Chapter 131 The Third Prince

After the palace maids moved all the things out of the delivery room, Doctor Li checked them one by one.

When he touched the water in the basin, Doctor Li's face froze. He put his nose to the water and sniffed it gently, then exclaimed in surprise, "Your Majesty, there's a knockout drug in this water!"

When these words were spoken, the concubines looked at each other in shock.

The queen's eyelids twitched suddenly: "How can there be a knockout drug?"

She glanced coldly at the midwives and palace maids in the hall.

The palace maid was from Mingsexuan.

Although the midwife was a midwife retained by the palace, she was selected by herself for Concubine Bai.

"Body search!" Xiao Heng uttered these two words in a deep voice.

Just after the palace maid and midwife were taken away, Concubine Bai drank some ginseng soup in the delivery room and gradually recovered some strength. She bit the gauze and used all her strength.

Before, she had thought that giving birth was something every woman would experience.

She has lived on the grassland since she was a child. She is not afraid of horses, sheep, swords or knives. She has fallen off her horse countless times, but she can always stand up with a smile.

So having a child was naturally not a problem for her.

However, when she actually lay in bed, enduring the pain in her fingers, she felt deeply that she was enduring the most painful thing in her life.

She could exert her strength, but Mammy said she couldn't use too much force, otherwise it would easily tear.

But her strength was too little, and the nanny said that she was not using the right strength, and asked her to use the strength from her lower body and not from her whole body.

After trying this again and again, Bai Jieyu's eyes were already bloodshot and sweat was pouring down her forehead.

Just when she couldn't stand it anymore and wanted to curse, she suddenly heard the voice of the nanny: "My lady, you can see the child's head. Please use more force."

"Oh, yes, use force like this."

The matter of the knockout drug outside has been investigated. It turns out that the midwife embedded the knockout drug in the gap between the nails. The knockout drug dissolves in water, and then she soaked a towel in water and wiped Bai Jieyu's face, which made the drug work.

The midwife knelt on the ground, her head broken and bleeding: "Your Majesty, please spare my life, Your Majesty, please spare my life!"

"Who instructed you to do that?" Xiao Heng's sharp and cold voice cut into the midwife like a knife.

The midwife trembled all over, not daring to look directly at Xiao Heng. "No one ordered me to do this. It was Concubine Bai who was too domineering. She previously beat my adopted daughter Chun'er with a stick. I just wanted to get revenge on Concubine Bai."

Xiao Heng winked at Zhou Defu and said, "Look and check if this is true."

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a baby crying was suddenly heard in the delivery room.

The concubines' hearts suddenly tightened and they looked towards the delivery room.

Only Xiao Heng had a look of joy on his face. He stood up suddenly and asked, "Is the baby born?"

He walked quickly out of the delivery room.

Nanny Zhu came out holding the wrapped child, smiling happily, "Your Majesty, it's a little prince."

As soon as the words fell, the Queen led the concubines in joyfully congratulating: "Congratulations to the Emperor on the birth of his prince."

Liu Yuetang raised her eyes to look at Yu Fei, only to see veins bulging on the back of her hand.

You can imagine how unwilling and angry she is at this moment.

After all, Liu Yuetang overestimated Concubine Yu, or underestimated Concubine Bai.

I knew that Concubine Yu would take action, but I didn't expect that Concubine Bai would see through her plan.

If Concubine Bai had not discovered the truth, the child would not be able to get out yet.

The final result is either one corpse and two lives, or a laparotomy to extract the baby.

Xiao Heng happily reached out and opened the swaddling clothes, revealing the baby's round face from the soft satin. His facial features were well-shaped, especially his nose, which was straight even in the swaddling clothes.

only……

The queen also discovered this problem. The third prince's skin color was a little yellow, not at all as fair and tender as a baby's.

Seeing this, Nanny Zhu quickly said, "The Third Prince is very healthy, but his skin color is a little darker."

Upon hearing this, Concubine Yu hurried forward and saw that the child in the red swaddling clothes had a dark complexion and did not have the temperament of a royal child. Instead, he looked more like a child born to a country woman.

The corners of Concubine Yu's mouth curled up slightly. "I heard that people born on the grasslands all have reddish-black skin. I think the Third Prince must have inherited Concubine Bai's skin."

Although Bai Jieyu was not dark-skinned, her skin was indeed a little darker than that of women in the Central Plains, so she had to spend a long time carefully dressing up every time she attended an event.

Xiao Heng reached out and teased the Third Prince's face, smiling and saying, "Boys don't need to have such fair skin, as long as they are healthy."

Concubine Yu was startled for a moment, then forced a smile: "Your Majesty is right. I just think that if the Third Prince was whiter, he would be more obedient."

Fearing that Xiao Heng would be displeased, she quickly added, "Fortunately, the Third Prince's facial features resemble the Emperor's. When he grows up, he will surely be as majestic and imposing as the Emperor."

"How is Concubine Bai?" The queen looked up at the delivery room.

The joy on Nanny Zhu's face faded slightly, and she said truthfully, "Your Majesty, Concubine Bai is fine. She just didn't use the right force during childbirth, which led to..."

Her voice lowered a few notes: "My lower body is a little torn."

When the concubines heard this, their brows relaxed and they were secretly happy.

The lower body was torn, not to mention how uncomfortable it was after giving birth.

The most important thing is that it will affect future sleeping arrangements.

Although Concubine Bai gave birth to the third prince, her favor may have faded.

There are three thousand beauties in the harem. How could the emperor favor an injured woman?

Xiao Heng frowned and ordered the imperial physician, "Jieyu Bai's vitality has been damaged by childbirth. Be sure to use the best medicine to recuperate her body."

The imperial physician quickly agreed.

Xiao Heng took one last look at the Third Prince, then asked the nanny to take him down to rest so as not to disturb her.

At this time, Zhou Defu stepped forward to report: "Your Majesty, I have already found out that there was a palace maid named Chun'er who accidentally bumped into Concubine Bai two months ago, so Concubine Bai punished her with twenty strokes of the cane."

Xiao Heng glanced suspiciously at an unknown place and said calmly, "The Queen will handle the affairs of the harem according to the law."

The Queen looked down at the midwife, her dark eyes suddenly darkening as she stared at her coldly, "Are you going to kill the heir just because of this? Tell me if there are any other reasons. If you tell the truth, I can give you a lighter sentence."

The midwife was stunned, with a complicated expression in her eyes.

After hesitating for a moment, she fell to the ground and said, "No one ordered me to do this. It was because I felt sorry for my adopted daughter that I killed Concubine Bai."

The queen naturally suspected that the midwife was being instructed by someone.

Otherwise, no matter how much she hated Concubine Bai, she would not dare to attack the royal heir.

However, the midwife would rather die than reveal the person behind the scenes, and we can't expect her to tell the truth anymore.

She looked at Yu Fei, and saw Yu Fei calmly playing with the tassels on her sleeves.

Even if she still suspected Concubine Yu, she now had no evidence.

The Queen straightened her expression and said to the palace attendant beside her: "Drag her away and punish her immediately."

Murdering the emperor's concubines is naturally a capital crime.

The midwife's eyes went black and she collapsed to the ground, but she said nothing and allowed herself to be dragged out by the palace servants.