Chapter 66: Stillborn in the womb
The lady she met in the palace? Isn't it Gu Ning?
Immediately asked, "What's wrong?"
The maid said: "Since entering the palace for half a year, I have been favored by the emperor, and yesterday I occasionally felt discomfort in my lower abdomen, so I guessed that I was pregnant, and I called the imperial doctor to come to diagnose it when I was excited." Who knows, the imperial doctor actually said that Niangniang was pregnant with a stillborn child, and Niangniang ...... Heartbroken and didn't sleep all night, this morning I was clamoring to find death, and the slave had no choice, so I thought about looking for the third lady, you go to see my mother, and come up with a way. ”
"Have you ever looked for the eldest lady?" Gu Qing asked, seeing that she was going out, Yu Niang took the cloak on the side and put it on her shoulders, losing her temper just now, and looking the same as usual.
Yu Niang looked at her deeply and clenched her hand: "Presumably my sister also went to the palace." Since Ning'er is in trouble, you can go and take a look, it's okay, it's just ...... Be careful yourself. ”
Gu Qing responded and tied his cloak.
The maid also said: "The eldest lady has entered the palace and is accompanying the mother." ”
The sun was falling, and the wind was still a little biting at night, Gu Qing was alone, talking to the maids from the palace while walking, and understood the general situation.
When entering the palace gate, fortunately, the maid carried the entry and exit token, and the two hurried to Ningxing Palace, but when they heard the bright lights, there was still a faint sobbing sound.
The palace was very quiet, even if a needle fell on the ground, there would be an echo, and the sobbing sound came from the inner hall, Gu Qing followed the maid, and did not report, opened the curtain and walked in.
Liu Ye gently hugged Gu Ning, she wore her hair and cried between her knees.
"Second sister. Gu Qing called softly, only standing quietly aside, not daring to make a move.
Liu Ye noticed her arrival and didn't give a good face, "Who allowed you to come in?"
The maid said: "It was ordered by the mother, and she was extremely sad, she said that she wanted to see the third lady." ”
Then Liu Ye snorted coldly, although the Gu family knew about Gu Qing's life experience, they only knew that she was a child brought back from outside, and they didn't think about how vast her life experience was. Despite this, she hated her and hated Yu Niang because they had taken away Gu Lin's love that originally belonged to her.
Seeing that the maid said this, she stopped talking, and only held Gu Ning and kept patting her to stabilize her emotions.
Xu is half an hour after the incense, Gu Ning raised his head, blinked his eyes and looked around, not looking at the willow leaves, nor at Gu Qinghe and the maid, pointing in the air, his eyes were empty and weak: "Is that my child?"
Her voice was soft, like the shallow sound of butterfly wings fluttering.
Everyone was frightened by her words, and Liu Ye shook her hand in front of her eyes, bluffing: "What kind of child? It's your mother by your side." ”
When Gu Ning heard this, he looked at her and muttered, "Really?"
The haggard appearance is especially distressing.
Gu Qing remembered that the last time he saw his second sister was last year, when he was so proud, he was so proud, how could he have become like this after the New Year?
After being stunned for a long time, she noticed Gu Qing on the side, beckoned, and called her over: "Sister, come over and talk to me." ”
Liu Ye got up to make room for the ground, and didn't forget to put a coat on her.
"Qing'er is here, my sister has something to order. Gu Qing sat on the edge of the bed, letting her hold her arm tightly, her palm was cold, like her child who died in the womb for no reason, cold to the bone.
"Mother, I'm fine, go back. It's still cold in the evening, so don't catch a cold. Gu Ning said weakly.
"This ......" Liu Ye obviously didn't want to leave, looked at her daughter, and then looked at Gu Qing, counting the grievances between the two in the past, for fear that this girl would have some crooked brains.
Among the closest people, for Gu Ning, her mother and sister, she would choose Gu Qing.
It's not that there is a gap in the relationship between mother and daughter, they don't get along with each other at all like Yu Niang's unsuspecting Gu Qing, especially in recent years, Liu Ye has changed a lot, busy with suspicion and secret fighting, Gu Ning knows it in his heart.
So most of the time, her confidant words were told to Gu Qing.
Just like the tragic death of the fetus in her womb this time, she only wanted to see Gu Qing, and she just wanted to talk to her alone.
Seeing that Gu Ning's mind was firm, Liu Ye no longer insisted on staying, and after a few words of comfort, he walked out of the palace under the leadership of the maid.
There were only two sisters in the hall, Gu Ning barely pulled a smile at the corner of his mouth, touched his slightly collapsed lower abdomen, and said palely: "Sister, you don't know how happy you were to find out that I was happy yesterday." It was only a few hours before he was gone. The doctor said it had been two months. ”
A two-month-old fetus?
Gu Qing sighed secretly, unable to say anything to comfort her, so she could only pass on a trace of warmth to her by relying on the palm of her hand.
"I didn't even know that the child was two months old. The doctor said that it was the mother's lack of nutrition, coupled with the failure to detect the arrival of the fetus in time, and the lack of preparation in all aspects, which caused it to be gone. ”
After a paragraph, Gu Ning leaned weakly on the side of the bed, did not sleep all night, and was overly sad, his eyes were bloodshot. Gu Qing couldn't help but reassure her, it was useless to say those nice words now, so he asked, "Are you hungry?"
Gu Ning shook his head, as if he had seen through everything.
