There are many places in the mountains and forests that have shade to provide coolness, but it is still so hot. If there were no trees outside to block the official roads or paths, it would be even hotter.
Let's take a break. If we keep going, we might get heatstroke. The second batch of medicine in the family medicine box in the house hasn't come out yet. The first batch of Huoxiang Zhengqi water and the summer heat-relief pills bought in Longting Town are not much. If the family takes it, it can last for three to five days, but if more than thirty members of the Lin family take it, it will be gone in a day, unless he quickly increases the frequency of house renovations to once a day.
Everyone drove the ox cart to the shade of the trees, fed and watered the oxen. A dozen or so large wild boars were eating grass roots and wilted wild vegetables by the roadside.
Lin Changtai, Lin Changxi, Lin Ziming and others opened their upper body clothes to breathe, not caring about whether they were embarrassed or not, they just wanted more wind to take away the heat from their bodies.
I last washed my hair five days ago, and now it's greasy and itchy. Lin Zijun keeps scratching his head: "Mom, do you have a comb? Give it to me quickly. I have lice again. It's itchy, itchy!"
Yu Lanhua was exhausted from the heat. She slowly opened her luggage, found the comb and handed it to her son. Lin Zijun took it, untied her hair and started combing it.
But his hair was dry and hard, and after walking through the woods, it was scraped by thorns and branches into a pile of dry grass, making it extremely tangled. He pulled out two or three teeth of the comb with one move. Yu Lanhua frowned in pain and snatched it away: "This is the only comb we have. How can you not take good care of it?"
Lin Zijun's head was still itchy. He didn't care even though his mother took the comb away from him. He put his hands into his hair and scratched it continuously, shouting that it was itchy.
The two brothers Lin Zizheng and Lin Zikun didn't do anything wrong at first, but when they saw their eldest brother scratching like this, they felt like their heads were itchy too, and they started scratching without stopping.
Feng Zhenniang looked at her husband and son: "My hair seems to be a little itchy too."
Lin Rui found a pair of scissors and said, "Let's cut it all. Hair will grow back after it's cut. It's so hot, how can hair that's this long and thick not get hot? It's also a nest for lice. If you scratch it so often, your scalp will bleed."
Lin Zicheng had been itching to cut his hair since he saw Lin Rui's bumpy but very neat hair, but he hadn't been able to do so because his parents had stopped him. Now, seeing the source of Lin Rui's hair, he suddenly found his backbone and clamored to cut his whole family's hair as well, including his wife, son and daughter.
Each family found a pair of scissors and cut off the long hair one by one from big to small. Regardless of gender, everyone had their hair cut into the same short style. The ground was covered with clumps of yellow and dry long hair.
Even Lin Zao Zao, who was in confinement, had her hair cut off by Lin Rui to make her feel better.
Cutting hair was a somewhat shocking thing in ancient times. When one person did it, others would be amazed, but when a group of people all did it, there would be nothing surprising about them looking at each other's short hair.
After cutting their hair, their necks and heads felt a lot lighter, and the children laughed while pointing at their parents and grandparents' short hair.
The children's laughter brought life to the cool shade of the trees, and the ground was covered with messy hair left after everyone's haircut.
"It's so comfortable. I should have cut my hair like Lin Rui a long time ago!"
"I had long hair since I was a child, and when I cut it off all of a sudden, I felt so empty and lost inside."
"Nowhere? I think you haven't been burned enough by the sun? What nonsense!"
After the long hair was cut, everyone felt more energetic. When everyone rested for a while and were about to leave, the eldest uncle Lin Changfa suddenly called out to everyone, "Wait a minute before leaving. Let's finish eating this little wild boar from my house."
The little wild boar from Lin Changfa's family may not have had any water along the way. It is very thirsty or has suffered from heatstroke. Now it looks sick. It could walk before, but now it falls down after taking two steps. It is estimated that it will not live long.
Lin Changfa's family had almost used up the salt they brought, and there was not enough salt for pickling. Besides, they could not finish the fifty or sixty kilograms of pork in one meal. It would be better to call other families to eat together, so that when other families' piglets died in the future, they could still get some.
The little wild boar grew very fast. During heavy rain, Yu Lanhua would rather wear a straw raincoat and cut wild vegetables nearby to feed it, just so that it could grow a few more pounds of meat.
Now it is easier said than done to distribute it to everyone so that every member of the Lin family can have a piece of meat to eat, but Yu Lanhua's heart was broken with worry.
But if we only eat it at home, we will definitely not be able to finish all the meat. We can't leave it out in such hot weather, otherwise it will go bad.
A pig weighing fifty or sixty kilograms is divided among the families very quickly. At most, it is just enough for the taste buds. How much does each person get?
There was no water for washing and making soup. After all, drinking water was almost scarce, so they could only put the shaved and bloody pork and pig offal on the rack and roast them. The pig offal and intestines that Lin Changhe's family got were not cleaned out before being put on the rack and roasted, sizzling with oil.
Lin Rui saw with his own eyes that his uncle put the intestines into his mouth and chewed them with relish, and he almost spit out the meat he was chewing in his hand.
It was too hard, too hard! He was hot and tired, and even the slightest bit of barbecue made him sweat.
Qingqing, who was only five or six days old, was placed on an ox cart. Lin Rui personally wove a thick leaf shed for her to block the sun, to prevent the young child from getting heat stroke due to negligence. If she got this disease, she would die.
In order to prevent his tribesmen from getting this disease, Lin Rui has been planning routes. He has to take some routes that are a little longer, after all, there are more shady places there.
Lin Zaozao was too tired these two days and didn't have much milk. Qingqing didn't eat enough and kept making a fuss these days. Her voice was hoarse from crying. Lin Zaozao felt sad when seeing this. She fed her some boiled and cooled water, and little Qingqing's mouth smacked loudly.
Lin Rui walked over and took out a small cylindrical object from his luggage. He took off the protective cover and opened it, which surprised Lin Zao Zao: "Rui'er, is this an umbrella?"
Looking at the parasol with sunscreen coating inside and out, he nodded: "Yes, it's better at blocking the sun. Let Qingqing use it."
He placed the parasol on the awning to cast a greater shade. It was really hard for her to let such a young child accompany them to escape the famine. Lin Rui had two little nieces, Qingqing and Niuniu, and he really wanted to find ways to create some good conditions for them.
Lin Zao Zao looked at Lin Rui busying around for his daughter and couldn't help but feel moved: "Rui'er, thank you!"
Lin Rui wiped the sweat from his head: "What are you thanking me for? We are all family!" He should apologize to his two sisters for the bad things the original owner had done before. Although Zhao Qing, the man his eldest sister married, came from a poor family, at least he was considerate.
The second sister was completely harmed by the original owner. What a rubbish family she met!
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