Chapter 458: Throwing Stones (Part 2)

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

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

Eleventh Lady felt that the old woman's voice was a bit forced, and just as she was about to ask carefully, she saw another old woman 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 old woman winked at the two of them and said with a smile, "The baby is about to be born, the baby is about to be born!"

Shiyi Niang saw that Wan Mama and the later mother-in-law were slightly stunned and fell silent. Alarm bells rang in her heart.

The old woman said, "Madam, please be patient. You will give birth soon." Then she turned to discuss with Wan's mother, "Do you think we should invite the two people from the palace in and heat some more hot water?"

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

The two maids hired by the lady stood at the door and talked to the two maids from the palace. Then the maids from the palace came forward to examine Eleventh Lady.

Her expression became a little solemn, and she walked over and whispered a few words to the other three mothers-in-law and Mother Wan.

Eleventh Lady was sure that something was wrong, but she couldn't hear what the people were saying. She told Amber, "Please ask Mother Wan to come over and talk."

Amber also felt something was wrong and immediately got up to call Mother Wan over.

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

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

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

Shiyi Niang felt a chill in her heart: "Mother Wan, I want to hear the truth. Even 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.

Wan's mother thought about it, but had to admit that what Shiyi Niang said made sense. She whispered, "Madam, it's really nothing. It's just that your water broke a little early, so you may have to suffer a little."

Suffering? What does it mean to suffer when giving birth? In the flash of lightning, Shiyi Niang asked in a deep voice, "Is it a difficult birth?"

Wan's mother looked a little embarrassed: "That's not necessarily true. If the baby is born quickly, it won't be a big deal if the water breaks a little earlier or later."

But what if you are born late?

While she was thinking about it, Mrs. Wen asked Mrs. Peng to boil some medicine to induce labor.

Shiyi Niang drank the medicine, and several maids took turns to look at her carefully in front of the bed. Time passed little by little, and Shiyi Niang didn't feel anything.

Grandma Wen asked Doctor Peng to boil another bowl of medicine, but Shiyi Niang still didn't feel anything.

The faces of several midwives were a little solemn, and one of them went to report to the Madam Tai: "...Please ask the two doctors in the Imperial Hospital to help prescribe two doses of soup to hasten the birth!"

The lady asked Madam 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 I brought from the Imperial Hospital, but it didn't work. My water has broken two hours ago!"

"Change some medicine!"

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

After taking the medicine, Shiyi Niang felt pain for a while, and then she became motionless.

The two imperial doctors changed some medicines, and Eleventh Lady's contractions 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 ugly: "Don't add any more medicine..."

Shiyi Niang's face turned pale. In her limited knowledge, the child can survive in the mother's body only because of the amniotic fluid. If the sheep is gone...

She asked the widow, "Is there any sign of labor yet?"

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

Eleventh Lady felt a chill in her heart.

Was she going to die? Just like last time, the repeated surgeries and chemotherapy made her experience death clearly in her mind.

Is the pain of the past going to happen again?

Will she be able to travel into another person's body again and relive the joys and sorrows, honor and disgrace, gains and losses of the world in a strange space?

For a moment, she seemed to have returned to her childhood.

The hall was filled with elegant people, amber champagne, taffeta dance skirts, men whispering secretly, women smiling behind their fans... She was wearing a chiffon princess dress, her small figure walking from one end of the hall to the other, and then from there to here, and no one looked at her twice.

Like a passer-by. Yes, she is a passer-by.

No lover, no family, no children... In her previous life, she was gone like water, leaving no trace behind!

As she pondered, her hand touched her bulging belly; No, no, no. In this life, she still had a child.

She could die, but she couldn't let the child who was slowly growing up in her body perish with her.

"Where is the Marquis?" Eleventh Lady heard herself choking with sobs and asked Mother Wan, "I want to see the Marquis!"

Of all the people she knew, this was the only one who could protect this child from harm!

The people in the room looked embarrassed. The delivery room was a dirty place, and if a man entered it, he would be infected with bad luck.

"Madam," Wan's mother said with a smile, "The Marquis is in the study. If you have anything to say, I will go and tell him for you!"

"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 whether to go left or right, and looked at Amber for help.

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

Mother Wan was very anxious. The young daughter-in-law knew nothing, but the Marquis was the backbone of the mansion. If anything happened to him, the good days of the mansion would be over.

How can I listen to my wife's nonsense!

"Mrs. 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.

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Does it take so long to have a child? Xu Lingyi looked at the slightly yellowed rice paper on the desk and couldn't help but mutter in his heart.

It's been a day and a half, I wonder how long I have to stay?

He thought for a moment, put down the brush in his hand, and told the maid, "Go and see what's going on with the lady."

Just as the little maid answered "yes", the door curtain was lifted with a "swish" and Amber rushed in: "My lord, please go and take a look! The madam, the madam..." Tears could not stop falling.

Xu Lingyi felt a chill in his heart, and then he saw Mother Du following him in.

"My Lord, please don't be impatient." She glanced at Amber with a warning look in her eyes and said, "They are young and don't know much. I will go and take a look now!"

Amber saw it clearly and understood in her heart that if Xu Lingyi went to the delivery room, and Shiyi Niang had something bad happen to her, she would be a daughter-in-law married into the Xu family, no longer a maidservant of Shiyi Niang, and the Xu family could do whatever they wanted to her. But when she thought of Shiyi Niang with tears on her face, she could not care about these things, and she blurted out the rebuttal: "No, Marquis, 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 sighed as she looked at Amber, but Amber was delighted and followed her at a trot, wiping her eyes.

******

Eleventh Lady felt the quilt beneath her becoming increasingly wet, and her heart began to cool a little.

Is the situation already bad? She is not afraid of facing bad luck, she is afraid of not knowing the bad luck that is coming and can only passively accept it!

Why hasn't Xu Lingyi come yet? Is it because Amber couldn't get the message across? Or is Xu Lingyi hesitating whether to meet her...

As the thought was swirling in my mind, I heard the door curtain open 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 before. His watery almond-shaped eyes looked at her helplessly, full of expectation and longing.

His heart stagnated, and he looked at the old ladies sternly: "What's going on?" His voice was no longer as dignified as usual, but was faintly panicked.

He was slightly stunned. He had seen many dangerous scenes before, so why should he panic?

Xu Lingyi didn't have time to clear his thoughts. He saw several old ladies hanging their heads, and Dr. Peng was even hunched over and quietly took a few steps back.

His fingertips felt cold, and he heard Eleventh Lady's weak voice: "My Lord, I may have a difficult birth!"

Although he was mentally prepared for some bad situations, when Xu Lingyi heard these words coming out of Eleventh Lady's mouth, his mind still "boomed" and it took him a while to come back to his senses.

"Difficult labor?" His posture became more upright, and his gaze towards the old lady became a little cold. "What do you mean by 'possible difficult labor'?"

The air cooled.

The old women huddled together, trembling with fear, not daring to say a word.

Xu Lingyi's gaze fell on Doctor Peng.

Doctor Peng knelt on the ground with a plop: "My Lord, my water broke too early, and I have taken the medicine to induce labor. The imperial physician 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, in danger..." As she spoke, she glanced at Xu Lingyi from the corner of her eye.

I heard that the imperial physician from the Imperial Hospital also came to see me.

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

"So, there is 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 was cold.

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

When the old woman 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..."

Xu Lingyi looked at the other three old ladies.

The three old ladies were horrified and quickly knelt on the ground, knocking their heads against the bluestone bricks with a loud "bang bang" sound: "Master, spare my life, Master, spare my life!"