At the beginning of the twelfth lunar month, Yuan Quan brought a large group of civil and military families to Tangshan. Sun Ce's mother, Mrs. Wu, did not come. She was unwilling to go back and forth and wanted to receive Sun Jian's news as soon as possible.

Sun Ce was very embarrassed. Mrs. Wu was accusing him of not caring about his father Sun Jian and younger brother Sun Quan. It was only five or six hundred miles from Wu County to Tangshan, and the distance from Jiaozhou was almost worth mentioning.

Sun Ce asked Yu Fan what to do. Yu Fan was very calm. Mrs. Wu didn't understand the situation and didn't know the good intentions of the lord staying in Moling. I went there in person and explained to her in person that she understood the righteousness and would definitely understand. Sun Ce felt it was reasonable, so he agreed.

This incident made Sun Ce feel a little uncomfortable, but as soon as Yuan Quan and others arrived, he had to calm down and talk to them.

Feng Wan just gave birth to a daughter two months ago. She looked pink and very cute. Sun Ce couldn't let go. Feng Wan was a little regretful. Yin Ge and Yuan Quan gave birth to sons, but her first child was a daughter, and she was not in a good mood. Sun Ce said, even if you gave birth to a son, he would be the third child, and his daughter would be different. This is my first daughter, the eldest princess in the future, very good. Besides, you are so young, and you have more opportunities to have a son in the future. What are you going to worry about? If you really want to have a son, you should take good care of your health and try to get pregnant with another one as soon as possible.

After hearing this, Feng Wan turned anger into joy.

Looking at the colorful group of beauties and three children in front of him, Sun Ce felt happy that the hard work of the past year was worth it.

The first time the eldest princess met Yuan Quan and others, she was a little restrained and gave gifts whenever she saw him. Sun Ce knew that her dowry was thick, especially her jade wares, which was dazzling. He always felt that the emperor might have packed all the remaining jade wares in the palace to this only sister. However, although there were many jade wares, he could not compare with the white jade beauty given by Jia Xu.

Sun Ce believed that Jia Xu should have good things in his hands, and even if he was not as good as the beauty of the white jade, he would not be worse than the one in the eldest princess.

He didn't hit the smiley person. After receiving the gift from the eldest princess, Huang Yueying and others were very happy. They pulled the eldest princess to ask about their well-being, talking and laughing. Yuan Heng did not come and stayed in Wu County to accompany Mrs. Wu. Yuan Quan became the well-deserved eldest sister. Everything was handled by her and arranged properly. Sun Ce became the boss and enjoyed the fruits.

After putting down the luggage and allocating the accommodation, the girls called their friends and went to the hot springs together, and the yard became quieter.

Yuan Quan did not go and directed the servants to clean up the yard, especially the kitchen. She had to have a dinner party in the evening, so she had to prepare a lot. Yin Wei assisted her, and the two of them were very busy.

Feng Wan didn't go either. According to custom, women who had just given birth were unclean and could not contact outsiders casually, let alone bathing together. Although Sun Ce did not believe in this, he had no experience. He didn't know what women during the confinement period needed to pay attention to, so he didn't dare to take it on his own, so he stayed in the house to tease the child. Perhaps it was blood-related, and his daughter didn't recognize her at all when she saw him, and she giggled when she touched her, and tried hard to reach out to ask him to hug her.

Feng Wan did not let him hug him too much, saying that it would be clingy if he hugs too much and could not take off his hands. At that time, Sun Jie and Sun Sheng had to hug him when he was sleeping because Mrs. Wu was so spoiled that she had to hug him when she put it down. Yin Wei and Yuan Quan were tortured. Sun Ce sneered at this. He told Feng Wan that it was right not to hug him while sleeping, but hugging more when she didn't sleep. The more the child had contact with his parents' skin, the smarter he was. You not only had to hug her more, but also massage her more to promote her brain development.

Feng Wan is skeptical.

As the two were talking, Yuan Quan walked in from outside. Seeing Sun Ce was a little surprised and joked: "After all, it's his daughter Jin Gui, Big Hu, Xiaohu didn't see you so close when she was in her baby."

"I didn't understand at that time." Sun Ce smiled frankly and said, "If you work hard and have another daughter, I'm just as happy."

Yuan Quan gave Sun Ce a blank look and said, "You are better, I have something to ask you." She showed a little shame. "My mother's affairs were negligent, and I didn't expect so much. Is the war in Jiaozhou... not going well?"

There may be something wrong in Jiaozhou. Sun Ce did not tell anyone other than Yu Fan, and Yu Fan did not make any statement. Mrs. Wu did not know the specific situation. Maybe she was worried or intuition. After all, Sun Jian had been there for so long and had no news. Sun Ce suddenly rushed back in a hurry, which was easy to have bad associations, and it was natural to worry.

Sun Ce told the news he received. Yuan Quan sighed, feeling a little sad. "The battlefield is dangerous. You are fighting outside. We are worried at home. I don't know when the world will be peaceful."

Sun Ce originally wanted to comfort her, but suddenly his heart moved and changed his mind, "Even if the world is peaceful, I can't get rid of my family and return to the fields. My children are the same. Unless they are willing to study, do academics, and ignore government affairs like Akuang. Otherwise, even if they don't fight, guarding the border will inevitably be inevitable. Although the country is big, forgetting the war will lead to danger. This must start with ourselves and not use it to others."

