Second, the soul is broken on a snowy night

The weather was getting colder and colder, and Shi Lian was probably afraid that Xiangbao would bother him again, so he asked someone to send her a whole bundle of practice books. Although Xiangbao was angry about this for a long time, he saw that the font was really beautiful, and he had nothing to do, so he copied and played. Anyway, there is plenty of time, and relying on Shi Lian's practice book, Xiangbao has successfully recognized a few words and got rid of the name of illiteracy.

It was snowing outside, and Xiangbao was wrapped in a white fox fur coat and leaned on the couch. In the bronze stove, the fire burned very strongly, but it still couldn't stop the bone-chilling cold. The fire reflected her face, slightly hot, but her hands and feet were still cold.

The night is already deep. Joy was sent to rest at her repeated insistence, and Xiangbao was the only one left in the huge room.

The door creaked and opened.

The cold wind wrapped in the snowflakes poured in, and Xiangbao had always been the most afraid of the cold, and couldn't help but shiver. With some difficulty, Xiang Bao went to close the door.

A plain white hand against the door, Xiangbao was slightly stunned, and looked up, it was Yue Nu.

"It's so late, what's the matter?" Xiangbao subconsciously took a step back and said.

Yue Nu's face was not real in the shadows: "The king ordered that the child could not be kept." ”

"This is my child!" Xiangbao covered her round belly.

"You have to understand your situation."

"You don't have to." Xiangbao clenched his fists, "Please leave, there are guards outside, you are Wei Qin's fiancée, I don't want to hurt you." ”

"Fiancée? Hehe. Yue Nu smiled lowly, "Are you still deceiving yourself?" ”

"What do you mean?" Xiangbao's face changed.

"Isn't it you?"

"What nonsense are you talking about!"

"Whether it's nonsense or not, you know better than anyone else in your heart."

Xiangbao was angry and anxious, and suddenly felt a pain in her abdomen, the pain became more and more intense, she covered her abdomen with both hands, and bent over in pain. Yue Nu stepped forward, grabbed her hand and checked the pulse, then frowned slightly, she let go of her hand, and watched Xiangbao fall to her knees in pain.

"It seems to be providential." Yue Nu glanced at Xiangbao who was curled up on the ground lightly, turned around, closed the door and left.

Pain!

Panic and pain that had never been felt before hit the earth, and Xiangbao covered his abdomen with his hands and curled up on the ground. , The heavy door was tightly closed, blocking the wind and snow outside, but it also closed Xiangbao alone in this room.

"Joy ......" clasped her hands tightly on her abdomen, and Xiangbao opened her mouth, but her voice was as thin as a gnat, and the pain almost made her unconscious.

Biting her lip fiercely, Xiangbao trembled and pushed down the clay pot by the door, and some dull breaking sound sounded in the room.

No one came in.

"Someone...... Come on...... "Xiangbao was very scared.

Nobody, nobody......

At the gate of the Guanwa Palace, Shi Lian brought some wine and food to ward off the cold for the guards on duty.

"Has anyone ever been in?"

"No, no, not a single fly was put in it." A guard smiled and took the food and wine, and said.

"Where's the fly in the winter?" The other laughed.

"But it's strange to say, on this big night, the Yue Nu actually sent a decoction to her wife, saying that it was to replenish her body." After taking a sip of wine, the guard said casually.

Shi Lian's face turned pale: "Yue Nu has been here?" ”

"Well, just left."

Unable to tell what was feeling in his heart, Shi Lian stuffed the wine into the guard's hand, turned around and rushed into the palace gate. The guards looked at each other, not understanding what was happening, but they chased after them.

The road was very quiet, so eerily quiet that half of the maids were not seen.

The snow fell silently.

When passing through the corridor of clogs, Shi Lian saw the maid sleeping in the corridor, and when he stepped forward, he saw that someone had given a needle. Knowing that something must have happened to Xiangbao, Shi Lian quickened his pace and went straight to Xiangbao's room.

"Knock Knock ......"

On the porch, the sound of hurried footsteps is particularly conspicuous in the silent night.

The door was wide open, and Xiangbao fell in the doorway, the blood under her body stained red with snow.

Xiangbao was already very tired, and tried all her strength to open the door, but there was still no one outside the door. No one came to save her, but she didn't dare to fall asleep like this, because ...... There is still a small life in her womb that is struggling with her.

She had never felt the presence of the child so deeply as she did at this moment, the child in her womb, struggling to come into the world......

"Xiangbao!"

Who's calling her? Xiangbao struggled to look up and saw a blurry figure, sweat flowing into his eyes, and his eyes hurt vividly.

"Help me...... ...... child"

"Someone! Go to the doctor! Shi Lian rushed forward to pick up Xiangbao, and his voice was so loud that even he was startled.

