Wang Ying was a little surprised: "You want Xinghua to be the midwife?"
Wu Guihua: "Not really. I think it's better to send her to learn a skill than to just sit around doing housework for years."
Wang Ying hesitated: "But the work of a midwife..."
It’s not that Wang Ying had any objection, but at that time it was generally believed that the job of a midwife should be done by women who had already given birth.
If an unmarried girl does this, she will probably be gossiped about.
Since Wu Guihua had made up her mind to send her daughter to be a midwife, she naturally took this factor into consideration.
But she still said confidently: "What's the big deal? It's good for a young girl to see more things. I think the job of a midwife is good. The money is secondary. The main thing is to learn something. After years of practice, it can be a skill that can support one's life."
Wu Guihua was not scared, even though she knew what Wang Ying meant.
When a country woman gives birth, she will always bleed a little. And in some unreasonable families, like Tian Dazhu's, there will be internal quarrels, and housework will be mixed with work, which is very frustrating.
For unmarried girls, after seeing this for so long, it is inevitable that they will not be so enthusiastic about getting married and having children.
Wu Guihua thought, this is nothing, she should ask Xinghua to watch and listen more first, so that she won't get married ignorantly and suffer.
Wang Ying listened to Wu Guihua's words, but she didn't say anything. Instead, she asked Tian Xinghua: "What does Xinghua think?"
No matter how much the adults say, it still depends on whether the children are happy. Later, the obstetrics and gynecology department was already a major disaster area for medical disputes. Although there are fewer cases now, it is still very annoying if you encounter one. Besides, this job is also tiring. It usually takes a whole day to deliver a baby, which is very hard.
Tian Xinghua is much more shy than Wu Guihua, but under the influence of Wu Guihua, she has also become a clear-headed person.
Hearing Wang Ying's question, she nodded and replied, "Sister Wang Ying, I am happy to do so."
She doesn’t understand other things, but she has real examples around her.
One was Wang Ying, the other was Bai Ling. Wu Guihua compared the two all day long, and Tian Xinghua leaned towards Wang Ying without much hesitation.
If... If she could have a skill and her own little family like sister Wang Ying, such a life would be the most ideal life for Tian Xinghua, a farm girl.
Seeing that both mother and daughter were very enthusiastic, Wang Ying agreed: "Then Xinghua, come with me to learn about the medicinal herbs first, and when the health center trains midwives in a few days, I will go over and give it a try."
In fact, this matter had little to do with her. Barefoot doctors and midwives were not superiors and subordinates, but colleagues in charge of different tasks. But since Wu Guihua brought her daughter to Wang Ying to ask, she must have wanted Wang Ying to take care of her daughter, hoping that she could pass the exam and become a midwife.
Wang Ying agreed immediately, making Wu Guihua so happy that she didn't know what to say.
She said nice things to him just like sending a child to school: "Okay! I'll ask her to come over tomorrow to help you. You can assign her any tasks you want. Give her any errands. I don't need her to do anything at home, so just ask her to serve you tea and water. If she's too busy at home, you can ask her to do it. If there's anything that's not done well, just scold her directly, don't be polite..."
Wang Ying is a very honest person. If she takes care of it, she will definitely take it to heart. Wu Guihua feels that she is very lucky. If the girl can learn it, won't she be half a government official in the future
It's okay to call Guan Wangying "Master". Since she's the master, isn't it normal for her to do some work
Not to mention the old society, even now, if you want to learn a craft from someone, you have to serve the master wholeheartedly before you can learn.
Moreover, without a few years of patience, the master may not be able to teach you real skills smoothly.
Wang Ying: "Look at what you said. I'm just helping to guide people. Why would you say that?"
Wang Ying has always had a good impression of Wu Guihua. The first time she had a conflict with Li Chunjuan, it was Wu Guihua who spoke up for her. Although she spoke from the perspective of competing with Li Chunjuan, Wang Ying always praised her for this.
Tian Xinghua was also very excited and immediately promised Wang Ying: "Sister Ying, I will definitely study hard!"
Wang Ying: "Well, I believe you!"
Xinghua graduated from junior high school. She could read and write, and she looked very smart. Wang Ying thought it was a good idea. The brigade couldn't be without a midwife forever. Autumn was coming soon, and there would be a lot of births. What if everyone came to her? She might not be able to take care of everything by herself.
