In the late Qing Dynasty, there was a small mountain village in Guandong. There was an old lady named Zhou in the village. She was a stubborn woman. She had been giving birth to others for decades and had a lot of experience. In addition, she was the only one in the ten miles of town. Once anyone had a child, she would ask her for help.
Mrs. Zhou's mother-in-law has rich life experience. She was originally from the south. When she was young, she moved here with her husband and gave birth to a son and a daughter. But there was an unexpected situation in the world. Her husband unfortunately died of illness. For the sake of her children, she gave up remarriage and relied on delivering her baby. She worked hard to raise the two of them.
The children are also very filial, and the family lives a harmonious life. The son runs a grocery store, and the daughter goes to a tailor shop to work, and the family of three has no worries about eating and drinking. But Grandma Zhou couldn't stay idle and still acted as a stable lady. However, she never charged money anymore, which was to accumulate some good deeds for her children and herself.
What the family did not expect was that Grandma Zhou suddenly suffered from a terminal illness. At first, she just felt a tingling pain in her abdomen, and after seeing the doctor several times, she still couldn't get better. My children were a little worried, so they took her to a big city and found a better doctor to see a doctor. As a result, this examination found that Grandma Zhou's body was already full of holes. In the early years, she left too many root causes of illness in order to take care of her son. Now she is unable to make up for the restoration and may not be alive for a few years.
After learning of this result, the children were heartbroken. They never expected that the accident would come so quickly. Grandma Zhou seemed very calm. After returning home, she still didn't want to be idle, saying that she would help others deliver their babies a few more times before she died. After all, there were not many people in the village in Kanto at that time. There was also an old saying in the local area that a woman would pass the gates of hell with a baby. That's why she had to do her last part before she died.
A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and Grandma Zhou's health is getting worse and she can't go far. That night, her children had not returned home because they were working, so she sat at the door waiting for the two of them.
At this time, four young men appeared in the distance. They carried an old-fashioned sedan chair and slowly came to Grandma Zhou. They knelt down immediately and said in unison: "Grandma Zhou, go and have a look. My lady is dying, so she is almost out of reach!"
Grandma Zhou is kind-hearted. When she heard that someone had a difficult delivery, she didn't care about anything else. She immediately got up and disappeared into the night. Grandma Zhou has never been in a sedan chair in her life except getting married. It seems that the one who asks her for help must be a wealthy family. Sitting in the sedan chair, she felt like she was flying in the clouds and within a short while, she arrived at her destination.
Walking down from the sedan chair, a grand courtyard came into view. At the same time, an old man holding a cigarette pipe in his hand and looking similar to her age came over. He was dressed in luxurious clothes and kept smoking from his mouth. He could spit out a cigarette ring without saying a word. He is the master of this family, and his daughter-in-law is dying. After a few short greetings, Grandma Zhou was pulled into the delivery room.
In addition to the mother, there are four or five busy maids in the room, who are obviously outsiders. Grandma Zhou went forward and pushed everyone away, and told them to prepare hot water and clean towels, then rolled up her sleeves and started delivering her baby.
The situation was more serious than she thought. The pregnant woman had an incorrect position and tried hard for a long time, but the child's legs came out first. Grandma Zhou kept rubbing the pregnant woman's belly, but it was still useless. If she dragged on like this, the child would definitely be suffocated to death. At this point, she could only choose one.
The situation was urgent, and Grandma Zhou had no time to notify the people outside. She made a cruel decision and immediately grabbed the child's legs, tried harder, and successfully pulled the child out. As a result, in just a moment, the pregnant woman collapsed, she became depressed, and the maids around her also exclaimed.
Maybe I felt the mother's situation and the child cried very loudly. Grandma Zhou looked down and was startled because the child turned into an weasel at some point and bit her hand hard. Grandma Zhou was in pain and almost threw it out, but in just a blink of an eye, the child returned to normal.
My mother-in-law thought she had read it wrong and didn't have time to think about it. After handing the child to the maid, she began to think of ways to stop the bleeding of the pregnant woman. But she tried all her strength and couldn't stop the blood. As she saw that the person was about to fail, the master outside the house broke into the door and rushed to the pregnant woman, and handed her cigarette puddle to the pregnant woman. The pregnant woman immediately went up and started smoking. A bag of tobacco was quickly exhausted, and the whole room instantly became cloudy and mist.
What's amazing is that after smoking a cigarette, the pregnant woman's face was rosy and her blood stopped. She was fine in an instant. This made Grandma Zhou stunned, but at least she was rescued, and she breathed a sigh of relief. After
, the old man pulled Grandma Zhou out and expressed his gratitude to her. He also took out a small purse and handed it to her, which was considered a fee. Grandma Zhou refused without thinking and said that she would not charge any money for her childbirth.
The old man was slightly stunned after hearing this, then smiled and put away his purse and noticed the bite on Grandma Zhou's hand. Afterwards, the old man took out some tobacco from his arms and handed it to her, as reward. Grandma Zhou had never smoked cigarettes and didn't want to accept them, but the old man was determined and could not refuse his affection. She finally agreed. After
, the old man sent someone to send him home. But as soon as she entered the house, she found that she had only left for half an hour and her children had just arrived home. She told the situation just now and took out the tobacco in her arms. Her son was surprised and suspected that she was invited by Wong Tai Sin in the mountains. The pregnant woman was probably Wong Tai Sin's daughter-in-law.
Grandma Zhou nodded after hearing this. She was still a little surprised when she remembered the situation when the child suddenly turned into a weasel. The next morning, after her children left the house, she took out the tobacco. She couldn't see any tricks on the surface. Curiously, she found a cigarette pot and lit it and took a sip.
In an instant, she felt much more relaxed all over her body and began to sweat, as if all the impurities were discharged from her body along with the sweat. She was going to smoke again, but in just one sip, all the tobacco was burned. Without thinking too much, she put down the cigarette pot and went to work hard. What's amazing is that her body has relaxed a lot, as if the symptoms have disappeared.
When the children returned home at night, they were stunned when they saw their mother. They saw that Grandma Zhou's original white hair was much darker, and her skin became tight and shiny, as if she was ten years younger. Grandma Zhou was also shocked and told the two of them about her smoking.
The next morning, the children took Grandma Zhou to the town for examination. What's amazing is that all the original symptoms of her body disappeared, which made the family very happy.
Since then, Grandma Zhou has continued to be a midwife in the village, and she has lived until she was 99 years old before she died.
