Chapter 6 Preterm Birth
Jane Niangzi has a huge belly, and everything is the same night to listen to the maple and watch.
On the afternoon of October 17 in the third year of Emperor Jianning, Yao Yuan went to the Tongxin Hall again, and this time, she sent a nurse to the Tongxin Palace, which was specially responsible for feeding the imperial heir in the womb of the Jade Lady.
Jane Niangzi knew it a long time ago, so she waited in the Tongxin Hall early in the morning.
After listening to Feng at night and bringing the five nurses to the Tongxin Palace, Jane Niangzi held the hands of the palace maids, staggered over, and looked the five nurses up and down, left and right.
These five nurses were carefully selected from outside the palace, and they were all good women with innocent family backgrounds.
Mrs. Zhen looked at the five nurses in the same costume for a long time, and after asking who their surnames were, she made a bold move.
She asked five nurses to squeeze out the milk and put it in front of her.
The five nurses glanced at the night listening to the maple who was sitting on one side, drinking tea leisurely, and finally went to the compartment to milk the cows under the leadership of the palace people.
Ye Tingfeng put the teacup in his hand, looked at Zhen Niangzi, whose little face was rounded, and asked, "Zhen Niangzi, what are you doing......
Mrs. Zhen sat down on the bamboo couch with the hand of the palace maid, smiled softly at Ye Tingfeng, and whispered, "Back to Mrs. Zhaoyue's words, the concubine just wants to taste it, which nurse's milk is similar to the taste of the concubine." ”
Ye Tingfeng was surprised, looked at Jane's erect breasts, and asked curiously, "Yes, there is milk?" ”
She always thought that milk would not be available until the child was born.
Zhen Niangzi nodded affirmatively to Ye Tingfeng, and gently stroked her right hand on her lower abdomen, her eyes were full of love, "The concubine can't feed him personally, and when he grows up, I want to find someone who tastes similar to the concubine." At the very least, let him remember some of the concubines......"
Ye Tingfeng felt a sharp pinch in his heart, reached out to serve tea and drink, and turned his face away.
The palace maid who gently fanned Mrs. Zhen listened to Feng in the night, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, my master has already made the belly pocket of the little emperor's heir to the age of seven......"
"Why are you so troubled, he doesn't lack it." Listening to Kaede at night, she lowered her eyes and muttered.
"The concubine knows that he lacks nothing, but the concubine is his biological mother, but she can't give him anything, and she always feels ......ashamed in her heart" Zhen Niangzi took a deep breath and moved her position on the bamboo couch with difficulty, "If you can do more, do more, otherwise the concubine will leave, and her heart is uneasy." ”
Ye Tingfeng couldn't listen anymore, and after putting down the teacup, he took the Jinpa and tapped the corner of his mouth twice, and changed the topic, "Someone came with news yesterday that Zhou Chong was corrupt and took bribes, and the case of the fish and meat people has almost been tried, and the charges will almost be decided in a few days." It's just your parents......"
Jane's parents, low-income families, are no longer worth mentioning in the cases committed by Zhou Chong.
"The concubine understands that Zhou Chong can fall, and he has already avenged the concubine's father." The soft smile on Zhen Niangzi's face did not change, and she said to the night listening to Feng Youyou, "Half a month ago, Zhou Chong bought off the servants and asked them to pass the word to the concubines, so that the concubines could save them, even if they couldn't save them, they could save the only young master of the Zhou family and leave roots and seedlings for the Zhou family." ”
"What do you think?" Ye Tingfeng knew that the little young master of the Zhou family was the half-brother of Zhen Niangzi, and it was reasonable for Zhen Niangzi to want to save it.
"What can a concubine think?" Zhen Niangzi stroked her stomach and sighed softly, "His Aunt Tao is dead, what else can the concubine think......"
As he spoke, the palace man brought five nurses in from the cubicle. In the hand of each nurse, a small silver bowl is held, which contains milky milk.
