When the bright moon was in the sky, Sun Ce dragged his heavy steps and slowly entered the backyard, looking at the steps illuminated by the moonlight, smelling the medicinal gas in the air, his shoulders slowly collapsed. He motioned for Xu Sheng and the others to step back, sat on the steps, crossed his hands, and rested his chin on his arm, momentarily distracted.

There was a sound of light footsteps behind him, and he stood behind Sun Ce, and a faint fragrance wafted into his nose. "Husband."

Sun Ce turned his head and saw that it was Ellan, so he gave way to the side. Ellan sat down beside him and looked at him sideways. "Are you tired? Take a shower, I'll give you another massage, and rest early. I'll have to wake up early tomorrow. ”

"It's okay, I'm just annoyed, sit down, sort out my thoughts, and then it's fine."

"Really?"

"Really." Sun Ce nodded affirmatively. During this period of time, the epidemic was tense and sometimes loose, and good news and bad news were mixed, and his spirit was also tightened and loosened for a while, giving him a feeling of returning to his previous life. In my previous life, I was like this when I was doing projects, working day and night, and I was often called up in the middle of the night to solve problems, there was both despair and ecstasy, but one thing is for sure, everyone was desperate, not only with others, but also with time. He has met several project managers, all of whom have gray hair in middle age.

He feels that he is now a project manager, bearing the glory and wealth of tens of millions of people, and even more responsible for the life and death of hundreds of thousands of people. The epidemic has spread, and the affected people have spread all over the four prefectures, especially Yuzhou. Not only because Yu Ji is in Yuzhou, but also because he is willing to spend money to treat everyone almost at any cost, the people of Yanzhou and Qingxu rushed to Yuzhou when they heard the news, which also made the epidemic in Yuzhou not alleviated for a long time.

Sometimes he feels stupid, and the harder he pushes, the more difficulties he faces. But he couldn't do it by letting him see the sick people die, or deport the displaced people who had already entered the country. Guo Jia and Pang Tong both persuaded him, and he himself knew that this was not suitable, and it was likely to exhaust Yuzhou's financial and material resources, but this order just couldn't come out, so he could only grit his teeth and hold on.

At this point, he is not as good as Tian Kai and Tao Qian, Tian Kai and Tao Qian also treat the people, but they are very restrained, especially Tao Qian, his most powerful way is to open the ban and let a large number of people flow to Yuzhou. Xuzhou has been disabled, and if those people are left in Xuzhou, he will not be able to control the epidemic at all. As for whether this would drag Sun Ce down, he couldn't care about it.

The only person who is as stupid as Sun Ce is Cao Ang. I heard that Cao Ang also did everything possible to treat the people, running around various treatment points every day, so that the agreement to meet Mrs. Ding was postponed again and again.

"Am I a little overwhelmed?" Sun Ce hugged his legs and laughed self-deprecatingly. "It's not enough to fight with people, I still want to fight with the sky."

"Not really." Ellan shook her head. "Husband, you can say that you are fighting with the sky, but you are not fighting with people. You are for people and Tiandou. ”

Sun Ce laughed at Ellan's tongue twister. "Am I so great?"

"yes, you're that great." Ellan brushed the hair from her cheeks. "I have recently met a number of township parties from Xuzhou, and they are all grateful to you. If it weren't for the husband to send someone to treat them, they probably wouldn't have escaped this catastrophe. God is not benevolent to the general, the sky is dead, the phoenix bird is dead, and they have all made up ballads. Husband, let me sing you two sentences? ”

Sun Ce smiled and hugged Ellan over. "Then you lighten up, don't interfere with their sleep."

Being held in Sun Ce's arms, Ellan's face was a little hot, but she still obediently lay on Sun Ce's lap and sang softly. "The sky is dead, and the phoenix is coming. Born with holy martial arts, take pity on my people. Expel the rats and return my fertile land. Teach my children and nurture my parents...... Strengthen my body and mind, cure my disease...... In the troubled times, Yuzhou is ...... paradise"

Ellan's voice is very good, there is a kind of openness of mountains and seas, like the waves gently soothing Sun Ce's body and mind, and the undisguised gratitude of the people in the song also made his chaotic thoughts gradually calm down, and he no longer suffered so much from gains and losses. He hugged Ellan, shook his body slightly, and unconsciously leaned against the pillar and fell asleep.

