Syndicate Growth Manual

From the night of the winter solstice until the closing of the square, the Chinese military mansion is brightly lit, with heavy snow falling, and the snow shining in the sky.

"...it's been more than six hours...not yet..."

"...The cervix is ​​open..."

The chattering voices of the maidservants reached his ears, and then quickly slipped away.

Zhao Yuan looked up at the red lantern hanging on the corridor, and stared blankly at the closed wooden partition door. An hour ago, he could still hear Fan's hoarse scream, but now gradually, the voice has also changed. Feeling powerless, I fell down...

The partition was pushed open forcefully, Bisi's head was covered with sweat, and she came out with a basin covered with a cloth towel, and took the hot water from the hand of the maid who was guarding outside. The moment the partition was closed, Zhao Yuan saw Bisi's red and swollen face eyes and pale face.

"It's all blood!" The lowly maid took a look at the basin, couldn't help retching, and left in a hurry.

So Zhao Yuan heard the word that shocked him. Someone whispered that Fan's labor was difficult.

"Anu!"

Zhao Chen walked over in dark clothes and clogs, and stood on the snow in front of the porch.

The maids guarding outside all turned to salute him, he walked a few steps without seeing him, looked at Zhao Yuan: "You can't stay here, come here quickly!"

Zhao Yuan didn't move, and asked him expectantly: "Father, did you invite the doctor?"

Zhao Chen's tall figure stood in the snow, his jet-black hair bun and broad shoulders were covered with snow.He looked at his son, whose face was pale with cold, who was still stubbornly curled up outside Fan's delivery room, and nodded silently.

"Great," Zhao Yuan showed a small smile, turned his head to look at the partition, and muttered, "It's all right now."

Fan's pregnancy has just turned seven months. Although the delivery room has been set up, the wife Wen has not yet been found.

No one thought that it was just a trip back to her mother's house in the winter solstice, and she was fine when she went there, but she was dragged back unconscious at noon, and before she woke up, her body was red... Please, Mrs. Three babies came, and after struggling for three or four hours, the cervix was finally opened, but the baby couldn't come down for a long time.

As soon as Zhao Chen came back, he watched over him, but the women were at a loss what to do. They all said, "Seven live and eight don't live." The child's hands and feet are all grown. Wouldn't it be a dystocia to go down!One of the stable women asked Zhao Chen to pick up the doctor's wife. Even if it was induced labor, they didn't have a prescription and didn't dare to use medicine indiscriminately.

Zhao Chen used his lieutenant general's badge to open the door and bring the doctor back.

"The doctor is right behind, your mother will be fine," Zhao Chen's voice was hoarse and full of fatigue, "If you don't leave here, won't it be more trouble if you fall ill?" He glanced at the words like Zhao Yuan The closed partition door, "Father is a little tired."

After hearing this, Zhao Yuan glanced at the door again, stood up obediently, put on his shoes and went down the corridor.Zhao Chen picked him up, covered his head with the wide sleeves of his dark clothes, turned around and walked towards Muxiyuan with him in his arms.

The faint smell of blood in the air didn't disappear until he walked out of Fan's courtyard.Zhao Yuan lay quietly on his father's shoulder, sniffing the faint smell of sweat and bath beans on Zhao Chen's body, and suddenly became so sleepy that he couldn't even hold his eyelids... He pricked up his ears and listened carefully , Never heard Fan's voice again.

"Father, we should guard mother..." He muttered, closing his eyes against Zhao Chen's shoulder, "She must be very scared, it hurts to have a baby."

Zhao Chen hugged the child in his arms tightly, Fan Yu's shrill cry seemed to echo in his ears.He has been married to Fan Yu for five years, and he has never seen her lose her composure like this. Even if she had a miscarriage that year, she was so disappointed, she just silently shed a few tears behind her back.He heard Fan Yu calling Bi Si and Ah Nai A Ye, crying bitterly, but he was not among the candidates she longed to rely on.

But he didn't feel disappointed, he just wanted to wait for a result.

"Didn't Father stay with her all the time?" Zhao Chen said indifferently, "There are many people around your mother, so you don't need to worry too much. Father sent you back, and then went to guard her with you."

Zhao Yuan hummed lightly, then thought again in a daze, did Fan give birth to a younger brother or a younger sister?

Unlike the busy and tense people in Tangliyuan, the lights in the Osmanthus Garden are dimly lit, as if there are two worlds.Li Qiu stood far away at the gate of the yard, waiting with a lantern in his hand and an umbrella.

