Jinyi Spring

Chapter 8: Feng's Admission

Chapter 8: Feng's Admission
Doctor Feng had a calm expression and passed away peacefully.

She changed into a new black satin dress embroidered with orchids that she had never worn before. It was a shroud she had made secretly.

There was also a pink embroidered old purse hanging around her waist, with a few orchid leaves, two orchids, and three red dots in the center of the flowers.

This was the first time the original owner saw embroidery on her aunt's clothes and purse.

Especially the purse, although it has faded a little and is very old, you can still see its unique design.

The original owner found out that her aunt also loved flowers.

She wanted to be buried in this dress...

Feng Chuchen felt that his aunt was a woman with great personal charm. She lived a poor but noble life and would rather suffer herself than others.

It’s a pity that I have no chance to be with such a good person.

Feng Chuchen took the two pieces of paper with names written on them and looked at them carefully.

There was indeed a record of the Hu Mansion inside.

Among the 236 children saved by the eldest aunt using the Yin Shen needle, there were more than 100 children from wealthy families. Only the Hu family, the Yanghe Princess's Mansion, and Lord Huang's family came to the Feng family to pay tribute to the eldest aunt.

Mr. Hu came in person to the Hu Mansion, officials came to Princess Yanghe's Mansion, and the manager came to Lord Huang's Mansion.

Young Master Hu is the child that my aunt saved when she used the Yin Shen needle for the first time. He is now in his twenties.

The first two prefectures sent the highest amount of silk and gold, which was thirty-one taels of silver each.

Eleven taels of silver sent by the Huang family.

Another high-ranking family, the Wuyi Earl's Mansion, also sent a steward and presented five taels of silver and silk.

The child of the Wu Yi Marquis's mansion was not cured by the Yin Shen needle, but because the female relative had difficulty in giving birth. Even the female doctor was helpless. It was only after the eldest aunt went there and safely took in the child that both mother and daughter were safe.

The vast majority of powerful people do not take ordinary people seriously and take everything for granted. Moreover, people pay for the consultation and some even give extra money as a reward.

It's not easy for them to remember the kindness of a female doctor.

A family that accumulates good will surely have good fortune, and a family that accumulates evil will surely have disaster.

These two sentences were fulfilled by the Feng family...

In the dim light, Feng Chuchen seemed to see that calm and stubborn face again.

Doctor Feng’s maiden name was Feng Xiuzhi, and she was the eldest daughter of Fan’s eldest son.

Xiuzhi is another name for orchid.

Sing the beautiful qualities in the Chu Fu, and spread the famous reputation in the Han Pian.

This name was given to her by her grandfather.

My grandfather passed the imperial examination at the age of fourteen and was known as Feng Tongsheng.

He fell seriously ill when he was seventeen. Not only did he have difficulty continuing his scientific research, he even had difficulty walking a few steps.

The elders were heartbroken and gave up all their expectations for him and married him to the capable Fan.

He has been basically paralyzed in bed since he turned 30.

The four sons born to Feng Tongsheng and Fan were all in poor health. The eldest was born with a lame leg, the second was a hunchback, and the third and fourth had congenital heart diseases.

It was difficult for the four sons to find wives and it cost a lot of money.

Among the grandchildren, except for the only girl Feng Xiuzhi who is in good health, the other grandchildren are in poor health.

This big family initially relied on Mrs. Fan to make money by delivering babies for people. After she had a daughter-in-law, she brought her daughter-in-law with her to make money by delivering babies for people.

Feng Xiuzhi was not only the only healthy child in the family, but also the smartest one. When her grandfather was alive, he loved her very much and taught her to read and write.

When she was twelve years old, her grandfather died of illness.

After that, she began to learn midwifery from her grandmother Fan and mother Yao. Unmarried girls could not directly attend the birthing, but they could cover their mouths and noses with cloth and go into the delivery room to watch and listen to their explanations.

Her mother hoped that she would have a skill to earn money so that she would have someone to rely on when she got married.

