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Should I go to the capital?

As the new year arrived in the blink of an eye, the temperature dropped considerably, and several heavy snowfalls had already occurred. The thin ice on Bihu Lake was also growing thicker and thicker. Wanlan sometimes wondered if it was possible to ice skate on Bihu Lake.

She even went out to play in the snow while she was about to give birth, which scared Xuan'er and the others half to death.

Zehua, however, ignored her completely.

Besides sighing, she really didn't know what to do.

Should we compromise and tell him that they're not going back to Beijing?

Perhaps she could remind Zhao Dezhao not to go on the expedition with the Imperial Uncle?

For the past two weeks, Zehua's silence had created a suffocatingly tense atmosphere in Bizhuang. Xuan'er moved into Wanlan's room and set up a makeshift bed in the outer room to keep her company day and night. The Lan brothers, Wen and Wu, always seemed hesitant to speak whenever they saw her, which made Wanlan smile involuntarily.

She's pregnant now, and about to give birth. Doesn't she have the right to be willful? If Zehua continues to ignore her, she won't bother him. She doesn't believe he'll remain silent after the baby is born.

On the fifteenth day of the first month of the third year of the Taiping Xingguo era, the Lantern Festival was held.

The moon was round and big tonight, so she couldn't go out of the village to watch the excitement. Instead, she pulled Xuan'er to admire the moon by the window and instructed the servants to make glutinous rice balls. She secretly thought that she must go find Zehua later, as he had been holding a grudge for long enough.

He clearly listened to what she said, but still ignored her.

He assumed she was unaware of his secret actions, even though he had clearly sent people to Yongxing, and continued to "sulk" as if nothing had happened.

Tonight, she will make him apologize for ignoring her these past few days!

With this plan in mind, she didn't expect that after eating a bowl of glutinous rice balls, a sharp pain would immediately come from her abdomen. The tight pain made Wanlan collapse weakly onto the soft couch. Xuan'er, who was about to take the bowl away, frantically supported her, not knowing what to do.

"Xuan'er...don't panic, send someone to fetch a doctor..." She might be about to give birth...

"Madam! How could this happen... how could this happen..."

A sharp pain shot through her, and Wanlan gasped, holding her breath as she turned to glare at the panicked Xuan'er. She shouted sternly, "Go and call for help!"

Xuan'er was startled. "Yes!" She turned and ran out, shouting as she ran.

She sent many of the servants home for the holiday, and now she wonders where Xuan'er will find them...

Wanlan thought vaguely, biting her lip and holding her breath, trying to alleviate the pain a little—

When she gave birth to Xu'er last time, she came directly to the delivery room. She had never experienced labor pains like this before, and she never expected them to be so unbearable...

Hurried footsteps came from outside the door, but no one entered. Then, a loud "bang" was heard as if someone had kicked the door open. Wanlan looked up and saw Zehua running up, his face deathly pale, shouting at her in terror:

"Wanlan!"

Taking a deep breath, she reached out and grasped his cold hand, comforting him, "I'm fine...it just hurts a lot." "...Carry me to the bed..." This bed is too hard.

He held her carefully in his arms, and she could clearly feel his trembling body. However, her consciousness was blurred by the pain, and she was no longer able to comfort him.

"Wanlan, are you feeling unwell? Don't scare me..."

She never intended to scare him with this...

The due date is still several days away, why is this little guy in such a hurry to come out on the Lantern Festival?

"Dr. Mei is here!"

Xuan'er hurriedly led a woman into the house. The woman was about thirty years old and had a medicine box on her shoulder. Behind her, the two brothers, Lan Wen and Lan Wu, also looked panicked and wanted to enter the house.

"You, don't come in." Dr. Mei turned her head and glanced at them, stopping them in her voice.

Following Xuan'er to the bedside, she saw Zhao Defang squatting by the bed and said, "You should go out first too."

"I want to stay!"

“Zehua…” Wanlan tightened her grip on his hand, and when he looked down at her, she tried to smile at him. “You go out first… go and think of a name for our child, okay?” Because of everything she had experienced in the early stages of her pregnancy, they hadn’t properly named their child yet!

Unlike those ancient people who forbade men to be with them in the delivery room, she was worried that Zehua might not be able to handle it if he stayed...

She hasn't even given birth yet, and he's already like this.

“Wanlan…”

Dr. Mei frowned, reached out and pulled him up, pushing him outside. "We don't have time for you, get out of here! Xuan'er, stay and help. By the way! Is the water boiled?"

"It's already burning, it'll be done soon!" Xuan'er replied hurriedly.

"Very good, let's begin."

...

Carefully closing the door, Zhao Defang leaned against the wall, exhausted, staring blankly at the ground, listening to the occasional cries of pain coming from inside the room, her fists clenching tightly involuntarily.

Once again, he stood guard at the door, waiting for his wife inside to give him an heir.

He might have been able to remain calm last time, after all, he had very little affection for Princess Deqing at the time, and he had heard that she had risked her own safety to run into the rain. He had not felt the slightest bit of emotional fluctuation towards that woman.

But now, the woman inside, crying out in pain, is his beloved. What makes him even more remorseful is that, knowing her physical condition, he deliberately ignored her for so long for some inexplicable reason!

"Sir, are you alright?"

Lan Wen spoke cautiously, looking at his master who was on the verge of collapse, he really didn't know how to comfort him.

The master and madam have been giving each other the cold shoulder for more than half a month! Although they have no idea how it happened, it must be related to Lord Xue. Perhaps the emperor is going to summon the prince to the capital again, and the prince wants to compromise, but the madam won't allow it, so they are giving each other the cold shoulder, right?

However, for the past two weeks, the prince has been looking gloomy, while the lady has been quite relaxed, which doesn't seem like the prince is compromising at all! Normally, the prince would definitely try to reason with the lady first, and the lady is also a very reasonable person, so why have they ended up like this?