"Emily, are you going to the Wuyu Temple to burn incense again today?" Aunt Angela, the neighbor, asked Emily as she came out of the house happily, wearing a snow-white skirt and holding a flower basket in her hand.
Emily stopped and smiled sweetly at Angela. "Good morning, Aunt Angela. My mother is sick. I went to the Wuyu Temple to burn incense and pray to the Great Emperor Wuyu to bless my mother to get better soon."
"Is that so? Emily is such a good child, and your mother is also a good mother. The Great Emperor of the Five Imperials will bless you." Angela was about to make a cross on her chest, but she suddenly froze halfway through. Then she quickly reacted, clasped her left hand with her right hand, bowed to the sky and said.
"Thank you, Aunt Angela." Emily bowed to Angela, then left with a brisk pace again.
Angela soon arrived outside the Five Imperial Temples of the Golden Liubao Realm. Emily was shocked by the sight of the solemn and dignified Taoist temple and the bursts of sandalwood smoke wafting out of the temple. Then she walked in respectfully with a serious face.
Pilgrims were coming in and out of the Five Imperial Temple, showing how popular it was. After Emily entered the Five Imperial Temple, she went straight through the numerous halls and came to the innermost and tallest hall dedicated to the Great Emperor Wu Yu.
But at this time, the Hall of the Five Emperors was already crowded with people, and several yellow-haired, blue-eyed Taoist priests with their hair tied up and wearing Hunyuan scarves were maintaining order outside the hall.
Emily was no longer surprised by this situation, so she just walked to the back of the crowd and started queuing.
At this time, a young Taoist priest came to Emily and asked, "Are you here to burn incense to the Five Imperial Emperors?"
Emily nodded, and the young Taoist priest asked again, "Are you praying for blessings? Making a wish? Fulfilling a wish? Or asking for divination?"
Emily said, "My mother is sick. I want to make a wish and ask the Five Imperial Emperors to bless my mother to get better soon."
The young Taoist nodded, then said to Emily, "Then burn incense and kowtow to the Five Imperial Emperors, then go to the side hall on the right."
Emily was a little surprised and asked, "Why?"
The little Taoist priest smiled and said, "You will know when you go there. Okay, remember what I said." After the little Taoist priest finished speaking, he hurried to ask the person behind Emily.
Emily glanced at the Taoist priest in confusion, but seeing he was busy, she did not disturb him and quietly started to queue up.
After an incense stick of time, Emily had walked to the cushion under the statue of the Five Great Emperors in the hall. After the person in front of her burned incense and kowtowed and stood up to leave, it was finally Emily's turn.
Emily quickly stepped forward and knelt on the cushion, took out the incense from the flower basket and lit it, then stood up and put it into the incense burner. The incense burner in front of her was not big, but no matter how many people came to burn incense, it seemed that it would never be full.
After Emily lit the incense, she cleared her mind of all thoughts about the incense burner, then knelt on the cushion again and kowtowed three hundred times to the Five Imperial Emperors. Then she knelt straight, bowed with her hands, closed her eyes and began to make a wish.
After making the wish, Emily stood up from the mat, picked up the small flower basket and prepared to turn around and leave, but she suddenly remembered the words of the little Taoist priest, hesitated for a moment, and walked straight into the side hall on the right.
The side hall is not big, but it is surrounded by tall and wide wooden frames, with an altar in the middle. A middle-aged Taoist priest in a Taoist robe is sitting behind the altar.
As soon as she entered the side hall, Emily smelled a strong smell of medicine. She frowned, forced herself to overcome the suffocating smell, and then walked to the front of the altar.
When the middle-aged Taoist priest saw Emily, he immediately smiled and asked, "Is anyone in your family sick?"
"Huh?" Emily's eyes widened and she asked in surprise, "How did you know?"
"Haha." The middle-aged Taoist priest laughed and said, "Anyone who is sick or has a sick family member, I, the Taoist priest of the Five Imperial Temple, will arrange for them to come to this side hall to get medicine."
"Get the medicine?" Emily's face was full of astonishment. "Are you a pharmacist?"
In Emily's impression, only the pharmacists of the Church of Light could cure diseases and prescribe medicines, but poor people like them could not afford to hire these pharmacists, so if these believers had any diseases, they could only go to the Temple of the Church of Light to pray. If they were pious enough or lucky enough, they would be able to get the holy light of the Godfather of the Church of Light to cure them, which was a blessing they had accumulated in eight lifetimes.
"Pharmacist? Not really, but I can give you medicine to cure your mother's illness." said the middle-aged Taoist priest.
Emily, even though she wasn't a pharmacist, couldn't afford the 'medicine' herself, so she timidly said, "But I don't have any money."
"This is alms, no money needed." The middle-aged Taoist priest shook his head and said, "What symptoms does your mother have?"
Emily didn't understand what 'alms' meant, but she understood what 'free of charge' meant. So after a brief moment of surprise, she said, "My mom has a cough, a sore throat, can't eat, has a headache, and vomited this morning."
The middle-aged Taoist priest asked again: "Is there any phlegm? What color is it?"
"Yellow... yes, yellow, very thick and sticky." said Emily.
The middle-aged Taoist priest continued, "Is your mother cold?"
"It's cold!" Emily said, "She kept saying it was cold when I came out. Two quilts weren't enough, so I covered her with mine, but she still said it was cold."
The middle-aged Taoist nodded slightly and said, "This is wind-heat disease that has entered the body. She is cold on the outside but hot on the inside. She is afraid of the cold and her internal organs are burning. If your mother still feels very cold after you go back, remove the quilt from her body and cover only the lower half of her body. Leave the upper half uncovered, no matter how cold it is."
As he spoke, the middle-aged Taoist priest stood up, grabbed three doses of medicine, and wrapped them in three different colored oil papers. He then handed them to Emily and said, "First, boil the medicine in the green package in a pot and feed it to your mother. This medicine is for clearing away heat, detoxifying, and removing evil spirits."
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