Chapter 1176 Reversal Pill
Lin Yuesha slept very restlessly.
Half asleep, she suddenly felt thirsty and murmured, "Water..."
A moment later, a teacup was brought to her.
Lin Yuesha drank too much water at night and needed to use the restroom. She went through this several times and was in a daze. She only remembered that the people around her were taking good care of her.
She slept until dawn, and when Lin Yuesha opened her eyes, she found Qingxing and Qi'er standing by her bedside.
"I was working non-stop last night, thank you both for your hard work."
Lin Yuesha doesn't plan to go out today, so Qingxing and Qi'er can go to catch up on their sleep.
“Miss, the one who served you last night was neither me nor Qi’er.”
Qingxing wanted to stand guard at the door, but Qi Heng sent her back. She and Qi'er had a good sleep.
"Could it be Longjing tea?"
Longjing is quick at accounting and has been working on checking the accounts, managing the Qi family's accounts.
"Yes, my lord."
When it came to serving their young mistress, the two maids dared not compete with Qi Heng for credit.
"It was him?"
Lin Yuesha blushed immediately. She was still half asleep, but she remembered a small detail.
After using the toilet, someone used a clean cloth to wipe her down. She was embarrassed and wanted to thank them, but she fell asleep.
Could it be that Qi Heng did all of this?
Even though they were a married couple, Lin Yuesha still felt a little shy despite being taken such good care of.
"Miss, please let the master take care of you."
It wasn't that Qingxing was being lazy; from an outsider's perspective, she guessed that Qi Heng was trying to alleviate his anxiety in this way.
After all, Lady Qi died in childbirth, so it's impossible for Qi Heng to be completely indifferent.
"Qingxing, send someone to deliver a message to my mother, asking her to come to the mansion and keep me company when she has some free time."
Lin Yuesha subconsciously touched her belly; she wanted to share the news of her pregnancy with her mother.
In the afternoon, Madam Chen came to the mansion carrying a basket of peaches.
"Little girl, why are you so lazy? Didn't you sleep well last night?"
Just a few days after Chen and Xiao Chenggui moved back to their residence, they were harassed by people who brought them gifts, and they had constant worries every day.
After discussing it, the couple took their son to stay in Chenjia Village, which was built by Qi Heng, and they really found the freedom of the north again. The two of them were very happy.
Not far from Chenjia Village, there is a peach orchard. When Chen came to visit her daughter, she specially bought the freshest peaches from the fruit farmer.
“Back when we were in the north, we never had peaches this big. You loved those wild peaches from the mountains that were so sour they made your teeth ache.”
Mrs. Chen stroked her daughter's hair. In the blink of an eye, her little girl was married and would have a son or daughter in the future, who would also be a mother.
Time flies, she's grown old and has become a grandmother.
"Mom, if nothing unexpected happens, you will become a grandmother next spring."
As soon as Lin Yuesha finished speaking, Madam Chen stood up excitedly and said, "So fast, it must be a son."
"Mom, you're not a fortune teller."
Lin Yuesha couldn't stand the patriarchal mindset. She secretly wanted to have a daughter so she could pamper her even more.
"She's about a month pregnant, so the timing should be about right."
Chen Shi did not favor sons over daughters; rather, she deeply understood the hardships women faced, and thus she always doted on Lin Yuesha more than her sons.
Some time ago, Chen and Xiao Chenggui heard that there was a very popular temple in the capital. It enshrined the Goddess of Fertility. Chen prayed devoutly to Buddha, hoping that her daughter would give birth to a son first, followed by a daughter, so that she would have both a son and a daughter.
Lin Yuesha was embarrassed. As for having a child, if she and Qi Heng had no physical intimacy, even praying to the Goddess of Fertility would be useless.
"Little girl, there's something I need to remind you of."
Madam Chen patted Lin Yuesha's hand and said seriously, "Mother knows that with Qi Heng's status, you have to leave a lineage for the Qi family. Little girl, you must not be too hasty. Whether you give birth to a boy or a girl is fate. Never easily believe in other people's folk remedies."
Ms. Chen had this concern when she initially disagreed with the marriage.
The Qi family was small, and Qi Heng had stated that he would not take a concubine, so the task of having offspring fell on Lin Yuesha's shoulders.
The man valued the continuation of his family line but neglected his daughter.
If she had given birth to a son back then, Lin Shusheng would not have abandoned his wife and daughter and disappeared without a trace.
"Mother, there's something wrong with your thinking."
Lin Shusheng faked his death and has been out of contact for over a decade. This has nothing to do with whether Lin Yuesha is male or female. If Lin Shusheng wants to climb the social ladder, he must sever all ties with the past.
If Lin Shusheng had a son, he would have to go to great lengths to conceal it; otherwise, why would a daughter of a high-ranking family like Qin Shi be interested in someone who already has children?
“You’re right. Mother was just using Lin Shusheng as an example to illustrate the importance of offspring.”
Upon reflection, Chen realized that his analogy was inappropriate.
After she became pregnant, she heard many rumors, such as folk remedies for having a child and pills that could reverse the sex of a baby.
These pills cost hundreds of taels of silver each, and it is said that consuming them can guarantee the birth of a male fetus.
"The rumors aren't entirely unfounded, but these potent medicines will harm your health after use. I'm afraid you might do something foolish in your desire to have a child."
Pregnant women are more sensitive and have more worries. Chen was an experienced woman, and she couldn't bear the pain for her daughter, so she could only offer guidance based on her experience.
"Mother, what is the Reversal Pill? It sounds familiar."
Lin Yuesha wasn't quite sure; she felt like she'd heard it somewhere before.
"A potent and dangerous medicine."
Madam Chen felt it necessary to make things clear to her daughter, in case Lin Yuesha had short-sighted servants who offered bad advice and had malicious intentions, it would be impossible to guard against them.
"A daughter-in-law from a prominent family in the capital became pregnant and sought medical advice from the Lin family, who discovered she was carrying a daughter."
The Lin family's diagnoses of gender are generally accurate.
That family has been sending out leaflets for three generations, desperately wanting to continue their lineage.
The mother-in-law inquired everywhere about remedies for having a child and heard of a miraculous medicine called Reversal Pill, which had extraordinary effects.
The Reversal Pill had long been banned in the Great Qi Dynasty, but the mother-in-law managed to buy it at a high price and had been making her daughter-in-law take it.
Just last month, the wife gave birth to a baby that was neither male nor female. The family put the baby in a basket and threw it into the moat of the capital.
As luck would have it, Liu Quan happened to be passing through Cangzhou on business that day and picked up the baby.
The little boy was born with congenital deficiencies and was extremely weak, so he was always kept at home.
"Mother only knew that Liu Quan had picked up a baby. A few days ago, Liu Quan found out about the child's background, and that's when Mother found out."
It was a life after all, and Liu Quan couldn't bear to do it. But the baby was neither male nor female. Should he raise it as a boy or a girl? This was another difficult question.
“Your Aunt Xu has a wide network of connections in the capital. She asked around and found out that the woman had strange hair growing all over her body after giving birth, and that's why her husband divorced her.”
Being a respectable family, they didn't publicize the divorce, and the two families reconciled privately.
Two days ago, the woman couldn't think straight, feeling sorry for her child, so she jumped into the moat and died.
The wife was supposed to give birth to a healthy child, but her eagerness to have a child led to a tragedy.
Lin Yuesha was shocked when she heard this. She knew that it was not an isolated case for people to seek out folk remedies in an attempt to conceive.
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