by Ning er
But this Shang Guan mama only normally helped with some minor matters in Chu xiangfu, and she very seldom left her fu. The reason she came here today was likely because of Yun Qian Meng, but it still made Yun Xuan Zhi feel rather honored.
Unexpectedly, Mi mama came over with Xia mama, who was walking with a walking stick. Seeing Yun Xuan Zhi present, the two of them immediately bowed, "Greetings to xiangye, greetings to old madam."
"Why did you come over as well? And who is she?" Yun Xuan Zhi did not have time to bother with these people, but still asked anyway because he was unfamiliar with Xia mama.
Mi mama smiled then explained, "Xiangye, when the eldest xiaojie heard that Su yiniang had yet to give birth, she ordered nubi to send high-quality ginseng over to help. But xiaojie is still a young lady and shouldn't appear in this kind of place, so she ordered nubi to send it over together with Xia mama."
Mi mama then handed over the box she was holding to Yun Ruo Xue.
Yun Xuan Zhi, on the other hand, nodded and praised, "Meng'er is really thoughtful. It isn't suitable for her to come here indeed. She's already going to marry and should avoid being in a bloody place like this."
While he was speaking, Yun Xuan Zhi unconsciously examined Xia mama and felt that although he could not recognize this old mama, he could sense some traces of familiarity. Thus, he questioned, "Why don't I know that there was a Xia mama in xiangfu?"
Yun Xuan Zhi then coldly glared at Liu Han Yu, reproaching her for not telling him of the newcomers to the fu."
Being glared at by Yun Xuan Zhi like that, Liu Han Yu felt coldness spring up from her heart. She tried to retain her smile and said, "Laoye has been very busy recently. This Xia mama had just come to the fu these past few days, so nubi didn't have the chance to report it yet! Moreover, our eldest xiaojie is the legitimate daughter, yet she only has Mi mama by her side, how could this suit her status? Nubi let Xia mama come to the fu first so to see first if she would do well."
Yun Qian Meng was indeed about to marry into the high-ranking family of Chu wangfu, but only had Mi mama to serve her, so Yun Xuan Zhi nodded. But looking at Xia mama's leg, he frowned and unhappily said, "Why don't you pick someone who is physically capable to serve the eldest xiaojie? Aren't you making Yun xiangfu lose face for letting someone like her go to Chu wangfu?"
Hearing talk of Chu xiang, both Yun Ruo Xue and Yun Yi Yi, who were nearby, showed jealousy. They were envious of Yun Qian Meng for having such great fortune to marry into Chu wangfu, where everyone wanted to go into. And their own father and uncle treated Yun Qian Meng so carefully now and wanted to give the best of everything to that bitch because of Chu wangfu.
Suddenly, Xia mama let go of her walking stick to kneel in front of Yun Xuan Zhi and mournfully said, "Doesn't xiangye recognize nubi anymore? Nubi is Xia mama, furen's wet nurse back then!"
Yun Xuan Zhi was very shocked. He then carefully examined Xia mama again, she really was the mama whom Qu Ruo Li had trusted the most. He was astonished, then covertly glanced at Shang Guan mama as he asked, "Xia mama? Didn't you disappear for more than ten years? How did you get into xiangfu?"
Kneeling in front of Yun Xuan Zhi, Xia mama tried her best to control her anger and cried, "Nubi was lucky to have survived and came back to the capital recently. Nubi was unexpectedly found by the eldest xiaojie and was brought back to the fu. Xiangye, please don't drive nubi out. Nubi will surely do the best to serve the eldest xiaojie and won't let xiangye down."
Xia mama's words made everyone feel that she was just a nucai who only wanted to serve her master well. They felt that the greatest dream of her life was to serve Yun Qian Meng and she did not have any other ideas.
When Shang Guan mama heard Xia mama's words, she smiled and murmured, "Such a loyal mama."
Since Yun Xuan Zhi was close enough to her, he naturally heard Shang Guan mama's words. His face suddenly became stiff when he recalled that Shang Guan mama had also gained Chu Fei Yang's respect precisely because of her loyalty.
If he drove away Xia mama, who was physically disabled, he might be looked down upon by Shang Guan mama. Moreover, this Xia mama would only follow Yun Qian Meng; thus, Yun Xuan Zhi easily waved his hand and said, "Rise. Since that's the case then do your best to serve Meng'er. Don't disappoint benxiang."