After talking about the apricot blossoms, Wang Ying brought up her own thoughts.
"It's going to be the hottest season soon. I'm thinking we should hold a few meetings to discuss heatstroke prevention and cooling, as well as some health and epidemic issues, so that no one gets stomach upset from eating something unclean."
What Wang Ying didn’t say was that she felt the hail at the beginning of this year was not a good thing.
This is not her superstitious thinking, but under normal circumstances, natural disasters are often accompanied by epidemics.
The hailstorms at the beginning of the year affected a large area, and the upstream and downstream of the small rivers were affected. The hail not only hit houses and crops, but also some livestock and poultry. If not handled properly, it would easily breed epidemics when the weather gets hot. No one can say whether it will be contagious if it flows down the river.
Wang Ying: "I think it won't be long before the health center starts to carry out relevant work. Let's do the work in advance and prevent it as soon as possible. Especially for children, it is not advisable to eat anything in the mountains in summer. It is necessary to establish hygienic habits for eating as soon as possible."
Wu Guihua nodded repeatedly after hearing Wang Ying's words. This is a good thing, and it is good for all the families in the brigade, especially those with children. In previous years, the situation Wang Ying described did happen. Children went up the mountain to eat food, and were either stung by bees or bitten by snakes. Some families ate spoiled vegetables, and as a result, the whole family became dehydrated.
Wu Guihua agreed immediately: "I'll arrange it! But, are you going to give the speech at this conference?"
Wang Ying: "I'll start with it, and you can arrange the rest. It would be best if we change the format so that everyone can accept it."
Wang Ying felt that at such a conference, members might not be able to remember what she said once, so she had to find a way that everyone could accept.
"You can find a few young people to act out the performance, or find a few educated youth to make up a jingle, or even just ask a few children to act out the performance, which can also arouse everyone's interest."
There was a lot of work to do in the fields at that time, and everyone wanted to go home after work every day and didn't want to move. If we really started to talk seriously, I guess not many people would come. But if we changed the jingle or asked children to act it out, it would be very attractive.
There is no radio in the countryside, but everyone is still very interested in the fun. Who wouldn’t want to see something new
Wu Guihua's eyes lit up. The suggestions Wang Ying gave were very practical. Just by thinking about it, Wu Guihua knew that everyone would definitely go to support her.
It was only after she became the director of the Women's Department that she realized that people were becoming less and less enthusiastic about holding such meetings, and every time they had to ask for a lot of advice before they could get everyone together.
This is a good idea! Although the format has changed, it is just like watching a movie. People just want to watch the fun and don’t mind it.
Wu Guihua went there in a hurry, ready to take the news to discuss with the team leader and the branch secretary.
Wang Ying also took Xinghua to start identifying medicinal herbs. She decided to first identify some common medicinal herbs, and then take Xinghua to learn the massage that can be used to adjust the fetal position for pregnant women.
Wang Ying was also pleased that Xinghua studied hard.
Only Cheng Yu felt a little sour.
Cheng Yu took advantage of Wang Ying's visit to squeeze himself into Wang Ying's arms and muttered, "I thought I was the only one learning to identify medicinal herbs from you, Sister Ying."
Why has Wang Ying accepted another apprentice now
Cheng Yu muttered: "I should be the senior sister..."
Wang Ying smiled and knocked her head: "But don't you want to be a star? If you become my master, you will have to follow me and work as a doctor for the rest of your life. Have you thought it through? If you have thought it through, you can become the senior sister."
This girl Cheng Yu seemed to be having fun in the back hills. I don't know if it was because she ate well, but her throat was clear. Occasionally, she would show off her voice to Wang Ying once or twice, and it sounded very gentle and melodious.
Cheng Shufen saw that Cheng Yu's love and care for each other had changed to hope and brilliance.
Cheng Yu was so confident that he felt that he would become a star sooner or later, and a leading figure at that!
After hearing what Wang Ying said, Cheng Yu could only sigh and pretend: "Ah, what's the blame? It's because I'm too good. I'm good at identifying medicinal herbs and I'm also good at singing operas. It's hard to take care of both!"
