A strong earthy smell poured into the nose. Zhixin took a closer look and saw that it was Ye Siying.
Ye Siying raised her head slightly, with a ferocious expression: "Zhi Xin, do you still remember your mother who is seriously ill in bed?"
Zhi Xin was stunned for a moment, then nodded repeatedly.
Ye Siying stuffed a piece of paper into her sleeve, and then said slowly: "Take He Yanyan to this place to give birth. If it is a boy, he will drown; if it is a girl, he will be brought back as a slave. Do you understand?"
Zhixin swallowed hard and trembled all over.
"If you don't obey," Ye Siying narrowed her eyes, "then your mother will suffer on the child's behalf!"
After hearing this, Zhi Xin nodded repeatedly.
After watching the girl agree, Ye Siying patted her shoulder with satisfaction and turned to leave.
Opening the note in her sleeve, there was a small map inside, marking a house. Zhixin had been here before——
This house is the private property of the wet nurse, and it was often rented to some bearers for their carriages and horses to rest.
The facilities inside are extremely simple, just a brick earth kang with a layer of straw, and there are no decent bedding or mattresses.
A little scared, Zhi Xin lay in the corner and looked at Fu Jianli, but at this time he, Bian Xiao and Li Zimo were still guarding the door, never leaving.
With trembling hands, Zhi Xin returned to the room and saw that the old woman was checking the opening of He Yanyan's cervix. She called out: "Auntie, I spilled the soup you asked me to heat earlier. Can you please
Another bowl?"
"This child..." The old woman shook her head. Seeing that it was not yet time to give birth, she waved her hand and said, "That's all. You can keep the princess safe for now, and I'll go and take a look myself."
After sending the old lady away, Zhi Xin came to He Yanyan and said, "Princess, slave... I really can't take you out, and Mr. Fu is outside with the king right now, so it's really inconvenient to send a message. If you can leave by yourself...
...There is a dilapidated thatched house opposite the pawn shop on South Street. It is uninhabited all year round. Where do you go to hide?"
It sounds like this place is not far away. You can reach it just across a street after going out. He Yanyan nodded and said, "It's not far. Just help me up."
Zhi Xin swallowed hard, and looking at He Yanyan's difficult appearance, she asked: "Princess, why is this happening? Doesn't the king treat you badly?"
"Is he treating me well?" He Yanyan lowered her head and smiled, "What's more..."
He is probably planning to kill me now to please the imperial sister!
Just thinking like this strengthened He Yanyan's determination to leave: "You help me leave through the back door, I can do the rest by myself."
Zhi Xin's heart was beating violently - on one side was her master, the two of whom had a good relationship on weekdays, and had been kind to her; on the other side was her mother, a close relative of flesh and blood!
Helping He Yanyan leave through the back door, Zhi Xin watched as He Yanyan carefully went to the small house next to her. There was a window facing the outside of the house, and He Yanyan always liked to chat with the children on the street from there.
Turning around, she couldn't bear to look any further.
At this time, He Yanyan wanted to roll down from here, but her body was really inconvenient. Just when she was thinking of using something to step on, she was knocked unconscious with a stick.
When He Yanyan woke up again, she was already lying on a thatched mat. When she opened her eyes, she saw Ye Siying's disgusting face.
Not afraid, He Yanyan stared at her: "It seems that what you told me is not true, but you just want to make me angry."
Ye Siying shook her head and stood at the head of the bed, holding a cleaver in her hand: "Then you are really wrong, He Yanyan. You have lived with Wang for such a long time, don't you know that he is just because of your family background?
Did I just marry you? It should be clear now that you are just a plaything! When there is no Qianglan country behind you, you are no longer yourself!"
"Then what are you going to do?"
"Me?" Ye Siying shook the meat cleaver in her hand, "Of course I will help you give birth and then bring the child to the king. In this way, besides you, I can also enter the palace, and even Li Daitao will become the father of your child.
Mother, sit on the throne of the princess in one fell swoop."
"The abacus is good," He Yanyan's voice was weak but powerful because she was about to give birth. "But can the hand holding the needle and thread really kill someone?"
"What do you mean?"
"You won't give me a skin just because I can become the princess of the Qianglan Kingdom? If you hadn't had to live under someone else's roof in order to get the protection of the prince, you and your mother would have been cut into pieces by me."
"You are so stubborn when you are about to die!" Ye Siying went up and slapped He Yanyan twice.
Ke He Yanyan laughed: "You can spare me, but can you kill me? As the crown prince, I am not embroidered, I came here by stepping on the corpses and blood of countless people! If
If I weren't a king, how could I end up in this situation! You can't kill me."
Just by looking at her defensive stance, He Yanyan could already see through Ye Siying's thoughts.
Ye Siying paused, frozen in place, not daring to move.
Feeling bursts of pain in her abdomen, He Yanyan grabbed Ye Siying's arm and exerted strength.
"Ah - it hurts!" Ye Siying's arm was pricked by He Yanyan's nails, and the knife fell to the ground, adding a sonorous and powerful sound to the baby's weak cry.
A boy and a girl.
Bian Xiao and He Yanyan's child was finally born.
Exhausted and without strength, He Yanyan's vision began to blur and her body gradually became numb...
Ye Siying's arm was scratched and bleeding a lot. She ignored the pain. After cutting the umbilical cord, she hugged the boy and walked toward the creek behind the house.
The baby was just born and kept crying. Ye Siying covered his mouth and nose with her hands, and the baby soon fainted.
At this time, several women were washing clothes and chatting in groups by the stream. Ye Siying's arrival quickly attracted their attention:
"Is she holding a child?"
"Yeah, how can you hold a child like this? It's going to kill someone!"
An old woman kindly came up to remind her: "Girl, is this your child?"
Ye Siying felt guilty as a thief. She was frightened and denied repeatedly: "How could this be my child? I'm not even married yet. You bitch, you're talking nonsense!"
No one would be happy with Ye Siying's abuse for her good intentions.
The old woman also started scolding: "You are such a fair girl, why do you talk so stupidly? Mother-in-law, I just want to remind you, you don't go around it with a few words, and you are not afraid of smothering your son to death!"
Ye Siying wanted to run away quickly, but the old woman refused to let her go. She kept making noises, which attracted many people to watch.
By chance, Tian Yun was doing laundry for Miao Niang nearby. Seeing that the girl looked familiar, when he got closer, he realized that it was the girl he had brought to change clothes:
"Why are you here?"
As she spoke, she glanced at the child in Ye Siying's arms.
