"Any more would be...too short..."

The little girl's voice sounded like she was about to cry.

Hua Shi put down the scissors in his hand and tried to communicate with her, saying calmly: "Xiao Xiao...? Can you tell me why you don't want to cut your hair short?"

Hua Xiao listened to the calm and gentle voice close to her ear, buried her head, and held back the tears that were welling up in her eyes.

She shook her head, unwilling to speak...

Hua Shi pondered for a moment and then asked, "Are you worried that you'll become ugly after cutting your hair short?"

Hua Xiao buried his head and continued to shake his head.

Just as Hua Shi was thinking about how to continue the communication, the little girl's voice suddenly came out with a choked voice:

"I...I just don't want to wash my hair, and I don't want to cut it..."

As for why she didn't want to, Hua Xiao herself didn't know why. Her emotions suddenly got out of control and she couldn't help but shed tears...

Hua Shi frowned: "If you don't want to, there must be a reason, right?"

Hua Xiao shook her head: "No..."

I just don't want to, there's no reason, I'm just used to it and don't want to change...

By this time, Hua Shi had probably guessed something. She frowned and said in a forceful tone, "You must cut your hair short today and wash it two or three times. If you don't tell me, I'll take it as your consent."

The hair is so dirty and messy, but he still doesn't take care of it. He is still young, and it is easier to change this bad habit of not liking cleanliness. But when he grows up, it will be difficult to change these bad habits.

Bad habits accumulated over the years have become a problem. Moreover, these guys have been malnourished for many years and have dirty hair, which is full of lice and fleas that suck blood...

Hua Shi originally wanted to listen to the two people's wishes and try to persuade them a little, but when he saw Hua Xiao crying and refusing to cut her hair, and he didn't know how to comfort her, he was afraid that if the little girl continued to cry, he would really have to compromise.

Thinking about it, Hua Shi picked up the scissors again and measured the length to almost the neck. Before he started, he glanced at Hua Xiao who was crying profusely and said in a firm voice, "Then I'll cut it?"

Hua Xiao didn't say anything, but her tears flowed even harder.

This scene reminded Hua Shi of his childhood...

At that time, my sister had leukemia and all her hair fell out during chemotherapy. In order to cheer her up, my mother shaved her head and held hers for a piece.

She was still young and ignorant at that time, and she didn't know why her sister was sick and asked her to cut her head. When her hair was shaved off, she cried loudly and violently, and only after being beaten up did she behave herself.

As she was thinking about this, Hua Shi's hands that were cutting her hair did not stop at all. The rusty scissors clicked a few times, and in a short while, she had cut the soft hair almost short.

Hua Xiao's tears seemed to flow even harder, but she didn't cry out loud.

Hua Shi could feel her trembling shoulders and her depressed and sad mood.

Hua Shi piled the cut hair into a pile and began to pick the lice on her head.

Logically speaking, fleas do not grow on hair. They only grow on clothes and bodies. If there are fleas on the head, it means that there are even more fleas on the clothes, which is outrageous.

Hua Xiao was wearing a new dress that had just been made not long ago. It had only been half a month, but the cuffs and collar had already turned black and yellow...

The more Hua Shi looked down, the more he felt that what he did was right.

If I were soft-hearted and didn't cut my hair, it would only become more unbearable to watch if I continued to delay...

In the quiet courtyard, the only sound was the snapping of Hua Shi's scissors.

Hua Xiao cried and cried, and seemed to accept her fate, and the crying gradually stopped.

Hua Li, who was standing far away, looked over here with a conflicted expression on his face.

Hua Xiao was even taken away to have her hair cut, so he definitely can't escape either...

Hua Li thought about it, and unconsciously raised his hand and gently touched the top of his head.

Hua Shi said that their heads were covered with blood-sucking bugs... It's not that he didn't feel anything, but compared to the feeling of being bitten by the bugs on his head, the feeling of being hungry on a daily basis was even worse.

Who cares about those things when their stomachs are already full? Besides, after so long, they have long been accustomed to the feeling of no pain or itch...

There was no shampoo or soap, and she had never seen anything like soapberry in the Hua family. On weekdays, when Li asked them to wash clothes and quilts, they would throw them into a wooden basin, beat them with a wooden stick, and wash them violently. Naturally, they had never used anything like soapberry.

However, she remembered that there were many soapberry trees planted on the roads in the village, and most villagers picked soapberries from the trees to wash their clothes and hair.

However, the fruits of the soapberry tree will not mature until after May.

In fact, soapberry is soap bean, and the mature seeds are also called soapberry. Under limited conditions, it is a good choice to use it for washing clothes and hair.

But now she couldn't find soap beans at the Hua family, so she could only use warm water to rinse Hua Xiao's hair several times until it didn't feel so greasy anymore.

"Okay, wipe the water off yourself with a cloth."

Hua Shi patted the little girl's shoulder as she faced away from him, picked up a piece of cloth beside her, wrapped it around her wet short hair, and signaled her that she could stand up.

Hua Xiao sniffed her nose, which was red from the stuffiness, and stood up shyly.

Although I don't want to admit it, after cutting my hair short and fiddling with it with flowers, my head seems to have suddenly become a lot lighter and more comfortable...

The originally aggrieved and sad mood, after a while of trembling, awkwardly calmed down.

Hua Xiao walked to the side, quietly raised her hand, wiped her wet eyes, and her mood gradually calmed down.

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