Chapter 8 Chapter Six

How Gao Kangda was born in a strange way While they were still chatting about these wines, Jiajiamei began to have a stomachache.Knowing that the child was about to give birth, Gao Langgujie quickly stood up from the grass, comforted her well, and advised her to lie on the grass under the willow tree, and she would give birth soon; she advised her to muster up courage and come to welcome the child. born.He also told her that although the pain annoyed her, it was only for a short time after all, and the pleasure that followed would take away the pain so that she would not even remember it in the future. ① "Have the courage of a ewe when she lambs," he said, "bring this one out quickly, and another soon."

"Ah!" she said, "you men are so convenient! By God, if you like it so much, I will do my best. But I really wish God would let you cut it off!" "What?" Gao Langgujie called. She said, "Oh, you're an honest man! You can understand." "My fellow?" said he, "sheep's blood! Send for a knife if you will!" "Ah!" she said, "I have offended God! God forgive me! I didn't mean to say it, and you must not touch it. If God does not bless me today, I will have many things to do. All this is for You don't care about that stuff."

"Courage! Courage!" he said, "just take it easy and let the four oxen up ahead do the pulling, and you don't mind a thing. I'll have a drink or two now. In case you don't feel well, Fortunately, I am very close to here, you just need to make a speaker with your hand and call me, and I will come right away." Before long, she began to sigh, moan, and cry.Immediately, many midwives came from all directions. They touched Jiajia's beautiful lower body and felt some smelly skin. They thought that the child must have come down. In fact, she had prolapsed anus, which is the rectum (you call it the large intestine). ), as we have said before, because of eating too much beef intestines, it slipped out.

Among the midwives was an old ugly woman who was said to be the most skilled doctor and had come here sixty years ago from Briz-Pay, near Saint-Genau.She gave Jia Jiali a dose of astringent medicine, the medicine was so strong that all the openings in her lower body tightened up, and she just bit her teeth. When she was celebrating mass with St. Martin, the devil was recording the gossip of two prostitutes. The teeth are like stretching parchment ③, and it is not easy to tear apart. It is too scary to think about it. As a result of Jiajiamei’s tightening, the foreskin of the placenta was ruptured, and the baby jumped up from there, got into the large blood vessels, passed through the chest diaphragm, and climbed to the shoulders (the large veins are there for a long time). Divided into two), the child walked to the left, and then got out from the left ear.

① There is also here on the first edition: He said: "I can prove that our savior said in the sixteenth chapter of the "New Testament? Remember the pain again." She said, "Oh, you're right; I really like that in the Gospel, I think it's better. Than listening to St. Much better." ② A colloquial expression of exclamation in Gascogne. ① This is a common saying, which means that once the ox driving the plow pulls the plow, it doesn’t need to exert any more force, and just let the ox in front pull it. ② It is said to be Buzangsai County in Shadolu District.However, the author likes to make up some names, "Bliss" means "broken", "Pa Yip"

It is "dry grass", and "rinu" is "knee", so it can be interpreted as coming from the place where the grass on the bed has broken due to the rolling of the knees over the years.The author has a humorous meaning here. ③ St. Martin was the bishop of Tours in the fourth century. It is said that when he was at mass, a devil recorded the gossip of two women on the parchment. The paper was full, and he tried to stretch the paper with his teeth. As a result, the paper was pulled and the devil fell off the paper. After being born in this way, he didn't cry like other babies "croak! croak!", but shouted loudly:

"Drink! Drink! Drink!" It seemed to invite everyone to drink, and the voice was so loud that the whole place of Boos and Bibalai could be heard. I don't think you will believe such a strange production method.In fact, I don't care if you don't believe it, but a normal person, a person with a clear mind, always believes what others tell him, especially what is written down.Does this violate our laws, our beliefs, our reason, or even the Bible?I personally cannot find anything in the Bible that contradicts this.But if God wants to, do you think he can't?Ah, I beg you not to tire your spirits with these idle thoughts, for, I tell you, God is omnipotent, and from now on a woman can bear a child from her ear if he chooses.

Was not Bagus born of Jupiter's lap? Wasn't Roquetayder born from his mother's heel? Wasn't Crowe-carver born out of a nurse's slipper? Was not Minerva born of the brain that flowed from Jupiter's ear? Was not Adonis born from the bark of the myrrh tree? Didn't Castor and Pollux hatch from an egg laid by Leda? You would be still more strange and amazed if I now took out all the chapters of Plinius on strange and unnatural births.However, I'm not as brazen a liar as he is.You go and read the third chapter of the seventh volume of his "Natural History", and don't bother me with this matter.

① Boss is not far from La Duvigny, and Bibale is pronounced according to the accent of Gascony by Fevale. These two place names, according to the Latin meaning, are "healthy drink" and "massive" mean. ② There is also here in the first edition: "Didn't Solomon say 'Innocens credit omni verbo' (Innocents credit omni verbo) in the fourteenth chapter of "Proverbs"? Didn’t the thirteenth chapter of the book “Charitas omnia credit” (Love believes in everything)? Why don’t you believe it? Maybe you will say, this is too strange. Let me tell you, it is for this reason that you You should believe with all your heart. Because the masters of the Paris seminary said that faith is to prove that which has no form."

③ Minerva: The goddess of wisdom in Roman mythology, which is equivalent to Athena in Greek mythology. ① Adonis: A beautiful man in mythology, whose mother was turned into a myrrh tree because of Venus' revenge. ② Castor and Pollux are a pair of twin brothers hatched from the egg laid by Leda in mythology. The two are inseparable for life, which is a symbol of friendship. ③ Leda: The wife of Tyndalus in mythology, who laid an egg and hatched Castor and Critymnestra, and Jupiter who later became a crane also laid an egg, which hatched Pollux and helen.