In the early morning, on the banks of the Lishui River, the early men were fetching water by the river, and they each carried two wooden barrels along the trestle to the river, beat up the cold river water, and then carried it back to the barracks.

The official army camp is located outside Shaoling City, stretching for more than ten miles, distributing Lishui and Rushui on both sides, the intersection of Lishui and Rushui is called Lekou, the Lishui in the east-west direction and the Rushui in the north-south direction are like a crossroads in Lekou, and the official army camp covers all the crossroads.

More than 100,000 soldiers and horses are stationed in the Shaoling area, and they need to consume a lot of drinking water every day, and the horses are led by people, and they go to the river from time to time to drink horses, but people can't all go to the river to drink water, so the men shoulder the heavy responsibility of fetching water, and they have to frequently go back and forth between the river and the camp every day.

The plan of the year lies in the spring, and the plan of the day lies in the morning, the men boil water to cook rice and prepare for the morning meal, and the soldiers have the strength to do things and fight wars after eating, and prepare the morning food for so many people, and the men naturally have to get up early in the morning to fetch water.

Since ancient times, most people eat two meals a day, one for the morning food and the other for feeding, the meal time of the morning food is the time of eating, if the time of the afterlife is to be defined, it is about 9 o'clock in the morning, and the feeding is about 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

Generally speaking, the morning food has to be cooked, and after it is done, one is left without eating, and the rest of the food is heated when it arrives at Shen, which can save firewood, so every morning the men will be busy sweating in order to prepare the morning meal, and fetching water is only one of the heavy labors.

At this moment, there are many teams of men queuing up to fetch water by the river, because each department of soldiers and horses is camped separately, and their own men are responsible for fetching water and cooking, so every morning, there will be thousands of people lining up to fetch water on dozens of trestle bridges along the river.

Not only that, but several waterwheels were erected along the river, and the waterwheels carried the water up the river day and night, and flowed along the tank into the cistern in the barracks to reduce the burden on the men.

However, the construction of the waterwheel requires a lot of wood, although it saves manpower, but the men have nothing to do except boil water and cook, so there are only a few waterwheels, and the main force of the water is still the men.

A man who fetched water, with his hand as a scoop, reached into the bucket and scooped some water, leaned his nose over and sniffed it, frowned and said, "This water seems to stink, you smell it." ”

Other men scooped up the water with their hands and sniffed it, some of them could not smell anything, and some of them could smell the slight stench of the river, which was different from the earthy smell of the river, but it could not be smelled if they were not careful.

"Well, it really smells, right?"

"So what, there are camp tents for more than ten miles along the river, and I can't keep anyone secretly and pee when washing clothes by the river."

"It's okay, take it back quickly after you get the water, everyone will be unlucky if you miss the hour!"

The men didn't care about the fact that the river water seemed to smell slightly, and in recent times, there have been men who have been fetching water to find out about this situation, but if the smell is there, not many people care.

After all, more than 100,000 people are stationed by the river, and in the camp within a radius of more than ten miles, it is normal for someone to pee and in the river, causing the river water to smell, but the governor of the patrol camp will generally stop such behavior, so there is relatively not much feces and urine flowing into the river, and there is nothing to worry about.

The men carried water back to the camp, and the companions were busy cooking rice around the cauldrons, and a lot of firewood was thrown into the bottom of the kettle, which was brought by the soldiers in turn from the camp, and the daily consumption was very large.

So in order to save, firewood is mainly used to cook rice, as for boiling water (boiling water), it is not necessary.

For most people, there is no habit of drinking cooked water, because this will increase the cost of living, especially the people who live in the city, they have to go out of the city to chop firewood and then carry it back, which is very troublesome, so firewood is generally only used to cook rice and vegetables, and it is too wasteful to use to cook water.

People have water tanks and other water storage utensils at home, from time to time to draw water back to fill the water tank on weekdays, when thirsty to scoop a scoop of water to drink directly, when the water is too cold in winter, it will have diarrhea, then everyone will boil water.

But in order to save firewood, the water is only boiled until it is warm and then drunk, and it is rarely boiled.

Ancestors have been like this for generations, not only the people, but also the soldiers, such a habit of life is very common in the barracks, only those who talk about pomp and circumstance will have someone to boil water.

At this moment, the soldiers who got up early sent people to the room to fetch water, carrying clay pots to bring back the warm water that had not been boiled and sharing it with their companions to warm their stomachs.

The soldiers waiting for the water were chatting in line, they had to deal with the guys every day, so they were very familiar, all kinds of topics were not taboo, one person was carrying a clay pot and was about to fetch water, and the guy next to him twitched his nose and smiled: "Yo, Lao Li, use your hands again?" Is it clean? ”

"Wash, you smell it." The soldier smiled and stretched out his hand, and the man laughed and scolded: "And, do you plan to add ingredients to the meal later?" Hahaha! ”

"Gagaga, I'll feed you now!"

