(a)

I returned from the dark abyss to the light of the world. I felt that the fetus in my womb had descended to the position of the pelvic opening. At this time, if you look from the outside, you should be able to see the looming fetal head. The labor pains were so dense that there were almost no intervals, and I clung to the edge of the bed hard, breathing as hard as I could, and couldn't help but want to push downward, and in the sharp pain, I let out a hoarse roar from time to time.

In the midst of my terrible screams, the guards at the bottom of the stairs approached, and they peered through the door.

The fake Liu Shen rushed over, banged the door hard, and shouted loudly: "Someone! Come! The queen is about to give birth! Go report to Yang Biao and ask him to find a stable woman to help the queen! ”

He cried out loudly, "What are you still standing here for?" Report to Yang Biao! Go find Wen Po! You're still not men! Still not a soldier of my Han Dynasty! I am a man who stands up to the sky, who can not save a baby except for a wolf-hearted man! Just go! ”

The guards outside the door looked at each other amid my incessant screams. They got together and whispered to each other for a while, and then a person ran away from the courtyard and went to report to Zhou Daiyue and Yang Biao.

Seeing the man running away, Liu Shen returned to my bed.

He looked at my messy hair, sometimes blue and sometimes pale, and watched me bite my bleeding lip in labor pain, and he whispered: "The queen is about to give birth, please forgive the minister for the crime of disrespect, let the minister help the queen, the minister is also the father of two children, the minister knows a thing or two." ”

At this time, I was so painful that I couldn't care about the difference between men and women, and my legs could no longer be brought together because of the decline of the fetus.

I nodded with all my might.

Fake Liu Shen searched in the room, he found a few sweat towels, brought them over, let me bite one, and tied two or three sweat towels together, and made a knot at the head of the bed, let me grab it with both hands.

He carefully removed my already bloody and amniotic fluid, a mess of underpants, gently parted my trembling legs, and bent down to examine the fetus.

"The child's head can already be seen," he said. The queen relaxes first, takes a deep breath, and doesn't force it yet. ”

I know he's right. I desperately resisted the urge to push downward, controlled my breathing, and let my body relax as much as possible.

I felt very embarrassed and ashamed to hold my stomach up, with my legs apart, and let a man who was a subordinate look at the secret places. Tears welled up in my eyes. I gasped for air with tears in my eyes.

Fake Liu Shen looked at my tears, he looked left and right, pulled the thin quilt on the bed, and covered my naked underneath.

Another burst of powerful contractions. I bit down the towel and let out a wail. Fake Liu Shen looked down and said, "Start working hard now!" ”

I desperately grabbed the knot he had made, my whole body straightened, and I pushed the fetus down with all my strength. Fake Liu Shen also came to help me, and he pressed my stomach with his elbow to help the fetus down.

After a minute or two, I felt like my whole body was exhausted, my muscles were shaking, and my heart was about to burst. I loosened the knot and fell back on my pillow in exhaustion, tears and sweat cascading.

The fake Liu Shen rushed to the door again and shook the door violently. He shouted loudly, "Is Wen Po here?" Is there hot water? Is there a soft cloth? You brutes! She is the daughter of General Chen Shizhao and the sister of the late general! Do you have a conscience for treating her like this! ”

The soldiers outside whispered again. In the midst of my new screams, one or two more soldiers ran out.

(b)

I was desperately struggling on the brink of life and death. Just as I was pushing the fetus downward with all my strength, there was a deafening sound of cannons outside, and at least hundreds of cannons were ignited at the same time, and the whole palace shook with a huge roar, and the dust on the beams of the house fell one after another. I was frightened, my mind was scattered, my strength was exhausted, and the fetal head, which was about to be exposed, suddenly shrank back again.

I collapsed on the pillow, gasping for breath. Looking at the trembling and humming doors and windows, I asked Liu Shen with my eyes: "What's going on outside?" ”

The fake Liu Shen raised his head from under the thin quilt with sweat on his head, and his face was happy. He whispered, "Here they are!" They've come to our rescue! ”

It's Liu Shen! My husband and son, with the army mobilized by Chen Shouye, came to arrest Yang Biao and came to rescue me! I felt a thrill in my heart, and the strength that had been lost was back in me.

I grabbed the knot again and began to push downward.

"Hold on, Queen! Hard! Hard! We will soon be saved! "Fake Liu Shen comforted and encouraged me.

Just then, the door opened. Two or three soldiers appeared inside the house with two middle-aged women.

The leading soldier turned around and closed the door again.

He walked up to the fake Liu Shen and bowed his head and bowed: "The sinners see Your Majesty." ”

The soldier said: "The criminals did not know that they wanted to kidnap His Majesty and commit rebellion, Zhou Daiyue only said to us, someone disguised the forbidden army, and colluded with thieves to assassinate His Majesty, let us enter the palace immediately, kill all the thieves and traitors disguised as the forbidden army, and protect Your Majesty." If the criminals knew that they were going to detain His Majesty, they would never dare to participate in the rebellion. ”

Fake Liu Shen said: "I know that you are all good people of my dynasty. You too are deceived. I don't want to ask indiscriminately. Now the queen is in critical condition, not to mention this. Are these two stable mothers? Outside the trumpet cannon shook the sky, what happened? ”

The soldier said: "Your Majesty, there are a lot of troops outside, they should be here to rescue Your Majesty, General Yang, no, it is the anti-thief Yang Biao and the anti-thief Zhou Daiyue who have gone out to the front camp to inspect the situation when they hear the news, and they are ready to fight, and they are not in the mood to care about the affairs here, so we should guard them strictly, and we must not let the emperor and queen go." The enclosure here is the Royal Garden, and there are no dwellings within a radius of hundreds of miles. We couldn't find a stable woman, only these two women who cooked, who claimed to have given birth and knew a little about delivery, so we brought them in. ”

The soldier said, "Your Majesty, we can't help with anything else, the hot water is boiling outside, this is the ashes to stop the bleeding, this is a little brown sugar water, this is some soft cloth made of old clothes, and scissors and liquor." Your Majesty first let the queen drink brown sugar water to increase a little strength, the imperial doctor accompanying your majesty was imprisoned elsewhere, our level is too low, I don't know where we are imprisoned, and the palace is too big, we are looking for it, we hope to find it, and come to help the queen. ”

Fake Liu Shen said gratefully: "Thank you so much!" After I put down the rebellion, I will definitely be rewarded! ”

The soldier kowtowed again and said, "Ten thousand sinners die, and Your Majesty spared us from death, and we are very grateful." The queen is the only relative of the late general, the old general is the idol in the hearts of all of us, we must not see death without saving, and we must not harm His Majesty and the queen in the Han military camp, otherwise, even if we are dead, how dare we face the immortal spirit of the late general?! (To be continued.) )