She was cold, barely warm, but her mind was still clear. Then the guards who came after him finally understood the seriousness of the situation and hurriedly agreed.

Shi Lian rushed into the room with Xiangbao in his arms and wrapped her cold body with a blanket: "Bear with it a little longer, the doctor will arrive in a while, the king has already ordered the best doctor of Wu to wait in the palace before he set out on the expedition, and he will arrive in a while." ”

Xiangbao unconsciously bit her lip, trying to stay awake until a fishy-sweet smell slowly seeped into her mouth from her lips.

"Who are you?" The maid who came to her senses was shocked and angry when she saw so many guards breaking into the palace.

"Madame is going to give birth."

"Madame is going to give birth, what are you guys doing here!"

Hearing the noise outside the door, Shi Lian frowned: "Let them in." ”

There was a sound of panicked footsteps, and Joy rushed in with a group of maids, all stunned when they saw the situation in the room.

"Someone has been sent to call a doctor. You'd better not see what happened tonight. Not to mention ruining the lady's innocence, if you fail to protect yourself, you are already guilty and deserve death. ”

The maids were submissive, and they all nodded yes.

I was happy to see my wife leaning on Shi Lian's arms, and finally felt that something was wrong, so I took a soft cloth and stepped forward: "General, let me help my wife wipe her sweat." ”

Shi Lian glanced at her and let go of his hand. Joy helped Xiangbao to lie down, and took a soft cloth to gently wipe the cold sweat from her forehead.

With a bang, the door was suddenly pushed open, and the wind and snow poured in.

Shi Lian hurriedly stepped forward, wrapped Xiangbao tightly with the quilt, turned around and scolded fiercely: "Why are you so reckless? What if my wife is cold? What about physicians? ”

"We went to the pharmacy where the doctor was staying, but there was no one. I heard the guard guarding the door say that the doctor left the palace last night and never came back...... "The guard was still carrying snow on his body, and said hurriedly.

"What?!" Joy was so shocked that he had no idea for a while.

"I'll go out of the palace and ask for a doctor." Shi Lian stood up, "Wait for me to come back." ”

Xiangbao opened her eyes and looked at him, her lips moving slightly.

He knew, and she said, "Okay." ”

He rushed out the door.

All the sounds around him could not be heard, but Xiangbao seemed to feel a small life struggling in his belly......

Xiangbao gritted her teeth and lowered her head, seeing that the red blood slowly penetrated the skirt.

"It's just giving birth, women will go through it, and it'll be fine, ma'am...... Don't scare the slave maid......" was frightened by Xiangbao's appearance, and said in a panic with joy.

The fishy sweet taste flowed in the mouth, and a sharp pain came from the lower abdomen.

"Madame...... Madame ...... "There was already a slight cry in her joyful voice.

Xiangbao grabbed the quilt fiercely with both hands: "Go...... I went to see Shi Lian and came back, and there was no ......."

Joy stumbled out. After a while, the door was pushed open again, and Joy ran in, her face red from the cold full of panic: "Madame...... Oh no, Wu Xiangguo led people to surround the Guanwa Palace! ”

Xiangbao closed her eyes, she should have thought of it a long time ago, how could there be such a coincidence when the doctor left the palace? I'm afraid the doctor won't come, Wu Zixu is having a headache How to get rid of her trouble, if he can die two lives now, wouldn't it be in line with his old man's wishes?

Shi Lian rushed back to the Guanwa Palace with the midwife, but was stopped outside the palace.

"If anything happens to Madame, and the king returns, none of you can escape."

Wu Bing, who stopped him, looked at each other, and then laughed.

"Haha, where did this dog come from?"

"Oh, it's a vassal of the Yue Kingdom!"

Shi Lian clenched his sword: "Say it again, please get out of the way." ”

"You still dare to do it......" Before he could finish speaking, Shi Lian had already cut off his head with a sword.

Shi Lian's eyes were red, and he cut a few Wu soldiers in a row, and noticed that a maid at the gate of the palace was probing his brain, and hurriedly turned to look at the midwife: "Follow her into the palace." ”

Where had the midwife who followed Shi Lian seen such a scene, she was so frightened that she trembled and couldn't move her steps for a while.

"Get in!" Holding the sword, Shi Lian looked at her.

The midwife was startled and hurriedly ran in.

When Xiangbao was almost desperate, a maid suddenly led a middle-aged woman into the door.

Although the midwife was frightened, when she saw Xiangbao lying on the couch, she immediately became decisive: "Go away and go away, what are you doing here?" Hurry up and get hot water ready! ”

While commanding, she stepped forward and reached out to remove Xiangbao's blood-soaked skirt and parted her legs: "Hurry up, the amniotic water has broken, and if you don't come out, the child will be in danger......"

