Chapter 115
Every Monday morning, the school would raise the national flag and have school leaders and student representatives give speeches under the flag. All students had to wear school uniforms and line up in formation by class. Young Pioneers like Su Miao who left the team before the age of 14 were also required to wear red scarves.
There are two sets of school uniforms, one is short-sleeved shirt and shorts, and the other is long-sleeved shirt and long pants. Now it is winter, so we have to wear the autumn and winter set.
It is said to be an autumn and winter style, but in fact it is just a thin layer of fabric, which is made very loose. In winter, everyone wears thick sweaters inside, and some even wear woolen pants, so everyone's clothes are bulging.
In fact, the temperature here is only around ten degrees in January, so Su Miao doesn't feel it is very cold. It is far different from the winter when he was studying in Beijing.
So she put on a set of long-sleeved shirt and long pants, added a sweater, and put on her school uniform and thought it was okay. But when she saw Wang Xin in the next team, she was stunned.
He willfully put on his big cotton-padded jacket inside, and then put on his school uniform, looking like a big bun that was about to burst.
Wang Xin turned around and saw her and was also shocked.
"Aren't you cold?"
"Are you so cold?"
The two of them said in unison. As expected, in this season, the one who wears more and the one who wears less both think that the other has some serious illness.
The national flag was raised and the national anthem was played. The children all saluted the Young Pioneers' salute in unison. Some of them were wearing gloves and raised them only to realize they had not taken them off, and then hurriedly put them down.
The speech under the national flag had to last at least twenty minutes. Suddenly, the wind blew in the playground and the temperature seemed to drop a lot. Su Miao, who didn't feel cold at first, was shivering.
The students standing nearby also felt cold, and the originally neat square team gradually became messy.
Those who were on good terms with each other huddled together for warmth, and Huang Jiaqi and the others also moved closer to Su Miao.
"Miao Miao, aren't you cold just wearing a little bit of clothing?"
Su Miao felt like her teeth were about to chatter: "It wasn't cold just now, but now it's a bit too cold."
Zhang Bilian stretched out her arms and said, "I'm wearing a lot of clothes, so please hold me."
So three little girls lay on Zhang Bilian. Su Miao turned her head accidentally and found a small insect crawling on her hair.
"Xiao Lian, there's a bug in your hair."
"Hmm? Where is it? Then help me catch it!"
Su Miao reached out and grabbed it, threw it to the ground casually, and said, "Okay."
Everyone thought it was just a small insect blown by the wind and didn't take it seriously until Zhang Bilian asked for leave three days later.
The teacher did not explain the reason, but the school immediately issued a disinfection notice and asked the class teachers to inform the parents of all students that there were cases of students infected with lice on campus, and asked them to check the condition of their children carefully.
If any symptoms are found, parents should help their children deal with it themselves. If the symptoms are serious, they can take leave as appropriate. During this period, pay attention to the disinfection of clothes and bedding.
This notice made it easy for Su Miao to connect it to Zhang Bilin's request for leave. Thinking of the flag-raising ceremony a few days ago when she caught a small bug on her head, she suddenly felt her head itchy as well.
Lice are highly contagious, especially in densely populated places like schools. If one student is infected, it can quickly spread to the rest of the population.
Schools in the city pay more attention to health education, and lice transmission is relatively rare, so once discovered, it is taken seriously.
Because lice will cause extreme itching, especially after exercise and when the body temperature rises, it will seriously affect children's life and study.
When Su Miao got home at noon, she immediately called her father over: "Dad! Can you help me check if there are any lice in my hair?"
Su Yuanzheng was stunned. He hadn't encountered lice in a long time. He hurried over to check his daughter's hair and asked, "Why are you talking about lice all of a sudden?"
"Some classmates at school have been infected, and our class teacher asked us to go home and have our parents check us. If there is any, we can take a few days off."
Su Yuanzheng was carefully searching through his daughter's hair, and he actually found a few insect eggs behind her ear.
These lice eggs are small, white, crystal-clear particles that are tightly attached to the roots of the hair. Unlike dandruff, they cannot be easily peeled off.
"Miao Miao, I saw some insect eggs... Oops! Here they are! I caught one!"
Su Miao turned his head to look at the louse that his father was pinching between his fingers. Its small belly was swollen from sucking, the edge of its abdomen was dark black, and several of its hands and feet were still struggling.
Su Yuanzheng pressed the lice with his two fingernails, and the lice were squeezed out, leaving a small trace of blood. Su Miao heard a sound similar to something exploding. Although the sound was small, it made her hair stand on end.
This was the first time Su Miao had lice in his two lifetimes. He didn't know if it was a psychological effect, but he suddenly felt extremely itchy all over his body!
"Dad! What should I do? I don't think I should shave my head! It's very cold in winter!"
"Miao Miao, don't worry. You don't have many lice on your head. Let's cut your hair a little shorter, and then Dad will go buy some medicine to wash your hair. First, kill all the lice, and then use a small comb to comb out the eggs little by little."
"Okay, okay! Dad! Hurry up! I feel them crawling on my head!"
Su Yuanzheng went to the store to explain and ran out to buy medicine. Su Yu didn't know what had happened, so he went to the backyard to take a look. He saw his clever little sister, who could remain calm in the face of bad guys and even fool them, squatting under a tree in a panic.
He also walked over, squatted down and asked, "Miao Miao? What's wrong with you?"
Su Miao silently took a step to the side and said, "Brother Yu, don't come near me. I have lice on my head. I'm afraid I might infect you."
Su Yu was very surprised and said, "Ah! There are lice in the city? I thought we only have them in the countryside."
"Woo! When the teacher just said that, some classmates checked each other and found out that several of them were infected. Dad just caught one for me and he's out to buy me some medicine now."
"Oh! Then it must have been infected by classmates."
Su Yu was just about to say, this is no big deal, it is common to get lice in the countryside, just kill them.
Then he thought again, Miaomiao has been in the county town since she was a child, so she should rarely see it. He has lived here for more than half a year and knows Miaomiao's hygienic living habits. It is indeed a little difficult to accept it all of a sudden.
"Miao Miao, just wait for your dad to buy some medicine and wash it. The more you sit here and think about it, the more itchy your head will become. How about this, we take out all the quilts and pillows in your room and wash and dry them in the sun. Then you won't have time to think about it when we get to work."
So the brother and sister took out all of Su Miao's bedding, leaving only the bed frame and bed board.
Fortunately, the sun was shining brightly at noon today, so I washed everything that could be washed. I also took out an unused large pot to boil water to steam the clothes. I spread out the quilt and pillow cores to dry in the sun, and kept beating them with a wooden stick.
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