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 Xu had no biological children in his life, the greatest blessing was that he raised Sun Deng.
As his son, Sun Deng personally helped the king to bury him.
This is something worthy of praise.
But just when Sun Deng was in great grief, something happened in Jianye's palace:
The Bu family, who was actually the Queen of Wu but not the Queen of Wu, fell ill.
Compared with 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 in succession 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 going 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 attending doctors hurriedly retreated.
Sun Quan walked back and forth for a few steps, feeling extremely dry in his chest, and 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 and pass on my edict to come back immediately without any delay!"
Mrs. Xu was seriously ill, and she was kind to the prince in raising her. It was understandable that the prince went to serve the decoction.
But what about Bu Shi?
He is the master of the harem, and he never makes mistakes in managing the harem.
Over the years, he has shown great concern for the prince and often sends people to give him clothes.
Due to 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, he was hurriedly urged by the emperor to return to Jianye.
It's September in Jiangdong, and we are preparing to enter 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, which made him physically exhausted.
It can be said that he was exhausted physically and mentally, he ate less because of his worries, and his nutrition could not keep up with him in time. In the late autumn weather, he was urgently recalled to the palace by the emperor.
When he was holding on for a while and hurried all the way back to Jianye, he finally ran out of energy. 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 punished on the spot, and the good mood brought about by taking advantage of the Han Kingdom a few days ago disappeared without a trace.
"Ahem, cough, cough! My father and I, my son and I, are 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 still held up his body and acted nonchalantly in front of Sun Quan who came to see him:
"My father still puts state affairs first. My son has a minor illness and it is not worthy of my father's personal visit."
When Sun Quan heard Sun Deng's words, he didn't look relaxed at all.
However, Sun Quan, who was originally full of words, finally turned into a sigh when he saw that the prince was dragging his body and still wanted to persuade him to act on state affairs.
"I heard that you were working day and night to get back, so you were overworked."
Sun Quan felt a little regretful, "I was too impatient and didn't consider whether your body could bear it."
Sun Deng coughed again:
"My son took away the best doctor in the palace and delayed Mrs. Bu's condition. It's my fault."
"My father urgently summoned my son back because he was worried about Mrs. Bu's health. It's because my son 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 is playing tricks on people. The most important thing for you now is to take good care of your health first and don't think about it anymore."
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 came very violently, and within half a month, she was already so sick that she was no longer human.
When she heard that the emperor had arrived, she asked someone to hang a gauze curtain in front of her 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 sick bed..."
Although Sun Quan knew that Mrs. Bu might be imitating the old story between Mrs. Li and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he could not bear to go against Mrs. Bu's wishes and just said with some sadness:
"The reason why I favor you is because your character is virtuous and virtuous like that of Han Wu. You only have beauty in your appearance. Why should you be like this?"
Sun Quan always wanted to make the Bu family his queen, but he couldn't do it.
Now that things have happened, 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 am following at this time is the principle of 'a woman who does not modify her appearance 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:
"Has the Queen felt better these past two days?"
It probably 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. I'm afraid I won't be able to stay with His Majesty anymore in the future."
Hearing this, Sun Quan couldn't help but look sad:
"Queen, please don't do 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 in peace and recover."
In fact, in the first month of this year, Bu Shi had already been sick once.
But 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.
In the imperial palace of Han Dynasty, ginseng was also a must-have.
It was precisely because of the example of the Han Dynasty that the doctor in the Wu Kingdom was helpless and gave 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 only thought about whether there would be another miracle medicine that could cure Bu's disease.
But Bu Shi knew her own body, so she sighed:
"Since I have served His Majesty, I have been favoring you in the imperial court for so many years. Since Your Majesty ascended the throne, I have been acting as a queen in the name of no queen."
"Therefore, I have always been walking on thin ice. I am afraid that I will make any mistakes. Otherwise, I will be criticized for a trivial matter, and I will be afraid of damaging His Majesty's reputation."
"Today I heard that His Majesty personally called me the Queen. I am extremely grateful and frightened. How many women in the world can compare with me? How dare I look forward to more?" Gu Yan
These days, she was really relying on ginseng soup to survive, and she no longer dared to hope for 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 this concubine as your queen, I am bold enough to nag Your Majesty about the harem."
"Queen, please speak."
"In the past, I was favored by Your Majesty, and everyone in the harem regarded 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 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?"
Perhaps because he really knew that his time was running out, or perhaps because he was really thinking about Sun Quan, when Sun Quan asked about this, Bu was not polite and said directly:
"In my opinion, of all 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 upper and lower levels. 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 join Yuan Shu's old subordinate Liu Xun. Unexpectedly, after Liu Xun was defeated by Sun Ce, all of Yuan Shu's female relatives were captured by Sun Ce.
Yuan, the daughter of Yuan Shu, 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 possible thing is to adopt one.
Anyway, a concubine from a lowly background is not qualified to raise a child - 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 kefu, but she is the kezi.
"If the queen recovers from her illness in the future, I will immediately hold a ceremony to crown her queen!"
Sun Quan promised Bu, "If...if it is true as the queen said, then I will follow your words and make Yuan my queen."
No matter how much Yuan family suppresses his son, he also suppresses his youngest son. The prince is already in his thirties, so he can't be suppressed to death for such a big man, right?
"Then I will 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 not really have the queen's destiny...
In September, Wu Guobu died of illness.
Sun Quan was so grieved that he decided to go his own way and bury Bu with the rites of a queen, despite all opinions.
Unsurprisingly, this move was opposed by many ministers. A few people directly stood up 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 that he must pursue the Bu clan as his queen.
This is unprecedented in all dynasties!
At the same time, it is something that has never been recorded in etiquette books.
Just when the ministers were at loggerheads with the emperor, many people looked at Prince Sun Deng, who was standing at the front and attending the court meeting for the first time after falling ill.
The Bu family has not been able to gain 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 would 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.
He came out of the queue, holding up the ivory tablet, and 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 His Majesty breaks the ceremony and pursues the title. This shows that His Majesty has a deep affection, which is 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. Do you dare to stop me?"
"good!"
Although I don’t know why the prince went out of his way and was willing to give in to his wife to 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 asked, "Do you have anything else to say?"
The reason why the ministers were opposed to the Bu family being 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 someone, the ministers finally fell silent.
While 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.
When Zhang Xiahou came to Chang'an, the marriage between Feng Junhou and Zhang Xingyi officially began.
There are six indispensable etiquettes: nacai, asking for name, naji, nazheng, asking for an appointment, and welcoming in person.
At the same time, Xiao Junhou was watching from the side and could not go beyond her wedding.
Queen Zhang was watching from the other side, not letting her sister suffer any injustice.
The matchmaker back then was Jiang Wan?
Okay, I want Jiang Wan to be the matchmaker this time too.
Was the comment made back then by Du Qiong, a famous scholar from Shu?
Okay, I’m going to ask Du Qiong to be the critic this time too.
Mr. Du is not an easy person to talk to.
Not to mention ordinary people, even colleagues in the DPRK and China 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 of Ji Han, but the talents of Shu have lost too many opportunities.
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 swallows, and the stars spread across the river."
On the day of the wedding, Zhao Guang drove and all the brothers from the Xinghan Congregation rode tall horses to take the bride back to the 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.
That night, Chang'an City postponed the curfew for an 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 faint fire in each other's eyes.