Xia mama immediately nodded and stood up with the help of Mi mama. They both then followed Liu yiniang and stood to one side.
"Oh no! Yiniang has dystocia! The arms of the child came out first…" The midwife suddenly shouted from the inner room. In no time the whole room went chaotic. Some of the scattered tea cups and basins fell to the floor, while Wang mama and the others were shouting at Su Qing, who had already fainted due to suffering an entire day so stressfully.
Yun Xuan Zhi immediately stood up from his seat. Worried and impatient, he wanted to rush into the room but was blocked by Liu Han Yu and the others, forcing him to stay outside.
"Father, daughter will go inside and take a look." Yun Ruo Xue volunteered.
She glanced at the people outside and thought that if any one of them were to enter, the lives of her mother and her brother would be in danger. The only person whom Su Qing could trust here was Yun Ruo Xue.
Yun Xuan Zhi's eyebrows tightly knitted, but Yun Ruo Xue suddenly becoming more sensible and thoughtful caused him to wave his hand and let her go.
When she stepped into the room, the strong and nauseating smell of blood made Yun Ruo Xue frown. She immediately held the handkerchief to cover her nose and her mouth, then she slowly approached the bed. She saw that Su Qing was lying down, with her face pale white. Her hair was already damp with sweat and her clothes also looked as if they had been dipped in water. Seeing her mother like that, no matter how Yun Ruo Xue had felt before, she was still very sad and worried. She rushed over and pushed Wang mama, who had been encouraging Su Qing, to hold Su Qing's hands, "Mother, wake up, wake up please!"
Wang mama did not expect Yun Ruo Xue to appear in the room. She was so astounded that her face also turned pale. She immediately pushed Yun Ruo Xue away and urged her to leave at once, "Second xiaojie, this is the delivery room! A young woman like you shouldn't come in here! Please go out! The midwives and your aunt are here. Don't give us more trouble!"
Maybe it was because she was too worried, as Wang mama was also very restless with anxiety, that she pushed Yun Ruo Xue directly towards the door.
Yun Ruo Xue came out of her goodwill, she had wanted to come and guard Su Qing. But since Wang mama treated her kindness and love for her mother as something troublesome, she angrily said, "Wang mama, what do you mean? Why don't you go out and see? If you don't want me here, who do you want instead? The old madam? Or Liu Han Yu? Why are you still so conservative at such an urgent situation?"
"Wang mama!" suddenly, the midwife beside Su Qing called Wang mama.
Wang mama did not have the time for Yun Ruo Xue anymore and immediately ran back to the bedside. The midwife said, "The only thing we can do now is to push the child back into the mother's body. If this also doesn't work, we can only ask xiangye whether to keep the child or the mother alive."
Wang mama's face turned pale white. How did the situation end up like this? With Su Qing lying down on the bed suffering, Wang mama felt as if all her strength had also been drained. Her legs lost their strength and she almost fell onto the floor. Fortunately, Su furen caught her in time, and reminded her, "You're already like this even while they are both still alive. If something bad really happened, do you think you would still be able to live?"
Wang mama shivered and immediately forced herself to stand up and ordered the midwife, "Only for this time. You should make sure that the child is successfully given birth to. Otherwise, xiangye will take the lives of your whole family."
The three midwives looked at one another. But Wang mama's expression now was really frightening, which scared them so much that they obediently lowered their heads but did not dare to promise that the child would be born successfully.
After some more thought, Yun Ruo Xue pushed past the three midwives who were only standing there doing nothing, then she proceeded to look at Su Qing's condition. She saw that there was an arm of the baby visible covered with blood on the blanket. Thinking of what the midwife told Wang mama a while ago, Yun Ruo Xue immediately stretched her arm and forcefully pulled the baby's arm, pulling the child out of her mother's body…
"AH!" the pain immediately woke Su Qing up. She had no idea what had just happened and only felt as if her body was about to be pulled in half. Her face turned bloody red and her whole upper body strained.
The scream was scary to hear that everyone outside trembled and also shocked the midwives, Wang mama, and Su furen.