Yuan Quan was very smart and suddenly heard what Sun Ce meant. She smiled and didn't argue. When she saw her iconic smile, Sun Ce knew that she was not convinced, but just didn't argue, and she had a little intention of letting the facts speak.

Sun Ce had no intention of arguing. Many things cannot be solved by saying them, and they must be done. He knew that he had many ideas that were too idealistic, but how could he know if he didn't try it? Recently, many people have been reading "Mencius", but their ideals are different. Some have seen the righteousness, some have seen the place of righteousness, and even though millions of people have gone, some have seen the way of the king and the ministers, but what he saw was eight words.

Born in distress, die in happiness.

Sitting next to the baby's cradle, Yuan Quan roughly explained what happened in Wuxian this year. Sun Ce was fighting outside, and they were not idle either. Yuan Quan and Mrs. Zhong jointly set up a business to operate some luxury goods, mainly gems, ivory, pearls and the like from Jiaozhou. Now the Central Plains are stable, the economy is recovering very quickly, the luxury goods business is easy to do, and the profit is abundant. According to the progressive tax law formulated by Mi Zhu, they have become taxpayers unswervingly.

If you want to talk about the busiest this year, Huang Yueying and Feng Wan were pregnant and gave birth to a daughter, and Huang Yueying's task was heavier. The sea ship was set, but there were many problems. The most obvious one was the power problem. The ship was bigger and the dependence on sails became more and more serious. Without wind, the sea ship could not move. It would be fine. Merchant ships were just lost, but they were not able to do it. The warships that could not move were war horses without speed, which was no different from waste.

In order to solve the power problem of the sea ship, Huang Yueying thought of many plans, but still couldn't find a breakthrough. This time she didn't plan to come to Tangshan and was planning to attack again, but was forced to come by Yuan Quan.

Yin Gui did not do anything alone. She participated in the business of a merchant in Xiangyang and paid a lot of dividends. Mi Lan was still waiting for delivery in the East China Sea and it was still two or three months before she could give birth. She wrote a letter saying that she was a big belly. The doctor said she was a twin and she was a little worried about the difficulty of delivery. Yuan Quan wrote a letter to Sun Shangying, asking her to arrange for Hua Tuo to go there at that time. Hua Tuo is a master of surgery and knowledgeable gynecology. If he had no choice, he could perform abdominal peeling.

Sun Ce was a little ashamed. Because of Sun Jian’s affairs, he rushed back from Liaodong all the way, and even did not stop in Qu County, so he didn’t know about this.

"Thank you sister, I haven't received any news at all, and I didn't think about going to say hello."

"You are outside fighting, how could Alan bother you?" Yuan Quan waved his hand. "You don't have to worry about whatever she wants at home. There is another thing you may not know, Shang Ying is pregnant."

"Is that right?" Sun Ce was very surprised. He couldn't tell that Cao Ang was not bad either. He had it as soon as he got married.

"My mother said, let me see her when it's convenient. I thought about finding time to go back to Runan after the New Year and going to Changyi by the way."

Sun Ce thought for a while. "Don't leave after the New Year, I happened to have something to talk to Cao Ang and invite him to come."

Yuan Quan was a little worried. "Will he come?"

Sun Ce sneered: "If he refuses to come, then there will be something big. After the Chinese New Year, I will go to Yanzhou to raise an army to question him and destroy him first."

On the thirteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, Changyi.

Sun Shangying sat in front of the bright window, looking at the letters in his hand. Cao Ang sat opposite him, put the peeled oranges one by one in front of him, and then put the orange peels together and kept them for drying as medicine.

After reading the letter, Sun Shangying looked at Cao Ang with some concern. "Husband, has the messenger told you that my brother invited us to Moling for the New Year."

"I said it." Cao Ang said slowly, pushing the tray over. "Eat it, it's all sour, I've tasted it."

"and you……"

"I have discussed with Mr. Gongtai and I will accompany you. You can clean up and leave tomorrow. Let's take a boat and it's comfortable to take a boat."

Sun Shangying looked at Cao Ang in surprise, not knowing what to say for a moment. Cao Ang smiled gently. "It's okay, don't think too much. It's probably because A Gu misses you. He asked your brother to pick you up and stay for two days. Your brother has something to discuss with me, which is just a big deal."

Sun Shangying didn't say anything. Although she didn't ask about political affairs, she was not stupid. She knew that Sun Ce's request for Cao Ang to go to Moling was not ordinary. They were allies, not monarchs and ministers, and Cao Ang took a great risk to leave his own jurisdiction. Sun Ce was not an unreasonable person, and there must be a lasting reason for making such a request.

Seeing that Sun Shangxiang was worried, Cao Ang couldn't bear it and was silent for a moment. "There is something I think I should tell you, but I'm afraid you'll be worried, so I haven't said it."

Sun Shangying sighed softly. “Is it related to going to Moling?”

"I guess it should be related, but it's just a guess. My father accepted Liu Yao's invitation and sent his adviser Xi Zhicai and others to Jiaozhou to assist Liu Yao and others in fighting with General Lingzun's Cavalry. Your brother may have received the news and wanted to ask me if I know."

Sun Shangying shook her head. "If it's just this matter, just send an envoy to ask. Why do you need to go there in person?"
Chapter completed!