The woman pointed to the gate and said, "When you look at the words on your head, and see the colors red, black, and green, and when you see red, you know that all those in it have a fever, and when you see black, you know that all those in it are seriously ill, and if you see green, they are about to get better." ”

As he spoke, he took out a sign from his bosom, and turned his hand lightly at the door, and a palm-sized hole immediately opened up at the handle.

She knocked on the door, handed the sign in her hand to the soldier guarding outside the door, and reported: "I am from the 2nd West Battalion, and now I am here to give the new guard guidance." ”

The soldiers outside checked the sign, opened the door, and waited for Aunt Tian and the others to go out, and then locked the door again.

Then the woman led the people along the road about a hundred paces, and saw a large house, and there was a small ditch outside the house, in which the living water flowed, and beside the ditch there were several large vats, and beside the jars a small bamboo tube protruded.

She stepped forward and folded the bamboo tube down—and immediately water flowed from it, which was yellow-brown with a faint smell of medicine.

The woman put her hand over and washed her face, rinsed her mouth, and explained: "When you come out of the camp, whether you want to enter the house or go to the next camp, you must find this jar and wash your head, face, and hands, and rinse your mouth before you can leave." ”

She glanced at everyone, as if she was afraid that the newcomer should not do the same thing, and added: "This is the method said by the imperial doctor from the capital, everyone must do it, and the officials above have already said that as long as they find that they have not acted in this way when they leave the camp, all the money will not be distributed that month, and they will also be sent to the house for a month before they can leave the camp. ”

Aunt Tian and the people next to her hurriedly responded and silently wrote it down in their hearts.

The woman watched as they washed their hands and faces, and rinsed their mouths, before leading them to the big house.

Aunt Tian carefully followed the woman, only to feel that the more she walked in this camp, the more her heart was lifted, and she did not dare to take a step of the way, did not dare to do anything on her own, and wanted to follow the footprints of the woman every step of the way, and did everything according to the woman's assignment, for fear that she would step on it crookedly and touch it wrongly, just like entering the treasure house of the storyteller's mouth with organs, and there would be sharp arrows soaked in poison.

The woman pushed open the door, and there was a large nave, separated by planks, and in each room there were many people going their own way, and she walked in front, introducing them to the people behind them, one by one.

"This is the pharmacy house, and when you go back and report to the steward, he has assigned you an errand, and although I don't know where you have been assigned, I want to tell you all about it."

"This pharmacy is in charge of medicine, and as long as you are assigned to it, a compartment can only do one thing, you see this one-"

Aunt Tian looked over as she said, and saw a man in his fifties with his sleeves tied up on both sides and grinding medicine with a pestle on the ground, and the baskets that had been ground next to him were lined up in turn.

The woman said, "This row is all made of black barracks medicine, and after they make it, they will send it to the medicine room......

She walked a little further, then pointed to the other side and said, "This is the sachet house." ”

Aunt Tian looked into the sachet house, and it was full of enthusiasm, all of them were old women who were older than herself, with gray hair and a little rickety on their backs.

The women sat on chairs and gathered around a very large table, on which were placed many medicinal herbs and coarse cloths.

The crowd cut the cloth or kneaded the thread, or picked up the medicinal herbs on the table into two palm-square cloths, wrapped them, and tied them with ropes.

The woman said, "This sachet will have two on each of you, so that it can remove the filthy breath." ”

She was obviously very familiar with the people in this sachet house, so when she came over, many people in it smiled and looked up to greet her, the scene was very lively, and the atmosphere was very relaxed.

Aunt Tian peeked at it, and only felt that this was not like working in an epidemic camp where everyone was waiting to die, but it was a bit similar to the old sisters in her village who gathered together to make rice and rice cakes during the festival.

The woman stood and exchanged a few words with the inside, then asked for a sachet and handed it to Aunt Tian and told her to pass it on.

Aunt Tian took the sachet, and before she reached her nose, she already smelled a strong smell of mugwort leaves and calamus, and there was also some indescribable smell of drilling your nose.

Although she didn't know what this sachet was made of, she was inexplicably relieved when she smelled it.

Everyone passed it once, but they didn't dare to dismantle it, but they only thought it was something good, and they looked at it from the outside, and carefully returned it to the woman.

After looking at this room for a while, there are compartments for washing, cutting, and dispensing.

The woman said: "After you get in, everyone will do things in turns, what is easy today will be done tomorrow, and what will be difficult tomorrow will not always make one person suffer and one person will be happy." ”

Then he walked up to a big cart and said, "Wait and look at the colors painted on the barrels in this cart." ”

Aunt Tian leaned over to take a look, and sure enough, she saw that there were six wooden barrels on this cart, one of which was about a foot high, with a lid on it, and words were written on the barrel.

The woman said, "Unlike those who are serious officials, most of us are illiterate, and we don't look at the words, but only at the ones next to us—can you see them one by one?" ”

Aunt Tian followed her instructions and looked over, and sure enough, there were black marks next to the words written, ranging from one, two, three to many, horizontal, vertical, oblique, and yellow, purple, green, blue, and so on.

Then the woman said, "When you see these things on the bucket, when the time comes, send them to the camp, and match them with the words written outside the little door in the barracks, and see which bucket is the same color and number of bars painted on the outside of the door, and then fill the bucket with medicine—and when you have drunk it, you must put it all into the big vat below, and send it to the next room, and then wash it, and have someone boil it in grapefruit leaf water before it can be used again." ”

Aunt Tian listened a lot in one day, but she felt that she understood everything, but she might not be able to remember it, but she didn't dare to say it.

The woman looked at her and said, "If you don't remember, don't be afraid, for for the first month of the year, there were old people with new people—in two months, when the epidemic was gone, it didn't matter." ”

As if the pandemic was really nothing.

Aunt Tian was in her heart, she could see her attitude, and she could see the rules along the way, the stricter the rules, the more relieved she was.