"Xiaojie, what are you doing?" Wang mama was the first to react. She shouted at Yun Ruo Xue and immediately pushed Yun Ruo Xue away.
But Yun Ruo Xue's hands were tightly holding onto the baby's hand. Pushed by Wang mama with such force, she actually pulled off the baby's arm. Looking at the arm in her hand, Yun Ru Xue was so frightened that she immediately threw it away and screamed while covering her face, "Ahhh! Ahhh!"
Everyone in the room was unable to move from shock. They had never thought that Yun Ruo Xue would suddenly move and even pull the baby's arm off.
After he was yanked on with such great force, the baby slipped out of Su Qing's body horizontally. Perhaps because he had been in his mother for too long, his face was ghastly pale. His breath was so soft that it was hardly noticeable. Seeing the baby's body with only one arm left, everyone was so afraid that none of them dared to go forward.
In the end, it was Wang mama who went over and carried the baby in her trembling hands. The midwives immediately helped Su Qing clean her body.
Looking at the baby boy in her arms, Wang mama's heart was bled. She immediately covered the child with garment with the help of Su furen, then rushed to the door to call the doctor in and said with a low voice, "Quick, help the little shaoye, stop the bleeding."
Towards the end of her sentence, Wang mama was almost crying. Why had an originally festive occasion almost become a funeral?
When Yun Xuan Zhi and the others saw Wang mama pull the doctor in, they knew that something bad must have happened. Everyone crowded into the room at once, only to see Wang mama carrying a baby in her arms. Yun Xuan Zhi immediately asked, "Is it a boy or a girl?"
Wang mama was dumbfounded. She could not look at Yun Xuan Zhi directly, but still replied, "Congratulations, xiangye. It's a shaoye!"
Yun Xuan Zhi was extremely happy, while the other yiniang, along with the old madam and Yun Yi Yi, all looked disappointed.
"Ah! An arm!" suddenly, Yun Yi Yi latched onto the old madam, screamed. The others followed her gaze and saw a portion of a baby's arm lying on the carpet. Yun Yi Yi fainted after screaming, while the other yiniang who had not yet given birth to children vomited one after another.
Yun Xuan Zhi's expression immediately turned dark, his sharp eyes pointed at Wang mama, then he looked at Yun Ruo Xue, who was sitting by the edge of the wall, holding strands of her hair. He suddenly went over and kicked Yun Ruo Xue on her shoulder and shouted, "What have you done?!"
Yun Ruo Xue was snapped out of her daze by this kick. She lifted her face covered in tears, but only saw Yun Xuan Zhi glaring at her viciously. She was so afraid that she hugged Yun Xuan Zhi's leg and cried, "Father, I don't know what happened. I just wanted to help pull my brother out, I didn't expect-"
Before she was able to finish her sentence, she felt huge pain from her head. Yun Xuan Zhi had grabbed her hair forcefully and said, "You useless idiot! I regret treating you so lovingly. You just can't tolerate your mom giving birth to another child? You want to kill your own brother? Why do I have a daughter like you? You're even worse than a beast. Why are you still living in this world?"
Yun Ruo Xue's head was being forcefully shaken. She also felt wronged and shouted, "I didn't do it on purpose! I really just wanted to help mother out! Father, it's painful-"
"Painful? Do you feel more pain than your mother? Than your brother? Than me?" his long-awaited son had been disabled by his own daughter! How could Yun Xuan Zhi not be distressed? He wanted to just kill Yun Ruo Xue right now! But Su Qing was still in a precarious situation. If she knew that he killed her other child, then she would lose all hope in life.
Shoving Yun Ruo Xue away, Yun Xuan Zhi called Liu huwei in and told him to take Yun Ruo Xue away and lock her in her room, and that she was not allowed to come out anymore.
Chapter 106: Part 1: Mama Reveals Secrets of the Past | Chu Wang Fei
Everyone watched as Yun Ruo Xue was being dragged out, yet they all remained impassive. Particularly since this was a situation wherein Yun Xuan Zhi was furious, no one dared to speak out on behalf of Yun Ruo Xue.
Even Wang mama turned a blind eye to Yun Ruo Xue's pleas as she coldly watched her crying out for help, she just pityingly looked at the shaoye in her arms, face ashen and breathing weakly. She then glanced at Su Qing who still remained unconscious, and momentarily, Wang mama felt like the world had come crumbling down on her, not knowing what she ought to do now.
