Retreat, Retreat, Retreat! - Chapter 74

Xiao Changning had been in pain intermittently all day. At the end of the night, the pain became more and more obvious. She was sweating from the pain, and she was pale before giving birth officially.

Yue Yao accompanies her in the room, watching her hair on the temples get wet with sweat, and can’t help but anxiously said: “It’s so painful, why haven’t you had a baby?”

Xiao Changning endured the pain and adjusted his breathing, and grudgingly said with a smile: “It is my palace who gave birth to the baby. Why are you more nervous than my palace?”

Yueyao smiled, wiped her sweat, and encouraged her in a relaxed tone as much as possible: “His Royal Highness, don’t be afraid. Drink a bowl of ginseng chicken soup later. Only when you are full will you have the strength to keep your mother and child safe.”

“Maybe it’s a girl.” Another pain hit, Xiao Changning bit her lips tightly, put her hands on the swelling abdomen subconsciously, and asked, panting, “Where is Shenxuan?”

Yue Yao lifted the veil and forgot to look outside. Seeing Shen Xuan’s shadow faintly reflected on the door, she said: “Talking to the female doctor of the Taiyuan Hospital outside, can you ask the minister to call him in?”

Xiao Changning thought for a while, shook his head and said, “Don’t have to… uh!”

There was another sharp pain, which made her fingers clenched together.

Outside the house, an experienced elderly female doctor was reporting Xiao Changning’s physical condition to Shen Xuan, “The eldest princess Changning has a small skeleton and thin body. It is more difficult to have a baby than a woman with a large breast and a fat buttocks.”

Shen Xuan twisted her brows into the word “Chuan”, and said in a deep voice, “She has always had a bad appetite. These months, she has been coaxing her to eat more, and she hasn’t gained weight.”

“Admiral Shen can rest assured that it is not necessarily easy to give birth if you eat more to gain weight. If the fetus is too large, there will be a risk of dystocia.” The female doctor respectfully said, “Fortunately, the eldest princess’s fetal position is very correct, and the mother and child will be safe.”

“How long can I be born?”

“This depends on the physical condition of the eldest princess. When I went to see it, I had already opened seven fingers. Now I should be ready to give birth.”

Shen Xuan’s complexion tightened, her deep and sharp eyes stared at the female doctor, and she said word by word: “Listen, at all costs, the governor wants her to be safe.”

The female doctor trembled and hurriedly lowered her head and knelt and said, “Yes, yes!”

The female doctor rectified the medicine box and entered the room, and Dong Sui and A Zhu also rolled in their sleeves to help. Shen Xuan stood alone outside the door for a while, then adjusted her expression and stepped into the inner room with her foot raised.

The female doctor who was preparing looked up and saw him coming in, she was shocked, subconsciously trying to stop, but Yue Yao on the side stretched out her hand to hold her shoulder and shook her head.

Shen Xuan never thought that his wife’s production was a bad thing. He opened the gauze curtain calmly, walked to the inner room where there were hot water, scissors, gauze, etc., and found a place to sit down beside Xiao Changning. , Took her clenched hand to her forehead, her voice was unabashedly distressed: “Are you okay?”

“It’s a bit nervous.” Xiao Changning’s gaze fell on the silver needle bag in the female doctor’s hand, and he glanced at the dazzling scissors and knives placed on the case table, and exhaled, “It’s already very painful. Will it hurt more when I’m in.”

“It will go smoothly, I’m here.” Shen Xuan sat there like a **** of evil spirits, which indeed has the effect of suppressing evil and avoiding disasters.

These words are very reassuring, Xiao Changning felt the pain has also eased a lot, and his heart was warm, and smiled: “Then you must always stay with me.”

“Well, stay with me all the time.” Shen Xuan took the ginseng chicken soup from A Zhu, blew the soup a little bit, and raised her eyes, “Drink some soup?”

Xiao Changning shook his head: “It hurts, I can’t drink.”

“You must drink it, your majesty, only after drinking it will you have the strength to give birth to a child.” The female doctor told her and opened the bedding again and said to her, “Your Royal Highness will prop up your legs, open them up, and the slave maid will take a look for you.”

Xiao Changning did what he said. Shen Xuan brought the soup spoon to her mouth and coaxed: “Open your mouth, I’ll feed you.”

Xiao Changning took a sip, and Shen Xuan leaned over and kissed her on the forehead as a sign of encouragement.

For a moment, the female doctor got out of the quilt at the end of the couch and said with a smile: “The mouth of the palace is almost fully opened, and it is ready to give birth.”

