Sun Ce dismounted, threw the reins to the righteous servant, and led Guo Wu into the door. He came back suddenly, without prior notice, and the slaves and servants in the house were not prepared, and were busy with their own affairs, and when they saw him come in, they hurriedly stepped forward to salute. Sun Ce waved his hand and motioned for them to stand down and do their own thing, without paying too much attention to him. He was notoriously easy-going, and the servants didn't mind, and went their separate ways.

When he came to the middle courtyard, Sun Ce asked Guo Wu to wait outside, and he went into the backyard by himself, and first went to the west courtyard to meet his mother, Mrs. Wu. Mrs. Wu was talking to Yin Ji, and she was very surprised to see Sun Ce come in. Yin Ji was also surprised, and hurriedly got up and saluted. She has passed the reaction period, and her face has improved significantly, white and red, thin and tender. Sun Ce reached out and tapped her shoulder lightly, making a joke.

"Okay, don't toss, and my mother will blame me later."

Yin Jiao pursed her lips and glanced at Mrs. Wu gratefully. "My mother pities me, but I can't be rude, and these days with my mother's care, I have nothing to do, I can eat and sleep, and I have gained a lot of weight."

"That's right, my mother gave birth to five of our brothers and sisters, and she has a lot of experience."

"Don't be poor." Mrs. Wu scolded with a smile: "You are a person who leads the troops to fight, and you are not afraid of people's jokes when you say that the affairs of these women's families are the way. Say, what's the matter with rushing back suddenly? Didn't Ah Quan and Ah Wan all rush over, didn't they have it too? ”

Sun Ce smiled: "Mother, you are too anxious, how can you be so fast." I rushed back suddenly because there was a Qu'a man, who was in the same house as my sister-in-law, and I brought him to see my mother, maybe my mother wanted to know some news about my sister Shanghua. ”

When Mrs. Wu heard this, her heart rejoiced. Sun Shanghua is her biological daughter, married to Qu'a at the age of fourteen, she hasn't seen her for more than two years, and she really misses it. can hear the news about her, and it can also comfort her longing for her daughter. However, she did not rush to summon Guo Wu.

"Bo Fu, you are now employing people, do you plan to arrange something for your sister-in-law?"

Sun Ce is in the middle of it. The Hong family is a small landlord in Qu'a, with little wealth, but no status, better than the Sun family more than ten years ago, probably similar to the Wu family, but not comparable with the current Sun family. The reason why the two families got married was because Hongji's father Hongqian and Sun Jian knew each other and sponsored Sun Jian, so the two families were engaged to be married. Two years ago, Hongqian was seriously ill, and in order to satisfy his willingness to see his son Hongzhi get married, and for Chong Chongxi, the Sun family married the eldest son Sun Shanghua, who was just fourteen years old, to the Hong family.

Hongzi is as big as Sun Ce, his temper is similar to his father's, he is open-minded by nature, and he likes to sponsor people, but he is too young to be able to serve in the state and county, and he is sitting on empty food, seeing that his family is not as good as day by day, Mrs. Wu is a little anxious and wants to find something to do for Hongzi. Sun Ce also has this meaning, he just needs a trustworthy person to assist Sun Jian, Hongzhi has no martial arts, but he has read books, he is quite smart, and he has the identity of Weng's son-in-law, so it is more appropriate for him to assist Sun Jian, and it will not arouse Sun Jian's disgust. It is best for Mrs. Wu to come forward in this matter, firstly, to take care of her father Sun Jian's face, and secondly, to give Mrs. Wu a chance to care about her daughter.

Sun Ce told Mrs. Wu about his plans, and Mrs. Wu was very satisfied, and said with a smile: "Did Ah Quan let you do this?" ”

Sun Ce laughed. "Mother, I really can't hide anything from you."

"It's not hard to guess, Ah Ji is by my side, I don't have time to give you ideas, Ah Wan and Ah Chu are busy renovating warships, stone throwers and the like, and she is the only one who can help you with ideas in this regard. This kid just likes to think about others too much, and would rather wronged himself. Bo Fu, you have to treat her well, don't wronged her again. ”

Sun Ce nodded with a smile, and said some common things to Mrs. Wu, asking her to see if there was anyone else available in the Wu family. As the saying goes, when fighting tigers and brothers, and going into battle as fathers and sons, the most reliable thing is their own family whose interests are tied together. Kissing the virtuous and virtuous, this is also in line with the Confucian theory. The clan and relatives have their own reasons for existence, and it only depends on whether the monarch can control the scale.

