Chapter 49: Delivery

In the capital, in the study of the eldest prince’s mansion.

Xiao Jue, dressed in a red python robe, sat at the desk and read the report from the spy.

The more he read, the weirder his expression became, and in the end he threw the letter directly at his confidant's face.

"Is this the news the spy brought to me?"

"Can that idiot Su Ying kill a white tiger by herself? Can she beat dozens of big men until they scream and beg for mercy?" Xiao Jue was so angry that he laughed when he said this.

"If the person they were talking about was not Su Ying, I would have personally gone out to get such a talent back!"

The confidant knelt on the ground in fear and said, "Don't be angry, Your Highness. I think these people dare not spread the news randomly..."

Xiao Jue sneered, "You mean, I have wrongly blamed them?"

"I dare not."

"Do they really think that I can't do anything to them because the emperor is far away? Now they are using these ridiculous news to fool me!" No one knows who Su Ying is better than Xiao Jue. He absolutely does not believe that she has such strength.

"But Your Highness, the two people who came back earlier also told me that Su Ying said that Xiao Jin's tiger talisman is in her hands. Su Ying is acting strangely in every way now, and is indeed hard to figure out."

Hearing this, Xiao Jue frowned. Those two people indeed didn't have the courage to lie to him, but he didn't believe it. He didn't believe that Su Ying would become that powerful, nor did he believe that Su Ying would betray him.

Xiao Jin wouldn't be stupid enough to give the tiger talisman to her, but maybe she knew something.

"Your Highness, I and others have received news that Xiao Jin may have hidden the tiger talisman in his fiefdom. After all, his soldiers are still stationed in his fiefdom."

Although the emperor convicted Xiao Jin, the troops guarding his fiefdom were not withdrawn in time. Xiao Jue could not figure out the emperor's thoughts.

But that was an army of 200,000. How could he not be jealous?

"Don't worry about Xiao Jin for now. He's just a cripple with both legs broken. Even if he really doesn't hand over the tiger talisman, so what? I will make him go to the Northern Wilderness and never come back. Immediately send a message to the spies in the fiefdom and ask them to go to the palace to look for the whereabouts of the tiger talisman. Then, come here."

Upon hearing this, the confidant came forward and listened to Xiao Jue's instructions.

After hearing this, the confidant nodded and said, "Don't worry, Your Highness. I know what to do."

"Go ahead. If you do a good job, I will reward you handsomely."

"yes."

…

The exiled team arrived at Yancheng as scheduled at the end of the month. This was the last city they passed through before reaching the northern wilderness.

Su Ying planned to spend most of her gold here to buy supplies, but when they arrived at Yancheng, the city gate had been closed, and they could only wait until tomorrow to enter the city.

After finding a place to stay, Su Ying took out rice, flour, eggs, oil and salt from her bag and gave them to He Shouyi to cook. She looked around to see if there were any nearby mountains where she could search for supplies.

However, after looking around, she found that there were mostly plains outside Yancheng, and there were almost no decent mountains. The ones that did exist were only small hills, so Su Ying was too lazy to waste her time.

When Su Ying was about to go back, she heard crying and shouting not far away.

"Wan Niang, don't be afraid. I will go and ask the officials to find a doctor for you. Don't be afraid. Don't be afraid."

Su Ying looked up and saw a woman with a bulging belly lying on the ground in pain. The man next to her should be her husband, who was frightened by the woman's condition.

"My husband, I, I can't do it anymore..."

"Wan Niang, stop talking nonsense. I'll be back soon. I'll be back soon."

The man wanted to find the policeman, but he almost bumped into someone as he stood up.

When he was about to apologize, he looked up and saw Su Ying looking at his wife expressionlessly.

"Asking the officer will only get you scolded, so it's better to ask me for help."

Few people in the exile team didn't know what kind of person Su Ying was in the entire exile team. The man was a little afraid of Su Ying, but he really had no other choice but to give it a try.

"Please, madam, please save my wife." The man really knelt down in front of Su Ying and kowtowed to her.

"Okay, get up, let me see."

Su Ying walked up to the woman, reached out and touched her belly. She could clearly feel a life beating under her palm. This feeling made her feel very novel.

In the end times, very few girls would get pregnant on their own, and most newborns grew up in incubators. When they reached a certain age, they would be picked up by different forces for training. Those who could successfully pass the assessment would be able to stay. She, as the most outstanding product, entered the War Department and made great achievements for it.

So when she saw a woman giving birth to a child, she came over unconsciously.

Although obstetrics declined in the last days, she still learned obstetrics-related subjects when she received knowledge transfer.

So when she felt the woman's belly, she determined that the fetus was in an abnormal position, and it would be difficult to give birth naturally in this situation.

She asked the man to wait, then returned to the carriage. After avoiding everyone's sight, she entered the space and took out some corresponding medicines and tools, and then got off the carriage.

Xiao Jin looked at her hurriedly leaving again and couldn't help but ask, "Where are you going?"

"Deliver a baby." Su Ying said without turning her head.

Mother Zhao, who was helping to cook, also stood up when she heard the noise. She looked at Su Ying's leaving figure, wiped her hands and said, "Although Madam has given birth to a child, she doesn't know how to deliver a baby. I'll go over and take a look." As she said that, she trotted after Su Ying.

Because of long-term malnutrition, the woman was terribly thin. When she lay there, all that could be seen at first glance was her bulging belly.

Su Ying took out the glucose in the water bag and asked the man to feed it to the woman. She then took out a ginseng energy candy and pressed it under her tongue to ensure the body's energy supply during the delivery process.

Su Ying lifted the clothes on the woman's belly. The man wanted to stop her, but he suddenly met Su Ying's cold eyes and said, "If you don't want her to be seen, find a branch to cover it, don't get in the way here."

The man was startled and quickly ran to the small hill behind him. Although there were no wild animals on the hill, there were still many trees.

"Madam, what are you doing?" Mother Zhao ran over breathlessly.

"Her fetal position is not right. I will try to put the baby in the right position." Su Ying said as she placed a thumb-sized fetal heart monitor on the woman's belly. The fetal heart monitor kept flashing a regular, weak blue light, proving that the baby's heartbeat was now normal.

"Madam, do you know how to correct the fetal position?" Mother Zhao had heard from an experienced midwife before, but she had never seen one. How could a lady who had never done housework before be able to do this?

(End of this chapter)