Chapter 1119 Different joys and sorrows
Although Sun Dengyi took great care of Mrs. Xu, Mrs. Xu ultimately failed to survive August and eventually died of illness in late August.
Although the Xu family had no biological children in her life, her greatest blessing was that she raised Sun Deng.
Sun Deng, as his son, personally helped Shu to be buried.
This is something worthy of praise.
Just when Sun Deng was handling the funeral arrangements for the Xu family, something happened in Jianye’s palace:
Bu Shi, who was actually a queen but not a queen, also fell ill.
Compared to Xu who had been suffering for several months, Bu's illness came too suddenly.
In just over ten days, not long after September, Bu's condition suddenly worsened, and it seemed that he might die soon.
“It’s just rubbish, rubbish, rubbish!”
Sun Quan's heart was on fire and he cursed three times at the many doctors lying on the ground.
"Have I ever treated you badly in daily life? I didn't expect that at the critical moment, it would be of no use at all! What use do I want from you! What use!"
“Your Majesty, forgive me, forgive me…”
Seeing these doctors turning over and over and saying only this, Sun Quan kicked the nearest doctor away and cursed angrily:
“Get out of here, get out of here!”
As if they had been granted amnesty, all the doctors hurriedly retreated.
Sun Quan took a few steps back and forth, feeling extremely dry in his chest. There seemed to be an evil fire running around in his body, but he didn't know how to vent it.
“Where is the prince? Where is the prince?”
“Your Majesty, His Royal Highness is still in Wu County…”
Before the palace man finished speaking, he was rudely interrupted by Sun Quan:
“Go, pass on my edict, and ask him to come back immediately without any delay!”
The Xu family was seriously ill, and she was kind to the prince in raising her. There was nothing wrong with the prince going to serve the decoction.
But what about Bu Shi?
He is the master of the harem, and he never makes mistakes in running the harem.
Over the years, he has shown great concern for the prince and often sends people to give him clothes.
In view of emotion and reason, shouldn’t the prince come back for a visit?
Poor Sun Deng buried his adoptive mother with grief. Before he could take a breath, the emperor hurriedly rushed him back to Jianye.
In September in Jiangdong, it is already approaching the end of autumn, but the autumn tiger has not completely dissipated, causing the weather to be cool and hot.
Sun Deng has been suffering from excessive grief and loss of appetite these days.
In addition, he had to personally take care of Xu's funeral, and his body was exhausted.
It can be said that he was exhausted both physically and mentally, was too busy to eat, and his nutrition could not keep up with him in time. In the weather like late autumn, he was rushed back to the palace by the emperor.
While he was holding on with all his strength and hurried all the way back to Jianye, he finally lost his strength. The autumn cold took advantage of the weakness and invaded his body, and he fell ill all of a sudden.
This is good, the step-sibling Xu has just died of illness, the harem's favorite concubine Bu has become seriously ill, and now the prince is ill again...
Sun Quan was treated badly on the spot. The good mood brought about by taking advantage of the Han Kingdom a few days ago disappeared without a trace.
“Ahem, cough, cough! Father, son and minister, everything is fine.”
Sun Deng's face was red on the hospital bed. This was not rosy, but a sickly red color caused by fever.
At this time, Sun Deng was still holding on to his body and pretending not to worry in front of Sun Quan who came to see him:
“My father still puts state affairs first, and my son has some minor illness, which is not worthy of my father’s personal visit.”
Sun Quan didn’t feel relaxed at all when he heard Sun Deng’s words.
He was originally full of words, but when he saw that the prince was dragging his body and still wanted to persuade him to behave in a state of affairs, he finally turned into a sigh.
“I heard that you were overworked because you traveled day and night in order to rush back.”
Sun Quan felt a little regretful, "I was too impatient and didn't consider whether your body could bear it."
Sun Deng coughed again:
“I am at fault for taking away the best doctor in the palace and delaying Mrs. Bu’s condition.”
“My father urgently summoned my son back because he was worried about Mrs. Bu’s health. It’s because I didn’t understand my father...”
"Okay, don't say it anymore." Sun Quan stroked Sun Deng's shoulder, "The matter has come to an end. God's will has played a role in the situation. The most important thing for you now is to take good care of your health first and stop thinking about it."
Sun Quan comforted Sun Deng for a few words, then hurriedly got up and returned to the palace.
In the palace, there was also a patient whom he was extremely concerned about.
Bu's illness was extremely severe, and within half a month, she was already somewhat out of shape.
Hearing that the emperor had arrived, she specially asked someone to hang a gauze curtain in front of the bed.
Seeing that Sun Quan wanted to ask someone to pull up the gauze curtain, Mrs. Bu stopped him and said:
"I have a serious illness, and Your Majesty is the lord of the world. If Your Majesty gets sick because of me, I will not be able to redeem myself even if I die."
