Chapter 215: Soap is Expensive and Water is Cheap (Sixth Update)
"Come on! Come on! ”
The spectators around the Zhuangzi skating arena still cheered on the athletes.
There are more children on the ice car field in other places, and some adults send their children in the morning, turn around and leave, and have something to do.
Leave money for Zhangjia Village, saying that it will come to pick it up after dark.
They found a good place, the children had nowhere to play, they ran around during the day, and they couldn't get any drink or anything they wanted.
It just so happens that Zhuangzi has something to play with, and the ice car does not cost money, and it only costs money to eat and drink.
Someone in Zhuangzi is responsible for taking care of the children, which is too worry-free.
The money given to Zhangjia Village is the lunch money, and the skewers are eaten in the Zhuangzi and deducted from them.
Usually the man finds an excuse to take care of the child, but the woman stays by.
Some children come by themselves, and they don't spend money on skating cars or drinking bone chicken soup with shabu-shabu.
These children belong to the category whose family economic conditions are not very good, and the adults have no time to care, so the older children in the neighborhood say hello and take the other children out of the city with them.
As soon as the day dawned and the city gate opened, he set out, and he jumped up and down for a while, and saw a horse-drawn cart or ox-cart running over to pick up the cart.
Some of the drivers felt sorry for the cattle and drove with their whips.
Some of them look at the empty cars and let the children take a ride.
About half an hour from the city to Zhuangzi, first drink soup, warm up, and then go to play ice car.
"The proprietor doesn't care?" Huang Bai found out about the situation and asked Qing Song, who felt that his name matched Qing Song.
"Anyway, at noon, the proprietor will take care of a meal, and the children are smart, and they will know the situation in just a few days.
Other rich families bring their children, and those who don't have money come by themselves, and there are many ice rinks in Zhuangzi, which is enough for them to play. ”
Qingsong took the cork familiar with the draggable bag, rested in the place where the child played, drank soup, or else had to go back to drink hot water.
"I'm asking if the proprietor drives away? The soup made of bones and chicken is also money, and salt and seasonings are added to it. You see, there's minced meat floating. ”
Cork corrected him.
"The children finally have a safe place to play, and what if they are driven away to skate elsewhere and fall into the ice hole?
Our proprietor is a rich man, and the neighborhood must be taken care of. Rich and noble families in other places can give porridge, and Zhuangzi will give a meal, so that people can know that the proprietor is kind. ”
Qingsong told Huang Bai that there are rich people everywhere in Datang, and they have to pay for building bridges and roads.
Neighbors in the same county have to pay for red and white ceremonies, and sometimes they have to pay for them.
The restaurant owner had leftovers, put them in buckets, and bring them out at night for the beggars to eat.
Beggers generally rush to eat and fish from buckets of swill.
If you do it, if something happens, say hello, and someone will help, otherwise, if there is a fire at home, others will not stretch out their hands when they see the excitement.
They understand that it is not easy for the proprietor to maintain a good reputation.
"Tell the children to wash their hands with hot water, take a brush to clean their hands, and apply skin cream." Li Yi's voice appeared behind the two people.
"Yes." Qingsong didn't want to respond first, and Huang Bai was startled.
Qingsong went over to greet him: "Come and wash your hands, have soap, wash and eat at noon." ”
A large group of children listened, threw down the ice cart and the drill and ran over.
The faces and hands are also black, and there are traces that are almost the same as the ones left by the often unwashed, but there are actually scratches.
Others have big snots and suck back from time to time.
Li Yi looked at it and remembered that when he was a child, the same situation, the place under his thumb was always not clean, and it was impossible to soak it in hot water, so he had to take a brush.
Then the neck is also black, and it is not good to wash the face well.
Anyway, the children at that time were almost the same, unlike later, when the economic conditions of the family were better, they lived upstairs, and the children became clean.
"Put things away, put them away." There were older children shouting that the ice drills and ice carts were thrown at will, and the older children were afraid of upsetting the owner.
