Yingbao and Wei Zhan watched the carriage go away until it could no longer be seen, then they took Wuhui back home.
Wu Hui walked briskly back into the house, helped his aunt sit down on a high chair, and then tiptoed to pick up a fruit from the table and handed it to his aunt: "Aunt, have a fruit and quench your thirst."
Yingbao was still feeling depressed. She took the loquat from Wuhui and said, "Thank you, Wuhui. You can have some too."
Wu Hui nodded, took another one and gave it to Wei Zhan, then he peeled the orange skin of the loquat, took a bite, and it was extremely sweet.
He sat down beside the Arhat couch and swung his legs happily.
The days go by.
Soon it was the end of October.
The due date has passed for several days, and Yingbao shows no signs of giving birth.
Mrs. Wang became anxious and immediately invited two famous midwives in the county to check what was going on with her daughter-in-law.
A midwife touched Yingbao's belly and frowned, saying, "The fetus is in the correct position, but it hasn't entered the pelvis yet. I'm afraid we need to use some labor-inducing drugs."
Most of the current labor-inducing pills are made of rabbit brains that have been roasted and ground into balls the size of sycamore seeds. They are mixed with tiger bone powder, rabbit blood, seahorses, raw turtles, mercury, etc. After a woman takes them, she will start to have uterine contractions within a day.
But inducing labor is very dangerous, and Mrs. Wang simply shook her head and refused: "No! You can't induce labor."
Since the fetus has not entered the pelvis, it must not be mature yet.
It is said that a woman's pregnancy and childbirth are like a ripe melon falling off the vine. This melon cannot be picked forcibly before it is ripe.
Seeing that Madam Wang insisted, the midwife did not force him, "Then wait a few more days and see. If the baby is not born after ten days, the baby's head will be hardened and it may be difficult to deliver."
Wei Zhan became nervous when he heard this and asked anxiously, "What should we do then?" He would rather not have a child than let anything happen to Yingbao.
The midwife glanced at Madam Wang and said, "Perhaps you calculated the date wrongly?"
Wei Zhan looked at Ying Bao blankly.
Yingbao sat up from her bed and said, "Maybe I miscalculated. How about we wait a few days and see."
So, we waited for several more days, and soon it was mid-winter.
Madam Wang and Wei Zhan had no mind to do anything else and stayed by Yingbao's side the whole day.
At Wei's house, Cao and her elder and second sisters-in-law sat by the fire, eating melon seeds and chatting.
"Is Qilang's wife pregnant with a dead baby? It's been so long since the due date and she still hasn't given birth. Tsk tsk, I'm afraid something serious is going to happen."
"Who said it wasn't? Oh, what a sin. If something happens, Qilang will be in trouble. She is a princess who was conferred a title by the emperor. The higher-ups will definitely hold her accountable."
"Oh, will it implicate us?"
"I can't say for sure."
A few people were gossiping at once when they suddenly heard someone running outside.
Cao stood up, lifted the door curtain and looked outside, she saw a commotion in Mrs. Wang's yard, the maids and old women were gathered at the door, doing something unknown.
She smiled, turned around and said to the two of them, "Hey! Something might have happened to Qilang!"
Wei Erlang's wife asked quickly, "What do you mean?"
"We can find out if we send someone to take a look." Wei Sanlang's wife turned to her maid and said, "Go to the main courtyard and ask around to see what happened."
The girl agreed and ran out of the house.
After a while, the girl came back and said excitedly, "They said that the princess had gone into labor, and the madam had people go outside to invite several midwives and even a fortune teller. I'm afraid it's really not good."
If a fortune teller is invited during childbirth, the mother will surely have a difficult delivery and will not be able to give birth.
Several people were stunned, with different expressions on their faces.
Cao cracked a few pumpkin seeds, spit out the shells deftly, and said with a gloating tone: "Alas, people should not be too rampant. Look, retribution has come."
The other two did not respond.
It is better not to agree with such words that will damage your virtue. You have children too. It would be terrible if the retribution comes upon you.
Princess Mansion,
Yingbao did go into labor, and there were signs of a difficult labor.
It wasn't that the fetus was in an abnormal position, but her stomach was cramping in pain and her cervix wouldn't open.
Mrs. Wang and Wei Zhan were both extremely anxious, but Ying Bao was walking back and forth in the room holding her stomach with one hand and chewing a crisp persimmon with the other.
The midwife said, "When giving birth, you need to walk more so that the baby can enter the pelvis smoothly and the cervix can open faster."
Another midwife said, "In my hometown, when giving birth, some people tie the woman with her back to a mule and let the mule trot around in circles in the yard. The woman screams so miserably that you can hear it two miles away."
Wei Zhan's scalp tingled when he heard this, and he quickly stopped her from continuing: "Please stop talking."
Yingbao didn't take it seriously and asked with great interest, "What happened next? Are the woman and her child safe?"
The midwife sat on a chair with her legs crossed and said, "If the delivery goes smoothly, it will be safe. If the delivery is difficult, the blood will drip all over the yard, and the face will turn as white as paper very quickly. There is no way she can survive."
Wei Zhan was a little angry when he saw the midwife telling his wife all these scary things, but he couldn't scold her at this time, so he pulled his wife and said, "Lie down for a while."
Yingbao was tired from walking, so Wei Zhan helped her lie back on the bed, calling Xuanwu in her heart, "Am I going to have a difficult birth?"
Xuanwu: "It's far from a difficult birth."
"Then why haven't I given birth yet despite having stomach aches for so long?" Yingbao was depressed.
Xuanwu: "Because your child is lazy and refuses to move."
Yingbao: ...
She suspected that Xuanwu was deliberately making fun of her.
"How about I take some drugs to induce labor?" If she didn't give birth soon, she would just want to take a nap first.
Xuanwu: "Then you can eat a Wudingzhi plant. It is more effective than the mortal world in inducing labor."
As soon as she finished speaking, a palm-sized Wudingzhi appeared in her palm.
Yingbao didn't hesitate, she picked it up and put it in her mouth, chewing it and swallowing it.
She was the only one in the bedroom at the moment, of course Mu Dan and Xing Hua were there too, but they were standing at the door, waiting to be called.
Wei Zhan and his mother, Mrs. Wang, also went out to talk to the midwife, arguing about whether to give her a labor-inducing pill.
After Yingbao swallowed a whole Wudingzhi, she felt warm all over and her abdomen began to twist, as if the fetus inside was stretching its hands and kicking its legs to exercise.
After a while, it calmed down again, and then my stomach began to tighten. After about a quarter of an hour, the pain became more severe.
Yingbao held back her screams, took a deep breath, and called Mudan, "I'm giving birth! Call someone!"
Mu Dan hurriedly shouted outside: "The princess is giving birth! Someone come quickly!"
A sound of footsteps ran into the bedroom, Wei Zhan hugged his wife and asked anxiously: "What's wrong? Does it hurt a lot?"
Yingbao was sweating from the pain and had no time to answer.
Madam Wang and the midwife pulled Wei Zhan and said angrily, "Get out now and stop making trouble here!"
Wei Zhan had no choice but to put his wife down, retreated to the door awkwardly, and looked at his wife on the bed with a worried look on his face.
Yingbao was feeling groggy at this time, and subconsciously followed the midwife's instructions. She felt a warm current flowing out of her body, and she felt relaxed.
Following the cry of a baby, the midwife said with a smile: "Congratulations, princess, it's a daughter."
Yingbao felt relieved and suddenly fell into darkness.