CHAPTER 334: CHAPTER 326: FAMILIES WITH WEALTH BUT FEW OFFSPRING (10)

Yu Zhu followed her inside the room.

Li Xing’an and Mu Yuanxiu were stopped outside, not allowed to enter.

The men of the Chen Family couldn’t enter either, Old Mrs. Chen was sitting on a chair by the door, blocking the way, only allowing the women to go in, check the situation, and run errands to pass messages.

Yu Zhu entered the bedroom.

She saw two women guarding by the bed and thought to herself, the previous generation of the Chen Family was really prosperous, so why is there not a single child in this generation?

Is it true what they say? Making too much money through unscrupulous means invites retribution?

On the way here, she asked Lady Tian about the Chen Family’s situation.

Lady Tian told her, Old Chen had three sons, the eldest was thirty-five and still without a child. His wife had several pregnancies, but they all ended in miscarriages between one to three months.

The girl named Da Nuan who calls the Eldest Chen her father was adopted from another branch of the family.

The second son fell off his horse on his wedding day while riding to pick up his bride, and his private parts landed perfectly on a fallen tree trunk on the ground, damaging it.

The bride left that day, there was no wedding ceremony, and naturally, the marriage didn’t go through. The second son’s current wife is a widow who came with a child.

The third son’s body is normal, but he has a crooked mouth and is quite ugly, even money can’t get him a bride.

The third son has high standards, he doesn’t want ugly or foolish women, he insists on wanting someone pretty, but where is he going to find a beautiful woman willing to marry him?

Those with extraordinary looks are chosen by wealthy families and married off long before reaching marriageable age, never giving a chance to someone like the crooked-mouthed Chen the Third.

So, at the age of twenty-seven or twenty-eight, Chen the Third is still a bachelor.

Coincidentally, Lady Tian’s family had a mishap, and Chen the Third set his eyes on the Tian Family’s daughter.

Old Chen’s descendants were sparse, the eldest daughter-in-law’s pregnancy was the first of the grandchild’s generation, Yu Zhu couldn’t afford to be careless.

Only when the Chen Family’s matters are settled can Tian Dawang have time to help her carve the print mold, allowing her family’s book-printing business to start up.

Yu Zhu walked to the bedside and observed the woman in labor.

The two women in the room were also eyeing her, both with a look of disdain, "Why is there a young girl here?"

"Fifth and sixth sisters-in-law, this is arranged by the eldest sister-in-law," said the woman who led Yu Zhu in.

"Has the sister-in-law gone mad, allowing a young girl to deliver the baby?" one of the women sneered.

Yu Zhu ignored her mockery and turned to them, saying, "Prepare hot water immediately, burn a charcoal brazier, and get some clean, light-colored cloths, quickly!"

She instructed clearly.

The two women sitting by the bed remained unmoved, one looked at the ceiling, the other at the floor.

The woman who brought Yu Zhu in pretended not to hear, fanning herself, looking around.

Yu Zhu narrowed her eyes, the situation in the Chen Family was truly complicated, the main branch had money but lacked heirs, having to adopt a daughter from a collateral branch.

With great difficulty, an in-law was pregnant, but the nieces-in-law were each more obstructive than the last, were these people concerned about their sister-in-law? Did they not want the woman in labor to give birth to the child?

If the eldest son’s wife gave birth, how would the collateral branches push their children into the main branch for adoption?

She didn’t want to get involved in this family’s messy water, she only cared about the condition of the woman in labor.

The woman had signs of premature labor, and the baby was in a breech position.

Surgery was necessary immediately, or else both would die.

Unable to get the three women to cooperate, Yu Zhu went to the door and shouted, "The baby in Madam Chen’s belly is in a breech position, it’s extremely dangerous, delivery must happen immediately, I need help."

Old Mrs. Chen immediately shouted at the women inside, "The family of the fourth? The fifth’s and sixth’s? What are you all doing? Hurry and get busy."

Standing outside were the in-law wives from the distant relatives of the Chen Family. They had no chance of seizing the main family’s inheritance, and urged Old Mrs. Chen, "You should go and have a look, you have experience with your age."

Why weren’t the women in the room proactive, the relatives outside the room knew full well, but they couldn’t speak openly.

Old Mrs. Chen didn’t sit and wait any longer, she got up and walked inside the room.

The three women inside, seeing Old Mrs. Chen personally come in, were frightened into action, some finding basins, others cloths, each busier and quicker than the last.

