Capítulo 1523: Chapter 1520: Please Listen to My Defense
Wang Yongzhu suddenly laughed.
She looked up directly at the Emperor, and only now did she clearly see what he looked like.
He appeared to be around forty years old, with a rather heroic appearance, beneath a pair of thick sword-like eyebrows were a pair of unfathomable eyes.
His lips were thin, but the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, which made his face slightly more approachable.
When he wasn’t smiling, especially when he stared at people with those eyes, even veteran ministers who had been tempered through years in the court couldn’t withstand the pressure and would have to kneel in submission.
For a mont, Wang Yongzhu felt as if everything was being seen through under those eyes.
She lowered her eyelids, and reluctantly said, “Please, Your Majesty, listen to my la excuse—ah, no, explanation—”
Pah pah pah! Wang Yongzhu snapped back to reality, almost giving herself a slap, how could she falter at a critical mont like this?
With her temperant, she was actually thrown off balance by a re glance from the Emperor!
Du Zhongjing, who was kneeling beside her, almost had his eyeballs pop out of their sockets, and simply couldn’t believe his ears!
What did his junior sister just say? Right in front of His Majesty, she said, please listen to her la excuse?
Not to ntion the other imperial physicians and the chamberlains serving the Emperor.
Each of them was looking at this young Wife of the Heir of Duke of Weiguo with wide eyes and dropped jaws.
Normally, young Lady Grants who t His Majesty felt afraid, respectful, so shy, and various other emotions.
But like this one before them, who wouldn’t stop until she’d shocked everyone with her words, she was the first.
For a mont, the atmosphere in the Warm Pavilion beca awkwardly tense.
“Hehe—” There was a light chuckle from above, “Interesting!”
Wang Yongzhu looked up, seeing the Supre Being watching her with interest. Seeing her raise her head, he pointed a finger, “Co, explain your excuses to well!”
Surprisingly, he let it go lightly.
At this mont, Wang Yongzhu couldn’t care about much anymore, she quickly laid out the argunts she’d prepared in advance, no, the explanations.
She explained that in the countryside, won couldn’t afford to hire midwives for delivery, so older won in the village or nearby who had given birth themselves would act as midwives, helping others with childbirth.
In her ho village, there once was an old midwife, who had been delivering babies for dozens of years, and children from miles around were delivered by her.
This midwife knew a little about dicine and loved cleanliness, so most of the children she delivered survived.
Having delivered for decades, she had seen many things.
Her own mother gave birth to five children, plus the nieces and nephews in the family; all were delivered by this midwife, so they were familiar with each other.
Occasionally, she would even share so insights.
This midwife delivered so many babies that there were all sorts of odd cases, so with delayed births; so with umbilical cords around the neck; babies who seed fine at birth but bled out suddenly; or those whose amniotic fluid drained halfway, dry births…
Anyway, she had seen almost everything.
She’s seen many cases of umbilical cords around the neck; among ten children, there would always be two or three.
If lucky, the cord would be loosely wrapped, and they could be born safely, mother and child both well.
If unlucky, and the cord was tightly wrapped, so children would be strangled halfway through birth, which was also common.
The main point was, that the midwife once ntioned a family with a pregnant woman whose symptoms were very similar to the Imperial Noble Consort’s.
Her husband’s family was quite wealthy, not worried about food or drink.
However, due to her nausea, she couldn’t eat anything, and survived on just a little rice porridge. Her parents-in-law were concerned for her and the baby, urging her to eat more, but whatever she forced down, she would throw up.
As ti went on, her parents-in-law would occasionally complain, and when she heard, she beca stubbornly fixated on it.
Initially, it was just poor appetite, but later, she also couldn’t sleep.
Unable to sleep, she would stroke her belly, speaking to the child inside.
When it ca close to her due date, she sensed sothing was wrong, but doctors called in for diagnosis kept saying everything was fine.
As ti went on, her parents-in-law dismissed her as being fussy and overthinking, so no one took it seriously.
But when she went into labor, it was discovered the baby had an umbilical cord around its neck and died before it was born.
The woman also didn’t survive, mother and child both gone.
