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When looking at his wife and two babies around him, Ling Moxiao realized the charm of "a wife, children and a warm bed" that ordinary men pursue.

It is a feeling that can make you feel truly at ease, relieve all your fatigue, and forget all the pain.

Watching Dong Su teasing Dabao and Xiaobao smiling sweetly at him, Ling Moxiao recalled everything he had experienced in Northern Xinjiang in the past two years and felt that it was all worth it.

Didn't he go through all the pain just to create a city without war and a peaceful life for Dongsu and the children?

Dong Su was also worried that he would want to return to Chang'an to compete for that high position and power.

At this moment, even if the emperor promised to make him the crown prince when he returned to Chang'an, that kind of honor could not compare to the sweet smile of his daughter in his arms.

The family of four played on the big bed for a long time until the two children fell asleep. Dong Su took the children to the wet nurse, and then the couple began to talk in private.

However, Dong Su first brought out the medicine box and used a cotton swab to apply medicine all over Ling Moxiao's body. The scars on his body would itch on rainy days, but this was nothing to him.

But he suffered frostbite on his armpits, toes, and inner thighs, especially his feet, where the skin and flesh were frozen.

Ling Moxiao was a little embarrassed: "I applied it myself, it's dirty."

Dong Su said with red eyes: "We are husband and wife, how can I dislike you?"

Ling Moxiao hugged her from behind and apologized again: "I'm sorry, it was so dangerous when you gave birth, but I wasn't by your side."

Dong Su pressed the scar on his chest and imitated his tone, saying, "I'm sorry, you were in such a dangerous battle against the Tartars, but I wasn't by your side."

Ling Moxiao was stunned for a moment, then he laughed softly. My Dong Su is indeed different from other girls.

"Let's not talk about the past anymore, let's just look to the future." Dong Su said softly.

Ling Moxiao nodded heavily: "Okay! No matter what happens in the future, we will never be separated again."

What Shen Dongsu found a little funny about Ling Moxiao's reaction that day was that she was worried that Ling Moxiao would go to Chang'an, and Ling Moxiao was actually worried that she would leave.

When entering Youzhou City from the north gate, Ling Moxiao had accumulated ten thousand questions to ask along the way, but when he returned home and saw his two lovely children, he hugged his wife.

He didn't want to ask anything anymore and just wanted to immerse himself in the happiness of the moment.

Dong Su also had this feeling, that is, he did not mention what happened in Chang'an, nor did he talk about the situation in Goryeo, nor did he ask about the war in the northern border.

The two of them were like an ordinary couple, talking about their children and looking at picture albums of the babies from birth to last month.

She also showed Ling Moxiao her parenting notes. Every time she saw the monologue she wrote to Ling Moxiao, she felt embarrassed. She covered her face and turned her back to Ling Moxiao, asking him to read faster.

That night, the couple almost did not sleep all night. At dawn, Ling Moxiao directly ordered that the palace be closed to visitors.

Shen Dongsu also lay on the bed, not wanting to move a finger, but still felt a little embarrassed:

"Mr. Pang and the others will guess it."

Ling Moxiao laughed grimly: "So what? You've been alone for two years, and I'm not allowed to make up for it?"

Ling Moxiao didn't come back, and Dong Su felt that she was the big boss and couldn't be lazy at all.

But now that Ling Moxiao is back, Dong Su thinks it's nice to have some fun once in a while, so she dives into his warm embrace:

"Then we'll close the door and refuse visitors!"

Unfortunately, the couple didn’t sleep for long. Dabao and Xiaobao were like two alarm clocks that set off alarms on time. Especially Dabao, who would cry loudly when he woke up and didn’t see his mother.

Ling Moxiao pulled the quilt over their heads and said, "Does he cry every day?"

Dong Su laughed grimly: "Children are like this, apart from eating, sleeping and crying."

Ling Moxiao sighed and sat up: "I'll go warn him."

Shen Dongsu was speechless: "You treat the children as your soldiers! Just go to sleep and I will comfort them."

Ling Moxiao rushed back to the city. He hadn't had a good sleep for several days. Last night, the two of them tossed and turned for half the night and were woken up by the child early in the morning.

In order to let him sleep a little longer, Dong Su prepared to take the child to the flower hall to play.

Ling Moxiao also stood up: "Let's go and comfort the child, otherwise the child won't recognize me."

It’s funny that as soon as Dabao saw his tall father coming, he immediately stopped crying.

Ling Moxiao hugged him, but after just a short while, he felt that it was very affectionate to hug a boy like this, so he threw him up, and Dabao sat steadily on his neck.

The nurse was terrified: "My Lord, you can't hold the child like this. The young master is still young."

But Dabao had already grabbed his father's hair and started to giggle. It was obvious that he liked this new 'horse riding' game very much.

His uncle played horse riding games with him, but he only rode on his back.

Ling Moxiao said to the nurse: "Boys don't need to be pampered like that."

