Dingjiangshan

Just like what Ning Zheng said, it seemed that the child in Shen Tinghe's stomach also understood what "Daye" was, and An An lived in her stomach for two days in accordance with Ning Zheng's expectations.

Even Wen Po said that Shen Ting He has been pregnant much longer than others.Ordinary women usually start preparing for childbirth after nine months of pregnancy, but Shen Tinghe's here has been approaching ten months, but there is still no movement.

Although Shen Tinghe is not very old, she also knows that being pregnant for too long is not a good thing. For the past two days, she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night.

Shen Tinghe spent two full days in uneasiness and hesitation. It was not until the noon of the third day that Ning Zheng, who was looking for Shen Tinghe, walked into Shen Tinghe's bedroom with a bowl of dark concoction. .

Following the midwife mother-in-law entered the door, there were several maids assigned by Ning Zheng to Shen Tinghe. They each held a tray with clean white cloth towels and other production items in their hands, and moved the tables, chairs and benches out of the house in an orderly manner. , replaced it with a big screen, and nailed a cotton curtain to the door to keep out the wind.

Shen Tinghe sat on the edge of the bed and watched them busy, the uneasiness in his heart intensified, and he couldn't help asking: "Grandma, I haven't made any movement yet, is it too early to clean up these things now?"

"Not early, not early." The midwife handed the medicine bowl in Shen Tinghe's hand, while perfunctorily comforting her a few words, she tightly instructed the maid in the house to go to the small kitchen to start a fire to boil water.

After all the people in the room were arranged and moved, the midwife mother-in-law came out and comforted Shen Tinghe with a smile.

"You don't have to worry, the princess. Only when you make the decision and prepare, can the princess and the little prince be safe and sound." The midwife said softly, "Why is the princess still in a daze? Drink the medicine soon, otherwise you won't be able to catch up with the time."

"What about the prince." Shen Tinghe asked.

"My lord is still outside." The midwife that Ning Zheng invited had a benevolent face. I heard that she was an old woman with good fortune and longevity. I can’t come back in time, but when the concubine activates, our courtyard will send someone to invite me again.”

When Shen Tinghe heard that Ning Zheng would be back, she finally let go of her heart and drank all the medicine that Granny Wen brought over.

She thought it was the same anti-fetal medicine as before, and she didn't feel much after drinking it, and wanted to go back to the bed to rest for a while, but was dragged off the bed by the midwife.

"Oh, princess, don't lie down." The midwife said, "While you still have strength, walk on the ground more, and you will be born soon."

"But..." Shen Tinghe said, "I don't feel anything yet."

"We should have it in a while." The midwife said, "Having a baby is just a blink of an eye."

Before Shen Tinghe had time to ask more questions, he was supported by two maids, one on the left and one on the right, and was forced to walk around in the open space of the house.

Everyone else in the room was very busy, and the midwife even went in and looked through the ready-made delivery guys over and over again, looking even more anxious than Shen Tinghe.

Shen Tinghe didn't know what to do in his heart, but seeing the attitude of the people around him, he also felt panicked.

I don't know if she was flustered or what, after an hour, Shen Tinghe only felt a sudden pain in his abdomen, and his legs immediately went limp.

The two maids supporting her were young and not very strong, they were staggered by Shen Tinghe and almost missed her.

Fortunately, the midwife just finished arranging the outside affairs and entered the door. Seeing this, she hurried over to help her up, touched Shen Tinghe's stomach, and said yes.

In just a few words, Shen Tinghe was so painful that she couldn't straighten up. She was moved back to the bed in a daze, grabbed the midwife mother-in-law indiscriminately, and asked intermittently: "Mother-in-law, did I just drink What kind of medicine is it?"

"It's a labor-inducing medicine." The midwife said, "Don't worry, Wangfei, the medicine is boiled thickly, and it will definitely allow Wangfei to give birth to a small child on time."

After all, Shen Tinghe is also a lady of the official family. She was spoiled and spoiled since she was a child, and she has never been bumped. At most, she was pricked by an embroidery needle when she was embroidering in her boudoir. I was so angry that I couldn't say a word.

The midwife mother-in-law has experienced many battles, and she is familiar with this scene. She washed her hands in hot water in an orderly manner, then looked out at the sky and time, and said to Shen Tinghe: "It's still early, Wangfei You have to save a little effort, and don't lose your strength when you are born."

Shen Tinghe only felt that there was a thousand catties of iron falling down in the mansion, the effect of the oxytocin medicine came violently and quickly, she gasped intermittently, the tip of her teeth scratched the corner of her lips in pain, and a thin wisp fell down. Bloodshot.

"I think I'm going to give birth soon." Shen Tinghe said sadly, "Grandma, I'm afraid."

"Don't talk nonsense." The midwife patted her hand and said, "It's not the hour yet."

The backyard of the Changle Prince’s Mansion has been protected by the prince’s cronies. A note was handed out through the gap between the thick curtains. The young man guarding the door took the note, folded it, folded it, and put it in his arms. He walked swiftly towards the second door. run away.

