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Chapter 174 The Queen gives birth

Alas, the two empresses in this palace are more resentful than ghosts. "

"Who says otherwise? The Queen is much kinder. I heard that Shi Guiren granted the title of concubine. The Queen also said that many people had a hard time in the palace. The Emperor granted them the title and rewarded them. This is Excellent, the emperor should have done this a long time ago."

The empress of Jingren Palace was not having an easy time.

When the sun set over the mountain, night enveloped the entire Chen Kingdom.

It was a very quiet night. After the handover of the maids and eunuchs in Jingren Palace, the maid on night duty stood at the second door and looked at the moonlight in the sky.

The moonlight this night is very dim and there is no star.

The moon hangs in the clouds like a piece of dusty cloth, as if the moon will disperse when the wind blows.

The queen has reached the first month of pregnancy, and her due date is still five days away.

The imperial doctors have arranged their shifts. As long as Jingren Palace needs it, they can dispatch people to prescribe prescriptions and diagnose pulses twelve hours a day.

According to the rules, the two midwives selected from thousands of people outside the palace were already in place and lived in the side room in the backyard of Jingren Palace half a month in advance to deliver the babies to the Queen and the concubines.

These two midwives were experienced mothers hired by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. I heard that one had thirty years of midwifery experience, and the other had forty years of midwifery experience. When the Queen Mother gave birth to the King of Yue, they were the ones Delivered.

They are old employees.

Before moving into Jingren Palace, the Empress Dowager called the two nuns to Cining Palace and gave her numerous warnings, saying that the fetuses in Jingren Palace were not trivial and that they must take care of them with care.

The two nuns knelt in the Cining Palace and said that they would not dare to neglect.

The Queen Mother held a meeting with the doctors at the Imperial Hospital, and asked them to use all their means, no matter what good medicine they used, to ensure the safety of the Queen and the concubines.

On the night of November 12th, Jingren Palace was really busy.

It was not long after the Youshi period. After eating a piece of cold cake, the empress felt a faint stomachache. She washed her body with warm water, and the pain became more serious.

Doctor Zhang, who had served the Queen throughout her pregnancy, naturally knew how powerful this was. Fortunately, before the Empress was about to give birth, the palace had already rehearsed it many times.

Guiyuan quickly pulled up the heavy curtains and asked the palace maid to prepare warm water, scissors and other items. She helped the queen lie down on the spacious soft couch and asked the young eunuch to call the nun who delivered the baby.

Before Mammy arrived, Concubine Wei arrived first.

"Sister, is she going to give birth?" Wei Bin held her round belly, looking very worried for the queen.

Beads of sweat broke out on the queen's forehead, and her face looked sallow as she leaned on the high soft pillow.

Her stomach was already hurting, but when she saw Wei Concubine coming, the queen panicked. It was like a child trafficker had arrived.

"Don't worry, sister, I have already given instructions to those two nuns. When my sister gives birth to the child, they will say that the child is mine. I will treat my sister's child well in the future and will not let him suffer any injustice. When the time comes, He became the prince, he ascended the throne as the emperor, and my sister became the queen, and she was promoted to the empress dowager. I will never be able to repay my sister for her great kindness and kindness in this life. I will repay my sister in the next life as a cow or a horse. "

"But... I am pregnant for ten months and nothing comes out..."

"Don't worry, sister. My sister has already thought of a countermeasure."

"What countermeasure?"

"At that time, let Dr. Zhang tell me that my sister is not pregnant, but has water in her abdomen, which is why she has a big belly. He has misdiagnosed her."

"But……"

It is said that the imperial doctor misdiagnosed the disease, and the imperial doctor may not be able to continue working in the palace.

The queen is always upset.

"Sister, at this point, there is no way out. I will give him a thousand taels of silver from Dr. Zhang, which is enough for him to support his family. Besides, the emperor is kind, if we sisters can intercede for Dr. Zhang, maybe he can still survive. Working as an errand in the palace."

The queen's sweat dripped onto her lips.

She gritted her teeth silently, thinking about Wei Bin's words.

After becoming pregnant, there seemed to be a thread that kept pulling her forward.

Her IQ is not as good as Wei Bin.

As of now, there seems to be no better way.

After all, if she doesn't do what Wei Bin wants, Wei Bin will seek death again. Then not only will the only sister be gone, but the Wei family's face will also be lost.

The queen felt a little heavy in her heart.

Doctor Zhang knelt outside the curtain and whispered: "I am willing to comply with the wishes of the Queen."

"I will do as Wei concubine wants in a moment."

"Yes."

Although Imperial Physician Yi did not want the Queen to suffer such injustice, he could not disobey the Queen's wishes, so he could only sigh secretly in his heart.

There was a smile in Wei Bin's eyes.

"Ouch - my stomach hurts so much." Concubine Wei put on her cotton bag and lay down next to the queen: "Sister, I'm afraid I'm going to give birth."

