"Your Highness, rest assured! This servant understands!"
Seeing that the Fourth Prince's eyes were bloodshot and he was practically shouting these words, a hint of emotion flashed in the female physician's eyes.
She didn't continue to argue, but instead gave a respectful curtsy and turned back to the delivery room.
"You must protect my queen! Otherwise! Otherwise, I will really take your life!"
Despite the threat, the fourth prince's tone carried a hint of pitifulness.
With a loud clang.
The fourth prince's body slumped against the door. He turned around with difficulty and called out to Xu Tong, "Brother-in-law, come quickly!"
Xu Tong: ...
What's going on?
He was quite imposing just now.
"Your Highness? What's wrong?"
"Help me up, my legs are a little weak!"
The fourth prince, no longer afraid of losing face, directly revealed his embarrassing situation!
Three dark lines drooped down Xu Tong's forehead.
He's a grown man, how can he be so cowardly?
Xu Tong is a military general, a pure straight man.
He was worried when his wife gave birth. But even so, he wasn't so scared that his legs went weak.
However, from another perspective, this shows that the Fourth Prince cares about and cherishes his sister!
As a member of the bride's family, Xu Tong expressed his satisfaction.
Raise your hands and support the fourth prince's arms on the left and right.
Xu Tong easily lifted the fourth prince, who was as limp as a noodle.
"Your Highness, please have a seat!"
Just then, the eunuch in charge of the Prince's mansion ordered someone to carry over a folding stool (an ancient type of folding stool).
Xu Tong saw it too, and turned around to put the fourth prince on the couch.
Once he sat down, with something to hold onto, the Fourth Prince wasn't in such a sorry state.
He braced his hands on his knees, staring intently at the door.
Fifteen minutes later, a baby's cry finally rang out in the delivery room.
"She's given birth? She's given birth! That's wonderful! Congratulations, Your Highness! Congratulations, Your Highness!"
The head eunuch was overjoyed and immediately knelt down to congratulate the fourth prince.
The servants and old women in the courtyard were also overjoyed.
However, neither Xu Tong nor the Fourth Prince showed much joy on their faces.
The fourth prince, in particular, gritted his teeth and continued to stare intently at the door.
His burning gaze almost burned a hole through the door.
finally--
With a creak, the door opened.
The female physician emerged and reported, "Your Highness, I have successfully completed my mission! Mother and child are both safe!"
Upon hearing the words "both mother and child are safe," the Fourth Prince finally breathed a long sigh of relief.
He wanted to stand up and go inside to see A-Yuan.
But, whether it was because he was too anxious or because his legs were still weak, he fell to the ground with a thud as soon as his buttocks left the folding chair.
"Your Highness!"
Xu Tong didn't know whether to laugh or be moved.
He quickly reached out and lifted the fourth prince up again.
"I'm fine!"
The fourth prince, however, did not feel ashamed at all.
Cough cough, just as he said, someone as absurd as him has done many embarrassing things, so tripping and falling on flat ground is nothing to him.
"Ah Yuan! Ah Yuan! How are you? Are you alright?"
The fourth prince casually replied to Xu Tong, then strained his neck and shouted inside.
Exhausted and having suffered a cut in a private area, Princess Xu was completely drained.
But her own silly boy was still yelling and shouting. Half-conscious, Princess Xu snapped at him, "Helian Huang! Shut up!"
The voice was loud, and the person did not seem too weak.
So, despite being scolded, the Fourth Prince was overjoyed.
"Hehe, Ah Yuan still has the energy to curse, so she must be really safe!"
Xu Tong: ...This brother-in-law seems to be a bit slow on the uptake.
But damn it, it's also reassuring!
My sister married him, so she didn't make a mistake.
Afterwards, the Xu family learned that Xu Yuan had definitely married into a good family.
Not only was her husband reliable in crucial moments, but her sister-in-law, the Empress, also genuinely treated Xu Yuan as family.
"Her Majesty the Empress prepared experienced female physicians for me in advance, just in case of a difficult childbirth."
"I really had a difficult labor! I was born sideways! The baby was stuck."
"Without the female doctor, I really wouldn't have made it through this. And the baby would probably have suffocated to death!"
Two lives lost, one unborn child!
Only when Princess Xu truly lay on the delivery bed and experienced the despair of being on the verge of death did she truly understand these words.
She was extremely grateful to Xie Yuan, her best friend and sister-in-law.
"Our Xu family owes Her Majesty an immense debt of gratitude!"
After listening to Princess Xu's story, Princess Xu's mother couldn't help but murmur a few words.
A drop of water in need deserves a spring in return, let alone a life-saving favor.
I really owe this person a huge favor.
The fourth prince, however, was unconvinced: "I am the emperor's own younger brother!"
He was a henchman who had joined forces with them long ago.
For his sake, even his own Prince Yong's mansion became subordinate.
Prince Yong deliberately did not set off early on his return to the capital.
Besides being self-aware and not wanting to compete with Helian Jue, the Fourth Prince also valued this affection.
We're all family, hehe, isn't it only right that we look out for each other?
He and his Prince Yong's Mansion will be loyal to the Sage.
The sage and the empress would naturally protect their family.
Princess Xu: ...Is this blockhead really that clueless, or is he doing it on purpose?
However, the fourth prince's attitude may have been exactly what the emperor and empress wanted.
They don't treat themselves like outsiders.
The emperor and empress were also willing to trust him even more!
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