Yun Xuan Zhi glared at everyone in the room with his bloodshot eyes. Although no one appeared to be rejoicing over this unfortunate incident, in their hearts, perhaps they were all sneering at him for having a deformed son, and he said gloomily, "All of you, go back to your own courtyards, if the incident today were to spread, I will kill all of you!"
At Yun Xuan Zhi's fierceful words, a few concubines were all shocked that even the secret delight in their hearts no longer existed. They uniformly responded with a 'yes', afterwhich they fled Feng He Yuan in a single file.
When the old madam was treated like an inferior concubine, she suddenly sneered, then with an expressionless face she told Rui mama beside her, "Rui mama, please bring the fourth xiaojie back to Qiu Bi Ju to get some rest."
Rui mama understood the expression on her master's face, fully aware of the fury concealed deep within her heart. Rui mama immediately held up the unconscious Yun Yi Yi with the support of a yatou and hurriedly departed from Feng He Yuan.
The old madam still had not moved an inch, and Yun Xuan Zhi understood that it was because she wanted to mock him in his own rear courtyard. With a cold expression, he said unyieldingly, "Mother, you also must go back to your Bai Shun Tang to rest."
The old madam was all the more furious at his words and she coldly snorted, then said afterwards, "Why, am I not allowed to know anything? He is also my grandson after all, don't tell me that even as his grandmother, I'm not allowed to take a look at this child?"
Yun Xuan Zhi's heart was brimming with anger, but Shang Guan mama from Chu xiangfu was still here, so he could only forcibly restrain himself. Trying hard to calm down, he forced himself to be relatively acquiescent as he said, "Mother, why would you say that? You are most qualified to see this child. It's just that this child's body is too weak, we'd better let the physician to examine and to attend to him first."
Yun Xuan Zhi then stopped paying the old madam any attention, he took large steps as he approached Wang mama, watching the physician bandage the weak child to stop the bleeding. His heart was pained, looking at it only made him hate and detest Yun Ruo Xue even more.
"Xiangye, this newborn child is too weak, I apologize for being so helpless." The child's complexion became paler and paler right before his eyes, even the area between his eyes bore only weak traces of vital energy. With Yun Xuan Zhi standing so close and tightly staring at him, the physician was unable to bear it as he knelt down and told the truth.
"What? What is the situation now that you would go as far as
to tell me that you can't save the shaoye? How would furen feel when she regained consciousness? Are you going to pressure our furen and shaoye to die? Daifu, quickly check on shaoye, he is still breathing, he can still be saved!" Wang mama was greatly alarmed when she heard the physician's words. With tears in her eyes, she knelt down and extended the child to the physician, compelling him to treat the child.
But the physician did not dare to look at the child anymore, only adamantly remarked, "My medical skills are not proficient, I really can't do anything for shaoye's condition, please allow me to return now, xiangye."
Yun Xuan Zhi's heart grew even more furious. Lifting his foot, he kicked the physician, afterwhich he pointed at the man and scolded, "What are you doing? Not even able to take care of a child? Why didn't you tell us earlier, instead of making us wait for so long? Don't you know that he is supposed to be the first son born to xiangfu? If anything happens to him, I don't think you would be able to save the lives of your entire family!"
After he finished speaking, Yun Xuan Zhi quickly stooped down and stretched out his arms to grab the physician's collar. With a fierce expression, he barked, "Why aren't you treating shaoye, don't tell me I still need to carry you over there?"
The physician was frightened by Yun Xuan Zhi's loftiness and eyes which were filled with violent rage, he was scared to the point that his knees went soft as he helplessly knelt down on the ground. Facing Yun Xuan Zhi as he kowtowed profusely, begging for forgiveness, "Xiangye, shaoye retained inside his mother's body for too long, even if he already came out, whether he would survive or not is still a problem. Moreover he had lost too much blood, I'm afraid-"
Before the physician could finish, Yun Xuan Zhi had ruthlessly kicked him on the shoulder, causing his body to fall backwards, followed by another foot that stomped his chest, as Yun Xuan Zhi angrily said, "What use is there in keeping such kind of good-for-nothing person like you? Come, bring this quack out and beat him to death!"