The old healer bowed in with a tray of steaming medicine. Ji Xie asked eagerly, "How is the queen?" ”

"The mother has broken the water, but the fetal head has not yet entered the basin, this situation is very dangerous!" The old man shook his gray beard, frowned and said, "For the sake of today, the only way to do this is to drink this oxytocic medicine and let the mother give birth early." Fortunately, the fetus is almost full-term, and if the Wenpo technique is in place, the fetal head can also be accurately put into the pelvis. ”

The two stable women also came in, kneeling behind the old doctor. Originally, according to Fanji's original idea, as long as the badger sheep could rush back before giving birth, let the palace supervisor send two assistants to help. But now things have changed, and these two people are temporarily assigned on duty, and they are very angry, but they can't take care of it. However------ she pulled Ji Xie's sleeve and pleaded: "King, now that the nurse is dead, the concubine really doesn't want to have no acquaintances around at this life-and-death juncture. Please allow Mrs. Zhao to enter the palace with the mother of the palace, is it possible? ”

"It's up to you, it's up to you." Ji Xie patted the back of her hand distressedly: "As long as you give birth to a child safely, you can enter the palace as much as you want." In this way, how about Huang Huan to accompany you here to give birth? ”

Fan Ji was about to nod, and the old doctor eagerly played: "Niangniang, please drink this oxytocic medicine as soon as possible, if the amniotic fluid is dry, then ------ it will be dangerous." ”

Ji Xie shook his sleeves, took the bowl of medicine with his own hands, and helped Fanji: "Aji, you drink it first, don't be afraid." Lonely doesn't go anywhere, just waits outside, huh? ”

After drinking the oxytocic medicine, everything was already prepared in the house, and the two stable women were also waiting nervously. Fanji suddenly felt confused at this time, as if lying in the clouds, but he had to endure waves of pain like waves. It wasn't her first birth, but eleven years had diluted her memories of her first birth. She only felt strange, it didn't seem to hurt much, but her waist was so sore, and the soreness below her waist and abdomen almost made her want to cry. It's so sore that it hurts!

I don't know how many hours later, sweat soaked my clothes, and even my eyelashes were wet. Outside, it was dark, and the voices in my ears were still shouting vigorously. The two women took turns pressing on their towering abdomen, sometimes caressing and sometimes pressing hard, as if trying to push the fetus into the pelvis with external force.

Huang Huan's face appeared behind the two stable women from time to time, choking back tears, and comforting from time to time: "Niangniang, bear with it, the king has been outside!" ”

After a while, he came over and said: "Niangniang, the prince is also here, they are all waiting for Niangniang to give birth safely!" ”

The lights in the room were lit, and the stars were like the night sky, and with the already full eyes of Venus, they also reflected each other. The cheerleaders in the house are still repeating themselves, which are nothing more than old sayings such as "inhale", "endure the pain", "save your strength and don't shout", "work hard", "just do it".

During the interval of labor pain, she seemed to hear Ji Xie shouting something outside: "If there is an accident in the ------------ all will give death ------" and the like, maybe she was wrong, obviously the two stable women seemed to give each other a look, what did it mean? She didn't have time to think deeply. The pain in her waist had accumulated to a critical point, and she felt that she was about to die.

Suddenly, the curtain of the door was lifted, and Zhaoji walked in with a stable woman with an anxious face. didn't have time to say anything, so he walked to the side of the bed and held Fanji's hand tightly: "Auntie, don't worry, I'm here!" ”

Coming to the new force, his own people, Fan Ji didn't know where to give birth to a strength, gritted his teeth, resisted a breath of strength, suddenly a burst of dampness and heat between the mattresses, almost crazy pain seemed to find an outlet, and instantly rushed with teeth and claws. All the miracles of the world came at this moment, fiercely announcing the arrival of new life.

Fanji, who had just unloaded his burden, was still in the clouds, and there was a scream from the steady women in his ears-

"It's out! It's out! It's a big fat boy! It's a little prince. ”

Fanji was already very weak, so he could only look at Zhaoji with his eyes, and the latter would understand: "Niangniang, and relax, if the child is scrubbed and wrapped, I will bring it to you to see!" ”

There seemed to be a congratulatory voice outside: "Congratulations to the king for getting Lin'er again!" This seems to be the voice of Eyao.

"Reward! The queen gave birth, and the big guys have worked hard, and they are all rewarded! King Zhou Yi's voice was higher than anyone else's, followed by a voice of congratulations and gratitude.

The stable woman of the Zhaofu sent the tightly wrapped swaddling clothes over, with a smile on her face, and said in a loud voice: "It's a white and handsome fat boy!" Congratulations to the Queen! ”

Fanji was weak, so he could only tilt his head slightly to look, where did the red and wrinkled little meat balls come from so white and handsome? However, looking at the round head and round brain, it is very cute, the fat and bulging little cheeks, the well-defined nose bridge, and the swollen eyelids under the head is a long curved eyeliner, I can't see how the facial features are, but they keep making small animal-like sounds.

"The little prince looks like a king!" Huang Huan smiled and played.

