Chapter 415 Whether you have a boy or a girl depends entirely on Y-rays
When Dan Niang, the woman who had received the breast implant, saw Li San Niang's astonished expression, her face changed slightly. After hesitating for a while, under Li San Niang's sincere gaze, she finally explained why she had asked such a question.
It turns out that Danniang was afraid that if she got a breast tumor, she wouldn't be able to breastfeed her child in the future. One reason was that if she had a child in the future, she would have to find a wet nurse, which would cost money, and Danniang's family couldn't afford that expense.
Secondly, Dan Niang was afraid that her illness would affect her ability to have children in the future, since she had not yet given birth to a son.
"Don't laugh at me, female doctor, I gave birth to my eldest daughter when I was sixteen, and the following year I gave birth to my second daughter. Then I became pregnant with my third daughter, but my third daughter was unlucky and died shortly after birth."
She stopped having sex for two years before giving birth to her fourth daughter.
I just gave birth to my fifth daughter last year, and it's been over a year now. I never imagined she would get this illness. I'm very worried, so I came to the clinic to have her checked out.
Li Sanniang looked at the woman, who was only in her early twenties, but had already given birth five times, and in quick succession. This was extremely taxing on her life force.
“My lady, the breast lump on your body is not a big deal right now, but I have diagnosed that you have a deficiency of qi and blood, disharmony between the spleen and kidneys, and emotional distress. You really need to take good care of yourself.”
If you want to get pregnant again, you should take good care of yourself and let things happen naturally.
Dan Niang's brows furrowed again, and her already sickly face looked even worse now.
Li San Niang stopped trying to persuade her and wrote down the prescription. While waiting for the ink to dry, she thought for a moment and then added, "My lady, the matter of having children depends entirely on the harmony between the man and woman."
Whether a child is a boy or a girl is not something that can be chosen by human intervention.
Even if you want a son, you have to take care of yourself first. Otherwise, children are hard to raise, and without a mother's care, how will the older children grow up?
Li San Niang naturally couldn't argue with Dan Niang. Whether a child is a boy or a girl is a matter of probability, a problem caused by the male's Y chromosome not being passed on to the next generation. It's the man's fault, and has nothing to do with the woman.
This is a genetic matter, unless you use in vitro fertilization in a lab to select the sex of the embryo.
Otherwise, it's all about probability; how can you make a choice?
Upon hearing Li San Niang's comforting words, Dan Niang, for some unknown reason, burst into tears.
"If you can't have another son, I'll go have a child with Widow Wang. She can have two sons, so she can certainly have a third!"
"You barren old hen! My Sun family must have had the worst luck in eight generations to marry you!"
"Haha, sister-in-law, you think you're worthy to eat this chicken and meat? I've given birth to two grandsons for the Sun family, what have you given birth to? A litter of girls, born to be a laborer!"
Dan Niang could tolerate all of this, but she thought of San Ya, who was drowned in a basin of water by her mother-in-law shortly after birth.
She had already given birth to two girls, which made her mother-in-law and husband unhappy. But when she gave birth to her third child, she was also a girl!
In despair, for some reason, she didn't stop her mother-in-law from pressing the newborn baby, who was crying like a kitten, face down into the basin of water. The baby drowned instantly, within moments.
To outsiders, they simply say that the baby was unlucky and died immediately after birth.
After giving birth to Si Ya for the fourth time, her mother-in-law wanted to drown her. Dan Niang, disregarding her weakness after giving birth, mustered her strength and went barefoot to snatch the little girl back from her mother-in-law's hands.
With blood still on her lower body, Dan Niang screamed at her mother-in-law in a frenzied manner: "This is my child! If anyone kills her, I won't live either! I'll take my child and die with you all!"
The mother-in-law was frightened and said tremblingly, "Fine, if you're so capable, then raise it yourself. We don't support idle people in our family. You, the eldest son's family, can raise this baby yourselves."
Danniang worked tirelessly day and night, working in the fields during the day and sewing at night, and finally managed to support Siya.
Danniang still wants to have a son, but not because her mother-in-law and husband want one. Rather, it's because if her sons, Daya and her brother, get married in the future, what will happen if they don't have their maternal families to support them?
A year ago, after giving birth to Wu Ya, Sun's mother-in-law and husband were heartbroken.
If it weren't for Dan Niang's competence and her relentless work ethic, with most of her earnings ending up in her mother-in-law's pocket, she probably would have been kicked out of the Sun family long ago.
Seeing Dan Niang crying with such restraint and grievance, Li San Niang didn't know what to say, so she handed over her handkerchief.
"If you encounter any difficulties, you can go to the Women's Assistance Association in Changshoufang. They should be able to offer you some solutions."
With tears still on her face, Dan Niang gratefully accepted the handkerchief handed to her by Li San Niang. After Li San Niang handed over the prescription, she watched as Dan Niang and the old woman took the medicine from the medicine cabinet and left.
Dan Niang walked along the road carrying her medicine bag. The old woman who had been following her all along finally spoke up and asked, "Dan Niang, do you really want a divorce?"
"If you get divorced, what will happen to Daya and her three sisters?"
The old woman, who usually accompanied Dan Niang to Chang'an to sell vegetables at a stall, was Granny Li, who lived in the same village.
"Grandma, I will take Daya and the others with me."
I heard from the city women when I was selling vegetables that this female doctor was a capable and kind-hearted person.
The female doctor was named Li San Niang. She lived in Changshoufang and ran a clinic.
The Li family even started an alliance called the Women's Assistance Association, which is specifically for helping women like me who are suffering from hardship.
"I've thought it all through," Dan Niang said. She couldn't read, but looking at the note in her hand, she folded it up and put it in her inner pocket.
"Next time I find an opportunity, I'll take this note to that alliance and see if I can get a way to help me get a divorce."
"My health isn't good right now, but I raised Daya and the others without relying on the Sun family."
Granny Li knew that Dan Niang had her own plans, so she didn't say anything. Dan Niang, on the other hand, became very talkative, "Grandma, I can't stay in the Sun family anymore. Sun Dalang and I can't have any more children."
I do want to have a son, but what can I do if my belly doesn't cooperate?
Earlier this month, I overheard my mother-in-law saying that she was going to sell Daya to pay for her grandson's education. She said that in order to make more money, she was going to sell Daya to that filthy place!
I can't stay in the Sun family any longer. I have to take the children and leave. Leaving the Sun family is our only way to survive.
Upon arriving at the carriage station, they paid a few copper coins to board the carriage. The donkey cart moved slowly, and it took them about half an hour to leave Chang'an City.
After getting off the carriage on the main road, Dan Niang and Granny Li carried their baskets on their backs and walked towards the village. They parted ways at the fork in the road.
As soon as she entered the courtyard, Daya, who was eight years old by the traditional Chinese age reckoning but actually only a little over seven, saw Danniang return and happily pulled her hands out of the basin of cold water to fetch water for Danniang to wash her hands.
"Leave the beans there, Mother will wash them later."
"You're so small, what if your hands get frostbite?"
Dan Niang had already made up her mind to get a divorce, and seeing her mother-in-law making Daya do such work only strengthened her desire to divorce.
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