That family nearly lost their minds, having waited years for this one child, a grandson, and then he was gone.
It was so tragic that it left a deep impression on that midwife.
Lately, she had been observing and figured out a pattern: if the baby was small, or there was too much amniotic fluid, and the pregnant woman was overly worried, not eating well, not sleeping well, too tired, too hungry, or liked to touch her belly out of boredom, it could all cause the umbilical cord to wrap around the neck.
Since her family always gave generous red envelopes for the deliveries, the midwife was willing to share one or two tips with them.
Which might be why all her children were safely born and survived.
This was what Old Granny Zhang secretly told her to pay attention to.
So, this ti after taking the Imperial Noble Consort’s pulse, she couldn’t detect anything with her half-baked dical techniques.
But after chatting casually with the Noble Consort and asking about her daily life, she found there were mostly matching symptoms, so she boldly hypothesized.
The story contained about fifty to sixty percent truth and forty to fifty percent falsehood. If not for Wang Yongzhu knowing it was based on scans helped by Chen Xing, she herself would almost believe it.
Sure enough, after her explanation, not just Du Zhongjing, but even other imperial physicians skilled in pediatrics and obstetrics showed thoughtful expressions.
Only the Emperor seated above looked at Wang Yongzhu with amusent and asked, “Finished your excuses?”
Wang Yongzhu opened her mouth, closed her eyes, and solemnly said, “I have finished my excuses.”
The Emperor laughed loudly, “So in your excuses, how much is true and how much is false?”
Wang Yongzhu could feel that the Emperor did not harbor murderous intentions towards her, rather he seed curious, or perhaps investigative.
Since she had already put her foot in her mouth earlier, she might as well continue down the flawed path, saying, “If Your Majesty thinks it’s true, then it’s true; if Your Majesty thinks it’s false, it’s false!”
Even Chief Steward Su beside the Emperor couldn’t help but give Wang Yongzhu a thumbs-up secretly.
This Wife of the Heir at the Duke Weiguo Residence was indeed a character.
He had served by the Emperor’s side for many years and it was the first ti he had seen the Emperor this amused.
One thing was certain, the Heir’s Wife’s head was not about to roll, as for anything else, he dared not guess the Emperor’s divine intentions.
The Emperor seed about to speak when they heard a report from outside, saying top midwives from the palace had arrived and were waiting in the courtyard.
The Emperor waved his hand, Chief Steward Su understood, leaving only Du Zhongjing and Wang Yongzhu inside.
The other imperial physicians were brought out to discuss with the midwives in the courtyard, jointly confirming and investigating the situation of the Imperial Noble Consort and her unborn child.
In the Warm Pavilion, only they three, plus two little chamberlains, remained.
Only then did the Emperor chuckle lightly, “Zhongjing, your junior sister may not be great with dical techniques, but her tongue is quite sharp!”
Du Zhongjing replied with an awkward smile, “Your Majesty, my junior sister is still young, she speaks without malice in her innocence, if she has been disrespectful, I beg Your Majesty’s pardon!”
“Hmph! If you want to pardon, sothing must be offered in return, right?” the Emperor snorted coldly.
Indeed it confird, that emperors were capricious.
Earlier, when I thought he’d be angry, he was in a fine mood.
Now that the atmosphere eased, he suddenly seed inexplicably irritated.
Emperors are harder to understand than won!
Du Zhongjing fell silent, the Imperial Noble Consort’s pregnancy he wasn’t even half sure, if he spoke rashly and sothing went wrong, what then?
Seeing Du Zhongjing play dead and not talk, the Emperor looked at Wang Yongzhu again, filled with aning.
But Wang Yongzhu could not play dead; she had co back because, ostensibly by the Imperial Noble Consort’s summons, but really at the Emperor’s command?
If she couldn’t play dead, she pretended to be foolish, stalling as long as she could: “Your Majesty, why not wait while the adults outside and the midwives discuss it further, to see if they co up with a plan?”
The Emperor gave Wang Yongzhu a half-smiling glance but did not press further.
He closed his eyes, leaned back on the pillow, and after a mont, asked, “What’s the situation in Chicheng County?”
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