Cheng Shufen and Wang Ying both laughed out loud. Cheng Shufen said, "Look how pretty you are. Studying medicine is much harder than singing opera. Just recognizing medicinal herbs is the beginning. Later you will need to write prescriptions. If you really want to learn from your sister Ying, you will have to learn as much as singing opera."
Cheng Yu acted like a little adult: "Forget it, I'll just sing. I want to be the leading actor."
In fact, studying medicine is not easy. Memorizing medicinal materials is not a big deal, but the main reason is that Cheng Yu feels that her cultural level is not high. When she hears Cheng Shufen talking about prescribing medicine, she gets a headache because she doesn't like writing!
Now Cheng Shufen is teaching her, Daya and Erya how to read. She is the oldest and has the ugliest handwriting. Daya, on the other hand, usually writes neatly. Erya secretly told her that she saw Daya writing on the ground with a branch after she went back home. She was very serious about it.
Cheng Yu felt that he was not good enough, he really was not good enough.
After Wang Ying made fun of Cheng Yu, she began to remind Cheng Yu and Cheng Shufen that they could not participate in the meeting to talk about hygiene, so Wang Ying talked to them first.
I told Cheng Yu about a few medicinal herbs and asked him to pick them himself and boil them into water, which could be sprinkled or drunk. Cheng Yu nodded and said he would remember them.
Then Wang Ying went to Qian** again. Qian** was now raising pigs very enthusiastically.
Tian Youfu came a few days ago and was very satisfied with her progress in raising pigs. The big fat pigs in the pigpen were all fat and strong, much better than those raised by the members at home.
Tian Youfu also said that Qian** raised good pigs, and when the double harvest came in a while, he would lead one out and distribute it to the members. If the pig could weigh 150 kilograms, he would give Qian** the highest work point.
You have to know that there are only a few people who can earn full work points in a day in the fields, and most people can't even earn the highest work points.
Qian** could get full work points by raising pigs, which made her very happy.
When Wang Ying came, she was puzzled as she didn't see Da Ya and Er Ya.
Qian**: "They both went out to play."
Qian** herself doesn't like to socialize with people in the brigade, but she thinks that children should go out to play more. In the past, when they were at Tian Dazhu's house, Daya and Erya didn't go out to play much, and usually stayed at home. Now that they are brought up by Cheng Yu, they are much more lively, and Qian** doesn't want to watch her two daughters just help her, so she often sends them out to play.
Wang Ying leaned over to take a look at the little girl on Qian**'s back. Although the little girl was born prematurely, she was well taken care of and had become a chubby little baby now.
She opened her big black eyes on Qian**'s back, looked around at people, neither crying nor making a fuss.
Wang Ying looked at Xiren and hugged her. Qian** had not taken good care of her first two daughters, but now that she was raising the children by herself, she actually felt some of the joy of raising children.
Thinking back, Da Ya and Er Ya were not trouble-makers when they were young. It seemed as if these three girls came to repay their gratitude and never tortured her.
Wang Ying checked Xiao Ya's body and said everything was fine in front of Qian **'s expectant eyes, which made Qian ** feel relieved.
Qian** hugged her daughter lovingly: "Now sometimes I feel that I was so sorry to Daya and Erya... I wasn't very nice to them at that time."
At that time, she was thinking about her son all the time, and she just treated her daughter as she pleased. She was really not a competent mother.
Wang Ying advised: "It's not too late now. Besides, you won't be able to have a good life then."
With such an unreasonable mother-in-law and sisters-in-law who want to make trouble, the man is still confused, and Qian** himself is surrounded by enemies on all sides.
Before the two of them wanted to say anything else, Da Ya and Er Ya came back.
Wang Ying said a few words to Qian** and was about to leave, but Daya and Erya, contrary to their usual behavior, insisted on coming over to see her off.
After walking out of Qian**'s house, Daya hesitated and didn't know how to start, while Erya had an angry look on her face.
Wang Ying sighed: "What's wrong?"
He wants to give her a gift, but he is also being stern. He must have something to say.
Before Daya could say anything, Erya came running over and said, "We just saw my dad... Tian Dazhu!"
Erya looked disgusted and said, "He said he was going to get married and give me a brother soon. He asked me and my sister if we wanted to go back."