1056 is deformed, the child is innocent...
"It's out, it's out, please try harder, Madam."
The midwife wiped her sweat and shouted at the same time. Although she had received favors from the Queen and took the opportunity to save the mother and the child, there were many people in the delivery room and Feng Qingchen was watching her, so she didn't dare to do anything.
Besides, the condition of Imperial Concubine Xie was not as serious as the midwife said. In the palace, if a disease was only a little serious, the imperial physician and the midwife would definitely say it was very serious. In this way, if something really happened, it would be because the noble lady was too seriously ill, not because they were not as skilled as others. On the contrary, if she was saved, it would be because they were so skilled that they could cure any serious disease.
"Ah..." Noble Concubine Xie felt weak all over and was about to faint from the pain. Upon hearing the midwife's words, she held her breath and used all her strength, and then she felt something slipping out of her stomach.
Huh... Imperial Noble Concubine Xie collapsed on the bed, motionless.
"It's born, it's born, Madam, it's born." Hearing the midwife's words, Imperial Noble Consort Xie pulled herself together and said weakly, "Go, bring the baby to me to see."
"I obey your command." The midwife cut the umbilical cord and took the little prince out. Seeing that the little prince didn't cry for a long time, the midwife was about to pat the little prince's buttocks, but she didn't want to see...
"Ah..." The midwife was startled and screamed, and her hands loosened. The little prince, who had not yet been swaddled, fell straight down. The white and tender baby could not even cry, so how could he save himself.
“No…” Imperial Concubine Xie and the palace maid screamed heartbreakingly. Imperial Concubine Xie fell off the bed and said, “My child…”
Feng Qingchen had been on guard against the midwife, and she was the first to notice that the midwife had let go...
"Be careful." Such a young child would be dead if he fell. Feng Qingchen's heart stopped beating. Without thinking, he rushed over.
With a thud, Feng Qingchen fell straight to the ground. She felt pain in her chest, but she laughed because the little prince landed steadily in her hands. |
"That's great." Feng Qingchen's heart finally settled down, and at this time the midwife also reacted, kneeling on the ground with a thud, and kowtowed fiercely: "This servant deserves to die, this servant deserves to die."
But at this time, everyone was busy and no one cared about her. When Imperial Noble Concubine Xie saw the little prince fall into Feng Qingchen's hands, she breathed a sigh of relief, then her eyes went dark and she fainted.
"Empress, Empress." The palace maids and the female doctor were in a panic. They rushed forward to carry Imperial Noble Concubine Xie onto the bed. Some fed her soup, while others pinched her Ren Zhong, fearing that Imperial Noble Concubine Xie would die.
How could the emperor and the empress not know about the commotion in the house? The emperor immediately sent someone to ask. Feng Qingchen held the little prince in one hand and pulled the midwife up with the other hand, saying sternly, "Just say that Imperial Concubine Xie had a hemorrhage."
It wasn't that she wanted to curse the Imperial Noble Consort, but only this reason could prevent people outside from asking further questions.
The midwife was not ignorant of the seriousness of the matter. She knew that she had made a big mistake today. Without Feng Qingchen saying anything more, she shouted exaggeratedly: "Oh no, oh no, the queen is bleeding. The queen is bleeding."
"What? Hemorrhage? Call the imperial physician quickly." The midwife's voice was so loud that people outside could hear it.
Although the Emperor said that he wanted to keep the baby, Noble Concubine Xie had not yet died, so of course she had to be saved. The Empress immediately called for the imperial physician to come forward.
"No need, Feng Qingchen is here." The emperor was calm.
When the queen heard this, she felt happy but sad at the same time. As the emperor's woman, what happened to Concubine Xie today might be her tomorrow...
After sending the people outside away, Feng Qingchen had no time to care about the midwife. She placed the little prince on the small table. Seeing the little prince's appearance, Feng Qingchen also knew why the midwife exclaimed.
