kingnovel Chapter 471: Being kind
Chapter 471: Being kind
Two quarters of an hour later, Song Ying came out of the delivery room. The Li family members who had already seen the baby came to greet her with bright smiles, "Thank you, doctor. You can rest here first. The meal is already being prepared. Today is really thanks to you."
The Li family was in high spirits and busy as ever. They even invited other villagers to stay for dinner and have some fun together.
Song Ying nodded and followed the guide to the main hall to sit down. She had not even had time to eat lunch and was already hungry.
The midwife boasted about Song Ying's skills to others in the back, and then ran over and asked shyly: "Doctor, can you teach me your method of changing the fetal position?"
She had never received formal training in midwifery, but because she had given birth to six children and had enough experience, and other women in the neighborhood often asked her for help when they gave birth, her midwifery skills became famous in several nearby villages, and she became the midwife in these villages.
But after all, she has not learned it in an orthodox way, so there is still a big difference between her and a proper midwife.
"Of course you can. You are a midwife, and what you learn can be useful to more pregnant women." Because of the influence of his master, Song Ying is very generous when it comes to medical knowledge and techniques, especially when teaching them to women.
The midwife was overjoyed. After learning this technique, her midwifery skills would be improved to a higher level. She might even be invited by wealthy families to deliver babies in the future. It was said that wealthy families would give a basin as a gift when the baby was three days old, and would put gold and silver in the basin.
"This technique is best used with drugs that induce labor, but you must pay attention to the acupuncture points when massaging. After all, this is forced labor induction, which may aggravate damage to the birth canal or cause the death of both mother and baby. You must be cautious. When you deliver a baby, you should focus on helping the mother to give birth naturally..."
Song Ying was teaching the midwife how to change the fetus carefully when there was a commotion outside. Li Dalang's voice was filled with anger: "Aunt, you need to be reasonable. What does this have to do with our family?"
"How come it's none of your family's business? Everyone knows that the baby came out with the hand first. There has never been a complete birth in this situation. Now your wife has given birth, but my daughter-in-law didn't. It's your family who used despicable means to snatch my grandson away!"
Song Ying was amazed when he heard these absurd words in the main hall.
How can you snatch someone else's newborn baby just because of such a ridiculous statement? !
The midwife was obviously seeing such a situation for the first time and she ran out to watch the fun.
Song Ying was also very curious about who this family was, so she went out as well and asked a young woman who greeted her what was going on.
The young woman sighed, "I'm sorry to have embarrassed you. This is my husband's youngest aunt. There was a small accident yesterday. My sister-in-law and cousins all had difficult labors. My cousins just passed away and the baby was not born.
We can understand that my aunt-in-law is sad and upset because her grandson is gone, but no matter what, you can't say that our family snatched the child that should have belonged to her family. This is so absurd that people will laugh at you if you tell others about it."
It is obvious that this young woman is Zhaodi's sister-in-law.
Song Ying agreed that this was indeed too shameless.
The midwife who was watching the fun knew the old lady of the Zhang family and advised: "Old sister, I know you are upset, but it has already happened and you can only accept it. Your granddaughter-in-law has already given birth to a son, and the family line has been passed down. Why are you so anxious?
This one is not meant to be, so let your granddaughter-in-law take good care of her health, they are still young, and you can have another baby in a few years."
The old woman's eyes were filled with tears, and she said forcefully: "Don't try to fool me. I don't know you. If you wait to get the big red envelope from the Li family, you will naturally speak for his family!"
The midwife felt that her kindness was being taken for granted, and she was annoyed: "This fat boy from the Li family is really blessed!"
She pointed at Song Ying outside the crowd and said, "It was all thanks to this doctor who adjusted the fetal position and gave the mother ginseng. If your family had the ability, you should have invited a doctor earlier so that your granddaughter-in-law wouldn't have died!"
These heart-piercing words made the old woman, who was already on the verge of collapse, tremble with anger. "Wang Hehua, you damned old woman, you rotten heart, you stabbed me in the heart even though I was in this state... Only a ten-year-old girl can adjust the fetal position, you are kidding me...
Luo Zhaodi’s mother hasn’t given birth to a male child in decades. Like mother, like daughter. It seems she is not destined to give birth to a son. And she is saying that she has robbed the Zhang family of a male heir…”
The old woman kept talking non-stop. Without any evidence, she just based her own opinion on the conclusion that the Li family had exchanged her great-grandson's life. Although the Li family was angry, they didn't want to take it too seriously.
Firstly, since something like that happened in her family, everyone felt sympathy for them; secondly, they were relatives and she was the elder, so they couldn’t go too far.
Just when the Li family was at a loss, the old woman's married daughter and son-in-law came back to attend the funeral. When the old woman saw her daughter, she hugged her and burst into tears, and while crying she also did not forget to accuse the Li family of being hateful.
Her daughter looked at the Li family apologetically, and half persuaded and half pulled the old woman away. Her son-in-law began to apologize to those she had scolded, naturally including Song Ying who was innocently affected.
He walked up to Song Ying, was stunned for a moment, and said with a smile: "Young doctor, you look very kind."
Song Ying also felt that the man looked familiar. He was in his early thirties, with dark skin and a slightly round face. He was dressed like an ordinary farmer and had a friendly look.
"This is the doctor from Huichuntang in the city. Have you seen him in Huichuntang?" someone speculated.
The man frowned. "The last time I went to Huichuntang was seven or eight years ago. In the past few years, I had some minor illnesses and I went to see Doctor Cheng in Guoxiang for treatment."
Song Ying smiled and said, "I often walk around West Street. Uncle might have seen you by chance when he came into the city."
"That's possible." The man didn't dwell on this issue and began to apologize to Song Ying. Song Ying naturally said he didn't mind.
The man praised Song Ying for her magnanimity and went to apologize to the midwife.
The midwife was feeling aggrieved, so she pulled the man aside to complain. The people around her couldn't help but tell the man about his mother-in-law's usual unreasonableness.
"Brother Wang San, he's not okay yet? The body has been put into the coffin. Your eldest brother-in-law asked you to go back quickly and bury the body before dark tonight." A man shouted from behind the crowd.
Song Ying raised her eyebrows, very surprised: "So hurried?"
Generally speaking, after a person dies, the body will be kept at home for three days, a funeral banquet will be held, and on the morning of the fourth day, a time will be set and the body will be buried with music and dance.
The man walked from behind the crowd to the front, pulling the man surnamed Wang and was about to leave. His eyes swept over Song Ying and he exclaimed, "Eh!" "Isn't this the little girl from Xinghua Village? I haven't seen her for a few years, and she has grown so big!"