Chapter Seventy Continues from Previous Chapter

  The battle has ended, and at this time, neither Yang Heng nor Old Dad can afford to summarize the war or arrange the spoils of war, because Aunties have started producing one after another.

  "Third brother, don't worry, the midwife who came to deliver is the same one from when your sister-in-law and younger sister gave birth. She's very reliable." Old Father comforted Third Uncle on the side. This person, once their life improves, they start to feel that their life is precious. Otherwise, Third Uncle wouldn't be like this. Yang Heng knew that now Third Aunt's cries were not as loud as Mother and Little Aunt's cries back then. That time was still not well-prepared, and Yang Heng's heart was also in a state of unease at the time.

  Nowadays, San Shu has given birth to two children. This third child is not as risky as the first one. In this era, giving birth to a child is often most dangerous for the first time. The accident rate can reach almost half of the probability. But for the third child, the risk rate is very small, even less than half.

  Why is it that in this era, many families have only one son or one daughter for their entire lives? It's because when they gave birth to their first child, they were scared, whether it was a boy or a girl. No matter what the scientific rules are, this is the fact. These men and women often check their bodies and find no problems, but they still can't have children. In Yang Heng's past life, there weren't many cases like this, otherwise, there wouldn't be so many infertility hospitals. Actually, they treat people whose bodies don't have any problems. If you let someone who really has infertility go for treatment, it's 100% ineffective.

  "Big brother, why hasn't Dr. Sun been coming here for a while? If he were here, we would feel at ease." Third Uncle was anxious and couldn't find anything to say. Does Dr. Sun need to come to this small mountain valley every day? He has already learned everything he needs to learn here, and now he needs to go to various places to practice.

  "Third brother, you should put your mind at ease. Haven't you heard? These midwives are now famous outside and the accident rate of children born through their hands has greatly decreased. Before helping your sister-in-law give birth, they had a success rate of 50%, which was already a great achievement. But now, the survival rate of children born under their care has reached over 90%, with both mothers and babies safe. What's there to worry about?"

  Indeed, Yang Heng taught these midwives many things. First was the issue of disinfection. Although there was no strong liquor in this era, boiling water was available. These midwives even joined forces to start a business and purchased some equipment, such as iron pots for boiling cloth, sharp forceps, and pointed knives that were usually sealed with oil to prevent rust, which could cause puerperal fever in the new mothers. Next, among them was a midwife with small hands who would insert her hand into the birth canal during difficult deliveries to adjust the fetal position, allowing the baby to be born smoothly. They even learned how to perform episiotomies, enabling women with oversized fetuses to give birth safely. Nevertheless, cases of stillbirth and maternal mortality still occurred.

  At that time, when they heard that the few families were having children, they didn't say a word and moved in ahead of schedule with their things. They didn't care about anything else. This was the birth of the master's wife, and if they weren't there, it would be disrespectful to the master. Although Yang Heng didn't treat them as apprentices, they treated Yang Heng as their master. Although this master was a bit young, Yang Heng had indeed given them benefits. In the past year, their reputation had gone out, and they even got a reputation for being sent by Guanyin, but it wasn't one person's reputation, it was four people sharing one reputation.

  "Wow..." A loud voice came out, and San Shu also fainted. The child was finally born. At this time, San Shu seemed to have lost his bones, and it was really too intense just now. "Congratulations, sir, your family has added a big fat boy, mother and son are safe." At this time, there were still two midwives inside cleaning up, while the other two midwives came out to congratulate them. Even looking at these two midwives, they looked quite tired, it seemed that giving birth was their job.

  "Alright, alright, thank you all, reward." At this time, Third Uncle was already too weak to speak, so Old Father had to act as the host for once. The day passed smoothly and naturally everyone became more generous. When Old Father said "reward", someone brought over a few pieces of silver.

  "Ah, Lord, this is too much! This is our master's relative, we shouldn't take any money." The two midwives hastily pushed the money away, it was also a gesture, they couldn't not take a single copper coin, but in front of their master, how could they take so much silver?

  "Alright, I've told you to take it, just take it and be more careful next time wherever you are giving birth, this is also a way of accumulating virtue." Yang Heng waved his hand casually.

  Although these midwives treated Yang Heng as their master, Yang Heng did not consider himself their master. Moreover, there were still several aunts who would give birth soon, and these midwives could not leave during this period of time. If someone came to find them from outside, they might arrange for one person to go, but at least three people would stay here on guard.

  However, Second Uncle and Fifth Uncle did not have the good fortune to stay at home, as it was again the time for their annual labor service. Although the county needed money now that the war had just ended, they also needed laborers to do work. Naturally, the uncles' hopes of paying a fee to avoid labor service were dashed, and they reluctantly bid farewell to their hometown.

  Also, during this period of time, Li Er was humiliated by the river Wei and signed the treaty of Wei River. Yang Heng understood that Li Er did not have to suffer this humiliation, but he had no choice. Even if they fought back, they could win, but it would be a miserable victory. After a miserable victory, if anything else happened, there would be no way to deal with it. Li Er was indeed one of the greatest emperors in history, and he accepted the shame for the sake of future stability. Yang Heng also truly understood the reason behind this historical event at this time, and felt extremely admiring of Li Er.

  "Brother Yang, mom, is mom okay?" The uncles were not at home, and the aunts' cries were much softer, but they still scared the children. They kept asking Yang, "Don't worry, don't worry, soon you'll have a little brother or sister." Yang comforted the children.