Bathing like this

Erin knew her life would be different and had prepared for the worst, but didn't expect it to turn out like this. Faced with the so-called bathroom, Erin's expression now was truly more tearful than the wailing Mrs Cooley's earlier.

This place is not at all what Irene can think of, a semi-basement of no more than twenty square metres, all four walls are black and grey concrete walls, in the middle of the floor are placed two large wooden barrels, which are filled with water, and there are also many small scoops floating on the water surface; the floor was originally concrete, but now because of the long period of time being soaked in water and full of potholes, forming a small puddle of water, it's almost impossible to go around completely, so you can only step on the puddle and walk over it. so it was only possible to step over the puddles.

And it was such a simple and dark place that there were already a dozen women huddled together to bathe. Everyone was naked, there was not even a curtain in the middle to separate them and cover them up, they were all gathered around the two large wooden buckets with a ladle to scoop up the water and pour it on their bodies; two of them were a little better off, and would scrub each other's backs, while a few others didn't speak to each other, but just lowered their heads to wash, and when they were done, they coiled their hair up, and wiped their bodies with cotton cloths hung on the wall, and when they were done, they hung them back up, another one would pick them up and reuse them, and another one would pick them up and reuse them. Another would pick it up and use it again.

Erin was not only shocked when she saw the final scene, not to mention how the environment they had bathed in before, the fact that they all ended up using communal towels was horrifying, Erin's face twitched, then she turned to look at the young woman who had brought her here, and who was now starting to undress, apparently just as ready to go over to the bath.

"Please ... wait a minute, I meant to ask, is there no respective washing utensils here?" Erin could care less if everyone got their water in a barrel, after all, it was all held in a ladle before being poured over their bodies, no one jumped right in and contaminated a large bucket of water; but for Erin to pick up someone else's used washcloth and wipe it off even after she had washed it, she really couldn't do it.

"..." The young maid didn't seem to understand Erin's meaning at once, turning her head to look at Erin inexplicably, and after a moment said, "If you don't want to stay and scrub the floor, then make the most of it ."

"What?" This time it was Erin's turn to not get it, but it seemed like the meaning wasn't hard to understand, which meant that the slowest one would have to tidy up this bathroom!

"Erin, come on, I can scrub your back." Kelina was also in the middle of the group of bathing women, and saw Erin waving her hand to her, while Dilly's even slimmer arm waved as well, only she was still sandwiched between a few of the women, and it was hard for Erin to see her.

"No, I think I have to go back and get some more stuff." Erin waved her hand at Kerlina and then darted back in, clutching the clothes she had taken earlier. Returning to the small room they had been in before, she grabbed the sheets she had picked up from downstairs yesterday and ran towards the downstairs bathroom again.

Now Irene felt that her behaviour yesterday was really wise, picking up a comfortable pillow not to mention, this bed sheet snow white can also be used as their own special bath towel ah. Now and some secretly thankful, fortunately Thomas threw down this instead of a mattress, otherwise, Erin is not holding a bed mat to dry the water on the body.

When Erin returned to the bathroom again, there were far fewer people who had just showered again, and Dilly had already started to get dressed, except for Kerlina who was still standing to one side with her hair coiled, and when she saw Erin she urged her, "Erin, you have to hurry up, and I don't have time to scrub your back." Apparently, it was because Erin had come back so late that it was already going to be the end of the day, and Kerlina clearly didn't want the extra job of cleaning up the bathroom.

"Okay, I got it, you guys go ahead." Glancing at the two women still huddled around the barrels, Erin thought a simple wash would be good, and she didn't want to end up left behind. So as fast as she could, she stripped off her clothes and rushed towards one of the large wooden barrels.

Erin's movements were quick, and when she reached the barrel, she copied a small ladle and rinsed the water on her body, only when the water flowed down her body from her shoulders, Erin almost shrieked in shock and winced at the same time. The barrel was actually filled with cold water; and Irene's action was too fast, she didn't pay attention to the temperature of the water before, plus there was still half a dipper of water in the small dipper, so Irene almost didn't know the temperature of the water and poured a dipper of cold water on herself, and that kind of taste was really indescribably "cool".

"God, this water is cold." Erin yelped, her hands shaking a little as she picked up the ladle again, and after thinking about it for a moment, she just didn't have the guts to give herself another splash of cold water like that, so Erin took a compromise and wet the sheet she had brought with her, and wiped it on her body, before scampering off to put on the black tutu.

That dress was Kerlina's, but Erin wore it with a pretty good fit, except for being slightly shorter, the waist and everything else still fit. And the clothes were clean, although it didn't have the scent of laundry detergent, it also carried the fresh smell of the sun after washing and drying, Erin not only said to the back of Kerlina who had already left, "Thank you for the clothes."

"Oh, come on, Erin." Hearing Erin's thanks, Kerlina smiled back at Erin before pulling a somewhat limping Dilly away and running off.

While Erin was dressing, the other young maid quickly dressed and ran out, and now the entire bathroom was left with just Erin and the other middle-aged maid, who clearly didn't want to clean the bathroom either, so she dressed while wiping herself haphazardly with a communal bath towel and ran to put her hair up in a dishtowel.

Erin, because she had only wiped her body and her hair wasn't wet, dressed without being hairy and ran out the door a step faster than the middle-aged maid. At the same time, Irene noticed that every maid coiled up her hair after bathing, and thought of Lola's comment that this was the kitchen, so she also coiled her long hair upwards.

Running in the direction where those maids had run before, Ayrin saw that there were already several beats of maids standing in the hall of this small building, at least fifty or so by rough count. And just as Irene ran out, she saw Kerlina in the queue waving at her, so Irene also hurriedly ran over and stood beside Kerlina and Dili.

"Okay girls, let me check." Lola had already stood in front and announced to everyone when they were all there.

"Wait, Lola, I think I have something to say." The middle-aged woman who had come out of the bathroom last also ran over, but instead of going straight to the team, and apparently staying behind to clean the bathroom, she pointed to Erin in the team and shouted, "It's her, she's supposed to be the one who's going to clean the bathroom."