Chapter 171 The King Accompanying the Childbirth
"Only these two days."
The imperial doctor held his breath, with caution in his tone.
"Then what?" Zhao Zheng raised his eyes and looked at the two Wen women kneeling at the back.
Even though they were working in the Zongzheng Mansion, they were assisted by royal family members in their productions, and this was the first time Zhao Zheng saw them.
The older Mrs. Wen, Mrs. Liu, looked calmer. She kowtowed and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, Her Royal Highness the Queen will have abdominal pain for a day and suffer from the pain of primiparous labor. After that, the young master will be born and mother and child will be safe."
Her words were watertight and reassuring.
But Zhao Zheng still frowned.
"From now on," he said solemnly, "you are not allowed to step out of Zhiyang Palace any more. Anyone who violates this will be punished with dereliction of duty."
"promise."
Everyone in the palace responded in unison, and the doctor immediately surrounded Zhiyang Palace after hearing the words.
"You can't even enter the Ai family?"
Queen Mother Ji Man was blocked from Zhiyang Palace. She was anxious and couldn't get angry.
The doctor guarding Zhiyang Palace knelt down on one knee and saluted, "This is your Majesty's order."
Through the opened main door of Zhiyang Palace, the Queen Mother saw that both the internal servants and the maids inside were all in a hurry and looked anxious, and she suddenly became even more worried.
"Go and ask Your Majesty why the Ai family is not allowed in?" At such a critical moment, the Queen Mother did not care whether her words were decent or not.
"Your Majesty is worried that Her Majesty the Queen Mother will be hit by the bloody light." The doctor explained carefully, and the nun serving behind the Queen Mother also supported the Queen Mother's arm.
"Your Highness," she advised, "Your Majesty is being filial to you. Let's go back to Da Zheng Palace and wait for good news."
As the nanny persuaded the Queen Mother to leave, she saw a man walking quickly over there.
He had an ugly face and walked with a slight , he only nodded slightly at the palace door, and the doctor stepped aside to allow him to enter.
The Queen Mother, who was about to leave, looked at the man's back, frowned and turned to the doctor, waiting for an explanation.
"That one is the sect steward," the doctor said, "with the permission of Her Royal Highness the Queen."
The manager can get in, but she can't? The Queen Mother was shocked and angry, and then suddenly thought that the Zong Guanshi was the Zongjun who had previously guarded the monarch's private treasury and identified poisons, but she was speechless.
How miserable.
She thought of the completely unrecognizable face just now and felt panicked.
That's all, express your concern yourself and just show place of production has always been a place of right and wrong, so stay away.
The Queen Mother pretended to cough a few times, and with the help of her nanny, she walked into the sedan chair with her head slightly lifted, and Shi Shiran left.
"Is it still hard?"
Zhao Zheng was exempted from court duties for the past two days and stayed with Jiang He.
"It hurts." Jiang He said, "It hurts one after another, like someone is pulling at the skin and breaking the bones."
Her brows had never been so wrinkled with shallow grooves as they were today, and the sweat from her temples soaked the silk handkerchief with just a swipe.
"Be patient."
Zhao Zheng held his hand tighter, leaned down, and kissed Jiang He's eyebrows in front of the palace maid and Wen Po.
"Your Majesty," Jiang He pushed him when the pain came, "get out, so as not to be hit by the bloody light."
"There's no rush," Zhao Zheng comforted her, "Mr. Wen said you are your first child and it will take a long time to give birth."
Thinking of this, he turned to Po Wen who was standing solemnly in the hall and said: "You go back to the side hall to rest your energy first. You have been waiting here for five hours. Don't wait until the queen is really about to give birth, and you will lose your strength."
Wen Po knelt down and saluted before exiting, gathering her energy to return to the room prepared for them.
The table is already filled with food.
The two of them were sitting opposite each other, and the slightly younger Wen Po Zhang suddenly said: "What good food can my sister eat?"
"My filial disciple," Madam Liu opened the small bundle she brought with her and handed over a plum blossom cake. "You should also try it. This is the taste of my hometown. I have been accustomed to eating it since I was a child."
