Chapter 52: The need to take a bath and wash your hair
After dinner, several families gathered at Lao Xu's house to talk.
Talking about going to the city today to find work.
There were a lot of people from several companies entering the city today, but only Xu Chunhe and others found work carrying large bags on the pier. They were as tired as pugs and only earned ten coppers a day.
People see them as refugees and know that they are short of work, so they deliberately lower their wages. Others can get twenty cash, but when they come to them, they get half less.
But there was no way, even if there were only ten copper coins, everyone chose to do it. If they didn't work, they wouldn't even be able to earn a single copper coin.
Just like the rest of them who couldn't find a living today, it was a day in vain and they didn't get a single copper back.
Old man Xu heard what the big guy said and knew the situation. He immediately said: "The ones carrying the big bags will continue to go tomorrow. The others can stay at home. Those who can collect more firewood can collect more firewood and sell it in the city."
Let’s see if it sells or not. We will use it at home. In addition, I will follow you and go into the city tomorrow.”
Old man Zhou answered: "Are you looking for Chun He and his sister-in-law?"
Old Man Xu nodded, "It's hard to find a job like this. I'll go find Anier and see if I can ask her to help."
After the other family members left, old man Xu also had a look of worry on his face, "We are just a trouble now, and we don't know if we will come to our door and cause trouble to your sister-in-law."
Old Man Xu's cousin, whose maiden name is Xu Ani, is ten years younger than Old Man Xu. When he got married, Old Man Xu had already started a family, and even his youngest daughter, Xu Chunxi, had already been born.
The eldest Xu Chunhe was eight or nine years old at the time and had already remembered the incident. Now he can still recall the appearance of this young lady in his memory.
But over the past twenty years, the Xu Chun brothers have become fathers and grandfathers, and my sister-in-law may not be able to recognize them when she sees them. Therefore, it is better for Mr. Xu to go there in person.
Mrs. Xu continued: "How about I go? Aniel is kissing me."
This is true, Xu Ani's mother died during childbirth, and her father died of illness within two years. Xu Ani said she was a sister-in-law, but she was raised by Mrs. Xu as if she were a daughter.
Old Man Xu looked at her, "How can I, the eldest brother, not be close to her? That's not the reason. I'm just afraid of it. Our mother-in-law's family hasn't come to her door for so many years. This time, it's better to give it to her.
Just to cause trouble, her husband's family said."
"Aniel has become a grandmother, how can she still be incapable of making decisions? If she can't make decisions, then she can't always send so many things back, right?"
Mrs. Xu muttered a few words, but she was worried after all. After thinking about it, she couldn't help but said: "We have to buy something, right? We can't come empty-handed."
Old Man Xu nodded, "I have to buy it. If I don't talk about it, it would be shameful for us to go back empty-handed for the first time."
Anil has been married for so many years, and her natal family members have never visited the house. Coming back here with empty hands like a man shaking in the autumn wind is also embarrassing for Anil.
At this time, Old Man Xu couldn't help but be grateful to Landlord Wang for buying his family's land and house, so that he could have some money in his hands. Like his uncle and his family, they couldn't afford even one tael of silver.
Because he was going to visit relatives, the clothes he wore on the way out were obviously not decent. At this time, the best clothes that Old Man Xu specially brought with him came in handy.
Let Ma and Zhou use their hands and feet to take apart the cotton-padded clothes and sew them into the clothes to make them look cleaner.
But the clothes are clean, but the skin is so rough that it can't be helped, but the hair that can be seen at a glance is messy, with lice crawling on it, and it smells bad.
People don't feel very good.
It's not very decent to visit someone like this.
Xu Yinyin saw Old Man Xu's hesitant look at that moment, and took advantage of the situation to persuade Xu Dajun to come forward and take a shower and wash her hair! She was so proud, so she quickly followed suit!
Not to mention that she was still on the run, but now that she had settled down and there was no shortage of water, she couldn't bear to look so sloppy even for a day!
As for hiding behind your back and encouraging your brother to come forward?
Of course!
The younger brother is a favorite of the two elders, and he wants the whole family to take a bath and wash their hair, and the two elders will definitely agree.
If she stood up and made a loud noise, I knew with my toes that the two elders would simply ignore her.
Xu Dajun stood up and said that, sure enough, old man Xu, who was originally hesitant about whether it was inappropriate to meet his younger sister's family like this, thought about it and immediately agreed.
This is the advantage of having a younger brother, and Xu Yinyin has to admit that she is quite pleased with her brother now.
If you haven't showered or washed your hair for a long time, washing it clean now is a big project, and it can't be done this late at night.
Therefore, Old Man Xu had to postpone the time of entering the city by one day. Tomorrow morning, only Xu Chunhe and those carrying big bags would go into the city. As for the others, after the cleaning, they could also collect firewood.
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The next day, when it was dark, people entering the city went into the city. After asking the other families, Mr. Xu arranged the people together, gathered the pots of several families, carried water, and boiled the water.
They were all busy boiling water.
There is a river down the slope behind the place where they live, and it only takes less than a quarter of an hour to carry water back.
The women who had enough strength also went to fetch water together, going back and forth. Soon, the water from the first trip was boiled.
Fortunately, there is still sunshine today, the sun is quite strong, and the firewood is burning brightly around the hut, so it won't be cold.
Now, take a shower and wash your hair one by one, in order of old and young.
When I take a shower and wash my hair now, there is no shower gel or shampoo. I use plant ash.
That's right, it's plant ash.
For a while, there was no honey locust tree nearby. Mrs. Xu directly decided and asked her daughter-in-law to burn a lot of plant ash. This doesn't cost anything, it works! Use it as you like! It's very useful!
Xu Yinyin looked at the plant ash and found it a bit difficult to apply it on her body.
Zhang Xiulan, who had experienced hardships, also frowned, "How do you wash your hair?" They lived in hard times, and it was not so difficult to bathe and wash their hair with plant ash.
Xu Yinyin struggled for a while, but still couldn't accept it. She hadn't taken a shower or washed her hair in the past few months, and it felt like the dirt on her body could be wiped with a basin of rubbish. And her hair was full of lice, and it could be washed with plant ash.
Is it clean?
Look at the hair of Mrs. Shi who came out of the first batch of washing. Her hair didn't look much clean either. It looked like it had not been washed.
Xu Yinyin couldn't help but pulled Xu Dajun aside and muttered for a while, and then used an exchange opportunity to exchange for a bottle of shampoo.
The shampoo can be used to wash your hair, or you can just make do with taking a shower, so that you don’t have to change your shower gel again.
After a while, Xu Dajun came back with a small pottery jar, and said to Old Man Xu, "Sir, my classmate gave this to me before. He said it was brought back from Persia. It is very precious. I have to
It’s not much, but it’s a good thing. It smells good when you wash your hair and take a shower, it’s clean, and it’s easy to use!”