Chapter 2 Chapter 2 Heaven? Eunuch?
Shen Wanshan had treated too many infertility cases. Just by looking at a child who was not even one year old, he really couldn't guess the child's father's name, so he asked again: "What's your child's name? When did you come to see me? Do you remember?"
"My last name is Chen, Chen Fugui. I came here early last year."
Shen Wanshan patted Shen Miao’s shoulder and told her, “Go to the inner room and find last year’s medical records.”
When the Shen family treated patients, they always prepared two copies of the prescription. They would also simply record the medical history and pulse diagnosis to pass on their experience to the younger generations.
This was a rule passed down from the older generation, so not only could they find last year’s medical records, they could also find several medical records of people older than Shen Miao.
Shen Miao nodded in response, then returned to the room and took out the thick stacks of medical records from last year from the cabinet.
There are many people who come to the Shen family for medical treatment every day, and a notebook half a finger thick can be filled with their names in a month.
Chen Fugui, at the beginning of the year.
According to what the woman said, Shen Miao took out the medical records of the first four months separately and compared the names recorded on them page by page.
This is not an easy task.
Although Shen Wanshan was an excellent doctor, his cultural level was not high. Most of the words on the medical records were written crookedly, and he would use symbols to replace words he didn't know how to write. Different symbols represented different meanings: a circle was the first tone, a triangle was the second tone, a square was the third tone, and a cross was the fourth tone.
Chen Wanshan probably doesn't know how to write the words "wealth" and "honor", so he uses two crosses instead.
When Shen Miao was looking through the medical records in the house, Mrs. Chen, who was holding the child, was not idle either. She kept complaining to the villagers who were waiting to see the doctor in the yard, trying to pull all the human feelings and reason to her side.
"My child has little education, so he can only work in the city to earn some hard-earned money. Tell me, how much money can you make by moving bricks and shoveling cement in the city?"
"I thought we were all from the same village, so I could save some money by seeing a doctor. But he said I couldn't have children, and prescribed a bunch of random medicines for my child to take every day. I had to spend several dollars every week just on the medicines."
"After the Chinese New Year, my child went out to work again and had no time to make and drink medicine. What happened? Hey! Suddenly, a big grandson was born!"
Although the aunts sitting in the yard were not as powerful as the emperor, their ears had been tempered by decades of persuasion and they were not easily persuaded by him. What's more, they didn't hear anything wrong in what she said.
"If you are sick, take medicine, and the disease will naturally heal after taking the medicine."
“Yes, if it weren’t for Uncle Shen’s medicine, maybe the young boy wouldn’t be able to recover.”
Seeing that they didn't understand what she meant, Mrs. Chen continued, "What? It's not my child who is sick, it's his wife who has a stomach problem. She hasn't laid an egg in five years since she got married!"
"Then you grandson...oh~"
After hearing what Mrs. Chen said, everyone's faces suddenly showed an expression of "So that's it".
So Chen Fugui’s wife was infertile, and when Chen Fugui went to work in the city, he had a child with another woman…
The atmosphere in the yard was originally tense, but when hearing these things, the hands in front of the body subconsciously wanted to reach into their pockets to grab a handful of melon seeds and listen to her explain the details clearly.
"Then will your daughter-in-law be willing for him to take the child home?"
"Of course I don't want to. We got the divorce certificate two months ago." When talking about her former daughter-in-law, Mrs. Chen's face was full of disgust. "She couldn't have children and she had the nerve to come back to my house to move the sewing machine a few days ago, saying that it was her dowry that had to be moved away. Ugh!"
Mrs. Chen described the events of the day in vivid and moving detail, how the girl's family came to their house to argue with them, and when they failed to argue, they kept complaining that Chen Fugui's illness had delayed her for several years, causing the neighbors to come and see their family and make fun of them.
It was because of this incident that Mrs. Chen came to Qinghe Village to ask for an explanation.
"If you hadn't lied to her that I couldn't have a baby, why would she make such a fuss? Why didn't you say that she was a chicken that doesn't lay eggs!" Turning her head to look at Shen Wanshan, Mrs. Chen's tone rose a few notches.
"I know that Nen and Xu Feng are from the same village, so you are on her side and throwing dirty water on my child. Do you admit it or not?"
Although he had forgotten the specific situation, Shen Wanshan still explained for himself: "It's impossible. I have no grudges against the young boy. Why would I wrongly accuse him? We are not from the same village, so there is no need for me to lack anyone in this matter."
"Wait a little longer. It won't be too late to find the medical records and clarify the matter."
Shen Miao searched the room for more than twenty minutes and finally found the medical record with “Chen Cha Cha” written on it.
"Master, I found it!"
It’s no wonder she took so long to look for it. It was Mrs. Chen who remembered the time wrong.
Chen Fugui came to see the doctor not at the beginning of last year, but at the end of the year before last. He also came once at the beginning of last year, but Chen Fugui was accompanied by his ex-daughter-in-law Xu Feng, so only her name was written.
The medical record had been in the cabinet for more than a year, the edges had turned yellow, and the dark blue handwriting had faded.
There were a bunch of circles and crosses written on it, and Shen Miao could only recognize the word "天" at the top, and a few familiar names of medicinal herbs below.
Wait, isn't this used to treat male infertility?
Shen Miao handed the medical record to his grandfather, and Shen Wanshan looked at it several times, barely piecing together the vague memory.
