Saving System: Calm Down, My Fleeing Host!-Chapter 59: Difficult Labor

Granny Lin urged anxiously, "You all must make a decision quickly!"

The elder aunt trembled as she stepped forward to grab Granny Lin’s hand, "How could this happen? It was fine before. Is there any solution? You must have a way, right?"

Granny Lin sighed, "The child was just a bit premature and not in the right position. I barely managed to correct the fetal position. Now, the child has been stuck for so long that it’s uncertain if there’s any breath left, and the mother is exhausted to the point of having just half a breath."

The situation was too dire for everyone to accept such a cruel fact.

Cheng Xiaoxiao gritted her teeth, bought an oxytocin injection, and said to Granny Lin, "Grandma Lin, I know a few acupressure points that might help the mother with childbirth. I also have a slice of ginseng that can be given to my sister-in-law to hold in her mouth to replenish her primordial energy and add some vitality."

She then took out the ginseng slices, which she had bought earlier from Baishan Pharmacy to make hemostatic powder and hadn’t used up; this was all she had left.

"And Grandma Lin, we must save the mother. If the child doesn’t make it, we can have another. But if the mother is gone, then there’s no hope left."

Knowing that the elder family was struggling with the decision, she decided to play the villain herself.

No matter which dynasty one belonged to, ancient people always valued offspring over women.

Without women, where would children come from? Perhaps they’d tell you that you can marry another if this woman is gone.

Marry another, my foot!

It’s absurd. I, Cheng Xiaoxiao, won’t indulge in this trend.

In the future, if I encounter such matters, I’ll intervene as much as I can!

Granny Lin looked at the Li family, but they couldn’t speak a word.

Then she glanced at Cheng Rong in the corner, as he sat there blankly, his eyes unfocused.

Finally, she turned to the head of the family, Cheng Qiang, who nodded painfully, silently agreeing with Cheng Xiaoxiao’s words.

What else could they do? They couldn’t sacrifice their daughter-in-law’s life for a child.

Seeing her uncle nod, Cheng Xiaoxiao’s expression softened a bit. Fortunately, her uncle and his family weren’t like that. Otherwise, she would have despised them.

And there in the corner, Cheng Rong sat dumbly, surrounded by Granny Lin’s relentless words, "Neither can be saved!"

"Neither can be saved!"

He was going to lose his wife and son! 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮

He was going to lose his wife and son!

What was he to do?

A buzzing drone filled his ears.

As Cheng Xiaoxiao headed into the delivery room, no one said anything. After all, in the entire family, she was already an unquestionable presence.

Her ability was unquestionable.

Inside the delivery room, the air was filled with the unpleasant stench of blood.

Cheng Xiaoxiao felt very uncomfortable and barely held back her nausea, placing the ginseng slice in Li Qiuchan’s mouth. When Granny Lin wasn’t looking, she secretly administered the oxytocin injection.

Cheng Xiaoxiao squatted beside Li Qiuchan’s ear. By this time, Li Qiuchan was already faint, seeing only blurred shadows, unable to distinguish who was who, as Cheng Xiaoxiao whispered eerily in her ear, "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, wake up, your son hasn’t been born yet! Do you want him to die with you?"

The groggy person on the bed, upon hearing this, gathered some strength, murmuring, "No, no, no death!"

Seeing a reaction, Cheng Xiaoxiao wetted a handkerchief with warm water, wiped the sweat from her face, and continued, "After so much hardship giving birth, don’t you want to see him? Don’t you want to know if he looks like you or like your big brother?"

"Child!"

"My... child!"

Cheng Xiaoxiao continued, "Surely you don’t want your child calling someone else mother? With a stepmother comes a stepfather; by then, no one will care for your child. The child will be really pitiful, so miserable! Even his own mother doesn’t want him."

Li Qiuchan finally came to her senses, saying, "I... want my... child."

Cheng Xiaoxiao felt slightly relieved, as there was still hope as long as she could catch her breath. "Sister-in-law, keep it up, you can do it!"

Not sure whether it was the stimulation or the effect of the ginseng, Li Qiuchan slowly focused her gaze on the person in front of her, weakly calling out, "Xiaoxiao!"

At this moment, there was a sharp pain in her lower abdomen.

"Ah!"

Another shrill scream.

It might have been the oxytocin injection working, as Granny Lin joyfully exclaimed from below, "The cervix has fully dilated now. Li family girl, put in some effort, there’s still a chance."

Cheng Xiaoxiao was also pleased, "It’s me, sister-in-law. Let’s work hard together!"

"Follow my rhythm, inhale, exhale."

"Come, take a deep breath first."

After much effort...

"Just a little more, push! I can see the head," exclaimed Granny Lin anxiously.

At this point, Li Qiuchan was holding on, purely relying on Cheng Xiaoxiao’s rhythm and verbal stimulation.

Seeing she might not make it, "Almost there, sister-in-law, push a little harder. Don’t give up. Think about it, if you die, other women will sleep with your husband and hit your child. Are you willing?"

"Sleep with your husband! Sleep with your husband!

Hit your child! Hit your child!

Are you willing? Are you willing?"

This time Cheng Xiaoxiao’s harsh words seemed to have some sort of magic, truly stirring Li Qiuchan, as these few words repeated in her mind.

"No!"

"N... Not willing!"

Li Qiuchan shouted with her voice hoarse, filled with unwillingness, filled with anger!

Simultaneously, an immense pain, ten times more painful than before, hit, feeling like her body was tearing apart.

"Ah!"

As the sound fell, the energy that had been overdrawn finally ran out, leaving her faint.

Granny Lin’s excited voice rang out, "The baby is born, the baby is born!"

Granny Lin patted the child’s buttocks twice. The child didn’t cry out, leaving no time to wash the baby as she hurriedly wrapped it up and brought it under the oil lamp to inspect. The baby’s face was cyanotic, likely lacking vitality.

"This, this..." At a loss, Cheng Xiaoxiao walked over.

"What’s wrong?"

"The baby probably isn’t breathing," Granny Lin said awkwardly.

This time, she really gave it her all, but the result... sigh!

Cheng Xiaoxiao looked at the tiny baby, with its red, cold skin, and wet hair clinging to the small head, limbs curled, and a layer of yellowish-white, greasy vernix covering the skin.

This was a newborn baby!

So ugly!

Cheng Xiaoxiao checked the baby’s breath, but there was almost none, likely due to holding its breath inside after the water broke.

"Grandma Lin, could you please attend to my sister-in-law first? Leave the baby to me."

With that, she carefully placed the baby on the table beneath the oil lamp, unwrapping the hastily bundled cloth.

Taking a deep breath, she had never performed emergency rescue on someone so small before.

Hmm, a bit nervous!

Calm down!

Calm down!

She gently turned the baby’s head to the side, cleared the amniotic fluid and impurities from the mouth, inhaled, inhaled again, and began performing CPR and artificial respiration.

Once!

Twice!

Three times!

Alternating steps!

Granny Lin kept sneaking peeks at Cheng Xiaoxiao, unable to understand what the Cheng Family girl was doing.

She’d delivered many babies close to death, like those born with just half a breath, always on the brink of death, and never able to save them.

Truly a futile effort!

The system in Cheng Xiaoxiao’s mind complained, "The host, that old woman isn’t just looking at you secretly, she’s despising you, look at her eyes."

"Shut up!"

Cheng Xiaoxiao impatiently shouted in her heart.

As time edged closer to midnight, the system grew anxious, wanting to speak up but fearing it would disturb the host again, opting only to pray silently.