Chapter 683 Empress Gives Birth as Heavenly Rainfalls (2)

Mei Lenglei stepped forward, disregarding all formalities, and said, "Your Majesty, we have already gone to fetch them."

Upon hearing this, Dugu Chen turned and returned to the room, only to see his beloved already enjoying a ginseng fruit with relish, showing no signs of being in labor. He wiped the sweat from his forehead and approached cautiously to ask, "My dear, do... do you still feel pain?"

"Yes, it hurt a while ago, but now it doesn't," Feng Xuxu stretched out her hand to touch her stomach, feeling it peculiar. This labor was quite different from her first one.

Dugu Chen nodded, realizing this must be the so-called contractions mentioned in books, but he hadn't expected the contrast to be so stark.

The head of the Imperial Medical Bureau and the midwives arrived almost simultaneously. The midwife directed the palace maids, "You lot go boil water, the more the better, and you, get scissors and boil them in the rolling water for a while."

"Yes."