When the crowd calmed down again, Zhou Mancai said with a serious face: "Having children is not a woman's business alone. Everyone knows this, right?"
Everyone nodded together, nonsense, if you don't know this truth... Ahem, if having children is only a woman's business, then why do men need to do it?
Zhou Man paused for a moment before continuing: "Then who decides whether to have a boy or a girl? Since having a baby is not a woman's business alone, then having a boy or a girl is naturally not a woman's business alone." This is a huge question.
Most people were ignorant. Even the doctor and shopkeeper of Baicaotang who came to join in the fun lowered their heads and pondered, somewhat confused.
In fact, as doctors, although they have not specifically studied this, they still have their own experiences and feelings.
It was okay when no one mentioned it. Once someone raised this issue, the two of them couldn't help but look at each other and couldn't help but say, "It seems that this matter has more to do with men."
"Listen to what Mr. Zhou said. The Imperial Medical Office may understand better than us."
Yes, the people inside are all people with superb medical skills.
Man Bao also knew that most of the people here were illiterate, let alone medical knowledge, so the explanation was simple and crude. She went directly to the Wu family's kitchen and took out four sticks, two of which were half burned.
Carbonized, black.
She didn't mind being dirty either, so she put the two sticks on Bai Shan's table, and then held up the two sticks in her hands to show everyone, "This one, the stick that is the same from beginning to end is a woman, this one is burned
Half of the people are men, and men and women are different, everyone knows this, right?"
Someone mingled in the crowd and laughed: "I know, I know, everyone who is married knows this, hahaha..."
Bai Shan glanced over with sharp eyes, slapped the gavel, and shouted: "What are you joking about? Stay if you want to hear it, and turn around and go out if you don't want to hear it. Did you have a good time in Mr. Zhou's class? In addition to the students of the Imperial Medical Department, that is,
The dignitaries in the capital may not be able to hear it even if they want to."
The crowd slowly calmed down. Although their faces were full of disgust and embarrassment, many people wanted to know in their hearts.
If they knew the reasons for giving birth to a boy or a girl, wouldn't they be able to give birth to a boy if they wanted to?
So there was no need for Bai Shan to say the rest. The people in the crowd suppressed a few gangsters who wanted to make fun of and cause trouble.
The government officials who were about to squeeze into the crowd to settle accounts with them stopped.
Seeing that they had calmed down, Zhou Man raised the stick in his hand and said: "The union of husband and wife creates a fetus. We often say that the child is the flesh and blood of the parents and the continuation of their blood. So, the newborn will not only have the mother's
Bloodline, of course, also has my father’s bloodline.”
This principle is also easy to understand. Even a child who is not very sensible can understand the words after turning them around in his head twice, let alone a group of grown men and women whose lifelong wish is to pass on blood.
Seeing that they all understood, Man Bao continued: "And the gender of the child is determined after the union and conception. The pills that can guarantee the birth of a boy and the pills that reverse yin and yang that are circulated outside are all fake. It is possible that
It's just mud balls rubbed out from people's bodies and wrapped in flour to fool you."
A picture appeared in everyone's mind, and they were instantly disgusted.
Manbao knocked on the table with his stick, grabbing everyone's attention, and continued: "So how are boys formed, and how are girls formed?"
She raised the stick in her hand and broke off two pieces from the stick that represented her parents. The two pieces were of the same color. She put the two pieces together and said: "The stick that represents women is of the same color, so natural.
, when this part of the father’s bloodline merges with the mother’s bloodline, the stick formed will also be the same color as the mother, so it is female!”
She stretched out her hand and broke off the half-burned stick, took out a dark stick and said: "But when this part of the father's bloodline merges with the mother's, the stick formed will be exactly the same as his father's.
The color, and this, represents the male, do you understand?"
The onlookers were all confused, so what this meant was...
"To have a boy or a girl, in a popular sense, is determined by the father's bloodline," Man Bao said, holding up the stick that was broken into two sections: "The lower part is fused with the mother's bloodline.
If the father's bloodline is used to conceive a girl, the upper part is fused, and this section represents the burned part of the bloodline, and the child conceived will be a boy."
"Generally speaking, without external intervention, the probability of conceiving a boy or girl is the same. If a couple gives birth to girls many times, it means..."
Man Bao paused and then said: "Either you are unlucky, or it is due to your man's clan, x... that part of the bloodline is stronger."
Things like chromosomes and genes require too much explanation. They can be taught to disciples, but to explain them to these people, they still need to understand them.
Since ancient times, both men and women have believed that giving birth to children is a woman's business. Naturally, having a boy or a girl is also a woman's business.
For thousands of years, this idea has never been broken, but now someone tells them that what you think is always wrong.
Many people can't accept it at once.
Even Fang Xiancheng, who has always been serious and reserved, couldn't help but ask: "How do you know this, sir?"
Man Bao said confidently: "I am an imperial physician."
Fang Xiancheng asked: "Can all the doctors in the imperial hospital distinguish between men and women?"
Manbao raised his eyebrows and said: "About 40-50%, and of these 40-50%, 23 out of 10 may be wrong in diagnosis. After all, doctors are also human beings, and when they are human, they make mistakes, and the same goes for imperial doctors.
"
Man Bao spoke to the crowd with warning: "I don't dare to say that the imperial doctors in the imperial hospital are the best in the world, but they are definitely the best doctors in the world. Even we dare not say that we can 100% distinguish between men and women.
Not to mention the doctors outside."
"So if you have an abortion in the future because you want to have a son, you'd better think about the disaster today."
Everyone trembled when they thought of the baby boy who died at birth because he was rumored to be a girl.
Man Bao saw it and was satisfied.
In the crowd, an old woman couldn't help but ask, "Sir, isn't there a way to conceive a boy?"
Man Bao said categorically: "No!"
She said: "Men can't control their own bodies yet. How can I, a doctor, control it?"
She paused and then said: "And what's wrong with giving birth to a girl? When you get married, you get a betrothal gift, which is to buy a dowry, so you can leave some. During the holidays, you also have your daughter's filial piety. If you really can't bear to let your daughter get married, what else can you do?"
How great would it be to set up a female household for your daughter, recruit a son-in-law, and get a son for free?"
Everyone thought Zhou Man's words were very nonsense. If he really didn't have a son, who would want his daughter to recruit a son-in-law?
How good of a person can a door-to-door son-in-law be?