The two midwives couldn’t help but scream out loud, fortunately, Qin Yi had already instructed everyone to keep a piece of wood in their mouths in case soone lost control and shouted.
His hands still remained exceptionally steady.
Zzzzt...
With the light slicing sound as the scissors cut through the belly, a skillful strength opened up Su Pan’er’s abdon.
Just heavy enough to reveal the tuft of black hair on the baby’s head!
Unexpectedly and contrary to everyone’s expectations, perhaps because Qin Yi had deliberately avoided the ridian Channels, there was only a trickle of blood flowing from the incision.
Qin Yi steadied his spirit and, with trembling hands, reached into the incision to grasp the child’s elbow and pull it out!
"Give it to us!"
The two midwives volunteered and took the child from His Majesty’s hands.
They hurriedly moved to the side to clean up the child, to remove the mbrane from the baby’s body, clear the residue in their mouth, cut the umbilical cord with sterilized scissors, and then wrapped it up...
Pat pat pat!
The midwife held the infant upside-down and gently patted its back a few tis, and a faint cry was heard.
"Wah! Wah wah..."
The child was successfully delivered and was crying; though thin and frail looking, at least he was healthy, which relieved everyone. As long as the child was fine, all was well!
Mrs. Su-Hua continued to wail and curse, while Su Huarong stood by the door of the delivery room, with his eyebrows tightly furrowed, staring at the door without uttering a word, but his tightly pressed lips were silently telling a story.
The weak cry of the infant shook him.
"Fourth Aunt, wait a mont!"
He hurriedly stopped Mrs. Su-Hua, who was constantly cursing, and pointed to the delivery room, "Listen, is that the cry of a baby inside?"
Mrs. Su-Hua was startled and quickly listened attentively.
But inside there was no sound to be heard, eerily quiet.
"Huarong, did you just hear the baby cry? Could you have been mistaken?" Mrs. Su-Hua asked, sowhat hesitantly.
Su Huarong didn’t speak, but couldn’t bear not to get closer again, which prompted the vigilant gazes of the four Imperial Guards stationed by the door of the delivery room. Nevertheless, he still pressed his ear against the door to carefully listen.
"How is it, can you clearly hear? Has the child really been born?"
Mrs. Su-Hua was very anxious.
"Maybe..."
Su Huarong too was unsure if the baby had been born, he spoke hesitantly, "Maybe not yet born, perhaps the baby’s cry we just heard was from Third Princess crying."
His words drained away the hope from Mrs. Su-Hua’s face as she helplessly shed tears, crying grievously, "What should we do, what is the best course of action!? My Pan’er..."
As she was crying, a burst of infant’s crying suddenly erged from inside, clearly distinct from before, sounding much more powerful!
Su Huarong was first startled, then overjoyed!
"No! It’s the Empress, she has given birth again! Another childbirth, the Empress has had another baby! Fourth Aunt, listen carefully, the cries of two children are different!"
Could it really be another birth?
How could Mrs. Su-Hua stay put? She was determined to barge inside.
But how could the Imperial Guards, already ordered and stationed on both sides of the delivery room’s door, let us through?
He imdiately stopped her.
Mrs. Su-Hua had always been known for her fierce temperant, and how could she let several mbers of the Imperial Guard stop her at the door? She imdiately started tussling with several of them.
"Madam, Uncle-in-law Su!"
As the commotion intensified, soone finally ca out of the delivery room!
Qingwen’s expression was particularly strange, pale as a ghost. Seeing the two stop, she quickly bent down to greet them: "Madam, the Empress has just given birth to the child, and she is extrely exhausted right now. Please, do not make any more noise outside here; it will disturb the Empress’s rest."
That single statent imdiately brought joy to both their faces!
"Has the Empress truly given birth? Is she alright? How is she feeling now? And the child, is it a boy or a girl, a little princess or a little Prince? How much does the child weigh?"
Mrs. Su-Hua bombarded her with questions like a rapid-fire cannon, almost wishing she could rush inside.
But she was firmly held back by Qingwen.
"Madam, please don’t be anxious. The child has just been born, and your servant has not had the chance to see clearly before coming out to report to you both. Please calm yourselves, I believe His Majesty will be out shortly."
Qingwen did not linger after delivering her ssage and went back into the delivery room.
Mrs. Su-Hua still wanted to follow, but she was stopped by four mbers of the Imperial Guard.
Having learned that Pan’er had delivered the child smoothly, Mrs. Su-Hua’s rationality gradually returned, and her fierce energy slowly dissipated. She also rembered the many improprieties she had committed earlier and the more she thought about it, the more uneasy she beca. This uneasiness gradually shifted her attention from what was happening inside the delivery room to the concern that His Majesty might bla her for her earlier actions.
Su Huarong also beca relaxed, and a smile ford at the corner of his mouth.
The child had been safely born; even if Pan’er’s body suffered a bit, she could still recover slowly afterward. Even if she could not bear children in the future, with these children by her side, life could still go on.
If one has people, one has everything. As long as there is life, what is there to fear?
With these thoughts, the expression on Su Huarong’s face completely relaxed.
In the delivery room.
The child was safely lifted out of the incision, easing Qin Yi’s anxiety a little.
Steadying his mind, he reached in again and pulled out the placenta through the incision. Next ca the most difficult part, the stitching.
"Your Majesty, let the dicine Woman who is specialized in stitching by my side take over the following tasks! These are all things she is very familiar with."
Eleventh Uncle volunteered to have his dicine Woman step forward to take over.
Under Su Pan’er’s guidance, in the past two or three years, Eleventh Uncle, relying on his stitching skills, had saved many patients with external injuries. As his reputation for these skills grew, more and more people sought his treatnt, and he purposely trained a few of his entourage to specialize in stitching wounds. The dicine Woman was specifically trained to treat wounds for won who found it inconvenient to be treated by a man.
Now that His Majesty’s surgery had progressed to this point, Eleventh Uncle naturally was willing to step forward and take over.
This was a great help to Qin Yi!
He quickly made way and allowed Eleventh Uncle’s dicine Woman to take his place in treating Pan’er.
The dicine Woman’s technique was very steady and skilled, clearly experienced in stitching. She had a deep understanding of human anatomy, and her movents were swift as she began threading the needle.
Qin Yi watched for a while, then silently reassured himself and stepped back two paces.
Turning his head, he unexpectedly t Su Pan’er’s open eyes and was imdiately startled! Then naturally, he felt joy.
"Pan’er? Are you... in pain?"
He quickly stepped forward, crouching down and instantly taking hold of Su Pan’er’s hand. It was only then that he realized his hands were covered in blood, Pan’er’s blood!
Su Pan’er did not speak but blinked at him slightly, her gaze fixed on him in a daze.
A mont later, she closed her eyes again.
Qin Yi’s heart sank to the bottom; imdiately, he reached to check her pulse, but he couldn’t feel Pan’er’s pulse at all.
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