Chapter 672: The Past and the Past II
The blue is gone, and the white is blowing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Lu Yifan, who was immersed in it, woke up from his complicated grief, and the bustling and lively Jinling City had quietly appeared in front of him......
At night, the Lu Mansion in Jinling City can be described as very lively, the servants of the subordinates hurriedly ran around the front and back yards, one by one boiling water and carrying buckets, and Lu Haoqian himself was accompanied by many elders and subordinates in the mansion anxiously pacing back and forth outside the room. And in the room with the closed door in front of Lu Haoqian, his wife Liu Qingyuan is experiencing the life and death difficulties that all women must go through in their lives.
"Ahh
The heart-rending screams have never stopped since dinnertime, and every cry of Liu Qingyuan has pierced into Lu Haoqian's heart like a steel needle, which makes Lu Haoqian, who is standing outside the door, even more impatient, Rao is next to the next person how to relieve him, but Lu Haoqian's head is always covered with a layer of nervous and urgent sweat, which shows how anxious and uneasy Lu Haoqian's heart is at this moment.
"Don't worry, patriarch, women give birth to children like this, just wait for the child to be born after a while. An old man with a white beard walked up to Lu Haoqian's side on crutches and comforted him in a loud voice.
"Not in a hurry?" Hearing the old man's words, Lu Haoqian's brows furrowed, and then he said anxiously, "Can I not be in a hurry? My wife and I are now close to forty years old, and having another child at this age doesn't you understand the danger of the three elders......?
"Patriarch, listen to what you mean, you are blaming us old men!" Before Lu Haoqian's words fell, another old man sitting on the stone bench shouted in a deep voice, this person is Lu Dingxuan, the second elder of the Lu family, and he is also the most unsmiling old man of the Lu family in Lu Yifan's childhood memory.
Hearing Lu Dingxuan speak, Lu Haoqian hurriedly shook his head and explained, "Second Elder, I naturally didn't mean that. Having said that, Lu Haoqian's expression at this moment did not mean to make amends.
"Patriarch, in fact, you also have to understand our good intentions!" The three elders who were standing on the side saw Lu Haoqian's displeasure on his face, and hurriedly said in a round field, " Your father and mother died early, and entrusted you to the care of our elder brothers, because your father is the eldest of our Lu family, so we also strictly follow the etiquette law, and when you were eight years old, we were all your uncles, and we also have a lot of heirs under our knees, but no one broke the etiquette law and took away your position as the patriarch without authorization, what does this mean? This shows that our Lu family has been paying attention to rules and etiquette since ancient times......
"Third Elder, I understand what you mean. Lu Haoqian saw that the three elders who had always liked to quote scriptures and nagged constantly wanted to tell him a big truth, and he couldn't help but feel a sinking in his mind, and hurriedly blocked the words of the three elders with a smile, "I know that as the patriarch of the Lu family, I have always been unfilial, and it is indeed against the ancestral family law that I have not been able to pass on the lineage for my Lu family." Now haven't I and the lover already listened to your words and had children?"
"That's good!" Lu Dingxuan said in a deep voice, "Your cousins now have men to continue the incense, but you, the patriarch, have no children under their knees, so wouldn't my Lu family be laughed at when it is spread out?" I know that you are worried about Liu Qingyuan's body, she is not young, but we let you take another concubine, but you are always unwilling. If you don't have a baby, who will give birth to you? Since you have chosen to have a child, what is this pain?"
"Ahh
"Okay, okay! No matter whether the lover is born a man or a woman this time, I won't let her suffer like this again! As for other things, let's talk about it later!" Lu Haoqian was simply confused at the moment, where was there any leisure to argue with these two elders, he could only flick his sleeves, and then walked closer to the door, and his eyes that hated to see through the autumn water revealed endless worry and pity for Liu Qingyuan.
Today's Lu Haoqian has not yet become a powerful minister in the Holy Domain, his career has only improved slightly in the past two years, and now the official worships the city lord of Jinling City, ranking in the 'minister' position in the official position of the Holy Domain, and there is still a world of difference between him and his future throne of Wending Gong. Therefore, Lu Haoqian is not a high-ranking person, and the elders of the Lu family are far less respectful to him than they were later. In the past few years, Lu Haoqian has been busy managing his hard-won career, although everyone in the clan has urged him many times, he has never had the intention of raising children. It wasn't until the beginning of this year that he was placed under house arrest by Lu Dingxuan and others, and then he had to face up to Liu Qingyuan, a major event in the Lu family.
