Chapter 39 Yīn Lice
When Brother Li came back, he only brought Li Sanniang the word "wait".
Yes, Mr. No in Bad People means to wait until they contact you and deal with it.
Unable, Li Sanniang just waited obediently.
On the second day, Li Sanniang specifically asked Mrs. Li for the post that Li Dalang went to the bookstore to buy last time. She carefully wrote down the reason and asked the Gao family to choose a day to visit.
The Li family had no servants, so they had to ask Li Gui to make a trip to Gao Mansion to deliver what looked like a post, but was actually just a note.
Li Sanniang was too busy to spend time with Lu Zhuer. At this time, she realized the benefits of having a unemployed girl at home. Shen Qiuniang volunteered to help Li Sanniang take care of Lu Zhuer.
In fact, Lulu'er, who is almost three years old, is easy to take care of. All you need to do is watch her out of danger and let her eat and sleep on time.
Li Sanniang thought that she would enlighten Luzhu'er when she was three years old. Although three years old is a little early, Li Sanniang only learned her handwriting from Li's father when she was four or five years old, but she had to teach her first. Do you like Yilu Zhuer?
Oh, it would be great if there was a special academy for little girls to attend. Just like kindergartens in modern times, they can liberate women as a labor force.
There is an academy for teaching children in the square, but it does not accept young girls. I hope Emperor Wu will soon promulgate regulations that will allow little girls to read and write.
However, Li Sanniang just complained, knowing in her heart that this was difficult to achieve. How could it be possible without a certain amount of productivity to back it up?
Just a flower in the mirror and a moon in the water.
At this time, only girls with family backgrounds or high-ranking nobles had the opportunity to receive education.
This is one of the reasons why the ladies in the neighborhood only had a few harsh words for Li Sanniang who returned home after leaving, but did not look down on her.
It is rare for a girl like Li Sanniang to be able to read, write, do arithmetic, prescribe medicine, diagnose pulse, and have twenty acres of land as a dowry. It would not be difficult for Li Sanniang to get married, and she might even find an unmarried husband.
However, we, Sanniang, have no such thoughts for the time being and are all focused on practicing medicine.
At nearly noon, Li Guicai came back with a message, saying that the Gao family’s mistress had known about it, and wished Li Sanniang’s alliance test an immediate success, and he would post again when he came to visit again.
Li Gui also took out a small bunch of copper coins from his arms and said that they were given to him by a servant girl after he was called in for questioning.
“If it’s given to you, then take it.”
"Hey, the little one can just keep it by himself. Next time if Mrs. Sanniang has something to do, ask me to go." The scheduled Wen Po couldn't come at the moment, so it was left to Mother Li to save the day.
Li Sanniang had nothing to do, so she went with Li's mother.
Having called a donkey cart, the man with a lot of tricks walked into an alley in the outer city.
Before she even entered the house, Li Sanniang smelled a stench mixed with the smell of blood and went straight to her forehead!
Quickly taking out the custom-made mask from Mrs. Qiu and putting one on herself, Mother Li turned her head and pointed at Li Sanniang's pretentiousness.
After entering the house, the girl was standing on the straw. Looking at the bare walls, the family could understand why they didn’t put a layer of mat on the straw.
The girl's grandma came in with hot water and said, "Hey, this is the third wife, she is so handsome. Today I have trouble with Sister-in-law Li. The originally scheduled wife Wang Wen couldn't come for some reason. "
"Well, put down the hot water and go to the kitchen to get some good food for your wife to eat to replenish her strength. It will take a while for Li Sanniang to be strong."
Li Sanniang. Seeing that Mother Li was placing the utensils one by one, she tied her sleeves with a crotch strap and put on a set of coats that Madam Qiu had made in advance. Madam Qiu didn't use the white cloth she sent to make this hat, but used a dyed one. Made of uneven blue cloth.
"I'll show you how many fingers the cervix is open."
After explaining to the woman, and seeing her nod her head, Li Sanniang lifted up the woman's skirt, and it turned out that it was Not wearing pants.
“Ah!”
“What’s wrong?”
Hearing Li Sanniang’s scream, not only did Li’s mother think something had happened, but the woman was also afraid. Ask, but it’s not good?
Mother Li was about to step forward to see what happened that made Li Sanniang make this strange noise. However, Li Sanniang took a step back, stretched out her hand to stop Li's mother from moving forward, and signaled her to put on another set of surgical gowns, masks and hats that Mrs. Qiu had made before going out.
