"No, my first class in Mingxue, how can I choose it randomly?"
Bai Shan asked her, "Then what was your first class at the Imperial Medical Office?"
"That's too much. I spent more than an hour in that class. The importance of medicine to human development, the prospect and importance of the development of the Tai Medical Office, and the way of medicine..." Zhou Man pondered, "For female students, I can't talk to them about medicine, can I?"
Bai Shan: "I'm afraid they're not interested and don't understand."
"Yeah, what do you say?"
Bai Shan went to bed, pulled the quilt for her, and coaxed her: "Don't think about it, go to bed first, anyway, this matter is not urgent."
"Who says there is no rush, Mingda asked me to give lectures the day after tomorrow."
In the end, Zhou Man didn't choose a topic, but just sat on the podium of Mingxue classroom, looking softly at the girls in the classroom, "Your Four Books and Five Classics, poetry and classics are all taught by Mr. It is my first time to teach in Mingxue, although everyone may have a different understanding of each scripture, but repeating an article is unavoidably boring, so I will not teach these in my first class here."
She paused and said: "But I didn't think about what to say to you. Because Mingxue is the first women's school since the founding of the Jin Dynasty, and even in the history of ancient times, it is also the first school of this size. women's school."
"In the past, women mostly studied at home and in the clan. The so-called women's school can be called a private school set up by some big families to train girls in the clan." Zhou Man said: "They only accept girls from the family, or from relatives. Girls study, just like Mingxue, but they can recruit female students like ordinary academies, regardless of their origins, never before."
The students in the classroom listened carefully.
Zhou Man then continued: "I don't know why you all came to Mingxue to study. Your mountain leader, Princess Mingda, has already said about what you want to encourage, so I won't repeat it. Today I will talk to you about how women live here. It’s hard to make a difference in the world.”
Some students raised their hands and asked.
Zhou Man raised his hand, beckoning her to ask, "Mr. Zhou, do you feel the same way?"
Zhou Man smiled and said: "Of course, it is extremely difficult for men in the world to get ahead, let alone women."
"It's impressive that Mr. Zhou's promotion speed seems to be extremely smooth."
Zhou Man nodded and said, "That's because I'm smart."
Mingda, who was sitting at the end of the classroom, almost choked on her saliva. She quickly looked at Zhou Man, trying to give her a wink and make her humble, but in the end she heard her brazenly say: "Because I'm smart, I'm good at medicine." , in the officialdom, there are two things that must never be discarded, as long as you have these two things all the time, you will be able to walk more smoothly than other officials even if it is bumpy."
Everyone was curious, "What is it?"
"Official rank and ability." Zhou Man said: "Official rank is the character of an official. Needless to say, ability is the literal meaning..."
Zhou Man's lesson is to tell them the difficulty of being an official, the process of a man becoming an official and the choice of several paths. It is so difficult for men, let alone women.
Because men still have several paths to choose from to become an official, women are different. Their paths are not only few, but also narrow, and it will be even more difficult for them to occupy a place in the officialdom in the future.
However, the future in this world is not the only way to go in the officialdom, just take the officialdom as an example, other future directions, the requirements for women are stricter than men...
The students listened with great interest, but they were more interested in Zhou Man herself. Most of the words she said were still incomprehensible to most of the girls. In the perception of most girls, the future that Zhou Man said was not their future. way.
They are here to study and study literature, so that they can be better housekeepers, directors, husbands and children in the future, so every time they raise their hands, they ask questions about Zhou Man.
For example, "Mr. Zhou, did you really scold Wang Yushi for vomiting blood?"
Another example, "Mr. Zhou, you are obviously younger than Lord Bai, why are you a senior sister and he is a junior?"
At the end of one class, Zhou Man got up and left seriously. Once she got to the office, she relaxed and exhaled, "You students really have too many problems."
Mingda smiled and said, "I thought you would like it."
"Why?"
Mingda: "You guys have a common hobby—talking a lot!"
Zhou Man: ...
She was about to speak when suddenly she was kicked hard twice in the stomach. She felt a little pain and couldn't help but groan.
Mingda got up hurriedly, "What's wrong?"
"It's okay, the fetus is moving." After Zhou Man finished speaking, he felt something wrong, touched his stomach, couldn't help feeling his own pulse, and asked Keke in surprise, "Am I going to give birth?"
Keke scanned it and said, "No, but soon."
Zhou Man hugged his stomach and asked, "It's almost time..."
Keke showed her the data directly.
I might be inaccurate in taking my own pulse, but looking at the data still doesn't affect my judgment. Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief after reading it carefully. In the past two days, that's good, that's good. Although she has been preparing, but Not ready until now.
Mingda stretched out his hand and waved in front of her eyes, and asked, "What's wrong?"
Zhou Man grabbed her hand and said: "I have to go back, the fetus is moving, and it may be due in two days."
When Mingda heard this, he quickly supported her, "Is going to give birth? You have to be careful."
"It's two days..."
Mingda didn't hear much anymore, and carefully sent Zhou Man back to the Princess's Mansion, handing it over to Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zheng before leaving in peace.
As soon as Zhou Man returned home, he ordered Jiulan to set up the delivery room in the wing room, and then checked all the things used in the delivery, and then said: "Go and invite the stable woman, and we will communicate again."
She is not bad, Mrs. Liu is much more nervous than her, seeing that she started arranging the delivery, she said: "It's better to invite the old woman to live at home, it's safer."
Zhou Man smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry today, let's see it tomorrow or the day after."
Mrs. Liu: "A few more please, you are about to give birth, don't worry about these things, just leave it to us."
He added: "It's best to ask another doctor to wait at home, so that nothing will go wrong."
Zhou Man waved his hand and said, "Just let Sanniang and Li Rulai do it, they are also familiar with childbirth."
Not only because they have given birth to their own children, but also because they have often delivered babies and looked after them in the capital in recent years.
Mrs. Liu breathed a sigh of relief, "Just as long as you know what's in your mind."
They made a lot of preparations, but they didn't expect that many of them were useless.
Because Zhou Man gave birth very quickly, the next evening, before dinner, Zhou Man started it.
Bai Shan took her back to the delivery room, and asked someone to invite Mrs. Wen, who was expected to live in the house tomorrow, and then asked someone to hurry to invite Liu Sanniang and Zhou Liru...
As a result, before Wen Po arrived, Xibing and Jiulan delivered her under Zhou Man's guidance. Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zheng stood aside to help her, and they froze when they held the baby.
Fortunately, Mrs. Wen arrived in time and quickly picked up the child, cut the umbilical cord and took it to clean, while the other one took care of Zhouman together with Xibing.
Zhou Man exhaled, wiped the sweat from his forehead, pulled himself together and asked, "How is the child?"
As soon as Mrs. Wen put the child into the water, he burst into tears. Mrs. Wen immediately laughed and said, "You are a young man, don't worry, my lord. His hands and feet are strong, his voice is loud, and he is very healthy."
Zhou Man still believed in Wen Po's judgment. Hearing this, she relaxed, and felt hungry when she leaned on the bed, but she didn't want to eat.