Shen Lingzhu was not affected by her senior sister's playful smile and only asked, "Is your father a carpenter?"
"No, he works as a laborer in a coffin shop outside the city. He only comes back once every few days, and he has to go again tomorrow." Just as the little sister finished speaking, her mother called her from the door of the wing room.
As soon as she left, Shen Lingzhu asked, "Senior Sister, do you think we should sell technology or finished products?"
"Technology, we can't make the finished product in front of uncle." Shen Miaozhu looked up at the headman's house. All the houses were made of adobe. She didn't know if he was willing to buy it.
Shen Lingzhu asked her: "How much is it?"
"One or two."
"So cheap? I won't sell it. When I get back to Beigou Village, I can find someone to partner with and earn more than just one or two taels."
"Small profits but quick turnover. The bellows don't require much technical expertise, just a few boards. You can learn how to use them by simply taking them apart.
And you can’t sell it at a high price if you sell it in retail, and it’s impossible to sell it exclusively for a long time.”
"Why do the heroines sell a recipe for dozens of taels, but mine is only one or five taels?"
"Find out why you've only been watching dramas and reading cool novels for so many years."
"What's the point of looking unhappy?"
As the two of them talked, the topic went off topic. But even if it was only one or two taels, Shen Lingzhu didn't find an opportunity to sell it until he went to bed after dinner.
Because she doesn't have the real thing, who would believe her just by her words?
So when she woke up in the middle of the night with a fever, she pushed her senior sister and muttered, "We still need to do a real demonstration, otherwise, empty words will not work."
"There's no urgent need for money right now. Let's talk about it when we get home. I remember my sisters' grandfather..." Shen Miaozhu was halfway through her words when her junior sister suddenly covered her mouth.
She thought she had alarmed her aunt who was sitting on the kang, but unexpectedly she heard urgent shouts coming from outside the house.
Shen Miaozhu sat up quickly: "Could it be that his daughter-in-law is about to give birth?"
"Maybe, she lives in the room next to ours." Shen Lingzhu also quickly put on her clothes and shoes, and came behind the door with her senior sister.
This time, Mrs. Hu was really awakened: "What are you two doing?"
"Hush, Auntie, don't move." Shen Lingzhu adjusted to the darkness and groped back to the kang. "The daughter-in-law here might be about to give birth. My second sister and I will go check on her."
"Come back, what are you two little kids going to see?" Mrs. Hu sat up and put on her clothes. The yard was already filled with noise.
Shen Miaozhu found her own tinder and candle from the basket and lit them, resolutely refusing to let her out. "Auntie, customs vary from place to place. We have to stay at his house tonight to give birth. What if there's something wrong?"
Mrs. Hu paused for a moment. Yes, she was also pregnant. While she was stunned, Shen Lingzhu and the other two had already left and closed the door.
At this moment, almost everyone in the headman's family was up. Some were tying carts to pick up the midwife, some were boiling water to prepare the delivery room, and they were all busy under the dim light.
The occasional moans coming from the next room and the voice of the headman's wife comforting her daughter-in-law were sometimes high and sometimes low.
Shen Lingzhu saw his elder brother and uncle sitting in the main room with him, and hurriedly waved to his elder brother.
When he came over, she said, "Go to the room and look after your aunt."
"You two should come inside too. The village head just woke us up and said the ox cart was slow and they wanted to borrow a mule cart. Dad has already asked the driver to go get the midwife and suggested sending another cart to get a doctor.
After the village head agrees, we can't help with anything else." Shen Xianzhu couldn't help but yawn as he turned his back.
But the two sisters did not go back to the house. Instead, they persuaded him to leave and went to the kitchen to ask if there was anything they could help with.
The youngest sister was not there and probably hadn't woken up yet. Her mother was boiling water. Her two brothers brought two buckets of water and then went to fetch more water.
When the youngest sister saw them coming in to help, she said it was nothing and asked them to go back to the house to rest.
Seeing that she had to wash several large wooden basins by herself and also had to pay attention to adding firewood and watching over two large pots, the two men chose to stay and help.
The youngest sister thanked the two men and felt much more relieved.
There was a mule cart and the midwife came very quickly. She washed her hands and face and changed her clothes as soon as she entered the door. She looked very experienced.
She stayed in the delivery room for a full quarter of an hour, and the pregnant woman's screams became more and more miserable.