Jane asked the five nurses to step forward one by one, pick up a silver spoon and taste it bowl by bowl. After tasting them all, she pointed to the two nurses and said, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, just the two of them." ”
Ye Tingfeng nodded lightly and asked the palace people to take them down.
After choosing the nurse, Jane Niangzi is already very tired. After listening to Feng didn't stay long, he told the servants of Tongxin Hall to wait well, and then led people away.
When I returned to Fengyang Palace, it was already three o'clock, and I listened to Feng sitting in front of the dresser while plucking the jade hairpin on the hairpin on the bun, and asked Cai Xiang, "The last time Imperial Doctor Zhao came, it was said that Zhen Niangzi was a princess in her womb. ”
Cai Xiang was twisting the handkerchief, she handed the half-wet handkerchief to Ye Tingfeng, and said, "Princess, Imperial Doctor Zhao did say that Zhen Niangzi is a princess in her belly, but, as you know, there is no prince in the harem at the moment......"
Ye listened to Feng nodding and understood what Cai Xiang said.
At first, Ye Tingfeng only hoped that Zhen Niangzi would be honest and give birth to the imperial heir in her womb, preferably a prince, so as to solve the problem of the harem concubines not wanting to get pregnant.
But now, she is thinking that Jane Niangzi gave birth to a princess......
Thinking about his turmoil, he heard that Feng threw out the wet handkerchief in his hand, and said angrily, "What kind of broken rules, is it possible that the prince will not listen to others when he takes him to someone else's palace to raise?" Besides, how many emperors have been succeeded by the crown prince in the past dynasties? ”
Wen Qing walked in from outside, and when she heard this, she hurriedly put her fingernails in front of her mouth, and sighed at Ye Tingfeng, and said, "Master, you can't talk nonsense!" ”
Although I heard Feng say a truth that everyone knows, this is a rule handed down from the ancestors, and no one dares to refute it.
Cai Xiang walked to Ye Tingfeng's side and nudged it, and said, "Master, left and right, you don't need it, don't worry about others." ”
Ye Tingfeng sighed and said, "I'm tired, let's sleep for a while." ”
Ye Tingfeng didn't sleep for long, she had just been confused, and the servants of the Tongxin Hall had already come to report, and Jane Niangzi was red.
Jane's month is old, and when she sees red, there is no reason to protect the fetus.
Ye Tingfeng hurriedly got up to change clothes, sorted out his makeup, and then rushed to the Tongxin Palace.
When Feng arrived at the Tongxin Hall at night, Liu Zhaorong and Wen Chongyuan, who were in the middle of the Yijing Palace, were already guarding the outer hall of the Tongxin Palace.
The palace maid kept going in and out of the inner hall with a basin of cotton cloth, and the hoarse screams of Jane Niangzi came from the dormitory, which made people's hearts rise out of thin air.
Seeing Ye Tingfeng walking in with the hand of picking incense, Liu Zhaorong stood up and asked Ye Tingfeng to say goodbye.
Ye Tingfeng's eyes slid over Liu Zhaorong's body with an indifferent expression, and he hurriedly reached out to help Wen Chongyuan, who was about to salute her, and said, "Wen Chongyuan, your own body is not neat, why are you here?" ”
Wen Chongyuan's dragon heir in the womb has been six months, and it is the time to be tired.
"The concubine was not at ease, so she came over." Wen Chongyuan lowered her eyebrows and smiled, and said to Ye Tingfeng, "I want to watch here." ”
Ye listened to Feng understand what Wen Chongyuan thought, Wen Chongyuan wanted to watch Zhen Niangzi give birth to a prince with her own eyes.
A prince, not a princess.
Let Wen Chongyuan sit down on the Taishi chair, and Ye Tingfeng sat on the bamboo couch on one side, and called Imperial Doctor Zhao to his side.
