At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old lady in Shanxi, because her husband's surname was Ma, and everyone around her called her Ma Ma. No one knows where this horse mother came from, only that she is very knowledgeable, and she has been good at delivering babies since she was young, and she is better at female subjects, and she has a lot of means for women's difficult diseases. Because she herself is a woman, female patients are very willing to see her, so although she is not a real langzhong, she is deeply supported by women.
This year, Ma Ma was already eighty years old, but her body was still very strong, she planted some land by herself, and occasionally showed the women around her a disease, and her life was at ease.
On this night, Ma Ma was just about to fall asleep when there was a sudden urgent knock at the door, and Ma Ma responded while trotting to open the door.
Outside the door stood a young man, dressed as a scholar, followed by a servant woman. The young man claimed that his wife had difficulty giving birth, and specially came to ask Ma Ma's mother for help, saying that the two of them knelt down and prostrated their heads. Ma Ma's mother was kind-hearted, and she couldn't see such a thing the most, so she reflexively took a bag and carried it on her body and left.
The servant woman was in front, and the scholar and mother ma were in the back, hurrying to hurry. While walking mama's mother asked about the mother's situation, the student was so anxious that he couldn't say why, and Mama's mother had to keep comforting him. After walking for an hour, the road became rough and difficult to navigate, and the sides became more and more deserted. Because of the concern for the maternal situation, Ma Ma seems to have no intention of paying attention to these small things.
After walking for a while, the three men came to the front of a small house, the servant woman opened the door, and the two of them walked quickly to the bedroom, at this time the mother was sweating profusely and was moaning in pain. Mother Ma didn't say a word, lifted the quilt on the mother's body, was stunned, and slowly looked back at the student. Shusheng fell to his knees and cried, "Please Mother Ma help!" Ma Ma hesitated, but turned back to get busy.
At dawn, the baby's cry broke through the night sky, and the mother gave birth to a child. Mother Ma carried the child outside the house to look for the student, but there was no trace of him, and even the servant woman was missing. Ma Ma felt strange in her heart, and walked out of the gate again, still not seeing two people. Suddenly, a rooster chirped from under the mountain, and then the dawn appeared, as if it was only for a moment, and the sky was actually bright.
Ma Ma hugged the child and turned around, where there was still a house, it was clearly two tombs.
The morning mist surrounded the monument in vain, and on the side of the monument lay a woman tied in paper, the image of the servant woman of last night. Ma Ma suddenly realized that this was a secret marriage that had been married about a year ago, the woman was a girl who had just died in the village, and the student was a young man who had died a few years ago in the neighboring village, but this child in his arms? Mother Ma had never experienced such a strange thing, but the child in her arms looked very cute and fleshy, not like a messy elf.
Ma Ma only remembered that the moment she lifted the quilt, she had already sensed that something was wrong, but the situation was urgent and did not think much about it, and now that she thinks back, it should be a fate between herself and this child. Ma Ma said to the stone tablet: "I have been called a mother all my life but no son and a half daughter, and I am almost eighty years old and I have a son, you can rest assured, I will definitely raise him to become an adult." ”
Ma Ma's mother named the child Ma Shan to commemorate his birth in the mountain. Because Ma Ma's mother can read and write, she taught Ma Shan to read and write from an early age, hoping that he would be able to obtain a meritorious name in the future, and also have an explanation for his biological parents.
In the blink of an eye, Ma Shan grew to sixteen years old, and his learning was already very good, especially he admired Lao Zhuang very much, studied Taoism quite a bit, often claimed to be a disciple of Lao Zhuang, but he was not much interested in gongming, and he was very interested in medicine. Ma Ma's mother did not insist on it, and handed over all the learning in her life to Ma Shan, so Ma Shan was quite proficient in female subjects, and at the same time, she also expanded her andrology.
At the age of twenty-two, Ma Ma died at the age of one hundred, and Ma Shan had not yet married a wife, but inherited the true inheritance of Ma Ma and was a famous female doctor in the local area.
On this day, Ma Shan was studying at home, and someone from outside called the door, who was the domestic servant of Xu Jin, the largest local rich man, and came to invite Ma Shan to the palace to see a doctor.
After arriving at Xu Mansion, Ma Shan asked where the patient was? That Xu Jin smiled and asked people to put down the wine and rice first, wanting to eat and talk at the same time. Ma Shan was very puzzled, this is not at all like the appearance of a patient at home, for a moment he couldn't figure out what medicine Xu Jin was selling in the gourd, and thought to himself, Since you are not in a hurry, I am not in a hurry. Just sit down and eat and drink, without mentioning the patient.
After drinking and eating, Xu Jin ordered people to remove the wine and dishes and put on the tea, and it seemed that he wanted to say something during the period, and it was difficult to say. Ma Shan smiled in his eyes and drank tea for a while, and when he saw that the time was not early, he got up and said goodbye. Xu Jin hurriedly stopped Ma Shan, retreated left and right, and when there was no one in the house, he couldn't help but sigh before he said the matter.