“Auntie, this lady has so many pubic lice, I was shocked.”
“What did I think? This is not normal. Yes, I deliver babies everywhere, so it’s not normal to have lice.”
“It’s a big fuss. It’s cheaper for Mom to wear these.”
The woman thought something was wrong. It turned out that Li Sanniang was frightened by the densely packed lice that were beating back and forth on her lower body.
“Don’t be surprised, madam, poor people have long been accustomed to this little bug.”
“It’s okay, it’s me who made the fuss. I’ll show my lady’s fingers carefully. ”
In the end, Li Sanniang helped Mother Li complete the delivery as an assistant. She was a young man. She cut the umbilical cord, wiped her body with warm water, and wrapped her in a quilt prepared in advance. She specially hugged the mother first. People take a look.
The grandmother gave her a bunch of money and ten eggs, so Li Sanniang took the basket, packed her things, and called Mother Li's donkey cart to go home.
Back in the yard, Li Sanniang felt itchy everywhere.
Seeing her look like that, Mother Li said that her clean sick baby had come again and asked her to follow her to deliver the baby this time.
Not all the people living in Chang'an City are wealthy, let alone the newly built families in the outer city. Not many can afford firewood and hot baths.
Some poor families can only clean their houses before the first day of the year, so it is not uncommon for them to have lice.
When Li Sanniang was a child, she followed Mother Li to deliver babies. Mother Li also chose families with good conditions to take her there. Mother Li did not refuse to deliver babies to poor families, but to protect Li Sanniang, she would not take her there. I went to the house of someone who was not very clean.
This also led to Li Sanniang's misunderstanding and she forgot about the hateful parasites like lice.
In modern times, head lice and pubic lice have gradually disappeared only after some health knowledge was popularized after the founding of the People's Republic of China. In fact, poor and remote mountainous areas, people who do not pay enough attention to hygiene or accidental infection can also cause this disease. This kind of parasite lives in the human body, but it is just not common in modern times.
Putting the surgical gown in the bag on the ground, Li Sanniang washed her hands in the yard and couldn't help but scratch her head, thinking that she might be infected with lice.
Luzhu'er saw Li Sanniang coming back and was about to bring Xiao Huang over to pounce on her thigh. Li Sanniang quickly stepped back and said, "My dear, wait a minute. After grandma takes a bath, Lu Zhu'er Get close to A Niang again. Qiu Niang, quickly take Lu Zhuer away from me.”
“What’s wrong with Sanniang?”
"What else could be wrong with her? She is so pretentious."
"Auntie, how can this be pretentious? What if I get lice and pass them on to Lu Zhu'er."
After hearing this, Mother Li felt it was reasonable and refused Lu Zhuer's approach. She and Li Sanniang went directly to the kitchen. Mother and daughter boiled two pots of water and scrubbed in the kitchen before coming out.
Mother Li also listened to Li Sanniang's words and boiled the clothes, masks and hats that the children wore during the delivery with hot water in another pot.
During dinner, Sister-in-law Li saw that Li Sanniang’s rice was not delicious, and she kept scratching her head, so she said directly: "Okay, okay, stop scratching. You will scratch your scalp." After dinner, ask your elder brother to bring you some water, and I’ll make Aye’s medicinal soup for you. Just wash and wash your hair.”
After dinner, when Li Sanniang was washing her scalp with the medicinal soup brought by Mrs. Li, she couldn't help but think of the girl's pubic lice that afternoon. They were so densely packed that they can be said to be a big killer for trypophobia. Whenever I think about it, I feel extremely uncomfortable and feel physically itchy for no reason.
I couldn't hold it back, so I scratched my scalp vigorously with my fingertips, changed three basins of water, and scrubbed it carefully twice before the itching was relieved.
Li Sanniang was lying in bed thinking about what happened this afternoon. She felt that there was a long way to go to improve people's hygiene awareness.
However, the improvement of health standards cannot be explained clearly and achieved by Li Sanniang in a few words. We still need to advance to the medical alliance.
Sanniang will be tested in the next chapter~
I did a very stupid thing today. I came back from get off work and felt that the curtains were dirty. I wanted to wash the curtains on a whim, but then I couldn't reach them, so I stepped on the stool. When I stepped on the stool and couldn't reach it, I stepped on the table, and then just I took off the left side and half of the right side. The legs of the table were broken and I fell down. Before I could react, the curtain rod fell down again and hit me on the head. . .
However, in the end, the curtains were washed, but a table was damaged and an extra bag was added to my head.
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