Xia Dongchun from Legend of Zhen Huan: I want to live till the last episode

The queen's face was not looking good either. She cursed Bai Yu in her heart for being useless and stupid. Why did he have to do this at this time? He should have asked for the imperial physician. Now, he had given someone a handle.

But now is not the time to worry about these things. Noble Lady Fucha's place is still noisy, with palace maids coming in and out carrying hot water. Noble Lady Fucha's screams pierced the silence of the long night.

Doctor Zhang was kneeling in the room behind the screen, his head covered in sweat.

Bai Yu caught a glimpse of it out of the corner of his eye and felt a little nervous, but then he felt relieved when he thought of the previous preparations.

Until the third quarter of the first hour, Concubine Fucha still hadn't given birth. The empress looked at Yinzhen, who was showing signs of fatigue, and advised him, "Your Majesty's health is more important, you should go and rest first. Concubine Zhao and Concubine Fucha will stay here. If the child is born safely, I will send someone to inform Your Majesty immediately."

Yinzhen did not refuse. No one had ever lived in the main hall. Although someone cleaned it every day, Yinzhen could not live here. In the end, Yinzhen rested in Xia Dongchun's room, while Xia Dongchun stayed in the main hall with the queen waiting for news from Noble Lady Fucha.

Unexpectedly, they waited for a whole night, until the sky was light, but Noble Lady Fucha still didn't hear the baby's cry.

The Queen sent someone to ask, and Imperial Physician Zhang replied that Noble Lady Fucha was having a difficult birth and would probably have to endure for a long time.

"You must do your best to protect Noble Fucha and her unborn child." The Queen instructed Doctor Zhang, "Besides, it's the New Year's Day, if something really happens, the Emperor will probably not be happy."

"Yes, I understand." Doctor Zhang agreed repeatedly.

It was not until the sky was completely bright that Yinzhen got up and waited in the main hall for a while. Finally, news came from Noble Lady Fucha's room.

But the midwife had no smile on her face. She knelt in front of Yinzhen and the queen, holding the newly delivered, tightly wrapped baby in her arms, and trembled violently.

Xia Dongchun had already seen something, and the fact that he hadn't heard the child crying since the beginning actually explained the problem.

The queen was much more direct: "What's wrong with you? Is the child safe? Is it a princess or a prince?"

Yinzhen also looked at the child in the midwife's arms who was not crying or making any noise, and his heart sank a little.

The midwife was shaking like a sieve, and she almost couldn't hold the baby in her arms. She finally spoke under the gazes of Yinzhen and the Queen, "Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Noble Lady Fucha gave birth to a prince and then fainted."

The queen looked relieved and blamed him, "Since Noble Lady Fucha and her child are safe and sound, and she gave birth to a prince, why are you hiding it like this?"

"Your servant, your servant..." The midwife didn't dare to say anything else. She just reached out and lifted the small quilt wrapped around the child, revealing the baby inside.

The child's body was covered in blue and purple, and he looked like he was dead.

"Ridiculous!" Yinzhen slammed the table so hard that the teacups on the table shook a few times.

"This, this..." The queen looked at the baby in the cradle, her hands trembling as she stretched out her hand, "Your Majesty, this looks just like my sister back then..."

Then he looked like he was having a headache and was extremely grief-stricken.

Jianqiu hurried forward to support the queen: "Your Majesty, even if you miss Queen Chunyuan, you must take care of your body."

Pure Yuan...

Yinzhen's thoughts seemed to be pulled back to many years ago, when Chunyuan gave birth. She also endured for a long time and gave birth to their child in one breath, but the child was covered in bruises and was a dead fetus.

Chunyuan also died of dystocia.

But...what is Noble Lady Fucha? How can she be compared with Chun Yuan?!

"What on earth is going on? How could the child become like this?" the queen asked the imperial physician.

Doctor Zhang also came over to reply at this time, and knelt on the ground after hearing the words: "Your Majesty and Empress, logically speaking, Noble Lady Fucha's pregnancy has always been stable. Even if it is a premature birth, the child will only be a little weak after birth, it really shouldn't be like this."

"Logically speaking?" The Queen stood up with Jianqiu's help. "I know that Noble Lady Fucha and her child should be safe."

What you mean is, do you need to say this?

Doctor Zhang wiped the sweat off his forehead and continued, "It seems to me that Noble Lady Fucha ate something she shouldn't have eaten during her pregnancy, which led to premature birth. Because of the premature birth, the fetus was a little big and the fetal position was not correct, which led to a difficult birth, and finally..."

There was no need for him to say the rest, as Yinzhen and the Queen understood.

Xia Dongchun stood aside, just listening without interrupting, but he felt something was wrong.

If someone said that the Queen had no hand in this matter, she would never believe it.

But there was no evidence at the moment, and it had nothing to do with her, so she didn't say anything more.

"Go and call over the palace maid who takes care of Noble Lady Fucha." the Queen ordered.

Soon, Bai Yu was brought over.

As soon as she entered the room, she knelt down and said, "I pay my respects to the Emperor, Empress Dowager, and to Concubine Zhao."

"Did your young lady eat anything wrong during her pregnancy?" asked the queen.

When Bai Yu heard this, the word "guilty" was written all over his face.

Su Peisheng understood Yinzhen's meaning with just one look, without him saying anything. He turned to Bai Yu and said, "Why don't you tell the truth? Do you want to go to the Ministry of Punishment for a visit?!"

Bai Yu knelt on the ground and said, "I will tell you everything. I will tell you everything. Please, Your Majesty, please spare my life."

Bai Yu looked up at Yinzhen and the Queen, and said in a tearful voice, "Ever since Concubine Zhao was given a title, and the Emperor ordered that although she is still a Concubine, she will be given many things according to the rules for Concubines. My young lady has been worried that Concubine Zhao will become the head of Yanxi Palace before her. This time she is pregnant, and she hopes to give birth to a prince so that she can become a Concubine. But the gender of the child is determined by heaven, so how can it be what you want?"

After a pause, Bai Yu continued, "So the young lady asked her mother's family to find a prescription for giving birth to a son from outside the palace, and she took some tonic medicine every day..."

"Pregnant women must not take medicine recklessly," Doctor Zhang burst into tears, looking as if he was annoyed at his own poor medical skills. "Moreover, since Lady Fucha became pregnant, she has been drinking tonic medicine like water every day. I, an old minister, could not persuade her to stop. If I had known that this would lead to such a disaster today, I would have stopped Lady Fucha even if I had to die."