Chapter 116 A Little Child

Chen Qi's due date was half a month earlier than the doctor expected.

Fortunately, Xie Yuduo prepared earlier.

Seeing that his water had broken, he immediately got out of bed, carried Chen Qi to bed, asked Xiao Ling to stay with her all the time, and then began to arrange things one by one.

First, he asked Shen's mother to come over to reassure her. Last month, he sent someone to invite his mother-in-law to the provincial capital and asked her to personally look after Shen Qi.

At the beginning of the month, two experienced midwives were hired to live at home, and the maids were told to go and invite them immediately. Three famous doctors were also selected in advance, all of whom lived not far away, and the servants were sent on horseback to pick them up.

Before, Chen Qi was very disapproving when she heard that he had hired so many midwives and doctors a long time ago.

"Mother said that hiring one doctor would be enough. When she gave birth to me, she was in a shabby house at the entrance of the village. There wasn't a single doctor around, and yet I've grown up like this, haven't I?"

Xie Yuduo refused resolutely.

"As the saying goes, a son of a wealthy family won't sit idle in the hall, let alone you and me now. It's better to have more money. Are you still worried that there isn't enough money at home?"

Hearing his tone, Chen Qi rolled her eyes and let him be.

When the midwife arrived, Shen's mother was already waiting by her daughter's side. The waiter immediately brought hot water, as well as scissors, straw paper, bandages and a small mattress that the woman would need for childbirth, which had also been prepared long ago.

Xie Yuduo finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that the midwife and the doctor were at home. He then asked the driver to go to the He family to pick up his eldest sister Yuzhong so that he could take care of her.

Afterwards, he ordered someone to go to the front and inform Xiaowu to cancel all business matters for him in the next few days.

Finally, he asked someone to put up a gauze screen in the hall, and he sat upright on the chair, ready for battle.

People who are used to the business world have already practiced this process in their minds countless times.

The midwife walked in, took a look, and found everything was fine, so she came out to give a reply.

"Sir, this is Madam's first child. It's still early. There's no need to wait here for long."

"It's okay, don't worry about it."

As soon as this midwife left, another one came over to talk.

"Sir, according to the rules, a woman giving birth will cause a surge of blood and energy. If you do business at home, I'm afraid it would be taboo."

"It's okay, we don't have such rules in our family."

When the two midwives washed their hands and went in again, they whispered to each other - each of them had delivered at least 800 babies, if not a thousand, and this was the first time they had seen a family with such no taboos.

In the delivery room, until this moment, Shen Qi began to feel pain all over her body.

Xie Yuduo heard her gasping in pain from outside and couldn't help but tighten his grip on the armrests of the chair.

When the pain subsided, he could no longer sit still and got up to go in and see her.

Chen Qi's face turned red with pain and sweat broke out on her head. He knelt down in front of the bed and held her hand.

"How is the pain? Can you bear it? Do you want some water..."

Chen Qi was so tired that she just wanted to close her eyes and breathe quietly, not wanting to reply at all.

When he saw her closing her eyes and not saying anything, he became even more panicked.

"What's going on? Call a doctor. What medicine should I take..."

Chen Qi couldn't help but pinch his hand hard and told him to shut up.

"Go away, you're making so much noise."

Seeing that she was scolding him quite loudly, Xie Yuduo finally felt relieved. He couldn't help but kiss the palm of her hand and retreated behind the screen, looking back every few steps.

The two midwives who were standing nearby saw it all and murmured to themselves - it turned out that this was a family where the daughter-in-law married into the family. No wonder the husband was so humble and didn't dare to talk about any rules!

Chen Qi was healthy, her pregnancy was stable, and she had grown up in Baihe Town, climbing mountains and rivers, and taking care of household chores. Her physique was stronger than that of the average girl from a wealthy family. Even so, she still felt unbearable pain, sweating profusely, and her cloud-like black hair was wet again and again.

In between bursts of pain, she could barely drink some soup or water to replenish her strength. Xie Yuduo, who was waiting outside, couldn't even drink a sip of water.

He wanted to go in and take a look several times, but he was afraid of making Chen Qi upset, so he simply stood guard at the door and asked about the situation in the delivery room every time someone came out.

Seeing that he kept asking, Xiao Ling specially assigned a maid who was eloquent to be responsible for conveying messages to the second master.

"Second Madam is fine. She's sweating a lot. Sister Xiao Ling is wiping her sweat off."

"I only drank half a bowl of the soup, and then the pain started again, so I just left it there and didn't drink it."

"The midwife said everything is fine, everything is going well, all we have to do is wait..."

I waited for a long time indeed.

Until dusk, the sky was filled with colorful clouds, and the lush vegetation in the courtyard was slightly stained with golden light in the warm spring afterglow.

Xie Yuduo waited so long that his palms were pinched until they bled.

"Wow……"

The child is finally born!

When Xie Yuduo heard the child crying, he immediately felt relieved and fell into the chair for a while. Just as he stood up and was about to go in to see Chen Qi, his sister stopped him again.

"Wait a minute, they'll be busy inside for a while."

The midwife cut the umbilical cord, cleaned up the placenta, and brought the calming soup that the doctor had prepared long ago. She asked the maid to serve it to Madam Shen, then handed the newborn baby to the madam's mother and went out to announce the good news to the official.

"Congratulations, sir..."

Before she could finish her words, Xie Yuduo had already walked around her and walked in quickly.

Chen Qi had fought hard today and was so tired that she had no strength left in her body. Then she felt someone holding her hand. She guessed that Xie Yuduo had come in, and then she opened her eyes.

Xie Yuduo looked at her, her face flushed with tiredness and her body covered in sweat, and knew that she had suffered a lot today. Even such a big man, there were tears in his eyes.

Seeing this, Chen Qi forced a smile and patted his hand.

"Be good, why are you crying?"

Xie Yuduo always said this to her, and today, it was finally her turn to say it.

"Yue'er, I'm really tired of you today."

The curtain was opened and Yu Zhong came over holding the baby in her arms.

"Look at you, the father...it's a daughter."

The little baby, who had just been washed in warm water, was wrapped tightly in a small red silk quilt like a little ball of powder. His skin was white and tender, and he was crying loudly.

He took it carefully and held it up for Chen Qi to see.

"Our daughter is beautiful and looks a lot like you."

Chen Qi looked at her little daughter crying in Xie Yuduo's big arms, and she looked even more pitiful and adorable. She felt so tender in her heart that she bent down and kissed her.

"You have to be careful with such a young child..."

She looked up and saw Xie Yuduo looking down at his daughter's pink jade-like face, tears still falling from his eyes.

"Yu Duo?"

Xie Yuduo finally came back to his senses, smiled through his tears, and squeezed her palm.

"Yue'er, thank you so much. You've given me another lifelong attachment in this world that I will never let go of."

There is a little child between the couple.

The crying was very loud.