Zhao Yuyi's sleeve wiped the fine sweat on his forehead, and after listening to Feng in the night, he said, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, Mrs. Zhen was born prematurely because she accidentally fell. ”
"Bastard!" Ye Tingfeng raised his face, and shouted angrily to the finch who was standing in front of him and knelt down with a puff, "Your master is so good, how could he suddenly fall!" ”
"Slave, slave, slave ......" The finch knelt on the ground, looking terrified, and couldn't say a few 'slaves and maids' in a row.
"Mrs. Zhaoyue, now is not the time to punish." Wen Chongyuan leaned down slightly, and said to Ye Tingfeng, "Let's let Imperial Doctor Zhao talk about it." ”
"Go in and wait for your master, if your master has a good one, you don't have to live!" I heard Kaede shout again to the finch.
The finch kowtowed repeatedly, got up, and trotted into the inner sanctum.
Imperial Doctor Zhao said to Ye Tingfeng, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, the current situation of Lady Zhen can only be born." Wechen has prepared an oxytocic medicine ......"
"Imperial Doctor Zhao," listening to the screams of Lady Zhen, Ye Tingfeng's face turned slightly pale, "How sure are you?" ”
"Five ......" Seeing that the night heard Feng Xing's eyes glaring angrily, Imperial Doctor Zhao hurriedly changed his words and said, "Seventy percent, Wei Chen tried his best, and he was seventy percent sure......"
Ye Tingfeng knew what these imperial doctors were thinking.
The heirs of the royal family, all they think about is the safety of the royal heir. As for the biological mother of the imperial heir, especially this kind of person who has no family background outside the court and has a low position in the harem, they don't care in their hearts.
After taking a deep breath, Ye Tingfeng said to Imperial Doctor Zhao, "Imperial Doctor Zhao, this palace will leave you here first." Lady Zhen is the royal concubine, and her life and death glory is determined by the emperor himself, do you understand? ”
"Minister, the minister understands, I understand...... Imperial Doctor Zhao's face suddenly turned pale, and he promised Ye Tingfeng again and again, "Minister, you must do your best, do your best." ”
"Let's go," Ye Tingfeng sat up straight and said to Imperial Doctor Zhao, "This palace wants their mother and son to be safe." ”“
Cai Xiang was anxious, and the hand on Ye Tingfeng's shoulder tried several times but failed to stop Ye Tingfeng's words.
A woman's childbirth is a matter of death, and premature birth is even more dangerous. Ye Tingfeng hinted that Imperial Doctor Zhao's efforts to save Zhen Niangzi's life would increase the risk of the emperor's premature death.
This is not a wise move.
How could I not know what Cai Xiang thought in her heart, she was born in the royal family and was used to despising the life of the lowly.
But the Jane lady in front of her, this seemingly weak, but actually stubborn woman, made her feel compassion.
At three o'clock, candles lit up in the dim concentric hall, and the lights were bright.
An hour of torment made Jane Niangzi change from a loud scream to a soft moan, and she had to argue carefully from the chaotic footsteps of the palace people to exhale.
The blood brought out by the palace maid became thicker and thicker, and the strong smell of blood made Feng want to vomit after several smokes.
Wen Chongyuan's face was not bloody, his right hand was on his stomach, and he couldn't even breathe smoothly.
Ye Tingfeng asked Wen Chongyuan to go back several times, Wen Chongyuan shook his head, he must insist on sitting here and waiting for Zhen Niangzi's child to be born.
Liu Zhaorong's face was not good, she looked at the basin of blood in the palace maid's hand, and her eyes showed panic. The white right hand was clutched on the corner of the table, and the nails dyed with Kodan were buckled into the carved flower carvings, and the joints were blue and white.
"Liu Zhaorong, are you okay?" Ye Tingfeng withdrew his gaze from the palace maids holding the basin of water, and said to Liu Zhaorong, "If you are not feeling well, go back and rest first." ”
"No, no." The corners of Liu Zhaorong's mouth provoked a pale smile, reached out to the tea cup on the side of his hand, and said, "The concubine is fine, just listening to the miserable ...... of Zhen Niangzi's shouting."
