Chapter 149 It would have been better if I had learned medicine sooner.
"Yes! These scissors have been with me for over ten years! Don't let their dark appearance fool you, they're incredibly sharp; they're my old buddy."
As Aunt Li spoke, she rinsed the tips of the scissors in hot water.
"Aunt Li, didn't you see it's rusty?"
Lu Qingqing's voice was somewhat cold and sharp, and Aunt Li's heart trembled as she looked up at her.
But Lu Qingqing's face was pale, as if covered with a layer of frost.
Aunt Li murmured, "Yes, it takes time, so we have to work it out. It's just a matter of cutting off the life stem..."
Lu Qingqing closed her eyes.
There was no time to talk to her at that moment.
It was truly fortunate that she came and personally delivered Xibao's baby.
"I wasn't talking about using your scissors, I was talking about the ones in my box."
"You wash her lower body first, I'll take care of it myself."
She took out a sharp, thin blade from the first-aid kit herself, and without even needing to sterilize it with hot water, she took out her newly purified high-concentration liquor.
First, I soaked the knife in alcohol, then I took out the scissors, hook, and needle from inside.
After soaking all the ingredients, wipe your hands with the alcohol.
Finally, the liquor was lit again, and the items from before were burned one by one.
Aunt Li was filled with anxiety and hesitated to act.
She vaguely knew she had done something wrong, but she didn't know exactly what she had done wrong.
All midwives do this.
"Auntie..." The new mother seemed to lose heart again.
She was afraid, terrified.
Previously, the midwife Hong had used a rolling pin to turn the baby, which had already tormented her to the point of unbearable pain.
If we could do it again...
She really wanted to die...
"Hey, don't be afraid, honey. Doctor Qingqing is a miracle worker. She can save you. Just hang in there. Don't give up, child. Think of your child..."
The new mother started crying again; she was thinking of her mother.
Aunt Li speaks like her mother.
But her mother was already dead.
Lu Qingqing walked over with a knife and stuffed a towel into the woman's mouth.
A pair of clear eyes held a firm resolve: "You just need to hold on for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea."
The time it takes to drink a cup of tea...
Is that all?
Lu Qingqing nodded heavily at her: "Hold on."
"Aunt Li, pry her legs apart."
Lu Qingqing slashed the woman's lower body with the knife in her hand.
Aunt Li almost screamed in surprise.
They only cut open the lower body to remove the child when they're abandoning the adult. How...?
She expected the woman in labor to scream in pain, but she didn't.
Even being rubbed with a rolling pin on the stomach is unbearable, so how come there's no reaction when the lower body is directly cut open?
She didn't see clearly that Lu Qingqing wasn't recklessly cutting open the mother's life; it was just a normal episiotomy.
Lu Qingqing put her hand inside.
Turning his head in the bag.
"Ah—!" the woman in labor cried out.
My internal organs felt as if they had been displaced, churning and churning endlessly, causing me excruciating pain that made me want to die.
But only for a moment.
"Alright!" Lu Qingqing called out.
"Push with me, and the baby will be out soon!"
Just when the pregnant woman was about to give up, Lu Qingqing's voice rang out.
"I can see the child's head."
"It's come out an inch."
"Give it your all one last time!"
Every shout carries hope.
It will be soon.
It will be soon.
It will be soon.
Finally, the baby was born.
The new mother breathed a sigh of relief and went into darkness.
"Aunt Li, when you cut the baby's umbilical cord, don't use your scissors! Use the ones I just burned."
The child had bruises all over her body and hadn't even cried out yet when Lu Qingqing handed her over to Aunt Li.
She had to rush to suture and disinfect the new mother first.
Aunt Li held the child upside down and spanked him repeatedly.
"Aunt Li, pat her back."
Lu Qingqing's voice sounded genuinely weak.
Aunt Li quickly patted his back again.
The child finally burst into tears.