The two laughed and scolded, and the others laughed along, these days after going to the toilet to wipe their buttocks, those powerful people are said to use cloth, which is extremely luxurious, and the rich people use toilet chips (special thin bamboo chips, wood chips, etc.).

Ordinary people use all kinds of thin sticks, leaves, and weeds that they pick up, and they really don't use their hands directly.

Rubbing your butt with your hands is of course a bit of that, but it's not a big deal to wash it with water afterwards, and many people actually wash their hands just for the sake of it, as long as the smell isn't obvious.

When they wake up in the morning, many soldiers will go to the toilet to defecate, and there is no need to think about such high-end goods as toilet chips, and ordinary soldiers use thin wooden sticks, reed poles, weeds and other readily available substitutes.

However, the battalion of more than 100,000 people consumes a large number of toilet substitutes every day, which is simply not enough.

Many soldiers have nothing to wipe their buttocks, so they simply use their hands directly, there are wooden barrels in the toilet, and after going to the toilet, they can wash their hands with the water contained in it, but so many people go to the toilet every day, and the water in the barrel is not changed frequently, and it is unknown how many people have washed their hands in a bucket of water.

But for the soldiers, it's not a big deal, even so, life in the barracks has become a habit, it's not strange, everyone's family background is not very good, where can you be as particular as a big family.

The queue for warm water has been maintained for a long time, some people have left after fetching water, and some people have come to line up with crockpots, and there are coughs in the queue from time to time, and the guys can't help but care when they see familiar faces.

An old man in his fifties nagged: "Alas, how many times have you said it, spring covers autumn frost, spring covers autumn frost!" Although it is spring now, the spring cold is not a joke, you descendants, cover it more, pay attention to keeping warm! ”

"Ouch Wang, we've been covering it, who knows what's going on, now there are more and more people coughing, can't everyone catch a cold!"

As soon as the topic opened, everyone talked about it, and the soldiers in line here were all fetching water for their own reasons, and after some discussion, everyone was shocked to find that many people seemed to have coughs.

If you accidentally catch a cold, why do so many people catch a cold?

Someone suddenly changed his words: "You all saw it, right?" ”

"What do you see?"

"South, that avatar, it's infiltrating..."

As soon as these words came out, everyone's faces changed, and they couldn't help but look to the south, now that the sun is rising, people with good eyesight can see a human head standing on the horizon, of course, it is false.

The enemy army is now camped in the south, and there have been strange movements for several days, according to the scouts, the other party is building an altar outside the camp, asking Taoist priests to do it, trying to cast a spell to wipe out all the officers and soldiers.

This kind of thing is a joke, and no one takes it seriously, because for thousands of years, no one has really won a battle with magic?

However, when a huge human head appeared outside the enemy camp, the officers and soldiers who saw this scene from a distance felt a little apprehensive in their hearts: the eyes of the human head seemed to be staring at them, as if they were really cursing something.

Being stared at by this person's portrait every day, the soldiers in the camp outside Shaoling City felt a little uncomfortable, after all, the ghosts and gods would rather believe it than believe it, and the enemy commander is said to be the "one-legged bronze man" who has magical powers, so...

"Could it be that so many people are coughing, is it the curse of the one-legged bronze man?"

The words that blurted out inadvertently caused everyone to be shocked, and then whispered, and the governor who patrolled the camp quickly led people to rush over when he saw this: "What to do!" Do what! Don't talk to each other! ”

"Fetch water, fetch water! What to do with each other! ”

The most taboo in the barracks is for soldiers to gather together and whisper, which can easily become the source of rumors, a way to spread rumors, and finally lead to chaos in the army, so the patrol camp governor is very sensitive to the behavior of soldiers gathering to discuss.

As soon as the governor came, the scene of the water was instantly quiet, and a soldier was about to leave after fetching water, but he coughed a few times, and when he heard the governor ask him if he was sick, he quickly shook his head: "How can it, it's just that I was in a hurry to drink water and choked." ”

"Really? If you are sick, you have to report it and ask the military doctor to see you. ”

"Yes, yes, the little one knows...."

The soldier's throat was a little itchy, but he couldn't cough it out, and waited until he was far away from the general's sight before he coughed violently, and he had been coughing for several days, and his throat was getting more and more uncomfortable.

He should be sick, and he is supposed to ask a military doctor to come and see him, but he is not so stupid:

Once you are diagnosed with a disease by a military doctor, you will not be sent to a separate camp for isolation, where it is full of patients, no one to take care of them, and they don't eat well, and the herbs are simply perfunctory, so you can only wait for death.

If he continued to live with his comrades, at least someone would take care of him, so that he would not lie on the straw mat and could not move, and he would be so thirsty that his lips would not be able to carry water, and he would have been a soldier for so long, and he would have heard of the fate of the seriously injured and seriously ill patients, even if he had not seen it with his own eyes.

No one knows when the seriously injured and seriously ill patients who were sent to the quarantine camp died, and no one knows where they were buried.

