Chef Li sat on the ground and held his head with his hands in his hands, without saying a word. A woman hurried out.

"Big nephew, your lady......" the woman slurred.

It was the old woman who had just splashed water who spoke.

"How's Bingchi, how's she?" Chef Li stood up suddenly.

"I've tried my best, but she just can't give birth to ...... lady"

"What can I do?"

"Go to the doctor, or she will ...... She's probably going to die! ”

Just when Chef Li hesitated, Guo Xiaoxiao couldn't help but break in.

"Go to Lilac Lane to find Dr. Yuan."

Chef Li and the old woman were stunned, and they all looked at Guo Xiaoxiao.

"What are you looking at me for? Since it is difficult to give birth, I have to find a doctor. ”

The old woman hesitated for a while and said, "I heard that Dr. Yuan never comes to see a doctor, even if he pays double the consultation fee, he is unwilling." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao lowered his eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Chef Li, you go to find a doctor nearby, and I'll help you hire a doctor." ”

Chef Li stopped in place, his face ugly.

"Go and find it, don't you want your lady to live?" Guo Xiaoxiao saw that Chef Li seemed to have something unspeakable, "Your lady's life is important, I'll figure out a way for the silver two." ”

Chef Li's eyes showed gratitude, but he only stayed for a moment before disappearing again. Chef Li trotted out of the grass house, and Guo Xiaoxiao also went out.

It was already dark, and Yuan's Pharmacy was about to close.

Da Zhe was packing up things at the counter, and when he saw Guo Xiaoxiao coming in, he didn't wait for Guo Xiaoxiao to speak, Da Zhe smiled: "The slave went to ask the young master to come out." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao bowed slightly, and Yuan Shaocheng came out after a while.

"What's the matter?" He asked.

"How do you know I must be looking for you?" She asked rhetorically.

"You have nothing to do but ascend to the Three Treasures Palace." His eyes flashed with tenderness, "What is it?" ”

As soon as he looked at Guo Xiaoxiao's expression, he knew that she had something on her mind.

"The lady of a family in Zitong Lane has a baby and has a difficult birth, I want you to take a look."

Yuan Shaocheng walked to the counter and cleaned up the things on the countertop.

"I said I wouldn't come to see people."

"Why?" She asked, surprised.

"No why."

"Don't you go and see it when your life is at stake?"

"The world is so big, people die of old age, sickness and death every day, and people's lives are at stake every day, how can Yuan take care of it!"

Guo Xiaoxiao looked at him puzzled, and really couldn't understand why he was like this.

The first time she asked him to go to Guo's mansion to see her mother, he refused. The second time was when Jiang Zhiyuan was assassinated and his life was in danger, and he also refused. This time, he was still like the frost in the wax moon, and he refused without thinking about it. People say that the heart of the healer's parents, how can he bear to watch a living person die!

"Excuse me." Guo Xiaoxiao slowly walked out of the pharmacy.

He looked at her declining back, and his heart couldn't help but tremble, as if he couldn't bear it, and frowned. The Great Rut came out of the room, and he immediately regained his calm complexion, as if nothing had happened.

Guo Xiaoxiao walked to the end of Lilac Lane and squatted down at the corner. She covered her face with her hands, took a deep breath and exhaled, and looked up at the sky. The moon stars are scarce, there is no bright moon at this time, only a few sparse stars.

Suddenly, she stood up, left behind the strand of hair that had fallen on her chest, and walked quickly towards Zitong Lane.

Chef Li found a doctor, Guo Xiao got him, he was the doctor Wang who pulled out the arrow for Jiang Zhiyuan last time.

When Guo Xiaoxiao arrived at Chef Li's house, Dr. Wang had already been in for a while. Chef Li squatted on the ground again, waiting, and the midwife was assisting Dr. Wang inside.

It took a long time for Dr. Wang to come out.

"I've given your wife a drug to induce labor, but it doesn't work. At present, the fetus in the womb is delayed for a long time, and I am afraid that the only way to do this is to take the child by caesarean section. ”

"Disembowelment?" Chef Li stood up suddenly, "What if you don't cut your abdomen?" ”

"If you don't have a caesarean section...... will die in childbirth, one corpse and two lives. ”

When Chef Li heard this, he was so frightened that he almost couldn't stand on his feet, and shook the ground twice, but fortunately, Chef Li's eldest daughter came to help her. The eldest daughter looked to be thirteen or fourteen years old, and was the first child to be born.

"Then I'll give your lady a caesarean section." Guo Xiaoxiao said.

"Doctor Wang, please save my wife." Chef Li called his eldest daughter again, "Go quickly, go and get the silver taels for Dr. Wang's treatment." ”

The eldest daughter turned around and went back to the room to bring a money bag and handed it to Chef Li, who immediately handed it to Dr. Wang. Doctor Wang pushed away Chef Li's hand holding the money bag.

"Isn't Dr. Wang too little? Don't worry, I'll make up for the rest......"

Doctor Wang shook his head: "Please forgive Wang for his poor medical skills, and he only knows his name for caesarean section but does not know how to operate it." ”

"This ...... How good is that? Chef Li's eyes wandered around, and the whole person was about to collapse on the ground.

