In the year of Gengzi, the old demon city.

In late autumn, it rains all the time and the next is endless.

The air was cold, and the leaves of the sycamore trees on the road had already fallen, leaving only lonely branches, stretching into the air with great effort.

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

Early in the morning, somehow, a group of magpies flew over the magnolia trees in the garden, "chirping" and "stop".

In the courtyard, under the corridor, an old couple stood. The old man named Qin Zhaoji, about fifty or sixty years old, not tall, slightly fat, with a long robe and jacket, a long braid behind his head, and a gold watch hanging on his chest.

Mrs. Qin Zhang, wearing a silk jacket, had a little white hair on her hair, and the wrinkles on her face could not hide the traces of time.

Qin Zhaoji looked up at the magpies on the flower tree, and a smile appeared on his originally grim face: "Good omen! Good luck! It's hard to see magpies in the city these days! So many people came today. Isn't this auspicious omen? What's that?"

Qin Zhang smiled and said, "Of course it's a good omen. I don't ask for anything else, I just want all adults and children to be safe."

Half an hour later, a noisy sound suddenly came from the yard!

"Born, born! The second young lady was in so much pain that she was in great pain. She stayed up all night and finally got born."

"This kid is so big, he looks very smart..."

"Pai" two slaps and gently pats the baby on the butt.

"Huh? This kid! It's a bit weird! Why don't you cry?"

"You should use more effort! Obviously the shot was too light!"

"Forget it, the child's breathing smoothly and his cheeks are rosy, so there is no need to pat him."

After a while, two women came out, one of whom was about 40 years old and a famous midwife, and kept complimenting: "Congratulations to Mr. Qin, and a new student! Congratulations to the second young master! You have a son."

Qin Zhaoji was overjoyed and immediately ordered his servants to give rewards to the midwife.

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

At the same time, a nurse from the church hospital came to assist in the delivery of the baby.

At this time, the Demon Capital had been open for 60 years, and the atmosphere was relatively open. The Qin family was a wealthy family. In order to smooth production, they simply combined Chinese and Western medicine and invited two people to deliver their babies.

The nurse was younger and did not leave immediately. She whispered to the second young master who was outside the door: "Mr. Qin, you can go in. The child... seems to be malnourished and needs good conditioning..."

The second young master Qin Hancheng is still young, about twenty-five or twenty-six years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, white skin, suit and lace, and a majestic braid on his head. He was shocked when he heard this: "What? Do you think the child has a problem? My wife has a good diet and eats a lot of food every meal. The supply of chicken, duck, fish and meat is not interrupted. How can the baby be malnourished? This is impossible!"

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

His wife Zhu Wan looks pretty and has long black hair, which looks a little messy. At this time, she is in a heavy mood. She smiles reluctantly and answers: "I'm fine. The child is 6 pounds and 6 ounces. She is normal in weight, has a big head, and is still good, but her arms and legs are too thin, like a numb rod. She doesn't cry until now, and I'm a little worried..."

Qin Hancheng carefully picked up the baby, looked carefully, and found that his arms, which should have been watery and chubby, were so thin that they had no muscle at all! Look at the thighs and calves, the same was true!

Only bones and no flesh are clearly a kind of morbidity. Whose child will be like this when he is born?

Qin Hancheng took a breath of air conditioning, his heart seemed to fall into the deep well, his eyes straightened, and he murmured, "Awan, you are a doctor, tell me, what's going on? Is it a congenital deformity? What should I do?"

Zhu Wan sighed, her voice was very low: "I was in pain all over and couldn't move for a while. I waited for two days and checked carefully before talking about it."

Qin Hancheng was in a heavy mood and couldn't speak for a while.

Zhu Wan said in a gentle voice: "Han Cheng, look at this child, his eyes are like dark gems, and he looks so energetic! I tell you, he must be a smart child, and his nutrition is all given to his brain."

Qin Hancheng lowered his head and stared at the baby's eyes. The father and son looked at each other without blinking. Gradually, his cold heart felt a little warm: "The name of the child is given by the master, and it is called 'Qin Di'."

Zhu Wan nodded and said, "Han Cheng, no matter what, this is our child. We must raise him to adulthood. You can't have bad thoughts, otherwise I will fight 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, feeling sad in his heart, as if he was carrying a heavy burden, which made him breathless.

Soon, the master and wife standing in the yard also received news.

Qin Zhaoji was slightly stunned, sighed deeply, and looked a little desolate: "How could this happen? There is a magpies reporting good news!"

"Forget it, lord, stop talking, this is all fate." Qin Zhang pulled his sleeve and pulled him into the room.

Five days later, Zhu Wan got off the floor and gave the baby a detailed physical examination.

Zhu Wan is not an ordinary woman. She graduated from the School of Medicine of St. John's University and is a regular Western medicine doctor.

St. John's University is a church school founded by the Anglican Church of the United States. It is known as "Harvard of the East". It was founded in the Magic City in 1879. It offers university courses in 1892, teaching in all English, including the School of Literature, School of Science, School of Medicine and Seminary. Graduates from medical schools are rare, and as women can graduate, it is even rarer.

After careful examination, Zhu Wan found that the baby's eyes responded normally to light, had no hearing in the ears, and had normal nerve reflexes in the limbs, but the muscle development was slow and the muscle tone was too weak. In the final analysis, there was no flesh at all, and the arms and legs were too thin, just like skin and bones.

This disease looks like cerebral palsy, but it is different from cerebral palsy.

Cerebral palsy is often accompanied by mental retardation, vision and hearing impairment, paralysis on one side of the body, and epilepsy and urinary incontinence are sometimes caused by normal muscle development, and there is no problem with the limbs from the outside, and there will be no skin and bones.

Zhu Wan was happy and worried. What she was happy was that the child had good nerve reflexes and had a glimmer of hope to recover health. What she was worried about was that this hope was not great, because medicine was not developed enough in this year, which caused too many causes of muscle atrophy! The child was born like this, often accompanied by genetic factors, such as congenital muscle weakness, and may be disabled for life.

However, since this happened, she had no choice but to pray to the heavens: "My kind Father, may you bring good fortune and let my son grow up healthily."

To be honest, if such a sick little baby is placed in an ordinary family, he may be abandoned.

Life is worthless in this year, let alone newborn babies.

Some families can't afford to raise, and even healthy babies drowned.

Fortunately, the Qin family did not have to worry about food and drink, so they hired a few servants under them. No matter what, they would just keep them slowly.
Chapter completed!