Chapter 317: Just one night, the baby was born

After a while, all the food Xie Zhuoning ordered was delivered.

She asked everyone to leave, then used the tip of her chopsticks to dip a little bit of cow's or goat's milk and fed it into the little girl's mouth.

"The conditions are limited, so I'll just have to make do with it for now."

The little girl was obviously very hungry. As soon as she saw the food, she immediately stuck out her little pink tongue.

After a while, the little face finally became visibly redder.

She was very obedient. She fell asleep after eating, as if she knew this place was very dangerous. She didn't even cry or howl.

Xie Zhuoning gently pinched her little face, not knowing whether to laugh or cry, "You are so careless, aren't you afraid that I am a bad person and will sell you out?"

But how could such a young child know so much?

Xie Zhuoning withdrew his hand, his eyes were introverted, and his thoughts were heavy.

"We still have to find a way to send them out."

Leaving a child in this crisis-ridden palace is not a long-term solution.

When it was finally night, she immediately turned off the lights, carried the child, and drove along the tunnel to Xiao Jinxuan's residence with ease.

"Damn, damn, damn, Xiao Jinxuan, guess what good stuff I brought you?"

Looking at the head that suddenly popped up from the side, Xiao Jinxuan smiled and asked cooperatively, "What?"

"A child!"

"Um?"

Xiao Jinxuan's eyes were puzzled at first, then widened, and then surprised, "You mean... you have a child?"

No, that’s not right, it was their first time last night, how could they get pregnant so quickly?

Just when he was puzzled, he saw Xie Zhuoning unbutton his cloak and take out a little baby girl from his arms.

Xiao Jinxuan: “…”

What a child.

He asked puzzledly, "Where did this child come from?"

"I picked it up." The little girl happened to wake up, and Xie Zhuoning teased her while telling her what happened after he left last night.

After hearing the whole story, Xiao Jinxuan fixed his gaze on the child, "Who do you think this child belongs to?"

Xie Zhuoning has been thinking about this problem for a whole day.

She said slowly, "Men in the palace can be roughly divided into three categories: masters, that is, the emperor and the prince, guards, and eunuchs."

Eunuchs cannot make women pregnant, so they are ruled out first.

The second is Emperor Zhaowen. He had been seriously ill for a long time and had been in a coma for such a long time. Judging from the months, it was unlikely to be his, so he was naturally ruled out.

"I initially thought that this child was either the offspring of Xiao Bicheng before the accident, or that a guard had an affair with a palace maid and got her pregnant."

But if you think about it carefully, it doesn't make sense.

Now that Xiao Bicheng can no longer have any offspring, if it was really his child, he would have wished to give birth to all of them. How could he have sent people to hunt him down?

And if the maidservant in the palace had committed adultery, why did they have to cut open the pregnant woman's stomach and leave her no chance of survival?

"It just so happened that last night, Donggong Bai Yingxue gave birth to a son prematurely, and the birth month was similar to this girl's, and she was also born ahead of schedule..."

Xiao Jinxuan met her eyes and understood what she meant. "You mean, a cat replacing a prince?"

"Yeah." She nodded.

Frowning slightly, Xiao Jinxuan tapped the edge of the table with his index finger. After a moment, he said, "It's impossible. Bai Yingxue is pregnant with the prince's only child. If it's a girl, it means that Daye will end up in his hands."

No matter whether it is the crown prince or the queen, there is no way they would allow such a thing to happen.

Therefore, the safest way is to find a few pregnant women to give birth at the same time as Bai Yingxue.

Xie Zhuoning thought so too, but she still had some questions, "So was the baby born by Bai Yingxue a boy or a girl? Was her child swapped with someone else or not? And whose child is this baby girl I picked up?"

Based on the known clues, Xiao Jinxuan can only infer the answers to the first two questions:

"Bai Yingxue should have given birth to a baby girl last night, and the grandson of the emperor now should be someone else's child."

Xie Zhuoning was surprised, "How did you know?"

"Because you said that when you saw the pregnant woman, her belly had already been cut open."

What does that mean?

This means that Bai Yingxue had already given birth before she did.

So we couldn't wait for her to give birth slowly, and needed to perform a caesarean section as quickly as possible.

Since Bai Yingxue has already given birth, why does she need to have a caesarean section?

Of course, it’s because she gave birth to a girl, so she urgently needs a boy!

Xie Zhuoning suddenly felt enlightened. "I didn't notice this detail."

As for why Xiao Jinxuan was not sure about the third reason, she could also guess it.

After Bai Yingxue gave birth to the royal grandson, all those involved in this matter would be purged.

For safety reasons, there must have been more than one woman who had caesarean section to deliver a baby, and it is possible that one of them gave birth to a baby girl.

The woman who escaped most likely escaped with her newborn baby and fell into the dry well before being bloodbathed.

"What a poor child." Xie Zhuoning teased her.

Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help but chuckle as he looked at her gentle and compassionate appearance.

She looked up, puzzled, "What are you laughing at?"

"Just looking at you now, I can't help but think of how you'll tease our children in the future."

When he thought of this, Xiao Jinxuan couldn't help but feel a little bit of anticipation for the future with her and their children.

"Our child?" Xie Zhuoning pinched his chin. "You reminded me that we have to have a child as soon as possible. If you are no longer useful, I will support my son in a rebellion!"

The father is gone and the son is kept. How wonderful it is for her to be the supreme queen mother?

Xiao Jinxuan was so angry at this heartless guy that he gritted his teeth and squeezed out words from between his teeth, "It seems that I should work hard and not let Miss Xie think that I am useless!"

Xie Zhuoning patted his shoulder with satisfaction and said, "You are a teachable boy."

Xiao Jinxuan was so angry that he laughed. He asked, "What about this child? What are you going to do?"

Xie Zhuoning stared at the little girl and said, "I plan to have her sent out of the palace and find a family to adopt her."

If this baby girl is really the pregnant woman's child, then she would consider saving a life as being better than building a seven-story pagoda.

If this little girl is the baby born by Bai Yingxue, then who knows, she might be of great use to them in the future!

This is also the reason why she came to see Xiao Jinxuan tonight.

"Ling Xiao and the others should have seen the message you left, right?"

She had expected it, exactly.

Ling Xiao and his friends saw the signal left by their grandfather, and at midnight, they followed the tunnel to find the place.

It was shocking enough to find such a secret passage in the imperial palace.

When they saw their master and Miss Xie together, Ling Xiao and the others couldn't help but freeze their expressions.

So they were frightened outside, trying every possible way to rescue them, but they ended up having a secret meeting in the palace?

If all this was still normal, when Ling Xiao saw the child in Xie Zhuoning's arms, he was so scared that he fell to the ground.

"Master, thank you, Miss, you...you guys...it's only been one night, and you've already given birth to your child?"