"Boom!"
"Oops!"
At this moment, there was another chaotic sound in the room, and it seemed that it was unknown which maid had accidentally knocked over something.
"Get out, get out, all of you, get out of the way!" Then suddenly a woman's voice rang out, the voice of the midwife, who must have been rebuking the clumsy maids again.
Not long after the midwife's voice fell, I saw that as soon as the door opened, four or five maids rushed out, and they didn't dare to look at Lu Haoqian after they came out, and they all looked submissive, obviously knowing that they had done something wrong, but they were afraid of Lu Haoqian's punishment!
"You useless things must have caused some kind of trouble again. Seeing this scene, Lu Dingxuan shouted angrily, and then wanted to order these maids to be dragged out and severely punished.
"Second Elder, today is the day of life and death of the love mandarin, I think it is better not to punish them, so as not to be angry and bad for the love mandarin's body!" Seeing this, Lu Haoqian hurriedly spoke, and then he turned his head to look at several maids and asked, "How is the madam?"
"Back to the master, Mrs. seems to have a difficult birth. The maid at the head replied timidly, "I see that the lady looks like she is about to die......
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Lu Dingxuan scolded, "What kind of death is not dead, listen to your crow's mouth talking nonsense here on this happy day, see that I don't slap your mouth." Saying that, Lu Dingxuan had already stood up and walked straight to the maid's side, waved the cane in his hand and waved it towards the maid's delicate cheek.
"Ancient!" Lu Haoqian gave an order, and the ancient man who was standing on the side suddenly flashed beside Lu Dingxuan, and gently waved his hand to push the maid aside, which was able to avoid Lu Dingxuan's crutch. Gu is Lu Haoqian's henchman, even in the Lu family, there is only Lu Haoqian in the eyes of the ancient.
"You all go down!" Without waiting for Lu Dingxuan, who was furious, to speak again, Lu Haoqian had already taken the lead in commanding several maids, and several maids hurriedly lowered their heads and fled away from the inner courtyard when they heard this.
"Patriarch, can't I even beat the people in the mansion now?" Lu Dingxuan seemed to feel that his power was threatened, and asked angrily at Lu Haoqian.
"Today's situation is difficult, and no one is allowed to cause trouble for me. Lu Haoqian changed his previous pleasant appearance, and an undoubted momentum suddenly rose out, he looked around at all the clansmen, and said word by word, "If there are people who mess with my mind, don't blame me for turning my face and being ruthless!" Lu Dingxuan couldn't help but snort coldly when he heard this, but he didn't stubbornly fight with Lu Haoqian anymore, but turned around and left the inner courtyard angrily, and the three elders of the good thing also hurriedly walked out with Lu Dingxuan's footsteps after being in a dilemma for a while.
Lu Haoqian's scolding made the chaotic inner courtyard suddenly quiet, and at the same time, the screams of Liu Qingyuan in the room became clearer and clearer. At this moment, Lu Haoqian's heart was in turmoil, and his relationship with Liu Qingyuan was well-known in Jinling City. Liu Qingyuan, who was born in a famous family back then, ignored the gap between the family and the opposition of his family, and married Lu Haoqian, who had no credit at the time, without hesitation, and this sincere feeling alone was enough to make Lu Haoqian remember it for a lifetime. Later, Lu Haoqian was fortunate not to disgrace his life, and finally lived up to Liu Qingyuan's promise, and after years of swaying, he finally gradually stepped into the right path, and his career became smoother and smoother. As Lu Haoqian's status is getting higher and higher, his power is getting bigger and bigger, on the contrary, Liu Qingyuan is gradually passing the age of flowers and moons, and as people enter middle age, the young and beautiful girls are naturally inferior. But even so, Lu Haoqian still loves Liu Qingyuan as much as ever, even if the matchmaker who came to persuade him to take a concubine kicked the threshold of Lu Mansion through, Lu Haoqian was never moved. Lu Haoqian's feelings for Liu Qingyuan are not so simple as gratitude, but truly love from the bottom of his heart. It is precisely because of the depth of love that Lu Haoqian has refused Liu Qingyuan's suggestion to have children for himself several times, afraid that Liu Qingyuan will not be able to pass the life and death of a woman. Now that he is ready to send an arrow, Lu Haoqian listened to Liu Qingyuan's screams in his ears and ears, and felt pain in his heart. He can't bear all this for Liu Qingyuan now, but it's a pity that there are some things that men can never replace.
