Traveling through the Three Kingdoms: She brings unlimited supplies to build infrastructure

Chapter 147 Infant Drowning
Midwife Li and a few specially selected servants were busy, and the woman sleeping on the bed couldn't help but scream.

There are two cloth straps hanging down from the sleeping bed, and the mother can grab them with both hands to use force.

Midwife Li knelt aside, massaging her belly and saying, "Stop screaming and save some strength. She will be fine soon."

Before Gongsun Yan came, the mother drank specially cooked chicken soup, so she was in good condition.

She had given birth to two babies before, so she was quite experienced. She gritted her teeth and listened to Midwife Li's instructions and began to exert force.

Streams of blood gushed out from between her legs.

Gongsun Yan took one more look and couldn't help but tremble.

Midwife Li couldn't help but laugh after seeing this. While pressing the mother's belly, she said, "Did you scare me?"

"Grandma, be more attentive." Stop chatting, she looked worried.

Seeing Gongsun Yan's nervous expression, Li midwife smiled.

Even a woman from such a wealthy family is still afraid when faced with the pain that every woman will experience.

"Ms. Yan, please take it easy." Midwife Li and the servants around her didn't look too nervous.

"In the past, when farmers gave birth, they would have to live in a house outside, with a dustpan of plant ashes under their bodies. How could there be such a good house to live in?"

"When a child is born, it is wrapped in rags and it is ready."

"How can there be so many people serving?"

"Yes." A servant girl in the village interrupted: "There are still people working in the fields. They feel that they are about to give birth, so they go to the side to give birth. When the grass blades brush against them, they come back to work."

Just like this, they chatted leisurely, and Gongsun Yan also relaxed a little.

Seeing that Gongsun Yan refused to return to the screen, a servant moved to the table and asked her to sit down.

There was no more tea on the table, so she waited while listening to midwife Li and the servant women telling some taboo anecdotes as a way to understand the folk customs of the Han Dynasty.

In this era, it was considered unlucky for a woman to give birth, so she had to build a thatched hut in an uninhabited place in the mountains, forests, rivers and swamps outside her home to wait for delivery, and she had to stay in such a simple thatched hut for a month before returning home.

In the North, there is also a saying that "the whole family should not go to the house of the bereaved or the house of the childbirth", which compares a family with a funeral to a family with a baby.

Hearing this, Gongsun Yan couldn't help but look at the mother who was struggling on the bed, and then at herself.

I also heard from midwife Li that as the saying goes, if you don’t raise children in the first and fifth months, if you give birth to children in the fifth month, the male will harm the father, and the female will harm the mother.

Children born in the first and fifth months will be abandoned for adoption...

It is now May.

Gongsun Yan's face froze. Obviously, these two children who were about to be born were already full of taboos. After verifying this midwifery knowledge, they should deal with the aftermath properly.

Thinking of this, she said calmly: "These wild nonsense are just because the mother who gave birth outside the house did not receive good care. It is cold in January and scorching hot in May. It is already difficult and dangerous for a woman to give birth, which naturally makes it even more difficult." Danger."

After saying this, Gongsun Yan didn't know if she could convince these women, but she felt that it was reasonable, and she decided to stop this bad habit of giving birth in a house.

As for whether the dealer is happy or not?

Unlike spring plowing, this is non-negotiable.

If you don't want to, then increase the rent.

In the face of interests, no taboos matter.

Just as she was thinking this, she suddenly heard a painful moan from the mother.

The fetal head breaks out.

Midwife Li, who had been chatting, walked around to the right side of the mother and reached out her hand.

Although he was scared, Gongsun Yan still got up and went to see whether midwife Li was operating according to her knowledge of midwifery.

This is related to her next arrangement for Midwife Li.

If the illiterate midwife Li could roughly learn it with just a few shy words and pictures from Zhou Jing, then Gongsun Yan would definitely keep her in the main house to receive enlightenment and training.Gongsun Yan turned his head slightly and watched as the fetal head emerged, and was pulled out by midwife Li.

When he saw the child with its umbilical cord wrapped in blood and amniotic fluid, being held in the palm of Midwife Li's hand, Gongsun Yan was frightened and suddenly felt moved in his heart.

The child was small, wrinkled, and no bigger than a hand.

Midwife Li quickly cut the umbilical cord, cleaned the child's mouth and nose, and patted the soles of her feet.

The child cried softly, like a kitten.

is a girl.

The baby was wrapped in prepared swaddling clothes and should have been carried directly to the mother who was exhausted and languid.

But maybe because he was looking at Gongsun Yan, he hugged him in front of Gongsun Yan.

Gongsun Yan only took a careful look and asked them to carry her to the mother.

His heart was filled with the joy of witnessing the birth of a new life. Gongsun Yan looked up again and saw that no one in the room, including Midwife Li, had a look of joy on their face.

The mother even started sobbing while hugging her baby.

Gongsun Yan was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly remembered something.

Yes, it's a girl.

Midwife Li glanced at Gongsun Yan carefully. Normally, with this woman's family background, the girl she gave birth to would hardly have the chance to be wrapped in swaddling clothes.

Most families, after hearing that the newborn baby is a girl, will not soil a swaddling clothes and just drown naked.

I don’t know how this child will be arranged.

Midwife Li was just thinking when she heard Gongsun Yan say: "I didn't see it clearly just now, please bring it back to me for a look."

The servant women looked at each other in confusion when they heard this, but the mother's eyes shone with light and she hurriedly pushed the infant child over.

"Ms. Yan." There were still tears in the corners of the mother's eyes, and she looked at Gongsun Yan with pleading eyes.

Gongsun Yan smiled at her, and took the swaddling clothes a little awkwardly in the maid's surprised eyes.

"I have a destiny with this child." She smiled and patted the child in her arms. The newborn child was really not very pretty, with white vernix still stuck to the fetal hair.

"I will ask the steward to make a note of it later. From now on, you can come to the main house to receive one stone of rice and food every month until the child reaches the age of hair. What do you think?"

With that said, Gongsun Yan placed the swaddling clothes next to the mother again.

The mother originally thought that she could keep the baby alive, but she never expected that she would be promised one stone of rice per month.

Feeling a heat in his chest, he sat up regardless of his weak body after giving birth, hugged the child and bowed to Gongsun Yan.

"Okay, have a good rest." Gongsun Yan did not avoid this gift. She knew that only by accepting it could she feel at ease.

Suddenly thinking of the boy outside the door, Gongsun Yan frowned. It seemed that not only a medical system needed to be established, but also measures to encourage childbirth, and certain subsidies should be given to those who were poor and unable to raise babies.

Then there is the bad habit of infanticide and female drowning. How can we eradicate it from all aspects?

How to determine the appropriateness of subsidies and supervision measures to prevent people from borrowing money for money and creating inertia.

Another round of consideration and layout is needed.

After a few more words of relief, Gongsun Yan walked out of the house, full of vitality, and took a long breath.

Turning around, he saw that there were only guards at the door, but Zhou Jing was nowhere to be seen.

Just as he was about to ask, he heard bursts of commotion breaking out in the west wing.

The familiar cry of the old woman made Gongsun Yan's face instantly darken.

(End of this chapter)