After returning to the Zhao residence from Tianning Temple, in order to avoid worrying Qinniang, Su Ruojin and Zhao Jingning only told her that they had not found Yingzi. Perhaps the information was wrong, and Yingzi was not at Tianning Temple. They dared not let her know about the matter of Tianning Temple using children to perform sacrificial medicine.
That would probably drive Qinniang crazy. She would rush to Tianning Temple to find her child without thinking, which would not only be like throwing an egg against a rock, but would also alert the enemy.
If the other side discovers anything, they might simply kill all the children to destroy the evidence.
Qinniang knew that her mistress was doing her best to help her find her child, but she couldn't just sit and wait in the Zhao residence.
Every day, she would take Yingzi's portrait and go around the city asking questions, not missing any opportunity.
Today, she also carried Yingzi's portrait out of the Zhao residence, walking along the street and asking passersby for directions.
As always, everyone waved her off, saying they'd never seen her before.
Until they met an older woman, who glanced at the portrait casually and was about to say she had never seen it before, she suddenly felt that the child in the portrait looked familiar. When she looked up again and saw that it was Qin Niang, she excitedly grabbed Qin Niang.
"You're not dead?"
Qin Niang was stunned. "Auntie, do you know me?"
“Young lady, when you were having a difficult childbirth in the street, I wanted to deliver your baby.”
At the time, Qinniang was in so much pain that she was almost unconscious and didn't remember much. But now, after the aunt reminded her, she remembered and hurriedly bowed to the aunt to express her gratitude, saying, "Auntie, I have no way to repay your great kindness."
The older woman quickly pulled her up, saying, "Young lady, don't thank me. To my shame, I couldn't save you back then. The baby came out feet first, and there was nothing I could do."
At this point, the aunt looked Qin Niang up and down carefully, her eyes full of surprise. "Young lady, when I heard the baby crying outside the carriage, I thought the baby was saved but the mother was gone. I didn't expect you to be alive. You look like nothing happened. It was that young... doctor who saved you?"
As a midwife, this was the first time the woman had encountered a situation where both the mother and child were safe and sound during such a difficult labor, so she was naturally curious.
Qin Niang was not scheming. The aunt had originally intended to save her, so she didn't hold back and said directly, "Auntie, Miss performed a cesarean section on me and saved me and my child."
abdominal surgery?
The older woman had never heard of such a thing before. "Young lady, how...how is an abdominal surgery performed?"
Cesarean section?
Is it what she thinks?
If you cut a person's stomach open, can that person still live?
Qin Niang didn't really understand how the abdominal surgery was done, since she was unconscious during the operation. She just remembered what Yan Luo said.
"Auntie, I don't know the specifics of how it was done, but I do know that the young lady did cut open my stomach and rescue the child, and I survived."
The woman was incredulous, her eyes full of suspicion. "Your stomach was cut open, how could you still be alive?"
I guess the female doctor probably said that to scare people, afraid that someone might learn some special delivery techniques.
Qin Niang noticed the doubt in the aunt's eyes. Fearing that others might misunderstand her young mistress, she quickly said, "That's right, my young mistress's medical skills are amazing."
"What a joke! In all my years, I've never heard of cutting open a person's stomach to deliver a baby. Young lady, if you continue to spout nonsense, don't blame me for reporting you to the authorities for spreading heresy!"
An old voice came from behind.
Qinniang and the aunt looked in the direction of the sound and saw an elderly man in his sixties with gray hair and a vigorous spirit standing there with an angry expression, followed by a young apprentice carrying a medicine box.
Qin Niang had only been in Yuncheng for a short time and naturally did not recognize the old man, but the aunt's eyes lit up and she hurriedly stepped forward with a smile to greet him, "Greetings, Doctor Zhou! Doctor Zhou, have you returned from your house call?"
Zhou Lei glanced at the woman but didn't respond to her.
The woman was a little embarrassed, but she didn't say anything. After all, the other party was Doctor Zhou, a god-like figure in the eyes of the people of Yuncheng.
Zhou Lei looked at Qin Niang and said, "Lady, if you admit now that you were lying and apologize to everyone, I will let you go. Otherwise, I will definitely take you to see the authorities."
Originally, Qin Niang and the aunt were just chatting on the street and didn't attract much attention. But now, Doctor Zhou suddenly appeared and loudly reprimanded Qin Niang, which immediately attracted a lot of onlookers.
In Yuncheng, there are quite a few people who know Doctor Zhou.
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