New Gods of North America

Led by an older woman named "Dorothy," Wayne's group quickly entered the relatively "commoner" maternity ward.

Actually, this "auntie" is quite difficult to address.

If you call her a "nun," although she seems to be a devout believer, she is not actually a member of the church.

If you call her a "nurse," in this day and age, people who "engage in professional medical care" are generally considered to be "male."

Although "childbirth" is a special matter, most men are easily excluded, even in the Old Continent or America.

Initially, it was basically assisted by related female relatives, then gradually expanded to elderly female servants in the home, and then to church nuns and the like.

By the early days of the American Federation, there were already related associations that began training professional women on how to care for "mothers" during childbirth and postpartum.

However, the power of "inertia" is still strong. Even in American hospitals decades after the founding of the country, female nurses only have a certain say in the so-called "obstetrics and gynecology departments," and are still considered "not professional enough" in other medical fields.

Specifically for Wayne, the older lady and her followers were polite to the exorcist priests, but seemed extremely displeased when looking at Wayne and other searchers.

It was as if they were looking at "an inspection team trying every means to find fault," or "uninvited guests trying to break into their territory."

Of course, there are also objective reasons for this. The church's search cannot be disclosed casually. Wayne and the others are here to inspect because "someone reported that there might be a problem here."

So, by mistake, it is normal to be disliked.

Fortunately, Wayne is not here to make friends with her. He maintains the attitude of a "government watchdog" and only cares that the other party cooperates with providing directions and information, and doesn't bother with what she thinks.

The houses in the maternity ward are basically single-story or two-story, with a low plot ratio, so the overall area is not too small.

After being taken to their respective positions by the older lady, the group began to carefully check, focusing of course on the so-called "public areas," such as the water source in the courtyard, the small courtyard, and the prayer room.

Wayne believes in physics and thinks that the most simple way to cause trouble is "poisoning," so he started checking the water well and water tank. The prayer room was left to the exorcist priests.

Sanders climbed to a high place, lifted the heavy iron plate, drew half a bucket of water from the water tank, and then lowered it with a rope for Wayne to check. After leading the way, the older lady did not continue to follow the exorcist priests, but returned to this side, standing with her hands on her hips, continuing to stare at Wayne, the "leader."

Wayne opened the simple line of sight and looked into the bucket several times, and even scooped up some water with his hand and took a sip.

Um...

Not sweet, not salty, not spicy, it's just ordinary water.

The older lady looked at Wayne's serious appearance and seemed even more displeased:

"Sir, our nursing staff here are professional and check the food and drinking water every day. How is it? No problem, right?"

Wayne signaled Sanders to try to scoop around in the water tank again, while comforting the prickly aunt next to him, "Indeed, there is no problem, Ms. Dorothy. You are doing a great job."

After checking the water tank, the next step was the final outlet of the faucet and the water well at the entrance.

Thanks to the lack of funds for public hospitals, the cast iron pipes used here, even though they are already rusty, are at least not lead pipes, so Wayne couldn't taste the so-called "slight sweetness" in the water.

In order to prevent Ms. Dorothy from staring at him like a thief, Wayne specially kept asking questions to divert her attention.

For example, when he saw a black-skinned lady walking by with her head down and carrying luggage, the baby in her arms was obviously much whiter, Wayne was very curious about how to register the birth of the baby.

Ms. Dorothy's attitude was obviously even worse, "How else can you register? According to the laws that you people advocate, a slave's child is naturally still a slave."

Wayne shrank his neck, it was indeed presumptuous of him...

Professor David Lee, who teaches American history at the academy, likes to add his own opinions, but some of his words still make sense.

The American Federation claims to have inherited the Roman Empire of the Old Continent, and naturally copied some of its systems.

According to the Roman Empire's laws at the time, children born to free people and slaves, if the mother was a slave, the children were still slaves, and if the mother was a free person, the children were free people.

This is also one of the reasons why some white slave owners in America can both reproduce with female slaves and continue to enslave those mixed-race descendants without guilt.

"That's what the people of the Roman Empire did back then."

Wayne had actually heard this passage in class, but because Black Stone Town didn't have such customs - the townspeople in the west were more conservative and believed that mixed-race people should be killed - so he only regarded it as a "knowledge point" and didn't really take it to heart.

Seeing Ms. Dorothy looking indignant, he knew that he had said the wrong thing, so he honestly took the scolding, and by the way, tried to change the subject again:

"I see that the little baby seems to have only been born a few days ago. Can she be discharged from the hospital like this?"

Ms. Dorothy's expression had already begun to turn fierce, "Not everyone can enjoy a privileged life. Women need to get out of bed and work two to three days after giving birth, which is common for poor people and even many families."

Okay, America doesn't pay attention to postpartum care...

Wayne lowered his head to check the water drawn from the well, confirmed that there was no problem, and then pretended to cooperate with Sanders to restore it to its original state, and didn't want to continue chatting nonsense anymore.

But Wayne's impression of this lady also improved a little bit. At first, Wayne only thought of her as someone who started acting up as soon as she occupied a small territory, but she can feel indignant about some topics, so even if she is not a good person, she probably wouldn't be "unable to distinguish right from wrong."

The latter is sometimes even more annoying than a "true villain."

The groups moved quickly. As soon as this side was checked, the other groups also came over one after another, all saying that they had not found any abnormalities.

Wayne was already wondering what suspicious places had been overlooked here, when suddenly some clues came together in his mind.

So he quietly called over an exorcist priest from the cathedral, "Use the name of the cathedral to secretly confirm with Ms. Dorothy again, have any high-ranking clergy members really not come here privately? Have her swear in the name of the Holy Spirit before answering."