Chapter 13: Midwifery
Zhang Kouyao was locked up for two days in a dark and damp prison full of bed bugs and lice in Kaifeng Mansion.
For two days, he kept his mouth shut, and when he had to speak, he said that he didn't know anything and was wronged. He knew that the three were all veterans, and he would definitely not admit that he had been bribed by others to commit the murder, and he must have insisted that he was fighting for the sake of a dispute over the mule.
Sure enough, as Zhang Kouyao expected, after Pang joined the army many times and still couldn't pry open the mouths of Zhang Kouyao and the three outlaws, after telling Cai Jing, he still let Zhang Kouyao go, and the three were also punished with 30 boards by their respective canes for picking quarrels and provoking trouble, and they were released.
Zhang Kouyao dragged his injured body due to torture, before he left the prison, he cast an angry gaze at everything in the prison, his heart was full of resentment towards Qin Guan and Li Kang, he swore that he must let these two people also taste the taste of squatting in prison that day.
Zhang Kouyao knew that now Qin Guan had been promoted, and after the palace test confirmed the rank, he could be awarded an official position immediately, this fight between the people and the officials, of course, must be lost, he decided to hug a thigh, so as to bring down Qin Guan.
He thought of Wang Qi, the prime minister of the left who was above 10,000 people under one person in the court, didn't this Wang Qi in the Wutai poetry case, who was bent on putting Qin Guan's division commander Su Shi to death, he definitely wouldn't have a good impression of Qin Guan.
But Wang Qigui is the prime minister, of course, Zhang Kouyao, who is an ordinary person, can see each other, and Zhang Kouyao is troubled by this matter.
When Zhang Kouyao arrived at home, he heard his wife Zhang say that Qin Guan and Li Dang had come, and Zhang also received Qin Guan's three guan money, he was furious, and regardless of Zhang's pregnancy, he slapped Zhang's left cheek, making Zhang's face, which was already a little fat because of pregnancy, even more puffy.
Zhang Kouyao thought about it, and coerced Zhang to ask her to take out the deed of the house, he said that he would buy the house, and use the money to introduce himself to Zuo Prime Minister Wang Qi, and he would go to the Prime Minister's Mansion as a guest.
Several of Zhang's brothers died early, and her father died of illness last year, leaving all the houses left by her ancestors to Zhang's family, asking her to keep her ancestral achievements. Where is Zhang willing to listen to Zhang Kouyao's words, he is unwilling to tell Zhang Kouyao where the deed is hidden.
In fact, Zhang Kouyao's hometown of Huayin County, Liangzhejiang Road, is quite wealthy, and he is willing to support the only one in the family. But far water can't quench the thirst of the near, so it should take at least a month to go back and forth to Huayin.
Last time, in order to buy~ murderous people, he gave almost all his money to the three outlaws. At present, it costs money for the trustee to find a relationship to make friends with Wang Qi, and there is nothing else valuable in this Zhang family, and the only ones that can be quickly realized are the houses left by these ancestors, so Zhang Kouyao uses both fists and feet to ask the Zhang family to hand over the deed.
Zhang endured the severe pain of being beaten, but did not dare to scream because her mother was lying next door. She was afraid that her mother would be upset when she heard the beating and scolding, so Zhang held back the severe pain and ran outside the house.
Zhang Kouyao saw Zhang running out and chased him all the way.
It just so happened that on this day, Li Dare went to the neighborhood to buy medicinal herbs, and remembered that Zhang's due date was in these two days, so he wanted to take a look at Zhang's house, and by the way, he sent some herbs to Zhang's mother.
As soon as he arrived at the door of Zhang's house, he saw Zhang Kouyao grabbing Zhang's shirt and slapping Zhang's head and head.
A man actually beats his pregnant wife so badly.
Li Dang was furious, he stepped forward quickly, grabbed Zhang Kouyao's wrist, and held it high.
"Is that you?"
Zhang Kouyao only felt as if his right hand was pinched by iron tongs, and he couldn't move at all, he saw Li Kang, and his eyes were full of horror.
"It's me!"
Li Dare said fiercely, he stumbled with a force in his hand, and stumbled under his foot, knocking Zhang Kouyao to the ground.
