Chapter 200: Chapter 126: You Ask Me How Deep I Love You, How Much I Love You

That would be a real problem.

After some thought, King Yan sighed and said,

"Asking you to get it from your maternal family? What kind of solution is that?

Let’s just wait and see. If it really comes to it, I’ll figure something out."

King Yan considered the matter again carefully.

Although the venture was massive, there was still a way to wrap things up in the end.

Worst case scenario, if they didn’t make a profit...

But he mustn’t forget, the war in the Northern regions was about to end.

If they couldn’t make money by then, he could just send the tens of thousands of people back home.

The only problem was that for the seven or eight months these people were here, his own household would have to pay to support them all.

’That kid really roped me into this,’ he thought.

How much would that cost over seven or eight months?

Even now, silver was flowing out like water every single day.

In any case, if it didn’t work out this time...

Then he’d just have to give up on this second son of his.

There was nothing wrong with him just being a carefree rich kid.

He shouldn’t think about pursuing anything else.

......

Time flew by in a flash.

In the blink of an eye, nearly two more months had passed.

A lot had happened in those two months.

Of course, the most important thing was that his wife’s belly had started to grow.

It hadn’t been very noticeable before.

Now, it was clearly visible.

Counting the days, she was about five, almost six months along.

Spring had now fully arrived.

Although her belly had gotten bigger, his wife’s daily life wasn’t really affected.

It was just like before; it wasn’t as if the bigger belly made it difficult for her to move around or anything.

It was just as his wife had said before.

When the village women got pregnant, they would still work in the fields even at eight or nine months.

She was nowhere near that point yet.

Life right now was much the same as before.

It did, however, make Aunt Zhao and Aunt Song worry endlessly. They basically followed Su Liyan around whenever they were home.

They were terrified something might happen.

Lu Yuan, on the other hand, was relatively calm, though he was quite excited inside.

After all, this was the first time in his life he was going to be a father.

Whether before or after transmigrating, it was truly the first time ever.

But, despite his inner excitement...

He didn’t feel the need to follow his wife around all day.

Mainly because the five-month mark was a relatively safe period.

Pregnancies were most dangerous during the first two and last two months.

The time in between was generally fine.

Besides, Aunt Zhao was also pregnant now, so the two of them kept each other company at home every day, which put Lu Yuan at ease.

So, Lu Yuan didn’t stay at home all day. Instead, he had been busy with the greenhouses recently.

Well, not entirely busy with the greenhouses.

How should I put it? After all, cultivating hybrids and such was something that mainly depended on time.

You couldn’t rush it.

Every day, his main task was to record the temperature and humidity in the greenhouses in the morning and evening.

There wasn’t much else to it.

Anyway, the first batch of hybrid potato tubers was out.

In about another month, he would see how they turned out.

During this period, Lu Yuan was still studying *Medical Heart*.

Besides that, Lu Yuan was also reading books like *Craftsmanship* and *Alchemy*.

Lately, he’d been tinkering with... a telephone.

Actually, before tinkering with the telephone, Lu Yuan had already created something else.

A radio.

Lu Yuan had basically followed the model of the "Three Rotations and One Sound" from 1950s Earth.

A radio, a bicycle, a sewing machine, and a watch.

Currently, a radio station and transmission tower had already been set up in the center of Taiping.

The first batch of radios was already finished. The things were incredibly easy to make; the only difficulty was the electricity.

If this were a proper ancient era, that would have been a real challenge.

But this wasn’t a proper ancient era. They had Spirit Stones, which were a perfect substitute.

The newly manufactured radios had not yet been released for sale.

They were waiting for a test broadcast tonight.

For now, the only ones with radios were the Zhao Family and their various manors in Taiping City.

The Travelers at the outlying manors had all finished their dinner early and gone inside.

In manors with seven or eight people, they all gathered in a room, staring at the small metal box in front of them with puzzled expressions.

None of them knew what this gadget was for.

It had been delivered by a fast horse from the city today with instructions to stay by it tonight and listen for a sound.

They had no idea what kind of sound it would be.

...

「That night.」

In the East Wing of the Zhao Family residence.

The windows were open.

It was no longer the dead of winter.

The Underground Heating System had long since been shut off.

It was now late spring, almost early summer.

The evenings were even a little hot and stuffy.