There was no time to think about who she was, Xiangbao did as she said, gritting her teeth hard. Joy and the joy of the flies were spinning around like flies, and now they finally had a backbone, and they didn't bother to ask anything, and they hurriedly prepared hot water as they said.

Xiangbao bit the soft cloth that the woman had placed in her mouth, and closed her eyes, the pain so severe that it seemed to tear her apart......

"Hard! Hard! ”

Xiangbao bit the cloth and whimpered lowly.

"Husband...... Madame, child...... The kid is out! Suddenly joy cried out.

Xiangbao looked at the roof in a daze, the pain disappeared slightly, and her child ...... Born?

Oh, her child.

With a pale face, Xiangbao's forehead was covered with messy sweat-stained hair, but the corners of her mouth couldn't help but bend slightly. It's really amazing, a little life born from her womb, a child connected to her blood.

Her loved ones......

The pain just now, the pain that was worse than death, seemed to have disappeared at this moment, and only happiness slowly crept into her entire heart little by little.

Such a feeling of happiness......

The blueprint of happiness in his mind was abruptly interrupted, and a sobbing sound suddenly sounded in his ears.

"What a wickedness......," the woman sighed.

Xiangbao was slightly stunned, unable to come back to his senses for a while.

"It's a girl." Joy whispered, tears falling from her eyes.

"Huh? Is it really a girl? I know, hehe, I know ......" Xiangbao laughed, her voice a little hoarse.

There was a boom in his brain, Xiangbao was stunned, by the way, why didn't the child cry?

Raising her soft hand, Xiangbao wanted to sit up with her body propped up, and for the first time, she hated her powerlessness. Joy wiped her tears and stepped forward to help her sit up.

Leaning on the soft pillow, Xiangbao looked firmly at the child that the woman was holding in her hand.

"Give it to me."

The woman hesitated, but finally put the child in Xiangbao's hand.

Xiangbao carefully took it and hugged it into his arms. The little pale pink body, soft, warm, and wrinkled skin, like a little old man, with slightly closed eyes, is very cute......

Especially the small nose, like a husband.

Raised his hand and slapped her little buttocks gently, but she didn't even snort.

"I can't make it." In her ears, the woman sighed, and she shook her head.

Can't survive?

The ground suddenly darkened, and Xiangbao shook his head, regaining his senses that were about to collapse. Looking at the little child in her arms, her daughter, her body was warm, and her little breasts were still slightly bowing together...... Breathe so hard......

"She's still breathing." Xiangbao's voice was hoarse and terrifying.

"It's too late, the amniotic water has been broken for too long, she can't do it." The woman looked at Xiangbao with pity in her eyes, "If only it was a little earlier, it would ......"

"Rejoice!" Xiangbao interrupted her and suddenly shouted.

"Yes, ma'am." Joy was busy, and he replied with some trepidation.

"Help me up."

"Madame, your body ......"

Xiangbao ignored her, and took a small shirt from the couch and wrapped it around her daughter's body. It took her nearly four months to make the dress, and it was almost a piece of cloth, and it was ugly...... However, she did it herself.

She often thinks that in the future, she should take care of the children's clothes, I wonder if she will protest? Maybe her needlework will get better and better......

She, Xiangbao, is actually a mother......

I don't know where the strength came from, Xiangbao held the couch, hugged her daughter, and actually stood up.

"Madame, where are you going?" Joy cried out and hurriedly stepped forward to hold her.

"Go out of the palace to find a doctor." Xiangbao wanted to shake off her hand, but she couldn't exert any strength.

"Madame......" looked at her with joy and began to weep.

Low sobs rang out all around.

Why? Xiangbao looked at them with some confusion, could it be that they thought she was pitiful? She just wanted to save her daughter's life.

Seeing that Xiangbao was about to go out with the child in her arms, Joy couldn't help her, so she hurriedly put on clothes for her and helped her.

As soon as he arrived at the door, he saw a person standing outside the door, and the snow was so thick on him that he seemed to have become a snowman.

It was Shi Lian, who still had a sword in his hand, and it was stained with blood.

"General Shi, that kid can't do it, you can persuade Madame." The woman hurried forward.

Shi Lian looked at her and didn't speak.

"She's still breathing." Xiangbao opened his mouth and said, his expression almost paranoid.

"Go back." Lightly, he said.

Xiangbao ignored him, turned around and walked towards the palace gate, but his feet were weak, and he fell on the snow all of a sudden.

One left and one right, two people supported her.

On one side was joy, and on the other side, it was Shi Lian.

Holding the child, Joy helped Xiangbao to the palace gate, and Shi Lian silently followed.

It was pitch dark, the palace gates were tightly closed, and torches were burning on both sides.

