In late August, all the sweet potatoes in the fields were harvested. The sweet potato harvested from one mu of field is one or two stone more than the old farmer's estimated yield. After leaving enough sweet potatoes for next year's planting, the remaining sweet potatoes are distributed to the lower counties, and local officials send people to publicize the benefits of sweet potatoes to the people and encourage them to plant more after the spring next year.
The promotion in Yanzhou City was earlier and smoother than in the next county. Many people have seen the sweet potato field outside the city, but they never knew what was planted in the field. Now that officials have come forward to publicize and explain, they know that it is a newly discovered crop. Although they don’t know much about the new crops, the people in Yanzhou City have a kind of blind trust in the general and the princess. I heard that the general and the princess ordered the promotion of planting, and those who still have surplus grain at home have exchanged grain or silver for sweet potatoes.
A lot of sweet potatoes have been harvested, but to be extended to the whole Yanzhou and planted widely, the quantity is still far from enough. While An Changqing was worrying about this problem, Zhou Helan, who had gone to the south, arrived in Yanzhou with a caravan.
Earlier, Zhou Helan took people to the south to open up trade routes for jadeite rough, such as Yongzhou, Erqingzhou. Zhou Helan, who returned from the caravan, lost his temper rarely, and his voice was raised a lot: "Helan?"
Zhou Helan was darker and taller than before he left. The contours of his facial features are getting deeper and deeper, and his two or three months of experience in the south has given him a faint aura that An Changqing had seen in the previous life.
He bent over and bowed his hands and saluted: "Princess, He Lan is fortunately not humiliated."
With a smile on his face, An Changqing told someone to open the main gate of the General's Mansion to welcome the caravan in. After entering, Zhou Helan first checked the goods, and An Changqing discovered that the caravan shipped all sweet potatoes.
Seeing the surprised expression on An Changqing's face, Zhou Helan explained: "I wrote a letter to the lord earlier, and the letter mentioned that Yuze sweet potatoes should be widely planted, but there were not enough potatoes in Yanzhou, so I asked someone to find a way to get a lot of them from Yuze. come over."
Sweet potatoes are not valuable in Yuze. Because they are resistant to barrenness, good for planting, and have high yields, the price has not been able to sell. The people of Yuze have planted them, but they are only used to satisfy their stomachs or to feed livestock. Therefore, Zhou Helan easily obtained a dozen carts of sweet potatoes and shipped them back to Yanzhou.
An Changqing looked at the truckload of sweet potatoes, and the smile on his face became even bigger: "I'm worried about not enough potato seeds."
The servants were ordered to park the carriage carrying the sweet potatoes in the garden. An Changqing and Zhou Helan were drinking tea in the front hall. The servants had already gone to the barracks to report to Xiao Zhige, but in a moment, Xiao Zhige rushed back on horseback.
Xiao Zhige stepped forward and saw that Zhou Helan's first sentence was, "But there is news?"
Zhou Helan nodded, and then screened the guards from the caravan, leaving a middle-aged woman alone before saying, "Yes. It's inconvenient to go into details here.",
The four of them went to the study together, An Changqing didn't know why, and his eyes swirled between Xiao Zhige and Zhou Helan.
Seeing this, Xiao Zhige took the initiative to explain: "I sent a letter to Zhou Helan earlier, asking him to find a way to go to Yuze to inquire about the news of the merpeople."
The prefecture and county in the south of Daye are adjacent to Yuze. Zhou Helan went to the south to do business and had the opportunity to meet Yuze. In addition, he was loyal to An Changqing, and his only relative was recuperating in the palace. Xiao Zhige revealed this. The news of An Changqing's pregnancy told him to find a way to go to Yuze to investigate the news of the merpeople.
Zhou Helan was ordered to investigate the news, but there has been no progress. On the contrary, the business of rough jadeite is getting bigger and bigger, and it is getting more and more gold every day. This time Zhou Helan came back in person. After Xiao Zhige heard it, he knew that there must be a clue to what he explained, otherwise he would not leave the stall in the south and return to Yanzhou.
Zhou Helan did find some things, he thought about it and said: "I tried to disguise myself and went to Yuze before, from the border to the capital Fuliang, pretending to be a businessman all the way to inquire, but I have never heard of anything related to the merpeople. Just a few words…”
Yuze is near the sea, and there are countless legends about the sea, but Zhou Helan has inquired all the way, but he has never heard the rumors about the merpeople. Later, he took a different approach and began to pay attention to whether there was news of a man giving birth to a child or someone with a red face.