Most of the soldiers are in the same township formation, and most of the soldiers are villagers, or people from the same county, once someone dies, there are still people who cut off a handful of hair or a piece of cloth on their clothes, and take it back to their hometown to hand over to their relatives, if they are thrown into the isolation camp, it is too desolate.

He felt that he just had a cold, coughed a few times, it was not that he had a cold in the past, and he didn't need to see a doctor to grab medicine, he got through it, he was still young, strong and strong, although he coughed badly this time, he would definitely be able to get through it in the end.

After walking around the camp for an unknown amount of time, the soldiers who fetched water finally returned to the tent where Bensh had set up, and several comrades poured warm water from the clay pot into a bowl and drank it separately, and one of them carried the warm water and helped one of the soldiers lying on the straw mat to get up and slowly feed him to drink.

The soldier was pale, coughing, and looked sick, but his fellow villagers had been hiding his illness and could not bear to let him be taken to the quarantine camp to suffer, so they stayed in the tent and everyone took turns to take care of him.

The folks in the township have to take care of each other when they go out, don't they?

After drinking the water, Shi Chang saw that the soldiers who went to fetch water were coughing, and couldn't help but become concerned and asked if it mattered, seeing the other party smiling and waving his hand, he sighed and sat on the straw mat in a trance.

Concealing his illness and not reporting it is considered a violation of military discipline, but since he was able to conceal his illness, he didn't have any ability to go to heaven, because there were many people in the camp who were coughing, so his sick soldiers in Shiri were not noticed.

It's spring now, the so-called spring covers autumn freezing, people will catch a cold if they don't pay attention, but so many people in the barracks are coughing, it doesn't make sense that it's all because of a cold, isn't it....

Thinking of this, Shi Chang couldn't help palpitating, he was a veteran among veterans, although he was promoted because he didn't make any military achievements, but he had been in the barracks for a long time, and he had seen any scenes, and now the situation in the barracks seems to have the possibility of a large-scale outbreak.

But how is this possible?

The army was stationed on the banks of the Lishui and Rushui rivers, and the water supply was not a problem, and there were cavalry patrolling the upper reaches every day to prevent people from polluting the water source by throwing dead livestock, so the officers and soldiers had clean and reliable river water to drink.

There are more than 100,000 people in the camp, and the feces excreted every day are collected and thrown into the downstream of the Rushui Weir to harm the enemy troops downstream, but their own camp is very clean and not stained by feces and urine, so why do so many people cough?

Could it really just be a cold?

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"The chrysanthemums are broken, the ground is full of wounds, and your smile is yellow..."

Yuwen Wen hummed "Chrysanthemum Remnant"...."Chrysanthemum Terrace", walked out of the latrine, the touch left by the toilet chip still lingered, but he personally confirmed the cleanliness of the latrine, and he was in a good mood.

In this era, both men and women, after going to the toilet, they have to rely on toilet chips or similar items to clean, Yuwenwen can't get used to it, but he can only get used to it forcibly, but every time he has the urge to sing "Chrysanthemum Residue".

However, since he "invented" toilet paper, the danger of chrysanthemum residues has become farther and farther away from him.

Yu Wenwen believes that toilet paper is an important milestone in the development of human civilization, and as the latest product of Huangzhou paper industry, toilet paper, which is classified as a light luxury product, will surely bring huge profits.

Ordinary people can't afford this thing and needs to be promoted for a long time, so the paper mill produces toilet paper to make rich people's money.

Toilet paper has begun to be promoted in the Xiyang Palace, but Yuwenwen cannot do this in the army, since the soldiers still use toilet chips and even small wooden sticks to go to the toilet, then he also has to "continue as usual".

However, the hygiene of the toilet must be ensured, not only that, but also the drinking water and tableware must be ensured hygienic, and the "portable hot water boiler" that is being tried is responsible for boiling water and high-temperature disinfection.

Cooked water (boiling water) shops have appeared in Xiyang City, providing residents with hygienic cooked water at a more appropriate price, and in the army, Yuwenwen has been implementing new regulations: do not drink raw water as much as possible, collect ** should be cooked water, and centralized disinfection of tableware.

This practice is changing the living habits of the soldiers, and although it is a bit troublesome, it is greatly helpful in improving the hygiene of the barracks.

The population density of the barracks is extremely high, once an infectious disease breaks out, in this era without antibiotics, it is easy to cause heavy casualties, and even the danger of annihilation.

"So, go in peace..."

Yu Wenwen looked at the enemy camp a few miles to the north and muttered to himself, then turned to the Chinese military tent and ordered the gathering drum to be beaten to convene the generals to discuss the matter.

The drums were beating and urging people's hearts, and the congregation would gather in the tent, and Yuwenwen asked people to spread out a map on the ground, using a horse whip as a command pole, and began to dispatch troops.

"The widow has to report to the scout, knowing that the enemy's camp is not far away, so our army needs to prepare early, and now, the widow will discuss with you the strategy of breaking the enemy..."