Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 999: Chapter 999: Mothers Not Allowed to Undergo Cesarean Section

There was no need to say anything; they started packing their backpacks! They were going to multiple villages, so besides simple checkup instruments, they also needed medicine and various treatment tools. They even had to bring their own dry rations, as Dean Lu was not one to take advantage.

They split into two groups.

Due to weight considerations, they paired a man and a woman: Bai Xiao and Doctor Zhang followed Xiaoyu, while He Xin and Xiaohuang followed Dean Lu.

Xiaoli stayed behind to guard the hospital, leaving most of the main team absent.

Bai Xiao, with her backpack on, and Doctor Zhang followed Xiaoyu, dressed in sportswear. Bai Xiao was concerned about convenience, so she wore sports clothes and shoes, which were suitable for climbing and walking.

They set off before five in the morning, while it was still barely light, and the group split up.

Bai Xiao and Doctor Zhang closely followed Xiaoyu out of the town.

They realized Xiaoyu led them onto a small path outside the town, rather than the main road.

Calling it a path was generous; this sheep’s intestine trail was usually untouched.

Over time, wild grass would overgrow the path, and snakes would hide within.

Xiaoyu specifically gave each of them a sturdy branch as a walking stick, useful for climbing and scaring snakes away.

Bai Xiao’s ears picked up every sound around her undistracted by her visual sight.

She noticed the chirping of insects rising and spotted a few frogs—nocturnal creatures engaged in their activities.

As the sun gradually rose, her eyes slowly adjusted to the darkness. noveldrama

She could easily discern the outlines of big trees and shrubs.

Following Xiaoyu’s footsteps.

Walking on the mountain path revealed its difficulty.

The terrain was so rugged, with steep mountain slopes everywhere, that even jogging was impossible. Despite their caution, they stumbled along.

Three hours later, their backs ached and their legs throbbed with pain, utterly exhausted.

Xiaoyu pointed to a hollow area, indicating it was their first village.

Because the remaining path was downhill, it saved them considerable effort; at least Bai Xiao felt her aching legs almost automatically moved forward down the slope.

Soon they arrived in the village.

The villagers were evidently prepared for their arrival; someone immediately greeted Xiaoyu, speaking a dialect Bai Xiao and the others couldn’t understand.

Xiaoyu’s face went pale.

"Doctor Bai, there’s a woman in labor experiencing difficulties, it’s been two days and nights. Her mother wants us to take a look."

Xiaoyu had no experience in midwifery.

Bai Xiao glanced at Doctor Zhang.

Doctor Zhang looked baffled; he was a surgeon, not an obstetrician, and had no experience in delivering babies.

"Doctor Bai, this one’s on you, I’m no good!"

Bai Xiao exhaled.

"Let’s go! We need to take a look! We can’t just stand by, a woman experiencing labor for two days and nights can easily lose the strength to give birth, ending up with two deaths."

Since they were here, there was no reason to ignore it.

Bai Xiao wouldn’t allow herself to stay uninvolved.

The scene inside the small house was shockingly pitiful.

The pregnant woman’s husband, Weng Jiefang, was a humble and foolish man, over forty, shabby and unpleasant-looking, dark-skinned. When he came near, Bai Xiao could instantly smell an unpleasant odor—that of body odor—so strong that Bai Xiao could barely tolerate it, forcing her to pull her mask up.

Otherwise, she doubted she could continue enduring it.

Doctor Zhang seemed to think the same, distancing himself from the man.

Bai Xiao seriously suspected this seventeen-year-old girl before her was not the man’s true wife, but merely sold to him by another family to relieve their own burdens, serving as a mere childbearing tool.

She attentively examined her patient.

Bai Na was a tall and sturdy country girl, but now she faced unexpected troubles, and was already starting to panic.

Bai Xiao tried her best to comfort her, asking Xiaoyu to interpret her words, to have a calming effect, so she and the child would feel more comfortable. NovelFire

However, the contractions persisted incessantly.

Bai Na’s cheeks were pale, her eyes sunken.

Clearly tormented and barely alive.

Bai Na’s husband, Weng Jiefang, continued recounting how Bai Na’s mother sought their help in this one-room shabby hut, revealing Bai Na had been in pain for two days.

He mumbled complaints about being unable to sleep, while Bai Xiao stifled the strong urge to slap him.

"This might help with the pain." Bai Xiao spoke calmly, relaying her message through Xiaoyu.

Bai Na was only seventeen, and this was her first birth.

They didn’t have labor-inducing injections, so Bai Xiao used two silver needles on her arms, already helping suppress pain and calm her down, assisting Bai Xiao to deliver the baby.

Doctor Zhang wanted to come in and help, but Weng Jiefang blocked him at the door.

Ramblingly telling Xiaoyu that he couldn’t allow this man to see his wife’s body.

Hastily making Bai Xiao genuinely want to kick this man out.

Leaving just the three of them in the room.

She checked and found the fetus was breech—this delivery would be extremely challenging.

In a hospital, this situation would require a cesarean section, but after negotiating with Xiaoyu and that man, Weng Jiefang adamantly refused surgery, opting to lose the child rather than permit an incision on his wife’s abdomen.

Even Bai Na pleaded with Xiaoyu, wanting to save her child and hoping they would help her.

Bai Xiao could only silently rely on her special ability to ensure the child’s safety, as in breech deliveries, the umbilical cord could sometimes wrap around the fetus, causing the baby to perish in the birth canal.

Moreover, the woman had been in agony for so long.

She also doubted if the baby, even if fine now, could survive past infancy in such conditions.

As Bai Na’s abdomen tightened again, she groaned in pain.

"Push harder." Bai Xiao softly instructed; she could see a smooth lump—that was the child’s buttocks. "Push harder!"

Her special ability couldn’t replace maternal birth canal force.

It could merely ease the mother’s pain, and also assist in relaxing the canal.

Bai Na exerted all her strength to push downward, lifting her shoulders off the bed, a piercing scream emerging from deep within her throat.

Bai Xiao placed her hands on her high, swollen abdomen, firmly helping her push downward.