Chapter 2861 popular science

When the crowd quieted down again, Zhou Mancai said with a serious face: "Having a child is not a woman's business. Everyone knows this truth, right?"

Everyone nodded together, nonsense, if you don't know the truth...cough, if having children is only a woman's business, then why do you need a man?

Zhou Man paused for a while before continuing: "Then who decides whether to give birth to a boy or a girl? Since giving birth to a child is not a matter for women alone, then giving birth to boys and girls is naturally not a matter for women alone." This is a huge problem. Most of the people were ignorant, and even the doctors and shopkeepers of Baicaotang who came to join in the fun lowered their heads and pondered, a little puzzled.

In fact, as doctors, although they have not specifically studied this point, they have their own experience and feelings.

It's fine when no one mentions it. Once someone raises this question, the two of them can't help but look at each other and say, "It seems that this matter has more to do with men."

"Listen to what Lord Zhou said, the Imperial Physician's Office may understand better than us."

Yes, the people inside are all skilled medical people.

Man Bao also knew that most of the people here were illiterate, let alone medical, so the explanation was simple and rude. She went directly to Wu's kitchen and took out four sticks, two of which were half burned and already Carbonized, black.

She didn't dislike being dirty either, she put two sticks on Bai Shan's table, and then held up the two sticks in her hands to show everyone, "This one, the same stick from beginning to end, is a woman, and this one is burned. Half of them are men, and men and women are different, everyone knows this, right?"

Someone laughed in the crowd and said, "I know, I know, everyone who has become a relative knows, hahaha..."

Bai Shan glanced over, patted the gavel, and shouted: "What are you frolicing about? Stay if you want to listen, and turn around and go out if you don't want to. Is your Master Zhou's class good? Except for the students from the Imperial Physician's Office, the The dignitaries in the capital may not be able to hear it if they want to hear it.”

The crowd slowly quieted down. Although they were disgusted and embarrassed on their faces, many people wanted to know in their hearts.

If they knew the reasons for having boys and girls, wouldn't they be able to have boys if they wanted to?

So there is no need for Bai Shan to say the rest, and the people in the crowd suppressed a few bastards who wanted to make fun of them.

The yamen 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 marriage of a husband and wife will give birth to a fetus. We often say that a child is the bone and blood of the parents, and the continuation of their blood. Then, the newborn will not only have the mother's blood. The bloodline, of course, also has the bloodline of the father."

This principle is also easy to understand, even a child who is not very sensible can understand it after turning the words around in his head twice, not to mention a group of adult men and women who take blood inheritance as their lifelong wish.

Seeing that they all understood, Man Bao continued: "And the sex of the child is determined after the union is conceived. Like the pills that can preserve male fetuses and the pills that reverse yin and yang are all fake, it may be It's the mud balls rubbed from people's bodies wrapped in flour to fool you."

A picture appeared in everyone's mind, and they were immediately disgusting.

Man Bao tapped the table with a stick, grabbed everyone's attention, and continued, "Then how do boys form, and how do girls form?"

She raised the stick in her hand and broke off two pieces from the stick representing her parents. The two pieces were of the same color. She put the two pieces together and said, "The whole body of the stick representing a woman is of the same color, so it's natural. , When this part of the father's blood and the mother's blood are fused together, the stick formed is also the same color as the mother, so it is female!"

She stretched out her hand and broke off the half-burned stick again, took out a piece of black stick and said, "But when this part of the father's blood and the mother's blood are fused together, the stick formed is completely the same as his father's. Color, and this, represents men, do you understand?"

The onlookers were stunned, so what this means is...

"Born a boy or a girl, in a popular sense, it is determined by the blood of the father's side," Man Baoyang said with the stick that was broken in two pieces: "The blood of the mother's side is fused with the lower half. The blood of the father, that is the girl, and the upper part is the fusion, this part represents the blood of the burned part, that is the boy."

"Generally speaking, without external intervention, the probability of conceiving men and women is the same. If both husband and wife give birth to girls many times, it means..."

Man Bao paused and said: "Either you are unlucky, or it is because of your male family, X... that part of the bloodline is stronger."

For things like chromosomes and genes, there are too many things that need to be explained. It can be taught to disciples and students, but to explain to these people, they still need to understand.

Since ancient times, both men and women have believed that giving birth to children is a woman's business. Naturally, it is also a woman's business to give birth to boys and girls.

For thousands of years, this kind of thinking 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 did your lord know this?"

Man Bao said confidently, "I'm an imperial physician."

Fang Xiancheng asked, "Can the imperial physicians in the imperial hospital be able to distinguish between males and females?"

Man Bao raised his eyebrows and said, "Forty-five out of ten, and two or three of the ten out of ten may have made a mistake. After all, doctors are also human beings, and when they are human, they make mistakes, so is the imperial physician. "

Man Baoyu said with a warning to everyone: "The imperial physicians in the imperial hospital dare not say that they are the best in the world, but they are definitely the best doctors in the world. Even we dare not say that they can distinguish between men and women 100%. Not to mention the doctor outside."

"So if you have an abortion because you want to have a son in the future, you'd better think about what happened today."

Everyone shuddered at the thought of the baby boy who died at birth because it was rumored to be a female fetus.

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 firmly: "No!"

She said, "A man can't control his own body yet, how can I, a doctor, control it?"

She paused and said: "And what's wrong with having a girl, there is a dowry when you get married, so you can keep some of it, and there are also daughters' filial piety during New Years and festivals, I really don't want my daughter to marry. Set up a daughter-in-law for your daughter, hire a son-in-law, and get a son for nothing, how good?"

Everyone just thought that Zhou Man's words were very confusing. If there was no son, who would want a daughter to recruit a son-in-law.

What kind of person can a door-to-door son-in-law be?

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