Zhang Kouyao really opened his mouth to bite, he was lying on the ground, his hands and feet couldn't be forced, and when he saw that one of Li Kang's legs was on his side, he opened his mouth and bit down on Li Kang's calf.
"It hurts!"
Li Dang hurriedly bent his calves and shook off Zhang Kouyao's mouth, he leaned down, grabbed Zhang Kouyao's chest with one hand, and raised his fist with the other, about to fall on Zhang Kouyao's body.
"Don't, don't beat my officials!" Seeing this, Zhang hurriedly spoke out to stop him.
Li Dang glanced back at Zhang, his face changed greatly, he pushed Zhang Kouyao away, and turned around to check Zhang's physical condition. I saw Zhang sitting on the ground, his amniotic water had broken, and his body was damp.
"Quick, call the midwife to deliver your wife immediately, otherwise the lives of both the child and the adult will be in danger!" Li Dare reprimanded Zhang Kouyao sharply.
Zhang Kouyao got up and patted the dust on his body, he glared at Li Kang fiercely, hesitated for a while, and left reluctantly.
After a cup of tea, I still didn't see Zhang Kouyao come back, Zhang's ** voice became weaker and weaker, and the two legs became more and more wet.
"Quick, go and get scissors and candles, gauze, and sewing kits!" Li Dang instructed a subordinate of the Zhang family next to him, and Li Dang saw that the situation was critical and decided to deliver the baby for the Zhang family himself.
"Li is a Langzhong!"
Li Dang showed his newly purchased medicinal herbs to a few onlookers, persuaded them to use a reclining chair, carefully carried Zhang into the house, and then asked Zhang to be lifted to a bed and cut Zhang's dirty pants with scissors.
Only a few women were left in the room, and they held Zhang's hands and feet tightly under Li Kang's command.
Li Dang saw that Zhang's whole body was already weak, so he decisively picked up scissors and slightly warmed and disinfected the candle, and then cut a small wound on Zhang's perineum to help Zhang's give birth to the baby more smoothly.
After tossing for nearly half an hour, with a crisp cry, the baby was born.
It was a boy, and the women in the house congratulated Zhang. Zhang, who was already extremely weak, heard that it was really a boy as Li Kang had expected, and she was dizzy and fell unconscious.
Li Dang sewed up the wound on Zhang's perineum, and applied some hemostatic medicine, he wiped the sweat on his forehead, turned his head, and found that Zhang Kouyao was looking at Li Kang with a complicated expression, and there was a stunned midwife standing next to him.
"Congratulations to Brother Zhang, it's a son!" Li Dare said to Zhang Kouyao.
is a father, if it was in Li Kang's previous life, this would be the happiest thing in the world. However, Zhang Kouyao felt that this was a great shame for himself, his woman was actually delivered by a man, and he was allowed to cut his lower body with scissors at will.
"Zhang said, this woman is jealous, I can't bear it, if this woman gives birth to a boy, I will divorce her, and now that she has given birth to a boy, she has nothing to do with Zhang."
The facial features on Zhang Kouyao's face were completely distorted, and he almost finished the above sentence word by word, and as soon as he finished speaking, he didn't look back, turned around and left the Zhang family.
Li Dang was shocked and angry in his heart, how could a man abandon his wife because he gave birth to a boy, the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he had to go out to chase Zhang Kouyao.
At this time, a descendant of the Zhang family came in in with a panicked expression, and said, "Old, old lady, old lady, she, she is immortal!" ”
The servant had just run into the old lady's room, originally wanting to tell her the good news of the birth of her grandson, but found that the old lady had already lost her breath.
Li Dang followed his subordinates into the old lady's room and found that she had been dead for some time, and that she had committed suicide, and that she had strangled herself with one of her own hands.
What perseverance it takes!
Li Dang felt deeply shocked, he didn't know that the old lady committed suicide when Zhang Kouyao chased and beat Zhang, she committed suicide out of deep hatred and resentment towards herself, when Zhang Kouyao came to the door and volunteered to become a son-in-law, the old man and several relatives and friends disagreed, saying that Zhang Kouyao had ulterior motives, only she insisted on her own opinion and persuaded Zhang, and now she knows that it is to lure the wolf into the house.