It turned out that Xu Jin had a daughter, Xu Yao, who was sixteen years old and unmarried, but she was pregnant last year. Xu Jin was furious and threatened to kill a pair of adulterers and adulterers, but Xu Yao always insisted that he had not done anything harmful to morality. Of course, Xu Jin did not believe it, and finally asked Wen Po to verify on the spot regardless of his face, xu Yao was still a complete body.
Xu Jin was dumbfounded, but lang zhong, who was repeatedly invited, said that it was a symptom of pregnancy, and now that she had been pregnant for more than a year, her stomach was getting bigger and bigger, and she didn't know when to give birth, and she was more worried that her stomach would be broken.
Although Ma Shan was young at this time, his learning was good, and he was good at both the two disciplines of the Channelist and the Physician, and originally the Medical Tao did not separate the family, and the Confucian thought was integrated into it, so his understanding of the disease was extraordinary. After listening to Xu Jin's narration, he moaned a little and offered to go to Xu Yao's boudoir to have a look.
Xu Jin personally led Ma Shan to Xu Yao's room, and it was Xu Yao lying on the bed, and his belly was indeed as big as a bucket. Ma Shan first gave Xu Yao a pulse, and observed the room while trumpeting the pulse. It was an ear room, sitting east and facing west, only a small window on the west side, and the whole house was very cold.
Ma Shan stood up and motioned for Xu Jin to come out and speak. The two of them stood in the courtyard, and Ma Shan said, "Miss Xu's boudoir is rarely visited on weekdays, right?" Xu Jin said, "Before the onset of the disease, there were still yakuza coming in and out, and after the illness, basically no one came." Ma Shan nodded, "Miss Xu is not really pregnant, it is the work of yin and evil qi." Those who suffer from this disease have sudden menstruation, their abdomen is as large as a woman, their face is red and white, their bodies are not right, and all kinds of evils are committed. Xu Jin was a little angry and argued, "Although my daughter is not a big girl, she still understands the basic etiquette, righteousness, and shame!" Ma Shan laughed, "It's not that Miss Xu did something unseemly, and someone harmed her and did something with her in her dreams, so she was pregnant with a vagina." Xu Jin calmed down and asked what should be done? Ma Shan said, "I will spread out a deck of evil spirits and scatter them to the young lady, and then gently sprinkle it on the floor of the house with a white face, paying attention to whoever is on fire tonight, and whoever catches him is the one who uses magic to harm people." ”
Xu Jin was half-convinced and confused, but there was no other way but to do so. In the evening, the courtyard caught fire, and the next person came to invite Ma Shan. When Ma Shan came to the hall, a man in the shape of a gardener sat on the ground tied up and kept shouting injustice. Ma Shan smiled and said, "Lift the sole of your boot up for me to see?" The gardener hid his leg behind his back, still arguing and shouting injustice. Xu Jin ordered his subordinates to lift his feet, and there was white flour faintly on his feet.
Ma Shan smiled: "It is that you go to the lady's room every day to use magic to have intercourse with her dreams, tonight you find that there is flour on the ground that has left footprints, you want to create a fire and use the busyness of the fire fighting to mess up the footprints, of course, the fire is the most convenient in your room, do you still want to deny it?" ”
The man was dumbfounded, and confessed. Miss Xu took the medicine, threw up for a few days, and slowly returned to normal.
This time, Ma Shan was very famous, and the fame of the gynecological holy hand spread far and wide, which made him cry and laugh.
Soon another person came, saying that his daughter-in-law was suffering from a similar illness to Miss Xu. Ma Shan had to go to the diagnosis and treatment again, the patient's face was yellow muscle thin, the belly was as big as a bucket, at first he thought he was pregnant, and as a result, he had not given birth for three years. Ma Shan said, This is not a fetus, but a ghost fetus, where has she been before she fell ill? "This man said that his daughter-in-law just went to the river every day to get dressed."
Ma Shan then came to the river to check, there was originally a small temple not far away, originally the Dragon King Temple, but it had fallen into disrepair for a long time without incense, and the gods and tables and chairs had been lost, which can be said to be extremely broken. Ma Shan turned around and found that only the copper lock on the door was as bright as new, so he asked people to remove the copper lock and send it to the blacksmith shop for refining.
At night, the man came in a panic, and when he saw Ma Shan, he said that the brass lock had been refined for a long time without reaction, and when it was dark, a spark suddenly burst out, and then a tragic cry was issued, and it had just disappeared. Ma Shan said, "There is no owner in that temple, and the copper lock has been cultivated into a refined incense and specially seduced the woman, which is really abominable, and the patient can be cured by taking another dose of ghost soup." ”
Later, Ma Shan had deep achievements in the fields of Taoism, medicine, calligraphy and so on, and eventually became a generation of famous artists, and he was very national, which is another story.
This article is a literary creation, and any similarities are purely coincidental.