Farmer’s Blessed Girl

When we got to the garden, everyone felt more at ease, and they chatted directly around the princess.

When Mingda was in the capital, she was often surrounded by people, but it was the first time she was surrounded by people so close to talking, and she couldn't help but look at Man Bao.

Man Bao was very happy, that's how she felt like chatting. Coincidentally, she still had a lot of things she wanted to say to everyone. Being surrounded by everyone like this made her feel like she was chatting under the big banyan tree at the entrance of Qili Village.

What can a group of women talk about together?

Of course, in addition to men being children, there are things like marriage.

Mrs. Song asked the princess, "Does the princess have children? How many children do you have?"

In fact, she wanted to ask, wouldn't she feel bad about leaving her child at home when she and her concubine traveled so far away?

Mingda: "...I haven't given birth yet."

Mrs. Song glanced at Zhou Man subconsciously.

Zhou Man met her eyes, blinked, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Mrs. Song smiled awkwardly, and said hurriedly, "It's nothing, it's just a coincidence that Master Zhou, like the princess, has no children yet."

Zhou Man was refreshed, and she thought about how to bring up this topic. Mrs. Song handed over the pillow, and she immediately caught it, "My princess and I have intentions."

"Ah?" This was a development that Mrs. Song and others had not expected at all, and they were momentarily stunned.

Zhou Mandao: "We are all still young, women are pregnant too early, which is not only harmful to their own health, but also to the child's health, so we deliberately are not in a hurry to have a child."

Mingda glanced at Zhou Man and nodded to everyone.

Mrs. Song looked confused, "Shouldn't it be better to have the heir earlier?"

"When parents are young, children born to their parents will be weaker and more likely to die than children born as adults," Zhou Man said. "You can tell by looking at the fertility of the couples around you."

She and the Imperial Physician's Office have done relevant statistics. Although only the data from the capital is used, combined with medical knowledge, it is definitely applicable in Qingzhou.

"Comparing the children born at the age of 14 or 15 to the children born at the age of 18 or 19 for the same couple, of course, it is impossible to make accurate data if there is only one couple. After all, there are always exceptions, so we will count many couples. ," Zhou Man said: "The statistics are good, the mortality rate and the probability of illness of children born at the age of 14 or 15 are much higher than those of children born after the age of 18 or 19."

The ladies were stunned and couldn't help but say, "You don't have children until the eighteenth, so how many fewer children do you have to have?"

Zhou Man: "...Does your family lack children?"

"lack!"

"Then how many children have you had now?"

"Master Zhou, I have three sons." The other party looked proud.

Zhou Man looked her up and down and asked with a smile, "How old are you this year?"

"I'm twenty-three years old."

Zhou Man: "How old were you when you got married?"

"Fourteen."

Zhou Man asked, "How many children have you had in total?"

The other party smiled, "Why did your lord forget, I just said that I have three sons."

Zhou Man shook his head, "You can't have only three sons. What I'm asking is how many have you had and how many have you had?"

The other party was stunned for a while, and it took a while to arrive: "I'm pregnant with seven, one miscarried before she was born, and three died prematurely."

Zhou Man sighed and said, "The mortality rate is half broken. This is not just a matter of early childbirth. If you don't mind, you can come to the medical office tomorrow to see me."

Then she raised her head and said to everyone: "If you become a biological child too early, the child is relatively weak and easy to die."

Some people questioned, "Isn't it because the food and drink are not good enough? If the pregnancy is good..."

Zhou Man shook his head, "It is natural to improve the fertility rate and survival rate if you protect the fetus well, but the root cause of this matter is early marriage and early childbearing."

She said: "In the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine, it is written that whether it is a man or a woman, they should have children after they reach adulthood."

Mrs. Song immediately said, "The woman is fifteen and a hairpin..."

Zhou Man shook his head directly, "The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine does not recognize this, he believes that whether it is a man or a woman, the adult is after twenty. Men are full of kidney qi at the age of twenty-four, while women are at the age of twenty-one. The development of kidney qi is balanced, and the offspring born at this time are also the best."

"Of course, we can't follow the Yellow Emperor's Internal Classic at the moment. After all, there are too many things in the world, but it should be advanced, and it shouldn't be too advanced," Zhou Man said, "A man's kidney qi starts when he is sixteen years old. Vigorous and capable of procreation, and women only start around the age of fourteen, it is equivalent to the flower stalks falling and just bearing fruit, so if you want the fruit to give birth to seeds, don’t you have to wait for a while?”

Everyone was stunned. They didn't understand what kidney qi was, but they understood farming.

"As soon as the fruit bears fruit, I want to pick it and cut it open and dig out the seeds. Can the dug out seeds be good seeds?"

Everyone shook their heads together, and someone who was good at farming said, "I'm afraid that kind of seed can't be bred, right?"

Zhou Man immediately clapped his hands and said happily: "That's right, otherwise why would the descendants have all kinds of problems, the ancestors could have ten or eight children, but when they waited until they had two or three children, some of them could not even be born? "

Some people's hearts tightened and their backs shivered. They were afraid to hear, but couldn't help but listen, "Why?"

"It's because their parents were picked before they were ripe, and they were born when they were not particularly healthy." Zhou Man said, "This person's fertility is like growing melons and beans, and when it bears green fruits, Leave it for a while, even if you can't wait for it to fully ripen, you should wait until it's almost ripe before picking it."

"People are the same, so a man should get married after the age of sixteen and before the age of twenty-four, which is the middle value, and it should be around the age of twenty; the same is true for a woman, it must be married after the age of fourteen, two Before the age of eleven, if we take the middle value, it should be between seventeen and eighteen years old. If we catch up late or not early, it will be considered eighteen years old. The children born at this time are healthier, which is good for both men and women. body is the best."

Everyone was stunned, and it took a while for someone to respond, "Really?"

"Of course it's true," Zhou Man said, "I'm a relative who didn't get married until I was eighteen."

Mingda said immediately, "Bengong too."

Zhou Man then said nonsense again, "Princess Changyu is even later. That's because Your Majesty and the Empress do not care for the princess, and they stayed so late because they wanted them to be healthy and safe."

She continued the topic, "Do you know what determines a person's lifespan?"

Everyone shook their heads together, hesitantly said: "God ordained?"

Zhou Man: "...the blood is fixed."

"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine says that at the age of ten, the five viscera begin to settle, the blood and qi have been channeled, and the qi is at the bottom, so it is easy to walk. That is to say, the root of human growth lies in the essence and qi of the kidney, and the essence of qi goes from the bottom to the top. That's why ten-year-old children can run well. Aging is also due to the decline of qi and blood. If we can ensure that our essence is full, then we can live a long life without showing aging." Man Bao said to the lady: "Sister, you are better than me. Only two years older."