Chapter 552 Defying Fate?

Yunniang, who had been looking at Li Sanniang with an excited expression, finally realized that something was wrong.

She suppressed the ecstatic look on her face, glanced at Li San Niang with a hint of unease, and then looked at Wu Mu, whom she was more familiar with, sitting next to Li San Niang.

Wu's mother sat there with a stiff face. Receiving Yunniang's gaze, she looked at Li's mother with a helpless but pleading look in her eyes.

Li San Niang remained silent with a dark expression, and the women in the courtyard dared not speak.

How so?

Perhaps it's the inherent authority of doctors?

However, as Li San Niang's biological mother and a midwife who delivered babies for many years, Li's mother was naturally unafraid of Li San Niang's stern face.

"What is this sacred mountain? And what is the old hag? And what is the Reincarnation Pill?"

Faced with Li's mother's relatively gentle question, Yunniang, who was sitting opposite her feeling uneasy, finally mustered up some courage and dared to answer.

However, Yunniang, a woman who had only lived in the countryside since childhood, was still a little afraid of Li's mother.

After all, even if she was brainless, she could still see the changes in the expressions of everyone present after she told them that she had taken the Rebirth Pill, not to mention Li San Niang's face, which was practically hanging to the ground, making no attempt to hide her displeasure.

Mother Wu couldn't bear it, after all, she was a girl from the clan whom she had watched grow up since she was a child. So Mother Wu awkwardly said to Mother Li, "After crossing the river in front of the village, go over a mountain. There is a small Taoist temple on that mountain. Legend has it that it is the Taoist temple of the Snake Goddess."

Therefore, the villagers nearby called that mountain a sacred mountain.

This old woman was a one-eyed, lame woman from a village at the foot of the mountain. Because it was far from Chang'an and there were few doctors, she knew a little about treating headaches and fevers. She also worshipped the snake goddess on the mountain. It was said that she could connect the yin and yang worlds, so she became known as the old woman.

As for the matter of the "reversal pill," I truly know nothing about it.

My family has been busy harvesting the late wheat lately, so I haven't been visiting neighbors in the village for quite some time. I wonder when this "reincarnation pill" came about.

Yunniang quickly stepped forward and said, "This rebirth pill is a treasured possession of Granny Ghost. If my mother-in-law's family hadn't lived on the other side of the mountain, we wouldn't have known about this treasure."

Hehe, I've said all that, Third Sister, can you take a look at it for me?

"Has my baby really turned into a boy?"

Li San Niang's already dark face darkened even further after hearing Yun Niang's words.

Because Li San Niang didn't reply or look at her, Yun Niang was genuinely frightened. She looked at Wu's mother for help again and whispered, "Auntie, Auntie, I..."

Li San Niang recalled what happened when she was practicing medicine at a hospital in modern times.

Hospitals are truly a melting pot of all sorts of strange things in society, and among them are all kinds of ulterior motives, some good and some bad, some of which are truly shocking.

Due to the lingering feudal remnants of male chauvinism, national laws stipulate that sex determination for non-medical purposes cannot be carried out privately. This is stated on the wall of the ultrasound room in every public hospital across the country, and some even have a hotline for reporting such violations.

The consequences of aborting a female fetus and artificially interfering with the natural sex ratio are terrifying.

Leaving aside the harm that abortion causes to a woman's body, the consequences of this intervention alone will create a huge disparity in the total number of men and women of childbearing age, thereby affecting social stability.

When Li San Niang was seeing patients in the obstetrics and gynecology department, there were even mothers-in-law who brought their daughters-in-law to her and said directly, "Doctor, can you tell us if the baby in this belly is a boy or a girl? If it's a girl, we don't want it."

Li San Niang was immediately shocked!

That's a public hospital! It's utterly incomprehensible that this mother-in-law would say something like that so blatantly.

When Li San Niang pointed out that "non-medical sex determination of the fetus is illegal," the old woman actually said, "Hey, it's our own child, we can do whatever we want with our own womb."

"Impossible, we don't show men and women here."

Whether it's a boy or a girl, they're all your children. Why does it have to be a boy?

Finally, the mother-in-law and her meek daughter-in-law left the clinic grumbling and cursing. Li San Niang didn't know whether they went to a private hospital afterwards.

Another story is about a pregnant woman who heard somewhere that taking certain Chinese medicine could control the sex of her baby. She took some Chinese medicine and became pregnant, but she ended up with heavy metal poisoning and developed acute uremia, which led to her being hospitalized.

Li San Niang looked at Yun Niang, who was sitting hunched over and looking very uneasy, and let out a big sigh.

Even in modern times, with nine years of compulsory education, countless people still fall victim to scams. It's understandable that a rural girl in the Tang Dynasty who couldn't even write her own name would be deceived.

Although not out of frustration or disappointment, Li San Niang was still somewhat angry.

But when he thought that Yunniang was doing this in order to live a good life, he couldn't bring himself to be stern with her.

"I learned proper medical skills from elementary school. Healing and saving lives is all we can do. Defying fate is not something doctors like us can do."

I can't tell if someone is male or female, no matter what they've eaten or whether they've eaten at all.

The union of man and woman is ordained by Heaven; it's not something humans can interfere with.

After Li San Niang finished speaking, she stood up and said to Wu's mother, "I'd like to trouble you, Sister-in-law Wu, to take me to the vegetable garden. I plan to pick some vegetables to take home."

Wu's eldest sister-in-law quickly got up and led Li San Niang and Qiu Xiang to the vegetable garden not far from the backyard.

Only Yunniang, who was stunned, and Wu's mother and the others, who were dumbfounded, remained in the Wu family courtyard.

No one present was truly foolish. Wu's mother mentally pondered the meaning of Li San Niang's words, "Does this mean that the old hag is a fraud?"

Seeing Yunniang's condition, Wu's mother still felt a little sorry for her. After saying something to Li's mother who was still sitting, she went forward and pulled Yunniang over, wanting to personally take her home.

After Wu's mother and Yunniang had been out of the courtyard for a while, Wu Qiaolan finally breathed a sigh of relief and said to Li's mother, Li's eldest sister-in-law, and Li's second sister-in-law who were still in the courtyard, "It's all because of my mouth. If I had known it would cause such a thing, I wouldn't have praised Third Sister in front of them."

Now, even Third Sister has to suffer because of this.

Li's mother naturally wouldn't blame Wu Qiaolan for this. "What does it have to do with you? If you don't tell now, how will the villagers not know Third Sister's identity in the future?"

Besides, Third Sister is naturally willing to help women with ailments. If they know this, it will be a good thing for them to go to the clinic when they feel unwell in the future.

However, there are always those who can't think straight, Qiaolan, don't blame yourself for it.