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Chapter 18 Turii Hot Spring Bath

Stacipurs asked the shop owner: "How much does it cost to buy a set of surgical instruments?"

"One set?!" The owner curled his lips: "You are a Gentile doctor and don't understand that the doctors who perform surgery in Dionys will use different tools because of the different types of surgery they perform. Moreover, Dionys Medical College has also delivered new surgical tool designs from time to time. Now, these surgical instruments in the store can perform at least five or six different types of surgery."

"Even if you can buy it-" the shop owner looked at the three of them, rolled his eyes again: "You can't afford it."

"We can't afford it?! Tell me, how much does it cost?" At this time, Nixtratus also came over and said dissatisfiedly.

The owner glanced at him, pointed to the shop, and said, "The things you picked up just now are worth about 30 minutes."

"30 Min'a?! Just those little things are worth 30 Min'a?! You are robbing!" Lycasus shouted in surprise.

"If you don't understand, don't talk nonsense!" The owner was obviously a spitting and argued: "Do you know how difficult those things are? How high are the requirements? Let me tell you, the time it takes to make a knife like that is enough for us to make 30 copper shields, and it must be the best founder to make surgical tools that meet the requirements of those doctors. People said it well, 'The tools for using knife on people should of course be very fine, otherwise it will not help, but will be life-threatening!' So how can this price be low? And these tools are not something that any iron workshop can do. In Turiyi, only our Tios Weapons Workshop has this ability!"

The three of them were speechless after saying something.

"And, what I just mentioned was the previous price, and their current price is 40mina."

"Why?"

"Because our workshop will not produce these surgical instruments for the next period of time."

"Why is this?"

"Because our workshop received a big task from the Ministry of Transport of the Dionys Roads. They wanted to build a stone bridge, and they needed huge iron bars to put them into the river to empty the river water to facilitate the pouring of piers with boulders and stone slurry (actually 'Davos Cement'), so our workshop was going to concentrate all the founders and collect all the high-quality iron ore to make these big guys..."

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Just as the three of Nixtratus were hiking around the port market with great enthusiasm, Afialte and his wife headed north in a carriage and arrived at the hot spring swamp of the Tyro River, a tributary of the Koseni River.

Davers became famous in this battle and annihilated the Lucanian tribal coalition, thus laying the foundation for the establishment of the Dionysian Alliance. At that time, a white memorial column of 20 meters high and 2 meters in diameter was erected on it, with the scene of the war being carved, and at the top was a bronze statue of Davers holding a shield and holding a spear.

This great river beach will be won by the victory, and was originally called the "Pillar of Miracles" by the people, meaning that the consul of the Dionia defeated the more with fewer, created miracles in the impossible, and won amazing victory. Later, students from various urban schools in the league were often brought here by teachers, allowing them to feel the hardships of the founding of Dionia and the greatness of Davers. They were also nicknamed "Pillar of Childhood" by citizens. They were not only a place for children to receive education, but also had deep meanings. Since this battle, the Dionia League began to grow up healthily like a child born... Of course, this is a later story.

Not far from the memorial column is a large circular tomb. The tombstone is engraved with the "Tomb of the Dead Warriors in the Battle of the Great River Beach". Below is the inscription by Davers: "War is gone, and blood is integrated."

There are bronze statues of two men erected in front of the tomb. You can tell from the outfit that one is a Lucanian and the other is a Greek. They smiled and held their strong arms together. The Greek man's left hand pointed to Turiy 20 miles away from the east, making an invitation posture. The meaning of it is self-evident.

There were no bones in the tomb. At that time, the Turiyiren cremated thousands of Lucanian warriors' corpses. It is said that burned them for three days and three nights alone, and then poured the ashes into the river and fed them fish and shrimps. Later, the Dionian Alliance was established. For political purposes, this tomb was founded at the strong suggestion of Davers. Every year, people came here to pay tribute, mostly Lucanians.

Of course, this is not the main reason why this once desolate area has become lively now, but the other side of the Tyro River pointed by the spear of the statue of Davers, which was once full of deserted ponds, and snakes and insects were now replaced by a huge building. Dozens of diversion canals built with "Dyvers cement" introduce the hot spring water from the cracks of the mountain and rocks into the building. Finally, a large waterway introduces the hot spring water flowing into the building into the river. This is the famous Turiyi Hot Spring Bathroom, which is famous in Greece.