The family’s clothes, however, hadn’t changed much.

They wore the same things they wore in winter, yet they all looked incredibly cool and comfortable.

Fair, beautiful skin swayed back and forth before Lu Yuan’s eyes.

It was truly eye-catching.

"Yuan’Er, can this thing really make a sound?"

Song Meiqin asked curiously, hovering in front of the radio in the main room.

Since the radio had already been manufactured, it had naturally been tested several times before.

However, for the past two months, Song Meiqin had been busy with the factory in Yandu.

Lu Yuan had supervised the radio’s production himself.

So, Song Meiqin truly had no idea.

Lu Yuan wasn’t in the room; he was out in the courtyard.

He was lying back in a bamboo rocking chair, his legs crossed.

Aunt Zhao and Su Liyan were beside him, doing the same.

They had just finished dinner and were now enjoying the evening breeze in the courtyard, as comfortable as could be.

"Just wait. It’ll make a sound in a bit,"

Lu Yuan said with immense contentment, his eyes lightly closed as he enjoyed the spring evening breeze.

Song Meiqin remained in the room, watching curiously.

She poked it here and pressed it there, like a curious child.

Song Meiqin knew nothing about this device.

By the time she had finished her work in Yandu, the things were already built and stored in a large warehouse.

"Yuan’Er, the factory in Yandu started shipping goods three days ago.

I just received a fast report today."

Song Meiqin said as she walked out of the room.

The Song Meiqin of today was growing ever more ripe and charming, more tender and feminine.

After all, these past few days, it had basically been all Song Meiqin.

What could he do? His wife and Aunt Zhao were both pregnant, so that only left Aunt Song.

As for whether Aunt Song was pregnant yet...

It wasn’t apparent yet.

But it would definitely happen soon. Her body had almost fully recovered.

Lu Yuan personally decocted medicine and performed acupuncture for her every day.

It was only a matter of time.

When she reached the courtyard, Song Meiqin didn’t go to her own bamboo chair.

Instead, she sat right down on Lu Yuan’s lap, then leaned back into his embrace and wrapped her arms around him, cooing:

"I’m guessing the situation over there is just like it was for us at the beginning~

The report said people were already waiting in front of the shops in all the major cities~" 𝚏𝕣𝕖𝚎𝚠𝚎𝚋𝚗𝐨𝐯𝕖𝕝.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The progress in Yandu was going even more smoothly than it had in Taiping City.

It couldn’t be helped; this was business being handled by King Yan’s family.

Who would dare cause trouble?

Previously, their family’s shops had only opened smoothly here in Taiping City.

But in the other county towns and the Provincial City, they had run into some trouble.

After all, every country has its own national anthem...

Wait, no...

It’s that every county town has its own local bigwigs.

You can’t just waltz into someone else’s territory and start a business without giving them a heads-up.

Fortunately, the Zhao Family had no prior grievances with these people, so a few courteous visits were enough.

But over in the Yandu region, shops were set up in Yandu itself and dozens of surrounding county towns in practically a single day.

It was far, far smoother than it had been in Taiping City.

On top of that, they received all sorts of conveniences. It was basically green lights all the way; everything happened as fast as possible.

Lu Yuan didn’t react much to Song Meiqin’s words; he had expected this outcome all along.

He showed no major reaction.

’Not surprising,’ he thought.

Seeing Lu Yuan’s lack of reaction, Aunt Song tightened her arms around his neck and said coquettishly,

"Yuan’Er~~"

Lu Yuan wrapped an arm around Aunt Song’s slender waist, his hand resting on her ample, ever-fuller bottom.

Just as Aunt Song, her face flushed red, was about to say something, the radio in the room suddenly came to life.

An opening melody, incredibly familiar to Lu Yuan, began to play.

Aunt Song first froze, then couldn’t help but exclaim,

"Heavens, it’s a demon!"

But she quickly seemed to remember something.

When Aunt Song came to her senses and looked at Lu Yuan, she saw that he had opened his eyes and was slowly singing along with the rhythm from the radio:

"You ask me how deep my love is, how much I love you~"

Beside them, Aunt Zhao and Su Liyan also slowly opened their eyes. They looked over at Song Meiqin and Lu Yuan, and with a faint smile, they softly sang along:

"My feelings are true, my love is also true~

The moon represents my heart~"