"Ah - it hurts so much, sister, it hurts me so much." Wei Bin shouted.

The concubine Wei's painful voice echoed out of the main hall. The maids and eunuchs held basins and towels and prayed secretly, praying that she and the queen could give birth to a child safely.

The queen's stomach also hurt badly, but Concubine Wei lay beside her wearing a cotton bag and screamed in pain, and she screamed so realistically that the queen couldn't do anything about it. For a moment, she just watched Wei Bin yelling, and she forgot to make any sound. She just gritted her teeth and endured it silently.

Big beads of sweat soaked the queen's brocade robe, and the dark purple brocade robe embroidered with daffodils was soaked with sweat.

Guiyuan silently wiped the sweat from the queen's forehead with a cotton handkerchief.

When Wei Bin saw this, she picked up the tea on the small table and poured it in her face.

Wei Bin's hair, face, and neck were all covered with tea, as if she had sweated.

The queen frowned and couldn't help but sigh that her sister was talented.

Wei Bin's pain seemed ten times worse than hers.

A long piece of red gauze hung on the delivery bed.

According to the previous training class, this red yarn was hung from the beam and used for production.

If you have no strength during childbirth, you can pull this red yarn to sit up and exert your strength.

Before the queen could touch the red gauze, Concubine Wei had already wrapped it around her wrist and moaned: "It hurts so much, sister, it hurts so much, I'm going to die."

The midwife came over and counted the items brought by the maids one by one. On the wooden tray were two bowls of birth-inducing soup, as well as rolling pins, scissors, cotton cloth and other items.

Chen Guo has the custom of drinking birth-promoting soup.

Poor people among the people will drink a bowl of fragrant ash soup to induce birth when they worship Buddha before their death.

Of course, the empress in the palace did not use this method. Instead, she used medicinal materials to promote fertility, which were boiled by the Imperial Hospital for later use.

The queen and concubine Wei drank the birth-inducing soup, and concubine Wei was in terrible pain.

Instead, the queen was stunned and watched Wei Bin's performance quietly.

Guiyuan felt extremely distressed when she saw that the queen didn't say a word even though she was sweating all over her body: "Queen, if it hurts, just scream out, don't hold it back."

The queen nodded silently.

When a woman gives birth to a child, it is almost like a journey through hell. Kangxi's legitimate wife, Queen Xiaochengren, his daughter, Princess Heshuo Wenke, and the great poet Nalan Xingde's first wife, Mrs. Lu, all died in childbirth.

When the Queen Mother heard that Jingren Palace was about to give birth, she leaned on her crutch and sat down in the main hall of Jingren Palace.

Across the heavy curtains, hearing Concubine Wei's high voice and low voice, the Queen Mother couldn't help but sigh: "It's not easy to spread the branches of the royal family. When Concubine Wei gives birth to the child safely, she should be promoted."

The Queen didn't cry out at all, so the Queen Mother asked again: "Why didn't the Queen say anything? Did she faint from the pain?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother is gritting her teeth and persisting."

The queen who usually couldn't help drooling over a piece of pastry was able to grit her teeth and persevere at the critical moment of giving birth.

The Queen Mother was somewhat moved.

After all, she is the daughter of the Wei family.

The Queen Mother kept fiddling with the Buddhist beads in her hands, and asked Aunt Guan to offer incense to the Guanyin Empress.

But after waiting for more than two hours, the queen and concubine Wei still failed to give birth to a child.

The two midwives knelt out and said, "The Queen Mother, the Queen... I'm afraid it will be difficult to give birth."

"It was you two who delivered the King of Yue back then. The Ai family believed in your skills. The pregnancy of the queen and the concubine Wei is related to the lifeline of the Chen country. Now the lifeline of the Chen country is in the hands of the two of you. The Ai family can only succeed and cannot fail. .”

The midwife was very cruel, so she had to use a rolling pin.

There is a smell of blood inside the curtain.

The midwife’s hands were covered in blood.

Bright red blood sprayed onto the heavy curtains, and patches of red on the off-white curtains looked like winter plums.

The midwife raised the rolling pin and placed it on the queen's belly: "My dear, please be patient, I will roll your belly right now."

The cold rolling pin fell on the queen's stomach. The queen's stomach twitched and she was a little scared.

The midwife pressed the queen's protruding belly with a rolling pin and rolled it downwards. The queen couldn't help crying because of the pain and fear.

Large amounts of blood flowed out along the queen's body.

The warm blood flowed out gurglingly, soaking the soft cushions and the queen's brocade robe.

The blood flowing out of Gugu was like the queen's life, passing by bit by bit. The queen's face became paler and her lips became white. Previously, she had not screamed because she endured the pain. Now she wanted to scream, but she couldn't. I felt like I had no strength, lying on the large bed like a ghost. I looked up and saw the off-white curtain hanging low, and the red gauze floating in the air making me sleepy.

The queen's eyelids felt so heavy that she was about to fall asleep.

