Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine

Chapter119，Part2: Jin Wang Dotes on His Concubine Ch 119 Pt. 2

Translated by gingercat

Edited by gingercat

The timing truly hadn’t been the best. Jin Wang had just left the manor for the palace and Yaoniang was sitting on the Kang, talking to Yu Chan when she felt something break. The next thing she knew, there was a stream of water flowing down her leg. This wasn’t Yaoniang’s first time giving birth, so she knew what was happening. She hurriedly ordered Yu Chan to call for someone.

When has Yu Chang ever seen something like this? Never! So upon seeing Yaoniang’s face turn pale and speak in a hurry, she also began to panic.

A group of people rushed in and helped Yaoniang into the delivery room. In the West Wing, a room was specially set up to be the delivery room. It was also to be used by Yaoniang for her month of confinement.

Yaoniang became surrounded by young maidens with the oldest being no more than twenty years old. Naturally, they didn’t know a thing about how women gave birth. Midwife Cao remained calm despite the tension and directed Hong Fei to get some clean cloth along with a pair of scissors sterilized with alcohol. She also had Hong Die tidy up the bed, and ordered others to boil some water.

After Yaoniang changed into more comfortable clothes, Midwife Cao then had Hong Chou help her up and walk around. Her reasoning behind this was that the child would then be able to enter the birth canal early, and the mother wouldn’t have to suffer through a long labour.

This Midwife Cao was invited here by Fucheng, so Yaoniang used her with a peace of mind. Yaoniang also remembered how when she had her first child, the aunt from the Wang Family had told her the same thing. So she gritted her teeth and let Hong Chou support her.

After receiving the news, Consort Jin rushed over, followed by Side Consort Xu and Side Consort Liu.

As soon as Consort Jin came in, she asked, “Is everything ready? Where are the midwives? Are they all here?”

Hong Yan stepped forward and answered her questions one by one. Although the two midwives that the consort had sent over weren’t in the room, she showed no reaction, as if she didn’t notice it at all.

“Why haven’t you started to give birth yet? Didn’t you already go into labour?” Seeing Yaoniang’s awkward walk, a glimmer of schadenfreude surfaced in Side Consort Xu’s eyes. But when her eyes swept across the other’s stomach, she couldn’t stop the hint of jealousy from emerging.

“According to the midwife, it takes a lot of time for women to give birth. Your Highness, there’s no need to worry. Naturally, when the time is right, she will give birth.” Although Yu Chan wasn’t entirely calm, her words weren’t rushed and her tone remained respectful. “There are too many people here which may result in chaos. The delivery room also isn’t very clean so would Your Highnesses Consort Jin, Side Consort Xu and Side Consort Liu please go to the hall and enjoy some tea?”

Side Consort Xu knew that Yu Chan was the main maid by Yaoniang’s side. She became annoyed at the thought of a mere maid speaking out against her and asking her to leave. “A mere maid even dares to take on the position of the master! Your mistress has yet to ask us to leave but you, a maid, have the audacity to instruct the consort to leave! Although Sister Liu and I are only Side Consorts, do you dare to chase away the main consort as well?”

Her words effectively got Consort Jin involved. Appearing to be a little unhappy, she didn’t speak.

Yu Chan, whose nerves were already high-strung, was barely able to suppress her temper. Her gaze turned sharp and she said in a cold tone, “This was His Highness’s order. His Highness had said that if Her Highness Side Consort Su went into labour while he was out of the manor, no one would be allowed to enter the delivery room.”

” You– ” Side Consort Xu choked from her anger. “We came here out of the kindness of our hearts to visit Side Consort Su. Yet, you people from Rongxi Courtyard dare to act so arrogantly? All right. Since Sister Su is giving birth today, I won’t bicker with you. You can go tell the consort these words yourself! I won’t remain any longer!”

After finishing her piece, Side Consort Xu flicked her sleeves and left.

Side Consort Liu paused, then also stepped out.

Consort Jin let out a sigh, then said in a gentle voice, “Since His Highness isn’t here, this consort will act on his behalf. If Sister Su has anything to say, this consort will be waiting outside, so she can have someone pass on the message.”

