That's all. Then he smelled a stench in the fragrance of soy milk - Liu San was already very familiar with this smell. It was the smell of livestock sheds where large animals were raised. There was a small door next to the shop, and he opened it.
It was a small courtyard, with a shed set up in the yard and a small donkey tethered to it, which was grazing on the trough. Not far from the donkey's trough was a stone mill, with the residue of soy milk grinded early in the morning still on it.
bean paste and tofu skin.
Obviously, the soy milk used for the crystal clear tofu on the chopping board outside is made from the soy milk ground in this small yard filled with the smell of donkey manure.
Liu San thought to himself that it was a good thing that the soy milk had to be boiled before making tofu. Now he felt more and more how "correct" it was for the general office to provide special supplies for the elders.
He was about to go out when he suddenly turned his eye and saw a figure squirming in the corner of the shed. He was so frightened that he took a few steps back and shouted: "Who is that person?"
It didn't matter that he drank. The followers gathered outside immediately rushed in and shouted: "Who is it? Come out quickly!"
This time, a trembling little girl came out from behind the barn. Her face was smeared with stove ashes, and there were straw stalks hanging from her messy hair.
A Xie Cong shouted loudly: "Who are you? Why are you hiding here?" They are all old members of the fast class, and showing off in front of the people is a basic quality. The little girl suddenly burst into tears, and her tears fell instantly.
The ashes were scattered all over the place, leaving a big painted face.
The lady boss of the tofu shop who registered at the shop quickly came over to say hello and said she was his daughter.
"Your daughter? Didn't you say she went to her uncle's house? She's not at home?" asked the police officer in charge of registration.
"About...approximately...I came back just now..." The boss was very embarrassed, and quickly took out a bunch of money, "This is a small token of your gratitude. Let the servants take it to have a cup of tea."
The police waved their hands and said: "We don't want the money. You must cooperate with the government census honestly! Your daughter is clearly at home, why do you say she is not at home? This is deceiving the government!"
The owner of the tofu shop bent over his back and bowed repeatedly: "Yes, yes, it's just a temporary obsession." He secretly complained in his heart. Today, the Australians came to check the household registration, and he didn't know the details, and he was afraid that the overseas barbarians would see his daughter.
When something happened, he asked his daughter to hide in the livestock shed and lied that she was not at home. Unexpectedly, this Australian was so meticulous that he would even come in to take a look at the smelly livestock shed! This mistake was caught by the errand, but
Some lions opened their mouths. They didn't even want hundreds of dollars. It seemed that they had to use silver.
With a frown on his face, he took out a tael of silver from his belt and put it into the hands of the leading policeman, but was rejected again. Liu San looked at it coldly, and the eyes of several of the co-workers almost burst out with fire. They couldn't help but secretly laugh.
Liu San asked his boss to take him to see the water well, but the boss was puzzled. However, seeing that the Australian express team repeatedly refused to accept money and did not deliberately make things difficult, he was puzzled and felt a lot more at ease. Liu San wanted to see the water well.
, he also took it to see it.
The well was in the kitchen behind the shop, but it had a wooden well fence. This was the first time Liu San saw it. Liu San asked him to fetch a bucket of water and tested it with his hands. The water temperature was very low - this was
A characteristic of high-quality water. He did not have biochemical equipment at hand, so he could only rely on visual inspection, using a glass test tube to take out water samples and examine them in the sun: the water quality is clear and transparent, with very few suspended matter. From the litmus paper he carried with him
He tore off a piece and measured the pH value, which showed that it was slightly alkaline. Overall, the water quality was not bad. He thought that no wonder some people said that good water is necessary to make tofu. In ancient times, there was no running water, so a good well was indispensable.
The boss watched him playing around, not knowing what he was doing and not daring to ask more questions. Suddenly he heard this Australian fast worker asked:
"When did you get this well?"
"It's been handed down from our ancestors..." The boss didn't know that he was suddenly interested in the well. "This tofu shop has been handed down to my fifth generation." The boss said it very proudly.
Liu San nodded, no wonder his family can make tofu.
"Your water is pretty good," Liu San asked. "How do people on this street use water to drink?"
The boss didn't understand what he meant and said: "Some families have their own wells. Those who don't have a well must either go to the public well to get water or buy water."
Some public wells are dug by the government, but more often they are dug by citizens raising funds or by wealthy families "doing good deeds". The water quality is not necessarily good or bad, but water does not cost money. A good well can be used for making tea, but a poor well can not be used except for washing clothes.
Entrance.
The water I bought was picked up from the Pearl River by watermen. Although the river water is turbid, it is living water. It is not as "heavy" as most well water. It can be used after being purified with alum. Even if there is a well available, because
The quality of well water is not good, and many people buy river water.
The next level up is the mountain spring water brought into the city by water trucks from Baiyun Mountain, Yuexiu Mountain and other places, and is specially delivered to the city's big teahouses, courts and dignitaries for cooking tea and cooking. Ordinary people cannot afford it.
