Chapter 376

【Your child is still waiting for you】

【Your child is still waiting for you】

「...... Your child is still waiting for you to open your eyes, Wife Master. 」

「...... Your child and Chinu are waiting for you, Wise Lord. 」

The dim, sorrowful weeping sound lingered without cease.

Du Shanü hadn't opened her eyes yet; hearing those two lines, she thought to herself, indeed only Afang spoke like a person.

Always 【child】【child】......

To speak frankly, how long has she known the child, and how long has she known Chinu?

If she didn't love Chinu, where would the child come from?

So, using the child to pressure her, making her bear the responsibility of an elder, speaking frankly is useless.

She must first be herself, then she can attend to the child.

If her fate truly is as that ox-headed ghost official said, she could achieve an unsurpassed imperial undertaking......

On her tombstone when she dies, it won't read 'mother of so-and-so', but will be her great path.

Or put another way, it is the acknowledgment of heaven and earth, the praise of myriad peoples.

On the contrary, her child's epitaph needs to state whose child he is, and thus inherit this glory.

Chinu hoped she would open her eyes to glance at the child, as if thinking that would keep her breath hanging......

This is simply unreasonable.

Compared to the child, she would rather see Chinu holding the child......

He would be the one to accompany her to the end.

What Chinu said today is unpleasant to hear.

On the contrary, Afang let her realize that Chinu had been guarding without leaving her side all along.

Truly worthy of Afang, and it's no wonder she always likes listening to Afang's words——

With such eloquence, it's hard not to listen!

Today, fate let her escape a calamity......

Chinu is good, Afang is good!

Du Shanü felt great relief in her heart, she struggled to open her eyes, about to speak, when her peripheral vision saw a crowd kneeling in darkness before the bed.

Chinu knelt beside the bed, holding her hand, weeping with tears like pear blossoms in rain, his countenance diminished.

Afang cradled a small swaddled infant, sitting beside the bed with a weary expression, her sleeve still bearing the blood Du Shanü had inadvertently gotten this morning.

It is obvious that after she fainted this morning, in the emergency Afang picked her up and ordered the midwife to deliver the baby.

And behind them, a vast crowd of various people knelt upon the ground.

An elderly woman with blood still wet on her chest and hands knelt at the front, old tears streaming, incessantly pleading:

「The fetus's position is abnormal; indeed it is extremely perilous. 」

「But we have already risked our lives to deliver the child; you, noble one, have noble fortune, please spare our lives!!! 」

Du Shanü: "......"

Truly admirable.

How did she end up, in the course of giving birth, with the plot twist 'if she and the child come to harm, you all will die'?

Who said that?

Surely it can't be her beloved Chinu, can it?

But Afang always speaks well; she probably wouldn't say that either.

It really gives one a headache, and indeed it is...... embarrassing.

Du Shanü tightly shut her eyes, then with difficulty opened her mouth to say:

「No one wants to take your lives; hurry up and go collect your reward. 」

As she spoke, the hoarse, tearing weakness in her voice startled even Du Shanü herself.

It is heard that women in labor will moan, but to have a throat full of blood to this extent is presumably rare.

Indeed, as that ox-headed ghost official said, this time must be extremely perilous.

But I don't know why, this time the memories from just moments ago have completely vanished.......

Du Shanü pondered, feeling dazedly the intense pain coming from all parts of her body, and then recalled something——

In her previous life, there is a saying that when a person encounters bodily pain too great to bear, or faces a catastrophe capable of destroying them, they always discard some memories.

Whether it be the flesh or the soul.

Then what just happened to her, could it be......?

But what about the affairs of the underground netherworld's yin courts—how does that work?

Du Shanü couldn't figure it out; she tried to take a few slow breaths, only to discover even the tip of her nose was filled with bloody qi.......

No, the whole room is filled with bloody qi.

Chinu had been crying with his head down for a while; upon finally hearing his wife master's voice weakened to the extreme, he immediately lifted his head.