“Your Majesty, please put your health first and stay away from the sickbed…”
Although Sun Quan knew that Mrs. Bu might be imitating Mrs. Li's old affair with Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he couldn't bear to go against Mrs. Bu's wishes. He just said with some sadness:
"The reason why I favor you is because of your virtuous character, Queen. I am not like Han Wu, I only care about your beauty. Why should you be like this?"
Sun Quan always wanted to make the Bu family his queen, but he couldn't do it.
At this point, he no longer wants to hide himself, because he is worried that if he doesn't call himself Queen Bu, he may not have a chance in the future.
"Since Your Majesty favors my concubine with her character, what I will follow at this time is the principle of 'a woman whose appearance is not modified will not see her father.' I hope that Your Majesty will follow this principle."
Hearing Bu's insistence, Sun Quan didn't want to force her, so he had to talk to her through a layer of gauze:
"Have you felt better these past two days?"
Probably it took a lot of effort to stop Sun Quan from raising the curtain, but Mrs. Bu's tone at this time seemed a little weak:
“I’m afraid it will be difficult to recover from my illness, and I may no longer be able to stay with His Majesty in the future.”
Hearing this, Sun Quan couldn't help but feel even more sad:
"Queen, don't be like this. If you don't have confidence that you can get better, how can the doctor cure your illness?"
“Don’t worry, as long as it can cure your disease, no matter how difficult it is to find, I will have people find it. You can just rest and recover.”
In fact, Bu Shi had already been ill once in the first month of this year.
But at that time, a medical prescription came from the Shu Kingdom, saying that ginseng produced in Liaodong can greatly replenish vitality and have a life-threatening effect.
Zhuge Liang, the Prime Minister of Han Dynasty, often needed to drink ginseng soup after falling ill so that he could have the energy to deal with government affairs.
And in the imperial palace of the Han Dynasty, ginseng was also a must-have.
It was precisely because of the example of the Han State that the doctor of the Wu State had no choice but to give Mrs. Bu some ginseng soup. Unexpectedly, she was actually saved.
That's why Sun Quan said that we should try our best to find medicinal materials.
In his mind, he was wondering if there would be another miracle medicine that could cure Bu's disease.
It was just that Bu Shi knew her body, so she sighed:
“I have been serving His Majesty for so many years and have always been favored by His Majesty. Ever since His Majesty ascended the throne, even though I don’t have the title of Queen, I still act as a Queen.”
“Therefore, I have to walk on thin ice. I am afraid that I will make any mistakes. If I am criticized for a trivial matter, I will be afraid of damaging His Majesty’s reputation.”
These days, she is really hanging on to ginseng soup, and she no longer dares to expect good luck like she did in the first month.
At this time, it’s time to make plans for your own aftermath:
“Since Your Majesty regards me as your queen, I have the courage to nag you about the harem.”
“Queen, please speak.”
“In the past, I was favored by Your Majesty, and everyone in the harem took me as the leader. However, once I am gone and there is no queen in the harem, it will be bad if there is trouble. Your Majesty should consider this matter as soon as possible.”
Sun Quan did not expect that Bu Shi would still think about himself at this time. He forcibly resisted the urge to lift the curtain:
“In your opinion, who can be the master of the harem after you?”
Maybe he really knew that he had only a short time, or maybe he really thought about Sun Quan. When Sun Quan asked about this, Bu was not polite and said directly:
“In my opinion, among the concubines in the palace, Yuan is the most well-behaved. She can be appointed as the queen. With her as the head, your majesty’s harem will be peaceful and trouble-free.”
The so-called Yuan family is the daughter of Yuan Shu.
At that time, Yuan Shu was forced to proclaim himself emperor, which caused disunity between the superiors and subordinates. Later, he was attacked by Cao Cao and Lu Bu, and was finally defeated and killed.
His relatives, wives and children had no choice but to flee to Wancheng and rely on Yuan Shu's old subordinate Liu Xun. Unexpectedly, Liu Xun was defeated by Sun Ce again, and all of Yuan Shu's female relatives were captured by Sun Ce.
This is how the Yuan family was brought into Sun Quan's house.
Yuan's character is virtuous, but unfortunately her life is not very good. It may be that her father forcibly proclaimed himself emperor, and God could not see it, so she was affected.
After becoming Sun Quan's concubine, she never gave birth to a child.
That’s it, the worst thing is to adopt one.
Anyway, concubines from lowly backgrounds are not qualified to raise children—Prince Sun Deng is an obvious example.
But even if Sun Quan sent the children born to lowly concubines to the Yuan family to raise, she would raise them all to death and none of them would survive.
Others are the master, but she is the master.
"If the queen recovers from her illness in the future, I will hold a ceremony to enshrine the queen immediately!"
Sun Quan promised to Bu, "If...if it is true as the queen said, then I will follow your words and make Yuan my queen."
Even if the Yuan family suppresses the son, it also suppresses the young son. The prince is already in his thirties, so such a big man cannot be suppressed to death, right?
“Then I would like to thank Your Majesty first.”
What Sun Quan couldn't see was that Bu Shi in the gauze tent was already shedding tears.