Yu Zhu observed with amusement, lightly curling the corners of her lips, sitting down on a stool by the bed.

Old Mrs. Chen glanced at the face of her eldest daughter-in-law on the bed, and asked Yu Zhu, "Are you sure, certain it’s a breech position?"

She asked with some concern.

Yu Zhu touched the woman’s belly and said, "It’s a breech position, the child is quite large, about eight pounds.

On top of that, the woman’s health isn’t great, with multiple miscarriages and advanced age, there are numerous complications.

Additionally, the woman has a small and narrow pelvis, people with this body type have a very hard time giving birth.

The woman in labor, hearing Yu Zhu say this, turned her cries of pain into wails.

A breech birth with a large baby—almost impossible for such a child to be born safely.

This was going to be an agonizing, torturous death!

The woman was terrified, her face white, crying loudly.

Yet she couldn’t afford to die; she had to keep trying to give birth.

Her wailing cries, one after another, irritated Old Mrs. Chen, "Why are you crying? Which woman doesn’t hurt when giving birth? Do you think you’re the only one? No one else has been as pampered while having a child! Annoying!"

The woman, already feeling aggrieved, was even more heartbroken by the scolding, and cried even louder.

Yu Zhu held her hand, comforting her, "Don’t be afraid, I have a way to help you deliver quickly."

The woman cried, "How can I give birth, I’m in a breech position, and the baby is so big."

She hated her husband’s family to death; they practically treated her like a pig when she finally got pregnant, stuffing her with fish, meat, chicken, and duck every day.

Besides making her eat well, they didn’t even let her get out of bed.

Pregnant for over eight months, she spent almost every day sleeping on the bed.

She grew fatter and fatter, and in the end, the child grew so large.

Hearing that the child was breeched and eight pounds, she wanted to die.

Yu Zhu said, "Following the old ways and letting the baby come out naturally won’t work. The baby is large, and it’s feet-first in the birth canal, there’s no way it can come out by itself, the only option is to perform a C-section to get the baby out."

"C... C-section?" The woman stopped crying, her tearful eyes blinking as she stared blankly at Yu Zhu, "W... What does that mean? How do you do that?"

The term was new, and she didn’t understand.

Yu Zhu used her finger to gesture on her own belly, "You make a cut on the belly, take the baby out, and then sew the belly back up, both mother and child will be fine."

Old Mrs. Chen gasped, staring at Yu Zhu as she exclaimed, "W... What? C... C-section? Are you trying to kill my eldest daughter-in-law?" She gestured with her hands, disagreeing with Yu Zhu’s method, "Can someone still live after cutting open the belly? Absolutely not!"

She had seen pigs being gutted during slaughter, saw chickens being gutted for their gizzards, but had never seen or heard of a person being cut open!

The three women in the room followed suit in their opposition.

One of them said, "Sister-in-law, this young girl is just talking nonsense, if you cut open the belly, the intestines would spill out, both the child and the mother would die!"

"Exactly, does she think it’s as easy as playing with a ragdoll?" another woman ridiculed.

"Sister-in-law, better wait for the midwife," said the third woman.

The first woman to speak said, "Sister-in-law, this is your first biological grandchild, you can’t be careless."

"Sister-in-law, is this young lady trying to get revenge on your family?"

"I bet she is, earlier your family went to collect debts from the Tian Family, and the Tians must resent you for having no money. Now they send someone pretending to know how to deliver a baby, intending to cut off the Sister-in-law’s family line!"

"So young yet practicing murder by C-section, where does such a heart come from?"

"Probably doesn’t even have a heart!"

The young girl of the Chen Family’s main branch was adopted from the clan.

The second house’s girl was the child of a second-marriage wife’s previous husband, none of these children were blood relations to the Chen Family’s main branch. The whole family pinned their hopes on the belly of the eldest son’s wife.

If anything happened...

The three women took turns speaking, making Old Mrs. Chen more hesitant.

The woman on the bed became more anxious as well, starting to cry again.

Neither the patient nor the family made a decision, Yu Zhu couldn’t proceed with the surgery on her own, so she said, "That’s fine, wait for the midwife. However, with such a large breeched baby, I’m afraid no midwife would dare to deliver it, right?"

She waited a short while longer.

If the Chen Family persisted in not letting her operate, there was nothing she could do.

"In our village, women always give birth under the care of a midwife, young girl, don’t speak nonsense if you don’t know," one woman huffed lightly.

"Tell me, did the Tian Family send you to cause trouble?" Another woman asked.