Chapter 878 Now that you've learned the skills, you can become a female official yourself.
Li San Niang was still worried about whether pharmaceutical merchants would take over the women's medicine business, and whether Zhongli Wenlian would actually take advantage of her promise. Back in her rented room, she had no energy left to think about it.
Ultimately, she was exhausted from the past few days. After washing up, Li San Niang lay down on the bed and fell asleep almost immediately.
At the fourth watch of the night, Qiu Xiang got up, and as soon as she moved, Song Fuling, who shared a room with her, also woke up.
"Sister Qiuxiang, I'll go out and buy some breakfast. Master must be exhausted. Buying some to eat will save some trouble."
Qiu Xiang reminded Song Fuling to be careful, and then watched Song Fuling leave.
After Li San Niang finished washing up, she had a hot steamed bun with meat in it to eat.
"My good disciple, you've been so busy following me these past few days that you've lost weight. Once this busy period is over, I'll definitely give you a ten-day break so you can have a good rest."
"Then, I'll wrap you up some silver. Take it and spend it; we can buy whatever we like."
Song Fuling handed the cooled red bean porridge to Li Sanniang, who smiled politely and said, "Okay, Fuling will listen to Master. When the time comes, Fuling will definitely buy a whole roast goose to eat with the money."
The master and apprentice chatted back and forth, occasionally interspersed with Qiu Xiang's agreeing remarks, and happily finished their breakfast. As dawn broke, the three of them went out together amidst laughter.
After walking for less than fifteen minutes, when they turned to the side gate of Chongwen Hall, the sharp-eyed Qiu Xiang spotted Chen Yanfu and her family waiting outside the side gate.
Upon their first meeting, they exchanged pleasantries before getting down to business.
"Dr. Li and Afu, please go ahead and do your work. We'll have plenty of time to talk later. I still need to wait here for my elder brother and the others."
Today was especially important for Li San Niang and the others, so Li San Niang did not refuse. After bowing to Tang Mingyue and Tang Qi, she pulled Chen Yanfu, Qiu Xiang, and Song Fuling into the house.
Tang Mingyue, who was waiting at the door for her eldest brother, heard Tang Qi whisper to him, "Third brother, this Doctor Li is so young."
She doesn't look much older than me; I initially thought she was an older woman.
Previously, I was sitting at the back of the inner hall, so I couldn't really see their face clearly. Now that we're face to face, it's quite surprising.
Tang Qi's sighs went unheard by Li San Niang. She and Chen Yanfu went to the shed that had been set up behind the inner hall to see the five plump and chubby sows.
Yes, the five pigs lying side by side on the wooden floor in this shed are all pregnant, and you can't even smell much stench when you get close.
"The cleaning was done promptly," Li Sanniang said to Chen Yanfu as she walked into the shed to check on the sows' living conditions, as well as the condition of the feeding and watering troughs.
Chen Yanfu didn't mind the dirt at all. She even bent down and touched the belly of the sow with the patterned belly that was nearby. "The waiters cleaned up promptly and fed the pig according to our requirements, so naturally there was no smell."
I touched it, and it's almost done; there shouldn't be any problems with the dissection today.
Yes, today Li San Niang, Chen Yan Fu, and Song Fu Ling will all be going up to that high platform, and one of the sows in this shed will also be chosen to go up to the platform.
As for why there are five sows with piglets in this shed?
That's just to be on the safe side and to have extra preparations.
The sow was to be used by Li San Niang and her group to demonstrate to everyone how to perform a cesarean section on a sow.
Li San Niang believed that the time was ripe. She wanted to use this physician exchange conference to demonstrate the importance of female doctors to all physicians and to send a signal that any family with a daughter who wanted to become a female doctor was welcome to come. In short, this was a good way to recruit talent.
After all, you have to come up with some skills that others don't have, haven't tried, or don't know, so that you can say, "I have something good here. Come, learn from me, and I'll teach you. In the future, let's help women and build a better Tang Dynasty together."
While Li San Niang and Chen Yan Fu were busy going over the procedures for today's maternity ward, women and maids all over Chang'an City also began to get to work.
The Jin family's main hall.
Jin Zhenbao (do you remember her? She was the young girl who learned midwifery at the midwifery school with Li San Niang.) was wearing a light blue round-necked, narrow-sleeved robe and sat on a chair. At the head of the table sat the eldest daughter-in-law of the Jin family and the young master of the Jin family.
Sitting next to Jin Zhenbao was her second sister-in-law, and opposite her were Jin's eldest son and second son.
"Since you received a letter from Medical Supervisor Li and are now on duty at that clinic, you should keep your word."
Let's go, let's get there early, and not waste time on the way."
Having long passed the age of marriage and already twenty years old, Jin Zhenbao rose, bowed, and then replied to her father, "Father is right, I'll set off now."
Just as Jin Zhenbao was about to board the carriage at the gate of the Jin family, Jin's eldest sister-in-law, who was about to give birth, chased after her.
When the eldest brother of the Jin family saw his wife walking towards them at a very fast pace, he was startled.
"Wait a minute before you scold me, Dalang. I have something to say to my aunt."
Seeing that his sister-in-law had beads of sweat on her forehead, the eldest brother of the Jin family had no choice but to go forward, take her hand, and lead her to Jin Zhenbao, who was already running over to them.
"Sister-in-law, if you want to talk to me, just call me over."
I didn't want to bother my sister-in-law today, but she's already in her late pregnancy, so she needs to be careful.
After Jin Zhenbao finished speaking, Jin's eldest sister-in-law shook off Jin's eldest brother's hand and stepped forward to grab Jin Zhenbao's hand: "When I married into the family, you were still a child. Now you can go out to work. My aunt has really changed a lot in the past few years."
I insisted on coming here today because I wanted to say just one thing to my aunt.
Jin Zhenbao and the eldest brother of the Jin family who was standing by protecting her were both a little surprised. Jin Zhenbao originally thought that the reason why her sister-in-law insisted on chasing after her to talk was that the whole family had come out to see her off today, but she was the only one who couldn't see her off because of her pregnancy. She felt bad about it, so she insisted on chasing after her despite her physical discomfort.
But judging from what Sister-in-law Jin said, that wasn't the reason.
“My mother died on the rainy night she gave birth to my younger brother. When I woke up the next day, my mother had already been put into a coffin.”
After saying this, Jin's eldest sister-in-law looked at Jin Zhenbao with reddened eyes, "Zhenniang, you've become a female doctor, that's wonderful, wonderful."
"Go to that conference today, watch carefully, learn the skills, and one day become a female official so that future women can save their lives during childbirth!"
Jin Zhenbao was somewhat stunned. It was the first time she had ever known that her sister-in-law's mother had died during childbirth.
After a few moments of stunned silence, Jin Zhenbao looked up at her sister-in-law, whose eyes were already streaked with tears: "Sister-in-law, I've remembered everything you said. I will study hard and strive to become a female official in the future, so as to save the lives of more women!"
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