"There is only one person in Yangzhou City who is proficient in the art of disemboweling and taking children, so I am ......," Doctor Wang said in an uncertain tone, "You can go to Dr. Yuan from Lilac Lane." ”

Hearing this, Chef Li and the midwife looked at Guo Xiaoxiao one after another. Guo Xiaoxiao lowered her eyes, and after a while, she met the eyes of the two of them, with a very sorry expression on her face, and she said halfway: "He refuses to come." ”

Doctor Wang sighed, picked up the medicine box and walked out of the grass hut.

Chef Li hung his head and sat back on the ground. An elderly grandmother walked out of the room, and a little girl of eleven or twelve was holding her. The old grandmother had gray hair, her lips were shrunk inward, and she could see that all her teeth had fallen out.

"Is there no way?" The old woman asked.

Chef Li shook his head, his eyes were red, but no tears flowed out. The old woman sighed, and with the help of the little girl, she went to the kitchen and sat down.

At this time, the eldest daughter ran out of the room: "Dad, come quickly, my mother has something to tell you." ”

Chef Li got up and staggered in. Guo Xiaoxiao approached the door, but did not enter. I saw Chef Li kneeling beside the bed, and his wife was lying on the bed dying.

"I can't make it." She said weakly.

Chef Li held her hand and saw the blood-stained sheets under her crotch, and her eyebrows were wrinkled.

"It's just...... I have not yet bore you a son. "She was pale, and she no longer had the strength to cry, but she squeezed out a smile vigorously," said the doctor, who said that the fetus was full of vitality and was most likely a boy. ”

Chef Li's tears flowed out at once: "Don't say it, don't say it." ”

Only then did Guo Xiaoxiao notice that there was no boy in the thatched hut. Xiaolan once said that Chef Li had five sons under his knees, but he didn't expect them to be all daughters!

Suddenly, I saw Chef Li's face as black as coal, as if she was holding her breath.

"Ahh She let out a long scream, straining all the time underneath her.

"Ice pool, ice pool!" Chef Li eagerly held her hand, "Don't be like this! ”

"Ah......h......h As...... Give it a ......"

Guo Xiaoxiao was very shocked, originally thought that she was doing this to give birth to a son for Chef Li, but it turned out that she knew that whether she was born or not, it was a death. If born, the mother may die due to excessive blood loss and physical weakness; But if she is not born, it is a death to stay in the belly, it is better to fight hard, if God really has the virtue of a good life, she may still survive......

Bingchi's eyes cracked, his teeth cracked, and he used all his strength. The midwife was lying on the side of the bed and opened the sheet to look at it, and exclaimed in surprise: "I see the head!" See the child's head! ”

Chef Li also saw hope again, and held her hand tightly: "Bingchi, Bingchi, did you hear that?" ”

Bingchi smiled, but it only lasted for a few seconds before it turned into a very painful expression, and Chef Li turned his head to look at the sheets under her crotch. The piece was so wet that it couldn't get any wet, and the blood flowed down the edge of the bed, and the blood fell to the ground drop by drop, gradually showing red blood flowers.

The midwife said in panic: "Hemorrhage, the lady is bleeding!" ”

Chef Li looked at the ice pool in a panic, only to see that the ice pool had closed his eyes.

Guo Xiaoxiao dragged his heavy body out of the door, and there was a cry immediately behind him. Chef Li's screams, the old man's calls, and the overwhelming cries of several children were intertwined. These voices filled Guo Xiaoxiao's ears, and she couldn't help but blame herself for not inviting Yuan Shaocheng.

Zitong Lane was empty, and a sour smell of decay filled her surroundings. She walked out into the alley as if she had lost her soul, and kept walking, and kept walking, but she didn't know where she was going.

"Miss." Xiaolan ran towards her from the alley, and when she saw her lost soul, she asked again, "Miss, what's wrong with you?" ”

Guo Xiaoxiao's whole person was like a demon, and he couldn't hear Xiaolan's voice.

"Miss." Xiaolan shook Guo Xiaoxiao.

Guo Xiaoxiao came back to his senses, looked at Xiaolan, and said lightly: "Bingchi is dead." ”

"Ice pool?" Xiaolan asked puzzled, "Who is Bingchi?" ”

"Who's the Ice Pool?" Guo Xiaoxiao repeated Xiaolan's words, his eyes were blank, "Bingchi...... Bingchi is Chef Li's wife, and she died. ”

Xiaolan saw that her speech was indistinct, and she was a little scared: "Miss, don't be like this, the slave will send you home." ”

Guo Xiaoxiao was pulled back to Guo's mansion by Xiaolan, and Yarong asked when she saw it: "Miss, what's wrong?" ”

"The slave doesn't know."

Yarong stepped forward and touched Guo Xiaoxiao's forehead, there was no fever, and pressed her to the bed again, and said softly: "Sleep." ”

"Miss is like this when she comes back from Zitong Lane." Xiaolan put down the curtain, "She said that Chef Li's wife died. ”

Yarong guessed that Guo Xiaoxiao should have seen the scene of death, and was too scared so stunned.

"Miss is going to be fine, right?"

"No, just get some sleep." Yarong lit the incense of wormwood and let Guo Xiaoxiao fall asleep with the fragrance. The smell might have calmed her mind a little.

Since this incident, Steward Zhang has fired Chef Li. Chef Li didn't ask to stay, and after paying his salary, he went home to bury his wife.

Yarong temporarily took the position of the cook, and a few days later, Master Guo and Mrs. Guo realized that something was wrong, and asked Steward Zhang to understand what was going on, but they didn't say anything, just let Steward Zhang find a new chef.