"This is Mrs. Guo. Her family has practiced medicine for generations. Her grandfather once delivered a man's birth."
Hearing Zhou Helan mentioning himself, Mrs. Guo stepped forward and bowed slightly cautiously. She was not tall, with a plump and round body, and a simple and honest face. Not much to say, seeing the other three looking at her, she said nervously: "Yes, I practiced medicine with my grandfather when I was young, and I saw my grandfather deliver a man's birth with a red pattern like fish scales on his neck."
Xiao Zhige's expression changed, but he suppressed his excitement: "Does Madam know how to deliver a baby? How is this man's birth different from that of a woman?"
Who knew Mrs. Guo shook her head and said, "I don't know. I was still young at the time, and my grandfather didn't let me in."
Without waiting for Xiao Zhige's face to change, she continued: "But although I didn't witness the process with my own eyes, when I was packing up my grandfather's belongings, I found a handbook detailing the pulse diagnosis during pregnancy and the process of delivering the baby later." After he finished speaking, he took out a notebook from his sleeve and handed it to Xiao Zhige with a somewhat nervous expression.
After thinking for a while, he added: "Although it seems a little bizarre, it is definitely not made up. My grandfather was well-known back then and was a famous doctor in Fuliang. It's just that my medical skills are not good. I can't get the true biography of my grandfather."
Xiao Zhige took the note and flipped through a few pages, and he saw that it was written: On June 1st, the patient was in labor, and the fetus was in the womb, but the man had no reproductive apparatus.
Note: On June 5th, yesterday the patient agreed to caesarean section to take out the child. At 3 o'clock in the Hai Shih, the patient took Ma Fei San, and I opened the abdomen with a sharp knife and took out a female fetus. Unlike ordinary babies, fetuses have a layer of afterbirth on their skin. The afterbirth falls off naturally after two hours, and the fetus has a more delicate appearance than ordinary babies, with a slightly lighter body and smaller weight.
Xiao Zhige's eyes were fixed on the words "cutting the abdomen and taking the child", and it took a long time before he closed the hand letter and said, "The hand letter is of great use to me, what can Madam ask for? I can do everything, and I can use it with me. Madam exchange."
Mrs. Guo looked back at Zhou Helan, and Ai Ai said, "Mr. Zhou promised me that he would give me two thousand taels of silver."
Originally thought she would speak loudly, but unexpectedly she only needed 2,000 taels of silver, Xiao Zhige subconsciously looked to Zhou Helan for confirmation. Zhou Helan nodded: "Indeed. Mrs. Guo's youngest daughter is seriously ill and needs a lot of precious medicinal materials to support her. I promised her two thousand taels before she was willing to come with me."
It turned out to be so. Xiao Zhige was slightly relieved, and said, "I'll ask the servants to withdraw the money to my wife first, but I'll find someone to verify the authenticity of the handwritten notes, and my wife needs to stay in the mansion for a few more days. After confirming the authenticity, I will send someone to deliver it. Madam go back.",
Mrs. Guo hesitated for a while, then nodded in response.
He asked his servants to take Mrs. Guo down for resettlement. There were only three people left in the study, and Xiao Zhige asked the servants to invite Hu Zifei to come, and then he sat down and handed the letter to An Changqing to read.
This handbook records clearly and in detail from the first time Doctor Guo came into contact with a pregnant man until he left after giving birth to his next child.
It's just that the more clearly written, the more shocking the process of her pregnancy and childbirth. Perhaps because of an agreement with the patient, Dr. Guo did not mention the patient's name and other information even in the manuscript. It can only be seen from the account of the first meeting between the two that the patient was alone and in poor health.
When the patient found Dr. Guo, he was already four months pregnant and had not yet appeared pregnant, but morning sickness was more severe than that of ordinary women. In the worst case, he could not even eat food and could only drink porridge every day. Severe edema of the calf and difficulty walking. He couldn't stand the heat at all, and stayed in a dark side room all day long.
An Changqing frowned and watched. Although he did not have morning sickness and edema, he was indeed not very heat-resistant, especially this year's particularly bitter summer. From this point of view, this manuscript does not appear to have been made up indiscriminately.
Because of what was recorded in the handwritten notes, the atmosphere in the study was a little condensed. When Hu Zhifei came in a hurry, he saw that the three of them were frowning with solemn expressions on their faces.
With a thump in his heart, he hurriedly saluted, and Xiao Zhige shoved a handwritten note in his hand: "Look first, is it true or false?"
