Chapter 116 Rescue Jiang Xiaosi
"…What's wrong?"
Mrs. Xu asked very weakly, and Jiang Wan quickly let go of his mother's hand and stood up.
"It's nothing, mother, just rest and get some sleep."
While answering, he walked towards Mrs. Zhang.
"show me!"
"Miss, I'm afraid this child is..."
"Shut up! Go help take care of my mother's delivery bed while I take a look at the situation."
Jiang Wan held the baby, who looked like a giant rat, in her arms. She looked at its tightly closed eyes and mouth, and panicked. Although she had never worked in obstetrics and gynecology, she knew that babies needed to cry a few times to clear their throats. In her current state, it was likely that the amniotic fluid had been held back and she hadn't coughed it out.
So he quickly pulled over the cotton pad that had been prepared long ago, placed it on the table at the side, and then quickly and gently pinched the baby's little mouth open with one hand, not caring whether it was disgusting or not, and opened his mouth to suck.
"Ugh, ugh, ugh... ugh..."
After several puffs, the sticky smell made her nauseous. But she didn't dare stop, and worked hard. Finally, the little guy coughed several times like a little mouse, and then closed his eyes and cried a few times.
“Alive, alive!”
Jiang hugged her sister-in-law, who was already in tears, and gently wiped her tears.
"Our child is fine, Sister Yu, please stop crying. You can't cry when you are so weak, or you will get sick!"
"...Sister-in-law, I, I thought Xiao Si was dying..."
"What nonsense are you talking about? Our little Si is doing fine! Look, isn't his big sister swaddling him? Go and have a good rest, we are here for you."
"Thank you, sister-in-law..."
Xu finally breathed a sigh of relief, collapsed on the bed, closed her eyes and fell asleep. She didn't know how much time had passed since her stomachache, but she really felt too tired and needed a good rest.
After wrapping the baby, Jiang Wan turned around and glanced at his mother. The delivery bed had been made ready and his mother had fallen asleep.
"Aunt, please stay here and watch over my mother. I'll take Xiao Si to the east wing and have Doctor Sun take a look at him."
"Okay, go ahead. Be sure to cover the child tightly so he doesn't get caught in the wind!"
She knew that her eldest niece, who was so steady that she even had some unusual ideas, must understand everything, but she still gave her a few useless instructions.
"I understand. Sister Ziyu, you stay here too, and be ready to take orders from my aunt at any time. Granny Zhang has worked hard for you, too. Come with Sister Qingzhu and rest up. I'll definitely reward you handsomely later!"
"It's not hard, it's not hard. Miss, just go ahead and do your thing. I can go by myself."
As long as the child was born safely, the rest of the matter had little to do with her as a midwife. Her years of experience in the inner courtyard had taught her that it was best not to inquire into the affairs of wealthy families.
"Well, Sister Qingzhu, quickly take Granny Zhang downstairs to rest."
As he walked out, he explained everything that needed to be explained. Then he carried his little brother, the big rat, and carefully came to Doctor Sun, asking him to help him check him carefully inside and out.
"Uncle Shi, is my little brother okay?"
"Not quite."
While Sun Tingyun was replying, he had already opened the medicine box and took out the golden needles, and began to inject them into the little baby smoothly.
It was not until Jiang Xiaosi closed his eyes and cried, choking on a lot of amniotic fluid, that his voice gradually became clearer.
After carefully removing the needle, Sun Tingyun checked the child carefully again before re-wrapping the child and returning him.
"Your little brother was born prematurely and choked on amniotic fluid. I'm afraid he'll need careful care for the next few years."
"Is everything alright now?"
"Yes. I won't be returning home for the next three days. I'll give him a few more acupuncture treatments and make sure he's safe before I leave."
"Thank you for your trouble, uncle!"
Jiang Wan, whose nerves had been tense for a long time, finally smiled with relief. Sun Tingyun also breathed a sigh of relief, muttering to himself as he packed his medicine box.
"Don't be so happy yet. This little kid needs to be carefully nurtured with fine medicinal herbs for three to five years. You'll have a lot of worry waiting for you!"
"It's okay. My parents can handle things anyway, so why would they need me, their eldest sister? But my mother will probably need your help, uncle. Can you prescribe some herbs for her recovery?"
Since they successfully established a friendship, Jiang Wan has been calling him "Uncle" affectionately. At first, one might have thought she was calling him "Fourth Uncle", which made Sun Tingyun, the fourth child in the family, very happy.
With one legitimate brother and two half-brothers, he had no shortage of nephews calling him "Fourth Uncle." But how could he put it? Perhaps he had a special affinity with Jiang Wan, and he felt that if she couldn't be his daughter, having her as a niece would be just fine.
"Well, I'll think about the prescription in a moment, don't worry about it."
"Thank you, uncle. I won't bother you anymore."
After a polite greeting, he left, then took extra care to carry the light-hearted little brother back to his mother and put him down. Then he hurried out to tell his grandparents that the Jiang family had a new baby today.
"Second brother, you wait in this courtyard. When grandpa and grandma come over, you will be responsible for staying by their side and serving them."
"Sister, what are you doing?"
Jiang Han's eyebrows and eyes were full of smiles. She was not happy about having a younger brother, but she was happy that her mother was safe.
"I'm going to the front yard to look around and see what kind of monsters dared to stab us in the back!"
These words sounded murderous. Jiang Han huddled in place obediently, watching her sister walk away.
They hurried to the front yard, where servants were already tied up. Jiang Wan sat down on a chair with a sullen expression, while a group of people below kowtowed and cried out for justice.
"My young lady, this servant is wronged!"
"I am innocent too!"
"Wuwuwu, please understand, Miss..."
"I've been doing my job honestly and have never done anything out of the ordinary!"
Everyone was crying and complaining one after another. Some people were still confused and didn't know what had happened until they were tied up here, but that didn't stop them from following the crowd and crying out for justice.
When Cheng Zhuo saw that the eldest lady's face was frighteningly cold, he quickly stepped forward, drew his sword and shouted coldly.
"Shut up!"
Everyone fell silent instantly. Who didn't know that the young lady's men were all veterans of the battlefield? They killed people as easily as chopping chickens.
Jiang Wan was too lazy to waste time and started from the source.
"Kitchen manager, come out and tell me who made this bowl of lotus seed soup today? What ingredients were used? Who went out to buy them? And who did you arrange for this soup to be delivered to Qingpingju? Did it pass through other people's hands along the way? Speak!"
The series of cold questions frightened the kitchen manager, Nanny Chen, so much so that she trembled all over. She knelt down in panic and answered her master's questions concisely and clearly.
"My dear Miss, I made today's soup myself. The soup base is made with red dates, lotus seeds, and rock sugar. These ingredients are commonly used in the main kitchen, so I didn't go out to buy them. I asked Liu Ye to deliver the soup."
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