Frightened, Mrs. Hu wanted her son to call back her two nieces, but they were helping to carry water to the delivery room.
Although neighbors came to help, the woman in labor seemed a little scared, and soon the youngest sister was also called into the delivery room.
People inside kept asking for hot water, but the men were not allowed to enter, so Shen Lingzhu and her sister naturally took on the task of escorting them to the door.
Fortunately, neither of them was afraid of blood, so it didn't cause any discomfort.
But as basins of hot water were brought in, they were replaced by bloody water, and the pregnant woman's voice gradually disappeared, Shen Lingzhu couldn't help but worry.
In less than a moment, the midwife had asked twice whether the doctor had arrived.
At this time, more neighbors came over, but the woman's condition was critical, so they did not dare to go in.
They were also whispering about how he seemed fine during the day, and some even said that he might have bumped into something, and some mentioned that the Shen family was staying overnight.
Shen Lingzhu really wanted to step forward and scold them for making trouble and talking nonsense, but reason stopped her from being so impulsive. She hoped that the mother could get through the difficult times, otherwise her family would be inexplicably blamed.
But things went against our wishes. When the midwife in the delivery room didn't wake the pregnant woman for the last time, she took a deep breath and said, "She lost too much blood, and the fetus is too big. Now its legs are facing downwards.
She's unconscious again, will you save the older one or the younger one?"
"Bao Da!" the village head's wife said directly.
But her second son said outside the house: "Big and small are safe, aunt, please think of another way."
"I've tried my best, but your wife's bleeding won't stop. If the doctor doesn't come, even I won't be able to save her." As soon as the midwife finished speaking, the youngest sister-in-law exclaimed "sister-in-law".
Everyone in the hospital was breathing heavily. When another basin of blood was brought out, the crying of the youngest sister's mother was heard in the delivery room.
The second son of the village head rushed in and called his wife, but the midwife said that the baby was no longer breathing and that a cesarean section had to be performed quickly.
Shen Lingzhu's hand was suddenly grabbed by her senior sister, "Go get my box of silver needles." After saying that, she lifted the curtain and went in.
She bought the silver needles at Renhetang in Baozhou, but the shopkeeper Tang did not take the money at the time. She also gave her a recipe for hand ointment.
When Shen Lingzhu ran back to the next room to search, Mrs. Hu asked her what she was doing. She just said she wanted to help, took the needle box and ran away.
Mrs. Hu couldn't sit still, so she pushed her son away and chased after him.
At about the same time, several people in the delivery room were stunned, crying, and falling down. Apart from the midwife who was asking whether they wanted to perform a laparotomy to save the baby, no one noticed that another person came in and approached the woman in labor.
Raised by a Taoist medical master, Senior Sister Shen Miaozhu has been accustomed to all kinds of injuries and illnesses since childhood, and is not frightened by the smell of blood mixed with medicine.
She went forward and felt the pulse while putting her hands close to the mother's carotid artery. There was still movement, so she pulled away the head of the village and asked the second son, "She's still alive."
"Ah!" The second son of the village head was half lying on his wife's belly, with red eyes when he looked up.
Shen Miaozhu didn't say anything more to him, stretched out her hand and pushed him away: "Step back, don't delay saving people."
The second son of the village head hesitated and did not move. When his senior sister asked him if he wanted to marry his daughter-in-law, he gritted his teeth and stepped back.
When Shen Miaozhu saw her junior sister lift the curtain and come in, she immediately jumped into the pit and asked her to help prepare artificial respiration.
The midwife holding the scissors saw this and shouted, "What are you doing? Come down quickly."
When the village head's wife saw her senior sister straddling the bed and pressing on her daughter-in-law's chest, she sat up from the ground and asked the midwife to open the belly and rescue the little one. She also yelled at the youngest sister's mother to pull Shen Lingzhu and the others away.
But as soon as they approached, the village head's second son quickly stretched out his arms to block them, "Mom, let them try."
"What do you two girls know? Go away, otherwise your son will be lost." The headman's wife pulled him, and the midwife nodded anxiously.
When the elderly woman next door tried to persuade him to leave, they heard the senior sister loudly shout "Fifteen", which startled everyone.
Then they saw Shen Lingzhu holding the woman's chin and lowering her head to kiss her on the mouth. They were so shocked that they forgot to move.
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