Under the guidance of the little girl Caicai, Qi Yue soon arrived at a residential area to the east.
After winding through several alleys, they finally reached a house.
From the outside, it seed that the family lived quite comfortably, with plenty of homade dried at and fish hanging under the eaves, and the quilts drying in the yard didn't have any patches.
Before Qi Yue could enter, Caicai was already shouting, "Mother, mother, I have brought the Divine Doctor... Mother..."
But the yard was eerily silent, as if no one lived there.
"Mother, mother... "
As Caicai shouted and was about to enter the house, the elder woman blocked her, cursing, "You little wretch, both you and your mother are wretches, to tell you the truth, your mother is about to die, I had your father take her out to the vegetable garden... you dare to bring a lady of high status here, you deserve to die..."
With a thud, Caicai suddenly collapsed on the ground.
Qi Yue knew she had run all the way here and had fainted in distress upon hearing about her mother's plight, so she quickly administered an injection.
Finally, Caicai woke up and burst into tears with a loud cry.
"Save my mother, Miss Qi Yue, please save my mother, Caicai is willing to do anything to repay you... "
With things having reached this point, Qi Yue could only follow through with her good intentions.
With a glance, Zhao Chong clanged his knife against the old woman's neck.
"Take us to the vegetable garden!"
After about the ti it takes to drink a cup of tea, they arrived at a vast expanse of open farmland.
It being autumn now, all kinds of vegetables had already been harvested, leaving the place bleak.
Aside from a small shack on the edge of the field, there was nothing else.
Qi Yue had roughly understood the situation.
All the land here was for vegetable farming, belonging to the vegetable farrs, and Caicai's family were such farrs.
Since vegetable farming generally spans the spring, sumr, and autumn seasons and the fields need guarding, there were small shacks everywhere.
Suddenly, Caicai ran towards one of the shacks, and Qi Yue quickly followed.
Before they got close, they heard a woman's scream and a man's shouting.
"Ah..."
"Si Niang, Si Niang..."
Caicai had already rushed forward, crying incessantly.
"Mother, Caicai has brought a doctor, mother, hang in there!"
Qi Yue, hearing that the laboring woman still had so strength, was greatly relieved.
Upon closer inspection, however, her heart sank.
Based on her assessnt, the woman had been having contractions for at least four days, and yet the child had not been born and there were no complications.
This would be easy to handle, in modern tis a dose of oxytocin would do the job, but she had another thod, the Silver Needle Stimulation Technique.
After several needles, without even needing Qi Yue's encouragent, the woman gave birth to the child by herself.
Accompanied by a baby's loud cries, the old woman started cursing again.
"Another wretched girl, does the Huang Family even need any living people anymore, what a sin..."
"It really is born, another wretched girl added, what shall we do about this, my Huang Family..."
Qi Yue had long been impatient with the tirade and had Zhao Chong drag the old woman farther away.
On the way here, through Caicai's intermittent recounting, she had generally understood the whole affair.
It turns out that this old woman's family na was Huang, her son was called Huang Xiong, and the woman in labor, who was also Caicai's mother, was called Si Niang.
Si Niang had married into the Huang Family over a decade ago, her first child was a daughter, who was married off last year at the age of thirteen, and Caicai was the Huang Family's second daughter, now eleven years old.
Over the years, Si Niang would get pregnant every two years, but the old Huang woman always consulted fortune tellers in the city, and upon hearing that it was a girl, she would make her take dication to induce a miscarriage.
Si Niang had suffered miserably under the old Huang woman, but as a daughter-in-law, she couldn't overpower her mother-in-law.
Seeing that Si Niang was getting older, and it had been several years since she last conceived, she decided to give birth this ti, co what may.
Unexpectedly, Old Lady Huang went for another divination, and the result was still a girl, and the diviner even said that the Huang Family was destined to have no sons, so she should just give up!
Upon hearing this, Old Lady Huang felt utterly hopeless.