She spoiled the harem, I don't know how many pairs of eyes stared at her behind her, she was negligent, she only cared about competing for more limelight in front of the emperor, and she didn't even know that she had flesh and blood.
The fetus in the womb died tragically in the bud before it was formed, who knows what the reason is?
Thinking of this, his face was sad, and he cried again.
Although I can conceive again in the future, the pain in it is probably only I can understand.
After the maid sent Liu Ye out of the palace and came back, she brought a bowl of porridge and said to Gu Qing: "Niangniang hasn't eaten for two days, and she drinks little tea, so if it goes on like this, it will not be good for your body to recover." Third Miss, you persuade Niangniang to let her eat something. ”
This girl was practical, Gu Qing took the porridge bowl and asked casually, "What's your name?"
"The slave's name is Xiaoyu, and she is Niangniang's personal maid. ”
Gu Qing nodded and remembered it in his heart, scooped up a small spoonful of porridge and sent it to Gu Ning's mouth, at this moment, she was like a child who had lost her soul. Gu Qing persuaded her a few words before persuading her to move her mouth and drink a small half bowl of porridge.
The sky was so deep, although it was early spring, there was still cold dew at night, Gu Qing sat on the edge of the bed and felt a little cold, his palm kept rubbing his arm, trying to drive away the cold.
Gu Ning's mind was much clearer, but he was talking nonsense intermittently.
Talking about her unborn child, and her ethereal future.
Gu Qing was strange, I had read in a book before, that a woman's pregnancy was accompanied by vomiting and a series of reactions and omens, didn't the second sister feel pain in her lower abdomen, and the doctor confirmed that it was stillborn as soon as she diagnosed it?
hastily came to a conclusion and fascinated the second sister, but couldn't charm her.
Gu Ning also noticed that Gu Qing was shivering coldly, sat sideways inside, and called, "Sister, sleep with me tonight." I ...... last night Babies can be heard crying all night long. ”
In the middle of the night, it's weird to say this.
Gu Qing hurriedly interrupted, took off his shoes and slowly crawled into the bed. Seeing that she was talking more, I thought that her mood had changed, and I had a few casual words with her.
The two recalled their childhood, their immature years, and their verdant fun.
"I still remember that when you first came to the Gu Mansion, your eyes were wide open, and you were very curious about everything in the Mansion. "That was Gu Qing's first time in the Gu Mansion, and he was only as tall as Yu Niang's buttocks, and his eyes were indeed very elf.
Thinking that she was talking about when she was just born, Gu Qing also laughed: "It's not, when I first arrived here, everything was very ignorant." ”
Gu Ning's eyes were swollen and painful, so she called Xiaoyu to compress it with salt water to remove the soreness, and also instructed her to extinguish the candles in the hall when she went out.
With Gu Qing by her side tonight, she is not afraid of nightmares, in the final analysis, she is still troubled.
There were a few sighs in the air, about the stillbirth in the second sister's womb, Gu Qing had a stomach full of doubts and it was not clear. Even if the second sister is unemployed and doesn't understand the aspect of pregnancy, there are ten maids up and down the Ningxing Palace, right?
Gu Ning was really frightened, from yesterday to now, the emperor has not appeared once. Since he ascended the throne, the first child died innocently and tragically, and there was not even a flower to greet and comfort.
The other concubines in the palace are all watching the excitement.
There was the sound of Gu Ning's even breathing on the side, but Gu Qing couldn't sleep after tossing and turning, and the heavy quilt felt like she was about to be overwhelmed.
Are all quilts in the palace like this?
No matter what, if she doesn't sleep anymore, I'm afraid that if she gets up tomorrow morning, she will become dark circles, and the palace is no better than at home, so she can't sleep lazy at will. So he closed his eyes and fell asleep for a long time.
In the early hours of the morning, Gu Ning's turning over alarmed Gu Qing, and when she turned her head and saw that she was nothing unusual, it was hazy outside the window, she lifted the quilt, packed up her clothes, and walked out of the inner hall with the door.
There was a dull atmosphere up and down Ningxing Palace, some of the maids swept the yard, some trimmed the flowers and plants, and some cleaned the steps. After looking around, I didn't find Xiaoyu. Gu Qing wanted to find her, after all, she was Gu Ning's personal maid, and only she knew best what might have happened.
asked the maid who was sweeping the yard about her whereabouts, and learned that she was busy working in the kitchen in the backyard, so Gu Qing inquired all the way to the kitchen.
The sound of the knife slashing on the cutting board was particularly loud in the morning, and smoke rose from the chimney, there was originally an imperial dining room in the palace, and no matter who was in the palace, everyone in the palace took breakfast in the imperial dining room, and Gu Ning was favored by the emperor when she entered the palace, and she was afraid that she would be hungry at night, so she was extra kind and built a small kitchen in Ningxing Palace.
It's a treatment that no one in the harem has ever had.
When the probe saw that Xiaolian was busy working inside, Gu Qing didn't knock on the door and walked straight in. There are other maids who are busy around her, and Xiaoyu is sharp in front of the stove, and she seems to be skilled in cooking.
"There are so many people in the kitchen, do you still need to do the work?" she asked in a sudden voice behind her.
Xiaoyu didn't seem to be surprised, looked back and saw that it was Gu Qing, and greeted with a smile: "The third lady got up so early? Niangniang's health is not good, and the slave maid is afraid that she will not be used to eating, so she went to the imperial dining room to get some novel ingredients, thinking of changing the taste of Niangniang." ”