The old doctor came in carrying a tray with a bowl of steaming medicine. Ji Xie asked eagerly: "How is the queen?"

"My mother's water has broken, but the fetal head has not yet entered the basin. This situation is very dangerous!" The old man shook his gray beard and frowned and said: "For the current plan, the only way is to drink this inducing labor medicine to let my mother.

Early delivery. Fortunately, the fetus is almost full term. If the stabilization technique is in place, the fetal head can be accurately inserted into the basin."

The two steady women also came in and knelt down behind the old doctor. They were submissive. According to Fan's original idea, as long as Naoyangsi could rush back before giving birth, she would have asked the palace supervisor to send two assistants to help. But that was all.

Now things have turned ugly. These two people were assigned on temporary duty. They were strangers to each other, but they couldn't care less. But ------she pulled Ji Xie's sleeve and begged: "Your Majesty, now

My wet nurse died suddenly, and I really don’t want to be surrounded by no one I know well at this critical moment. Can you please allow Madam Zhao to bring my wife Wen into the palace?”

"It's up to you, it's up to you." Ji Xie patted the back of her hand distressedly: "As long as you give birth to the baby safely, anyone you want can enter the palace. In this way, how about Huang Ying being here to accompany you during the birth?"

Just as Fan Ji was about to nod, the old doctor said eagerly: "Mother, please drink this labor-inducing medicine as soon as possible. If the amniotic fluid dries up, then ------ it will be dangerous."

Ji Xie shook his sleeves, took the bowl of medicine with his own hands, and helped Fan Ji up: "Ji, drink it first, don't be afraid. I'm not going anywhere, just waiting outside, ah?"

After drinking the oxytocin, everything was ready in the room, and the two stable women were waiting nervously. At this moment, Fanji suddenly felt blurred, as if lying on a cloud, but had to endure waves of waves.

Labor pains came. This was not her first time giving birth, but eleven years had diluted her memory of the first time. She only felt strange. It didn't seem to hurt much, but her waist was sore and swollen.

, the soreness below her waist and abdomen almost made her want to cry. It was so sore that it hurt!

I don’t know how many hours passed, but my clothes were soaked with sweat, and even my eyelashes were wet. The sky outside turned dark, and the voices in my ears were still shouting loudly. The two stable women took turns pressing on my towering abdomen.

, sometimes stroking, sometimes pressing hard, as if trying to use external force to push the fetus into the pelvis.

Huang Ying's face appeared behind the two gentlemen from time to time, with tears in her eyes, and she comforted her from time to time: "My dear, please be patient, the king is always outside!"

After a while, he came over and said, "Your Majesty, the prince is here too. They are all waiting for your Majesty to give birth safely!"

The lights were lit in the room, and the stars were as dotted as the night sky, which seemed to complement the already full eyes of Venus. The cheerleaders in the room were still repeating themselves, nothing more than "breathe in", "endure the pain" and "save your energy and don't shout"

"Just try harder" and "It'll be fine" are the same old sayings repeated over and over again.

During the interval of labor pain, she seemed to hear Ji Xie shouting something outside: "------If anything unexpected happens------I will die------" or something like that, maybe she saw it wrong.

, it was obvious that the two steady women exchanged glances, what did they mean? She had no time to think deeply. The pain in her waist had accumulated to a critical point, and she felt that she was about to die.

Suddenly the door curtain was lifted, and Zhao Ji came in with an anxious woman. Without any time to say anything, he walked to the bedside and held Fan Ji's hand tightly: "Aunt, don't worry, I'm here!

"

With the arrival of the new force, one of his own, Fanji felt a burst of strength from nowhere. He gritted his teeth and held his breath with all his strength. Suddenly, there was a damp heat between the mattresses. The almost crazy pain seemed to find an outlet, and he rushed over with all his teeth and claws.

.All the miracles in the world have arrived at this moment, fiercely announcing the arrival of new life.

Fanji, who had just unloaded his burden, was still in the clouds, and the screams of the stable women could be heard in his ears——

"It's out! It's out! It's a big fat boy! It's a little prince."

Fan Ji was already very weak and could only look at Zhao Ji with his eyes. The latter understood: "Mother, please relax. Once the child is cleaned and wrapped, I will bring it over to you for a look!"

There seemed to be a sound of congratulations outside: "Congratulations to the king for winning Lin'er again!" This seemed to be E Shi's voice.

"Reward! The queen has given birth, everyone has worked hard, and they are all rewarded!" King Zhou Yi's voice was louder than anyone else's, followed by a chorus of congratulations and thanksgiving.

Wen Po from the Zhao Mansion delivered the tightly wrapped swaddling clothes, with a smile on her face, and said repeatedly: "He is a white and handsome fat boy! Congratulations to the Queen!"

Fan Ji was so weak that he could only tilt his head slightly to look at the red and wrinkled little balls. How could they be so white and handsome? However, he looked cute with his round head and chubby little cheeks, and his contours

There is a clear nose bridge and a long curved eyeliner under the swollen eyelids. It is hard to see what the facial features are like, but he keeps making noises like small animals.

"The little prince looks like the king!" Huang Ying joked with a smile.