In the room at this moment, only Liu Qingyuan, who was about to pass out due to sweat and pain, and a midwife in her fifties.
"Madam, hard, hard! I'm about to come out!" the midwife waited anxiously under Liu Qingyuan, shouting desperately in her mouth, constantly urging Liu Qingyuan. At this moment, Liu Qingyuan was constantly screaming in pain, and her smooth and delicate face had long been unable to distinguish where there were tears and where was sweat. The numb body has long since stopped listening to the call, where can you still distinguish between exertion and non-exertion. There was chaos in my brain, and I wanted to faint in pain several times.
"Madam, the more time passes, the greater the danger to you and your child, you must hold on!" The midwife naturally knew that Liu Qingyuan was already exhausted at the moment, so she hurriedly said, "If you delay for a while, I'm afraid that it will be difficult for both the lady and the child to be saved." ”
Hearing the midwife's words, Liu Qingyuan's originally hazy eyes suddenly flashed a tenacious luster, which was the maternal strength that a woman was born with. I saw her sweat-soaked hands tightly grasping the mattress that had already been wrinkled, a trace of stubbornness appeared on her pale face, and she kept shouting: "I must give birth to this child for my lord, and I must continue the incense for the Lu family......"
"It's coming out soon! It's coming out soon! Madam, try it again!" The midwife saw that Liu Qingyuan had regained her confidence, and she couldn't help but be overjoyed, and she greeted Liu Qingyuan while delivering the baby.
"Ahh
Just when the midwife continued to encourage Liu Qingyuan to exert herself, she only heard a coquettish cry from Liu Qingyuan's mouth, and then the whole person collapsed on the bed in front of her, obviously she had passed out because of exhaustion.
At the same time, the midwife also trembled and slowly took a bloodstained baby out from under Liu Qingyuan. At the moment of picking up the baby, the midwife hurriedly lowered her head to check the gender of the baby, and when she saw that it was a baby boy, the midwife's face suddenly showed an excited smile.
"It seems that I can get a lot of reward this time!" the midwife said while reaching out to tuck the quilt for Liu Qingyuan, who was unconscious on the bed, and then she didn't care whether Liu Qingyuan woke up or not, the midwife wiped the baby a few times by herself, and then randomly pulled out a cotton mattress from the bed, skillfully wrapped the baby in her arms tightly, and then couldn't wait to hold the baby and walk to the door. The joy of receiving the reward has already overwhelmed the midwife's head, and under the appearance of joy, she is still thinking about what kind of auspicious words she will say in order to get a few more points of reward.
However, just as the midwife was happily fantasizing about the rich reward she would get, a terrifying light flashed in her mind. Immediately afterwards, the midwife standing on the inside of the door stood there in a daze, and her left hand, which was about to pull the door, was instantly frozen in mid-air, her fingers trembled uncontrollably, and the whole person could no longer move for half a minute.
Because from the moment she delivered the baby until this moment, the midwife had not heard the baby's half cry!
Ordinary babies cry loudly when they come into the world, but at the moment this room is quiet and a little scary. I saw the midwife bow her head tremblingly, and look at the newborn baby boy in her arms with horror and some doubt. It didn't matter, but she almost paralyzed the midwife on the ground.
Because the baby boy in her arms at this moment was actually with his eyes closed, his lips pale, and there was no trace of wheezing between his chest and abdomen. When the midwife gently placed her trembling fingers on the baby's neck, a strange warmth instantly passed down her fingertips into the midwife's mind. The well-informed midwife only felt that her head was blank, she had been doing midwives all her life, and naturally knew what was going on.
At this moment, she was holding her tightly in her arms...... It's clearly a stillborn baby!
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