A clearly marked price: five kilograms of fritillaria to save a life-don't call it expensive

After returning from the Purchasing Station, Li Long took some money and went shopping. He did not buy much this time. He was fairly certain that the people digging fritillaria would mainly want cash from now on, so he needed to take more money up there. Of course, he still needed to buy the scissors, clippers, combs, and fine-toothed combs they had requested at Small White Poplar Gully, since he was worried about bugs in their hair-lice and their offspring, nits.

These things were fairly common in this era. They could often be found on people and livestock alike, and they were difficult to eradicate.

By the 2020s, many things of this sort had disappeared, but these could still occasionally be found in children's hair.

The methods used to deal with them in these days were rather crude. If people took it seriously, they applied DDVP directly to a child's hair and wrapped it in a plastic bag. In less than ten minutes, both the lice and the nits would be dead.

If they did not take it quite so seriously, they used a fine-toothed comb. Its closely spaced teeth could comb the lice out. As for those on the body, people could only take off their undershirts and search bit by bit. This even became a kind of entertainment for some village children after school.

Of course, people were not the only ones with lice at the time. Pigs had them too, especially in the hollows behind their ears, where there would usually be a whole cluster. Perhaps that was because they were easy places to hide and had a rich supply of blood vessels.

Of course, the eventual near-disappearance of these things was thanks to the Patriotic Health Campaign, which continued into the 2020s. Lice were not the