Transmigration: A Farm Girl’s Brocade
Chapter 729 - 353 Life_3

Chapter 729: Chapter 353 Life_3

Qian Yixiu had no chance to talk more with him and left after exchanging brief greetings.

On the seventeenth day of August was Qian Yiyuan’s first birthday, and Qian Yixiu returned to the Qian family to celebrate the birthday feast.

Today the Crown Prince did not come but sent gifts instead.

According to Pan Yue, two unfamiliar women were gifts from Empress Dowager Min to the Crown Prince. She said that several women were pregnant and unable to serve him well. One of the women was a niece of Empress Dowager Min’s family, named Min Wen, who was granted the title Consort of the Crown Prince, of equal rank to Huang Lingling but higher than that of Cui Shuqin. The other was the daughter of a fourth rank officer, named Bai Yu, who was granted the lowest rank of Chenghui.

It was said that Zhu Sujin seemed displeased with these two women; his attitude toward them was not nearly as favorable as it had been toward the previous three women.

Pan Yue also voiced some criticism, "Empress Dowager Min is somewhat overstepping her bounds. Although she has been granted the title of Empress Dowager, she is not the Emperor’s birth mother, nor has she ever raised him. Everyone knows that her being granted the title of Empress Dowager is a provisional measure by the Emperor. Now, suddenly sending two women into the Eastern Palace, it has made the Crown Prince unhappy. The Crown Prince is only sixteen years old, still a child..."

Qian Yixiu knew Zhu Sujin, who grew up in the countryside and was raised in the atmosphere of the Qian family. Intelligent, upright, kind, and generous, all his traits were virtuous. Marrying those three women was a last resort, hoping to quickly start a family. The arrival of these two new women made him seem lascivious, which surely displeased him.

She couldn’t help but feel sympathy for the young man.

By October, Qian Yixiu’s belly was so large it looked like it might burst at any moment, and when she walked, she could no longer see her toes no matter how wide she stepped. Liang Jinzhao and the elders were extremely worried; skilled midwives had been brought in, and two expert gynecological Imperial Physicians from the palace had taken up residency in the mansion.

The Little Monk had also moved into the Liang Mansion. Before the Qian family came to the Capital City, whenever he visited, he would stay at the Liang family’s residence, so they had a special courtyard prepared for him. He was worried about Qian Yixiu and visited her at Lianxiang Courtyard every day. At the request of Master Sangui and Pan Yue, he also sent daily updates back to the Qian family to report on Qian Yixiu’s condition.

Qian Yixiu’s due date was at the end of October or the beginning of November. The doctors all said she would deliver early, indicating that the birth could happen at any time.

On the morning of the twelfth day, Qian Yixiu was sitting in Wanshou Hall chatting and laughing with her great grandmother when she suddenly felt a pain in her abdomen. Her great grandmother immediately ordered her to be carried back to Lianxiang Courtyard in a sedan chair. She was taken straight to the western chamber, which was set up as the birthing room.

As the labor pains began, Qian Yixiu’s cries could be heard intermittently from the room. The Eldest old lady, Lady Cui, Lady Zhang, Lady Xia, and others waited there, and soon after receiving the news, Lady Wu and Pan Yue also arrived.

Qian Yixiu knew childbirth would be painful, but she had not anticipated such excruciating pain, pain that made her wish for death. The midwife said that the baby was not positioned correctly with its leg presenting first. The cervix had dilated, and one leg had emerged, which the midwife then pushed back in, continually massaging Qian Yixiu’s abdomen, hoping to guide the baby’s head downward.

She hadn’t given birth by the second day and wavered between moments of clarity and confusion. She felt she was dying, or perhaps she was already dead, because she found herself back in her previous life, seeing Shang Qingyun.

Only, Shang Qingyun had aged considerably, looking like someone in his forties, close to fifty.

Shang Qingyun was furiously glaring at a beautiful woman in her thirties and, pointing at shattered glass on the floor, he said through gritted teeth, "How could you, how dare you, you actually threw ’her’ to the ground."

Qian Yixiu "walked" over and saw that under the shattered glass was a photo of her and Shang Qingyun together.

It was from when Qian Yixiu and Shang Qingyun had gone out for a stroll in her previous life, and she had taken a selfie with her phone. Afterward, Shang Qingyun joked, "Delete it. If your future husband saw you had such an outstanding male friend, he would be upset."

Qian Yixiu rolled her eyes at him and said, "Of course, I’ll delete it, no need for you to worry," then she fiddled with her phone pretending to do so. She didn’t delete it; she couldn’t bear to part with it.

The middle-aged Shang Qingyun then crouched down, brushed aside the glass shards, and retrieved the photograph. Unnoticed, a shard of glass cut his finger, and his blood dripped onto the photograph.

The woman quickly fetched a band-aid, trying to bandage his hand, but he avoided her.

The woman cried out, "No matter how good she was, she’s been dead for over a decade. No matter how good I am, I can never compare to her. Your phone, your computer, they’re filled with her pictures... If you can’t forget your true love, why did you even marry me?"

Shang Qingyun replied indifferently, "Before I married you, I told you already, in this world, she is the woman I loved the most, no other woman can compare."

The woman said, "Yes, it’s my fault for being foolish. I thought I could move you, make you forget her, and truly fall in love with me... A living person can never surpass a dead one, this dead woman is almost crushing me, a living person... to death..."

Qian Yixiu was taken aback, realizing that over a decade had passed in the modern world. But since when had she become Shang Qingyun’s true love?

As she pondered, she faintly heard Liang Jinzhao’s shouts and sobs, "Yixiu, you must hang on; I can’t live without you..."

There were also the cries of her stepmother, and it seemed there were sobs from Grandfather Sangui and Zhu Sujin calling for "little sister"...

Oh, she had traveled to another time and space, was married, and was now in labor. Her husband loved her, her family loved her, she was still a County Master, a female tycoon...

Shang Qingyun could be as great as he was, but he always pursued the one ahead, not the one waiting by his side...

Then there was Liang Jinzhao’s voice again, "Yixiu, Yixiu, wake up, wake up..."

This man truly loved her, and she had to survive, to bring her child safely into the world, for the first time in two lives, to be a mother, to have her own child...

The Yixiu on the birthing bed suddenly opened her eyes, pushed hard with a loud shout, followed by the wailing of an infant.

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