, beauty and hairdressing first", but...

In modern society, only men need to buy razors to shave. In ancient Egypt, men and women need razors: men shave their beards and the hair below at the same time, and women use razors to clean themselves * - Note that since ancient Egyptian teenagers are **, it is no longer personal privacy whether * is shaved or not. , but like the beard on the face, it has become something that everyone can see.

Because razors in the Bronze Age are very expensive and civilian families often can't afford them, so they have to ask a hairdresser for help. The barber of ancient Egypt should not only help people shave their heads, but also shave their armpits and *. Men and women have to shave ** - don't misunderstand why the evil ** master~~

However, even if you abandon your shame, it was a very painful thing to shave body hair in ancient Egyptian society - those days, there was neither laser hair removal nor electric razors, or even a sharper steel knife.

For example, the ironware at that time was still a secret weapon of the Hittite people. The price of foreign countries was more expensive than the equivalent gold, and no one was willing to use it as a razor.

When iron smelting technology spread and steel prices fell sharply, ancient Egyptian civilization would almost perish. Even in the early Roman legions, soldiers were using bronze daggers, not to mention the ancient Egyptians earlier.

Therefore, the tools used by Lin Xiao's "Mao Shi" can only be described as primitive, a very blunt bronze razor (there were no scissors at that time, and the earliest scissors were not invented by the Chinese until the Western Han Dynasty), and even this copper razor did not appear until the Middle Kingdom of Egypt. There were only more tragic flin blades before... Because this backward knife alone is really not clean, "barbers" usually have to prepare a pair of tweezers to pluck hair directly.

This is the problem. When there were no antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs in ancient times, the skin was cut because of improper shaving, which led to infection and pus. In the end, there are many records in the East and the West. And everyone knows that the skin of our lower body is far more delicate than the skin, and it is also **, and naturally more likely to be injured by the razor - so the razor of ancient Egypt may be a good thing?

But no matter how proficient the ancient Egyptian barber was in the shaving business, the simple tools were there, and it was impossible not to hurt.

When looking for someone to shave in ancient Egypt, if conditions permit, you can first apply a little primitive soap - usually a small oil ball of animal oil mixed with grass and wood ash, but the poor can't afford it - if there are no conditions, just pour some water to wash it, and then the barber takes a knife in one hand and picks it (hao weeds) in the other. ) With your hair, slowly "saw" back and forth...

But because the bronze or lint blade is too blunt to shave even if you are in pain, the barber has to take out large tweezers (similar to the current sugar) to help you pull out the remaining hair one by one after shaving several times... ...

How painful is this? Just try to pull out a pinch of hair by yourself, which will definitely make your mouth painful. Anyway, the little Egyptian beauty who was dark but shiny with healthy luster watched by Lin Xiao was so painful that her face was so pale that she cried. Of course, only beautiful women will attract Lin Xiao's attention and attract the opposite sex.

Lin Xiao is quite skeptical about what will happen if the shaving master is a beginner and his craftsmanship is not good, or he happens to be in a state today. Your lower body is likely to be bloodstained, as if it had just come out of the "clean room" or "silk room" where the eunuch was castrated.

Historical records show that because the shaving work before the Iron Age was so painful, Mayans who still stayed in the Stone Age generally applied hot towels to their children's face from an early age, so that he could no longer grow a beard. But this method cannot be used in * officials, otherwise it can easily lead to sterilization.

......

When the girl's clothes are thick, we stare at her ** part. When most of the girls are **, our eyes are focused on a small part of her covered by clothes. And when the streets are naked/body, and more importantly, it is dark, individuals will be aesthetically tired... We are not cheap, but we have a tricky vision.

Lin Xiao was still very disdainful of this primitive and barbaric behavior, but stopped and watched for a while, and after experiencing the amorous feelings between the two strands, he walked forward along the crowd.

Walking to a lunch food street, Lin Xiao found that the ancient Egyptians were also very good at enjoying life - the most common was bread, and it was a high-end dessert bread mixed with butter, honey and spices.

Beer is another staple food that can be seen everywhere - unlike modern beer that produces many bubbles, ancient Egyptian beer is relatively thick, containing many solids and high nutrition, more like modern porridge (a little more honey is brewed with sweet wine).

In addition to the national-level basic configuration of bread and beer, there are also high-end cakes with dates and honey, and wine in clay clay tiles as a high-grade drink. On the food street, the cheapest vegetables should be onions and garlic, which are much cheaper than bread. There are freshwater fish caught by fishermen from the Nile, which is an important source of protein supplementation. Other types of meat are rare and rare.

However, at the noble's luxurious banquet, you can also see roast whole beef, roast duck, roast goose, roast pigeon, roast pork chops, grilled fish, thick soup, mixed vegetables, raisins, dried dates, fruit platter... Basically, all kinds of basic dishes of Western food can be found in ancient Egypt.

Unfortunately, these ancient Egyptians only invented dishes, but not tableware. Travelers can only eat directly with their fingers like modern Indians. By the time the earliest invented tableware was brought to the Nile by the Persians and Greeks, the traditional ancient Egypt was about to end.

And what is more regrettable is that although these meals invented by the ancient Egyptians are very exquisite and nutritious, because the sand in Egypt is too strong, some sand will fall into it when cooking, and no matter how you prevent it, it will not be clean. Let Lin Xiao's appetite be greatly reduced~~

The bread, which is the staple food of the Egyptians, is the culprit of health because of the rough baking conditions - bread specimens extracted from ancient Egyptian tombs show that there are many impurities in these breads, including a lot of sand, hand-milled fragments used to grind surfaces and warehouse debris...

Although the Egyptians have successfully turned baking bread into a craft, creating more than 50 different shapes of bread - round, cubic, hemp-shaped, animal-shaped... but there is no way to clean the sand in the bread.

Hard quartz sand will wear the enamel layer of Egyptian teeth, causing dental caries and then dental nerve ulceration. In the most serious case, it can even induce septicemia and lead to the death of patients - the famous Pharaoh Ramses II died of tooth decay.

In the ancient Egyptian world, not only was food so unhealthy, but even drinking water had problems - as we all know, Egyptians relied on the Nile for drinking water. The Nile in Upper Egypt is still clear and suitable for drinking. However, in Lower Egypt in the delta region, especially near the mouth of the sea, due to the great slowdown of the river, the river is full of mud and turbid water. The rich people living in the Nile Delta usually pour this turbid water into the pool and slowly settle it, and then use the water above, which is barely acceptable. But the poor can't be so particular. They can only pinch their noses and drink dirty water. At that time, there was no concept of boiling water before drinking... As a result, various gastrointestinal parasitic diseases have been rampant all year round.

With the delicate stomach of modern people, I'm afraid it is difficult to adapt to the bad diet of ancient Egypt. Lin Xiao has Bell's knife in his hand, which is poisonous and non-toxic. With one knife, the protein is five times that of beef, chicken flavor, crispy~~