The Sun family has a low starting point, although they have made some money in business, but they have no connections in the officialdom, and they really started from Sun Jian, and the biggest problem is that there is no one available. Before Sun Ce's debut, Sun Jian only had Sun Qiang's son Sun Ben, Sun Fu, and his brother-in-law Wu Jing by his side, and the others were all foreign surnames, that is, Zhu Zhi, Cheng Pu, Han Dang and Huang Gai, who were called the four generals by later generations. In fact, these people are not generals at all, but talents recruited by Sun Jian after he joined the company. Zhu Zhi is a native of Danyang, originally engaged in the state, knew Sun Jian when he was conquest of thieves, and has been following Sun Jian since then. Cheng Pu and Han Dang are northern rangers, whom Sun Jian met when he was an official in Huaisi, and later followed Sun Jian to conquer the Yellow Turban. Huang Gai entered the scene at the latest, and only became Sun Jian's subordinate when Sun Jian raised troops to fight against Dong.

Sun Jian himself is brave, so most of the talents he recruits are warriors, but there are no strategists. Being too punctual in a county, there are relevant officials to solve the government affairs, but there is no big problem, and now that he is a general, the dilemma of no one is more obvious. Sun Jian also has a younger brother, Sun Jing, but Sun Jing, as his name suggests, does not like this kind of life of crusade and west, and would rather guard the ancestral grave at home. The Wu family also had few talents available, and they had rejected Sun Jian's proposal at the beginning, and Sun Jian didn't like them either. What can still be used now is Sun Ce's aunt's family Fuchun Xu and sister-in-law family Qu Ahong.

If you are not afraid of not knowing the goods, you are afraid of comparing goods. Compare the Sun family with the Yuan family to know how big the difference between the portal is. Even if the Yuan family doesn't talk about protégés and former officials, there are several people in the Yuan family who are Taishou - Yuan Xu is the Taishou of Jibei, and Yuan Yu is the Taishou of Shanyang, and they provide great convenience for Yuan Tan to master Yanzhou - the Sun family is considered a high-end talent if he has been a county official.

Although Hongzhi is not a great talent, he is also a rare scholar among the family members of the Sun family, and Sun Ce proposed that he be Sun Jian's military advisor. He had arranged for Pang Tong to go before, but Pang Tong was too young, Sun Jian didn't take it very seriously, and Cheng Pu and others were also a little disdainful.

and Mrs. Wu finalized the matter of Hongzhi, Mrs. Wu went to inquire with Guo Wu about Hongzi and Sun Shanghua, and Sun Ce chatted with Yin Ji for a while. He originally planned to go to Nanyang in person, but after being persuaded by Yuan Quan, he decided to wait and see, and wait for the imperial edict to be issued before making a decision. At present, he is going to Jiangxia to fight, and he doesn't know when he will be able to come back, the plan is to fight quickly, but who can say for sure about the march and battle, and it is completely possible if he dies for a while and cannot come back.

Sun Ce played with Sun Kuang, Sun Lang, and Sun Shangxiang for a while. Sun Quan and Lu Xun stayed in the Gepi camp, Sun Yi followed Sun Jian to Lujiang, the house was a lot deserted all of a sudden, a few older children were not at home, only the three of them were left, no one took them to play, and they were somewhat lonely. Sun Shangxiang pestered Sun Ce to follow him on the expedition, Sun Ce coaxed her for a while, promising to take her out when she turned thirteen, so that she could stay in Pingyu with peace of mind and study and practice martial arts with her heart.

Sun Ce rested in Pingyu for two days and received news from Huang Zhong and Li Tong. Liu Xun had already left the city, and did not go to Jiangling, but rushed to Suixian, it seemed that he was going to attack Xiangyang or Huyang, and he did not know his intentions. Huang Zhong asked for instructions on whether to meet Liu Xun in Nanyang or go straight to Xiling and capture Jiangxia as originally planned.

Sun Ce didn't dare to slack off, and immediately rushed back to the Gepi camp and invited Zhang Hong and Guo Jia to discuss the matter.