Guiyuan's voice sounded in her ears: "Queen, please don't sleep, Queen -"

Doctor Zhang checked the Queen's pulse through the curtain, but he was also very frightened: "The Queen's blood is not good, I'm afraid she won't be able to hold on..."

Concubine Wei looked at the queen's bulging belly, and then at the queen who was gradually trying to close her eyes. She couldn't help but grab the midwife's arm and whispered: "Can you two do it? If the queen has three strengths and two weaknesses, you two I'm afraid the two of them won't be able to get out of the palace gate."

"Slave... I must do my best, but when I was in the city to deliver the baby of the prince's wife, I encountered a child with difficulty in labor, and the baby was born after a few attempts. However, the queen's baby never came out. It can be seen that the queen is You don’t know how to use force, Queen, you have to sit half-sitting, hold on to the red gauze and use force."

The queen only felt that her eyes were getting more and more chaotic, and the voice of her mother-in-law was floating around her ears, seeming real and illusory. She tried hard to grab the red gauze, but she had no strength in her hands.

Guiyuan's eyes were red: "You two can't deliver the baby, you blame the queen for not using force."

"I have delivered so many babies, but no one is as incompetent as the Queen. There is nothing I can do."

"Stop talking, go ahead and roll it out. No matter what, you must keep the royal bloodline." Concubine Wei winked at the midwife.

The midwife knew this, so she held up the rolling dough and pressed it onto the queen's belly.

Hearing Gao Rang say that Queen Jingren Palace was about to give birth and that the midwife had already gone to take care of her, Du Jiyan felt uneasy.

The Chen State was backward and did not have modern delivery conditions. At this time, if a woman gave birth to a child, half of the mother and child were safe, which would be considered a high incense.

Concerned about the queen's safety, she went to Jingren Palace late at night and met the queen mother and several concubines sitting in the palace.

The imperial doctor in the hospital was anxious: "Your Majesty, the Queen is having a difficult delivery and has lost too much blood now."

"Your Majesty, the midwife is watching from inside. I have prepared a medicinal soup for the Queen to improve Qi and replenish blood. Now I have poured the medicinal soup down. However, a woman giving birth does not happen overnight. If she cannot give birth, I am afraid …”

When the emperor came, a female demi-celestial being dancing in the courtyard danced even more joyfully.

This is the atmosphere group produced by Chen Guo.

The female half-immortal holds a red drum in her hand, wears a black robe barefoot, and paints her face with red and yellow colors. She jumps and beats the drum in her hand, and murmurs: "The Jade Emperor and Queen Mother appear to drive away evil spirits and protect them. Go away, the sky is moving and the earth is moving..." He jumped up and down and almost stepped on Du Jiyan's foot.

When the emperor was here, such feudal superstitions were rarely practiced in the palace.

What time has it been? When the Queen's life and death were uncertain, the female half-immortal was still here whining and moaning, and almost trampled Du Jiyan. If it had been normal, she would have scolded her a lot.

Du Jiyan also felt that the female half-immortal was noisy, so he only gave the female half-immortal a cold look. The female half-immortal still had some eyes, so she packed up the red drum and ran away with the baggage.

When the concubines saw the emperor arriving, they all saluted.

The Queen lay quietly inside the curtain with weak breath, and the concubine Wei's voice screamed in pain one after another: "The Queen Mother... The Queen Mother... I feel so much pain... It hurts so much..."

Wei Bin screamed in pain and was very angry, but she seemed to be fine.

As for the queen, if she can't hear her movements, she may be in danger.

Gotta go in and have a look.

Du Jianyan wanted to lift the curtain when he went up.

Before the curtain was opened, a bloody aura hit his face.

The concubines had already grabbed Du Jiyan's robe.

"Your Majesty, although it is dangerous for a woman to give birth, it is the path that every woman must take. The Emperor is a man and cannot enter. To avoid collision."

"Yes, Your Majesty, women often have blood when they give birth. Your Majesty is the emperor, and the Emperor is precious. You cannot go to any place where there is blood and blood. Your Majesty, you must take care of your dragon body."

Damn bloody light.

If Du Jiyan was afraid, he would pinch his aunt every month.

Now that the queen is afraid of danger, she cannot ignore the queen's safety.

Before the emperor went to Beiding, he specifically told Du Jiyan to be optimistic about the queen's pregnancy. She could not betray the emperor's trust. Now, she wants to protect this child if she can protect it, and if she can't, she still wants to protect it.

Du Jiyan insisted on visiting the queen, and the queen mother couldn't sit still: "Why don't you listen to the advice? The queen and the concubine are giving birth. If the emperor goes in and gets a bloody disaster, forget it. If the emperor has any good intentions, , what should the people of Chen country do?"

Du just said a word.

He also made excuses for the common people.

Every time the common people were brought into trouble, the emperor would obediently submit.

Fortunately, Du Jiyan is a fake emperor.

The Queen Mother wanted to kidnap the people, but she refused.

(End of this chapter)