Gengzi year, the old magic capital.

In late autumn, it rains and rains.

The air was cold, and the leaves of the plane trees on the road had long since fallen, leaving only a lone branch, laboriously stretching into the air.

Not far from the Huangpu River, to the west of St. Joseph's Church, in a garden house, there are people busy.

Early in the morning, for some reason, a flock of magpies flew from the magnolia tree in the garden, "chirping" non-stop.

In the courtyard, under the corridor, there stood an old couple, the old gentleman's name was Qin Zhaoji, about fifty or sixty years old, not tall, slightly fat, long robes and horse coats, there was a long braid behind the head, and a gold watch hung on his chest.

Mrs. Qin Zhang, dressed in a satin jacket, has a little gray hair, and the wrinkles on her face can't hide the traces of time.

Qin Zhaoji looked up at the magpie on the flower tree, and a smile appeared on his originally grim face: "Good omen! Great luck! These days, it is rare to see magpies in the city! There are so many people here today." Isn't that a good omen?"

Qin Zhang smiled: "Naturally, it's a good omen." I don't ask for anything else, just that adults and children are safe. ”

After another half an hour, suddenly there was a noisy sound in the courtyard!

The second young grandmother was so painful that she died of pain, stayed up all night, and finally gave birth. ”

"This kid has a big head, and he looks very smart......

"Slap" two slaps and gently pat on the baby's buttocks.

"Hey, this kid, it's a little weird, why don't you cry?"

"You use a little more force!

"Forget it, the child breathes smoothly, his cheeks are rosy, and he doesn't need to pat anymore. ”

After a while, two women came out, one was about forty years old, a well-known midwife, and kept complimenting: "Congratulations to Master Qin, you have added a new ding! Congratulations to the second young master! ”

Qin Zhaoji was overjoyed, and immediately ordered his subordinates to reward the midwife.

The midwife's eyes lit up, and she quickly bent down to thank her, and after receiving the reward, she left in a hurry without saying that she would stay for a cup of tea.

Also there was a nurse from the mission hospital who came to assist in the delivery.

At this time, the magic capital has been open for 60 years, and the atmosphere is relatively open, and the Qin family is a large family, so in order to produce smoothly, they simply combined Chinese and Western cultures and invited two people to deliver the baby.

The nurse was relatively young, so she didn't leave immediately, and whispered to the second young master who was waiting outside the door, "Mr. Qin, you can go in." Child...... It looks like malnutrition and needs to be well regulated......"

The second young master, Qin Hancheng, was still young, about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, white skin, a suit and leather shoes, a lofty instrument, and the braid on his head had already been cut.

He hurriedly pushed the door in, and saw his wife holding the baby, her eyebrows lowered, her face was worried, and she looked very unhappy, and couldn't help asking, "Awan, are you okay?

His wife, Zhu Wan, was good-looking, with long black hair, which looked a little messy, and at this time she was in a heavy mood, smiled reluctantly, and replied, "I'm fine." The child is six pounds and six taels, his weight is normal, his head is very big, and his body is fine, but his arms and legs are too thin, like a hemp rod, and he doesn't cry until now, I am a little worried......"

Qin Hancheng carefully picked up the baby, looked at it carefully, and found that the arm that should have been bright and chubby was actually skinny and skinny, and there was no muscle at all!

There are only bones and no flesh, which is clearly a pathology, whose child is born, will it be like this?

Qin Hancheng gasped, his heart seemed to have fallen into the bottom of a deep well, his eyes were straight, and he muttered, "Ah Wan, you are a doctor, tell me, what is going on? Is it a congenital malformation? What can I do?"

Zhu Wan sighed, and her voice was very low: "I'm in pain all over my body, I can't move for a while, wait for two days, and check it carefully." ”

Qin Hancheng was in a heavy mood and was speechless for a while.

Zhu Wan said in a gentle voice: "Han Cheng, look at this child, his eyes are like swarthy gems, and he looks so bright! Let me tell you, he must be a smart child, and the nutrition is all for the brain." ”

Qin Hancheng looked down at the baby's eyes, and the father and son looked at each other without blinking. Gradually, his cold heart felt a little warmer: "The child's name, the master has chosen it, it's called 'Qin Di'." ”

Zhu Wan nodded and said, "Han Cheng, no matter what, this is our child, we must raise him as an adult." You can't think crookedly, or I'll fight with you. ”

She was afraid that her family would lose the child while she was asleep, so she had to say it in advance.

"No, don't worry. Qin Hancheng frowned, and he only felt sad in his heart, as if he was carrying a heavy burden, which made him breathless.

Soon, the lord and lady standing in the courtyard also got the news.

Qin Zhaoji was slightly stunned, sighed deeply, and his expression was a little gloomy: "How can this be?

"Forget it, master, don't say it, it's all fate. Qin Zhang pulled his sleeve and pulled him into the house.

Five days later, Zhu Wan went down to the ground and gave the baby a detailed physical examination.

Zhu Wan is not an ordinary woman, she graduated from St. John's University School of Medicine and is a regular Western medical doctor.

St. John's University is a church school founded by the Anglican Church in the United States, known as the "Oriental Harvard", founded in 1879 in the magic capital, in 1892 to open university courses, in English teaching, under the College of Arts, the College of Science, the School of Medicine and the School of Theology. Medical school graduates are rare, and as a woman, they can graduate, and even more rare.

After careful examination, Zhu Wan found that the baby's eyes responded to light normally, his ears heard well, and his limbs had normal nerve reflexes, but his muscles were stunted and his muscle tone was too weak. At the end of the day, there was no flesh at all, and the arms and legs were too thin, like skin and bones.

It looks like cerebral palsy, but it's not the same as cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy is often accompanied by intellectual disability, visual and hearing impairment, paralysis on one side of the body, seizures and urinary incontinence from time to time, but muscle development is normal, the limbs are not visible from the outside, and there is no skinny phenomenon.

Zhu Wan's heart has both joys and sorrows, the joy is that the child's nerve reflexes are good, and there is a glimmer of hope to restore health, but the worry is that this hope is not big, because medicine is not developed enough in these years, and there are too many reasons for muscle atrophy! The child is born like this, often accompanied by genetic factors, such as congenital muscle weakness, etc., and is likely to be disabled for life.

However, at this point, she had no choice but to pray to heaven: "Merciful Father, may you send blessings and let my son grow up healthy." ”

To be honest, such a sick little baby, if it was placed in an ordinary person's home, would probably be abandoned.

Life is not worth much in these days, let alone a newborn baby.

Some families simply can't afford to raise them, and even healthy babies drown.

Fortunately, the Qin family didn't worry about eating and drinking, and hired a few servants at the bottom, no matter what, just raise it slowly.

Gradually, everyone in the Qin family's compound knew that the second family had a paralyzed child, and in order not to touch the mold, he rarely came to visit, as if he did not have this child.