Eleventh Lady's heart skipped a beat, and Amber asked anxiously, "Is that good or bad?"

"It's okay, it's okay!" The midwife smiled, "It's almost time to give birth!"

Eleventh Lady felt that the midwife's voice was somewhat reluctant. Just as she was about to ask carefully, she saw another midwife walking over quickly: "Did your water break?"

His expression was very normal, as if he was asking if I had eaten.

Mother Wan also came over.

The midwife winked at the two and said with a smile, "It's almost time for the baby to be born, it's almost time for the baby to be born!"

When Eleventh Lady saw Mother Wan and the midwife who came later, they were slightly stunned and fell silent.

Alarm bells started ringing in her heart.

The midwife said, "Madam, just bear with it. You will give birth soon." Then she turned to discuss with Madam Wan, "Do you think we should invite the two people from the palace in and boil some more water?"

Mother Wan hurriedly said, "Of course." She told the maid to boil some water, then turned around and called in two midwives from the palace.

The two midwives hired by the lady stood at the door and talked to the two midwives from the palace. Only then did the midwives from the palace come forward to examine Eleventh Lady.

Her expression became a little serious, and she walked over and whispered something to the other three midwives and Mother Wan.

Eleventh Lady was already certain that something was wrong, but she couldn't hear clearly what the people were saying, so she told Amber, "Please ask Mama Wan to come over and talk."

Amber also felt something strange and immediately got up and called Mother Wan over.

"What's going on?" Eleventh Lady tried to speak in a calm and rational voice, but her voice came out trembling unconcealably.

Mother Wan smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay..."

If everything was really fine, Mother Wan would have run out happily to tell the lady that she was about to give birth. Why would they be like now, with several people gathered together and whispering with nervous looks?

Eleventh Lady felt cold in her heart: "Mother Wan, I want to hear the truth. If you don't tell me, I will know it later. If you tell me, I will at least know what to do later."

At the critical moment of life and death, only you can save yourself.

Mother Wan thought about it, but had to admit that what Eleventh Lady said made sense.

She whispered, "Ma'am, it's nothing really. It's just that my water broke a little early. You might have to suffer a little bit then."

Suffering? What does it mean to suffer when giving birth?

In the flash of fire, Eleventh Lady asked in a deep voice: "Is it a difficult birth?"

Mother Wan looked a little embarrassed: "That's not necessarily the case. If the baby is born quickly, it won't matter if the amniotic fluid breaks earlier or later."

But what if you are born late?

While she was thinking about it, the midwife asked Doctor Peng to boil some medicine to induce labor.

Eleventh Lady drank the medicine.

Several maids took turns looking at her carefully in front of the bed.

Time passed little by little, and Eleventh Lady felt nothing.

The midwife asked Doctor Peng to boil another bowl of medicine.

Eleventh Lady still didn't feel anything.

The faces of the midwives were all a little solemn. One of them went to report to the Madam Tai: "...Please ask the two doctors from the Imperial Hospital to help prescribe two doses of medicine to accelerate labor!"

The lady asked Mama Du to invite the imperial physician.

The two imperial doctors stood under the eaves and examined the patient.

The midwife from the palace answered: "...I took two doses of the labor-inducing medicine brought from the Imperial Hospital, but it had no effect. My water has broken for two hours, and I'm showing signs of labor again..."

"Change some medicine!"

The two imperial doctors whispered to each other for a while and then prescribed the medicine to induce labor again.

After taking the medicine, Eleventh Lady felt pain for a while, and then there was no more pain.

The two imperial doctors changed a few more medicines.

Eleventh Lady's labor pains became more obvious.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

But by the afternoon, the baby still hadn't been born.

The doctor's face looked a little grim: "Don't add any more medicine..."

Eleventh Lady’s face turned pale.

In her limited knowledge, the baby can survive in the mother's body only because of the amniotic fluid. If the amniotic fluid is gone...

She asked the midwife, "Is there no sign of labor yet?"

The midwives looked at each other, and one of them forced a smile and said, "Don't worry, Madam. It will be done soon, soon!"

Eleventh Lady felt a chill in her heart.

Is she going to die?

Just like the last time, repeated surgeries and chemotherapy allowed her to experience death with a clear mind.

Is the pain of the past going to happen again?

Will she be able to travel through time and space and experience all the joys and sorrows, honor and disgrace, and gains and losses of the world again in this strange space?

For a moment, she felt like she was back in her childhood.

The hall was filled with elegant ladies, amber champagne, taffeta dance skirts, men whispering, women laughing behind their fans... She was wearing a chiffon princess dress, and her small figure walked from one side of the hall to the other, and then from the other side to this side, and no one looked at her twice.

Like a passerby.

Yes, she is a passerby.

No lover, no family, no children... In her previous life, she was like water passing by without leaving a trace, leaving nothing behind!

While she was thinking, her hand touched her bulging belly.

No, no, no. In this life, she still has a child.

She could die, but she could not let the child who was growing up in her body die with her.

"Where's the Marquis?" Eleventh Lady heard herself choking and asking Mother Wan, "I want to see the Marquis!"

Of all the people she knew, only this person could protect the child from harm!

