Tian Tian untied her two long, shiny black braids and bent over to dip her hair into a basin of water.
After wetting her hair, Tian Tian took the soap beside her and applied it on her head.
There was nothing else to wash hair with now. Families with better fortunes like theirs could still afford soap, while other families used wood ash and sauerkraut water to wash their hair.
People like Liang Rong and Zheng Mingyue, who come from well-off families, use shampoo cream.
Ordinary city worker families like Li Wenxiu sometimes use shampoo, but they alternate between shampoo and soap.
Tian Tian's hair is black, thick and long. She had her hair cut when she first came here. She cut off all the dry and yellow hair ends. After that, she only trimmed the hair ends once a year. In the past two or three years, her hair has grown very long and now reaches her buttocks.
Tian Tian was so tired after washing her hair that she felt like her waist was about to break. It was difficult to wash and dry her thick hair.
She had thought about finding a place to cut her hair, but she was worried that her face would look too big after cutting it. Also, her hair was thick and coarse. Old Mrs. Tian had never let her cut it short, saying that after cutting her hair it would look like a dung basket.
In fact, nowadays most people's hair reaches a little below the shoulders, and hair that is too long is not allowed. Perming hair is even more capitalistic, but that was when the movement first started. It is a little better now, and people don't focus on the length of hair, but perming hair is absolutely not allowed.
Moreover, Tian Tian had always been in the village before, and no one would report Tian Tian for this matter.
But Tian Tian really wants to cut her hair short now, because washing her hair in the dormitory is too tiring for her neck, but not particularly for her waist.
The sink in the bathroom was very high, and she had to bend over too deep every time to wash her hair, and she had to lower her neck. In addition, her hair was long, so it took a long time to wash. After each wash, she felt like her waist and neck were going to be broken.
"Rongrong!" Tian Tian wrapped her hair with a towel and returned to the dormitory. Others with short hair had already washed their hair and returned to the dormitory to dry their hair.
"Please accompany me to get a haircut on Saturday or Sunday. My hair is too long and it's so tiring to wash it!" Tian Tian said.
"You want to get a haircut? Great!" Liang Rong came over excitedly and pulled Tian Tian to recommend a shop to him. "I've been to all the haircut shops in our county. There's one that does really nice haircuts. I'll take you there! It's right next to the scrap yard we went to before. I'll take you there then."
"Okay!" Tian Tian nodded while combing her hair, "But my hair is too thick and hard. I'm afraid that after I cut it short, it will all stand up."
Liang Rong also came over and touched Tian Tian's hair. Tiantian's hair was indeed very thick. She could hold a handful of it, as thick as a ponytail. She had the most hair among them.
"It's okay. When the time comes, ask him not to cut it so short. Just cut it above the chest."
"Okay!" Tian Tian agreed, "Then you will go with me to get my hair cut!"
She actually wanted to cut her hair short. She thought it would look good that way and it would be easy to dry. Her hair was so long now that it might take her half a day to dry.
After a few people made an agreement, they waited until Saturday and happily packed up their things to take a shower early in the morning.
Previously, Chen Qianqian and Wu Jiao and a few others had refused to take a bath with them, so the only people who went were Liang Rong, Tian Tian, Li Wenxiu and the other three, plus Ma Shuhua, Yu Juanhua, Yu Fang and Gao Xiaofeng, a total of seven people.
Half of the people here were going to a bathhouse for the first time, and they were all chattering excitedly along the way.
Liang Rong invited everyone to the bathhouse, paid the bath tickets and money with a wave of her hand, and everyone ran to the women's pool naked.
It was still early when they arrived, and the bathhouse was quite empty. There were not many people in it, and they were laughing and rubbing each other's backs.
I even took a bath in the bathtub and rubbed my body clean before putting on my clothes and preparing to go back to the dormitory.
Taking a bath in the bathhouse can clean off all the mud on your body. It is indeed much cleaner than taking a bath at home. And after rubbing, you will feel relaxed and light all over your body.
Tian Tian had finished taking a shower, but she also wanted to get a hair cut, so she didn't go back with them, but went to the barber shop with Liang Rong to get a hair cut.
There are only a few haircuts in barbershops nowadays, so Tian Tian doesn't have to choose from many. Just tell her to cut her hair shorter and she'll know what to do.
So Tian Tian's hair was cut very quickly.
And she didn't spend any money on the haircut.
Tian Tian has very good hair, which is black and shiny.
Most people at that time were not well fed, and their hair was dry, yellow and split. In addition, Tian Tian's hair was still long, so the barber shop asked Tian Tian if she wanted to sell her hair.
Tian Tian thought that since she had to get a haircut anyway, she might as well sell a bunch of her hair. Not only did she not spend a penny on the haircut, she actually made 30 cents.
"Let's go! I'll treat you to a soda!" Tian Tian waved the money in her hand towards Liang Rong, as a way of repaying the favor of Liang Rong for treating her to a bath.
"No way, drinking soda in such a cold weather, aren't you too cold?" Liang Rong was speechless.
Tian Tian put on her scarf and hat, and after thinking it over, she felt that what Liang Rong said was right. "Then I'll take you to eat candied haws! We can each buy a bunch!"
The price of candied haws is not cheap nowadays, a smaller string costs five cents, and a large string costs seven cents.
Hawthorn is very cheap and available everywhere at this time, but the layer of sugar on the outside is very expensive. Things like candied haws cannot be made with candy, so only white sugar can be used, so the price naturally goes up.
Tian Tian ran to buy two big strings of candied haws, and she and Liang Rong each had one. They ate all of them before returning to school.
There were very few people in the dormitory. All the others who lived in the county town had gone home. Only Ma Shuhua and a few others like them whose families lived in the countryside were still staying in the dormitory.
"Does my short hair look good?" Tiantian happily shook her hair to the other people in the dormitory. She had just come back from the barber shop and was too lazy to tie her hair up, so she just let it hang down.
My hair is only cut to the shoulders. It's still quite smooth after I washed it, but it's been pressed into streaks by the hat and scarf.
"It looks good!" Yu Juanhua praised.
There are only a few types of hairstyles nowadays. Women can either have short hair, braid their hair, or put their hair up behind their heads. There are not many different styles. Everyone is used to it and thinks all hairstyles look good.
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