He held Dabao in one hand and Xiaobao in the other, and the frightened wet nurse and maid followed behind cautiously.

We took him to the restaurant and put Dabao in the baby chair without hesitation. Dabao was still jumping around excitedly.

It was obvious that the child enjoyed playing such an exciting game so early in the morning.

But she didn't put Xiaobao in the baby chair, but held him in her arms, and even her voice became softer:

"What do you want to eat? Daddy will feed you."

Xiaobao was eating with his little fists, drooling, and his smiling eyes were like crescent moons.

To everyone's surprise, Xiaobao actually shouted, "Daddy."

Although the speech was not standard, it was much better than shouting "Liang Qin". This light call made Ling Moxiao overjoyed and his voice trembled.

He picked up Xiaobao and rubbed her little cheek: "Hey, I'm the daddy, Xiaobao is so good."

Xiaobao was praised and called "Daddy" several times. Shen Dongsu felt warm at heart watching the father and daughter joking, and went to teach his son:

"Good boy, call me daddy."

Dabao patted his baby chair and cried loudly, still immersed in the joy of riding a big horse.

Well, this pair of brother and sister, one is a fool, the other is a pampered baby, their temperaments and personalities are indeed determined at birth.

Shen Dongsu smiled and said, "Mr. Pang said that Dabao looks like you, Your Highness Prince Ling, were you also this cute when you were a child?"

Ling Moxiao was actually a little embarrassed: "When I was a child, I was much calmer than Dabao."

Haha, why do I feel like in the first few years when I knew you, you were tortured by the poison and hid your true nature, but now you are showing your true character.

After breakfast, Shen Dongsu took the father and his two sons to the large study room and threw the child onto the crawling mat to play, while Shen Dongsu took Ling Moxiao to look at the sand table map of Youzhou City.

Two years ago, the study also had a sand table map of the whole city, but there were few buildings and most of it was wasteland. Now, the buildings are expanding in a scattered manner, almost filling up the entire sand table.

Ling Moxiao was amazed. In just two years, Youzhou City had changed so much!

Shen Dongsu pointed at the sand table and said, "You seemed to have a lot of questions yesterday. Let's take a look around the city later. I can answer your questions now."

Ling Moxiao first pointed to the tallest bell tower and asked, "Why is there a pagoda in the center of the outer city?"

He knew that Dongsu was not opposed to Buddhism and Taoism, but he was not as obsessed with Buddhism and Taoism as people in Chang'an, who designated large amounts of mountain land for Buddhist and Taoist temples and built temples and Taoist monasteries.

The lands of Buddhist and Taoist temples in Youzhou are taxed normally and are managed very strictly.

So it doesn’t make sense that Dongsu would agree to build a pagoda in the center of the city.

Ling Moxiao was worried that the Buddhist sect in Chang'an was going to cause trouble in Youzhou.

Dong Su chuckled and said, "Your Highness has misunderstood. This is not a Buddhist pagoda, it's a bell tower."

"Clock, tower?"

After Shen Dongsu explained what a bell tower was, he emphasized Mr. Pang's suggestion that the tower also served as a watchtower.

As for pagodas, there are of course some in Youzhou, but they are all located close to the mountains. There is only one City God Temple in the main urban area and no other Taoist temples. Only then did Ling Moxiao feel relieved.

Then he pointed to a tall building emitting black smoke near the base. Towers are common, but this is the first time he has seen one.

Shen Dongsu laughed again: "This is a chimney."

"Chimney? So tall?" Ling Moxiao wanted to ask, how big the pot and stove would need to be to have such a tall chimney?

"It's the chimney of the steel mill. Now we have abundant iron resources and coal mines. We can produce a lot of steel to build weapons and warships."

As Shen Dongsu spoke, he took out the detailed drawings of the steelworks and spread them out for him to see.

Ling Moxiao was stunned for a moment. Why did it feel like he had only been away for two years, but he didn't even recognize Youzhou City?

From the time Dong Su taught the military workshop how to forge iron by burning molten iron and rolling iron sheets to make coal stoves, he knew that Dong Su knew the iron smelting technique that no other blacksmiths in the world knew.

He did not ask her how she knew that, because he knew very well that if he asked, Dong Su's answer would be that she learned it from the divine doctor of Dianzhou when she was young.

He used to be half-believing and half-doubting, but now, he is sure that the so-called Dianzhou miracle doctor does not exist at all.

He didn't want to ask, nor did he dare to ask, for fear that the moment he knew the truth, Dong Su would leave.

This is the biggest secret in his heart and also his biggest worry.

After listening to Dong Su talking about the steelworks, Ling Moxiao really wanted to go and take a look immediately. The first batch of weapons and armor made of steel had already been equipped to the entire Jia Si Army.

Thinking of something, Dong Su hurriedly asked Yue Jian to take out a short knife from the armory and handed it to Ling Mo Xiao:

"This is the first knife ever made of steel. I give it to you."