There must be something blocking the little prince's mouth, his face was a little purple, and the most important thing... was that there was a piece missing just below the center of the little prince's nostrils, that is, the three-petal lip.
There was only a missing piece of nail polish, which is not serious in modern times, but it was considered a deformity at that time.
Born with deformities and a purple face, the midwife saw it as a dead fetus. It was understandable that she was so frightened that she dropped the baby, but Feng Qingchen couldn't understand why the midwives in the palace were at such a low level.
Of course, Feng Qingchen had no time to argue with the midwife. She leaned over and sucked out the filth from the little prince's mouth. When Imperial Noble Consort Xie woke up, she saw this scene and burst into tears before she could say a word: "Qingchen, my child..."
Imperial Noble Concubine Xie really suffered a lot today. She had a difficult delivery and fell off the bed right after giving birth. I'm afraid her body is weak.
Feng Qingchen did not answer Noble Consort Xie's words. Seeing that the little prince was already breathing weakly, Feng Qingchen slapped the little prince on the buttocks. The little prince burst into tears in pain. Although his cry was not full of energy, it sounded healthy at least.
Concubine Xie finally felt relieved: "As long as the child is fine."
The moment just now was so thrilling. If Feng Qingchen hadn't reacted quickly, the little prince would have been thrown to death by the midwife. Thinking of this, Imperial Noble Concubine Xie wanted to eat the midwife.
"Your Majesty, the little prince..." Feng Qingchen could coldly tell the patient's family that the patient could not be saved or that the patient would become disabled, but she could not tell a mother that there was something wrong with her child.
"What's wrong?" Upon hearing this, Imperial Noble Consort Xie struggled to sit up despite her weak body. This movement caused her lower body to hurt so much that blood flowed out from her legs.
After such a commotion, no one had time to clean up for Imperial Noble Concubine Xie. The entire delivery room was eerily depressing and no one dared to speak. Everyone just stood there, wishing they didn't exist.
The people in the palace were all shrewd. They had vaguely known that there might be something wrong with the little prince. Feng Qingchen knew that it was impossible to hide this from Imperial Concubine Xie, so she immediately carried the little prince to Imperial Concubine Xie.
The newborn baby was red and wrinkled, and really not good-looking. In addition, the little prince had been in the birth canal for a long time, so his head was a little deformed, and his face had not regained its rosy color. However, Imperial Noble Consort Xie thought her son was good-looking no matter how she looked at him, until...
"Why is his lips like this?" Imperial Noble Consort Xie had a horrified look on her face, her fingers trembling, and her already pale face became even paler.
"Your Majesty, the little prince has a missing piece of his lip, which means he was born with a cleft lip." Feng Qingchen felt uncomfortable, but she still said it calmly, because she was a doctor.
“Born with a cleft lip? How could my child be like this? Impossible, impossible, you must have made a mistake, how could my child…” Imperial Noble Consort Xie was on the verge of collapse. She hugged the little prince tightly in her arms and kept shaking her head.
"Wow... Qingchen, how could this happen? How could this happen to my child? The imperial physician always said that the little prince was very healthy." Noble Concubine Xie felt upset. The self-blame and pain were about to overwhelm her, but she did not dare to cry out loud, for fear that the emperor outside would hear her. She tried her best to suppress her sobs.
She remembered that when Feng Qingchen examined her, he said that the children did not seem to be well and suggested that she abort them. She was unwilling to lose a good prince, so... she became like this.
Thinking of this, Imperial Noble Consort Xie felt even more sad: "Qingchen, do you think this is a punishment? I did something wrong and became the crown prince. But if there is a punishment, it should be on me, Xie Yankai. My child is innocent..."
"Your Majesty..." Feng Qingchen sighed softly, not knowing how to persuade her.
No mother can accept such a thing calmly.
A word to the readers: I don't want to write that the baby has problems, but this plot is necessary. Perhaps it will be a blessing for the little prince.
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