She knew that she might really not have the right to be a queen...
In September, Wu Guobu died of illness.
Sun Quan was so grieved that he decided to go his own way and bury Bu's family with the rites of a queen, despite everyone's opinions.
As expected, this move was opposed by many ministers. Many people stood up directly in the court and criticized the emperor, saying that this move was against common etiquette and was not advisable.
Sun Quan was extremely angry, raised his sword, and cursed angrily:
"Although Bu was not named queen during her lifetime, who doesn't regard her as a queen? I just want her to get the status she deserves after her death!"
“Whoever dares to stop me today is my enemy!”
The emperor's statement undoubtedly showed his determination to pursue the Bu family as his queen.
This is an unprecedented precedent in all dynasties!
At the same time, it is also something that has never been recorded in etiquette books.
Just when the ministers were at loggerheads with the emperor, many people turned their attention to Prince Sun Deng, who was standing at the front and attending the court meeting for the first time after falling ill.
The Bu clan has not been able to be granted the title of queen in recent years because the prince took the lead in opposing it.
This time, the emperor publicly expressed such an attitude, what will the prince do?
As if he felt the gazes of the ministers, Sun Deng, who had not fully recovered and still looked a little sickly, stood up silently.
Going out of the queue, holding up the ivory tablet, he said in a hoarse voice:
"In the past, Xuan You of the Han Dynasty had a deep love for the old sword and was praised by others. Now your Majesty breaks the ceremony and pursues the title. It shows that your Majesty has a deep love for you, no less than that of Xuan of the Han Dynasty. I think that I can make Mrs. Bu my queen and bury her with the rites of a queen. "
As soon as these words came out, not only were all the ministers shocked, but Sun Quan, who originally thought that the prince would stand up against him like before, was also greatly surprised.
After being shocked, Sun Quan was overjoyed and asked excitedly:
“Are the prince’s words sincere?”
"Everyone knows that Mrs. Bu is a virtuous person. Your Majesty's move is an act of pursuing the virtuous and a wise king. How dare you stop me, sir?"
"good!"
Although I don’t know why the prince was uncharacteristically willing to give in to his wife and become the queen.
But Sun Quan knew that the most important thing at this time was to settle this matter. He looked at the ministers again and said, "Do you have anything else to say?"
The reason why the ministers opposed the Bu family to be granted the title of queen was that the Xu family was still alive and had a nurturing grace for the prince.
Second, the prince has a reputation as a virtuous man and has won the hearts of many scholars. He wants his majesty to make the Xu family his queen, which is not only in line with etiquette and law, but also in line with filial piety.
If any of the ministers opposes the prince, he will seclude himself from everyone.
Now that the prince was finally willing to give in, and looking at the furious emperor who was on the verge of killing, the ministers finally fell silent.
Just when Jianye was holding the funeral, a grand wedding was being held in Chang'an.
In the few months after the emperor of the Han Dynasty came to Chang'an, many courtiers from Hanzhong and Jincheng, as well as relatives of the emperor, also moved to Chang'an one after another.
With almost all the people waiting to be moved, the emperor officially announced that the capital would be moved to Chang'an.
The first major event after Chang'an became the capital of Jihan was the marriage between Feng Junhou and Zhang Xiaosi.
The six etiquettes of nacai, asking for names, najigai, nazheng, asking for an appointment, and personally welcoming are all indispensable.
At the same time, Xiaojunhou was watching from the side and could not go beyond her wedding.
Empress Zhang was watching from the other side, not letting her sister suffer any injustice.
The matchmaker back then was Jiang Wan?
Okay, Jiang Wan will be the matchmaker this time too.
The comment back then was written by Du Qiong, a famous scholar from Shu?
Okay, I’m going to ask Du Qiong to do the review this time too.
Mr. Du is not an easy talker.
Not to mention ordinary people, even colleagues in the DPRK may not be able to see him in person.
However, after Qin Mi's death, Mr. Du became the representative figure of Shu people.
The Han Dynasty is now so powerful that people with a discerning eye can see that the Han Dynasty is expected to prosper.
Shu is the land of Longxing in Ji Han, but the talents of Shu have lost too many opportunities in recent years.
Mr. Du carries the hopes of people in Shu, so he naturally wants to give Feng Junhou face.
So he made a comment to Feng Junhou and Zhang Xiaosi: "The sky horse tramples the flying swallow, and the stars line the river."
On the day of the wedding, Zhao Guang drove and all the brothers in the Xinghan congregation rode on big horses to take the bride back to Zhendong General's Mansion.
When the stars rise, I can see countless stars falling and blooming in the evening sky above Chang'an City.
Just like the scene when Feng Junhou married the tiger girl of the Guan family.
It was night, Chang'an City postponed the curfew for one hour, and the people leading the army to protect the safety of Chang'an City were none other than Guan Xing and Zhang Bao.
The two men were wearing armor and holding weapons. They looked at each other and saw the dark fire in each other's eyes.
(End of this chapter)