To the side, Yaoniang exhaled, wiped her sweat and said, “Once it is over, this younger sister will properly compensate Your Highness.” Consort Jin nodded and went out.

With only their own people left in the room, everyone couldn’t help but loosen their nerves.

Midwife Cao said, “If niangniang is tired, she may sit and rest for a while.”

Yaoniang nodded. Yu Chan and Hong Chou assisted her to the chair and she sat down.

Hong Die brought over a bowl of ginseng tea and handed it to Yaoniang. “Niangniang, drink some to replenish your physical strength.”

After drinking two sips of tea and wiping off the sweat from her forehead and body, Yaoniang was assisted up by Yu Chang to continue walking again.

It seemed that there was liquid flowing down her leg again. Yaoniang felt that this baby was a bit different from Xiaobao when he was born.

When Xiaobao was born, Yaoniang saw a bit of blood first, before feeling regular contractions. Her water only broke right when she was about to give birth. But this time it was the complete opposite. Her water broke but no red was seen. And although it had hurt back then, it wasn’t as painful in the beginning. Unlike now, the pain was as if an entire mountain was crushing her. Yaoniang couldn’t even straighten her waist.

But Midwife Cao was still standing to the side encouraging Yaoniang to move, so she leaned on Hong Chou and forced herself to move. Cold sweat poured down like running water. Yaoniang’s legs softened and she stumbled several times. Thankfully, Yu Chan was there to catch her

“Stop! I can’t…can’t…”

Yaoniang’s lips trembled. Her face was pale, and droplets of sweat poured down like rain.

“Niangniang, what’s the matter with you?”

Yaoniang was about to speak, when a wave of pain struck her. Her voice cracked and she couldn’t help screaming.

This scream frightened Yu Chan and the others. Even when Yaoniang was feeling discomfort earlier, she hadn’t screamed once. None of the maids have seen women giving birth before so they immediately began to panic.

“Midwife Cao, what’s going on?”

Under the tense atmosphere, seeing the looks of worry on the maids’ faces, and the fact that Yaoniang’s situation was a bit unusual, Midwife Cao couldn’t help but panic: “I… I…”

“You what? Speak up!”

“What’s the matter?” Consort Jin hurried in, seeming to have heard something from outside.

When she saw this scene, her face became solemn. “What’s wrong with Side Consort Su?” Before anyone could reply, she raised her voice and said “Someone! Go invite Midwife Li here!”

It only took a few breaths of time before Midwife Li arrived

As soon as she came in, she washed her hands in the nearby basin, lifted Yaoniang’s skirt, and touched her lower abdomen.

After feeling around, she became very annoyed and scolded, “What nonsense! What nonsense! With the way Her Highness is right now, how can she still walk? She should be lying down instead! If there had been blood before her water broke, then it’s fine for her to walk around to encourage the delivery process. , But since her water broke first, you mustn’t do that! Quick! Help her onto the bed!”

Upon hearing this, Yu Chan and the others couldn’t be bothered with retorting. They hurriedly helped Yaoniang onto the bed.

Midwife Cao muttered, “This old woman delivered many babies and they were all delivered like this.”

Midwife Li wiped her hands and sneered, “Then dystocia resulting in the loss of two lives and one corpse must have also happened many times.”

Midwife Cao’s face instantly paled.

There had indeed been a lot of cases where two lives and one corpse happened because of Midwife Cao. But then again, for women to give birth, it was already like having a foot in the grave. Every year there would be countless deaths from dystocia but there were still hundreds of live children born from her hands.

Of course, not every case of dystocia would end up with one corpse and two lives. Every now and then, the child would be born while the mother passed away. But everything was up to fate, and the mothers’ maiden families would never say anything.

Thinking about all this, Midwife Cao gathered her courage and retorted, “Can you guarantee that dystocia never happened in any of the children you delivered?”

Midwife Li ignored her and walked straight to the bed. The woman following behind her said: “Sister Li is the best midwife in the capital. She’s delivered hundreds of children but the number of complications could be counted on a single hand!”

These words directly caused Midwife Cao to choke back her words.