Ling Moxiao pulled it out and took a look. The blade shone with a cold light and the blade was icy cold. Even an iron blade that had been tempered thousands of times could not be as sharp as this steel knife.

A knife like this would be worth at least a thousand taels of silver if it were auctioned in Chang'an.

And I, Youzhou, have already equipped the entire army with such weapons.

Shen Dongsu deliberately whispered: "Chang'an doesn't know! Even Chen Xingyao didn't know that he had been in Youzhou for so long."

"I told him that the chimney was a huge boiler used to make porridge for the refugees, and he actually believed it."

Chen Xingyao, who was on his way to Youzhou, sneezed several times. Is someone cursing me behind my back?

Alas, I wonder if the princess will beat me to death when I return to Youzhou to pass on the imperial edict...

Ling Moxiao looked at the Youzhou sand table map in front of him, and his gaze moved to the location of the granary. He found that the granary had been expanded to three times its previous size, and five new granaries had been added, located in the four corners and center of the city.

He asked hurriedly, "Two years ago, I went on an expedition and took away almost all the food in the city. It's only been two years, and there are many refugees in the city. They should be short of food, right?"

Shen Dongsu shook his head: "No, don't worry, it's enough for you to support another 100,000 troops! In addition to our military storage lands used to cultivate high-yield grains and increase income, the fields reclaimed by the people also have excellent harvests."

"It's mainly my business with the Jiang family. I want the grain as dividends. The Jiang family collects grain from the Nanyang Line area. The rice there is harvested three times a year, and the grain is extremely cheap."

"Also, I arranged for the foreigners and slaves to grow beans and sweet potatoes in the Black Water area, and the harvest was also very high."

The third point surprised Ling Moxiao the most: "In the Heishui area, where it is extremely cold all year round, can crops be grown?"

"Yes, the land there is very fertile! The yield of beans and wheat is very high. In the past, the Tartars were a scourge, and the Han people there were almost extinct, with all kinds of different ethnic groups living together."

"Now that the prince has pacified the northern border, we must take control of the Black Water area before the northern nobles do."

"Not only is there fertile black soil there, but coal and iron resources are also extremely rich. Others think it is a barren land with severe cold all year round, but it is actually a Feng Shui treasure land!"

Ling Moxiao suddenly stepped forward and hugged Shen Dongsu: "Thank you for your hard work in the past two years."

The two babies were crawling and playing in the distance, but when they saw their parents hugging each other, they ran over and hugged their legs.

As for the wet nurse, she had already retreated with her face covered.

Shen Dongsu picked up Xiaobao with a smile: "Your Highness has said this many times yesterday. It has not been easy for us these past two years, but it's worth it!"

"With the foundation laid in the past two years, our children can grow up in the peaceful Youzhou City."

Next, Shen Dongsu introduced him to Wanshu Pavilion, Craftsmen College, Medical College, Maternal and Child Hospital, and the huge commercial city that he was curious about.

It is simply a city within a city, much like a huge manor built by the nobles, and like a country within a country.

It was also because of this that Ling Moxiao was extremely sensitive about the City within the City. He was worried that during his absence, the northern nobles would unite and bully Dong Su, forcing him to compromise.

It turned out that this was a giant indoor market funded by the Jiang family and designed by Shen Dongsu herself. Unlike ordinary markets, it was filled with high-end goods.

Merchants from all over the country who come to Youzhou to look at goods and discuss large-scale business should look for sources of goods here.

She also mentioned that the current persons in charge of the trade city are Xie Qingzhi and Ding Qi.

That's right, it was Shen Dongyue's husband, Ding Qi. Ding Qi's business acumen was demonstrated when he was helping out at his second aunt's restaurant.

After opening a seafood store in Youzhou City, he did the best business than anyone else. With his knowledge of personal connections, business affairs, and social skills, he was qualified to be a master to noble ladies like Xie Qingzhi.

When Xie Qingzhi was in charge of the commercial city, she was always taken advantage of by the Jiang family's stewards because she did not understand business well enough.

Later, Shen Dongsu asked Ding Qi to join, and the situation instantly became a tug-of-war. He was on par with the Jiang family's steward, which saved Shen Dongsu a lot of worries.

When Ling Moxiao heard that Shen Dongyue and his wife were also coming to Youzhou City to settle down, there was a hint of admiration in his eyes when he looked at Shen Dongsu.

She really had no grudge against what Shen Dongyue had done in the past. This kind of mind far exceeded that of many people.

Having said that, Shen Dongsu added that Feng Wensheng had escaped from Lingnan and has not been found yet.

A fugitive, whose whereabouts were so unknown that Prince Ling's personal guards could not even find him, so he must have been given shelter.

Ling Moxiao narrowed his eyes and said in a slightly cold voice: "Don't worry, we will find him."

The couple each held a child and spent the whole morning looking at the sand table. They took an extra-long nap at noon and it was dark when they woke up.

In the evening, we had mutton hotpot after a long time, and talked about Mo Xiujin and Sister Ayuan’s trip to Macheng.