Chapter 51 Environmental Sanitation

Perhaps because of geographical reasons, the entire Hedong Province is extremely not rich in products except for the coastal areas along the river, and there are not many fish and shrimp in the river, and the diet is extremely monotonous.

There is no rice, and there are very few patterns of pasta, perhaps because of poverty and fear, or thrift, rural people eat always a dish, and most of them are mainly steamed, and the same is true decades later.

Guan Xiaojun once saw a news report on a poor family in the south, a high school student could not afford to go to school because of his poor family, and the film crew even went to his house to shoot a video to promote him.

But in such a poor high school student's home, there are still ham and bacon hanging on the bedside beam of his house, which makes Guan Xiaojun amazed and deeply feels that the south is rich in products.

In the southwest region, even such poor families have meat to eat, but in the Yunze area, until the 21st century, rural people rarely take the initiative to buy meat to eat.

This is true even in the twenty-first century, let alone in the eighties.

In the era when food and clothing have just been solved or are about to be solved, it is really a very rare thing to be able to eat meat.

Looking at the row of dirty little heads on the wall, Guan Xiaojun thought about it, grabbed a large handful of sugar cubes from the table, and threw them out of the wall, "Here you are!"

The few small heads lying on the wall disappeared in an instant, and then the sound of heavy objects falling to the ground sounded.

"It's mine, it's mine!"

"Give me, give me!"

"Woooooooooo......oo Brother, he robbed me of my sugar!"

Listening to the movement, it seems that the children outside are fighting because of the candy.

Guan Xiaojun patted his head, secretly regretted, just thinking about giving candy to the children, forgetting the children's nature of grabbing!

Listening to the crying outside, Guan Xiaojun was a little uneasy, and reached out and pulled Guan Yunzhong's clothes, "Uncle, uncle, someone is fighting outside!"

Guan Yunzhong wanted to intercept Guan Xiaojun when he saw him throwing candy just now, but Guan Xiaojun was fast, and as soon as he stood up, the candy had already been thrown out by Guan Xiaojun.

Now that he heard the children outside fighting, Guan Yunzhong glanced at Guan Xiaojun with a funny look, "You kid, what are you doing for them? These are all people with surnames outside the village, not our surname Guan!"

It turns out that Xiaoguan Village has a small population, but the surnames are very mixed, and the clansmen of each surname are united with the outside world, and the most populous is the one surnamed Zhang.

When Guan Qingfu's ancestor took root in Xiaoguan Village and spread his branches, he was bullied by people with foreign surnames, and at this time, several families looked at each other a little unpleasantly, so Guan Yunzhong was not very enthusiastic about the children of foreign surnames lying on the wall.

The clan issue has always been the biggest contradiction in rural China, from ancient times to the present, until a few decades later, the contradiction between surnames gradually disappeared, but was replaced by an increasingly antagonistic situation between the Han people and the young people, and the clan contradiction became more acute.

This kind of mess, the former is influenced by the traditional culture and clan consciousness, and the other is the bitter consequences caused by the reverse discrimination of the policy, and I don't know when it will really subside.

But after all, they are all people from the same village, everyone looks down and doesn't look up, the children outside are fighting because of the candy, so the people in the courtyard have to go out to stop it, Guan Yunzhong pulled Guan Xiaojun to the door, and said with a smile: "Go, stinky boy, let's go and fight!"

Walking out of the black lacquered wooden door that had been mottled by the passage of time, and turning around a crooked-necked jujube tree next to the gatehouse, I saw a group of dirty children under the roots of the yellow earthen wall.

Because it was winter, the children in front of them were wearing cotton jackets and cotton pants sewn by their mothers, and the cotton jackets and cotton pants were covered with fat and dirty coats, many boys wore locomotive hats, and the little girls were all combed with unformed pigtails, and their long hair was attached with dense white granular lice, and the lice were the eggs of lice, and these children looked like they had lice on their heads.

People in this era don't pay attention to hygiene, lice and fleas on children's bodies are just commonplace, not to mention these children, even Guan Xiaojun and Guan Yang have lice on their heads, and then Guan Xiaojun simply shaved his hair and permed all his clothes, this time it is better, but I can't keep it when there will be lice crawling on his body.

Guan Yang even takes a grate on his head every day, insists on washing his hair in the cold winter, and uses boiling water every time he changes his clothes, which reduces the breeding of lice and fleas.

The ancients had a saying called "lice for self-pleasure", which shows how many lice were in ancient times, and the sanitary situation after the founding of the People's Republic of China was not much stronger than in ancient times, and of course there were no fewer lice than in ancient times.

When Taizu of this dynasty was in the base area, when he talked with people in the cave and held a meeting, he also chatted while catching lice, and squeezed to death when he was caught, and others were accustomed to it, and they didn't feel different.

At this time, the child in front of him has lice and lice, which is also a common thing in this era, parents do not think it is different, and the child does not feel dirty, and even "lice are not itchy", they don't care about themselves.

When some children play together, catching lice for each other is also a fun interaction.

In front of them, a group of little ones covered in lice were fighting, and two of them were sitting on the ground with bloody faces and crying.

When I saw that some of the children were bleeding from their faces, they couldn't help but be startled, and said in their hearts, why are they still bleeding? When I looked closely, I found that the frostbite on my face had been broken, and this was the reason why the blood was bleeding.

In the winter of this era, many children have frostbite on their bodies, some have frozen ears, some have frozen hands, some have frozen feet, and some have frozen faces.

If it is a cold ear, adults will wear ear warmth when they go out, which is two small circles made of fur, connected by a long line, and when wearing it, just stick the small loop on the ear. The children, on the other hand, wore locomotive hats, put down all the big ear hairs on both sides, tied ropes, and covered their whole faces.

But even if it is this kind of protection, sometimes it should be frozen, some children, in winter, will freeze their faces, no matter how to protect it, a face is frozen like a bad apple, and the hands are swollen and shiny like a big-bellied toad.

At this time, children are most afraid of fighting, no matter how majestic you usually are in the children's group, but when it comes to winter, you have to become cowardly.

Because the ears and faces with chilblains are the most unbearable, and the slightest force will break them, and pus will flow out, and they will not be able to live for several days. When Guan Xiaojun used to fight with people, once he couldn't beat him, he threatened the other party, "You wait, see how I clean you up in winter!"

This sentence often has a miraculous effect, and the other party will be much more polite to him later.

Because Guan Xiaojun's family has never had chilblains in winter. I don't know if it's because of genes or living conditions, anyway, their family, young and old, has never been plagued by chilblains in winter.

It's only about Yunshan's hat, and I can't take it off in winter, and wearing a hat has become a habit, and if I don't wear it, I feel cold on my head.

Guan Yunzhong walked to the group of children who were fighting, scolded the children, Guan Xiaojun handed the candy cubes in his pocket to the crying children, and the injured children broke into tears and laughed and reluctantly dispersed.

The two returned to the courtyard and waited a little longer, and the big pot began to be served on the table.