"Is the water from the public well here good?" Liu San asked. Traditional tofu making has very high requirements for water quality, so tofu shop owners have considerable ability to identify the quality of water.
"The water from several public wells on Huifu Street can be used for washing and cooking at home, but it cannot be used for making tea," the boss said.
Liu San nodded. He couldn't make tea, which meant that the mineral content in the well water was high. Guangzhou is located on the Pearl River, and there are springs in the mountains such as Yuexiu Mountain to the north. The groundwater is very rich. However, superficial groundwater is susceptible to pollution, especially in
In ancient cities with imperfect sewage facilities, sewage discharged by a large and dense population seeped into the groundwater, which could easily cause groundwater pollution. This is an important reason why some northern cities in history had to be relocated every time they were rebuilt.
Guangzhou has abundant water resources, which is much better in comparison, and Chinese people have the habit of boiling water before drinking it. Therefore, the hidden dangers in water supply are not particularly prominent.
Returning to the shop from the kitchen, he saw that the little girl had washed her face and combed her hair. She was filling in the household registration form. Liu San took a look and saw that her face was young and she looked about fourteen or fifteen years old. She was probably born.
In the home of a tofu shop, he ate more protein than the average person, so he was born with fair and delicate skin, and a round and round appearance. For some reason, he thought of his son who stayed in Lingao, and then of Xuan Chun, and his heart moved.
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Liu San followed the census team around the city for a few days and got a general understanding of the public health situation in Guangzhou. A more comprehensive situation will not be known until the census team collects the data. Liu San returned to his office first.
Guangzhou Special City does not yet have a health bureau. He came to Guangzhou with the title of "Commissioner of the Health Department of the Ministry of People's Livelihood and Labor", and his office was temporarily located in Lin Baiguang's Comprehensive Management Office.
Back in the office, Liu San started to sort out the information he had collected, especially what he had seen and heard these days. According to his opinion, Guangzhou's public health was seriously unqualified. But in such a bad situation, the big library provided
There is no record of a "big epidemic" in the data compilation. Could it be that the ancients really had strong resistance while living in a harsh environment?
Liu San came to Jia Jue to ask. Jia Jue said that every year during the "Return to Nantian", there must be "epidemic" in the city, and many people died; in the summer, there was also the so-called "severe fever". But most of the dead were poor people, so there were very few people.
Concern. As for small-scale epidemics, it is not unusual in the city. In other words, in this time and space, no one takes it seriously if hundreds of people die in an epidemic outbreak.
Liu San wanted to ask more carefully, but Jia Jue was not a doctor and could not provide much information. He said that if Liu San wanted to know more, he could ask the county medical officer.
Medicine is the state and county medical administration and government hospital. The person in charge of medicine in the state department is called the Code Department, and the person in charge of the county department is called the Training Department. Each has a number of medical personnel under his command. Since he is a member of the government-run institution, the common people call him "medical officer".
China has had a tradition of providing local government-run medical services since the Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Ming Dynasty, each county had a "medical" establishment. On the one hand, it accepted medical administrative affairs and provided publicly funded medical services to county officials and workers. On the other hand,
He also treated people and even made house calls. When Hai Rui was the magistrate of Chun'an County, he wrote the "Regulations on the Reform and Reform" about rectifying the functions of the government and changing the work style. Under the heading of "Routines for Medical Officers", there is a record of "Four Doctors"
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Guangzhou Prefecture is an important thoroughfare and the capital of a province. There are more than a dozen medical officers in one prefecture and two counties. When Liu San read the reference materials compiled by the Ministry of Urban Affairs and Industry, he knew that the business of these medical officers was very prosperous. Because
Among the medical officers, except for those who hold the seal, they have no salary except for training. Their income comes from the medical fees for treating people.
Although there is no salary, there are many people competing for this position, and even people have to pay bribes to get it. Hai Rui also said in the "Regulations on the Revolution": "Medical officials examine the pulse of the disease and understand the properties of the medicine to benefit a county.
, recently Dona Yin did it, trying to make a profit..." In fact, among the medical officers, except for the ones who hold the seal, they have no salary except for the training. The income comes from the consultation fees for treating the people. Because the common people always think that public hospitals are more expensive than Jianghu.
The doctor is reliable, so the medical officer's business is prosperous. However, the truly capable doctor does not bother to do this. In turn, it is not difficult to imagine the skills of most medical officers.
When Liu San entered the city, he met the medical officers of the county and wanted to see if he could organize a simple traditional Chinese medicine hospital. As a result, he talked about the contents of some common must-read books for doctors at that time. Some of them were dumbfounded.
He couldn't answer it either. Some people simply hadn't read "Mai Jing" and didn't know the basic properties of medicine. However, immediately after the meeting, they presented him with several books such as "Huangdi Su Nu Heart Sutra". Some people also offered aphrodisiacs.
It... made Liu San very annoying.
Fortunately, a few of them had real talents and knowledge. Lin Baiguang asked people to invite them for talks. (To be continued ~^~.)