When the crowd calmed down again, Zhou Man said with a serious face: "Birth is not a woman's business alone, everyone knows this truth, right?"
Everyone nodded together, nonsense, if you don't know this truth... Ahem, if childbirth is only a woman's business, then why do men need it
Zhou Man paused before continuing: "Then who decides whether to have a boy or a girl? Since having a baby is not a woman's business alone, then having a boy or a girl is naturally not a woman's business alone." This question is extremely serious. Most people were ignorant, even the doctor and shopkeeper of Baicaotang who came to join in the fun lowered their heads and pondered, a little puzzled.
In fact, as doctors, although they have not specifically studied this point, they still have their own experience and feelings.
It's okay when no one mentions it, but once someone raises this question, the two of them can't help but look at each other, and they can't help it, "It seems that this matter has more to do with men."
"Listen to what Mr. Zhou said, the Tai Medical Office may understand better than us."
Also, the people inside are all people with superb medical skills.
Man Bao also knew that most of the people here were illiterate, let alone medical science, so the explanation was simple and rude. She went directly to the kitchen of Wu's house and took out four sticks, two of which were half burnt and had been burnt. Carbonized, black.
She didn't dislike being dirty, so she put two sticks on Bai Shan's table, and then held up the two sticks in her hands to show everyone, "This one, which is the same from the beginning to the end, is a woman, and this one is burned." Half of them are men, men and women are different, everyone knows this, right?"
Someone mingled in the crowd and laughed and said: "I know, I know, everyone who is married knows this, hahaha..."
Bai Shan glanced over sharply, patted the gavel, and shouted: "What are you playing about? Stay if you want to listen, and turn around if you don't want to hear. Is your Master Zhou's class going well? Except for the students from the Imperial Medical Office, it is The dignitaries in the capital may not be able to hear it if they want to."
The crowd gradually quieted down. Although their faces were filled with disgust and embarrassment, many people wanted to know in their hearts.
If they knew the reasons for having boys and girls, wouldn't they be able to have boys if they wanted to
So there is no need for Bai Shan to say the rest, the people in the crowd suppressed a few bastards who wanted to make fun of them.
The yamen servants who were about to squeeze into the crowd to settle accounts with them stopped in their tracks.
Seeing that they had calmed down, Zhou Man raised the stick in his hand and said, "A husband and wife unite to conceive a fetus. We often say that a child is the blood of the parents and the continuation of their blood. Then, the newborn will not only have the mother's The blood, naturally also has the blood of the father."
This principle is also very easy to understand, even a child who is not very sensible can understand the words after turning the words in his head twice, let alone a group of adult men and women whose lifelong wish is to inherit blood.
Seeing that they all understood, Man Bao continued: "And the gender of the child is determined after the union and conception. Like the pills that can guarantee the birth of boys and the pills that reverse yin and yang are all fake. It’s just the mud balls rubbed off from people wrapped in flour to fool you.”
A picture appeared in everyone's mind, and they were immediately disgusted.
Man Bao knocked on the table with a stick, grabbed everyone's attention, and continued: "Then how are boys formed, and how are girls formed?"
She raised the stick in her hand and broke off two pieces from the stick representing the parents. The two pieces were the same color. She put the two pieces together and said: "The whole body of the stick representing the woman is the same color, so it is natural." , when this part of the father's blood is fused with the mother's blood, the stick formed is also the same color as the mother, so it is a woman!"
She stretched out her hand and broke off the half-burned stick again, and took out a black stick and said, "But when this part of father's blood is fused with mother's, the resulting stick will be exactly the same as his father's." The color, and this, represents a man, do you understand?"
The onlookers were all dumbfounded, so what this means is...
"A boy or a girl, in a common sense, is determined by the blood of the father," Man Baoyang said, holding the broken stick in his hand: "It is the blood of the mother that is fused with the blood of the lower half." The bloodline of the father, the one that conceives is a girl, and the one that fuses is the upper part, this section represents the blood of the burned part, and the one that conceives is a boy."
"Generally speaking, in the absence of external intervention, the probability of conceiving a man and a woman is the same. If the couple has given birth to a girl many times, it means..."
Man Bao paused and said: "Either you are unlucky, or it is due to the reason of your man's family, X... that part of the blood is stronger."
Things like chromosomes and genes require too much explanation to be explained. They can be taught to disciples and students, but to explain to these people, they still need to understand.
Since ancient times, both men and women have believed that having children is a woman's business. Naturally, it is also a woman's business to have boys and girls.
For thousands of years, this kind of thinking has never been broken, but this time someone told them that what you think is always wrong.
Many people can't accept it all at once.
Even Fang Xiancheng, who has always been serious and introverted, couldn't help asking: "How does your lord know this?"
Man Bao said confidently: "I am an imperial physician."
Fang Xiancheng asked: "Can the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital distinguish between male and female?"
Man Bao raised his eyebrows and said: "Four to five out of ten, and out of four to five out of ten, two to three out of ten may make a wrong diagnosis. After all, doctors are human, and when human beings make mistakes, the imperial physician is the same. "
Man Baoyu said to everyone with a warning: "The imperial physicians in the imperial hospital dare not say they are the best in the world, but they are definitely the best doctors in the world. Even we dare not say that we can distinguish between men and women 100%. Not to mention the doctors outside."
"So if in the future you abort because you want to have a son, you'd better think about today's calamity."
Everyone shuddered when they thought of the baby boy who died at birth because it was rumored to be a girl.
Man Bao saw it and was satisfied.
Among the crowd, an old woman couldn't help asking, "My lord, isn't there a way to conceive a boy?"
Man Bao said decisively: "No!"
She said: "A man can't control his own body, how can I control it as a doctor?"
She paused and said: "And there is nothing wrong with having a girl. When you get married, there is a dowry, which is to buy a dowry, so you can keep some of it. There is also a daughter's filial piety during the festivals. I really don't want my daughter to marry. Set up a daughter-in-law household for your daughter, recruit a door-to-door son-in-law, and get a son for nothing, how good is it?"
Everyone just thought Zhou Man's words were nonsense, if it weren't for the fact that he had no son, who would want a daughter to recruit a son-in-law.
How good can a door-to-door son-in-law be