Chapter 262 is a young master
"Ningning..." Zhou called out weakly, "Ningning...is that you?"
Jiang Wanning quickly walked to the bedside and tightly grasped Zhou Shi's hand. "Mother, it's me. I'm back."
As Jiang Wan Ning spoke, she took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat from Zhou Shi's forehead.
When Zhou spoke, her voice was weak and feeble, "Ningning... Mother is dying, please save the child, please save the child."
"Everything will be alright, don't worry. With me here, you and your brother will be fine," Jiang Wan Ning comforted softly.
While speaking, he took Zhou's pulse.
"Your Highness," the imperial physician said cautiously, "the Lady of the Marquis's condition is extremely precarious, with only a ten-fold chance of survival..."
"Shut up!" Jiang Wan Ning said unhappily, "It's not over yet. Who gave you permission to say these things here?"
The imperial physician knelt down guiltily, "This humble subject was too nervous, Your Highness, please forgive me."
"Haitang," Jiang Wanning shouted, "drag him out and hand him over to the Prince."
"Interrogate them thoroughly."
My intuition told me that there must be something wrong with this imperial physician.
"Yes." To avoid disturbing Madam Zhou, Haitang immediately covered the imperial physician's mouth and dragged him out.
"Peony, bring me my medicine box."
Peony, who had been waiting outside the curtain, immediately brought in the medicine box, opened it, and put it away.
Jiang Wan Ning took off her cumbersome outer garment, rolled up the sleeves of her inner garment, and piled her hair into a high bun. She said to the three midwives, "You will be my assistants."
"Cooperate well. If my mother and brother are both safe, you will be rewarded handsomely."
“If you’re not as quick to judge and speak carelessly as that imperial physician just now, then there’s something else waiting for you.”
The three midwives quickly bowed their heads and said in unison, "Your Highness, please rest assured."
"Your Highness, the three of us have been staying at the Marquis's residence for so long, and the Marquis and his wife have been treating us to the best of their ability. Rest assured, this old woman will do everything in her power to ensure our safety."
The other two nodded in agreement, "Don't worry, Your Highness!"
Jiang Wan Ning then turned to Shao Yao and said, "Come and help me."
"It's the Princess." Peony and Begonia learned many methods of treating illnesses when they were at the free clinic. They often helped Yu Hai and Jiang Wan Ning and are now quite adept at it.
“Your Highness, what should we do next?” one of the midwives asked.
"Open the abdomen and take the baby out directly."
As soon as Jiang Wan Ning finished speaking, the three midwives' eyes widened in fright, and one of them said, "Wh...what?"
"Your Highness, isn't this... this is murder?"
"Yes, if it's removed like that, neither the child nor the adult will survive."
Jiang Wan Ning remained silent, but Shao Yao said sternly, "Do whatever the Princess says."
"You just need to do as the princess says. Would the princess possibly harm her own mother?"
The three midwives hesitated to make a move, and Jiang Wan Ning frowned deeply. "Anyone who doesn't want to leave, get out now."
One of them stood up and walked up to Jiang Wan Ning, "Your Highness, this humble subject truly dares not. I have children at home, and I cannot risk my life..."
"No need to say more, let's go." Jiang Wan Ning said calmly, "Go out and find someone who will give you money."
The midwife bowed and immediately left. Seeing this, another woman approached Jiang Wan Ning, saying, "Your Highness, please forgive me, this humble subject..."
"Walk."
Jiang Wanning said directly.
The midwife didn't say anything more and immediately followed her out.
Seeing this, the last midwife stepped forward. Before she could speak, Peony said first, "If you're going to leave, leave quickly and don't waste time."
Don't you know that time is life?
The midwife glanced at Peony and said, "Young lady, you've misunderstood."
Then he said to Jiang Wan Ning, "Your Highness, I am willing to help you. Just tell me what to do, and I will do it."
Jiang Wan Ning nodded, "Okay."
"Go help my mother unbutton her shirt and expose her belly," Jiang Wanning said to Shaoyao. "Shaoyao, get out the sterilization tools."
"Disinfect all the props."
"Yes, Your Highness."
The midwife and Shaoyao quickly tidied up. Jiang Wanning took out the anesthetic and made Zhou Shi kneel down and curl up on the ground. "Mother, you may feel some swelling and pain. Please bear with it."
Zhou bit her lip tightly and remained silent.
Jiang Wanning slowly inserted the long needle along Zhou's spine and injected the anesthetic.
Fortunately, Yu Hai had figured all of these things out and practiced them many times, but he was still a little nervous when he actually performed the surgery for the first time.
Once the anesthesia took effect, Jiang Wan Ning could no longer hear Zhou's cries of pain and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Ningning," Zhou said, "Why don't I feel any pain anymore?"
Jiang Wan Ning gently reassured her, "This is an anesthetic researched by Yu Hai, the same anesthetic powder we commonly use, except it's injected into the body."
"Mother, I'm going to take my little brother out of your belly now. Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you. If you're scared, just close your eyes."
Madam Zhou gently shook her head. "Mother believes in you. Mother wants to see it with her own eyes. You must promise Mother that you will save your brother."
Jiang Wan Ning nodded, "Mom, don't worry."
After saying that, he reached out to Peony and said, "Scalpel."
The midwife didn't know what surgery was, but when she saw the knife that Shaoyao handed to Jiang Wanning, she couldn't help but tremble.
Jiang Wan Ning took a deep breath.
The midwife said, "Your Highness, if the child doesn't come out soon, I'm afraid..."
Jiang Wan Ning glanced at Zhou Shi, who nodded at her. Only then did Jiang Wan Ning gently cut open her abdomen with a scalpel.
"...wipe your sweat," Jiang Wan Ning said, and the midwife quickly took a clean handkerchief to wipe her sweat.
"tweezers."
"Curved pliers".
"Bladder retractor".
"......"
Jiang Wanning would say something the midwife had never heard of before, and then say something else, and Shaoyao would skillfully and quickly hand it to Jiang Wanning.
Two hours later, with the help of the midwife, Jiang Wanning delivered the baby from her womb.
"Hold the baby's feet and pat the soles of their feet," Jiang Wanning told the midwife.
"Your Highness, rest assured, this humble servant will handle it." After all, she had delivered so many babies, and although she had never seen anything like this before, she knew how to take care of a newborn.
Jiang Zheng, the child who was pacing anxiously outside the curtain, suddenly froze after hearing the child's cries. Then his legs went weak, and he collapsed to the ground, wiping the sweat from his brow.
When the midwife came out carrying the baby, she said, "Congratulations, Your Excellency, it's a little prince."
Jiang Zheng scrambled to his feet, and before he could even glance at the child, he grabbed the midwife's arm anxiously, "Where is Madam? How is Madam?"
"The princess is stitching up the lady's wound." After the midwife finished speaking, Jiang Zheng wanted to rush in.
The midwife quickly said, "My lord, the princess has instructed that no one is allowed to enter until she comes out."
"Can't I do it either?" Jiang Zheng asked.
"The Princess gave the order, especially for you."
Jiang Zheng coughed awkwardly twice, and finally waved his arm, "I understand."
“I will first clean the young master,” the midwife said, “and then hand him over to the wet nurse.”
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