Chapter 257 The better it is when you fight for it.
Around noon, Li San Niang sent a message to the Li family, saying that she would be going to Shihua Tower to see patients after her shift that day, and that her family should not worry, as she would not be returning home tonight.
Therefore, the Li family was not worried about Li San Niang not returning home tonight.
After all, judging from the last time, the Temple Gate was still not as powerful as the Great Tang Dynasty. Otherwise, that so-called Holy Son would not have fled Chang'an like a rat crossing the street.
Therefore, Li San Niang should be safe for the foreseeable future.
Moreover, Li San Niang is accompanied by Qiu Xiang and Shi Jiu, both skilled in martial arts. If Li San Niang can still be put in danger under such circumstances, then there is really no other way.
We can't just confine Li San Niang to the Li family home and prevent her from leaving the house, can we?
Besides, if there were really serious dangers, even if Li Sanniang stayed at home obediently, the villains could still climb down from the roof.
However, instead of seeing Li San Niang, the Li family was greeted by other people.
There were seven or eight people in a row, some old and some young. They were all dressed similarly, all clean and neat.
This story begins with the last time Brother Li accompanied his mother, sister-in-law Li, and second sister-in-law Li to the Jingzhao Prefecture to register the help for their adopted daughter, sign the papers, pay the taxes, and obtain the contract.
That same day, Li's mother went to see the midwife, Sun, and told her that her family's alliance was ready to be established, and if she wanted to learn, she should hurry up.
Afterwards, Li's mother went to two midwives she knew well and told them about the matter. Those who had known Li's mother for more than ten years were all honest and intelligent people.
Upon hearing what Li's mother said, the two immediately expressed their desire to join in and learn the midwifery technique.
Li's mother did not agree immediately, but said: "I came to tell you two older sisters that it was because of our past friendship, not because those people were trying to recruit others to save face by deceiving people."
You've all met my third aunt. She was very intelligent from a young age and received a lot of praise, as you all know.
Later, she passed the medical alliance exam as a female physician and became the first female physician in Chang'an, which could even be said to be the first such case in the Tang Dynasty. You must have heard about it.
To be honest, the midwifery techniques that Third Sister uses were not taught to her by me, but rather she learned them from my old man. Of course, she also figured out some of them on her own.
After saying all this, I just want to tell you two older sisters that my third aunt is truly capable!
If you pass my third mistress's test, she won't ask for tuition fees, nor will she require you to perform the master-disciple ceremony. After you graduate, we won't ask for any compensation either.
Ding and Cen exchanged a glance, their hearts filled with both confusion and curiosity.
At first, they thought that Li's mother came to their door to curry favor and get them to join the group. But after listening to Li's mother's explanation, they realized that they had to pass an exam to join the alliance.
How could Li's mother not know what these two were thinking?
"If you don't believe me, go and talk to that midwife Sun in Yongpingfang. She saw with her own eyes how my third aunt delivered that girl who was having a difficult childbirth."
Li's mother stepped forward and patted Ding the midwife's hand, "Alright, I still have a few more houses to visit. If you're interested, feel free to come and see them the other day!"
In the following days, Li's mother not only went to see Yulian, the young midwife in the same neighborhood, but also remembered a woman from the village where Li's second sister-in-law's family lived.
The village where Li Ersao lived wasn't small, but it was combined with two other small villages around it, and there was only one midwife there.
After the divorce, the woman raised her young daughter alone. She had no intention of remarrying and initially only helped others, since most of the women in the village gave birth at home, and their mothers-in-law would help their daughters-in-law.
Later, this woman helped others and gradually became the only midwife in these three villages.
Li's mother felt that if Li San Niang wanted to teach midwives how to deliver babies, she shouldn't limit herself to Chang'an City; the villages outside the city should also be included.
So, while Li Erxiong went to the countryside to collect medicinal herbs and happened to be delivering the donkey to Li Ersao's family home, Li's mother asked Li Erxiong to pass on a message to the woman surnamed Wu.
"Just tell her that if she's coming, she should come early, and she can stay at our house. She can't miss such a good opportunity."
"Yes, I will definitely pass on this message, Mother, don't worry."
Having heard about the midwives Ding and Cen from Li's mother, the two actually went to Yongpingfang to find midwife Sun, wanting to understand what unique midwifery techniques Li San Niang possessed that were even more skilled than their own, who had been midwives for over ten years, and were worth learning.
“That’s really impressive. If you guys don’t go, that’s even better; my chances of getting in are even higher.”
Ding, the midwife, was more familiar with Sun, and gave Sun a light tap on the arm.
"You old woman, I went out of my way to invite you for this hot drink and come to ask you this, and this is all you give me? Tell me quickly, what exactly makes Third Sister so formidable?"
Sun, the midwife, put down her drink. This was at a tea stall, and the person who was treating her was Ding, the midwife who had come to her to find out the truth.
"...The child really couldn't be born. I was afraid that if we waited any longer, both the child and the mother would die. So I asked the man to go to the clinic to fetch a doctor. But I never expected that it would be Li San Niang who came."
...She later sewed up that spot, and the child was born healthy, a boy at that.
Tell me, is this method worth learning?
We've been midwives for at least seven or eight years. There aren't many like Zhao Dani (Li's mother) who have been midwives for over twenty years, but most of the midwives we know have been doing it for over ten years, right?
I don't believe it! Don't you have any babies you haven't delivered yet?
Upon hearing this, both midwives, Ding and Cen, naturally thought to themselves, "How is that possible?"
Of these ten women, one or two will be unable to give birth, and some will die from postpartum hemorrhage.
To be honest, in my more than ten years as a midwife, I have seen quite a few women die during childbirth.
If we're talking about those who develop health problems due to childbirth, there are even more; out of these ten, there would be nine.
Normally, apart from the ladies of wealthy families who could afford to see doctors and take tonics, most other women would just ask for a dose of medicine to help them recover. Those who couldn't even afford enough food at home would just have to endure it.
Seeing the two silent people, Sun the midwife immediately perked up. She now felt like she was the talent scout in the storyteller's tale, and Li San Niang was the thoroughbred horse.
Hehe, none of you are as smart as me. I saw it all along: Li San Niang is a fast-moving colt.
If I don't follow along and learn from them, and others learn it, who will hire me to deliver babies in the future?
So, word spread quickly, and before the actual day even arrived, those who were extremely curious came to the Li family's door.
Li's mother, Li's eldest sister-in-law, and Li's second sister-in-law were not without apprehension as they faced the seven or eight midwives sitting in the main hall.
But as Li San Niang said at home before, everything is difficult at the beginning. Once you start, you can just go about it as you go.
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