When she was thirteen, Fan was reported for helping someone to replace a child. Under torture, she confessed to many evil deeds, including aborting an illegitimate baby, having a fake pregnancy, helping the wife to kill the concubine who gave birth, helping the concubine to kill the wife's child... In the past twenty years, Fan did twenty-one evil things to make money, including five murders.

The crime was extremely heinous and caused great public outrage.

Every time she did something evil, she would not bring her daughter-in-law and granddaughter with her. Her husband was in poor health, and her family did not know that she had done anything evil, so her family was not involved.

Fan was sentenced to death by slicing, and the family was devastated.

Many people came to beat up Feng's family and steal their things. Some victims even wanted to sell Feng Xiuzhi to a brothel for money.

Feng Xiuzhi was so scared that she ran away from home.

Four years later, seventeen-year-old Feng Xiuzhi returned to Baima Village again, with her hair combed like a woman.

At that time, her parents, uncles, aunts, cousins had all died, leaving only her younger brother Feng Qiuen alive.

Feng Qiuen was taken to his grandmother's house and was able to survive, but he was so thin that he was just a bag of bones.

Feng Xiuzhi knelt down to thank her grandparents, gave them the five taels of silver she had earned from delivering babies outside, and took her brother back to their own shabby yard.

Although she had some money, she couldn't just live off it all.

In order to support her younger brother, and more importantly to atone for her grandmother's sins, so that the two siblings could live a decent life in the future, Feng Xiuzhi erected a large sign outside the broken yard.

There were a few big words written on it: Fast horse and light carriage, Feng is the one who is going to deliver the baby.

She was going to deliver the baby.

Not only did no one dare to ask her to deliver a baby, the villagers also brought up all the evil things Fan had done and scolded her, and some even threw stones and dirt at her house.

A few days later, a pregnant woman in the village gave birth. The midwife from the neighboring village was asked to leave, so the mother-in-law had to help her daughter-in-law deliver the baby herself.

But the mother was in labor and they tried everything but failed. The family thought they could give it a try and came to see Feng.

Not only did Mrs. Feng successfully take in the child, but both the baby and the baby were safe.

The family was happy and gave her ten cents for the delivery of the baby.

Midwives registered by the government have a set fee schedule, ranging from one hundred coins to three strings of coins or three taels of silver, with the price determined by their fame and the difficulty of the delivery.

If the delivery is too difficult, the host family will have to pay extra money.

Some older women who were not registered by the Imperial Hospital were engaged in this business privately. They usually charged fifty coins for normal delivery and negotiated for difficult delivery. If they really had no money, they could also pay off their debts with goods.

The brother and sister were overjoyed when they received the ten cents.

After that, a few poor families came to ask Feng to deliver their babies. Feng was not only good at delivering babies and charging little money, but she could also cure many infant diseases.

As Feng's fame grew, more and more people came to her for help in delivering their babies.

The official midwife from the neighboring village was not happy and reported Feng to the government, saying that the eldest daughter of Fan's descendant had delivered a baby and continued to harm the mother and baby in the name of delivering a baby.

The county magistrate at that time sent people to capture Feng and take her to the yamen, where he had a midwife examine her lower body.

If she was a virgin, she would be sentenced to jail for indecency.

Feng was indeed not a grown-up girl, so people also believed that she had once been a bride for someone else.

However, Feng was still beaten with twenty whips on the grounds that descendants of the Fan family were not allowed to engage in midwifery.

A month later, the wife of an official named Hu in the capital city suffered from a difficult labor. Several midwives were unable to take care of the baby, and the family was at a loss as to what to do.

A midwife said that Feng from Baima Village had some real skills, but she was the descendant of Fan, a criminal from a few years ago.

Lord Hu didn't care about anything else and quickly sent someone to invite Feng over.

Not only did Feng take the child in, she also lit the incense of this life and used the Yin Shen needle to bring the dying baby back to life.

Lord Hu was pleased and rewarded Feng with fifty taels of silver.

A few days later, Feng was accused of delivering a baby in private and was arrested by the government and beaten with twenty whips.

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