With Pinxixi in hand, I have a supermarket in the Changzheng!

The people here are struggling for survival every day. They often don’t have enough to eat, and they have already tried their best to just stay alive.

In such a predicament, personal hygiene is naturally forgotten.

Folks in many places can hardly get even one hot meal a day. They are so hungry that they are skinny. How can they have the energy to pay attention to cleanliness?

It's common here to go for months without taking a shower.

Even if someone wanted to clean their body, there were no modern wide variety of detergents.

In this era, soap was a luxury item.

After all, soap has to be made with oil, and ordinary farmers can hardly afford oil, so how can they make soap with oil?

Therefore, when people take a shower, most of them can only simply rinse with clean water a few times.

But how can clean water completely remove stubborn lice? So lice multiplied wantonly on people's heads and became more and more numerous.

Look at these two poor little girls in front of me. Their parents are both dead and they have no one to take care of them. They have no one to rely on in life.

Without adults to look after them, their hygiene became worse and worse, and the lice on their heads became dense and rampant.

When Zhou Yue first traveled to this era, he also had a lot of lice on his head.

The lice crawling all over her head made her scalp numb.

The comrades who accompanied me on the Long March had few opportunities to take a shower during the difficult journey, so many of them had these "uninvited guests" on their heads.

Zhou Yue always scratches her scalp, which feels itchy and uncomfortable. Lice are sucking blood on her scalp, and she wants to scratch her head until it breaks!

Fortunately, during the Long March, the troops arrived at a tea village.

This village is full of tea trees and tea oil seeds are everywhere.

At that time, a lot of soaps were made using tea oil seeds.

Zhou Yue also added some special antibacterial and lice-killing medicine into some soaps.

With these special soaps, the hygiene conditions in the troops gradually improved.

There are fewer lice, and everyone’s spirit and energy are different.

After dinner, the two little girls, Juanzi and Xiaohua, quickly cleaned up the dishes.

One was wiping the table and the other was washing the dishes. Their movements were childish but very serious.

After the two girls finished their work, Zhou Yue boiled a full pot of hot water.

She poured the steaming water into the wooden basin, smiled gently at the two little girls, waved and said.

"Juanzi and Xiaohua, come here, I'll wash your hair for you!"

When the two little girls heard this, their eyes widened and their faces were full of surprise.

But the next second, her little face turned red and she started to feel embarrassed.

Juanzi lowered her head, tugged at the corner of her clothes with her small hands, and spoke in a low voice.

"Sister Yue, we can just wash it ourselves, our hair is dirty..."

How could Zhou Yue let them reject her like that? She took a few steps forward and gently held the hands of the two little girls.

He pulled them to the wooden basin and said with a smile.

"It's okay, I'll help you wash your hair today!"

Seeing Zhou Yue was going to wash the two children’s hair, Dong Kang came over with something.

He held a piece of pig pancreas soap in his left hand and a comb in his right hand.

This piece of pig pancreas soap comes from Uncle Dong’s house. It looks gray and black, and very rough.

Zhou Yue had never seen pig pancreas soap in her previous life. She only came into contact with it after coming to this era.

This pig pancreas soap has a very long history, dating back to the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty.

Nowadays, many people use it for bathing and washing clothes.

Although people don't use it much in modern times, it has transformed into an intangible cultural heritage.

The method of making pig pancreas soap is quite simple, and Zhou Yue has also seen it.