Chapter 145 Qingwu Treats a Pregnant Woman
The days of midsummer passed quickly, and several days had already passed amid the chirping of cicadas.
Xiao Yuluan came back once and explained some things to Qingwu.
"I will still be in the capital, but I have my own things to do, so I won't be staying at your place. When I'm done with my work, we can be together as master and disciple."
"good."
Qingwu watched her grandma leave, she had no idea what earth-shattering thing her grandma was going to do for her, she was living a peaceful life here.
She had recently accumulated a lot of medicinal materials in the small medical clinic of the palace, and people from the two villages came to her for medical treatment. This did not arouse the suspicion of the spies. Most of the time, Qingwu would bring Yuzhu with her, and when she was out collecting herbs, she would also act with Yuzhu, pretending that Yuzhu also had medical skills. In the eyes of the spies, this explained many of their previous doubts.
It is normal for a noble lady from a big family to keep a female doctor or something like that.
The days passed quietly, Qingwu treated the minor illnesses of the people. Suddenly one day, a middle-aged woman came running, followed by two men carrying a door panel with a quilt on it. Under the quilt was a woman with sweat all over her forehead and a pale face, who looked like she was about to die.
"My daughter is having a difficult birth. Please save her!"
Seeing this, Qing Wu immediately put down the herbs he was preparing and quickly stepped forward to check. He saw that the woman's eyes were closed, her lips were blue, and cold sweat was pouring down her face.
"Hurry and bring her in!" Qingwu directed everyone to place the woman on the bamboo couch in the inner room of the medical hut. He then turned to Yuzhu and said anxiously, "Take five qian of ginseng and boil it into a bowl of ginseng soup!"
Saving lives was the most important thing, so Yuzhu couldn't care less about anything else. Although she hesitated for a moment, she still hurried to the main hall. The commotion here naturally attracted Xiao Ji, and before he could speak, Yuzhu quickly explained the situation.
"There's a pregnant woman with a difficult labor, and my wife asked me to make a bowl of ginseng soup!"
Xiao Ji immediately understood the meaning of the Single Ginseng Soup. He nodded immediately and instructed, "Ask Baozhu and Fugui to help as well."
Among the medicinal materials sent by the emperor, ginseng was naturally indispensable. Five cents of ginseng plus ginseng roots were enough.
This is the result after Qingwu reduced the dosage. If eight cents of ginseng were used, it would cost two taels of silver. How could the villagers of Hedong Village afford it?
With such an urgent matter, Xiao Ji could no longer concentrate on reading agricultural books, but it was inconvenient for him to go in, so he could only look out the window from time to time, paying attention to the situation at the gatehouse.
He wanted to go over, but then he remembered something and sat down again.
In the doctor's room, all the men had been driven out, leaving only the women. Qing Wu felt the pulse of the woman in labor, who was breathing weakly, and asked, "How long has this child been born?"
The middle-aged woman cried and said, "She's been in labor for a day and a half, and it's all that old woman's fault for not wanting a midwife. This is my daughter's first child, and if she had hired a midwife earlier, she wouldn't be in this situation! But she was too worried about the few dozen copper coins and wanted to deliver the baby herself. By the time the midwife came, she said there was no hope. Madam, please..."
The man who was locked outside the door heard this and said ashamedly: "It's all my fault. It's all my fault for listening to my grandma..."
But Qingwu didn't have time to think about these things. She took the mother's pulse and her heart sank. The pulse was weak and disordered, a sign of both Qi and blood deficiency. She then felt the abdomen and found that the fetus was in a transverse position, stuck in the uterus, unable to move up or down.
"Mom, I... I can't go on..." The woman in labor opened her eyes weakly, tears and sweat rolling down her face.
"Don't talk nonsense!" the middle-aged woman cried, "Madam will definitely save you!"
In fact, she didn't have the confidence to say this, she just wanted to keep her daughter breathing.
Only then did Qingwu understand what the middle-aged woman had been complaining about. The fetus was in an abnormal position. If she had called a midwife earlier, she would have had some techniques to turn the fetus around. Why would the mother become so weak?
She took a deep breath, remained calm, and quickly inserted needles into the mother's Hegu, Zhiyin, Zusanli, Neiguan and other acupoints to replenish Qi and consolidate her body.
But this wasn't enough; it could only keep the mother alive. The baby's abnormal position made it difficult to deliver. Her solemn expression frightened the woman on the bed, who couldn't help but call out, "Madam..." She raised her hand tremblingly, her voice trembling, "If...if only one can be saved, please...save my child..."
It was not until then that Qing Wu noticed that the woman in labor on the bed was a woman of the same age as her, no, younger, looking only fifteen or sixteen years old.
In her years of medical practice, she had seen countless young women experience difficult births. She knew that young women's bodies were not fully developed and that it was easy for them to have accidents during childbirth, but the world did not allow women to stay at home for too long...
A glint of pity flashed in Qing Wu's eyes, but she disagreed with the young woman's words. She grasped the woman's cold hand and said, "As long as there's green mountains, there's no need to worry about running out of firewood. Be quiet and listen to me. I have a way to help you correct the fetal position. It'll be a little painful, so bear with it."
This simply informs the woman that her water has broken, and if she delays any further, the baby will be in danger of suffocation.
The woman nodded, and Qingwu opened her clothes. She was slender, with a belly that bulged outward, a thin layer of skin that looked like it would burst if she wasn't careful. Seeing a slight bulge, Qingwu quickened his pace.
Suddenly, there was another commotion outside the door, and an old woman screamed, "Why did you bring her here?! They said she's hopeless, why are you still wasting money? She's not moving at all, and it'll be a stillborn. Take her back home!"
At this moment, Yuzhu came over with a bowl of steaming hot medicinal soup. The old woman immediately saw the ginseng roots in the bowl and exclaimed, "Is this ginseng soup for Wanniang? How much silver must it cost?!"
Yuzhu was so frightened that she took a step back, but still told her the approximate price of the bowl of medicine: "This bowl costs one or two taels of silver."
When the old woman heard this, she immediately beat her chest and stamped her feet, "What a sin! One ounce of silver is wasted like this!" She rushed forward to grab the bowl, "Stop it! This money is enough to buy my grandson a new wife! You can't let her drink it!"
Yuzhu calmly protected the medicine bowl and hurried into the house. Baozhu and Fugui, who had rushed over, immediately stepped forward, blocking the old woman on the left and right, and another man grabbed the old woman's collar.
"Shut up!"
At this moment, Qingwu in the room finally used his strength to straighten the fetus's position, and Wanniang screamed instantly.
Hearing this cry of pain, the man outside the door finally reacted and scolded: "Grandma, stop messing around! I want Wan Niang, I don't want a new daughter-in-law!"
It was because of listening to grandma that Wan Niang ended up in this situation!
"Hey! Madam, I will pay you back the money you owe me!"
But whether he returned it or not, Qingwu would make Li Wanniang drink the medicine. Yuzhu helped Wanniang up and fed her the soup. Not long after, the woman's face gradually turned red.
The woman, now strong enough, began to push to give birth. Xiao Ji, who noticed the movement here, also limped over.
The old woman continued to yell and curse: "You spendthrifts! One tael of silver! How much food can you buy..."
She cursed in circles, but when she met Xiao Ji's cold eyes, she was suddenly speechless.
The old woman was a villager from Hedong Village, and she knew what Xiao Ji and Qing Wu had done. However, she was used to Qing Wu's amiable demeanor, so she started to act arrogantly, daring to make loud noises in front of Qing Wu.
But how could Xiao Ji indulge her? He coldly ordered Zhao Tongdao: "Kick this crazy woman out!"
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