Madam Hou

Chapter 146

Childbirth is a filthy thing, so naturally it cannot be given birth in the main room.A few days earlier, Mrs. Lin saw that Yinniang was about to give birth, so she asked people to clean up the ear room as a delivery room, incense, hang up curtains, and spread thick bedding. There is a servant girl guarding inside, afraid that if Yinniang suddenly activates it, there will be no time to arrange it.

Lin Fengqi put Yinniang on the bed, and before waiting for a while, the four midwives arrived.They were invited to wait in the mansion a month earlier, and they lived in the small courtyard in the east corner of Tangrong Courtyard. When the maids called, they could come right away after putting on their clothes.Not long after the midwives came, Mrs. Lin Tai also came over. When she came in, she saw that the midwife was touching Yinniang's belly for inspection, so she didn't bother them.Seeing Lin Fengqi still standing in the delivery room in court clothes, he quickly pushed him out and said: "Where is the delivery room, what are you doing here, a big man, get out quickly, so as not to get bad luck."

Lin Fengqi didn't hear what Mrs. Lin said at all, and was suddenly pushed out of the door, and shouted with some dissatisfaction: "Mother."

Mrs. Lin gave her son a very dissatisfied look, thinking that Yin Niang, who was about to give birth inside, didn't say anything, and seeing that he was still wearing court clothes, she said again: "You can't help if you stay here, you first Go up to court, I will take care of your daughter-in-law here, and nothing will happen to her."

Lin Fengqi thought for a while, and then said: "Then I will go to the palace to take a leave of absence, and I will go to the imperial hospital to ask for an imperial doctor to come out, mother, please help me take good care of Yinniang."

Mrs. Lin waved her hand and said: "Got it, got it, you go quickly." She then re-entered the delivery room.

The midwife just finished checking Yinniang's fetal position, Mrs. Lin asked hurriedly, "What's the matter?"

One of the midwives smiled and replied: "Madam's fetal position is very good, there is no problem. It's just that it's too early to give birth. Why don't you get some easy food to fill Madam's stomach, so as not to lose strength during labor."

Mrs. Lin Tai had given birth before, so she naturally knew these details. After hearing what the midwife said, she quickly asked the maid to cook some egg custard.He also asked people to go to the warehouse to pick up two hundred-year-old ginseng trees for preparation.

Although the midwife said that Yinniang's fetus is in a good position and there is nothing wrong with it, but giving birth to a woman is like going through the gate of hell. Before the birth, anything can happen.The old mountain ginseng is prepared, just in case something happens, so that it can be used to hang his life.

Lin Fengqi entered the palace, but he didn't go to court, so he asked someone to take leave of absence for him. He went to the imperial hospital and dragged an imperial doctor who was good at obstetrics and came back.

People outside said that Yinniang was going to give birth in a month, but now that Lin Fengqi dragged her away in a hurry, the imperial doctor thought that Mrs. Yongning Hou gave birth prematurely and had dystocia.In the end, when they arrived at the Yongning Hou Mansion, they found that the four midwives were gathered in a pile at the door of the delivery room, chatting with each other with a smile, it didn't look like the situation was urgent at all.Lin Fengqi asked how his wife was, and the midwife replied with a relaxed face: "I'm eating!" Only then did the imperial physician realize that he was thinking too much.

Yinniang's stomach hurts intermittently, although it is a bit uncomfortable, but it is far from unbearable.For a whole day and a half, she ate and slept, ate and ate, and when she couldn't sleep, she counted sheep.Until the next afternoon, she felt wet under her body suddenly, and her stomach hurt as if someone had stabbed it with a sharp knife. The midwife next to her exclaimed: "Ah, come on, the amniotic fluid broke..." Then the four midwives Immediately surrounded her nervously.

The heart-piercing pain kept coming, and Yinniang couldn't stand the pain, so she couldn't help screaming.A midwife stuffed a piece of cork into her mouth and said to her, "Ma'am, bite the cork to avoid biting your tongue!"

Yin Niang nodded, and then she was directed by the midwife.

"Ma'am, take a deep breath..."

"Ma'am, if you press hard, the cervix has already opened..."

"Ma'am, if you try harder, the young master will come out soon..."

"Ma'am, I have already seen the young master's head..."

"Put more force, more force, the head of the young master has already come out..."

Yinniang felt that she was going to die of pain, her mind was buzzing, she couldn't think of anything, she only knew to do what the midwife told her, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, take a deep breath, take a deep breath... It seemed like a long, long time later, Yinniang grabbed When he used up the last bit of strength on his body, the little person who had been tormenting him finally broke away from his body.

The midwife cut off the umbilical cord, and then the little man cried loudly with a "wow".Yinniang relaxed her body, gasping for breath, but couldn't help but smile happily.

The midwife smiled and congratulated: "Congratulations madam, you are a young master!"

Yin Niang smiled and nodded.

The midwife carried the baby down to wash, weigh, and bring her back in a red swaddle.The midwife said again: "Ma'am, the young master weighs six catties, would you like to take a look?"

Yin Niang nodded again.The midwife went over with the baby in her arms, and showed Yinniang a corner of the swaddling baby.The child's skin was red and wrinkled, a few thinning hairs grew on his head, and his eyes were closed.Yin Niang lightly touched his face with her fingers, feeling that he looked good no matter what.

