Chapter 721: Turmoil in Ye City
The door was pushed open.

A young girl came in hurriedly, closed the door, and whispered, “Something bad has happened, my lords. The news just came out is that the general has decided to march south to fight Cao Cao.”

“This time the general will mobilize all the soldiers he can.”

“I’m afraid our peaceful business environment is gone forever!”

Mi Zhen and Zhen Mi looked at each other, and their expressions immediately became serious.

Mi Zhen stood up and said to Zhen Mi, “I will go to the government office to inquire about the news.”

“If we really have to go to war with Cao Cao, it will definitely be the ultimate battle.”

“This is the perfect time for our Mi and Zhen caravans to demonstrate their capabilities.”

“Once you miss the opportunity, it will never come back.”

“We need to use the convoy to help transport supplies and gather intelligence, and we need to send pigeons to deliver messages twelve hours a day.”

As soon as she stood up, Mi Zhen supported her waist with her right hand and cried out in pain.

The girl said anxiously, “My Lord, please be careful! You are about to give birth!”

Mi Zhen said unhappily: “This opportunity is rare now, how can I care about these things——”

Before Mi Zhen finished speaking, Zhen Mi said, “I’ll go!”

“I’ll go directly to the General’s Mansion and ask him clearly.”

“If this is true, our Zhen and Mi caravans must take action immediately.”

“This time, it is very likely to be the biggest war ever.”

“If successful, both our Zhen family and Mi family will have a great chance of improving their status.”

“Your Mi family can also transform from a merchant family to a noble family.”

“If you fail—”

Zhen Mi frowned.

She couldn’t imagine it.

Mi Zhen asked worriedly, “Are you not afraid of meeting him?”

Zhen Mi came back to her senses, biting her red lips with her pearly teeth and said, “How can I care about these things now?”

“This is the best opportunity to improve the status of my Zhen family and Mi family.”

“For a little personal feeling, I ruined such an opportunity. Don’t say you won’t forgive me. I’m old now. When I think of what happened today, I won’t forgive myself either.”

Mi Zhen sighed when she heard Zhen Mi say that, and held Zhen Mi’s hand and said, “Then go ahead and seize the opportunity! Your Zhen family may not value it so much. After all, your mother is his woman, and the Zhen family has restored its former glory with your mother.”

“Seizing this opportunity will only help your Zhen family’s status rise to a higher level.”

“I am different.”

“My Mi family has already failed once, sacrificing almost all of our wealth, but we are still lowly merchants.”

“My two brothers are blind and unrepentant. As a woman of the Mi family, I must prove it to them!”

Zhen Mi nodded, pulled her hand out of Mi Zhen’s, put on her veil, and walked out quickly.

Yecheng.

Sima Mansion.

Sima Fang and his eldest son Sima Lang were meeting with a group of family convoys in the living room to discuss sending the grain in the granary to Jiangdong and other places for sale at a high price.

But a servant came running in and said, “Something bad has happened, master!”

Seeing this, the people in the family convoy said goodbye one after another: “Master, let’s discuss it tomorrow.”

Sima Fang did not keep them either.

It was not until the family convoy left that Sima Fang looked at the servant with a sullen face and asked, “Why are you in such a hurry?”

The servant said excitedly: “The news from the government office is that the lord will mobilize all the troops in half a month to officially declare war on Cao Cao!”

Sima Fang’s eyes lit up slightly and he looked at Sima Lang beside him.

Sima Lang was also a little excited and said: “Father, our Sima family’s chance to do the merit of following the dragon has come!”

Sima Fang nodded heavily and said to the servant: “Hurry up and find the Second Young Master and ask him to come find me!”

The servant hurried out.

Deep inside a shop in Yecheng.

A group of people gathered together and started chattering.

After a while, one of them said, “Hurry up and send a pigeon to Xudu to inform Sikong! For such a big event, our pigeons will finally come in handy.”

