After hearing what Lin Xu said, these children seemed even more scared!
They thought Lin Xu was looking for the adults in their village to drive them away from here!
Led by a tall boy, they all began to plead for mercy. One of the little girls even ran forward and hugged Lin Xu's legs, crying with snot and tears!
"Brother, please, don't send us away!"
"Our village has been completely flooded..."
"Brother, don't tell my dad! He will definitely break my legs!"
"I was just too thirsty, so I only drank a few sips..."
Lin Xu was dumbfounded by them, and at the same time felt sorry for them, so he put away his fierce look and said softly: "Okay! Okay! Don't be afraid, I didn't say I would drive you away.
, but this water has been polluted! Do you understand what pollution means? It means that the water is dirty, and you will get sick if you drink this water! Moreover, it is a very serious disease, stomachache, fever, very painful
, it is difficult to cure! Do you understand? Never drink this kind of raw water again in the future!"
Several children nodded one after another!
"Okay, you go!"
Lin Xu reached out and touched the little girl's head and said softly.
After hearing this, several children ran away as if they had been granted amnesty.
"The common people are accustomed to drinking raw water. It would be difficult for them to change this habit all at once. In addition, so many people came to our village all at once, and the number of people continues to increase. Hot water
It’s also difficult to supply in time.”
Ruolan frowned and said.
"Yeah! It's hard!"
Lin Xu also sighed!
In fact, ordinary people are accustomed to drinking raw water. Apart from not having the hygiene knowledge that drinking hot water is better for their health, there is nothing they can do about it!
As the saying goes, firewood, rice, oil, salt, ginger, vinegar and tea!
The first one on the list is "firewood", which shows the importance and preciousness of firewood!
There are two main types of fuel in this era, one is carbon and the other is firewood.
For ordinary people, using carbon as fuel is too luxurious and is not considered at all. As for firewood, for a village close to the hills like Linshan Village, cutting firewood is relatively easy, but for
For the people in the plain areas, which have the largest population, they have no place to chop firewood!
In fact, even the villagers of Linshan Village who usually work hard to cut firewood in the mountains are rarely willing to use it to boil hot water for drinking. They mainly use it for cooking. If there is any leftover, they will also think about how to sell it.
, exchange some copper coins to subsidize the family.
Just like Sun Qinghai, he used to make a living by chopping firewood, but he was never willing to use firewood to heat hot water. Except for having to take out some firewood for cooking, all the remaining firewood was brought to the city with great pains.
Go and exchange it for copper coins to subsidize your family.
In addition to the lack of fuel, there is another factor that troubles the people, that is, there is no thermal backup to store hot water.
In this era, it is naturally impossible to have a thermos bottle.
After spending so much firewood, I finally boiled a pot of hot water, but there was no place to store it, so I could only watch the hot water turn into cold water!
For ordinary people who lack basic hygiene knowledge, what is the difference between boiling hot water and then letting it cool down, and drinking cold water directly?