Chapter 551 Rebirth Pill
Li San Niang and Xing Yu followed Bi Qionglan to the drying ground in Wujia Village. They saw large swathes of golden wheat, still with their husks, drying on the ground, and watched as Bi Qionglan and the others weighed the wheat.
Bi Qionglan even had Bi Dalang pick a bushel of wheat on the spot, pound it directly, and then borrowed a stone mill from the drying ground in Wujia Village to grind it into powder on the spot.
In the late afternoon, Li San Niang was given a pancake, made from flour ground from new wheat, all white flour, without any other flour mixed in.
Fermentation technology existed at this time, so the small cakes that Li San Niang ate were soft and delicious.
After eating the pancakes that were given to her, Li San Niang planned to take Qiu Xiang and Lao Shi back to the Wu family.
After greeting Xing Yu and Chang Siyuan, Li Sanniang left directly.
The reason is that a villager who came to help with the work at the Wu family yesterday almost fainted on the Wu family's stove. He was pulled back by Wu Qiaolan, who also came to help, so that he didn't fall halfway into the pot of boiling water.
Because she was a woman in her early twenties, Li Sanniang took her pulse and immediately began acupuncture treatment.
It's not a serious illness, but if this headache isn't treated properly, it can be life-threatening.
So Li San Niang said to her, "This illness is easy to treat. I can give you acupuncture. After about ten treatments, we can switch to herbal medicine. Take ten doses and see how it goes. It should be able to be controlled."
I have to go home tomorrow. Come see me at the Third Pharmacy in Yongpingfang every five days for acupuncture treatments for fifteen minutes each time, and see how it goes.”
After Li San Niang administered the first acupuncture, the woman named Qiao Niang felt her mind become much clearer, and the dizziness she used to experience was also greatly reduced. She immediately felt much better.
Seeing that she did not respond, Li San Niang said to Qiao Niang, "At most thirty copper coins at a time. You should think about curing this illness so as not to delay your work. You can easily earn back this money by doing something simple when you are healthy. It is worth it."
Don't skip treatment just to save money.
Qiao Niang quickly nodded, "Ah, this time we owe it all to Third Sister."
I had no idea that Dr. Li's third daughter was also a doctor.
Don't worry, my mother-in-law loves me dearly, she'll definitely let me go get treatment.
After Li San Niang finished her needlework, Wu Qiaolan personally escorted Qiao Niang home.
When Wu Qiaolan returned, she approached Li San Niang, who was chatting with Li's mother and sister-in-law while holding Lu Zhu'er, with an embarrassed expression.
"I'm afraid I've caused trouble for Third Sister."
Li San Niang looked puzzled. She put down the dewdrop and wanted to find a chair for Wu Qiaolan to sit down. In the end, Wu's eldest sister-in-law was quick-witted and pushed the chair she was sitting on over to her.
"It's alright, you sit down first, I'll go find another one, there are plenty of these stools at home."
Sitting in front of Li Sanniang, Wu Qiaolan then spoke to Li Sanniang with embarrassment and displeasure.
"It was quite a coincidence. When I was taking Qiao Niang home, I happened to run into Zhou Si's youngest daughter-in-law, who was visiting a neighbor in the village."
At first, I didn't pay much attention; I just greeted them and that was it.
I was just talking to Qiaoniang's mother-in-law, whom I call Fourth Aunt, about what you, Third Sister, had said before, and then Fourth Aunt asked me about you, Third Sister.
Originally, no one in the village knew that Third Sister was a female doctor in Chang'an City. Everyone only knew about Doctor Li (Father Li), Doctor Li (Second Brother Li), and Midwife Li (Mother Li).
I told you that Third Sister has been working at the clinic for over a year now, and she's a female doctor who receives a salary.
Third Sister is indeed formidable, and I only praised her a couple of times. Little did I expect that my few extra words would cause her trouble.
Wu Qiaolan smiled wryly and continued, "The youngest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, named Yunniang, said that she was pregnant and wanted to find Third Sister to check on her and let Third Sister feel her to determine the sex of the baby."
Li San Niang had never heard of being able to tell the sex of a child by touching their belly. Wu's mother explained to the others, "Yun Niang is from the branch of Seventh Uncle. She has three older sisters and two younger sisters. After giving birth to these six children, her mother finally gave birth to a boy."
The reason Yunniang was able to marry into the Zhou family was because the Zhou family had four sons, and the eldest and second sons already had sons. They didn't have high requirements for continuing the family line, and Yunniang was from the Wu family, so the Zhou family proposed marriage to their youngest son.
Yunniang married into the family, and more than a year has passed before she became pregnant this year.
Mother Wu sighed before continuing, "It must be because Zhou's old woman said a lot of sour things in the past, and Yunniang took it to heart, so she wanted to have a son in one go."
Wu's eldest sister-in-law chimed in from the side: "Sigh, that means she's lost her mind."
If you ask me, how can we decide whether a child is a boy or a girl? That's the business of the Goddess of Fertility.
If you absolutely must have a son, then just have one baby at a time.
What's wrong with having a little girl come to our home?
It's as if they themselves aren't mothers.
I just don't understand why they're so irrational?
The Wang family at the end of the village had three daughters before finally having a son. What happened?
Look at those three married women, which one of them doesn't have a husband carrying things on his shoulders and in his hands when he comes home?
I heard that when I went to Wang San Niang's house, they even killed a chicken.
After hearing this bit of gossip from the village, Li Sanniang couldn't help but feel a little fortunate. "It's a good thing I transmigrated into a city family. If I were in the countryside, let alone getting a divorce, I'd probably have to fight someone with a knife."
However, Li San Niang still asked, "Did she say when she would come?"
I won't be home tomorrow morning; I have to go out.
"And my boss and I went home this afternoon, so I probably won't be staying in the village for very long."
So when Li San Niang, who had just returned to the Wu family, saw Wu's mother and the others sitting on a stool with a pregnant woman in the courtyard, she immediately thought that this woman was probably Yun Niang.
Li San Niang looked at the swollen belly in front of her, which looked to be about five or six months old.
After exchanging greetings, before Li San Niang could ask anything, Yun Niang couldn't hold back any longer and looked at Li San Niang with hopeful eyes: "San Niangzi, can you take a look at me? Is my baby a boy?"
To be honest, my mother-in-law took me to the nearby sacred mountain to ask the old woman about my pregnancy. She said that I was going to have a girl at first, but my mother-in-law was willing to spend money to buy me the old woman's "reversal pills".
Last time we went, that old hag said, "My baby is already a boy!"
When Li San Niang heard about the "reversal pill," her face darkened. Wu Qiao Lan, standing behind Li San Niang, looked just as surprised as her mother and sister-in-law.
Of everyone present, only Li's mother remained unfazed, showing no sign of being frightened by Yunniang's words.
Looking at Yunniang, whom Li Sanniang had initially thought was just an ordinary woman wanting to have a son, Li Sanniang now felt that the joy on Yunniang's face after hearing about the "reversal pill" was like a brainwashed, fanatical excitement.
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