Mrs. Zhang waved her hand and said, "Thank you sister for the reward, but my family is not used to sweet food."
Mrs. Liu smiled and took a sip of tea. While eating the plum blossom cake, she twisted her shoulders and hips slightly to relieve the fatigue of the day.
"Eat a little and go wait on me," she whispered. "Looking at Her Majesty the Queen's condition of pain, she will be here soon."
The pain is in the lower back, abdomen, or throughout the body.
Jiang He felt that she was about to break. Her breathing became louder and louder. She originally wanted to hold back and not look so ugly, but in the end she couldn't help but shout out.
Only separated by a screen, she heard Zhao Zheng asking many anxious questions.
"what happened?"
"Is it better?"
"How long will it take?"
It could be heard that he was trying his best to control his emotions that were on the verge of collapse while being anxious.
"Reporting to Your Majesty, Luo Hong is red."
"Reporting to Your Majesty, the baby's position is not right. I'm already giving massage to help the young master adjust the position."
"Report to Your Majesty..."
Then there was the sound of something breaking.
"Nanny Liu!" A maid came forward and helped Ms. Liu, whose knees were weak and fell to the ground, "Are you okay?"
"Nujia..." Mrs. Liu covered her stomach, which seemed to be in more pain than the mother gave birth, "I feel unwell."
There was silence in the hall, and Zhao Zheng said: "Drag him out!"
Instead, the midwife caused the disaster first, which is unlucky.
The palace door closed with a loud "bang", and Jiang He heard Mrs. Liu crying outside the door: "Young master still needs to adjust the position of the fetal head, let the disciples of the slave family do it. She has been delivering babies in the capital for 20 years, and she has never Missed."
When the sound of the hoofbeats of the commander's army was heard outside, the formerly lively courtyard became as silent as if it had sunk to the bottom of the sea.
This may be because there were seven corpses lying in an inconspicuous small veranda at the back of the yard.
Zhao Yuxue painted carefully in front of the bronze mirror.
She made her eyebrows lighter, her face yellower, and she added some spots to her forehead, eyes, and cheeks. Finally, she put the collected white hair into a bun. When she stood up again, she deliberately imitated Lin's accent and tone and said: a few words.
"Is there anyone there?" The doctor's voice sounded in the yard, sounding anxious.
"The slave family is here." Zhao Yuxue opened the door and went out, walking slowly on purpose.
"Are you Wenpo Lin?" the doctor asked.
Seeing Zhao Yuxue nodding, the doctor ordered the army to say: "Search her!" Immediately, soldiers came forward and searched Zhao Yuxue up and down regardless of whether she was a woman.
"go!"
The door of the carriage opened and Zhao Yuxue got in.
She closed her eyes as she endured the humiliation she had just suffered.
If you want to kill an exhausted mother, you don't need to carry weapons.
The carriage drove very quickly into the palace and headed towards Zhiyang palace maid opened the curtain, took Zhao Yuxue out, and led her to the side hall.
Side hall?
Yes, in order to avoid impurity, women cannot give birth to children in the main palace where the queen people would set up bamboo sheds in their yards, and some would throw them into the wild.
This is in the palace, that is, in the side hall.
Zhao Yuxue thought for a moment and then walked in.
There was a lot of hustle and bustle inside.
Some left with dirty clothes, some entered with hot water, and a few women covered themselves with sheets. When they walked over, they could see the smooth calves of the women on the bed.
The legs were extremely wet.
"How is the situation?" Zhao Yuxue asked.
"You're here." A slightly younger woman pulled her to the bed. "It's because the fetus is in an abnormal position and the fetal head needs to be turned. I heard you're good at this, so don't delay."
Zhao Yuxue immediately washed her hands in the hot water, took a step forward, looked around and said: "There are too many people in the room, and it will be bad if they bump into the fetal god. Please get out of here."
Wenpo will worship the fetus god, and it is said that the fetus can be born smoothly.