She wanted to hug him at first, but she really didn't have the strength, so she reluctantly said to the midwife: "You take him out and let Lord Hou and Mrs. Tai take a look."

The midwife smiled and said yes, and then she heard the excited voices of her husband and mother-in-law outside intermittently.She seemed to hear her husband cheerfully asking, "Why is he so young?" "Is he hungry, do you want to breastfeed him?" and Mrs. Lin Tai saying, "Buddha bless, ancestor bless, let Yinniang get a boy in one fell swoop, We, Feng Qi, have a descendant!"

Yin Niang smiled proudly, and then fell asleep!

Yinniang fell asleep until she was ugly, and when she woke up, candles were already lit in the room, and Lin Fengqi was sitting beside her, holding the child and refusing to let go, while the nanny and others were standing beside her.The midwives are still there, and they will wait on Yinniang until the lochia is gone before returning home.

Seeing Yinniang waking up, Lin Fengqi quickly hugged the child and sat on the side of the bed, saying, "Are you awake?"

Yin Niang gave a "hmm" and said again: "It's so late, why don't you go back to sleep?" After speaking, she struggled to sit up, and the maid next to her quickly helped her up, and put a big pillow behind her.

Lin Fengqi did not answer Yinniang's words, looked at her, and said sincerely: "Thank you, Yinniang!" Then he hugged the child to her side, and said with a smile: "Look at our son!"

Yin Niang pushed back the swaddling clothes that covered his face, and looked at the little person inside, her heart felt soft.After a while, Lin Fengqi said again: "Who do you think he looks more like?"

Yin Niang looked at the child's face seriously again. Although the child's appearance has not yet grown, but the general outline can still be seen that it looks more like Lin Fengqi. Thinking about it this way, Lin Fengqi's tone just now was obviously showing off.Yin Niang was a little dissatisfied and said: "Father Xiao, father and son Xiao mother, he hasn't grown up yet, when she grows up, he will be more like me." After speaking, she stretched out her hand and said, "You let me Hug!"

Lin Fengqi smiled, supported the child's head and handed him to Yinniang's arms. Yinniang shook the child lightly, and said softly, "Baby, do you know who I am? I am mother!"

Lin Fengqi looked at his wife and children, and couldn't help showing a doting smile.

Yin Niang looked at the child's closed eyes, raised her head and asked Lin Fengqi, "Why doesn't he open his eyes?"

Lin Fengqi didn't know either, he turned his head and asked the midwife with his eyes.The midwife smiled and said: "Most babies are born with their eyes closed, and it will take two or three days before they open their eyes." The midwife was happy to see Yinniang and Lin Fengqi, and flattered: "Ma'am, don't worry, the young master is a good boy." Blessed are those who are filial and do not bother their mother at all when they come out. I have delivered so many children, and my wife gave birth the fastest."

Hearing someone praise her son, Yinniang laughed brightly.After a while, Yinniang thought of something again, and asked the nanny, "Has the baby been fed yet?"

The nanny quickly bent her knees and said, "I've fed it, I just fed it two hours ago, and it's the slave's milk."

The midwife next to her heard this, she hesitated to speak, and then thought of the twelve taels of gold that Lord Hou gave her, and finally decided to speak: "Master Hou, madam, there is something I want to tell you, if Lord Hou and Madam thinks that the servant girl made a mistake, so she will break her mouth as a servant girl."

Several midwives delivered Yinniang safely, and Lin Fengqi was grateful to them in his heart. Hearing what the nanny said, he said: "Mom just has something to say, and it doesn't take me any time to listen."

The midwife said: "Then the maidservant will get over the hairpin. Madam might as well feed the young master herself for a few days. The birth mother's milk is very good for the child, and it is easier for the child to grow strong after eating it."

The nanny was a little worried when she heard that, if the wife fed the young master herself, what would they want their nanny to do, to be a nanny to the eldest son of the Hou Mansion, such a relaxed and decent job is not so easy to find.The nanny looked at the midwife without hesitation, and retorted: "Mom, what you said is wrong. Madam is a noble person, so there is no way for Madam to breastfeed herself."

Although Lin Fengqi didn't speak, he didn't agree with it in his heart. How could he believe what the nurse said was groundless.Besides, if the wife of a big family needs to feed the child herself, it's not like the house can't afford a nanny, so why bother to let Yin Niang work hard to feed the child.

On the contrary, Yin Niang was a little moved. She had heard such a saying before, and she also heard people say that it is easier for a child to get close to the biological mother after eating the milk of the biological mother.It was her own sisters who were breastfed by their mother when they were young, and the nanny came to feed when the mother's milk was not enough.The three sisters have grown up to this day, and their bodies are healthier than the young ladies from other families. Maybe this is the reason.

The midwife ignored what the nanny said, and said to Yinniang and Lin Fengqi: "Master Hou and Madam, if you think what the servant says is reasonable, listen to it. If you think what the servant says is unreasonable, then you are farting like a slave."

Yin Niang said: "What did mother say? You are doing it for the sake of the young master. I am grateful for your suggestion."

Listening to Yinniang's words, Lin Fengqi was a little surprised and said, "You really plan to breastfeed yourself, right?"

Yin Niang smiled at him, but without speaking, she lowered her head and kissed her son's face. .

(End of this chapter)