Chapter Thirty-Five: Confirmation of Pregnancy

  "Congratulations to Lang Jun, congratulations to Lang Jun, both of these two ladies are confirmed to be pregnant, congratulations, congratulations."

  He accompanied his mother and aunt to have a conversation, then went to clean up the house he was going to live in. Actually, there was nothing much to clean up in the house, just spread some dried straw on the kang, then put a mat on top, and finally bring over his own quilt filled with fragmented grass and place it on the kang.

  The house Yang Heng was going to live in was similar in style to the main hall, but this house was actually lower and narrower than the main hall. These were all things stipulated by the construction order. Although it is said that there may not have been a construction order at that time, in later generations, Yang Heng had seen some of the articles of the construction order on the internet. Even if they don't exist now, perhaps before long, this construction order will be released. So for him to strictly follow the standard and build the house should still be appropriate.

  Moreover, the house where Yang Heng is going to live does not use wood for building walls and floors, but instead uses earth-rammed walls. The base of the wall is made of rubble foundation and wall skirt, while the upper part is directly built with earth, making the wall thickness more than half a meter.

  However, this time Yang Heng adopted the construction method of old houses he had seen in his previous life. In the middle room, a stove was built, and on the stove was an iron pot, which was a six-person pot commonly used in later generations. Yang Heng planned to occasionally cook some dishes or rice himself, and it would also be good for heating the kang.

  The kang is made in a style that is half a meter off the ground, and when people come to play, they can sit on the edge of the kang or play on top of it. The middle partition wall has a fire wall design, and the two rooms on either side do not have doors for now. Yang Heng plans to install door curtains later. The roof is in the shape of a crossbeam, with a suspended mountain peak design, and new green glazed tiles are hung on top, which will make this house less prone to damage from natural disasters. In contrast, other houses, including the main hall, do not have tiles installed, as Yang Heng only experimented with firing one batch of tiles.

  At this time, Yang Heng's house had four rooms, one main hall, one two-story side room, and two wing rooms on the left and right. At this time, cooking was done in the west wing room because the house for cooking had not been built yet, while the west wing was a house prepared for servants to live in, with a similar kang, stove, etc. inside, just facing different directions.

  This is a bit far-fetched. When Yang Heng heard the doctor's congratulations, he also smiled with joy. Although it was possible to judge from the front that it might be, without the doctor's judgment, it couldn't be confirmed, right?

  "Ah, thank you doctor, thank you doctor." Lao Die was thanking him profusely on the side. "Lang Jun, no need to thank me, this is what I should do. However, can you send me back? This journey has exhausted me. Also, when we get back, I'll prescribe some tonics for a safe pregnancy, and you can bring them back to burn for your wives to drink."

  "Big brother, look at my family..." "Little sister, don't say anything else, little brother knows that this matter will definitely make him happy. Don't worry, as long as my wife has food to eat, you'll have food to eat too. I'll also get the medicine for a safe pregnancy back for you." Old dad's big hand waved happily, and immediately put little aunt at ease.

  "Grandfather, look, now both my mother and aunt are pregnant, why don't we just buy a few more servants instead?" At this time, Yang Heng took the opportunity to bring up past matters again.

  "Alright, buy a few, young master, you say how many are needed." The old man was delighted and he knew that the household indeed needed some servants to do chores now. If hiring people was still not reassuring, it was better to directly buy slaves with lifelong contracts.

  "Hmm, I think we'll buy three then. Also, we need to buy an ox, in case something happens, we can use the ox to pull a cart to handle it. The three people are a maid of 15-20 years old, a male servant of about 20 years old, and an older man who can drive the cart and do other chores." Yang Heng directly set the tone, that's how it is.

  "All right, I'll send the doctor back and then find a place to stay in town for the night. Tomorrow, I'll buy what you want and bring it back. But first, you should get things arranged at home early and take care of your mother and aunt."

  "Don't worry, Father," Yang Heng assured him. "Ah, right, Father, you should go to the city earlier and book a few midwives in advance, let the doctor calculate when my mother and aunt will give birth, so we can invite the midwife to come and stay here ahead of time. Remember, be sure to book several, just in case we can't find a midwife at that time." Yang Heng instructed his father again.

  "Alright, alright, I'm leaving." The old man waved his hand impatiently and left with the doctor. "This kid, don't I know about this? Still need to be told like this, am I worse than a little brat?" The old man muttered to himself.

  "Mr. Lang, your family's young master really planned well, this can guarantee the safety of the parturient." The doctor sighed and wondered how this family educated their children.

  "Daughter, what are you going to do?" After Old Father left, Old Mother also got down from the kang, "This... shouldn't we cook now? I'll go cook." Old Mother explained, Yang Heng looked at the weather and found that it was time to eat again.

  "Mother, just wait and see, from now on I'll take care of cooking. And also, all your activities with Auntie will be arranged by me from now on, it's all for the sake of our future younger siblings." Yang Heng hastily said to his mother.

  Now still eating two meals a day, now the old lady is pregnant, it seems that this also needs to be changed. However, today will continue, but what to cook? Suddenly, Yang Heng saw the new rice, so there was an idea, tonight just make rice with the new rice, and stir-fry a dish, plus a soup. Yang Heng's cooking is just edible, it's impossible to make anything fancy.

  Rice, put the steamer in the pot first, then add rice to the pot, and burn firewood on the stove. Yang Heng went to another room's stove to stir-fry dishes, but before stir-frying, Yang Heng had to boil a soup in a pot, in order to prevent anything from affecting the fetus, so Yang Heng always chose some common food.