Chapter 85: Miscarriage
Doctor Lin anxiously said: “Yaoguang’s Mother, come with me quickly to the neighboring village to check on Yu Shi. She is pregnant and bumped into the corner of the table. I don’t know how the child in her belly is doing.”
Zhang Zhaodi said in astonishment: “I’m telling you, Doctor Lin, are you trying to put me in a difficult position? I am a midwife, not a female doctor. If someone is about to give birth, you can come find me. But this one hasn’t given birth yet, and I have no way to help.”
“You go take a look first; maybe there’s a way.” Doctor Lin pleaded repeatedly, “Thank you for the trouble.”
“Jing’er, come out quickly and go out with Godmother for a trip.” Zhang Zhaodi shouted toward the inside.
Jiang Jing had already heard the conversation outside. Hearing Zhang Zhaodi call her, she came running out.
She said to Doctor Lin: “Doctor Lin, you are the only doctor for miles around. If it were an ordinary miscarriage, you could treat it yourself. Why would you come find my godmother, this midwife?”
“We’ll talk on the road.” Doctor Lin said helplessly, “Anyway, please cooperate with me later.”
Su Yaoguang also caught up: “I’ll go too; maybe I can lend a hand.”
Doctor Lin thought of Su Yaoguang’s divine power and nodded in full agreement: “Maybe we’ll really need a heroine like you to help.”
Su Yaoguang: “…”
She seemed to have been complimented, but she couldn’t smile at all.
However, wasn’t this her unique trait? If she had this life’s divine power in her previous life, she wouldn’t have been bullied so badly.
Doctor Lin led the mother and daughters to the neighboring village. As soon as they reached the village entrance, a woman saw Doctor Lin and anxiously said: “Why are you only coming now?”
“Your son wouldn’t let me near his wife, so I had to go into the village to find a female doctor who knows medical skills.” Doctor Lin said, “Lead the way quickly; if we’re too late, neither the mother nor the child can be saved.”
On the road, Su Yaoguang and the others had already learned that Doctor Lin had brought them because the pregnant woman’s husband wouldn’t let Doctor Lin near the woman.
That woman was none other than the one Doctor Lin had once mistakenly thought was his blind date. Doctor Lin had rejected that Hu Shi, and Hu Shi had taken offense at Doctor Lin. Feeling resentful, she went to Yu Shi’s man—the one Doctor Lin had taken a liking to—and stirred him up, making him burn with jealousy and strike Yu Shi.
Although Yu Shi was pretty, she was actually six months pregnant. But her figure was slender, and she usually wore loose clothes, so it wasn’t obvious that she was pregnant.
After Yu Shi’s man Wang Qiang hit her, her body—which was already uncomfortable from the pregnancy—bumped into the table corner, and she immediately cried out in pain on the ground. Seeing this, Wang Qiang panicked and didn’t know what to do. It was his mother who immediately went to the neighboring village to find Doctor Lin to treat her. When Doctor Lin arrived, Wang Qiang refused and wouldn’t let Doctor Lin touch his wife.
Moreover, Yu Shi had suffered a miscarriage and was clutching her belly in pain. Doctor Lin naturally needed to check her bleeding, but Wang Qiang wouldn’t even let him touch Yu Shi with a finger.
Wang Qiang paced anxiously back and forth at the doorway.
He was an ordinary-looking middle-aged man. Not only did he look ordinary, but his height was also lacking; he seemed even shorter than Su Yaoguang.
Seeing Doctor Lin appear, Wang Qiang glared at him viciously: “What are you here for again? I told you, you’re not allowed to treat my wife. Get lost, get lost.”
“It’s not me treating her, but the female doctor I brought.” Doctor Lin pointed at Zhang Zhaodi and said, “This female doctor is the most skilled in gynecological conditions. Let her in quickly to check on your wife.”
“Just her going in, not you?” Wang Qiang looked at Doctor Lin with suspicious eyes.
“Of course.”
“Son, your wife has your child in her belly. If you don’t let her through, neither the mother nor the child can be saved. The female doctor is here now; let her through quickly!” Wang Qiang’s Mother said anxiously.
“Mom… Mom…” Yu Shi called from inside, “I’m in so much pain I’m about to die… I’ve bled so much…”
“Coming, don’t be afraid.” Wang Qiang’s Mother pushed Wang Qiang aside and said to Zhang Zhaodi, “Please save my daughter-in-law. If the child is gone, she can get pregnant again, but if the mother is gone, it’s over.”
“Alright, we’ll do our best.” Zhang Zhaodi looked at Doctor Lin, who gazed at her pleadingly. She then looked at Jiang Jing and Su Yaoguang, gritted her teeth, and went in.
Jiang Jing picked up Doctor Lin’s medicine box and followed Zhang Zhaodi inside.
Su Yaoguang blocked the doorway, looking at Wang Qiang discontentedly: “The one going in now is a female doctor. You wouldn’t worry that a female doctor would take advantage of your wife too, would you?”
Wang Qiang stiffened his neck and said: “If it were any other doctor, I might accept it, but not this one. He has designs on my wife. What if he deliberately harms my son?”
“Brother Wang Qiang, I told you before it was a misunderstanding.”
“It was a misunderstanding before, but if you saw my wife’s body, it wouldn’t be. Do you know what people in the village are saying about my wife?”
Su Yaoguang picked up the wood on the ground and snapped it in two, saying displeased: “Shut up, or I’ll make you take a nap.”
Wang Qiang’s eyes widened, looking at Su Yaoguang as if she were a monster.
Wang Qiang’s Mother craned her neck to look inside and said to Doctor Lin beside her: “We have female doctors nearby; why haven’t we heard of her before?”
“The female doctor has been around for a long time; it’s just that no one usually needs her, so she’s rarely called.” After Doctor Lin finished speaking, he asked toward the inside: “Yaoguang’s Mother, how is Madam Wang’s situation?”
Zhang Zhaodi spoke up: “The child can’t be saved; too much blood loss, too late to save. If medicine had been given immediately after the bump to control it, maybe it could have been saved.”
Zhang Zhaodi said this on purpose.
If she didn’t say it, how would Wang Qiang know what a stupid thing he had done?
“What a pity; it was a fully formed male fetus.” Zhang Zhaodi said loudly, “It already looked good, very much like its mother. One can imagine how handsome it would have been grown up.”
Wang Qiang’s Mother burst into loud wailing and pushed and hit Wang Qiang: “It’s all your fault, all your fault. I told you early on to let Doctor Lin treat her, but you wouldn’t let him touch her. You bastard, give me back my grandson… give me back my grandson…”
Wang Qiang pounded on the door and shouted inside: “Save my son quickly! As long as you save my son, I’ll pay any amount of silver.”
“Only now you care about your son; what were you doing earlier?” Su Yaoguang pushed Wang Qiang away and blocked the door, “The child can’t be saved, but the mother can still be rescued. Don’t disturb the treatment inside anymore, or you’ll harm your wife too.”
“A big man with a heart smaller than a needle. You can be stupid, but don’t use your stupidity to harm your wife and child.”
Su Yaoguang still felt unsatisfied and unleashed a barrage at Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang’s Mother cried for a while and had to accept the fact. She then asked about her daughter-in-law.
Zhang Zhaodi saw Jiang Jing needling Yu Shi, and after her acupuncture, Yu Shi’s heavy bleeding finally stopped.
“Prepare hot water, unused white cloth, and a basin to bring in. We need to expel the dirty things from the pregnant woman’s body and clean her up.” Zhang Zhaodi instructed.