Holding the teacup in his hand, Liu Zhaorong's gaze fell on the teacup.
In the tea cup, the amber-like tea swayed slightly in the candlelight, like lightened blood.
Unable to drink it, Liu Zhaorong put the teacup back on the table and smiled at Ye Tingfeng, who was staring at him.
At the end of the unitary hour, a faint infant cry finally came out of the dormitory, like a cat's meow.
The three people in the outer hall all looked excited, and Ye Tingfeng suddenly sat up from the bamboo couch and took a few steps in the direction of the inner hall.
Wen Chongyuan also stood up with her stomach in her hands, and she was so nervous that she couldn't breathe.
Liu Zhaorong walked lightly behind Ye Tingfeng, and his eyes looked at the door of the dormitory for a moment.
Suddenly, the midwife came out with a pink swaddling cloth in her arms, and said to Ye Tingfeng with a smile, "Mrs. Qiqi Zhaoyue, Mrs. Zhen gave birth to a little princess, and the mother and daughter are safe." ”
As if he didn't understand, Ye Tingfeng opened his eyes wide and asked, "What did you say?" ”
Imperial Doctor Zhao walked out of the inner hall, wiped the sweat on his forehead, smiled weakly at Ye Tingfeng, and said, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, Wei Chen is fortunate not to be dishonored, and Zhen Niangzi's mother and daughter are safe!" ”
The midwife carried the swaddling baby to the somewhat wooden Ye Tingfeng, and asked Ye Tingfeng to look at the pitiful child who was born prematurely, and said with a smile, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, look, this is the second princess ......."
Looking at the crumpled little face in front of him, Ye Tingfeng finally had a smile on his face.
She carefully put her fingers on the swaddling clothes, pressed down the pink soft cloth that blocked the second princess's small face, and smiled at Wen Chongyuan beside her, "Wen Chongyuan, it's a princess, how good." ”
Wen Chongyuan looked at the pink baby in the swaddling clothes, didn't lift it in one breath, and fainted with both eyes.
There was chaos in the Tongxin Hall again, and the palace maid hurriedly helped Wen Chongyuan to lie down on the bamboo couch in the outer hall.
After being diagnosed and treated by Imperial Doctor Zhao, it was determined that Wen Chongyuan was fine, and the dragon heir in the abdomen was fine.
When I heard Feng deal with all this and turned around that night, I saw Liu Zhaorong holding the second princess to take a closer look.
Liu Zhaorong's left arm was stiffly bent, and his right hand gently teased the princess's mouth, and a trace of the cleanest smile appeared on her delicate face.
Suddenly, Liu Zhaorong put away the smile on his face, raised his head helplessly to look at the palace maid standing beside him, and said in a panic, "Little princess, little princess, she sucks my finger, this, this ......"
Ye Ting Feng chuckled, he stepped forward and said to Liu Zhaorong, who was dazed like a little girl, "The little princess is hungry, let the nurse carry her down and breastfeed." ”
Watching the nurse take the second princess away from her arms, Liu Zhaorong's eyes slipped a trace of reluctance. It wasn't until the nurse walked into the dormitory with the little princess in her arms that Liu Zhaorong withdrew her gaze.
"I'm going to see Lady Jane." Ye Tingfeng pointed in the direction of the dormitory and said to Liu Zhaorong, "Liu Zhaorong wants to go with you?" ”
Liu Zhaorong nodded again and again, and a soft smile appeared on his face again, "The concubine will go with Mrs. Zhaoyue." ”
In the dormitory, Jane Niangzi was lying on the bed with a clean bedding, her eyes wide open, and her forehead was full of sweat. She was tired and sleepy, but her mind had never been so sober.
