Chapter 165: Looking For Brother
The woman was not very old, about eighteen or nineteen years old. She was very thin, with a sallow face and cold sweat on her forehead.
But her belly is so big that she doesn't look like a child.
She was a little dirty, with her hair and clothes covered in dirt and leaves. There was a long wound on her calf that was scratched by something and was bleeding.
Lin Qian squatted down and touched the woman's belly. It was hard as a rock and she was having contractions. It seemed that she was about to give birth.
"Don't scream for now, breathe, take a deep breath! I will help you deliver the baby." Lin Qian rolled up her sleeves and asked Wei Xiaoran, Chen Rui and others to step back.
Seeing that both of them had moved away, Lin Qian first gave the woman in labor a few sips of cold spring water, and then took a piece of ginseng slice and asked her to hold it in her mouth.
After doing all this, Lin Qian began to take off the woman's pants. She was shocked when she did that. The amount of bleeding from the woman's lower body was very abnormal. Maybe her uterus was ruptured. Moreover, one of the baby's feet had already come out.
Twins, a ruptured uterus, and an abnormal fetal position made Lin Qian's heart tremble. She might not be able to save either the children or the mother.
Lin Qian was in a dilemma for a moment and didn't know what to do. Logically, she should correct the fetal position first, but the mother might die from excessive bleeding due to the enlarged wound, and it would be hard to say whether the child would still be alive at that time.
However, if the fetal position is not correct, the baby may suffocate to death in the womb.
Just when Lin Qian was hesitant, the woman in labor struggled to stand up and said to Lin Qian, "Help, help me! Help me keep the baby!"
If we delay any further, there will be three deaths. Lin Qian gritted her teeth, reached out to hold the baby's feet, put the feet back in, and then pressed the mother's belly to correct the fetal position.
Lin Qian still wanted to give it a try and save the three people, so she acted quickly.
"Okay! Take a deep breath! Listen to my command. When I say inhale, take a deep breath, and then hold it with all your strength." Lin Qian said to the woman in labor.
The woman in labor nodded, half raised her body, tightly grasped the grass under her body with both hands, and began to push with her face flushed.
Twins are generally smaller in size, and the mother didn't have to push much before the babies were born. The first one to come out was a boy, and the next one to come out was a girl.
Lin Qian took off her cloak and wrapped it around the twins: "They are twins, a boy and a girl. You are so lucky."
The mother just looked at the children, staring at the two children wrapped in the cloak, reached out and touched the girl's cheek, and soon, tears kept falling.
Lin Qian put the two children next to the woman in labor, then took out the silver needle from her armlet and was about to stop the bleeding. However, she saw the woman in labor, who had just touched her daughter's cheek, now put her hand on the girl's neck and was about to pinch her hard.
"What are you doing?" Lin Qian quickly stopped what she was doing and tried to grab the child.
The mother had lost too much blood and was very weak, so she was no match for Lin Qian.
"Why did you give birth to a daughter? Why did you have to be born in my belly!" The woman in labor cried out, but still stared at the girl in Lin Qian's arms.
Lin Qian called Wei Xiaoran and Chen Rui over loudly and handed the two children to them. The two grown men had never held a baby before, and their hands and feet were so stiff that they seemed not their own.
"I don't care why you want to strangle her. After all, this child was delivered by me. I will not watch you kill her." Lin Qian glanced at the woman in labor coldly, then continued to give her an acupuncture.
Hemostatic acupuncture is still effective, but it cannot restore the ruptured uterus of the mother. If she wants to repair it, she needs surgery.
Unfortunately, Lin Qian was just an ordinary person in her previous life and not a medical professional, so she couldn't be saved.
The woman cried for a while, then choked up and said, "I, I didn't fall down by myself at all. It was my mother-in-law and my husband who threw me down."
Lin Qian frowned and looked up at Wei Xiaoran. Wei Xiaoran asked, "What's going on?"
The woman opened her large, numb eyes, staring at the sky. She said in a flat tone, "My mother-in-law consulted a fortune teller and was told that I was pregnant with two girls. She was unhappy and beat and scolded me every day, asking me to do this and that.
A few days ago, my father-in-law and husband-in-law went to the fields to work together. My father-in-law, who is old, accidentally broke his leg. When my husband-in-law carried him back, he accidentally hit the wall and broke his head.
My mother-in-law said that both men in the family were injured in one day, and they must have provoked some unclean things. She asked someone to come and see again. This time the fortune teller said that the children in my belly were two monsters, and they would bring misfortune to their father, mother and whole family when they were born.
The only solution is to let both of them die in the womb.
I was about to give birth, but my mother-in-law insisted that I take abortion pills. I couldn't bear it. The two babies were about to be born and were moving.
I refused to drink, so they kept me locked up and refused to feed me. Today, while they were away, I sneaked out and was caught by my mother-in-law and husband. They cruelly pushed me down the hillside.
Lin Qian sympathized with the mother's tragic fate, but couldn't understand it: "Since you risked your life to protect both of them, why did you kill the girl after they were born?"
After hearing what Lin Qian said, the woman's eyes suddenly flashed with extreme resentment. She said sternly: "It's not that I want to kill her! It's just that in this world, girls suffer a lot. What's more, she is a motherless girl. How will she live in the future?
Since I brought her into this world, I can also send her off for a while and then take her away."
The mother knew her condition and knew she was not going to survive. If she could still live, her daughter would have her care and she would have a better life.
Lin Qian has seen people who favor boys over girls. In modern times, her grandmother was like that. However, Lin Wu was very protective of Zhao Xiu and Lin Qian. Lin Qian was basically raised on Lin Wu's neck. Therefore, even if her grandmother minded that Lin Qian was a girl, she didn't dare to say anything.
However, many girls in the same village had the opposite situation to Lin Qian. They had to wash clothes, cook and take care of their younger brothers at the age of seven or eight. They did not eat well, did not sleep well, and were beaten.
While Lin Qian was still reminiscing, the woman in labor sneered and said, "Do you know my name? My name is Pan Di, and I have two older sisters, one is Zhao Di and the other is Lai Di.
I was beaten since I was a child. My grandparents, parents, and younger brother beat me. Even when I got married, it was because my younger brother had no money to marry a wife, so he sold me to marry him.
I am also a woman, and I know how I have lived my life, so I don’t want her to suffer like this again.”
There was silence for a long time, and the surroundings were quiet. One should not advise others to be good unless they have experienced their suffering. For Pan Di at this moment, any words he said would be redundant.
In the silence, Pan Di looked at Lin Qian and said, "I know I won't live long. If possible, can I ask you to adopt her? As long as you can give her a bite to eat and don't let her starve to death, that's all."
After a while, Lin Qian nodded and said, "Okay, I promise you."
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