Chapter 19 End

The father and son finished the conversation calmly and affectionately. Sun Deng once again prayed for Sun Quan to recover early. Then he retreated, went out and returned to his residence. Looking at the cleanly cleaned room, the respectful maidservant and the solemn Zhuge Ke and Xie Jing standing aside, Sun Deng finally found a little old Feeling.

"Prince, how about it?" Zhuge Ke asked in a low voice.

"What about?" Sun Deng picked the corners of his mouth: "It's okay, it should be good to recuperate for a few days, but here..." He pointed to his heart and looked at Zhuge Ke: "It's not easy to heal."

Zhuge Ke nodded with a hint of embarrassment on his face.

Sun Quan doesn't believe in Sun Deng. How can Sun Deng believe in Sun Quan? Let alone the drugs given by Sun Shao intentionally or unintentionally, Sun Quan chose Sunlv and gave up Sun Shao's son, indirectly pushing Sun Deng to the death line, which was enough for Sun Deng to reject Sun Quan. At this time, Sun Deng will not believe Sun Shao completely, but he will definitely not believe Sun Quan. The situation of father and son's suspicion has been formed. Although Sun Deng returned to Jianye, he did not get closer to the position of prince, but farther away.

There is only one way left, that is to rely on the power behind Sun Shao and Sun Shao to use the predicament in front of him to suppress Sun Quan, so that he had to make Sun Deng the crown prince, just as he had to make Mrs. Xu the queen. This road is a road of no return. Once you step on it, you will never have a chance to turn back. Before stepping on, they must be cautious and cautious. They should not only consider the possible surnames of success, but also evaluate the possible conditions offered by Sun Shao, so as to prevent them from becoming the prey in Sun Shao's hands and being blackmailed by Sun Shao without restrictions.

Sun Deng asked Sun Shao to promise not to be enemies of each other, which is one of them.

"Prince, it's time for you to go to some ladies to pay my peace." Xie Jing reminded me.

Xie Jing, who was more than 30 years old, was from Nanyang. He was a talent found by Zhang Cheng when he was stationed in Nanyang. Zhang Cheng recommended him to Lu Su. Lu Su returned to Jianye to treat his illness, introduced him to Zhuge Jin, and then came to Sun Deng's side through Zhuge Ke. During the period when Sun Deng was not in Jianye, Jianye's situation was summarized and reported by him and sent to Sun Deng regularly. The road is far away, and a lot of news is not timely. His role is limited, but he is very familiar with Jianye's situation and clear about the open and secret struggles in the Wu Palace. This is the time for him to play a role.

"How's the situation of the ladies?"

"Not very good." Xie Jing showed a worried look: "Mrs. Xu's resentment is too heavy. As soon as she arrived in the palace, she made a lot of enemies. Although Mrs. Wang was very hostile and difficult to get along with, even Mrs. Bu and Mrs. Yuan were also a little repulsive. She... She said that the eldest princess was arrogant and rude.

Sun Deng frowned. As soon as he entered the door, he found that Mrs. Xu's behavior was not right. Now after listening to Xie Cheng's words, he knew that his adoptive mother, an ordinary generation, had stayed in Wu County for more than ten years. In addition to accumulating a lot of resentment, he did not learn much from it.

"I know." Sun Deng thought for a moment: "Let's go, I'll go and call Mrs. Bu first."

Xie Jing breathed a sigh of relief and quickly followed with the prepared gifts. Sun Deng took two steps, turned back, took out the sword sent to him by Sun Shao, took a look with regret, resolutely put it on the brocade box, and stuffed it into Xie Jing's arms.

The big tiger pouted his mouth while hating the embroidered handkerchief. The pattern of the phoenix bird on the handkerchief was embroidered by her as a strange ugly bird. Mrs. Bu sat aside with a calm face sulking. Hearing the maid's report, Sun Deng asked to see him, and the tiger shook his hand angrily: "No!"

"Nonsense!" Mrs. Bu shouted and pointed to the embroidery rack: "Sit down and continue to embroider. When will the embroidery come out and when will it end?"

Dahu gasped and stared at Mrs. Bu. The two were deadlocked for a moment. Dahu was defeated and had to sit down honestly.

