Huang Yueying pulled Feng Wan out the door and ran along the Bluestone Mountain Road, like a light deer.

Feng Wan couldn't keep up and begged repeatedly. "Achu, Achu, please slow down. I just ate so much, and I ran too fast and it was uncomfortable."

Huang Yueying slowed down and joked: "I said you are really awesome, you can still eat it at this time."

"What can I do? I'm not you..." Feng Wan stuttered. After saying a few words, she suddenly felt depressed in her chest. She quickly pressed her hands on her chest and wiped it a few times. Huang Yueying was overjoyed and teased a few more words. Feng Wan frowned, but she was not in the mood to reason with Huang Yueying. After walking two steps, she still felt uncomfortable. She squatted down to the side of the road and vomited "wow".

The sour smell dissipated. Huang Yueying covered her mouth and nose with her hands, feeling a little embarrassed, and handed her handkerchief. Feng Wan was so angry that she almost vomited her heart and liver. It took a long time to recover, wiped her mouth with a towel, and stood up slowly. "Achu, I won't go to your house anymore. This is too embarrassing. I'll go back to my yard and go to find you tomorrow."

Seeing that Feng Wan was weak, Huang Yueying was worried. "I'll accompany you." Feng Wan refused and helped Feng Wan to walk towards her yard. The two walked slowly side by side. After a while, they met a team of tiger soldiers on patrol. Seeing that Feng Wan was in poor condition, the team leader hurriedly stepped forward to ask. When he learned that Feng Wan was in poor health, he sent two tiger soldiers to pick up bamboo chariots and wanted to carry Feng Wan back to the yard. Huang Yueying remembered that there were bamboo chariots in his yard, so he led them to pick them up.

When they arrived at the door, they were about to knock on the door. Huang Chengyan and his wife had just returned from a walk. Seeing this, they hurriedly stepped forward to ask. After hearing Huang Yueying's passing, Cai Jue looked at Feng Wan's face, frowned slightly, and pulled Feng Wan aside.

"Awan, when will your menstrual period come?"

Feng Wan was stunned for a moment, suddenly screamed, her eyes wide open. "No way? I forgot."

"Have you been late?"

"Yeah." Feng Wan nodded happily.

Cai Jue gave her a blank look and waved her hand to signal the tiger soldiers that there would be no trouble. Feng Wan lived here and would not go back to her own courtyard. The tiger soldiers retreated and chased the team. Before Huang Yueying could understand, Cai Jue knocked her. "You fool, Awan is pregnant, why are you still pulling her away? If something happens, it will be troublesome. She is the first child."

Huang Yueying was surprised and happy, and was a little scared, so she quickly helped Feng Wan into the house, busy and extremely attentive. Cai Jue also directed the matter on the side and asked someone to fetch water for Feng Wan to rinse her mouth. She learned that they had eaten a lot at the banquet and prepared to rinse her food. Taking advantage of this, Huang Yueying told the story of the meal. Cai Jue was quite dissatisfied with the behavior of Yuan's aunt and nephew, but she couldn't help but feel sad when she heard that the court might marry Sun Ce and wanted to marry the eldest princess to be a concubine.

The great man was indeed declining in the west and there was not much time. The princess was a concubine, which was clearly a sign that her energy was exhausted.

Yang Biao and Huang Wan stood side by side in the stands by the lake. The lake was windless and flat like a mirror. A bright moon hung in the sky, and a bright moon fell on the lake. Between the two moons, several fishing fires dotted it, the water and sky were the same color, quiet and peaceful.

The two of them arched their hands and quietly looked at the night view in front of them.

After a while, Yang Biao looked back at the courtyard on the hillside. Although he could not hear the sound in the courtyard, and even the lights in the courtyard were blocked by the courtyard walls, which were difficult to tell, he could imagine that Sun Ce and others were talking and giving advice, and Yang Xiu must be the most enthusiastic one.

"Ziyan, you and I are old. No matter where you are, you can only cry at the corner."

Huang Wan laughed silently. "Although that's the case, there is still a difference after all, at least there is something to do now." He turned slowly and walked up the mountain. "No matter how bad he is, he is not stronger than Shi Sun Junrong, right? He is such a pity. He is both civil and military, but now he has become a prisoner. Huangfu Yi is really in poor health. I don't know who can control the Bingzhou Army and the Liangzhou Army after him."

Yang Biao followed up and looked at Huang Wan, but he stopped talking. He knew that Shi Sun Rui had experience in commanding troops. He was one of the five commanders under Gai Xun. Yang Ru from the Yang family of Hongnong was the commander of Bird Attack at that time and had many contacts with Shi Sun Rui. However, Huang Wan has always been conceited and he admired Shi Sun Rui so much. It seems that Shi Sun Rui's ability is stronger than he imagined.

"Would Sun Ce leave the subordinate Sun Rui deliberately, not just for the Yuan family?"

"I can't say it." Huang Wan hesitated for a moment and said again: "It depends on whether Sun Ce will kill him."

Yang Biao couldn't help but sniff, thinking that Huang Wan's words were too ridiculous. Whether Sun Rui had the ability had anything to do with whether Sun Ce killed him or not? But he soon understood what Huang Wan meant. Huang Wan was captured by Sun Ce. Sun Ce did not kill him, but instead transferred him to Wujun to assist him in clarifying the official system. Naturally, he was attracted by his understanding of the ills of the official system and his ambition to reform. Sun Ce rarely used old ministers, but it did not mean excluding old ministers. As long as the old ministers were indeed capable and willing to do things, he was still very welcome.