Xiao Changning reluctantly drank two more sips of soup, and it was so painful that he couldn’t eat it anymore. Holding Shen Xuan’s hand, he said, “No! I can’t take it anymore!”

Her face was pale, her temples were sweaty, and tears were already in her eyes.

Shen Xuan had to put down the soup bowl, got up and hugged her into her arms, kissed her forehead finely, and comforted: “I opened the birth canal for you before giving birth, nothing will happen.”

The process of opening the birth canal was a little shameful, and Xiao Changning’s pale face couldn’t help but blush, but soon, she was too painful to care about the shame. At first, he gritted his teeth and hummed quietly, but at the end, the pain became bulging. I just wanted to give birth to the baby in my belly soon.

“His Royal Highness the princess adjusts her breathing, okay! Work hard!” The female doctor kept her hands full of blood, and kept encouraging her.

In fact, Xiao Changning could no longer hear what the female doctor was saying. She was sweaty as if she was fished out of the water, and her bare skin was a bloodless white. In the dim, she seemed to hear someone say: “Come on, the emperor.” NS…”

I also heard Shen Xuan’s command: “Let him wait outside, don’t let Changning get distracted.”

Then she couldn’t hear anything. The long-term pain and lack of strength made her vision hazy, and her eyes were full of tears and perspiration. She said weakly: “He never comes out…Shenxuan, I hurt.”

“Hold on a little longer, be good.” Shen Xuan stroked the sweat on her forehead with a big hand, turned around and said sharply, “Didn’t you say that it will be fast? Why haven’t you given birth after a while!”

His gaze was too complicated and terrible. The female doctor shook her hands full of blood, and knelt down in a hurry and said: “It’s fast, really fast! But the eldest princess has to continue to work hard, the child can’t be too much in the birth canal. Long!”

Yue Yao trembling her legs nervously, persuaded Shen Xuan: “Oh, don’t scare her.” Then he leaned over to Xiao Changning and said, “His Royal Highness, have you heard it? Soon, as long as you use more force, We can already see the top of the child’s head!”

The tip of Shen Xuan’s nose was also sweating, and the back of her hand was blue by Xiao Changning’s grip. She calmed her warmly: “Just hold on, Changning, just one shot. Come, take a deep breath, harder!”

Xiao Changning had never seen Shen Xuan’s eyes so fragile and distressed, as if she would cry in the next moment. She barely withdrew her loose mind, biting her lips to bleed, and exhausted all her strength to cooperate with the movement in her stomach…

When it was ugly, the **** crowed in the fourth watch, and finally a loud cry of the baby came from the wing of the East Factory.

The moment they heard the baby crying, many people crowded outside the courtyard to pray and cheered, as if their children were coming! Xiao Huan, who was waiting in the hall, stayed up all night until Dong Sui hurriedly reported, and said with joy: “Congratulations to the emperor, the eldest princess has given birth to her daughter, you are an uncle!”

Xiao Huan stood up abruptly, froze for a while, then sat back on the chair blankly, and muttered, “I, I…”

After a while, he finally recovered his senses, and said with a long sigh of relief: “Okay, okay! I’m going to be an uncle!”

In the room, the female doctor and the maidservant were wiping the baby’s body, but Shen Xuan didn’t care to look at her daughter, she only tightly held Xiao Changning’s protruding palm, touched her forehead, and kept kissing her cheek. At this moment, Admiral Shen’s always calm and majestic voice trembled slightly, and said deeply: “Thanks for your hard work, Changning.”

Xiao Changning couldn’t respond to him. She was so tired that she couldn’t even lift a finger. The moment her belly was empty, her head buzzed and she almost fainted.

Seeing her as pale as paper, blood was stained with water, Shen Xuan suddenly raised her hand on her brow bone, and covered her eyes with her palm.

Xiao Changning raised his eyes weakly, and happened to see a tear drop from his palm.

Xiao Changning was startled, his heart seemed to be gripped fiercely, and it was painful, even more painful than just giving birth.

For the first time, she saw Shen Xuan weeping, silent and silent, with only a line of wet marks scratching her chin.

“Shen…” She opened her mouth uncomfortably, trying to comfort, smiling, trying to tell him that she was okay, but she couldn’t even say a complete sentence.

Yue Yao took the cleaned up baby and showed it to Shen Xu and Xiao Changning, and said excitedly: “I am a daughter, as beautiful as your Royal Highness!”

Shen Xuan didn’t have time to take care of her daughter. She still hugged Xiao Changning, buried the tip of her nose in her sweaty neck, and whispered: “Changning must be very painful.”

