The midwife helped others deliver babies, and when she returned home, she found that she had just received paper money, and she was shocked, but her husband was overjoyed after seeing it, and let the family quickly prepare offerings and go to the temple to sacrifice, and the midwife listened to her husband's explanation and raised her eyebrows.
"The family has ten thousand gold, it is not as good as a skill", from ancient times to the present, a craft work can at least protect food and clothing. In ancient times, midwifery was a technical job, and not everything could be done. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, a midwife surnamed Miao in Jiaxing, Zhejiang Province, was very famous, and when the children in the ten miles and eight townships would invite her to go, as long as they heard that Miao's grandmother had arrived, the pregnant woman's family would breathe a sigh of relief.
Later, when Grandma Miao got older, she passed on her skills to her two daughters, one named Ah Hua and the other named Ah Yun. Ah Hua is old and is an older sister, and Ah Yun is younger and is a younger sister. Comparatively speaking, sister Ah Hua's technique is better, but Ah Hua's hands and feet are not too clean, and she often takes advantage of the chaos to walk some things. Although the younger sister Ah Yun is not too good in technology, she is diligent and honest.
Before Miao's death, she took the sisters' hands and said, "To be a man, you must have a conscience, otherwise you will be punished by heaven!" The sisters cried and nodded their heads in agreement, but after burying their mother, the sister Ah Hua still went her own way, and the younger sister Ah Yun was more cautious and careful, lest something go wrong. The sisters have long been wives and mothers, and as they grow older, the experience of the two people has become richer, especially the sister Ah Hua, although she often does some things to steal chickens and dogs, the delivery technology is convincing.
One year, Zhao Xiucai's wife gave birth to a child and invited her midwife Ah Hua to go. Zhao Xiucai's wife had difficulty giving birth, and it took a lot of effort to help her give birth, and Zhao Xiucai was naturally grateful. At this time, it was late, Ah Hua's family lived too far away, zhao Xiucai took the initiative to let his study let Ah Hua sleep. The next day, Zhao Xiucai sent Ah Hua away and expressed his gratitude again.
Back in the house, Zhao Xiucai saw the newborn baby, and the more he thought about it, the happier he became, and he felt that he should buy some tribute to worship the god Yang Laoye. During the Qing Dynasty, in the area of Jiaxing, Zhejiang, many places built the Yang Laoye Temple to enshrine Yang Laoye, the Marquis of Zhaotian. According to legend, Old Master Yang was a servant of the county before he died, and sacrificed himself to save people when there was a fire. There are also legends that he was a famous doctor, found poison in the well to advise everyone not to drink, saw that no one listened to him, so he jumped into the well, poisoned to death, the people believed. In other legends, he is the embodiment of Yang Zhen, who was upright all his life and was later framed to drink and die.
Mr. Yang is not a Buddha, but he is very popular in the local area, and in modern terms, he is the local "grassroots deity". Because he was killed in a fire or poisoned, the statue of Old Master Yang had a dark face, a vicious expression, and a golden melon hammer in his hand. Zhao Xiucai wanted to buy more offerings to go to the temple to sacrifice To Mr. Yang this time, to express his gratitude, and when he returned to the study, he went to touch the silver under the pillow of the study bed, but found that there was none.
Zhao Xiucai usually teaches for a living, recently because his wife is about to give birth, so he took a leave of absence, the owner gave him a salary for more than half a year, and there are rewards in it, there are four small yuanbao, a small yuanbao is about two or two silver, a total of eight two. Zhao Xiucai had a bed in the study, he hid the silver under the pillow after he returned, usually Zhao Xiucai slept in the study when he was too late to read, and there was no one else, only the midwife Ah Hua slept here last night.
Zhao Xiucai was full of sweat, hurried out to find the midwife Ah Hua, euphemistically expressed the loss of silver last night, and said that this was his salary for more than half a year, hoping that Ah Hua could return it to him, and he was willing to take out four or two pieces of silver as a reward. When Ah Hua heard that Zhao Xiucai had come for the loss of silver, her face was gloomy, and she said to Zhao Xiucai: "I was kind enough to help your mother deliver the baby, and you actually falsely accused me of stealing your family's silver, so that people without conscience will be called by the King of Yan in three days!" If I had stolen it, I'd rather be struck by lightning! ”
Zhao Xiucai saw Ah Hua gamble and swore, thinking that he was wrong to blame her, and advised her not to be angry. When I got home and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets, I still couldn't find the silver, thinking that maybe a thief came last night and stole it away, and I was very depressed. Three days later, according to local customs, to ask the midwife to bathe the newborn baby, Zhao Xiucai had to bring gifts and kind words to ask the midwife Ahua.
Ah Hua didn't seem to be discouraged, so she let her daughter Xiaozhu go. Ah Hua's daughter Xiao Zhu also followed Ah Hua to learn some delivery techniques, and Zhao Xiucai had no choice but to take Xiao Zhu back home. Xiao Zhu was skilled in movements, gave Zhao Xiucai's baby a bath, received the reward and went home. Unexpectedly, that night, Zhao Xiucai's baby cried incessantly, and it didn't take long to die.
