The Blessed (Book 5)

624-630

624. Go Celebrate the Birthday (1)-See a Doctor? Something Happened!
Translator: Guy Gone Bad

"What is the matter, second brother?"

Not far away from the stage, there was a yard Wintersweet Yard, in which was planted with full wintersweet trees. In cold winter, other trees all got bare, only the wintersweet trees were still blooming there alone proudly. Yan Shengrui and Ling Jingxuan followed Zeng Shaoming into the hall. Seeing that he let all servants and maid out, Yan Shengrui and Ling Jingxuan were confused. What kind of thing needs to be so prudent?

"Actually, I wanna talk to Jingxuan."

Zeng Shaoming pointed to Ling Jingxuan embarrassedly before turning to him and said, "Jingxuan, I heard that your medical skills are superb. So I wonder if you can feel me and my wife's impulse and see if... ahem...why we can't get her pregnant..."

The more he said, the more embarrassed he looked, after all, it was a bit too private thing. If it hadn't been that he heard his wife say that Ling Jingxuan's medical skills were good enough that he could tell Lingqiang couldn't get pregnant with an eye and it was quite possible she would never carry a baby, he wouldn't have generated such a thought. After all, he was nearly forty, so, actually he had almost accepted the fact that they might not have a son for the rest of their life.

"Huh? You have no children?"

Ling Jingxuan couldn't help picking his eyebrows, and his eyes fell on his wife. She didn't look like she had never given birth...

"No, actually..."

Seeing her husband too embarrassed, she plucked up the courage to tell them how their big son died at an early age and then had five daughters in a row in details. Even out of the five daughters, four were from the side concubines. When the first daughter came out, they didn't think much. As in Duke Weiyuan Mansion, there were more boys than girls, so the whole family liked her. But, in the following years, she had never been able to get pregnant again, so she had no choice but to let her husband to have concubines. The more unacceptable thing was, as one after another married in, only four of them got pregnant, and it were all daughters. So she gradually became people's laughing stock. Except Six who hadn't been married and Lady Wu, her big sister-in-law, the other three wives always excluded and mocked them, so others also couldn't raise their heads in this big family. Heaven knew how she wished that at least one of those concubines could give birth to a

son.

"Well, you know, giving birth to a boy or a girl is not something a doctor can decide. Second brother, second sister-in-law, however good my medical skills are, I can't control this."

For the first time, Ling Jingxuan felt so embarrassed. He could feel their anxiety. Yeah, in the mansion, the duke had so many sons, who might have no enmities against each other, but those wives were different. Competing with each other was unavoidable. And sons were extremely important to people of this era. The second son and his wife had no sons, so it was imaginable how hard their life could be. But the thing is, even in the 21th century, the doctors also couldn't decide the gender of the babies.

"Oh, I see."

Zeng Shaoming looked disappointed. When there was no hope, it was not that bad. When one saw a slice of hope and it was gone the next second, that kind of blow was hard to describe. Even a big man like him lost his manners already.

Seeing her husband so sad, she also felt sad and started to weep. So they would never have a son and be other's laughing stock forever? Born in such a family, the big son born from a concubine was already a huge insult to the first wife and she could bear with it. Why heaven wouldn't grant them a son?