Yin Duan, Cai Yong, Zhu Yan, Huang Wan, and himself, these are all living examples. They were either dismissed by the court or abandoned by the court, but they appeared by Sun Ce for various reasons, but unexpectedly got a place to use their skills. When the emperor knew the news, he didn't know what he would think. He thought that the old minister was an obstacle to his progress, but he became a useful person here. Whether he was wrong or the old minister was wrong, the answer was obvious.

The two slowly went up the mountain and walked forward along the bluestone road illuminated by the moonlight. When passing a slope, two tiger soldiers were cleaning the roadside with lanterns. Yang Biao was a little surprised and stopped to ask a few words. The tiger soldiers said that Feng Wan was pregnant and had just vomited here. They were ordered to clear the filth to avoid affecting the environment.

Yang Biao was very surprised. Sun Ce was really able to give birth. A few concubines gave birth to children one after another, and their children would be very prosperous in the future. The prosperity of the children is also one of the signs of the prosperity of the family. The political situation of the court is changing. An important reason is that several generations of emperors have to adopt them from their subordinates because they have no children. The relatives of the foreigners can be inherited from them and harmed justice for their own interests. After the emperor became an adult, he relied on the eunuch to seize power. The eunuchs and the eunuchs' party repeatedly fought and the government was very bad.

Of course there is no shortage of women in the palace, but the emperor is not good at health, so it is useless no matter how many women there are. The emperor has been practicing martial arts since he was a child and I don’t know if he can reverse this decline. However, even if he is in good health, he is still slightly inferior to Sun Ce.

Yang Biao and Huang Wan looked at each other, sighed involuntarily, shook their heads, and continued to walk forward, but their steps were a little heavy.

Huang Wan had just arrived shortly after she was nominally not only removed from her captive identity and had no place to live, but she lived in the guest room of Yang Biao's courtyard. The two of them planned to continue discussing the official system, but were disturbed in the middle and lacked interest. They decided to rest early and talk about it tomorrow. Yang Biao and Huang Wan said goodbye and returned to the backyard. Zhang Jun was not there, and a maid brought water. Yang Biao washed up and got into the quilt, but couldn't sleep. So she turned over and sat up again, picked up the "Salt and Iron Theory of Examination" to read.

He has collected a lot of articles along the way, and "Explanation of the Salt and Iron Theory" is one of them, but he didn't pay much attention to it. Today, Yang Xiu came back and reminded him to study the official system according to the method of this book. He was disdainful, but still attached great importance to it in his heart, so he ordered people to find the book again, put it on the desk, and read it at any time.

The Salt and Iron Conference was a very important meeting in the Emperor Zhao of Han Dynasty. Although it was based on the salt and iron policy, there were competitions between various forces behind it, which was not just a simple government affairs discussion. The author Huan Kuan was from Runan and was a Confucian scholar who studied "Gongyang Spring and Autumn", so the records seemed impartial, but in fact, Huan Kuan's attitude was still very obvious. Expressions such as "Doctor Hey" and "Doctor Silent" can be seen everywhere, giving people the feeling that Sang Hongyang was speechless by the virtuous literature.

Pang Shanmin and Zao Chuan's explanation focused on the pros and cons of actual policies, but rarely discussed the distinction between justice and interests. They intentionally or unintentionally avoided criticism of virtuous literature, but their conclusions were obviously biased towards Sang Hongyang and often spoke for Sang Hongyang. Yang Biao disliked this attitude very much, so he had not finished reading several times. This book is indeed not suitable for ordinary people to read. A large amount of data calculation has increased the threshold, and it is difficult for people without ruling experience to understand.

Now, Yang Biao calmed down and read the book with the purpose of exploring his research techniques. After the initial discomfort, he quickly found his state. The more he read, the more he felt it was reasonable, and even felt that some places were not explained thoroughly. Pang Shanmin had no experience in official positions, and it was the first time he was the prefect of Yingchuan. Zao Zhi was the same. They were able to focus on the economy and understand the fiscal revenue and expenditure of a county, but they were not very familiar with the national finance. Yang Biao was influenced by his childhood, and later he served several positions and became a minister. His familiarity with the entire country's finances was more than that of Pang Shanmin, and Zao Zhi was too many. Many problems that Pang Zao and the other two could not explain were clearly visible to him.

Yang Biao was excited to see it, put on his clothes, and came to the study next door, and ordered people to prepare paper and pen, and began to make annotations. The study and bedroom floor were covered with pipes. Although the outside of the house was cold, the inside of the house was as warm as spring. Yang Biao didn't feel cold. He became more and more fascinated by reading it. He forgot the time. Until Mrs. Yuan came back, she saw that the lights were on in the bedroom but no one was there, and there was someone in the study. When she came, she saw Yang Biao wearing a single dress and was writing selflessly.

“What to write?”

"Oh, nothing, correct some children's mistakes." Yang Biao said happily. He flipped through the book and found that most of the volume had been annotated. "Before the New Year, I can revise this book, just to take advantage of Dezu's presence and let him take a look and help out with the idea."

Mrs. Yuan sat aside, looking at Yang Biao who was full of energy, thought for a while, but still sent the news of the court and saying it about her intention to marry Sun Ce. She originally thought that Yang Biao would be furious, and she didn't even dare to mention Yang Xiu's strategy for Sun Ce. Unexpectedly, Yang Biao was stunned for a while, nodded, and said lightly: "It would be a blessing if he could start and end well."
Chapter completed!