Greeks do not like bathing, but the Dionians have developed a hygiene habit of bathing under the long-term teaching of doctors led by Herps in the hospital in recent years, and they also know that taking a bath with hot spring water is more beneficial to the body. So, on the day when the large bathing ground was opened, almost all the men in Turiyi came to the hot spring swamp and wanted to try it out.

As a result, the bathhouse was overcrowded. Later, the large bathhouse also modified the rules for this, set a time period and limited the number of people entering the venue.

After taking a hot spring bath and enjoying various novel services, the Turiyi men returned to the city reluctantly and began to promote "How wonderful it is to take a bath in the big bathhouse." They even praised: This is an Elysé paradise built by the consul in the world!

And not long after, the people also learned that women were allowed to enter the bath.

From then on, the people of Turiyi went to the big bathhouse every day and regarded it as an indispensable enjoyment in life. People from other cities of Dionia also came to enjoy it from time to time.

At the same time, Tuliyiren also regarded the "hot spring bath" as one of the three major entertainments to entertain guests from afar (the other two are tasting Tuliyi food and going to the arena to watch football matches), which has since made the "Tulieyi Hot Spring Bath" famous.

On some special days in Dionia, the hot spring bath is also free to the public, making the large bath, which is cheaper (just one Opol) more popular with the public. For example, in the past few days, due to the arrival of Marriage Day, the large bathhouse is free to all couples who come to take a bath. This is also the reason why Afialte and his wife come here.

There were many couples who came to the big bathhouse today, and everyone consciously lined up in a long line and moved towards the entrance of the bathhouse little by little.

At this time, a commotion came from behind the team, and Ah Fa turned his forehead to see what happened.

"What happened?" the wife asked curiously.

"It's nothing. It seems that the two senators of the Senate are also here." Aifeart said disrespectfully. Nearly a hundred senators in the Senate, except for the Turi's people, the citizens of the Dionians in other cities only know the chief senator Daves, the elders who served as the chief executive of the city, and the elders who held important positions in the legion. This is not surprising. Whether it is training or fighting, the citizens serving naturally have a deep memory of those superiors.

Finally crossed the wooden bridge of the Tiro River and stood at the entrance. The administrator looked at Afialte and his wife and asked, "Are you husband and wife?"

The two nodded.

"Citizen of Dionia?"

Afialt nodded again and said, "We are still couples participating in Marriage Day this year. Do you have a private room in a small bath?" As he said that, he stretched out his left hand, his wife stretched out her right hand, and wore an iron ring on her ring finger, which was engraved with Hera's emblem "Peacock". Because of Davers' suggestion, the Temple of Hera, which Agenus was responsible for, not only presided over the celebration, but also awarded the rings blessed by Goddess Hera to the newlyweds attending the celebration (of course, a small processing fee will be charged) to encourage and supervise their marriage stability.

"Congratulations!" After confirming, the administrator turned around and looked at the wooden wall with many nails, only one of which had the keys hanging. He took them down and put them in Efialte's hand: "Hera bless you, and there is the last hand. The wooden sign has the room number written on it. After entering the room, the door will be bolted, and no one will disturb you. By noon, we will return the keys."

"Okay, thank you!" Aifeard led his wife into the middle passage, and the left and right passages each lead to the men's and women's bathing grounds.

As time goes by, the long queue at the entrance is almost at the end.

When the bath manager saw the two people in front of him, he was stunned and immediately smiled again: "Master Polyxis, Lord N'anilus!"

"Is there a private room?" Polyxis asked straightforwardly.

The administrator pointed to the wooden wall with only iron nails left behind and said apologetically: "Because of Marriage Day, the room is full."

Polyxis curled his lips in dissatisfaction, ignoring the administrator, but Davers's employee, and said a little sarcastically: "Look at our consul, we really can take care of the people of Dionia!"

N'anilus did not respond and asked the slaves behind him to take out four Opols and pay for himself, Polyxis and two accompanying slaves.

After they entered, the administrator walked into the back room on the excuse of urinating and quickly found the supervisor of the large bathhouse: "Polyxis and N'anilus came to take a bath together!"

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After walking along the passage on the left for a short distance, a vast area appeared in front of me, with a large pool in the middle and several small pools next to it, all of which were steaming hot and covered with mist.

Many men soaked in the pool and enjoyed the nourishment of hot spring water; some people lie on wooden benches beside the pool to receive baths from their own slaves or massages from slaves specially trained in the bathhouse; and a few people leaned on wooden benches beside the walls to chat and talk to each other... They all have one common characteristic - being naked.
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