The twenty-fifth day of the twelfth lunar month is the day when students of Chongcheng Primary School go home.
Among the students who come to study here with Li Qingzhi, many are orphans.
Medical conditions are poor these days, the average life expectancy of ordinary people is low, and there is no contraceptive method... There are many orphans.
Therefore, Li Qingzhi asked these students in advance whether they wanted to go home.
Those who want to go home can go home and wait half a month before going back to school after the New Year.
As for those who don’t want to go home, they can also spend the New Year in school. He won’t let them go hungry. Of course, they also have to help with some work.
In the end, five girls and nineteen boys remained, and the rest went home.
The children left behind are basically homeless, and it is normal that there are more boys than girls.
If something happens to her parents, the girl may be taken away as a child bride, and her relatives are willing to raise her - let her work at home, give her some food, and when she is fifteen or sixteen years old, they will receive a dowry and marry her off. For ordinary people at that time, it was a very cost-effective deal.
It’s different with boys. If they grow up to be big enough, they will make their father go bankrupt. Besides, unless the family is short of someone to do farm work, or short of a son, otherwise... what’s the point of raising him
Among the boys who stayed this time, one was kicked out of the house by his stepmother. If he was a girl, she would not be kicked out of the house, but of course her ending would not be good either. The stepmother would most likely marry her off to someone else for a high bride price.
The five hundred students that Li Qingzhi accepted were all very thin, and the twenty or so who stayed were even darker and thinner.
Many of them had white spots on their faces, which was a sign of a lot of roundworms in their stomachs. As for their hair...
Li Qingzhi thought that if they just scratched their hair with their hands, they should be able to catch a bunch of lice.
In fact, when he first came here, the original owner also had lice, and so did Jin Xiaoye. However, Li Damao and Li Ermao did not have any. They both had always been bald.
Later he paid great attention to hygiene, and gradually the lice disappeared.
It is not easy to take good care of these people.
Li Qingzhi was thinking about finding a doctor to buy some Wumei pills to treat his students' ascariasis.
As for lice... when the time comes, all the male students in the school can just shave their heads, and the female students can just comb their heads more often with a comb.
After all, she was a teenage girl, and it was not appropriate for him to ask her to shave her head.
The students who wanted to go home left early in the morning, so Li Qingzhi chatted with the remaining students.
Among those five girls, there was A Yue, the first girl he recruited into the school.
A Yue is still the prettiest among these five girls.
As for the remaining four, one was a beggar with a big scar on his face, another was kicked out of the house by his stepfather along with his brother, and the last two were a pair of sisters who had lost their parents.
Those 19 boys had all kinds of situations. Some had lost their parents, some were beggars, some broke their arms in accidents and were kicked out of the house by their parents... Anyway, they were all miserable.
There was also a kid who was only seven or eight years old, but he lied about his age and said he was already ten. Li Qingzhi felt sorry for him and let him stay.
He can't save everyone, but if he sees it, he still has to help.