When Ellan heard Sun Ce's snoring, she didn't dare to move lightly, for fear of waking Sun Ce. After a while, she got up cautiously, tiptoed in, called Yin Ji out, and the two helped Sun Ce in together. Helping Sun Ce to the bed and settling down, Ellan turned back to take the war knife and the big sword that Sun Ce had put aside, and was just about to turn around and enter, Guo Jia walked in quickly. When Ellan saw it, she hurriedly greeted her.

"The general just fell asleep."

Guo Jia was slightly stunned. "Already asleep? So fast? ”

"Well, I fell asleep very quickly today, and I fell asleep sitting here." Ellan pointed to the steps where Sun Ce was sitting just now.

Guo Jia patted his head and smiled. "That's good news. For the first time in more than a month, the general slept so easily. Okay, I'll not bother him. There's an urgent letter here, which I just received, and when the general wakes up, don't forget to show it to him. ”

Ellan nodded gratefully, took it and looked at it, and her eyes lit up. "Yes...... News from my brother? ”

Guo Jia nodded, smiling. "Madam, Brother Venerable has made a great contribution this time. You can take a look first, and after reading it, you may be able to sleep as well as the general. With that, he arched his hand, turned and went out.

When Ellan heard this, she didn't dare to slack off, and immediately returned to the bedroom, turned on the light, and looked urgent. Looking at Lu Zhu's familiar font, Lu Lan felt indescribable joy in her heart. When she saw that Lu Zhu had exchanged the ordnance and medicine brought to Youzhou for a large amount of property and war horses, and was in the process of transporting them, she understood what Guo Jia meant. With the money earned by Elk Zhu, the deficit left by Yuzhou due to the treatment of the people can be made up to a certain extent, especially the war horses, which are the most urgently needed materials for Sun Ce.

However, there was one thing that she couldn't understand. Mr. Zhang said Mr. Zhang was interested in negotiating with Mr. Yuan. Yuan Shao was attacking Youzhou and suddenly chose to negotiate with Zhang Ze, most likely because he wanted to take advantage of the epidemic in Yuzhou to go south. Although the epidemic in Yuzhou has been controlled, it is still at least three or four months before the danger is truly lifted, and it will even take half a year, which is enough for Yuan Shao to prepare grain and grass and mobilize people. In other words, after the pandemic, Sun Ce will face a big war again, and Sun Ce will not have a chance to breathe at all.

How can this be called good news? Even if Lu Zhu made a lot of money, that little money was not enough for the expenses of the war. Yuzhou was weak after the epidemic, where could it resist Yuan Shao's attack?

Not only did Ellan not get a good night's sleep, but she was so worried that she lay down in a daze when it was almost dawn. When she woke up from her sleep, Sun Ce had already gotten up, leaning against the head of the bed to read the emergency report, with a shallow smile on the corner of her mouth. Hearing the sound of Ellan turning over, he glanced at her.

"Awake? What are you thinking, you haven't even taken off your clothes? ”

Ellan replied vaguely, sat up strongly, leaned on Sun Ce, half-squinted his eyes, and said his question. Before Ellan could finish speaking, Sun Ce laughed.

"If it were you, what would you choose?"

"Of course, it is to take advantage of the great injury of Yuzhou to attack Youzhou, really hold Youzhou in your hands, and relieve your worries."

"Well, but what if he doesn't have the certainty of capturing Youzhou?"

"If he doesn't even have the certainty of attacking Youzhou, he still dares to attack Yuzhou? Although Yuzhou was affected by the disaster, Junyi, Suiyang, and Rencheng were not affected, and the soldiers were well fed, and it was not a problem to defend them for a year and a half. ”

"Look, you can understand such a simple question, but Yuan Shao can't understand it, and he made such a stupid decision, isn't it good news?"