As early as the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, there was an aunt Liu in Yindong County, who was a famous midwife in a hundred miles. Aunt Liu started delivering babies from her twenties, and by the time she was in her fifties, the number of children she delivered was at least 10,000. Her medical skills in delivering babies reached the level of perfection. How difficult the symptoms of difficult labor were, as long as she was asked to help, she would always save the danger, the baby would be delivered smoothly, and the mother would be safe. She was easy-going and helpful. No matter the poor or poor, as long as they ask for the door, they will never refuse. Therefore, whether it was day or night, people came to ask her to deliver the baby in an endless stream, which almost broke the threshold.
One night, Aunt Liu had just taken off her clothes and gone to sleep when she vaguely heard someone knocking on the door. Based on her instincts for many years, someone must have come to ask her to deliver the baby. She flipped up and put on her clothes while calling her son to open the courtyard door.
The son opened the courtyard door and brought a person into his room. The person who came in was ugly and ugly. He came forward and knelt on the ground and begged, "Auntie, my young grandma had a difficult labor, and she hasn't given birth for more than two days. The adults and children are dying, and according to the orders of my old master, please go and save the lives of the young grandma and the child! You can't refuse!" "It's late at night, and you can't go until dawn." Aunt Liu's son interjected from the side. "I'm afraid you can't wait for dawn." The person who came in said again. "Don't say it, human life is at stake, there is no reason not to save it. Let's go!" Aunt Liu said as she walked out the door with the delivery equipment.
After leaving the courtyard gate, he saw a black-faced man standing with a donkey. Seeing Aunt Liu, he went forward to greet her and hugged the donkey. Aunt Liu had just gotten on body of the donkey, and they couldn't wait to drive the donkey up quickly. They hurried along the winding mountain road. After walking about five or six miles, they came to a place that Aunt Liu had never been to. The buildings here are gorgeous, carved beams and paintings, and the palaces are one after another, bottomless, much larger than the buildings in Yindong County. The donkey puller tied the donkey to a small tree pole and knocked on the gate of a palace. The hall was brightly lit, the stairs were all made of crystal, the ground was smooth, and the dragons and phoenixes carved on the handrails were lifelike. The aroma is fragrant and beautiful. Many people in long robes and short coats went in and out, their nostrils facing the sky, their lips turned outward, and their long red tongues fell out. They looked ugly and menacing, and it was scary. Aunt Liu thought to herself: Where are you going? What the hell? Isn't that a dream? She pinched her thigh fiercely, feeling a little pain, this is not a dream!
Just then, a bull-headed ghost with a green face and a red beard walked out of the hall and said, "Aunt Liu is here? Hurry up and deliver the baby to the young lady, or it will be too late!"
Aunt Liu was brought into the room of the young lady, and she saw a very ugly-looking mother lying on the bed, her face bloodless, moaning weakly, and beads of sweat the size of soybeans dripping down her forehead. Aunt Liu took off the quilt and checked it out in detail. After massaging her belly, she told the mother to hold her breath. Aunt Liu rolled up her sleeves, raised her right hand, and hit the mother's belly with the back of her hand. She heard a "bang" on her belly, and saw a baby fall on the bed, crying non-stop. At that time, the mother was much more stable. The people around were stunned, tutoring, and praising each other.
The old master, who had waited anxiously outside the window for more than two days, heard crying of the baby, and was so happy that he was overwhelmed. He hurriedly ran into the house and kowtowed on the ground to thank Aunt Liu. After Aunt Liu asked someone to help the old master up, she said, "Congratulations to the old master for having a precious son! This is the first time I have encountered such difficult labor symptoms. Thanks to the blessing of the old master, her mother and son survived. This is your great blessing!" The old master heard Aunt Liu's words, and he was so happy that he didn't know how to thank Aunt Liu, and immediately ordered the chef to make a table of rich meals to entertain Aunt Liu. Aunt Liu had never seen all kinds of delicious dishes on the table. She used chopsticks to taste them one by one, and the taste was extremely delicious.
After the meal, in order to thank Aunt Liu, the master served a lot of gold and silver satin. Aunt Liu refused three times, but only picked a piece of yellow silk and more than ten silver dollars, put them in the sleeve, and did not take anything else. After the master thanked her again and again, he sent someone to take Aunt Liu home. He also settled down and said, "Hurry up on the way, the chicken is about to roar."
Aunt Liu was sent out of the palace gate and helped onto the donkey. As soon as she sat down, the person who sent her desperately beat the ass of the donkey with a whip. The donkey jumped up with four hooves and walked like a fly along the way. In less than half an hour, she came to a place that was only ten steps away from her door. At this moment, the donkey driver suddenly pushed Aunt Liu off the donkey and ran away.
Aunt Liu was knocked unconscious, and her son did not find her until dawn. The son quickly helped her into the house and poured half a bowl of cold boiled water, and Aunt Liu woke up. When the son asked about the delivery and was lying outside the door last night, she said it from beginning to end. Feeling very strange, the son asked her to take out the yellow silk and silver dollars she had brought. Aunt Liu took it out of the clothes tube and looked at it: Hey, where are the yellow silk and silver dollars? It's all neatly folded yellow watch paper and more than a dozen white paper coins!
The mother and son were both surprised and felt strange, wasn't this a living hell? Aunt Liu wanted to find out, so she asked her son to go five or six miles away to find the palace house where the delivery took place last night. The son looked in the direction she said, but after searching for a long time, he did not see any palace houses. But he saw a large ancient tomb beach with many footprints on the ground.
The son came back and told Aunt Liu, and she mumbled thoughtfully: "It turns out that yin and yang are the same, and gods and ghosts will inevitably suffer from life and death!"