With these words, Xiao Changning felt that no matter how much pain he suffered, it was worth it. The corners of her mouth moved, and she couldn’t hold back her exhaustion, her eyes closed and she fell asleep deeply.

Until she scrubbed Xiao Changning’s body, and when she was sleeping peacefully, Shen Xuan took the daughter in Yueyao’s arms, and stared at the wrinkled and unopened face of the infant, her expression was never before. Gentleness.

He held his daughter and pushed the door out, and instructed Lin Huan and Fang Wujing who were waiting outside: “Pull the lantern.”

The bright red lanterns rose quickly, illuminating the Dongchang factory like daylight. Shen Xuan is wearing a martial arts robe, holding the baby in one hand and walking on the ground with lights, as if holding a brand new world in her arms, majestic and majestic.

And the front court, the secretary and chief of the East Factory are all waiting here.

Shen Xuan walked to the front of the crowd to stand, and then lifted the infant child with both hands, as if announcing the coming of this new life to the world, the man in the courtyard knelt down and bowed, surrendering to the utmost.

The lights were reflected in Shen Xuan’s eyebrows, like thousands of stars converging. He held up the baby with his powerful arms, and said loudly: “My wife, Changning, have a birthday for my daughter!”

Man Ting Fanzi congratulated in unison: “Congratulations to the factory superintendent and your Royal Highness the princess, you are so happy!”

Cheering three times in a row, until Xiao Huan in the hall also heard the movement and rushed over.

Xiao Huan looked at the wrinkled baby in Shen Xuan’s arms, subconsciously reached out to touch the newborn’s cheek, but the hand was still in the air, but the baby stretched out a lotus root-like hand to grab his index finger. Xiao Huan was taken aback for a moment, as if a soft string was touched in his heart, he was so excited that he almost shed tears on the spot.

This is his niece, this is the blood of the Xiao family!

“Presenting my will.” Xiao Huan smiled slightly and ordered on the spot, “The princess Changning’s love daughter shall be the first-grade Yongle princess, and from now on, I shall be on an equal footing with my children!”

It is rare for a royal lady to be canonized by the emperor at birth. It can be seen that this little princess’s position in the emperor’s heart is also born in the talented Dongchang. There is Beizhen Fusi’s magistrate as an aunt, saying that it is the star of the moon. It’s no exaggeration.

However, Xiao Changning was very distressed when his daughter was only a few days old.

“You said, is our child’s surname Shen or Zhou?” Xiao Changning was still thinking about Shen Xuan’s surname, holding the child on the couch and nursing, curling his eyebrows, “Or, take my surname Xiao. ?”

Shen Xuan smiled, stretched out her hand to hug the child who was full of food and drink, and then covered Xiao Changning’s clothes, and said, “The last name is Shen, your name is yours.”

Xiao Changning didn’t want to give her baby to the nurse to feed her. Fortunately, she had plenty of milk, but she was so painful to be sucked by the baby, so she rubbed her chest and smiled: “I’ve thought about a dozen names, and I can’t always decide. Let me show you, we will discuss it together.”

Thinking of something, she said with a low smile: “In fact, the title given to her by Huan’er is pretty good, Yongle Yongle, always peaceful and happy.”

Shen Xuan stretched her finger to caress her daughter’s small milk-stained mouth, and then leaned over to kiss Xiao Changning’s lips: “No hurry, take your time.”

Xiao Changning grinned to cater to him until he almost woke up the sleeping baby daughter.

Xiao Changning coaxed her daughter to sleep again, and then sighed wearily: “It is hard to have a baby, and it is even harder to nurse a baby.”

“Then I won’t give birth. It is enough to have a daughter.” Shen Xuan put the child in the cradle to sleep, and then returned to the couch to hug Xiao Changning, and whispered in her ear, “I can’t bear the pain. You will suffer a second time.”

Xiao Changning scolded him as a “idiot”, but his heart was very sweet.

The two were tired and crooked, and the mirrorless voice outside the door sounded, and said with a rare solemn: “Factory Supervisor, Su Qi has caught it, can you be interrogated immediately?”

Xiao Changning was taken aback, thinking for a while before remembering who’Suqi’ was. She asked Shen Xuan, “The one who bribed you with a good bow?”

Shen Xuan nodded, the warmth in her brows and eyes gradually faded into calmness. He rubbed Xiao Changning’s cheek and apologized: “Wait for me.”

Xiao Changning never interfered with his official duties, so he said broadly, “Go ahead, I’ll sleep a little longer.”

Shen Xuan kissed her on the forehead, and then walked out the door with a calm face.

