The two shared a long silence, their eyes meeting but not speaking...
Throughout history, when husbands went off to war, wives stayed at home, worrying day and night, losing their appetite, and Ye Shikai understood this feeling. Last time, when he disguised as a traveling doctor and left alone, gone to Ba Shu for merely two weeks, He Linghan was already exhausted and weary. Now, heading off to Ba Shu for a military campaign, he commands over two hundred thousand Chu Army troops, and has provisioned fifty thousand stones of grain, enough for several months of consumption. Although Ye Shikai's strategy is to fight a quick decisive battle, not a protracted one, the battlefield is ever-changing, plans never keep up with changes, and thus all preparations must be thorough.