"Hot water, lukewarm water—"
Hearing the shouts, Sister-in-law Mengcao carried the water inside.
Everyone outside perked up.
Midwife Hong stood up, wanting to go in and take a look, but Lu Yun stopped her.
"What are you doing? I'm going in to help!"
"You're just going in to see if they're alive or not! Anyway, we don't need you, so just stay put!"
"You..."
Midwife Hong had never been treated like this before!
Everyone relies on her, but today nobody pays attention to her.
Oh, but Doctor Lu is with me too.
But she really wanted to go in and see if the person was really alive, and how they were brought back to life.
"How is my wife? I haven't heard her voice..." the man asked, craning his neck.
"Just wait and see," Lu Yun said.
The old woman stopped looking so sad.
"My grandson, my grandson, bring him out quickly so I can see him!"
Lu Yun scoffed, "What's the use of looking? You don't have any milk to feed me!"
The old woman almost fainted again.
"We've wasted so much time, I hope you don't end up like an idiot..."
"Being a fool is your retribution!"
"You, you, you... Let me tell you! My family didn't hire you. Even if you save someone, we won't pay you for the consultation!"
"Mother! What nonsense are you talking about? How can you treat a doctor who is saving our lives like this!" the man complained loudly.
Then she apologized to Lu Yun, "Brother Lu, right? Don't worry, I'll definitely pay the consultation fee, and I'll even give you more. Thank you so much for coming..."
"Give them what?! There are so many people..."
The old woman looked at the midwife, Hong, and the doctor, Lu. They were all invited here, and she had to give them all. It cost so much money to have a baby!
"Mother! Shut up!" The man finally got angry and displayed the authority of the head of the family.
Lu Yun's lips twitched.
He pulled a small notebook and a charcoal pencil from his pocket.
"Zhou Fan is good, right?"
The man nodded quickly: "Yes."
"Zhou Fan, good mom, fork!"
What does "叉叉" mean?
"That's it, from now on my family won't provide medical care for your mother! She's on my blacklist!"
"..."
Sister-in-law Meng Cao came out of the house with a happy face.
"Fan Hao! Your wife is dead!"
"ah!?"
The man stumbled.
"Pah, pah, pah! I'm not dead, I'm not dead, I'm alive, I'm alive!" Sister-in-law Meng slapped her smelly mouth.
I got so excited that I blurted something out.
"Cousin, you scared me to death! Waaaaaah..."
"Where's my grandson? Where's my grandson?" the old woman asked again, leaning closer.
"Auntie, it's not a grandson, it's a granddaughter..."
"What? Granddaughter? How could it be a granddaughter! It should be a grandson!" The old woman's face fell.
Before he could even slap his thigh, Lu Yun said, "Your grandmother probably thought the same thing back then!"
Old woman: "..."
I just can't bring myself to pat this thigh anymore.
Lu Qingqing called Zhou Fanhao into the room and carefully explained the postpartum care to her.
"You saw it, childbirth is like walking through the gates of hell. How much suffering do women endure? It shouldn't be difficult for you to take good care of her for a month, right?"
"It's not difficult, I will definitely serve you well."
Zhou Fanhao gave one tael of silver as a consultation fee.
It was all made up of copper coins and silver scraps.
Lu Qingqing didn't say anything more.
If it weren't for that pill, it would be enough.
He was an honest man, and he also gave Aunt Li, Midwife Hong, and Doctor Lu 100 coins each separately.
This was the most fulfilling experience Aunt Li had had in all her years as a midwife.
The person who was supposed to die was saved.
Of course, this wasn't her doing, but that didn't stop her from being excited.
"Qingqing, if only you had known medicine sooner."
Because she had seen far too many women die in childbirth!
If Lu Qingqing had been there earlier, they probably wouldn't have died.
On the carriage ride back, Aunt Li said sadly.
"Aunt Li, would you like to learn the correct method of childbirth from me?"
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