16. Intimacy(1/2)
We can only take one step at a time.
Su Su entered the house and saw several midwives surrounding a woman wearing obscene clothing.
The woman looked beautiful, her forehead was soaked with sweat, and her eyes looked painful.
"Empress! Hold on!"
The midwives were also sweating profusely, and the hot water in Su Su's hand was taken over at some point.
She was squeezed out of the crowd and could only watch the situation develop.
"What should we do?" a midwife asked anxiously, "Concubine Rou started her pregnancy in the morning, but it's already evening and she hasn't given birth yet."
Concubine Rou on the bed had long since lost her strength, holding the ginseng slices in her mouth. She persisted in exerting force for a while, and finally passed out.
Blood flowed down her bare legs.
Even if Su Su had never seen a child give birth, she could still guess what it meant to faint in this situation.
Sure enough, the faces of the midwives turned pale.
Someone quickly made a decision: "Go and inform the emperor of the situation... Now, do you want to protect the elder or the younger..."
After a while, the emperor's angry voice came from outside.
"You bastards, useless trash, protect Concubine Rou for me. If anything happens to Concubine Rou, you will all be buried with me!"
Su Su looked at Concubine Rou's bulging belly.
I knew in my heart that I might not be able to save this child.
However, unexpectedly, just when the doctor and the midwives were about to take action, Concubine Rou woke up. Her eyes were blurred and she murmured: "Your Majesty... My Majesty..."
Concubine Rou burst into tears: "Please, protect my child!"
Everyone looked sad, and Su Su felt sad.
The emperor ordered that he would only protect the concubine Rou.
Suddenly, the midwife said in surprise: "Mother, push harder! I can see the baby's head!"
Concubine Rou's lips were trembling and she was gritting her teeth!
The midwife said happily: "The baby is born..."
The next moment, the midwives suddenly screamed.
Su Su had a bad feeling in her heart.
Such a loud noise caused the emperor who was waiting outside to kick in the door.
The emperor looked intently and saw a baby boy lying in a pool of blood on the bed that was covered in blood.
He opened his dark eyes and held Concubine Rou's intestines in his hand.
The baby boy seemed curious about what was in his hand. It was warm, pliable, and kept pulling.
He opened his mouth and bit it.
The baby boy showed his cold, milky white teeth.
Concubine Rou on the bed, with her eyes wide open, had already died.
The midwife and the doctor trembled and knelt on the ground.
"Your Majesty... Your Majesty... this..."
This little monster never cried once when it was born, and it even had teeth! Its nails even pierced Concubine Rou's belly!
Su Su almost instantly understood who this was—it was Tantai Jin!
She never expected that by a strange combination of circumstances, she would end up in Tantai Jin's dream and see the scene of his birth.
The little monster felt that he had been abandoned, so he decisively killed his mother and wanted to be born.
The emperor looked at Concubine Rou's body, suddenly picked up the baby boy and threw him against the wall.
"Monster, you monster, die!"
The baby boy on the ground was thrown like this, but he didn't lose his breath. A large mouthful of blood spat out from his mouth. He blew the blood bubbles and grinned happily.
The innocent and innocent appearance of this evil creature was so frightening that the midwife screamed and fainted from fright.
Tantai Jin's mouth was stained with blood, and his dark pupils met Su Su's eyes.
The moment Su Su and the baby boy's eyes met, the space twisted.
When she stood firm again, someone whispered in her ear: "It's also a pain for you. That little devil asked you to collect the corpse. It was left in the cold palace for so many days, and the corpse smelled..."
As he spoke, the palace maid had left, and Su Su stood alone outside a palace door.
She hesitated for a moment, then opened the door and saw a tattered and blood-stained swaddling clothes lying beside the withered grass.
It turns out that after Concubine Rou died, Tantai Jin was thrown here. Apparently, it had been several days.
Susu walked over.
She knew that this was obviously the best opportunity to learn about the devil's past.
As a swaddling baby, the "little monster" was very embarrassed.
The swaddling clothes were stained with mud and grass clippings, and his exposed arms were covered with traces of mosquito bites.
There were also scratches and bruises, and his face was so dirty that he couldn't even see his appearance.
No one changed his diaper, and there was a stench from the swaddling clothes.
Tantai Jin held a dead gray mouse tightly with his eyes closed.
Half of the rat blood was stained on his mouth.
Su Su finally knew how he survived without even drinking a sip of breast milk.
The mouse wanted to eat him, but he caught it and used it as food.
His little body was trembling, and he was holding the dead mouse as if he was holding the only hope in the world.
The mouse already stunk, and Tantai Jin still couldn't bear to throw it away.
The baby boy seemed to understand that no one would raise him and no one would take care of him.
He was seriously injured and his lips were now black.
Su Su's mood was indescribable.
In a short period of time, she witnessed his cruelty, as well as his pity and vulnerability.
This contradictory mentality has always existed since she traveled five hundred years ago.
If she had the choice to kill him as a child, Su Su knew that she would definitely do it.
However, as long as the evil bones exist, the demon will be immortal.
It was not her choice whether to kill or not.
She squatted down and was about to pick him up when soft footsteps came from outside.
Susu hid quickly.
I saw the palace maid in scarlet clothes that day walking in with red eyes, hugging Tantai Jin, crying: "My poor empress, your highness... your highness..."
The palace maid cried bitterly for a long time, and finally bit her lip and took the child away.
Su Su thought thoughtfully, this was probably Concubine Rou's most sincere maid. While she hated Tantai Jin for killing Concubine Rou, she also thought that this was Concubine Rou's last bloodline. Concubine Rou would rather die than keep her child.
Then he picked up Tantai Jin and took it back.
Su Su just wanted to follow, but the next moment, she felt dizzy.
She thought resignedly that the scene would have to be changed again.
When Su Su woke up again, a child of four or five years old was kneeling on the ground.
The palace maid said: "Come on, let's learn it again."
The boy tilted his head and shouted obediently: "Woof!"
The maids covered their lips and laughed.
Someone threw out a bunch of candied haws: "Here, pick it up."
The boy quickly ran over, picked up the candied haws, lowered his head and bit it in his mouth, not caring about the mud on it.
The palace maid in scarlet clothes appeared angrily: "What are you doing!"
The maids pursed their lips and dispersed.
With tears in her eyes, the palace maid in scarlet clothes pulled up the boy and said angrily: "Your Highness, how can you do this? Although we have lost power, you are the master, and you actually bark like an animal and kneel down in front of your slaves!"
Tantai Jin raised his little face and said obediently: "Aunt Lan'an, they said I would bark like a dog, so they gave me food."
He bit the sugar residue in his mouth and chewed the sugar coating loudly.
Lan An said angrily: "Your Highness, do you know what self-respect is?"
To be continued...