Unlimited estates for rural beauty-Chapter 683 Empress Gives Birth as Heavenly Rainfalls (2)

Mei Lenglei stepped forward, disregarding all formalities, and said, "Your Majesty, we have already gone to fetch them."

Upon hearing this, Dugu Chen turned and returned to the room, only to see his beloved already enjoying a ginseng fruit with relish, showing no signs of being in labor. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and approached cautiously to ask, "My dear, do... do you still feel pain?"

"Yes, it hurt a while ago, but now it doesn’t," Feng Xuxu stretched out her hand to touch her stomach, feeling it peculiar. This labor was quite different from her first one.

Dugu Chen nodded, realizing this must be the so-called contractions mentioned in books, but he hadn’t expected the contrast to be so stark.

The head of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the midwives arrived almost simultaneously. The midwife directed the palace maids, "You lot go boil water, the more the better, and you, get scissors and boil them in the rolling water for a while."

"Yes."

The palace maids she directed moved swiftly, some toward the kitchen, others to fetch scissors. Before long, the entire Imperial Palace was abuzz with the news that the Empress was in labor.

Qiqi and Yueyue, of course, heard the news as well. By the time they arrived, a crowd had already gathered outside the palace hall.

"How is my mother doing?" Qiqi, seeing the palace hall’s doors closed and his father not in sight, assumed he must be inside with his mother.

Yueyue, her beautiful eyebrows tightly knitted with worry, gazed towards the inside, her hand trembling slightly as she held onto her brother’s. Qiqi felt his sister’s fear and held her hand in return, silently offering support.

Several tough men stood guard outside the hall, all hoping for good news from the Empress. Suddenly, they heard the innocent voice of the Crown Prince and Princess. Huang Yi responded, "No news from the Empress yet."

A silence followed. Inside, Feng Xuxu’s pain came and went intermittently. The midwife, seeing the Empress’s condition, knew they couldn’t go on like this and had the Empress get up to walk back and forth in the room.

Feng Xuxu felt that made sense. Almost instantly after walking around the room holding Dugu Chen’s hand, she felt waves of pain from her belly. The midwife, seeing the situation, knew it was time for the birth and boldly asked the Emperor to leave.

Dugu Chen glared furiously at the midwife and clenched his teeth, "Just do the delivery. If anything happens to my wife, your heads will roll."

"Spare our lives, Your Majesty." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

The midwives, frightened, knelt on the ground, feeling aggrieved inside. Since ancient times, it had been unheard of for men to witness childbirth, let alone not avoid it, fearing bad luck. Yet here they were, being blamed for advising the Emperor wrongly.

"Get up and hurry to see how the Empress is doing."

"Yes, yes, yes." The midwives approached, assessing the situation and conferring.

Dugu Chen saw the sweat on his wife’s face and her eyes red with urgency. Just as he was about to shout at the midwives, his hand was grasped firmly by his wife on the bed, "Stop shouting, I’m fine. You go outside."

"No, I will stay with you until the baby is born." He clasped her hands tightly, relieved to hear she was alright but unable to suppress his worry.

"Childbirth is an ugly affair, I don’t want you to see."

"It’s not, my beloved is the most beautiful."

The midwife, seeing that the time had almost come, interrupted the conversation between the Emperor and Empress and picked up a prepared brocade handkerchief, telling the Empress to bite down on it.

At that moment, the palace doors were opened from the inside, and pots of hot water were brought in, but what came out were pots of bloody water, which frightened everyone watching.

Just then, lightning streaked across the sky, bright and swift. After a moment, the sound of thunder spread across the heavens. The sky, previously clear, now turned gloomy and dense with clouds, fierce winds blowing, and lightning following one after the other. In an instant, large raindrops began to pour down heavily.