"My lord, the hot water is ready."

Zhao Chen nodded: "I have to go back to Fan's place. You took Anu to take a bath and guarded him in the inner room." He carefully handed Zhao Yuan into Liqiu's arms, and only let go when she held her firmly. , "If you want to leave, you have to leave someone in the house... remember to light some incense."

Li Qiu gave Zhao Chen the lamp and umbrella in his hand, and told Zhao Chen anxiously: "I know that I will never leave Dalang. Watch out on the road and be careful of slippery roads."

Zhao Yuan was too tired, but a certain part of his brain was alerting him again, making it difficult for him to fall into a deep sleep with fear.The figures around him were swaying around, and the sound was like a layer of glass, and I couldn't hear it clearly.He seemed to have entered hot water, someone bathed him, and soon he arrived in a warm room, and he lay down, with a thick and soft quilt covering his body, and a warm thing stuck to the sole of his feet.

"... Poor Dalang, he is so young, someone is plotting against him..."

"Let's not take care of it now...otherwise...the Fan family..."

"...Kesheng...Lang Jun..."

He finally fell asleep in a reassuring aroma, and could no longer hear those small lingering voices.

Li Qiu rubbed his hands on the smoker, and touched Zhao Yuan's forehead after warming up.

"How is it?" Li Chun asked worriedly beside him, his voice was still a little hoarse.

After a while, Li Qiu withdrew his hand and asked her to bring a basin of cold water: "It's still hot."

Lixia and Lidong immediately stood up, one went to bring cold water, and the other went to make ginger syrup.Lichun knelt down again, talking to Liqiu in a low voice.

She asked Li Qiu uneasily: "Are we really not going to Tangli Courtyard?"

Li Qiu turned from his usual respect, his eyes were very indifferent: "There are many servants in Tangli Courtyard, even if we go, I'm afraid they won't dare to let us get close, why bother to make people hate me." She casually counted the time, her voice Gradually depressed, "It's been seven hours, it's almost here."

Li Chun glanced at her, suddenly a little scared: "Tell me, what's going on? It was fine when I went..." She half-covered her mouth, "Even went to Fan's house twice, but nothing good happened. That's all for Da Lang, the lady seems to have a conflict with the Fan family, she almost fell out of favor last time, this time... I don't know what will happen this time."

Li Qiu glanced at her, and reprimanded softly: "What are you talking about... a lady has a good fortune, and she may give birth to a young lady named Xiaolangjun in a short while."

Li Chun kept silent, but couldn't help but look at her.She felt very strange, Li Qiu gave her a really strange feeling today, the lady was in labor at the other end, and she came back from Fan's house in such a state of embarrassment... But she didn't care, or even turned a blind eye.The lady is the hostess, and it stands to reason that they should also help, but Li Qiu didn't speak, and the man didn't even think it was a pest...

She knew that Li Qiu only listened to Lang Jun's orders, but it was the first time that Li Qiu showed such obvious indifference to Fan's family like today... It was as if, it was as if she was looking forward to...

Lichun shuddered, not daring to think about it any further.

The doctor's arrival didn't make Fan's life any easier. She tightened the red silk hanging above her head according to the doctor's instructions, half-sitting and exerting force, but her lower body was already numb from the pain, and the people around her still looked anxious. Appearance - the child did not come out.

"Miss, don't sleep, ma'am, take another breath..." Bisi supported her behind her, her face was covered with tears, her voice was hoarse and she almost didn't know what she was talking about.She supported Fan Shi, but she clearly felt the body in her arms slipping down.

"Ah..." Fan's whole body seemed to have been washed with water, and her hair was wetly attached to her cheeks and neck.She panted with all her strength, but she still felt tightness in her chest, "Bi, Bisi... child..."

Bisi choked with tears and said, "Not yet... you listened to the doctor..."

The doctor woman and the three stable women talked in a low voice for a few words, then came over with a decoction, and said anxiously to Fan: "If the baby does not come out, my lady, it will really be a difficult labor. This is a labor-inducing soup made of yellow hollyhock flowers. You drink it." Get down, and you'll be fine in a moment!"

There was hesitation in her tone, but except for Fan, no one else could hear it.In her opinion, Fan's pregnancy is really not good. Most of the healthy women can give birth naturally after drinking this medicine. It was too fast, and there was a lot of blood... She felt it, maybe the fetal position was not right, and the baby's umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck...

Fan Shi was clearly half-conscious, but she subtly felt the anxiety in the doctor's voice.She woke up suddenly, stared at the bowl of soup, and drank it without hesitation from the doctor's hand.

