When the time for the pregnancy-preserving injection was up, Shen Huaixu placed the freshly washed needle on Shu Yun's abdomen and pressed it. The force was not strong, but Shu Yun still looked painful.
After confirming the baby's position, she looked at Shu Yun and said softly, "Please be patient for a while."
Shu Yun nodded with difficulty.
Shen Huaixu already knew all the precautions for childbirth, but she was still a little nervous as it was her first time practicing. She rubbed her hands together to slow down the heat in her palms, then reached out her hand...
Shu Yun closed her eyes tightly in pain, clenched her teeth but still let out painful moans from between them. Her pretty face became a little hideous because of the pain.
Shen Huaixu controlled the strength of his hands and comforted her softly: "Relax a little, it's okay, it will be fine in a while..."
After a while, she finally stopped what she was doing, and beads of sweat appeared on her forehead.
Shu Yun, lying there, had a dazed look in her eyes. She felt his pulse and asked, "Do you still have strength?"
As Qiulian entered the inner room, she heard Shen Huaixu's words, "I've made some brown sugar water. Would you like to drink some?"
"Give some to your wife."
Soon a maid brought a bowl of sugar water, and Qiulian carefully fed it to Shu Yun.
The midwife also came forward and said, "Doctor Shen, is the fetus in the correct position?"
"It's correct, go and have a look."
Midwife Li was not at all vague. She immediately touched Shu Yun's belly and said in surprise, "It's straight? It's really straight?"
She reacted quickly, and when she saw Shu Yun finished drinking the sugar water, she breathed a sigh of relief, "Madam, relax first, don't use too much force, gather your strength first...Okay, come, take a deep breath, don't relax, okay, use your strength..."
Chen Huaixu washed his hands, then came to the bed and grabbed Shu Yun's hand, observing her condition at all times and constantly adjusting the needle position.
Shu Yun no longer had the strength to scream, and her heart was filled with a strong desire to give birth to the child.
He kept repeating the process of accumulating and exerting strength, and even with a ginseng slice in his mouth, Shu Yun's life force was slowly fading away.
Everyone who witnessed this couldn't help but sweat. The result of the mother's exhaustion was two deaths. If taking medicine and acupuncture didn't work, there was no other way.
Soon, midwife Li's surprised voice reached everyone's ears, "It's out, it's born!"
After hearing this, Shu Yun could no longer hold on. Her eyes slowly closed and her face gradually turned gray.
Shen Huaixu changed his acupuncture technique again and quickly said to Qiulian, "Go and invite Doctor Yue in, go quickly!"
Qiulian no longer cared about the old lady's rules and ran out with tears in her eyes.
Across a large screen, Shen Huaixu succinctly recounted Shu Yun's condition, her previous medications, and her pulse to Dr. Yue. Dr. Yue had no choice but to trust Shen Huaixu's diagnosis. After a moment's deliberation, he listed numerous acupuncture points. On the other side of the screen, Shen Huaixu followed Dr. Yue's instructions, applying acupuncture with smooth, flowing movements.
After a series of rescue efforts by Shen Huaixu and Doctor Yue, Shu Yun was finally rescued from the brink of death. This incident made her already frail body even worse, and she had to carefully recuperate from now on.
What surprised Shen Huaixu was that Doctor Yue's attitude towards her seemed to have changed. He was no longer as stern as before, but became more gentle. He would explain a few acupuncture points to her every time he mentioned them.
She thought about it and realized that she hadn't done anything remarkable. Soon, the crying of a child interrupted her thoughts.
The child was a boy. When he was born, he was wrinkled, thin and small, like a mouse cub, and his face was blue and purple. Midwife Li was experienced. With just a few movements of her hands, she made the child cry, and his cry was as weak as a mosquito's.
For such a fragile little human, Shen Huaixu was afraid that he would get hurt if he lost control, so he just took the pulse, which was so weak that it was almost inaudible.
She didn't have much experience with pediatric diseases, so she asked Midwife Li to clean up the woman in labor. She carefully carried the tightly wrapped child to find Doctor Yue, and stood by to help.
When Doctor Yue saw this, the slight dislike he had for Chen Huaixu disappeared without a trace.
In the field of medicine, he has always been cautious and meticulous and would not tolerate any taint. Shen Huaixu came to their Jishiditang to work as a doctor despite being a county lady. Shen Huaixu was also known to the world for saving people by performing caesarean sections. In his opinion, Shen Huaixu might have talent, but he was too sensational, frivolous and conceited. His method of saving people was not like that used by a legitimate doctor, but more like that used by a southwestern witch doctor.
He followed her this time only because he knew that the wife of the Marquis of Zhenyuan was a difficult person, and even the imperial physician might not take her seriously, let alone Shen Huaixu, a young doctor who was only ten years old. With him by her side, they could only talk to each other for a few words. He was thinking about this so much that he forgot that Shen Huaixu also had the identity of a county lord.
He suddenly remembered that Shen Huaixu had never used his status to bully others during the long time he had been at Jishiditang. She even rarely mentioned her father.
This is why his attitude changed.
Suddenly, a noisy sound came from the quiet courtyard again. Shen Huaixu vaguely heard a servant calling "Second Master".
Soon a man broke into the house despite the servants outside trying to stop him.
Shen Huaixu stood in front of the small swaddling clothes, using her body to block the incoming wind. She looked at the man who had rushed in recklessly with a hint of coldness in her eyes, and said in a calm voice: "Either close the door or get out."
The child couldn't stand the wind, so she and Doctor Yue treated him directly in the outer room. If he caught a cold, he would probably die.
The man was already anxious, and when he heard Shen Huaixu's words, his heart was ignited. He also knew that now was not the time to lose his temper. He patiently closed the door as he was told. The child's weak cry made him stunned for a moment, and he asked in surprise: "Where is Yunniang? Where is my wife?"
Shen Huaixu said unhappily, "It's fine."
When he was on the verge of death, he couldn't even see a single person. But after being rescued, he became a good husband who loved his wife.
Qiulian heard the noise and came out from behind the screen, "Son-in-law, the mistress just gave birth and is very weak. This time... she has suffered a great hardship."
She lowered her head and her voice was choked with sobs.
Shangguan Wenyang immediately walked towards the inner room.
Qiulian was startled and stepped forward to stop him: "Sir, you can't do that. The room is filthy..."
"If we talk about filth, then everyone in the world was born from a filthy place. So, no one is clean. Your wife just had a near-death experience and fainted from exhaustion, and yet..."
Shen Huaixu's voice stopped abruptly because Old Doctor Yue glared at her.
Shangguan Wenyang glanced at Shen Huaixu, and the worry in his eyes almost overflowed after hearing what she said. He no longer cared about anything and rushed to the bedside.
Qiulian smiled gratefully at Chen Huaixu. As the mistress's maids, if they spoke too much about their distress and were heard by outsiders, they would be considered as making a big deal out of nothing. However, if these words were spoken by outsiders, they would carry much more weight.
"Greetings, Madam!" The servants' greetings came again from outside.
The smile on Qiulian's face disappeared instantly, and she walked towards the door as if facing a great enemy.
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