Chapter 398: Caesarean Section
The village chief carefully took the pile of early pregnancy test strips, and in order to avoid any omissions, he immediately repeated carefully how to use them.
Although Xia Zhizhi swept up a lot of these things and found them of little use, she didn't want to give them too many, so she only gave them about twenty or thirty.
Every year, you can let all the children in the village urinate in a bucket and then try it together.
When taking an early pregnancy test, the test will show either one red line (not pregnant) or two red lines (pregnant). Of course, there are some exceptions. Due to physical reasons, even if you are not pregnant, the test will show two red lines.
The village chief wrapped a bunch of early pregnancy test strips in oil paper and carefully hid them in a box. He took out an extra one and asked the villagers to gather all the children together. Those who had to pee or not had to hold their urine to pee. He filled half a bucket and then inserted the front end of the test strip into the box. After a while, a red line appeared.
In the eyes of the villagers, this phenomenon is indeed quite mysterious.
The village chief asked Xia Zhizhi again, "If this evil spirit continues to linger, will it have any other negative effects on the villagers?"
Xia Zhizhi spread her hands and said very bluntly, "Of course there will be an impact. Apart from other things, your health will not be as good as before. You have experienced this. Also, long-term erosion by Yin Qi will definitely have a negative impact on your offspring. I estimate that the number of newborns in your village will decrease in the next few years."
Those who already have a long family of children are not so worried after hearing this, but there are also those who have just got married or have only one or two children, daughters, who will naturally be nervous after hearing this.
He kept saying nice things to Xia Zhizhi and asked her to think of a solution.
Xia Zhizhi showed that she had some ideas, but she didn't really want to use them. She held Qiao's hand for a long time, and finally nodded reluctantly. She said to the village chief, "How about this? You gather all the men who had the most serious Yin Qi, and I will exorcise them individually. I hope it will be effective to some extent."
As for women, Xia Zhizhi didn't say anything, and the village chief didn't plead for them any more. After all, it was tacitly acknowledged that a woman's body was not as important as a man's.
The village chief named a list of people, and Xia Zhizhi asked them to go home, take a shower, tidy up, eat a full meal, and then come to find her.
The first to arrive was the third son of the village chief. His previous wife gave birth to a daughter, who had been drowned. Now there was another baby in her belly, but no one knew whether it was a boy or a girl.
Xia Zhizhi asked him to go into the small dark room.
After the village chief's third son entered the room, he saw a chopping board placed on two benches, and some miscellaneous items on the table next to it. He didn't know what they were, but guessed that they might be magical instruments or something like that.
The pile exuded a deep chill under the candlelight.
Xia Zhizhi held a laundry mallet and looked at him with a smile: "The process of exorcising evil spirits is very painful. In order to prevent you from suffering so much, I decided to knock you out. Do you have any objections?"
The villagers still had a lot of trust in the methods of Xia Zhizhi and her apprentice. When the man heard Xia Zhizhi say this, he was a little nervous. He stared at the mallet, swallowed his saliva, and finally nodded and said, "Okay, I'll listen to you, Master Xia."
Xia Zhizhi knocked him unconscious with a stick, then Ah Ju took him over, threw him on the chopping board, picked up the tools Xia Zhizhi had prepared nearby, and started to perform a vasectomy on him.
Ah Ju’s technique is good, it’s minimally invasive and I recovered in two days.
After the ceremony, Xia Zhizhi opened the door and asked the village chief to come in and carry the man out. She then said, "After the exorcism ceremony, the man will be weak for a while. Don't let him get out of bed for the next two days. Let him lie in bed and he will recover soon."
The village chief nodded repeatedly and started the next one.
It's the same no matter who comes. Once they enter the house, they'll be beaten with a stick and then sterilized.
Anyway, these people hated girls deeply, but if they were allowed to continue to have children in the future, they might still have girls. Even if Xia Zhizhi made up some lies to coax them, they didn't like it in the first place, and they wouldn't be happy even if they forced it. I'm afraid their resentment would only deepen.
In order not to make them feel uncomfortable, we simply solved the problem from the root, which is also a good deed.
After hanging out in the village, Xia Zhizhi moved to other villages.
Several nearby villages were disturbed by the crying of ghosts in the middle of the night. They knew that a great immortal had come to their village and could take care of the matter, so they had sent people to come and ask for help several times.
The process is the same, and because the villagers in other villages are very cooperative, he and Aju can even commit crimes in several villages at the same time.
The two men, like the butcher, went from village to village cutting off the pigs.
This matter spread like wildfire in the mountains. There were even two villages that had not been noticed by Xia Zhizhi before. After hearing the rumors about Xia Zhizhi, they took the initiative to fall into the trap.
Xia Zhizhi is such a good person to talk to. Since they are here, she definitely won't let them make a wasted trip.
She acted like a virtuous person and castrated the families with the most serious crimes in the two villages as a matter of convenience.
Fortunately, Ah Ju is a robot, otherwise, after so many consecutive sterilization operations, he would probably have suffered psychological trauma.
I have wasted quite a bit of time here, and by the time I finish all the work, it will be summer.
It is hot in the south in summer, and there are many mosquitoes and insects in the mountains.
The number of mosquitoes here is so high that it is hard for northerners to imagine. When it gets a little dark, mosquitoes will hit your forehead when you walk on the road.
Although she had mosquito repellent and the mosquitoes didn't bite her, the buzzing sound around her ears was still annoying.
Although this place is beautiful with mountains and rivers, Xia Zhizhi doesn't like the people here. After finishing her business, she took Ah Ju and drove directly back to Mudanjiang.
After getting off the bus, a cold wind blew and it was a bit chilly.
Xia Zhizhi put on a coat, found an empty corner, threw Ah Ju into the space, took out some souvenirs, and then found an ox cart to take herself back to the village.
The air in Mudanjiang city is a bit stuffy due to the large number of factories there. This feeling is much lessened once you leave the city.
At this time of year, the crops in the south have already grown tall, while in the northeast they are just beginning to sprout. Along the way, the fields on both sides of the road are filled with members working.
It is a bit cold here in the Northeast, but the place is relatively flat, with a large cultivated area. In addition, due to the times, heavy industry in the north is more developed.
Because of the early industrialization, women participated in the labor force earlier and had better basic education than in many places. At that time, the literacy rate of women in Heilongjiang, Jilin and Liaoning was higher than that in the south.
It's not that there is no preference for boys over girls here, but it is much better than in other places. After all, even after several decades, as long as the family is not a one-child family, most people will tacitly assume that the family property belongs to the son.
In an era when mechanization was not yet widespread, men were the main laborers and were valued. This was the national condition.