"I'm going out of the palace." Holding the little child in his arms, Xiang Bao said.

"Wu Xiangguo has an order, no one is allowed to leave the palace."

"I'm going out of the palace." Gritting his teeth, Xiangbao repeated.

Looking at the pale woman in front of them, the guards looked at each other, quite embarrassed, and suddenly looked behind Xiangbao in unison, and they all bowed their heads and said nothing.

"Mrs. Xi Shi, it's so late, it's better to go back to the palace and rest early." Behind him, Wu Zixu's voice came.

Turning around, Xiangbao looked behind her, Wu Zixu was wearing a fur coat, her sleeves were slightly folded, and she was standing behind her.

"I'm going out of the palace." Word by word, almost viciously, Xiang Bao said.

"Madame, don't be too willful, it's getting late, let's rest early." Wu Zixu looked at her with a smile and said.

Clenching his fists, Xiangbao slowly looked down at the child in his arms, and the child's face was already blue. Xiangbao thought that now she must look like a madwoman.

"Wu Xiangguo, I just want to get out of the palace and let the doctor take a look at my daughter." Lowering her voice, Xiangbao pleaded mournfully. Even if everyone doesn't believe that this little life can survive, even if everyone thinks that she will die. But...... She's her mother, she's flesh and blood born in her womb, so ...... As long as she has a breath, as long as she is still breathing, she can't give up...... Even if the whole world gave up, she couldn't give up......

"Someone, send Mrs. Xi Shi back to the palace." Wu Zixu didn't blink his eyes and said.

Sure enough, it's ruthless.

"Who dares to step forward?" Shi Lian stepped forward and held the sword in front of Xiangbao, the sword shining with blood against the snow.

For a moment, no one dared to step forward.

Xiangbao bowed her head and tightly protected the child in her arms, her daughter.

All around is a white expanse, and the wind and snow are biting cold.

In the bitter cold wind, a faint cry suddenly sounded.

Xiangbao was stunned for a long time, and slowly lowered his head mechanically, looking at the child in his arms.

Her eyes, which had been closed, were open, and their black eyes were as bright as the brightest stars in the night sky, and she ...... He was looking at her......

However, when Xiangbao didn't have time to surprise, her eyes ...... Closed.

Xiangbao's trembling hand gently stroked her bruised little face, and it was cold......

She was pregnant with a child in October...... The child she worked so hard to give birth to...... This is the only side of the relationship?

"It's really dead." Looking up, looking at Wu Zixu, looking at Shi Lian, looking at Xile, and looking at Wu Bing guarding the palace gate, Xiangbao actually said with a smile.

Wu Zixu was also slightly stunned.

"Let's go back." opened his mouth, Xiangbao said.

Gently shaking off Joy's hand, Xiangbao hugged the child in her arms and returned to the room.

The moment I turned around, tears rained down.

She stumbled under her feet and held her with both hands.

"Thank you." Looking back at Shi Lian, Xiang Bao said.

He didn't answer.

"Alas, what a sin, I didn't think that the child could cry and look at this mother, I thought she couldn't even open her eyes, what a miracle......" On the side, the woman wiped her tears and babbled.

"Shut up." Shi Lian spoke coldly, interrupting the woman's words.

Xiangbao looked down at the child in his arms and muttered distractedly, "Maybe...... She didn't want to leave ...... either."

"Alas, the snow was falling so heavily, and the general suddenly knocked on the door in the middle of the night and said that he wanted me to deliver the baby. When I heard that it was the lady of the palace, I was shocked. Hearing Xiangbao's reply, the woman said again, "Isn't there a doctor in this palace?" Alas...... Also, it was Wu Xiangguo just now, what a sin, why embarrass a woman? If only one step earlier, we might have been saved......"

Just one step ahead...... Is it?

Xiangbao looked at the child who had no temperature in his arms in a daze, and his heart seemed to be torn in half.

"Someone, send her out." Shi Lian frowned impatiently and said.

"Wait a minute." Xiangbao stopped her, "Take this child out and bury it." After a closer look, Xiangbao put the child into her arms.

"This ......," the woman hesitated.

"This palace is not a place for people to stay." After saying lightly, without looking at her again, Xiangbao turned around and went back to the room.

"Yes." Behind him, Shi Lian's voice was heard.

"So much money?" It was the woman's surprised voice.

"Let's go." Shi Lian said lightly.

Along the clog corridor and through the lotus pond, Xiangbao quietly returned to the room all the way.

Sitting quietly on the couch, she watched with cold eyes as Joy commanded the maids to clean up the messy room and replace all the blood-stained bedding.

Her daughter, left for her only a slight glance, disappeared from her life.

The snow passed like that, and the child was never mentioned again, not even ...... Not even a name.