Seeing Ye Tingfeng walking to the bed, Jane Niangzi grabbed Ye Tingfeng's outstretched hand, and her eyes showed joy, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, concubine, concubine ......"
Ye Tingfeng lowered his body slightly, shook back the sweaty hand of Zhen Niangzi, and nodded slightly, "This palace knows, this palace understands." ”
Jane Niangzi choked up and cried, she couldn't cry herself, choked up, "The concubine thinks, I think I can't see her grow up, and the concubine thinks it's ......"
"It's a little princess." Ye Tingfeng wiped the tears on Jane's cheeks with a handkerchief, and said with a smile, "Jane Niangzi, you originally embroidered so many belly pockets, I'm afraid you have to re-embroider them." ”
Zhen Niangzi nodded again and again, and said with a smile and a cry, "No hurry, no hurry." The concubine has a lifetime, and the concubine can not only embroider her belly pocket, but also the concubine can embroider her wedding dress......"
"The embroidery is the most beautiful." Ye Tingfeng patted Jane's hand twice, turned back to the nurse and said, "Bring the little princess here." ”
Zhen Niangzi let go of Ye Tingfeng's hand, gritted her teeth, endured the severe pain after giving birth and moved to the inside of the bed, and then patted the vacant place, and smiled at Ye Tingfeng, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, put the little princess here and put it next to the concubine." ”
Ye Tingfeng nodded, and ordered the nurse to put the second princess on the side of Jane Niangzi.
Zhen Niangzi half-raised her body, looked at the little princess and cried, and listened to Feng to the night, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, look at her, her nose and mouth are like concubines......"
"His eyes are like the emperor." Liu Zhaorong, who was standing behind Ye Tingfeng, suddenly added, looked at Zhen Niangzi fixedly, and said with a deep meaning, "My ears are also like the emperor." ”
Jane Niangzi is not a stupid person, she raised her hand to wipe her eyes, pulled the corners of her mouth and smiled, "Yes, the eyes and ears of the little princess are like the emperor's ......"
Ye Tingfeng lowered his eyes and covered his eyes with a trace of discomfort slipping through his eyes. Raising her head again, she said to Jane Niangzi, "Zhen Niangzi, you have a good rest, the little princess will let the palace people take care of it, don't be tired......
Mrs. Zhen nodded, reluctantly glanced at the little princess again, and asked the nurse to take the little princess away.
Ye Tingfeng took Liu Zhaorong out of the dormitory, and said to the finch who followed behind him with a happy face, "Take care of your master, as for how your master fell, this palace will strictly investigate and will not spare it!" ”
Bird Yao pouted and knelt down in fright, and her body trembled in fright.
After a few words of advice to the palace people of the Tongxin Palace, he listened to Feng and Liu Zhaorong at night and walked out of the Tongxin Palace.
At night, I heard Feng return to Fengyang Hall and Liu Zhaorong returned to Furong Pavilion, and they had to walk a garden path together.
On the way, Ye Tingfeng smiled at Liu Zhaorong with a little curiosity in his tone, "Liu Zhaorong, it seems that she likes the little princess very much......
Liu Zhaorong's actions today are surprising in the eyes of Ye Tingfeng.
Liu Zhaorong, who has always looked down on anyone, would actually remind Zhen Niangzi that she wanted to say how the little princess resembled Emperor Jianning, not how similar she was.
"It's pink and tender, and it's very beautiful." Liu Zhaorong's subordinates stroked his lower abdomen meaningfully.
She once had the opportunity to give birth to a child of her own, but she didn't have the courage to give birth to him.
Ye Tingfeng's gaze fell on Liu Zhaorong's lower abdomen, and whispered, "Liu Zhaorong, aren't you, are you there again......"
The word 'again' made Liu Zhaorong's face turn pale under the dim palace lamp, she looked up at Ye Tingfeng, and said fiercely, "Mrs. Zhaoyue, you can eat indiscriminately, but you can't talk nonsense, otherwise you ......."