Chapter 1218: A Child’s Cries
Ning Shu placed her hand on Lady Niohuru’s wrist and felt the pulse for a good while. Finally, she met Lady Niohuru’s gaze and said, “Lady, you’re in good health.”
Lady Niohuru frowned and retrieved her hand with a sigh.
As of now, the primary consort Lady Ula Nara was already almost five months pregnant and Lady Li was also pregnant. Yinzhen visited her quite frequently, so why hasn’t she gotten pregnant yet?
“Lady, there is no need to worry. It’ll naturally happen once it’s time.” It just wasn’t time for the future Qianlong Emperor to be born yet, there was really no need to be so anxious.
“You may withdraw,” said Lady Niohuru, pressing her lips together tightly.
Ning Shu curtsied, then turned and left the room. She sat on the reclining chair in the outer room and started practicing the Unsurpassable Martial Arts.
“Wah, wah…” Late in the night, as the entire residence sank into silence, a loud cry suddenly filled the air. The wails continued nonstop and kept getting louder and louder.
Gradually, all the rooms became illuminated again with light.
“Miao Ling, what’s that sound? Is a child crying?” Lady Niohuru’s slightly sleepy voice came from the inner room.
Ning Shu pushed open the door and went in, saying, “It’s probably the little lady crying.”
Ning Shu’s brows furrowed with worry. Why was the little lady crying?
“Lady, should we go take a look?” asked Ning Shu.
Lady Niohuru sat up and Ning Shu draped her clothes on her. Lady Niohuru thought about things for a moment, then said, “Go check the situation in the main courtyard. If the main courtyard isn’t going, then we shouldn’t either.”
Ning Shu curtsied, then headed to the main courtyard. On the way there, she encountered Lady Ula Nara whose pregnancy was already very visible. She was with Yinzhen and he was currently supporting her as they walked. They were followed by a lot of people.
Based on their direction, they were heading towards Lady Song’s courtyard.
Ning Shu immediately turned back and said to Lady Niohuru, “Lady, both the prince and the madame have headed over.”
“Then we should go as well.” Lady Niohuru cleaned herself up a little, then headed over.
Ning Shu followed behind Lady Niohuru to Lady Song’s courtyard. Before they had even entered the hall, she could hear the sound of the little lady’s crying mixed with the sound of Lady Song speaking.
Lady Niohuru paused for a moment, then walked in. Ning Shu followed her in, a little anxious, to find that Lady Song was currently hugging the little lady while yelling at the wet nurse who was kneeling on the ground. “You black-hearted woman, how could you treat my child like this?”
Yinzhen’s expression was dark, “What kind of wet nurse is this? When I went to check on the child, I found that she was hitting the child. This is my child! A servant has no right to treat her this way!”
The wet nurse’s face was pale as she sat on the ground weakly. She had been caught in the act, so it was futile to refute.
The child in Lady Song’s arms was still crying nonstop. No matter how Lady Song coaxed her, it was no use and she kept kicking with all her limbs while crying. Lady Song was in quite a lot of pain from being hit by the little lady.
“What’s the matter with the child?” asked Lady Ula Nara wearily. Such an event had occurred in the middle of the night while she was pregnant. Yinzhen’s brows furrowed even more when he saw how tired she looked and his gaze became very stern as he looked towards Lady Song. His face tended to be expressionless from the start, so this cold expression made him even more scary.
“What exactly is going on?” asked Yinzhen in a low, displeased tone.
Lady Song was also on the verge of crying. How was she supposed to know what was going on with the child? When Yinzhen questioned her like this, she was angry and also very anxious. She was scared of offending Yinzhen, so she kept trying to coax the child.
Ning Shu drew close to Lady Niohuru’s ear and whispered, “Lady, the little lady’s probably hungry.”
She usually snuck some goat milk over for the child at around this time. Since she had transferred some of her energy to the child, the child’s body was gradually improving and so the amount of food she could intake had also increased. She could now drink an entire bowl of goat milk and her strength was also gradually increasing.
The energy was nourishing the little lady’s body and improving her constitution.
She had been on night watch today, so she hadn’t gotten food for the child. The child had gotten hungry and could only resort to crying as a means to attract the attention of the adults.
However, Ning Shu never imagined that a wet nurse would actually dare to hit the child. In any case, all of them should give up hope on getting off easily. No matter how much Yinzhen didn’t care about this child, it still didn’t mean that other people could bully his children.
In the end, it was all Lady Song’s fault. Despite being the mother, she didn’t care about her daughter. She’d only occasionally have the wet nurse bring her daughter over, but after taking a look at the child, she’d have the wet nurse take her away again. This made the wet nurse even more indifferent towards the child.
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