"These are all civilian houses. The two countries are not at war now. Even if they were to fight, the civilians are innocent. How can I, a doctor, just watch them die without helping them?" As she spoke, she ran towards the bamboo house of that family.
There was a woman wailing in pain upstairs. Jane Ning was about to go upstairs carrying her medicine box when an old woman with a few feathers stuck in her hair and wrinkles on her face so deep that they could kill a fly came running down the stairs in a panic, barefoot.
Jane Ning quickly let her pass.
The old woman seemed not to notice Jian Ning and Huo Jincheng. She ran downstairs and knelt down facing the bamboo forest. She clasped her hands together and muttered something, which sounded like she was praying for the protection of the gods.
Jian Ning didn't ask her. She heard the woman's screams upstairs getting louder and louder, so she ran upstairs. When she entered the room, she saw a young woman curled up on a bamboo bed covered with rotten quilts, her hands covering her stomach and rolling around in pain. The quilts under her were stained with blood.
"Help, save me..." Perhaps seeing the medicine box on Jane Ning's shoulder, the woman covered her lower abdomen with one hand and reached out to her with the other hand, her eyes full of pain and pleading.
Jane Ning knew at a glance that the woman had a miscarriage. Her belly was slightly bulging and she was at least four months pregnant. There was also a faint scent of oleander in the room. Jane Ning guessed that she had used oleander to induce an abortion.
Oleander contains the highly toxic substance oleandrin, which can excite the uterus, enlarge it, and contract it. Although eating a small amount of it can have an abortion effect, it is simply nonsense to use this folk remedy when you are more than four months pregnant.
"Don't worry, I can save you." Jian Ning turned and called out to Huo Jincheng, who was standing downstairs and hadn't come up with her, "Tell that mother to come up."
The old woman was still kneeling on the ground, praying for the protection of the gods, and she was completely immersed in the prayer. Huo Jincheng called her several times before she woke up as if from a dream, "You, who are you?"
Huo Jincheng was dressed in Dayanchao attire. The old woman switched to Central Plains Mandarin, stood up, and looked him up and down in panic.
Upstairs, Jian Ning had used a silver spoon to stimulate the woman's throat to induce vomiting, and then took out the abortion bag with his back to her. The old woman had learned from Huo Jincheng that there was a female doctor from the Central Plains upstairs. She knelt down and bowed towards the depths of the bamboo forest. From her expression, she thought that the god she prayed to had appeared and sent the doctor.
When the old woman came upstairs, Jian Ning had already completed the preoperative preparations. She took out a simple operating table from the medicine store and carried the woman to the operating table. The old woman came up and muttered a few words to the woman. The woman looked at Jian Ning wearing a mask, and her expression was obviously much more relaxed.
Because the old woman regarded Jane Ning as a savior sent by God, she was not surprised at all by the extra operating bed in the room. She helped Jane Ning with a pious look on her face and obeyed her every word.
After performing a curettage on the woman, Jian Ning asked the old woman to clean her body and gave her an IV, using magnesium sulfate to promote the excretion of residual oleanolic acid in her body.
"Female Bodhisattva of Central Plains, thank you so much for saving my poor granddaughter." The old woman knelt down in front of Jian Ning. "You must have been sent by the Holy Lady to heal my granddaughter. Thank you so much!"
"Old lady, please get up quickly. I am not a female Bodhisattva, nor am I sent by the Holy Lady. I am just a medical practitioner." Jian Ning helped the old woman up. Seeing that the bamboo house was extremely simple, he did not rush to take back the operating table.
"Grandma, please make something to eat for the guests." The woman on the bed looked to be in her early twenties at most, with a dark complexion and delicate features. Although she looked a little haggard due to excessive blood loss, she was still a woman of outstanding appearance.
Jian Ning and Huo Jincheng were invited by the old woman to the bamboo house downstairs. The old woman set up a pot in the kitchen to steam bamboo tube rice and cut some black meat pieces to put on the rice.
Huo Jincheng was indeed hungry, and he himself was not a picky eater. Seeing that he did not mind the simple meal and ate it with big mouthfuls and felt very happy, the wrinkles on the old woman's face relaxed.
"Grandma, are you the only two people at home?" Jane Ning didn't see any men's clothes upstairs or downstairs in this house. It seemed that there were only the two of them, so she asked this question.
"It's not just the two of us who depend on each other for survival. Mi Li'er has a hard life!" A hint of bitterness crossed the old woman's weathered face, but she quickly forced a smile. She clasped her hands together and bowed towards the bamboo forest outside the door. "Thankfully, the Saint Goddess has blessed us. If it weren't for her guidance, how could you two have stepped into this humble place? Mi Li is still blessed."
Well, when Jian Ning saw that she had misunderstood that she and Huo Jincheng were a couple and called her "old mother", she was about to explain, but Huo Jincheng spoke before her.
"Where is Mi Li's husband? How come there are only two of you, your grandfather and your granddaughter?" Huo Jincheng already knew that the woman upstairs had a miscarriage, so how could she be pregnant without a husband? Jian Ning was also puzzled, as there didn't seem to be any signs of a man living in this room.
"You don't know..." Mi Li A'nai didn't hide anything from them because they were not from Yue Country. She told them the whole story in detail.
Half a year ago, Mi Li and a girl from the village were carrying a basket of bamboo shoots to the city to sell. They were caught by the eldest prince's son, who forcibly took them back to the palace and raped them.
Mi Li was locked up for several days before being thrown out. Soon after she came back, she found out that she was pregnant. The girl who went with her in the village told her grandmother about her being raped, and the news spread throughout the village. Although it was clearly not Mi Li's fault, the people in the village avoided her as a poisonous creature. Otherwise, no one would have come to help her when she screamed so miserably.
Although the Yue people do not have as many etiquette as the people in the Central Plains, they also attach great importance to a woman's reputation. Mi Li had already found a husband. She originally wanted to use the bamboo shoots she sold to buy a dowry, but she didn't expect misfortune to happen. Not only did her marriage fall through, but she also became pregnant.
Mi Li had kept it a secret from her grandmother at first, and worked herself hard in an attempt to tire the baby out. Even if a poor woman like her was taken as a concubine by the eldest prince's son, the child she gave birth to would only be a slave.
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