Quickly wear it and get rid of his virtuous character

Chapter 507 Seven Sisters Six

Su Tong rummaged through the remaining balance in their family and couldn't help but wipe away a tear of bitterness for herself. Even though she and her sisters lived frugally, this amount of money was still not enough for them to grow up safely.

Fortunately, the current children are being taken care of very well. After a period of recuperation, the faces of the remaining children have regained color. Even the two newborn children are no different from normal children, and their arms and legs are very strong.

As the weather changed day by day, other people in the tube-shaped building had already started to apply for stoves, but their family was the only one who was still burning wood, and mostly at night, with several children crowded in one room.

But in the next few days, Su Tong realized that something was wrong. She felt her scalp itchy and scratched it gently. As a result, she actually picked out a live louse.

Su Tong had seen this thing before, but he didn't expect that this thing would be taken off his head. He felt so disgusted that he almost vomited.

Due to the poor sanitary conditions of this home, Su Tong mostly kept a normal distance from these sisters. Now that she saw that she had lice on her head, she immediately pulled apart the hair of several other people and found that they also had lice on their heads, and there were many small lice born from the lice.

Su Tong slapped his head and thought that these were all problems left over from history. At the beginning, he only wanted to survive and never thought that the sisters would be so dirty and even have small lice on their bodies, which laid some small white eggs.

Su Tong suppressed his nausea, found a sunny day, boiled several large pots of water, and took the sisters to wash their hair. First of all, they had to keep their hair.

In the past, He Cuihua required girls to keep their hair. On the one hand, most women of that era kept their hair, and on the other hand, they wanted to keep their hair long and sell it.

Su Tong placed his own specially made Chinese herbal medicine into the boiled water, which was specifically used to kill insects and remove bacteria. He cut off their dirty hair and then burned it in the stove. He heard crackling sounds and even smelled a faint fishy odor.

Su Tong also cut her hair into a tomboy style, but even so, she took out a comb and combed her hair one by one, and finally soaked her whole body in the potion.

In addition to taking a clean bath, they also took out their quilts and other items to dry in the sun. They boiled the sheets with boiling water and put a lot of disinfectant in them. After washing them with boiling water, they hung them under the corridor. Fortunately, the weather has been good recently, and they dried after half a day of drying.

The other families living in the corridor looked at how well the sisters had cleaned up the place and nodded with satisfaction. He Cuihua had been unhygienic and the hygiene of the entire corridor was bad as well. They had thought that after losing their mother, they would all live like destitute ghosts, but they did not expect that their lives would get better and better.

Adults all like clean and well-behaved girls. Besides, these girls all have clothes to wear, so after dinner on weekdays, they mostly play downstairs and get to know several other children in the corridor.

Su Tong continued to make his own paper shells with his older children. Although he only earned a few dozen yuan a month through hard work, two endorsements were better than nothing.

The advantage of having a city household registration is that each of their children has a ration, and even the two newly born children have food rations. Because of this food, they will not starve to death. The only disadvantage is that it is easy to not have enough to eat.

Su Tong would often go to the mountains and rivers to catch some fish, shrimps or some small animals, and then provide them with food to improve their family's diet. With just these few things, the girls in their family lived well.

Most of the people living in the tube-shaped buildings have been neighbors for decades, and they would not bully a few little girls, so the relationship between everyone is pretty good, and at least there is no situation where the whole family is wiped out.

When the first snow fell, Su Tong asked someone to bring back a second-hand sewing machine. Then he helped the people in the tube building or other people to make clothes, and each time he collected some labor fees or cornmeal.

Because the styles of the clothes made by Su Tong are pretty good, many people patronize them, and their small home has become lively as well. Especially around the Chinese New Year, many people want to make clothes for their children, so Su Tong's business is very good.

Every family has to eat meat during the Chinese New Year. Su Tong took out the meat coupons from their family and asked the third child to buy all the meat and make meat and egg dumplings for them. The eggs were pheasant eggs that they had picked up from the mountains before.

In this era, being able to eat dumplings means the Chinese New Year is already a celebration. As for the fillings in the dumplings... ordinary families would either put some eggs or lard in them, and if they were more particular, they would also put some pork in them, but their family only put pork and eggs, and nothing else. It was truly extravagant.

Su Tong was indeed rich now. He had some leftover cloth from making clothes for others. Although most of them were palm-sized, he used the cloth to make a few small clothes for his two newborn children, just enough to wear next spring. Then he went to the mall and bought dozens of feet of cloth.

I didn't want to buy good fabric for combing my hair. It happened that there was a woman working in the supply and marketing cooperative in the tube building. There was a kind of dyed fabric in the mall. It was actually because it was not stored properly during the rain, and some color seeped into the fabric, causing it to look mottled.

The book boy had no room for disdain and bought the cloth directly, and then made several clothes for the children according to the colors. These children had not worn new clothes for a long time. Even during the Chinese New Year, they mostly wore old clothes that others did not want, and sometimes they even had no clothes to wear.

However, when the children saw the new clothes, in addition to being happy, the second child said with a look of disapproval: "Sister, what you are doing is really too extravagant. Although our family makes money, this money should be saved. And you shouldn't make so many clothes. Just make two or three pieces. The older ones can wear them and then the younger ones can wear them. Clothes in a family should be passed down for two or three generations."

Su Tong was a little amused by such words, but then he felt very sad. If the family was not so poor that they could not even make ends meet, they would not let a child of only a few years old worry about the family's livelihood.

"Don't worry, I bought cheap cloth, but it's a new year, and everyone should wear new clothes to have a new look." Su Tong touched the second child's head, and her eyes became red. "Sister promises that you will have at least one new set of clothes every year."

The second child did not take the new clothes seriously, and was still thinking about the money for the fabric. When he learned that his sister bought the discounted fabric, he felt better, fortunately he did not waste the money.

But even so, these children were reluctant to wear new clothes and just wore the worn-out clothes left by their parents. Even though there were several patches on them, the children did not dislike them.

In addition to cooking meat and egg dumplings for the children, Su Tong also took the pheasant he had caught earlier and stewed potatoes with it. Then everyone ate corn pancakes and felt more excited about their future life.