The midwife caught the baby, quickly cut the umbilical cord, and seeing the baby’s face a bit blue, promptly held the baby upside down in her hand, patting the baby’s bottom twice. The baby cried out with a loud "wah."
Yun Jiao glanced over, and said to Lady Wu with a smile, "Mother, it’s a girl."
Lady Wu’s lips curled upwards, and just as she was about to say sothing, her head turned to the side and she fainted.
Outside, Jiang Zhongxing heard the baby’s cry, rubbed his hands continuously, and paced back and forth, "It’s born, it’s born, I wonder if it’s a girl."
Jiang Youzhi glanced at his father, still not understanding why his father was so fixated on having a daughter.
The midwife, holding the baby, gave her a bath, and once she was clean, Yun Jiao went over and carefully applied so dicated gauze to the baby’s belly button.
The midwife placed the baby on a big scale to weigh her, "Six pounds and nine ounces."
Then she swiftly wrapped the baby into a tight bundle like a candle.
She carried the baby out, handed her to the wet nurse waiting outside, and said to the eagerly waiting maids, "It’s a girl."
The maid quickly ran to the hall to report to Jiang Zhongxing.
Jiang Zhongxing laughed heartily to the sky.
Today, he truly felt his life was complete.
Both a son and a daughter, his son so promising, he and Yaoyao so deeply in love, he had everything he ever wanted.
The wet nurse brought the baby over, and Jiang Zhongxing quickly instructed for all the doors and windows to be tightly shut.
He carefully took his daughter, looked down at her, and his expression changed instantly.
Ugly! Too ugly!
The little baby, with a face flushed red and wrinkled skin, had barely any hair on her head, like a little old man.
This was not the jade-like, adorable, soft and sweet daughter he had imagined!
Jiang Zhongxing sighed inwardly, carefully holding the swaddled baby, thinking, well, she’s his daughter, no matter how ugly she is, he must love her.
Yun Jiao was still inside attending to Lady Wu. Not until the placenta was delivered and seeing that Lady Wu showed no signs of heavy bleeding did Yun Jiao co out to quickly prescribe dication to prevent infection.
After writing the prescription, Yun Jiao explained to the Duke what had happened in the birthing room just now, and further said, "It’s uncertain if an infection will occur."
"Given the situation at that ti, I could only make such a decision."
Jiang Zhongxing was silent for a mont; he never expected that the arrival of the little daughter he had longed for might cause him to lose his wife.
He never thought childbirth was such a big deal, surely all won give birth; it was nothing significant.
Today, he realized he was wrong; childbirth, for won, entailed not only imnse pain but possibly life-threatening risks.
Regarding whether to bla Yun Jiao for not consulting him first, he never even contemplated that angle.
To him, Yun Jiao was a doctor, and her decisions were undoubtedly correct.
The concern for Lady Wu’s health overwheld Jiang Zhongxing’s joy.
He handed the baby over to the wet nurse and asked Yun Jiao, "Can I go in to see your mother now?"
Yun Jiao nodded.
As Jiang Zhongxing entered the room, he was hit with a strong stench of blood.
The midwife had just finished cleaning up after Lady Wu, and on the floor lay a small mattress soaked in blood.
Jiang Zhongxing was montarily stunned at the sight of that mattress, noting it was Yaoyao’s blood.
Beside the mattress was a copper basin filled with bloodied water.
Jiang Zhongxing’s heart felt like it was being squeezed; he walked to the bedside and looked at Lady Wu, her eyes closed and face pale.
With a midwife, doctor, and servant girls at ho, she still endured such hardship during childbirth. He wondered how painful and helpless she must have been giving birth to Jiang Youzhi in the carriage back then.
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