No one knows what Mi Po's surname is. Her seniority is very high, so high that no one knows what the right name is. She was still very young at that time and could use a rice tube to treat diseases, so everyone just called her Mi Po, which might be a kind of respectful title.
Mi Po knows medical skills, or witchcraft, I don’t know where to learn it. She is especially good at treating children. Any child in the country who has a headache or fever will come to her to see. Mi Po will give the child scraping , acupuncture, and sometimes call the soul. After this, the child will basically heal.
That day, the third aunt from the same village came to Mi Po for help. The child was the son of Aunt San's sister. She was fostered at Aunt San's house. She was originally a smart and lively child, but from one day on, the child suddenly became dull, dragging his yellow nose every day, and no response to the outside world, as if he was stupid.
Mi Po was already married at this time. She knew that if she had too much control, she might be harmful to her offspring, but looking at the stubborn boy in front of her, Mi Po couldn't bear it, so she took him to her usual room for medical treatment.
Mi Po looked at the child carefully and there was nothing unusual. She grabbed his hand and looked at it. She saw that the blue veins bulge out at the tiger's mouth of both hands, as if it would swell up the skin the next moment. Mi Po knew that the child must have been scared.
Children's life and soul are not as solid as adults. If they are scared, they will lose their souls. At this time, people with ability need to scream and call the child's soul back.
Mi Po picked up his rice tube, poured out a handful of rice from it and placed it in front of the boy. He took out another silver needle, intending to help him condition his bloodline. She called the child's name, put the rice on the fire and burned it, then ground it into powder, brewed it with water and poured it into him.
Just when Mi Po was about to give the child an injection, the child suddenly grinned and twisted his body to prevent Mi Po from touching him. Mi Po thought he had recovered his mind, so he coaxed him and said that it would not hurt. After the injection, his illness would be cured.
At this time, the child suddenly turned his head and looked at Mi Po. His head turned almost 180 degrees. Mi Po even heard the sound of the cervical bone displacement. Before she could be shocked, the child actually made a woman's voice, saying, "Then exchange your own child for this boy."
The child fell to the ground after saying that. Mi Po carefully went forward to check. The child's cervical bone was fine, and everything just seemed to be just Mi Po's hallucination. When the boy woke up again, his illness was cured. Aunt San was very happy and thanked Mi Po repeatedly, but Mi Po couldn't be happy. She felt that the boy's smile before leaving made her cold behind.
Although there are some twists and turns in the middle, this is also a small matter for Mi Po, and I quickly forgot it. Not long after, Mi Po got pregnant and gave birth to her first child, Xiaozhen. Xiaozhen was born white and tender, very likable, but when Xiaozhen was eight months old, she suddenly died. When she died, she still had a strange smile on her face. Mi Po herself is a doctor, but she can't see how the child is gone, so she can only lament her miserable life. She didn't expect that this was just the beginning.
In the next ten years, Mi Po gave birth to six children in a row, and the first five died without exception, and they were less than one year old when they died.
The seventh child is named Nianzhen. Mi Po put all her hope on him and stared at him with almost good eyes. When the child grew to six years old, Mi Po breathed a sigh of relief, but one night, Nian Zhen suddenly had a high fever and then became stupid, only knowing to smile outside the door. Mi Po looked at him and suddenly remembered the child she had treated. The smile on Nian Zhen's face was exactly the same as that child. She remembered what the child had said, and suddenly fell into regret and panic. She thought in despair that her thoughts might not be able to be saved.
Mi Po's neighbor is an old man. He gets along well with Mi Po on weekdays. That day, he passed by the door and saw Nian Zhen smiling foolishly in the yard. He suddenly came in and slapped Nian Zhen, saying that Nian Zhen was too ugly, which made him upset.
Mi Po's family naturally didn't want to go to the old man to argue, but the old man died the next day, and instead, his mind gradually got better. Mi Po knew in her heart that the old man was blocking the disaster for Nianzhen. She brought Nian Zhen to the old man's tomb, and the mother and daughter kowtowed to the old man together, and asked her daughter to recognize the old man as her godfather. Mi Po thought that this matter was over.
Nianzhen grew up safely. He was so smart that he was not as smart as ordinary people. People in the village sighed that they didn’t know which god in their ancestors appeared, and that such a person appeared in the village. When Nianzhen was twenty years old, he decided to study in a big city. Before leaving, Nianzhen held his mother's hand and swore that he would be filial to his parents in the future.
After Nianzhen went out, she often wrote letters to Mi Po. Once, she sent a photo with her letter. This was a rare thing in that era, and the whole village caused a sensation.
The photo was black and white. In the photo, Nianzhen stood in front of the door and smiled with her mouth. Mi Po was so familiar with this smile. Her first six children laughed like this before they died.
Mi Po said like crazy after seeing the photo, saying that she wanted to find Nianzhen. But before she could leave the village, the news of Nian Zhen’s death came back.
Mi Po's husband fell ill because he couldn't bear the blow. He disappeared in a few days. Mi Po's calm cooking philosophy really made her husband's funeral. She didn't shed a tear at the funeral, and she looked like a puppet. Everyone who saw it said that Mi Po would probably go with her son and husband.
But later, for some reason, Mi Po suddenly cheered up again and began to help children in the ten miles of town to cure diseases and eliminate disasters. Until she died of illness in her nineties, she was talking about children who had not yet cured her illness.
Almost every family has received the favor of Mi Po. On the day she passed away, people from several nearby villages came to visit. The ones who could squeeze into the house were either the village chiefs of this village or the elders of that village. Amid the crying of everyone, Mi Po passed away with a smile on her lips.
Later, the villagers saw Mi Po’s notebook while packing up their belongings, which was written like this.
"I also suspect that I did something wrong. Why did I save so many people, but my family was destroyed in the end. But maybe I am lucky and destined to have no children and no family. Since that's the case, I will treat every child as my own. Perhaps, maybe there will be the souls of my children who died in the early days."