Perhaps because he was worried about being held responsible for some terrible crime, everyone in the room left in an instant.
Zhao Yuxue looked at the younger Wen Po again and said, "Excuse me, please go out too."
Na Wenpo was a little hesitant, so she persuaded: "I will bear the responsibility of the crime alone. If you are here, it is hard to say whether it will succeed or not."
After hearing this, Po Wen also left.
The woman on the bed seemed to have fainted from pain.
The messy hair covered her face, and it took a long time to hear her moan.
very nice.
Zhao Yuxue thought to himself.
If you want my country to be destroyed, I will kill your wife and children.
Facing a mother who is in pain and unconscious, all she needs is a pillow.
She picked up the pillow at the head of the bed and pressed it against the mother's face.
"Die." Zhao Yuxue whispered.
but--
The imaginary desperate struggle did not appear. The woman on the bed turned over and got rid of her, and stood up neatly.
This is Jiang He who is about to give birth, it is clearly her girl.
"Okay!" Cai Ling said loudly, "Manager Zong is right! You are here to seek death!"
Zhao Yuxue panicked and turned around to run.
She was careless.
Zhao Zheng was so kind to Jiang He and would not let her give birth in the side hall.
The doctor who was hiding in the house rushed out, held Zhao Yuxue down, and tied him up tightly.
"Who are you?" Facing the ugly lame man in front of her, Zhao Yuxue glared fiercely.
"My name is Zong Jun," Zong Jun said solemnly, "I am the steward of Her Royal Highness the Queen."
"I know Zongjun," Zhao Yuxue said coldly, "I heard that you were originally a drug tester for Zhao Zheng, but later your appearance was ruined, your sense of taste lost, and you are already a waste."
Zong Jun smiled modestly and said nothing.
"You are the waste!" Cai Ling stepped forward angrily and kicked the doctor hurriedly grabbed her, and she opened her mouth and pushed forward again, as if she had to take a bite of Zhao Yuxue's flesh before she could stop.
"Cailing," Zongjun advised, "Everything must be obeyed by His Majesty. Don't make any more trouble."
Cai Ling started to cry: "She caused Na Po Po to be poisoned. What can Her Majesty the Queen do, and what can the young master do? Even though we caught her, it's too late!"
Hearing this, Zhao Yuxue, who was at the end of his rope, couldn't help but feel happy.
"I came because she was poisoned, so I had to call my apprentice. But I'm curious, why did you doubt me and plan to arrest me?"
Zongjun said calmly: "Mr. Wenpo Liu is feeling unwell and recommends her as an apprentice. This is nothing at first. But to avoid being careless, I went to see what she had eaten."
Zhao Yuxue sneered.
"There is a box of plum blossom ointment. She said it was for the filial piety of her apprentice." Zongjun looked at Zhao Yuxue and saw that the makeup on her face fell off due to her struggle, revealing her original skin.
"So what? You who can quickly detect poisons in this palace are no longer of use."
"It's useful," Zongjun said with a gentle expression, subconsciously covering his painful stomach, "I ate all the remaining plum blossom cakes."
After eating them all, I felt the same pain in my abdomen as Wenpo Liu, so I knew it was poisoning.
The apprentice poisoned his master with the obvious purpose of entering the palace and delivering the queen's baby.
In this case, no matter how clever her delivery methods are, they cannot be used.
That's why Zongjun used the extra manpower to set up a small situation to see what her purpose was.
This stable woman did not want glory and wealth, but only wanted to kill the queen and her heirs.
Fortunately, although the other party is extremely vicious, they are also careful enough.
But Zhao Yuxue, who was sitting on the ground, had a strange look on his face.
"Eat it?" she murmured.
In order to prevent Liu from dying on the spot and arousing the suspicion of the imperial doctor, she controlled the dosage of the medicine very carefully.
But she never thought that the other party would be cautious enough to use this simplest and most effective way to test for drugs.
"Why?" she asked, looking up.
She couldn't imagine that on this messy night when the queen was giving birth, someone would take the initiative to sacrifice themselves here.
(End of this chapter)