No one around made it all the more comfortable.
Yang PeiMin bent over and got down to hard work, cleaning the clothes that Shen Yiguang and the others wore for outdoor training, which were covered with a layer of mud on the outside and soaked with sweat on the inside. Clothes stained with mud were difficult to rinse. If the rinsing water wasn't clear, the clothes would still have mud stuck to them, and once dry, there would be noticeable patches of dirt.
In the past few months, she had adapted to life without a washing machine.
Back in the winter, she would lug hot water for washing, using scented soap. She found pounding with a stick and scrubbing on a washboard too strenuous, so she asked Guang Erniu to help make a small cleaning brush out of thin bamboo strips. Only then did she feel that the clothes were getting properly cleaned, though it also made it easier to fray the fabric. But for those thick clothes that were tough to wash, this was the method she had to use.