After reading the child with his last breath, Fanji couldn't hold it anymore, his upper and lower eyelids fought, he was physically and mentally exhausted, and finally fell asleep. In the moment of losing consciousness, she seemed to see E Yao open the curtain and come in------

I don't know how long I slept this night, probably "my heart has thoughts, I must have dreams", she has been dreaming of nurses------ dreaming of her looking at herself and smiling, and dreaming that she fell in a pool of blood and did not wake up------ and it was a mess------

A sour and bitter taste with a spicy and sweet taste seeped into his teeth and cheeks, and he woke up slowly, and what caught his eye was Huang Huan's worried face. She was holding a small pot with a copper tire and a thin mouth to pour ginseng soup into herself, and said in her mouth: "Niangniang, do you feel better ------?" ”

There was already a bloody and filthy smell in the delivery room, but this awakening, this bloody smell was stronger than before. Fan Ji was slightly startled, and then touched the wet under his body, and several stable women trembled and were at a loss, and suddenly understood most of them in their hearts. She asked in a low voice, "Ah Huan, am I ------ badly!" ”

Outside the dormitory in the middle palace, Ji Xie, the king of Zhouyi, had a pale face, and everyone could feel that the thunderous anger hidden under that gloomy face was ready to be attacked. In front of him, Qi Shushu knelt in a large circle of people, headed by E Yao, followed by the doctor in charge, the doctor and the stable woman, and the palace maids. Only the Duke and his wife were still standing behind King Yi, looking uneasy.

Ji Xie tugged at the corners of his mouth: "Why did the queen collapse in blood?" Are you so helpless? Today, if there is anything unexpected for the queen, you people ------" He pointed to the circle of people in front of him and said coldly: "If no one falls, all will die!" ”

The old doctor kowtowed like pounding garlic: "The king spares his life!" The subordinates have given acupuncture to the queen, also fed hemostatic decoction, and used ginseng decoction to replenish qi, I really thought of all the ways I could think of! Please forgive you! ”

"Hugh has to push and resist this king!" Ji Xie was furious: "The fourth prince has been successfully delivered, so good, how can the queen bleed heavily?" It must be because you don't care! There is another sentence of prevarication, all the people are punished! ”

"King!" The stable woman of the Zhaoguo Mansion was calm at this time, and knelt down on her knees and said: "The slave maid feels that something is wrong, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?" ”

"But it doesn't hurt to speak! If you expose the merit, not only will you be spared death, but you can also ask for a reward! Ji Xie said in a deep voice, his eyes swept over E Yao and Ji Jiang who were kneeling in the front palace concubine column intentionally or unintentionally.

The Wen Po looked up at Zhaoji again, and after getting the approval, she no longer hesitated, and said in 1510: "King, it is said that after the fetus is born, it should wait for a half-burnt incense kung fu coat to be delivered." But the slave maid cut the umbilical cord and took the fourth prince away to scrub it, and when she turned around, she saw that the queen's clothes had come out. When the slave saw that the garment was bloody, there was something wrong with the garment that was normally delivered. ”

"What's wrong?" Ji Xie asked, his fist clenched tightly in his sleeve.

"Incomplete, cracked, seems to be ------" Wen Po said hesitantly, "It seems to have been torn out of the body with the help of force, and the force is very strong." As she spoke, she glanced suspiciously at the palace woman beside her.

When the two stable women heard this accusation, they immediately panicked with their hands and feet, and kowtowed one after another: "The slaves and maids don't know! The ladies who have been born in this palace in recent years have delivered babies like this, and there is no difference! Please, the king! ”

"Mingjian? Hahaha------" Ji Xie let out a sneer from between his teeth: "I'm afraid that you are unique to the queen, right?" Dare to talk nonsense in front of Lonely, shirk the blame, thinking that someone can protect you? ”

"The king------" Huang Huan lifted the curtain from inside in a panic: "Niangniang woke up, call the king, His Royal Highness the prince and Zhaoguo Gong and his wife to enter, Niangniang has something to explain." ”

Ji Xie looked concerned, took a few steps forward, suddenly stopped, and explained to the chamberlain Jia: "Divide these stable women into custody, you must watch closely, and you must not contact the outside world." ”

"No!" The waiter Jia went to arrange it without mentioning it.

In the dim candlelight, Fanji's face was as pale as paper, and a few strands of black hair were weakly pulled on his cheeks, black and white were intertwined, which looked particularly shocking. What was even more palpitating was that the bridge of her nose, which had partially collapsed from the tip of her nose, was understood by everyone to be a sign that her life was coming to an end. Her blood was about to be drained, and all the vitality of her life was taken with her.

The crown prince Ji Hu couldn't hold it back, knelt in front of his mother's bed and cried loudly, but Fanji didn't have the strength to comfort his son. She gathered the last bit of strength in her body, raised her hand and signaled Huang Huan to hand over the baby to Zhaoji, seeing the child crying in Zhaoji's arms, Fanji said in a weak voice: "This child will be handed over to Zhao------- Guogong and his wife------ King, please allow me!" ”