Yingge and Liuxi were helping the women at the foot of the bed. Seeing that the medicine was down for less than half an hour, Fan's screaming became louder, and the child's head was slowly rubbed by the doctor. exposed.

"The child—the child is out!!"

The maids guarding the door were drowsy, and they all woke up when they heard the sound, and looked at each other with joy.But the joy was only half revealed, and the room suddenly heard a mournful cry.

"my child----"

There was a dead silence in the Tangli courtyard.

Zhao Chen sat quietly in the main room, picked up the books that Fan had casually left on the table, and read them, all of them were travel notes, landscape records and the like.There was also a sewing basket on Luohan's bed, which contained a few small clothes and an exquisitely embroidered quilt. He reached out to pick it up, stroked it slightly with his slender fingers, and then gently put it back.

He suddenly recalled that in the first two years of Fan's marriage to him, his pajamas were all sewn by Fan himself, not by others. It seemed that after she had no children and took over the housework, she gradually made them less.

Zhao Chen frowned, and his thoughts returned to the Fan family.What happened suddenly, Fan went into the delivery room as soon as she came back, followed by Bisi and Yingge who were waiting beside her, Anu was too young, he still hadn't cleared things up.I don't know if Yi Cuo, who was sent to investigate, has come back. If he comes back, he should wait in the study outside, but now he has to stay here, and he can't leave for a while...

After another half an hour, footsteps came from outside the door.The partition was pulled too quickly, making the sound of silk cloth being torn, a lowly maidservant with a face full of panic, knelt on the porch with her shoes on and looked at him.

Zhao Chen suddenly felt something was wrong, and said in a deep voice, "Did Fan give birth?"

The maid was trembling all over, and lowered her head heavily: "Go and see! The lady gave birth to a young gentleman, but..."

Zhao Chen stood up suddenly, strode past her and walked along the corridor to the delivery room.

The blood room of a woman's birth is considered dirty, and men are not suitable to enter, but Zhao Chen opened the door and came in. No one in the room raised any objections. Everyone surrounded Fan, only Bisi, Yingge and Liuxi mourned. cry.

He walked over and saw Fan laying on the bed with eyes closed, not knowing whether he was alive or dead, and Bisi was holding a baby wrapped in silk in her arms, looking up at him sobbing that she couldn't even speak.

Zhao Chen's heart was not clear, he sat by the bed and checked Fan's breath, although his breath was weak, it was still steady, and his expression eased slightly.He looked down at the small body in Bisi's arms, and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong with the child?"

Trembling, Bisi lifted the silk cloth, revealing only a small face with bruises.

"Xiao Langjun was born—" she wailed loudly.

Zhao Chen's heart trembled, staring at the little face shrouded in lifelessness, his closed eyes, and clear facial features, a pang of mourning surged in his chest.

This is his child, born to die.

He closed his eyes slightly and didn't move for a while.

"Lang Jun, since Xiao Lang has gone, it's better to go to the earth as soon as possible..." The doctor woman sighed and persuaded from the side.

Zhao Chen opened his eyes and asked her, "How is your wife?"

The doctor was stunned, and quickly replied: "Miss Fan is fine, but she needs to take good care of her. It will take at least a year and a half to recover... With proper care, it will not be difficult to give birth in the future."

She naturally thought that the gentleman was concerned about the issue of heirs, so she followed this aspect.For those of them who are in charge of women's birth and childbirth, although they are used to seeing life and death on the delivery bed, it is not auspicious to deliver a stillbirth after all, and they are afraid that the master will pursue them, so they only talk about the future.

Zhao Chen didn't answer her words, and turned to look at Bisi: "Miss, have you seen the child?"

Bisi stopped crying and nodded choked up.Yingge sobbed from behind, "The lady knew that Mr. Xiao Lang had... and passed out."

Zhao Chen looked at them, glanced at the child again, and said to Bisi in a low voice: "I'll ask the foreign manager to come, and you can discuss about encoffining the child. Yingge and Liuxi will take good care of the lady. If she wakes up, she wants to see her." My child, let her see her, but her body is the most important thing... If she wants to see me, let someone tell me."

After saying that, he got up and walked outside.

The room was very quiet, Liuxi suddenly sobbed and whispered: "...Lang Jun, you are really heartless."

These words were drowned in deep sadness and despair, no one had the energy to scold her or respond to her.

Zhao Chen stood on the corridor with a wry smile.