"Oh... I remember now, Chen Fugui," Shen Wanshan dusted off the medical records in his hand and said lightly, "Your son is a natural eunuch."
"What?"
Mrs. Chen didn't understand these medical terms, but she guessed that they were not good words. "Say it again, what do you mean?"
Shen Wanshan brought the medical record to her, pointed at the circles and crosses he had written word by word, and explained: “If you are a eunuch, you just can’t have children.”
Then, he took Xu Feng's medical records and compared them. "You see, your daughter-in-law is normal, but she has some gynecological diseases. These medicines are for her gynecological diseases."
"Bullshit!"
The child in Mrs. Chen's arms had been sleeping for a long time. Now he finally moved. Hearing his grandmother's scolding, he started crying loudly.
While patting the child's back to coax him, Mrs. Chen sought the support of the "honest officials" in the row, "Look at me, everyone. What am I holding? If I can't give birth to my child, am I holding your ancestor? You are just a quack doctor!"
Mrs. Chen winked at the men behind her, and they nodded in understanding. Then they waved their hoes and shovels and knocked on the shelves of medicinal herbs in the yard.
Shen Miao: “Stop smashing it! I haven’t made my words clear yet, stop smashing it!!!”
Those herbs were picked by Shen Miao in the mountains. Each one was the result of her hard work and could not be destroyed by these reckless men.
Taking a quick step forward, Shen Miao took the medical record from Shen Wanshan's hand, pointed at the diagnosis on it and emphasized loudly: "Your son has no function, your wife is fine, and this child was born by that woman in the city. How can you guarantee that this is your grandson? And what evidence do you have to say that we misdiagnosed!"
Go to you...
The words of Mrs. Chen were on the tip of her tongue, but were blocked by Shen Miao’s firm gaze.
Shen Miao’s words stumped her.
Yes, how could she be sure that this child was her own grandson?
The child was brought back from the city, but she didn't see it come out of the woman's belly with her own eyes, so she was not 100% sure.
Not only her, when those big men who were smashing and looting smelled the scent of melon, they couldn't help but stop what they were doing and waited for the situation to develop.
Seeing Mrs. Chen’s silence, Shen Wanshan couldn’t help but sigh.
Originally, the patient's condition should not be disclosed, but since things have come to this point, we can only make things clear.
"Tianjian, also known as the Five Male Nons, refers to Tian, Lou, Jian, Qie, and Bian. Tian refers to developmental deformity; Lou refers to the inability to control sperm; Jian is what ancient people often called eunuchs; Qie is the inability to get an erection; Bian is what we call a hermaphrodite or a hermaphrodite."
"Your son Chen Fugui is leaking. He just can't hold it in. But it's more than that. There's nothing inside him."
As Shen Wanshan spoke, he pinched the five fingers of his right hand, trying to explain to her in a figurative way, "Not only women need something, men also need something. Why can't the eggs laid by the hen hatch chicks? It's because there's nothing inside. Your son is missing that thing."
"Can this be cured?" the aunt who was watching the fun muttered softly.
"It can't be cured," Shen Wanshan explained to her honestly, "Being a eunuch is destined to be childless for life. No matter whether it is Chinese or Western medicine, it can't be cured."
Another aunt curled her lips and said, "Then you still prescribe medicine for others, no wonder they come to you."
"I swear to God, I didn't prescribe this medicine to cure his eunuchhood, but to cure his internal organs."
Shen Wanshan was anxious, and hurriedly showed them the medical records, regardless of whether they could understand what he wrote: “Look carefully, the medicine on it has nothing to do with Tianjian, Tu Fuling, honeysuckle, rhubarb… these are all detoxification and used to treat internal diseases.”
Dirty...sick?
They seemed to know something extraordinary, and the emotions in their eyes became more meaningful.
We haven’t even figured out where the child came from, and now a heart disease has emerged?
Tsk tsk tsk, what other surprises does this legendary Chen Fugui have that they don’t know about?
"Let your mother go, mother..."
Mrs. Chen was a little unsteady on her feet and she couldn't utter the word "fart" for a long time.
Fortunately, the man behind him supported her in time, so she did not stumble and fall to the ground.
"You should think before you speak. Let's talk about the law now. If you spread rumors, your whole family will be sent to jail!" The man tried to save face for Mrs. Chen, but his confidence was obviously much weaker than before.
"You still know how to preach?"
Looking at the ruined herbs on the ground, Shen Miao seriously suspected that he himself did not know what he had said, and was simply trying to save face and not admit the facts.
Shen Miao: “If you think we are cheating, then bring Chen Fugui here for a confrontation. If that doesn’t work, then go to a big hospital for a checkup. If we really misdiagnose, we will pay for all the expenses. But if it is really Chen Fugui’s problem… then you guys have to give an explanation for coming here to cause trouble today.”
After Shen Miao finished speaking, the eyes in the yard that couldn’t wait to eat melons all fell on Mrs. Chen, waiting for her answer. The emotions that could not be hidden were urging her to call people for a confrontation.
Chen Fugui is really coming, no matter who is right or wrong, it will definitely be a good show!
It would be best to get his ex-wife and her family here as well, as well as the wife he brought back from the city, the opera singer... Oh no, the parties involved. The more parties involved, the easier it will be to sort out the matter.
Seeing that Granny Chen’s hands were not as tight as when she came, in addition to being anxious to prove Grandpa’s innocence, Shen Miao also wanted to have a bite of the melon.
She really wanted to see what this legendary eunuch looked like.
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