A snow-white homing pigeon flapped its wings and circled twice over the palace, followed a certain undetectable smell and went straight to the east city, bypassed the twisted and low houses, and flew into an inconspicuous place with perfect precision. In the small courtyard, it landed on Ning Zheng's shoulders.

A middle-aged man next to Ning Zheng stopped talking when he saw this, and made a "please go" gesture to him.

"Probably news from home." Ning Zheng said as he took the letter from the carrier pigeon's leg, opened it and read it, and found that it was something he expected, so he didn't pay much attention to it, and threw the note into the brazier casually.

It was the first quarter of the Yin hour in the afternoon, and there was still more than an hour before the third quarter of the Shen time that Ning Zheng had set. Ning Zheng walked around the small courtyard twice, subconsciously looking at the sky.

It's a pity that the sky is bright now, no matter how he looks at it, he can't see any "good omen" from the cloudless sky.

The man who was talking to him before smiled, and gestured to the stone table and bench next to him to invite him to sit down, saying: "It's useless for the prince to be so anxious, why don't you sit down and have a cup of tea and wait for the good news."

Ning Zheng also felt that he looked a bit hopeless, so he temporarily suppressed his impatience and sat down.

"Sir." Ning Zheng rubbed his hand on the teacup for a moment, then asked in a low voice, "Is it really safe?"

"That's natural." The man was confident, and said firmly: "Astronomical events have never been manipulated by humans. What is the prince worried about?"

This man is an "outsider expert" that Ning Zheng took a lot of effort to find. He is good at divination and is also very proficient in astronomy and divination. He has been by Ning Zheng's side for two years, and everything he says is accurate. .So although Ning Zheng felt uneasy, he didn't want to ask too much detail, otherwise it would seem like he couldn't trust others' abilities.

At the first moment of Shen Shi, the sun gradually slanted to the west, and the clouds in the sky gathered together strangely, forming a large cloud.The afterglow of the setting sun began to gradually extend outward along the gaps in the middle of the clouds. The orange-red flames wrapped the thin clouds, making them faintly reddened.

The movement of the sky was just as the man said, and it began to become mysterious. Ning Zheng's heart that had been hanging since morning fell to the ground. He almost couldn't wait to stand up from the stool and watch the sunset in the west.

The halo similar to fire was spreading to the east at a speed visible to the naked eye, and within a short while, it was dyed red for most of the sky, and it looked a little purple.

"What a good day." Ning Zheng said in a low voice.

In fact, if you think about it carefully, this scenery is not such a marvelous sight once in a hundred years, but if he adds a little fire to it, it will be different again.

"Sir." Ning Zheng suppressed the joy in his heart, and said quickly, "It's time."

The man behind him nodded slightly and walked under the courtyard wall.

At the bottom of the low wall on the east side of the small courtyard is a row of square shelves neatly placed, covered with thick crow blue cotton cloth, it is impossible to see what is underneath.

From the beginning to the end, the man scratched the cotton cloth with his fingers, as if he was testing the contents.

There was a faint slapping sound from under the thick cotton cloth, and the man tapped on the top wooden frame with his fingers, and took out a small object with a strange shape from his arms and handed it to Ning Zheng.

Ning Zheng took the thing and looked at it, and found that it was a wooden whistle carved in the shape of a phoenix, about the size of a palm, with a hollow carved into the tail feathers for people to blow.Ning Zheng weighed it conveniently, thinking that this thing should be hollow.

The man also tore off the thick cotton cloth covering the wooden frame, revealing the true face of Lushan Mountain hidden underneath.

——Twenty or thirty wooden cages were placed densely under the wall, and each cage contained two magpies, all with smooth feathers and well-raised.

"My lord." The man said, "The long whistle sound is for release, and the short whistle sound is for silence. The exact timing is up to the lord himself to control."

Ning Zheng nodded and motioned for the man to open those cage doors and release the magpies inside.

These magpies have been trained for more than half a year in advance, they have been fed extremely carefully, and they are also very obedient. After flying out of the cage, they consciously huddle together, circling and singing in the city of Anqing Mansion.

These magpies will circle around the city of Anqing Mansion nine times until the young son of Changle Prince Mansion with a "very different fate" is born, and then they will quietly disappear in Anqing Mansion just like when they appeared.

Shen Tinghe in the mansion was already exhausted by the severe and dense pain. She had a piece of ginseng in her mouth, bit the corner of the quilt indiscriminately, and cried aggrieved and painfully with her instinct.She only remembered that in a daze, there was a gust of cool wind blowing in from the outside, and then she just felt like she was falling all over, and before she could relax for a moment, she heard the joyful and loud voice of the midwife bursting in her ears.

"He really is a young son!" The midwife said joyfully, "Quickly go and announce the good news to the prince."

The servant guarding the gate of the main courtyard seemed to be only waiting for this sentence, and ran out in a hurry.Stepping on the sound of magpies all over the city, wearing a bright and warm orange afterglow, he rushed out from the main gate of the Changle Prince's Mansion, and grabbed the guard's hand at the gate of the Palace in front of the people passing by all over the street. .

"Go out and find the prince and come back!" The boy's face was flushed, and his tone was excited: "Our princess gave birth to a little son!"