Chapter 32 The Delicate Palace Maid VS the Cold Emperor 32
A few days after Shen Xingzhi's one-year-old ceremony, Su Zhiruan reduced her movements at the suggestion of Shen Qi and the Queen Mother. The midwives and old maids in the palace were always on standby in Kunning Palace.
The imperial physician still came to check the patient's pulse every day. The palace was quiet for fear of any accidents that might disturb Su Zhiruan.
On an ordinary morning, Su Zhiruan felt a pain in his stomach, which seemed to be a warning for a while, and then the feeling gradually weakened.
This was her second time giving birth, and she was familiar with the process. Shen Qi beside her noticed something was wrong with her almost instantly. When he saw her looking at her belly, the man immediately became nervous, "Ruan Ruan, are you going to give birth?"
"Yes, Your Majesty, please ask the midwives to come." Su Zhiruan lay on her side on the bed. Her voice sounded relatively stable, but to Shen Qi, it sounded like she was just pretending to be calm.
Afterwards, Shen Qi immediately put on his coat, stood up and called the servants, "You go call the midwives, you go report to the Queen Mother, Xiao Fuzi, call all the doctors from the Imperial Hospital."
As soon as the palace servants heard this, they knew that Su Zhiruan was about to give birth! They immediately took up their duties.
When the Queen Mother heard the news, she asked the old nanny to carry the little prince and rush over quickly in a sedan chair.
Little Shen Xingzhi was still young, but his personality and temperament were almost the same as Shen Qi's. When he was carried here, he just looked around silently. After the Queen Mother and her entourage arrived at Kunning Palace, little Xingzhi saw his father and stretched out his little hands for a hug, "Father...Father!"
"How is Ruan Ruan now? Has the disease started? Have the imperial physician and the nanny arrived?" The empress dowager picked up the little prince and looked at Shen Qi and asked.
Shen Qi took little Shen Xingzhi from the Queen Mother's arms, "The maids have arrived, and the imperial physician is waiting outside the palace."
"God bless Ruan Ruan and give her a smooth delivery," the Queen Mother clasped her hands together and prayed devoutly.
* Su Zhiruan's delivery went smoothly this time. With the help of the system's novice gift pack, she felt no pain and just had to use force. Fine beads of sweat appeared on her forehead, and the maids cheered her on.
She could hear the noisy voices of the maids.
"My queen! Push harder! I can already see the baby's head—it's the little prince!"
"The second child is born! He's also a little prince! The queen is so happy!"
"Wait, there's another kid—"
The midwives turned around at the same time. They originally thought that Concubine Yue was pregnant with twins, but they didn't expect it was a triplet! ! "Your Majesty! Please push harder! There is another baby in your belly!"
"Your Majesty is so happy! Your Majesty is so happy!"
"This is a great joyous event! Go and report it to the Emperor and the Empress Dowager!"
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After knowing that the three children were born safely, Su Zhiruan's feeling of burden from ten months of pregnancy was finally completely relieved. At this time, she was too tired to speak, and soon fell into a deep sleep. In a daze, she felt Shen Qi's big hand holding her hand tightly, and he did not let go for a long time.
When the Queen Mother and Shen Qi found out that these were triplets, their expressions of surprise were beyond words.
"A third baby?! I thought Ruan Ruan was having twins, but I didn't expect it to be such a good omen today!" The Queen Mother was so surprised that she couldn't even close her mouth. She looked at the three children again and again, "Are these three children princes or princesses?"
"Her Majesty the Queen Mother! Great news! All three children are little princes!" said one of the three maids.
Three princes! Su Zhiruan gave birth to three princes at once!
At this time, the Queen Mother and her servants had already determined in their hearts that she was the daughter of destiny of the dynasty and a blessed star.
At this time, Shen Qi was sitting beside Su Zhiruan's bed, looking at her sleeping face and the hot sweat on her forehead. He didn't want to take his eyes off her for a moment. He held Su Zhiruan's hand and had completely forgotten that he was the emperor and who he was. His whole heart was concerned with the girl in front of him who had just given birth to three children for him.
This was the first time in more than 20 years that he felt such sweetness and complexity, love and tension. At this moment, his whole heart was completely given to Ruan Ruan in front of him.
If someone had told him before that one day he would be completely attached to a woman, he would definitely not believe it.
But now, he was extremely grateful to himself for choosing to keep her by his side and giving his whole being and heart to her.
If she suddenly disappeared at this moment, Shen Qi couldn't even imagine how crazy he would become.
The Queen Mother was also a woman. She knew very well that pregnancy was not easy. She also knew that Su Zhiruan had given birth to three children and must be very tired at this time.
She stood outside the bedroom, watching her son holding the hand of his beloved girl. As an emperor, he felt so sorry for a woman that tears welled up in his eyes, dripping onto the silk quilt. She nodded with satisfaction, then retreated silently, only handing the gift she had carefully prepared for Su Zhiruan to her maid.
Her son changed the most after he found his true love and had a child.
The cold and ruthless emperor who used to deal with official affairs of state all day long and even distanced himself from her because of her nagging about offspring, became gentler and more popular after having Su Zhiruan and several children. His relationship with her, his mother, also improved a lot.
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She was very grateful to Su Zhiruan. Without her, Shen Qi would have become a cold-blooded and lonely man, lacking love and becoming moody. As a mother, this was what she least wanted to see.
She is a mother, and what she wants most is that her children can be safe and happy, rather than being high and mighty but without joy and emotion.
Now, she and the late emperor did not make good parents, but Qi'er was blessed by God and got the person he loved and became the happy person she wanted him to be.
* The news that Imperial Concubine Yue gave birth to her third prince spread throughout the dynasty like a piece of paper.
People exclaimed that she was a goddess. Some young couples who wanted to have children even went to pay their respects to Su Zhiruan after worshipping Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth.
Some ministers in the court who were dissatisfied with Shen Qi's disbanding of the harem were now speechless. They hoped to send their daughters in to gain benefits for themselves, so they used the reason that the emperor had few children. Now Su Zhiruan gave birth to three little princes. The ministers were completely speechless, and even felt that what they said at the time was too embarrassing, so they simply stayed indoors.
Some ministers were stubborn and insisted on saying the opposite, saying that Your Majesty had plenty of offspring, but with so many princes, there would definitely be a fight for the throne in the future.
After Shen Qi knew about it, he didn't say anything, but secretly asked the secret guards to trip up those ministers who made sarcastic remarks, so that something bad would happen to their families and they would have no time to gossip.
Su's father and mother went to the palace to see Su Zhiruan and gave her many new gadgets and many blessings of peace embroidered by Su's mother herself.
Su Zhiruan had to rest longer this time than last time. The system could allow her body to recover directly, but if it was too obvious, it would surely arouse suspicion, so she stayed in Kunning Palace for nearly two months.
The Queen Mother was worried about her health, so she told her to rest and let her and the old nanny take care of the children.
(End of this chapter)