Zhao Xiucai and his wife wept bitterly, believing that they had wronged their midwife Ah Hua, and only then did they receive this retribution. They placed the baby in a small wooden box and buried it shallow in the woods behind the house. In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, suddenly there was a loud thunderclap, a thunderbolt descended from the sky into the woods, and after a loud noise, the whole village was filled with the smell of sulfur, and even the oldest man in the village had never seen such a strange thunderbolt lightning.
Soon after, the cries of babies came from the woods. At this time, the sky was light, and the courageous villagers carefully went forward to observe, and found that there was a small wooden box on the ground, the lid of the small wooden box had been opened, and there was a baby who was crying and crying inside, and the villagers found that the baby was the child of Zhao Xiucai's family, shouting loudly, and Zhao Xiucai heard the voice and rushed over, seeing that his child was actually alive, and crying with joy.
When Zhao Xiucai picked up the child, he found that there was a needle in the baby's navel eye, exposing about half a finger on the outside, he slowly withdrew the needle, only to find that the needle was thin and long, and all of it fell into the baby's abdomen, so Zhao Xiucai and his wife did not find it. The needle was pulled out, and a little black blood flowed from the baby's abdomen, which slowly stopped crying. Not far from the baby, the crowd found two women kneeling in the woods, all black, each holding two small treasures in each hand.
Zhao Xiucai looked forward and was surprised to find that these small yuan treasures were the eight or two pieces of silver he had lost! And these two women, one is the midwife Ahua, and the other is the midwife's daughter Xiaozhu. It turned out that the midwife Ah Hua first stole Zhao Xiucai's silver, and when Zhao Xiucai came to the door, Ah Hua cursed Zhao Xiucai's child to die three days later. In order to make the curse come true, Ah Hua secretly instructed her daughter Xiaozhu to hide a silver needle in her sleeve, lend the baby a bath, and secretly insert the baby's navel eye, resulting in the baby's death shortly after.
What I didn't expect was that although the poisonous plan of Ah Hua's mother and daughter had been concealed from everyone, it had not been concealed from heaven. Usually, Ah Hua cursed and swore too much, and one day the oath came true and was struck by Thunder. Ah Hua's sister, another midwife, Ah Yun, has taken a completely different path from her sister. At the beginning, Ah Yun's delivery technology was indeed inferior to that of his sister Ah Hua, but he studied and summarized carefully, and gradually gained a reputation. Most importantly, she doesn't do anything that hurts god.
One winter night, a servant hurried to Ah Yun's house and said that the Yang family had a child and asked Ah Yun to come over. Ah Yun didn't say a word, put on his coat and followed the servant away. When he arrived at the place, Ah Yun found that Yang Mansion was very grand, carved beams and paintings, and luxuriously decorated. Entering the house, I found that there were many servants waiting in the house, and the owner Yang Gong had a dark face and an anxious face, and said to Ah Yun: "My mother has been giving birth for three days, and she is very painful, so I implore Ah Yun's mother-in-law to bother." ”
Ah Yun comforted Yang Gongmo to be anxious, she went into the inner chamber to check the situation, and found that the child was entangled with the umbilical cord, so it was difficult to give birth. Ah Yun was quite experienced in dealing with this situation, and with her efforts, it did not take long for the baby to fall to the ground, and the yang mansion was full of joy. Yang Gong gave two gold yuan treasures to Ah Yun, and personally sent Ah Yun to the ship. When he was in Yang Mansion, it was very warm inside, Ah Yun took off his coat, but he forgot to wear it when he left, and he remembered it on the boat, so he planned to come over the next day to get it.
When he returned home, Ah Yun found the coat at home, and her husband said that someone had sent it in advance. Ah Yun felt very strange, she took out the reward given by Yang Fu, and found that it was actually a yuan treasure made of yellow paper, and her face changed color. The husband was also surprised at first, he carefully inquired about Ah Yun's experience, but clapped his hands and said happily: "That must be the apparition of Old Master Yang, please come and help!" It is a great honor for our family to be able to deliver babies to Mr. Yang's family. Prepare the offerings quickly, and we will go to the Yang LaoYe Temple to burn incense for sacrifice! ”
The family quickly prepared offerings and went to the temple of Old Master Yang to burn incense for sacrifice. It was night, Ah Yun dreamed of Seeing Old Master Yang, who said that she was kind in heart, loyal and honest, blessed and blessed, and the whole family would be safe and healthy. In order to repay Ah Yun, Old Master Yang also said that he would bless her children to grow up to be talents. Later, Ah Yun made a lot of money with his delivery skills, and the family was safe and healthy, and then Ah Yun's son passed the examination and was honored for the official, adhering to the family style and family training, clean and promising, and quite famous.
He Xu said
When I think of it, the gods and ghosts are so great that blessings and misfortunes always have roots. There is no unprovoked blessing in the world, nor is there a unprovoked calamity, which is the so-called "blessing and misfortune have no door, but people call themselves." They are all midwives, and the sister Ah Hua sacrifices her young life for the sake of immediate interests, and as a result suffers retribution, while the younger sister Ah Yun is loyal and kind, touched the heavens, and received a blessing.
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