One shouted, the others followed, and the children ran back.
No matter how 'wild' they usually are, they are still afraid when they meet rich and noble families, especially the Li family Zhuangzi.
Before, they drank soup and waited on the side, waiting for the dealer to give it to him, but they didn't dare to come forward, for fear that the children of the rich and noble families who also ate skewers would be disgusted.
After brushing my hands and face and applying skin care cream, I suddenly felt that I was different, and I moved forward.
And then...... Other children still dislike it.
While disgusting the children of poor families, the children of rich families ran to change the water and wash their hands and faces, waiting to apply skin care cream.
Li Yi walked among the children, stood in front of a boy of seven or eight years old, and observed that the child always used his tongue to stop the upper lip and wrap it out.
"Open your mouth." Li Yi said softly.
The child opened his mouth, his teeth had not been brushed, and he did not dare to breathe.
"The medicine box opens." Li Yi said again.
Qing Song ran over, skillfully unpacked the box, and chose a small box to open.
Li Yi took out a pair of pliers from it and touched the child's left front tooth.
"I have prepared something delicious for you, that is...... Okay, stop licking, bite the cotton and spit it out for a while. ”
Li Yi spoke, clamped the child's teeth and pulled them out, and when it was time to change the teeth, the teeth always moved, and the child licked them.
The child bites on a cotton ball, blinks, and doesn't know what to say.
Walking away from the child, Li Yi showed a child a small problem from time to time.
Gum abscesses, angular cheilitis, bubbles in the mouth, ulcers, small hand cuts.
Clean up the medicine one by one, and teach the child how to blow his nose by himself.
He walked slowly, tirelessly, and the children's eyes became different when they looked at him, no longer the initial fear and uneasiness.
Qing Song cooperated beside him, handing over a small tool or potion or ointment from time to time.
The game started again, and Li Chengqi walked over.
"It seems that the palace is already asking the imperial doctors to help people see patients, so you don't need to see this kind of small one, right?" He pointed to small openings and teeth.
"It's only the child who is sick that is uncomfortable, but it's just holding on, the adults don't care, the child can bear it himself." Li Yi doesn't think it's a trivial matter.
Especially for children with swollen gums, they will prick themselves with needles, stick their fingers in and press them, and do not wash their hands, and then the needle will heal, and there will still be pus inside.
If someone makes a bigger opening in a hygienic situation, squeeze out all the pus and blood, spray watermelon cream or borax, and the child will get better soon.
Li Chengqi didn't say anything more, wrote it down, and turned back to tell the third brother that the imperial doctor should not be idle.
Especially apprentices, this kind of minor illness apprentices can handle.
"It seems that I want to talk to Pei Mingfu, sanitation should be strengthened, in addition to flushing out the manure pit with hot water, we should also sprinkle more grass ash and lime, wash my hands before and after eating, I ...... Provide soapy water and sell it cheaply to Chang'an Yamen. ”
Li Yi said while thinking that he would continue to increase his lifespan.
Let others increase their lifespan and increase themselves.
Hygiene is the biggest problem, drinking raw water is the norm, and drinking hot water is incomprehensible.
As for the money for meals and washing his hands after going to the toilet, many of him couldn't do it at that time.
If soap is supplied, it will affect the international smuggling trade.
Replace it with soapy water and let Pei Yaoqing distribute it to the people, and if there are fewer sick people, they will naturally contribute to Datang.
"How cheap?" Li Chengqi asked Pei Yaoqing.
"Money." Li Yi gave two words.
He could actually give a way to make soap, but he didn't want to.
"Less than soap powder?" Li Chengqi asked again.
"How much is the worst soap powder?" Li Yi really didn't know the price.
"One, two, three pennies." Li Chengqi specifically asked, although he didn't use the cheapest soap powder before.
"I have to buy tens of thousands of catties at a time, otherwise it will be two pennies per catty." Li Yi estimated the cost and gave a price.
His so-called capital includes labor costs.