Su Tai left the household affairs to Chen Yi. It was not appropriate for her to get involved in a man's affairs anyway.
Twenty people followed Su Tai to the backyard of the Guokui workshop. They saw that the ground here was paved with bricks and tiles, which was cleaner than their faces. They hesitated and didn't know where to start.
Su Tai said casually: "Come with me, this is the kitchen, next to the kitchen is the bathroom, there is a bathtub and a wash basin in the bathroom, when the stove next door is lit, the water in the bathtub here will also heat up, when you bathe, you can use bath soap and shampoo.
Although you washed once on the ice field before, that was just a simple rinse of the dirt on your body, and the mud and dirt could not be washed off.
I like to be clean, your nails and tangled hair need to be cut, and your whole body should be scrubbed clean. "
Su Tai looked around and her eyes fell on Yu Xiaoyu. "Xiaoyu, come here. I'll give you a bath in a while. All the boys go out. The women and girls stay and watch. When you know how to wash, you can teach the boys. Now go get some water and light a fire."
Su Tai also had to show them how to fetch water and how to make fire.
After they learned it, she went back next door and brought in a lot of blue and maroon cotton and linen, as well as clean old clothes and twenty pairs of new black cloth shoes and socks.
Wait for the water in the bath to heat up.
Su Tai asked the woman to close the bathroom door and asked Yu Xiaoyu to take off her clothes.
The little girl is nine years old this year. Due to malnutrition, she is so thin that her body is just skin and bones. She looks like a seven-year-old child. Her hair is dry and yellow, and she does not look very healthy.
With a red face, she took off her clothes obediently and sat on the small stool.
"Keep your head down."
Su Tai gently instructed, cutting off some tangles and dirt on Yu Xiaoyu's hair, then scooped a bucket of warm water to wet it, then took a small piece of shampoo, rubbed it into bubbles in her hands and applied it to Yu Xiaoyu's hair.
A group of people gathered around and stared with wide eyes.
Yu Xiaoyu's hair soon formed fine and dense bubbles, and the color gradually changed from white to yellow.
Su Tai scooped two more buckets of water to help her rinse off the bubbles and wash her a second time.
"Look, when the bubbles turn white, it's clean. Remember, wash your scalp, from the scalp to the hair, don't leave out anything."
Su Tai said, taking a clean white cotton cloth to wrap Yu Xiaoyu's hair, "Next is to take a bath. Here are loofah bags and soft brushes for scrubbing. But before taking a bath, we can brush our teeth and wash our faces. We use toothbrushes and toothpaste for brushing teeth. This toothpaste contains medicinal herbs and salt, and has a strong cleaning effect."
She squeezed toothpaste onto the toothbrush, asked Yu Xiaoyu to rinse her mouth first, and then helped her brush her mouth inside and out. The foam was unsurprisingly yellow.
So Su Tai squeezed the toothpaste for her and brushed her teeth for the second time.
"From now on, you must brush your teeth before going out every day when you wake up."
Everyone saw with their own eyes that Yu Xiaoyu's teeth had become several shades whiter, and they were all amazed and nodded frantically.
When washing your face, everyone thinks it's just a matter of using hot water and a towel.
Unexpectedly, Su Tai took out another bottle of ointment and carefully rubbed it on Yu Xiaoyu's face to create a lot of foam.
After the foam was rinsed off, a much whiter face appeared in front of everyone.
The next step is to wash your body.
With the previous steps, everyone guessed how to wash. Yu Mei volunteered to rub Yu Xiaoyu's back, and soon she was covered in mud.
Just watching it makes me feel relaxed.
Yu Mei rubbed it several times until Yu Xiaoyu's skin turned red and nothing could be rubbed out, so she gave up.
After taking a shower, Yu Xiaoyu changed into clean clothes and went to the side to dry her hair.
She found that she smelled delicious and was clean from head to toe. As far as she could remember, she had never been so clean and tidy.
What's more, the lady actually gave her a bath! She felt like she had suddenly fallen from the slums to a blessed place, and her eyes were red.
A group of ladies and young girls were all excited when they saw Yu Xiaoyu wash cleanly.
Yu Mei and Shi Danniu both have a relatively older child, so they volunteered to fetch water for everyone, and wait until the women and girls had cleaned up before they cleaned up the boys.
Alan, who had no children, looked at other women taking care of their children with envy. There happened to be two little girls without mothers like Yu Xiaoyu. She thought about it and took the initiative to help them wash.
The two little girls hurriedly thanked him.
A faint smile appeared on Alan's numb face.
Because Su Tai said she liked cleanliness, the five women did not dare to be careless at all. When they were cleaning the girls, they wished they could rub off a layer of skin from their bodies.
In this way, the effect is very obvious.
The little boys waiting outside were all afraid to recognize the clean little girl when they saw her walk out of the bathroom.
Yu Pingan and Yu Pingshun stepped forward and stared at Yu Xiaoyu without blinking, "Sister?"
Yu Xiaoyu smiled, "What? You don't even recognize your sister? Aunt and the others are adding water, let's go burn firewood, and it will be your turn to wash soon."
The boys were eager to try it out.
By the time the twenty people had finished cleaning up, it was already dark.
Yu Mei and Shi Danniu went over to ask Su Tai for instructions.
Su Tai came over again, pointing at the cloths and said, "It's almost summer now, so make two sets of clothes for each of you, and then put on winter coats when the weather gets cold. There are quite a few rooms here, you can arrange them as you like. The beddings in the rooms are in the cupboards, just take them out and use them. Oh, by the way, there's also dinner, you can light a fire in the kitchen to cook, and there's an open space in the backyard, you can grow some fruits and vegetables.
If you don't understand, you can ask the villagers, because I don't understand either. In addition, I will tell the aunties in the village, and they will send you a batch of food every day, and you can cook it as you like. Come with me and bring a few bags of food over later."
All five women left with Su Tai. The children stayed in the wing room. Two of them took care of the younger ones, and the rest went to the kitchen to make a fire.
After a while, Yu Mei and her four companions came back, each carrying a large hemp sack weighing about 40 kilograms.
All the things were put in the warehouse at the corner.
Shi Daniu opened it and covered her mouth in shock. "It's white flour! Such clean white flour!"
She had never eaten such white flour in her life for more than twenty years.
Not to mention the others, the five women hugged each other and cried with excitement when they saw the food.
Before they could calm down.
Xu and Wei Daya each carried a large rattan basket over, "You must be the servants that Xiaotai just bought! Don't be nervous, I'm just bringing you some vegetables and salt, and some pig fat, you can make the fat yourself, right?"
The five women barely understood what Xu said, but they just shook their heads.
Xu was shocked. "What kind of oil do people in Qiongzi eat?"
Everyone shook their heads again.
Yu Xiaoyu whispered back: "We cook with water and don't use oil." (End of this chapter)
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