Before it was too late, Hu Zifei stood by the window and looked carefully. For a while, there was only a slight sound of turning over the book in the study. After reading it for a long time, Hu Zifei sighed: "This doctor Guo is a strange person."
"Is it true or false?" Xiao Zhige asked.
"It should be true." Hu Zhifei said: "Many methods recorded in the handwritten notes can still be used today. However, from his description, the patient should have a poor physical condition, so the reaction during pregnancy is very different from that of the princess. , the princess is healthy, but you don't have to worry about it."
This is not what Xiao Zhige cares about. He closed his eyes and slowly exhaled a turbid breath before asking: "If the princess is in labor, will you also have to take the child by caesarean section?"
Hu Zhifei hesitated for a moment, then said the truth: "Yes. Men are different from women. Women are born with reproductive organs. But men don't."
In fact, if the records of the merpeople are true, regardless of gender, and those with red stripes can have children, then the body of people with red stripes must be different from ordinary people, and they should have another set of reproductive organs. But he later checked Yu Xiao and found that Yu Xiao was no different from an ordinary boy.
Now, combined with the description in this manuscript, his thoughts are more confirmed. Either the records of the merpeople are wrong, or it is because of the intermarriage and fusion of the merpeople and foreigners in the past few years, many of the characteristics of the merpeople have gradually degenerated and disappeared.
After all, according to common sense, An Changqing's biological mother, Yu, should also be related to the merpeople, but Yu did not have red lines on her body, and she gave birth to a son and a daughter, but she could hardly find anything on her body that was related to the merpeople. related places. Even the youngest daughter An Xianyu is like this.
Hu Zhifei guessed that this kind of mutation may not be fixed, and it is more likely that the mutation will occur in men.
Xiao Zhige's face sank after hearing his words. After a long silence, he said in a hoarse voice, "What if... I don't want this child? Can I have an abortion?"
As soon as the words came out, everyone was shocked. An Changqing was the first to disagree, frowning at him: "Your Highness?"
Xiao Zhige didn't follow him this time, and said with a sullen face: "It's too dangerous to take a child by caesarean section. If there is an emergency... I'd rather not have this child!"
An Changqing was silent, not knowing how to answer for a moment. He wanted to accompany Xiao Zhige to grow old, but he couldn't bear the child who had just arrived. These days, he has accepted his arrival. If he is forced to dig it away, how can he be willing
"Maybe there are other ways..." An Changqing whispered, "I don't want to give up on him."
Xiao Zhige spoke sternly to him for the first time, pressing his palms on his shoulders, but his voice was indifference: "If you like children, we can adopt or adopt them, as many as you want, but we can't take your life. Go on an adventure." He fixedly looked at An Changqing, and his voice was somber: "The child may not want it, but I can't live without you."
He has already tasted the taste of hugging, and if he loses him again, just thinking about this possibility, he feels anxious and unbearable.
An Changqing was dumbfounded, her palms subconsciously touching her abdomen, her expression hesitant.
Seeing this, Zhou Helan said, "The patient is worse than the princess, and she survived."
Xiao Zhige shook his head firmly: "I don't dare to take risks."
An Changqing is more important than his life, how dare he let him take risks.
There was silence for a while, but finally Hu Zifei spoke up to persuade: "Actually, it's not an adventure. The princess is healthy, and it's just a few crimes to take the child by caesarean section, but I'm at least 80% sure that it can be done."
"It's an abortion..." Hu Zifei shook his head: "I'm really not sure. The woman's abortion pill may not be able to be used by the princess. If she uses it indiscriminately, she is afraid it will backfire."
Hearing this, An Changqing breathed a sigh of relief, pursed his lips and held Xiao Zhige's hand, the man's palm was cold, An Changqing's eyes softened, and he said to Hu Zifei and Zhou Helan: "I have something to say to the lord, you guys Go and rest."
Hu Zifei and Zhou Helan saluted and stepped back, and thoughtfully closed the study door for them.
However, An Changqing was not going to stay in the study. He shook Xiao Zhige's hand and said with a slight smile, "I'm a little tired, will the lord carry me back to the room?"
Xiao Zhige said nothing with a sullen face, but in the end, under his gaze, he squatted down so that he could lie on his back.
An Changqing put his arms around his neck, his chest was pressed against his back, and his chin rested lightly on his shoulder. Neither of them said a word, the man carried him steadily and walked steadily towards the main room.
The author has something to say: Cowardly: Well, you want to coax me again, but I'm not so good at coaxing.
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