Another person said, “Do we really need to use carrier pigeons? If the carrier pigeons are discovered, we will all be in trouble. Although these are tools used by the Qiao and Mi caravans, everyone knows that the people behind these two caravans are all generals!”

The third person said: “How can we care so much now?”

“If we are discovered, the worst that can happen is that we will die.”

“The pigeon delivery was successful. We have definitely done a great job!”

Everyone chattered again. After a while, they reached an agreement and sent the news to Xudu by carrier pigeon.

At this time, Zhang Sui also rushed back to the General’s Mansion.

He had originally felt a little heavy-hearted, but at this moment, he felt a little relaxed.

There were bursts of laughter and joy coming from the General’s Mansion.

Zhang Sui stopped outside with his personal soldiers.

Just as he handed the war horses to his personal soldiers, he saw a group of children running out.

They rushed to Zhang Sui, and each of them climbed on him like nimble monkeys, hanging all over his body.

The chattering sound gave Zhang Sui a headache.

“Daddy!”

“Daddy, Daddy!”

“Daddy is back!”

Behind these children, three figures walked out.

A voice dressed in a maid costume said angrily: “You naughty kids!”

It was Ren.

Behind Ren were two beautiful women.

When the two women saw Zhang Sui, they immediately bowed and said, “My Lord!”

Zhang Sui smiled and nodded at them.

When he conquered Yuan Shu’s Shouchun, he selected the two most beautiful women from Yuan Shu’s many concubines and gave them to Zhao Yun as wives and concubines.

Zhao Yun hadn’t touched them for a long time before.

Now, both women have bulging bellies.

It looks like she’s pregnant.

Surrounded by children, Zhang Sui staggered into the general’s mansion.

In the front hall, several square tables were filled with women.

They are all Zhang Sui’s women.

Yingyingyanyan’s.

Zhang Sui noticed Yanshi at first sight.

Among all the women Zhang Sui has, she and Lv Wen, who looks like Wang Gang, are particularly tall, like a crane standing out among a flock of chickens.

At this moment, Yanshi was sitting with Madam, Madam Du and Liu, playing cards.

Lü Wen stood behind Yanshi, shouting in a hoarse voice: “Come out, the king! Come out, the king! Do you know how to fight?”

Zhao Yu and Xu Lan were sparring on the side.

Sun Shangxiang was talking to Yuan Mi.

Cai Wenji, Huang Yueying and Zhang Chunhua are not here.

Da Qiao, Xiao Qiao and Cao Xian were sitting around a table, talking and laughing about something.

Zhang Sui felt a little tingling as he watched this scene.

I haven’t been back for so long, and none of these women even look at me!
Everyone plays their own game.

Zhang Sui couldn’t help but think of a movie by Stephen Chow that he had watched before traveling through time, “A Chinese Odyssey: Part One”, in which this scene also took place at Tang Bohu’s home.

Zhang Sui secretly decided that he must not bring out mahjong.

Otherwise, these women would be completely obsessed with it and wouldn’t even spare a glance at me.

Ren looked at Zhang Sui’s resentful eyes and chuckled, “Why should the master of the family be resentful?”

“Ladies, you are just playing during the day.”

“When they rest at night, they will all notice you, the master of the house.”

Zhang then forced a laugh at Ren.

Pulling the children off his body one by one, Zhang Sui said, “My dears, I have to take a bath. I have been on the road for a month and have not taken a bath. I stink.”

As he spoke, Zhang Sui blew air towards his daughters.

The daughters laughed and ran away, saying, “It stinks!”

“Daddy stinks!”

“Daddy is so bad!”

Zhang Sui watched the children leave, then he breathed a sigh of relief and dragged his equipped body to the backyard.

Looking at Zhang Sui’s appearance, Ren hesitated for a moment, and signaled Zhao Yun’s wives and concubines to look after the children, while she followed Zhang Sui away.

(End of this chapter)