Chapter 282 Daughter of Gold
During her late pregnancy, Shen Yuanzhu was in good condition, but Xie Qi had lost a lot of weight.
He worried about her food during the day, and at night, Shen Yuanzhu couldn't rest well because of her swollen legs and feet. So Xie Qi stayed up half the night to massage her waist and support her abdomen.
One day, Xie Qi noticed that Shen Yuanzhu's feet were so swollen that she couldn't wear shoes, and his heart ached so much that his nose tingled.
Seeing him like this, Shen Yuanzhu felt sorry for him and thought of letting Xie Qi go to the study to sleep for a few days and get some rest.
"I'm not going."
He sat cross-legged on the bed, dragging Shen Yuanzhu's legs as he put on her socks.
Her belly was so big that she couldn't bend over, so Xie Qi dressed her and put on her socks every day.
Xie Qi softened the stiffened cloth socks by hand before putting them on Shen Yuanzhu.
"If I can't see you at night, I'll start to overthink things. I might as well stay by your side and hold you as we fall asleep."
"Although I didn't sleep for long, I was able to rest well next to you, so it's not a problem."
Shen Yuanzhu raised her hand and gently rubbed his brow. "But you look so haggard these past few days. It breaks my heart to see you like this."
"Otherwise, you can sleep in the study for a day, and then come back to sleep with me for a day. That way, you can get some rest."
"No."
Xie Qi shook his head, "Yuanzhu, I can only rest well and feel at ease when I'm by your side, I..."
After going to the capital, he seemed to have recovered, but in reality, he was even more inseparable from Yuanzhu.
Xie Qi couldn't help but panic once Yuanzhu was out of his sight.
He was alright on ordinary days, but after Yuanzhu became pregnant, his tension and anxiety seemed to worsen.
But when he was with Yuanzhu, he wouldn't fall into that suffocating and desperate state.
However, he dared not say these things to Yuanzhu, fearing that Yuanzhu would dislike him or worry about him.
"Xie Qi..."
Xie Qi waved his hand, interrupting Chen Yuanzhu.
He reached out and pulled down Yuanzhu's inner garment to cover her stomach so she wouldn't catch a cold, then said softly, "Yuanzhu, I may be getting sicker, and maybe I'll never get better in this life."
He gently stroked her stomach, his brows furrowed with melancholy. "So don't despise me, don't find me annoying, and definitely don't think about pushing me away."
Shen Yuanzhu said, "I'm just worried that you're too tired."
"Yuanzhu, you don't understand."
Xie Qi looked up and smiled, "I don't feel tired at all when I'm by your side, I only feel happy. Looking at you every day, I feel that life is so interesting, and I am so reluctant to leave."
"You don't know, I didn't understand before, I didn't understand why I was alive, nor did I understand what I was supposed to do with my life."
"But now I understand, I want to live with you, to love you every day, I want to watch our child be born, to watch a child who is a blend of our blood and flesh grow up."
"Yuanzhu, as the baby is about to be born, I feel more and more that I will be a good father."
"Because I can't help but love the thought of having a little baby who looks like you and me."
He gently pressed his head against Shen Yuanzhu's stomach, his eyes overflowing with tenderness.
As if sensing something, the child in her womb stretched out its little hand or foot and poked Xie Qi's cheek.
Shen Yuanzhu heard Xie Qi let out a soft gasp from his throat, and then press closer to her.
His eyes shone, and he couldn't help but talk to the child day after day about silly things like whether he had eaten or slept.
As her due date drew closer, Shen Yuanzhu couldn't refuse Xie Qi's request and had no choice but to have him stay by her side every day.
One day, while the two were taking a walk in the courtyard, Shen Yuanzhu suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Xie Qi turned around and gently supported her.
Shen Yuanzhu said, "Thank you, Qi..."
"Um?"
She looked up at him, her face glistening with a light sheen of sweat.
"Don't be nervous."
Xie Qi asked, puzzled, "What's there to be nervous about?"
"I'm about to start."
"hair……"
Xie Qi felt a wave of dizziness, and he blinked to calm himself down.
"I...I'll go call the wet nurse."
He said he would go and call for help, but he didn't dare to move an inch. He just supported Yuanzhu and shouted loudly for Luo Shi.
As soon as Luo stepped out of the house, she saw two people, stiff as wood, huddled together, with a patch of water on the ground.
"Oh dear, she's about to give birth."
Madam Luo said, "Please help Miss into the room, I'll go next door to find a midwife."
A month ago, they found a midwife and rented a house for her to live next door.
The Luos were not two hotheads; although they were a little nervous, they did not panic.
Xie Qi, however, dared not even breathe, so shocked that he stopped breathing.
Shen Yuanzhu was somewhat stronger than him.
"Don't be afraid, I'm perfectly fine, everything will go smoothly and I'll be safe."
Xie Qi nodded stiffly and awkwardly carried Chen Yuanzhu into the room. When the midwife arrived, she closed the door.
Xie Qi gripped the door frame with his fingers, his thighs aching from standing.
But he seemed to be trapped in one spot, completely unable to move.
He seemed to have abandoned all five senses except hearing, his ears filled only with the midwife's instructions and Yuanzhu's heavy breathing.
Xie Qi stared blankly. He wanted to push the door open, but his body and soul seemed to separate, out of his control.
Gradually, the midwife's voice became urgent, and a faint smell of blood filled the air.
Xie Qi's heart was pounding wildly, and even breathing began to hurt him.
It felt as if he was inhaling not air, but hundreds of fine needles, causing him a sharp, persistent pain.
Sweat soaked through my clothes, clinging tightly to my skin, and when the wind blew, it brought a chill.
Inside, someone called for hot water. Xiao Zhi hurriedly came out with a copper basin and then hurried back in. Xie Qi tried several times to stick his leg into the room, but he couldn't control his body.
Panic, fear, pain, and terror enveloped him, plunging Xie Qi into a sea of suffering.
Shen Yuanzhu's voice carried a pain he had never experienced before; each cry made his eyes burn with pain.
He knows the agarwood pearl best.
Yuanzhu may look delicate, but she is incredibly resilient inside. She usually swallows and resolves ordinary pain on her own, but now…
Xie Qi's vision went white, and he gradually lost sight.
He began to feel suffocated, as if his mouth and nose were being tightly strangled, making it impossible for him to breathe.
Only when he heard a baby crying inside the house did he exhale a breath as if he had been lifted ashore.
"She's given birth! She's given birth!"
Luo's voice came out, and Xie Qi opened his mouth slightly.
He heard himself asking how Yuanzhu was doing, but he couldn't make a sound.
It wasn't until Luo gave him a push that he seemed to come back to his senses and gradually regained his limbs.
He stiffly walked past Luo and into the room.
The midwife said, "Oh dear, the delivery room is an unlucky place. What are you doing here, sir..."
Xie Qi pushed her away, feeling that the most unlucky thing in the room was that she was blocking him from going to Yuanzhu's midwife.
Shen Yuanzhu's eyelids twitched when she heard this. Before she could say anything, Xie Qi knelt down in front of the bed with a thud.
"..."
She was startled for a moment, "What are you doing?"
Xie Qi lowered his head, and after a long while, he said in a voice that sounded as if it had been ground by sand and gravel for a long time, "My legs are weak..."
Shen Yuanzhu was somewhat weak, and her eyelids were already heavy, but she couldn't help but laugh when she heard this.
“Yuanzhu…”
Xie Qi's eyes were filled with tenderness and anxiety. His mouth opened and closed for a long time before he finally managed to utter a tearful sentence.
"Yuanzhu, let's never have any more children..."
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