The people in the room looked embarrassed.

The delivery room is a filthy place. If a man enters there, he will be unlucky.

"Madam," Madam Wan said with a stiff face, "The Marquis is in the study. If you have anything to say, I will go and tell him!"

"I want to see him!" The usually gentle Eleventh Lady was determined at this time, "Go and tell him, I want to see him!"

Mother Wan stood aside, not knowing left or right, and looked at Amber for help.

Amber looked at the tearful Eleventh Lady and gritted her teeth, "Madam, I'll go call the Marquis!"

Mother Wan was very anxious.

A young wife knows nothing. The Marquis is the backbone of the mansion. If anything happens to him, the good days of this mansion will be over.

How can I listen to my wife's nonsense!

"Wife Guan Qing!" she called out, and just as she was about to give her a reminder, Amber trotted out of the delivery room.

Mother Wan stomped her feet and chased after him.

* * * * * *

Does it take so long to have a baby?

Xu Lingyi looked at the slightly yellow rice paper on the desk and couldn't help muttering to himself.

Almost two days and one night have passed. I wonder how long I will have to stay?

He thought for a moment, put down the brush in his hand, and told the maid, "Go and see how the lady is doing."

The little maid just responded with "yes" when the door curtain was lifted with a "swish" and Amber rushed in: "My lord, please go and see! The madam, the madam..." Her tears could not stop falling.

Xu Lingyi felt a chill in his heart.

Then I saw Mother Du following in.

"My Lord, please don't be impatient." She glanced at Amber with a warning look and said, "They are young and don't know what's going on. I'll go check it out right away!"

Amber saw it clearly and understood in her heart that if Xu Lingyi went to the delivery room and something happened to Shiyi Niang, she would be married to the Xu family as a daughter-in-law, no longer a maidservant of Shiyi Niang, and the Xu family could do whatever they wanted with her. But when she thought of Shiyi Niang with tears on her face, she could no longer care about these things and blurted out the rebuttal: "No, Lord, it's the Madam who wants to see you..."

Before she finished her words, Xu Lingyi had already strode out of the study.

Mother Du looked at Amber and sighed.

Amber was delighted, and she trotted after him while wiping her eyes.

* * * * * *

Eleventh Lady felt the quilt beneath her becoming increasingly wetter, and her heart grew colder.

Is the situation already very bad?

She is not afraid of facing misfortune. She is afraid of being ignorant of the coming misfortune and being able to accept it passively!

Why hasn’t Xu Lingyi come yet?

Was it that Amber couldn't get the message across? Or was Xu Lingyi hesitating whether to meet her...

As the thought was circling in my mind, I heard the sound of the door curtain and Xu Lingyi walked in with a gloomy face.

"Xu Lingyi!" Eleventh Lady looked at him hesitantly.

Xu Lingyi had seen her sweet smile, her proud and forbearing look, and her angry and disappointed look, but he had never seen her like this now. His watery almond eyes looked at her helplessly, full of expectation and anticipation.

His heart stagnated and he looked at the midwives sharply: "What's going on?" Their voices were no longer as majestic as usual, but contained a hint of panic.

He was slightly stunned.

He has seen many dangerous situations, so why should he panic?

Before Xu Lingyi had time to clear his mind, he saw several midwives with their heads down, and Dr. Peng, who was hunched over, quietly took a few steps back.

His fingertips felt cold, and Eleventh Lady's weak voice came to his ears: "My Lord, I may have a difficult birth!"

Although he was mentally prepared for the situation to go wrong, when Xu Lingyi heard these words coming out of Eleventh Lady's mouth, his mind still "boomed" and it took him a moment to recover.

"Difficult labor?" His posture became more upright, and his eyes looking at the midwife became a little stern, "What do you mean by 'possible difficult labor'?"

The air cooled.

The old women huddled together, trembling with fear and not daring to make a sound.

Xu Lingyi's gaze fell on Doctor Peng.

Doctor Peng knelt on the ground with a plop: "My Lord, my water broke too early. I've taken the medicine to induce labor. The imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital has also come to see me, but the child, the child is still not moving." She stammered, "If, if you don't give birth soon, Madam will be in danger, dangerous..." As she spoke, she glanced at Xu Lingyi.

I heard that the imperial physician from the Imperial Medical Bureau also came to see the patient.

Xu Lingyi was shocked and looked at Doctor Peng with a somewhat cold gaze.

"So there's nothing we can do?"

The voice was flat, even a little dull, but to Doctor Peng's ears, it was as if she had fallen into an ice cellar and her whole body went cold.

She gritted her teeth and pulled a midwife beside her: "My Lord, I am a doctor. I can treat children's emergencies, but I can't deliver babies."

When the midwife heard this, she knew she was in trouble, and her whole body went limp as if a muscle had been pulled.

"My Lord... My Lord..." His body began to tremble like a sieve.

A hint of anger flashed in Xu Lingyi's eyes as he looked at the other three midwives.

The three midwives were trembling in their hearts, and they knelt on the ground, knocking their heads against the bluestone bricks with a loud "bang bang" sound: "My Lord, please spare us, my Lord, please spare us!"

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The update is a bit late, please get up tomorrow morning and read it!

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