Her original intention was to incite her son and Si-niang to divorce, but although Huang Xiong was a pushover, he was resolute in not wanting to divorce.
Old Lady Huang had no choice but to relentlessly pressure Si-niang.
Unexpectedly, Si-niang was tough, and so was the child in her womb. Ten months passed, and everything was fine.
But when it ca to childbirth, whether the child was too robust or sothing else, it simply could not be born.
This actually pleased Old Lady Huang.
Her intention was for Si-niang to die along with the baby, and then find another wife for her son, Huang Xiong, who could bear him a son. But Caicai intervened and brought Qi Yue.
Thinking of this, Qi Yue snorted coldly and looked at the boy in her hands with a sneer.
This child really had a strong fate!
Hopefully, he could bring good luck to his mother!
Seeing nothing but straw inside, Qi Yue had to pretend to pull a piece of cotton fabric from her sleeve to wrap the child and tore her cape to wrap him further.
The shack was cramped, and Si-niang was lying inside it; Qi Yue could only stand outside to deliver the baby, blocking the tiny shack completely.
When everything was over, Si-niang had already passed out.
Thus, aside from Qi Yue, no one knew whether Si-niang had given birth to a boy or a girl.
Qi Yue couldn't be bothered to spread any good news. She placed the child in Si-niang's arms and fed her a precious Coagulation Pill.
It was indeed the blood of the White Rhino; within a few seconds, Si-niang had already opened her eyes.
Upon seeing Qi Yue, tears flowed from Si-niang without words first.
"Thank you, Divine Doctor, for saving my life."
Earlier, when she was in extre pain, she had heard her daughter Caicai ntion that she had summoned the Divine Doctor, and seeing herself rescued, she thus called Qi Yue 'Divine Doctor.'
Qi Yue took a handkerchief, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and gently persuaded, "Don't cry, you are very strong; things will get better."
At this point, Caicai and Huang Xiong also gathered around to offer a thousand thanks.
Perhaps convinced that Si-niang had a daughter, both of them refrained from asking whether it was a boy or a girl.
Old Lady Huang was still grumbling under her breath but seeing Qi Yue's stern face, she imdiately fell silent and instead ca forward to pay her respects.
"Noble Miss, I had no idea your dical skills were so superior. Old woman here wants to beg you, do you have a secret recipe for my daughter-in-law to bear a son? If so..."
"Shut up!" Qi Yue snorted coldly, "I'm warning you, from today, if you dare to mistreat Si-niang again, I'll have you visit the Governor's Office!"
Old Lady Huang was stunned for a mont, sowhat afraid to speak.
Originally, seeing Qi Yue's easygoing temperant and how she had delivered the baby effortlessly, she thought her daughter-in-law wouldn't die and brazenly asked for a secret recipe for bearing a son, but Qi Yue threatened to report her to the authorities.
"Did you hear that? Answer my master's question!"
Zhao Chong brandished a knife to intimidate Old Lady Huang, scaring her into kneeling and begging for rcy.
"Old woman understands, I will never dare do it again!"
Seeing her comply, Qi Yue didn't linger any longer and imdiately got ready to ride back.
As a modern person who possessed supre authority, Qi Yue wanted to do sothing for oppressed won, but she also knew that the ti was not yet right.
Unless she possessed supre authority, nothing she did could change the current situation.
Fortunately, life at the Huang Family was bearable, and they didn't need her extra care.
As for Old Lady Huang, this scare was probably enough, since after all, this was their family matter, and excessive interference was not her style.
Especially since Si-niang had given birth to a son, she believed that once Old Lady Huang knew, she would no longer trouble her.
Just out of the vegetable garden, she saw Zhao Tai coming up quickly, saying Zhao Xiyan was already waiting ahead.
Qi Yue verbally complained about why he chased her so quickly, but her heart felt as sweet as honey.
Passing a grove of withered trees, she indeed saw a shiny black carriage stopped on the road ahead, beside which stood an exceptionally beautiful man dressed in white.
Reviews
All reviews (0)