After taking her last breath to see the child, Fanji couldn't hold on any longer. Her upper and lower eyelids kept fighting. She was exhausted both physically and mentally, and finally fell asleep. At the moment when she lost consciousness, she seemed to see E Siu opening the curtain and coming in -

-----

I don’t know how long she slept for, but probably because “whatever you think about, you must dream about.” She kept dreaming about the wet nurse------dreaming about her looking at her and smiling, and dreaming about her lying in a pool of blood.

I don't know how to deal with human affairs------over and over again, it's a mess------

A bitter and pungent taste penetrated into her teeth and cheeks, and she slowly woke up. What caught her eyes was Huang Ying's worried face. She was filling herself with ginseng soup from a small copper pot with a thin mouth.

Said: "Mother, you------do you feel better?"

The delivery room originally smelled of blood and filth, but when I woke up, the smell of blood was stronger than before. Fanji was a little startled, and then he touched the fishy wetness under his body, and the trembling and helpless looks of several stable women, and he suddenly understood

For most of the time, she asked in a low voice: "Ah Ying, am I--bad!"

Inside and outside the palace, King Ji Xie of Zhou Yi looked livid, and everyone could feel that the thunderous fury hidden under his gloomy face was getting ready to go off. In front of him, a large circle of people knelt down, with E

Ji was the leader, followed by the doctor in charge, the medical woman and Wen Po, and the palace maids and chambermaids. Only Duke Zhao and his wife were still standing behind King Yi, looking uneasy.

Ji Xie twitched the corner of his mouth: "Why did the queen suffer from bleeding? Are you so helpless? I am leaving my words here today. If anything happens to the queen, you people--" He pointed at the people in front of him.

The people in this circle said coldly: "If no one is left behind, they will all die!"

The old doctor kowtowed as if pounding garlic: "Your Majesty, please forgive me! I have given the Queen acupuncture, given her a decoction to stop bleeding, and used ginseng decoction to replenish her Qi. I have thought of all the ways I can think of! Please forgive me, Your Majesty.

!”

"Don't argue with me!" Ji Xie said angrily: "The fourth prince has been delivered successfully. It's fine. How could the queen bleed heavily? It must be because you are not careful! One more excuse will be punished by the entire clan!"

"Your Majesty!" Wen Po from Duke Zhao's Mansion lost her breath at this time. She went out on her knees and said, "I just felt that something was wrong. I don't know whether I should tell you something or not?"

"But it's okay to talk! If you are successful in exposing it, you will not only avoid death, but also be rewarded!" Ji Xie said in a deep voice, his eyes intentionally or unintentionally sweeping over E Xiang and Ji Jiang who were kneeling in the row of palace concubines in front of them.

Na Wen Po raised her head and glanced at Zhao Ji again. After receiving the approval, she no longer hesitated and said: "Your Majesty, it is said that after the fetus is born, it should wait for half a stick of incense before the birth.

But after the slave cut the umbilical cord, he took the fourth prince away and scrubbed him. As soon as he turned around, he saw that the queen's afterbirth had come out. The slave saw that the afterbirth was bloody, and there was something wrong with it compared to the afterbirth that was delivered normally."

"What's wrong?" Ji Xie asked, clenching his fists tightly in his sleeves.

"It's incomplete, there are cracks, it seems--" Wenpo said hesitantly: "It seems to have been pulled out of the body with the help of force, very hard." She looked at the person next to her with suspicion as she spoke.

A glance at Wen Po in the palace.

After hearing this accusation, the two stable women immediately panicked and kowtowed: "You slaves don't know! All the ladies who have given birth in the palace in recent years have delivered babies in this way, there is no difference!"

Please give me a clear warning, Your Majesty!"

"Mingjian? Hahaha ------" Ji Xie sneered from between his teeth: "I'm afraid you are just different from the queen, right? How dare you talk nonsense in front of me and shirk the blame, thinking that someone can protect you?

Can’t do it?”

"Your Majesty ------" Huang Ying opened the curtain and came out in a panic: "Your Majesty, I'm awake. Call your Majesty, Your Highness the Crown Prince and Duke Zhao and his wife to come in. Your Majesty has something to explain."

With a concerned look on his face, Ji Xie took a few steps forward, suddenly stopped, and told his chamberlain Jia: "These stable women must be detained separately and must be closely guarded. They must not have contact with the outside world."

"No!" Jia, the chamberlain, went to arrange the arrangements without mentioning anything.

Under the dim candlelight, Fanji's face is as pale as paper, with a few strands of black hair hanging feebly on her cheeks. The black and white are intertwined, which looks particularly shocking. What's even more shocking is that the bridge of her nose that used to be tall has changed from the tip of her nose.

It collapsed, and everyone understood that this was a sign that her life was about to end. Her blood was about to run out, and all the vitality of her life was taken away.

Prince Ji Hu could not hold back and knelt in front of his mother's bed and cried loudly, but Fan Ji had no strength to comfort her son. She gathered the last bit of strength in her body and raised her hand to signal Huang Ying to hand the baby to Zhao Ji. She saw the child calling her.

Weeping in his arms, Fan Ji said in a weak voice: "This child will be handed over to Mr. Zhao and his wife - Your Majesty, please allow me!"
Chapter completed!