Become a founding empress in ancient times with the system

Sheng Changan smiled and took the initiative to introduce: "Don't worry, we are just staying here temporarily."

As soon as he finished speaking, many more people came in, including a few children and elderly people. They were not afraid of Sheng Changan, but greeted him instead.

These people were less wary now. An old man came out, who seemed to be the leader of the group. "I don't know where you are from. Where are you going?"

Sheng Changan answered readily, "We are all from Luochuan. There was a flood and we have nowhere to go. We plan to go to the north to have a look."

Before the old man could speak, the woman saw that Sheng Changan was so easy to talk to and asked directly, "Is your master not here?"

"They are traveling around for business, and I don't know where they are now. I heard earlier that they went north, so I plan to go look for them. These people are my guards and their families." She seemed to have no ulterior motives and told the whole story.

The woman smiled even more kindly. "Our village was also flooded, so we went to the north. Someone said there's a lot of food there. Let's see if they can take us in."

Sheng Changan could of course feel the old man's gaze on him, his expression unchanged. "I didn't know about this, and I have to thank my aunt for telling me this news."

The woman waved her hand and said, "No, no, many people know about this. You'll find out sooner or later as you move forward."

"Then I still have to thank Auntie. Are you all from the same village?"

She didn't know when the two of them started to grow closer. The woman felt a rare affinity with the child. "Yes! You don't know if it weren't for the village head's foresight, we would all be dead."

"Really? Then you're very lucky."

With Sheng Changan occasionally chiming in, the woman became even more excited.

The woman said they came from a small village in front, close to the river. The recent heavy rains had flooded many of their crops.

The head of the village had a son who was a scholar. He was the first to notice something was wrong. They had already lost a lot of crops, and the court was about to demand taxes. How could they afford it?

They originally wanted to find a place to hide, but after hearing the news, with the previous reminder and their blind admiration for scholars, they began to believe what the headman's son said.

They decided to take their families to the north to give it a try. If they stayed here and failed to deliver the grain, they would die. The imperial court would not care why they could not deliver the grain, they only looked at the results.

It was just that it had rained heavily for several days, and the headman's son caught a cold, but they hadn't prepared any medicine yet.

"I have a doctor here, why not let him come and take a look?" Their voices were not small, so those people naturally heard them.

The woman was a little excited and incoherent, "Hey! Well, thank you so much." Sun Yuan had been leading the way and taking care of some chores these days, but he suddenly collapsed.

"Xu Qing," Sheng Changan called out, looking at the old man's excited expression, "Show it to them. Take the herbs from us."

"Here it comes" Xu Qing said helplessly.

The old man also knew who had called the person. He walked up to Sheng Changan, bowed and said, "Thank you for your trouble, young lady. I have no way to repay you."

Sheng Changan held him and said, "When you are away from home, it is inevitable that there will be difficulties. It's just a small favor. You are too polite, old man."

"Miss, it's just a common cold. I've already given you acupuncture. Just take a few doses of medicine and it will be fine."

The woman came over shyly and asked, "Can you please take my wife's pulse?"

"Okay." Seeing the adults like this, he knew what the result would be.

Sheng Changan was a little curious. Looking at her belly, she must be about to give birth. Traveling for so many days would be quite risky.

The old man smiled bitterly and said, "There's really no other way. If we don't leave, we can only stay in an inn. We don't have that much money."

Fortunately, there is no big problem, I’ve just been a little tired recently.

It was a relief that he wasn't lying face up with his back to the ground, and Sheng Changan had already started to feel sleepy.

In the middle of the night, Sheng Changan seemed to hear rapid breathing. He opened his eyes slightly sleepily and found that it was the pregnant woman. "What's wrong with you?"

The woman's hair was stained with sweat, and her hands were clenched tightly into fists. She panted and said, "Did I bother you? I'm fine. It's been like this for the past two nights. Go get some rest!"

Sheng Changan frowned. This didn't look like nothing was wrong. "Where's your husband? I'll call him over for you."

The woman just smiled and said, "He's dead. My mother-in-law and uncle are the only ones left. They've been carrying me all the way here, and they're already very tired. I'll just bear with it. You go and rest!"

Sheng Changan was about to leave when she found that her lower body began to slowly seep out liquid. She took a breath and wondered if she was about to give birth. "Xu Qing, Xu Qing, come and take a look."

Xu Qing was woken up and before he could come to his senses, he was pulled over. With such a loud noise, everyone in the temple woke up.

"It's time to give birth," Xu Qing stuttered. This time he was completely awake.

"Then you should help her deliver the baby." The woman's appearance was not optimistic and her face was pale.

"Sir, are you kidding me? How can I deliver a baby?" Xu Qing jumped aside, somewhat incredulous.

Sheng Changan stroked her head. She was really confused. There were midwives in ancient times. "I am confused."

The woman licked her lips and gritted her teeth, "I'll do it."

Sheng Changan frowned and said, "Send someone to bring some cloth to cover this place, and boil some hot water."

Xu Qing muttered as he walked, "You're not that old, but you know all this."

But the process was not smooth. The woman began to bleed from her body, and only the child's head was visible.

The woman's hands and feet were already weakening. Although she had never delivered a baby before, she had given birth herself and knew that the situation was not good. Seeing her like this, the women from the same village simply asked her to wait outside.

A young child came over and asked, "How is my sister-in-law?"

The woman had no way to answer, tears kept flowing out, "It's my fault. If it wasn't for saving me, how could your brother die?"

Another woman came out and said, "Miss, could you please ask your doctor to take a look? There's too much blood."

As soon as these words came out, the woman collapsed to the ground.

"Xu Qing, go in and take a look." Sheng Chang'an's face was serious. In such a life-and-death situation, he naturally would not refuse. He took the box he brought with him and walked in.

Sheng Changan thought about it and decided to go in and take a look. The smell of blood inside was particularly strong. The cloth under the woman was completely soaked. Her expression began to become distracted, and she was only holding on with willpower.

Xu Qing took out a small piece of ginseng from the medicine box and stuffed it in, then began to give acupuncture to stop the bleeding.

"Useful!" the woman on the side couldn't help but shout out.

But Xu Qing's face was not relaxed. This was only temporary. If the baby had not been born yet, there would probably be two lives lost.