That glance—just that glance—Du Shanü saw his eyes almost soaked through with blood threads.

Scorching specks of tear-light fell upon her palm, the back of her hand, her wrist......

It wasn't hot in the sense of burning, but the pain was excruciating.

Du Shanü reached out, tracing the faint trail of tear-light, and covered Chinu's lips.

She remained that heroic Du Shanü, and still that Du Shanü who could not find peace even in the netherworld.

Now awakened from her dream, she wanted to open her mouth and ask Chinu why he hadn't followed her, but when the words reached her lips and she saw Chinu, weeping until his complexion was utterly withered, she could only smile and say:

"Awake, awake, it's just having a little baby!"

"Quickly hand out reward money to everyone—this is a joyous occasion, don't be harsh to others."

"Chinu's flesh remains, yet her soul seems to have long since followed her to the heavenly realms and the netherworld."

"He was like a walking corpse——"

"Before Du Shanü spoke, she only knew how to cry; after Du Shanü spoke, she only knew how to give out money."

"Seeing the prepared stacks of silver money being handed out, Du Shanü felt her heart race and her flesh ache."

"Du Shanü simply turned her gaze away and looked toward Chen Weifang beside her, who was hardly better off than Chinu."

"\"Afang, bring the child over so I can see— is it a girl? \""

"Not to mention that Chinu and Afang had been waiting for this child for a long time; she herself had waited far too long."

"Best if it's a little girl—whether gentle or headstrong, she is destined to have everything she brings."

"She will be well nurtured by power and influence; even if she slaps someone, it will surely be accompanied by a strange fragrance......"

"Hearing this, Chen Weifang, her face utterly exhausted, slowly shuffled over."

"He did not immediately say whether the child was male or female, but merely hesitated before speaking:"

"\"...... Wise Lord, your condition yesterday was truly perilous; last night, seeing that you could not deliver after a long time and were in great pain, I took the liberty of using a little of the diluted Five Turbid Liquid left by Xuan Feixing—that is, a confusing drug—to relieve the spasms. \""

"\"We had thought the worst case would be losing the child...... Let's not speak of such ill omens—how is your health now? \""

"Du Shanü: \"...... \""

"No wonder, after waking, she only felt her body numb and her throat hoarse, without feeling any bodily pain."

"It turns out that good Afang gave her the confusing drug!"

"No wonder she still wonders how she could forget the entire birthing process, barely able to recall anything before it and only a few fragments......"

"The thing left by Xuan Feixing, she had long since tested it—it is likely a kind of mental toxin!"

"Even if diluted again and again, its power is still not small!"

"Even what Afang said was 'yesterday', 'yesterday'!"

"No wonder she knelt in a crowd—turns out her trip to the netherworld had actually taken place a day earlier......"

"\"Forget it, let's not talk about these irrelevant things. \""

"Du Shanü snapped back to her senses and urgently said:"

"\"It's a girl, right? It must be a girl, right? \""

"\"My dear little heart, bearing you nearly killed your mother; if you weren't a girl, your mother would have dropped dead right here...... \""

"Chen Weifang had been inching over bit by bit; upon hearing this, seeing that she could no longer hide it, she could only grit her teeth and say:"

"\"...... Wise Lord! Favoring girls over boys is wrong! \""

"\"Think about it—Chinu gave birth to such a beautiful child; if you had a child like Chinu, wouldn't it also be worthy of love?! \""

"Chinu: \"...... \""

"Du Shanü: \"....... \""

"As the saying goes, when a child says they need to use the privy, they've usually already soiled their pants."

"Given Afang's guilty demeanor......"

"Doomed—she gave it her all this time, yet ended up with only a baby boy for herself!"

"?? Congratulations to the hardest-to-please person of the North and South dynasties, the parents' little lackey, the one who constantly sports a little cat-paw face, the one whose slap carries fragrance, the one who fully embodies the two words 'arrogant and affectionate'—Yuanlong Baby makes her appearance......"