She only took a hazy glance and muttered, "So ugly!" Then she fell into a deep sleep.
Little Bun seemed to be protesting his mother calling him ugly. He cried loudly, his little legs kicking energetically.
The midwife skillfully cleaned Little Bun and wrapped him in a small swaddling blanket. Afterward, she weighed him and recorded the time of his birth.
Sister Liang and Sister Huang were not idle either. They busied themselves wiping Xia Ruqing's body and changing the bedding.
The Imperial Physician was also busy, taking Xia Ruqing's pulse.
Imperial Doctor Zhang stroked his beard and nodded to himself, murmuring, "Xia Jieyu was in labor for three shi chen. This is fast for a first birth. She has good physical strength and condition, and her pulse is also good.
"Apart from... being overly fatigued, there's not much depletion of her health. A good month of postpartum recuperation will bring her right back!"