Su Qi was indeed imprisoned in the Dongchang prison. Shen Xuan looked at him through the dark iron fence, only to see him dressed in a clean brocade silk dress, young and handsome, like a rich man.

Seeing Shenxuan’s arrival, Su Qi in the dark depths froze for a long time, and then slowly moved his steps and walked towards Shenxuan.

Shen Xuan twisted her eyebrows, and asked in a cold voice: “The bow you sent to the Governor is complicated and unique to the Zhou family in Qingzhou. Where did you get it?”

Fang Wujing threatened: “Say! Otherwise, you will be killed!”

Su Qi seemed to be frightened, he stopped for a long time before continuing to move forward, step by step out of the shadow.

Every step he took seemed to be of great importance, and it was very difficult to walk. When the dark shadows faded from him little by little, revealing a young and delicate face, Shen Yan couldn’t help but feel slightly startled.

It was a very unfamiliar face, unfamiliar and gentle, but with tears on his face, so he opened a pair of wet red eyes, looking at Shen Xuan through the iron fence.

What kind of complicated look is this? Shen Xuan couldn’t describe it.

He only knows that when he looks at Su Qi’s eyes, his chest is painful for no reason, as if the blood scab has been removed, revealing the wounds he buried deep in his heart, and the memories of the past spurted out and flashed in his mind. .

For a long time, Su Qi burst into tears with a smile, and leaned on the fence and whispered softly: “Brother…”

Suddenly, Shen Xuan’s pupils shrank suddenly.

…

The day of the children’s hundred-day banquet happened to be the day when Yueyao and Wen Lingyin were married, and double happiness came to the door. However, the two people stumbled for a long time and finally achieved a positive result. Xiao Changning was also very happy for them. Although he did not attend the wedding banquet in person because of his daughter, he gave a great gift as a blessing.

Three years later, Xiao Changning became pregnant again.

At that time, Princess Yongle was at the age of running wild in the yard. He was spoiled by the four chief officers of the East Factory. No one dared to stop the East Factory. Xiao Changning sat in the courtyard and watched her daughter ride on Wu Youfu’s neck as a horse. She couldn’t help but feel happy. She stretched out her hand and pulled Shenxuan’s sleeve and asked: “The child is about to have a younger brother or younger sister. Why is it the most unhappy? It’s you instead?”

Shen Xuan returned to her senses, and said helplessly: “It’s not that I’m unhappy, but I just don’t want you to suffer. The moment when you were happy forever, it was so distressing.”

“This kind of thing will be born again and again, the second time it will be much easier.” Xiao Changning said something that he didn’t know much about, and then said, “What’s more, Yongle is a girl’s family, and there will be no shortage of people who love her in the future. You can learn two tricks. Self-defense is enough, you still need a boy to inherit your ability.”

She squinted her eyes and smiled sweetly and happily: “I’m not bitter with you, it’s good.”

In the same year, the capital had two major events.

First, Yue Yao, who had been married for three years, gave birth to Lin’er before Xiao Changning; second, the young emperor in the palace who was conscientiously reviewing state affairs took a leave of absence in January and came to say goodbye to Xiao Changning.

Hearing that Xiao Huan was going to travel in the palace for a month, Xiao Changning, who was three months pregnant, curiously asked: “Why do you think of going out at this time? Is it because the courtiers forced you to marry a concubine too tight?”

The eighteen-year-old emperor is tall and tall, with a restrained and gentle smile: “At the end of the three-year period, there are some things that must be settled.”

As soon as he mentioned it for three years, Xiao Changning remembered the rumored queen who was practicing and praying for blessing in the mountain temple, and couldn’t help but smile and said, “It’s good.”

Xiao Huan nodded, and said to Shenxuan: “When I am away, there will be both Admiral Lao Shen and Commander Wen worrying about things inside and outside the palace.”

He has an open-minded attitude and unrestrained speech, no longer the suspicious appearance of trembling and sleepless at night, and he is quite imperial.

“Uncle, uncle!” Princess Yongle giggled around Wu Youfu’s neck, waving the candied haws that came from Lin Huan in his hand, and said crisply towards Xiao Huan, “Riding a horse!”

Xiao Huan walked over and hugged her, easily lifted the little girl above her head, making her laugh.

Down the corridor, Xiao Changning and Shen Xuan exchanged a kiss quietly, holding hands and looking at each other, both smiled slightly.

“I love you, Shen Xuan.”

“Um.”

“Huh what huh?”

“Yeah…” Shen Xuan hugged her into her arms, with deep eyebrows, and said in a deep voice, “I love you even more, Changning.”

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