Sun Deng came in, glanced at the big tiger with his back to him, smiled silently, first saluted Mrs. Bu, gave exquisite Linzi high-quality silk, and then walked to the opposite of the big tiger, pulled a table and sat down, and watched the big tiger embroidery attentively. Dahu was not embroidering. She pretended and deliberately ignored Sun Deng. She hoped that Sun Deng would leave quickly so as not to make him angry. Unexpectedly, Sun Deng refused to leave. She stared at Sun Deng, pushed away the embroidery rack with a "pop" and said angrily, "What are you looking at? You have to go back to embroider!"

"Gugu..." Sun Deng covered his mouth and became happy. He pulled the embroidery rack and looked at it and nodded repeatedly: "If you see that you can still embroider this, you will be very surprised."

"He... What's wrong with him?" When it came to Sun Shao, Dahu's anger subsided in half. She bit her lips and thought for a while, and couldn't help asking curiously, "How's your brother now?"

"He?" Sun Deng raised his eyebrows and showed a playful look that did not match his original surname: "He is the dignified king of Yue. What do you think of him?"

"I knew it." Dahu pouted and said disappointedly, "He became the king of Yue, so he forgot us."

"You're wrong." Sun Deng smiled, took the brocade box from Xie Jing's hand, and pushed it to Dahu: "This is a gift that my brother asked me to bring to you. Other sisters don't have it."

"What, I don't care!" Although it was not rare, the big tiger still opened the brocade box. As soon as he saw the exquisite ring knife inside, the big tiger's eyes suddenly lit up. This knife is so beautiful. The black leather scabbard, brass swallowing, the knife ring carved into a tiger's head is lifelike, and the ornaments made of crystal are crystal clear. Dahu couldn't put it down at first sight. He took it in his hand and stroked it. He said strangely, "What kind of skin is this? It feels so strange?"

"Shark skin." Sun Deng smiled and said, "The eldest brother said that the shark is the overlord of the sea. Only a knife decorated with such leather can be worthy of my sister."

"Hahaha... Only he knows me." The tiger laughed loudly, jumped up, first inserted the knife into the belt, then waved out the long knife, and cut it in the air. The knife was as light as a horse, and the embroidery frame was broken. The big tiger's eyes were shining, and he tried the blade with his fingers: "What a sharp knife!"

Sun Deng's eyes tightened and almost jumped up. Then he relaxed his body and smiled calmly, "For my sister, of course it's a good knife."

"Well, I like it, I do." Dahu carefully put the knife into the sheath, sat down again, and approached Sun Deng: "Tell me, how is your brother now?"

"Brother...not good." Sun Deng glanced outside and said carefully, "He is very sad now."

"Oh." The smile on Dahu's face immediately faded and said to himself, "It's all useless. I didn't take good care of A Li, so that he was robbed. Well, if I catch that damn robber, I will definitely cut him with 10,000 knives.

"Guan's sister-in-law heard that the robbers had gone east, so she took people to the sea to search." Sun Deng sighed: "Dahu, you don't know that Guan's sister-in-law has suffered for more than two months. Because the eldest brother was willing to reconcile, Guan's sister-in-law said that the eldest brother had forgotten his righteousness when he saw the benefit, and the two quarreled.

"Can you find the vast sea?" Dahu sneered and glanced out: "Well, he thought that the eldest brother would kill you. He is the prince of the State of Wu. I'm afraid his dream will fail when you come back."

"Alas--" Sun Deng sighed and got up and said, "I don't want too much. I just come back to be with my mother. I'm satisfied to see my sister often. Sister, my mother has been alone for too long, and her surname is inevitably a little strange. Just for my sake, don't care about her, okay?

When it came to Mrs. Xu, Dahu was a little unhappy, but in the way of Sun Deng's face, she still nodded reluctantly. Sun Deng took advantage of the hot iron and held a family banquet in the name of Mrs. Xu, inviting Mrs. Bu, Mrs. Yuan, Mrs. Wang and others to participate. Of course, Mrs. Wang didn't go, but this did not prevent Sun Deng from becoming the focus of the palace smoothly. Under the persuasion of Sun Deng, Mrs. Xu also lowered her posture and made friends with Mrs. Bu and Mrs. Yuan and others. Sun Deng gave a thousand horses to Sun Quan. Sun Quan only took half of them and returned them to him. Sun Deng did not keep them. For various reasons, he gave these 500 first-class horses from Liaodong to several generals. The war horse is a rare thing in Jiangdong, not to mention this kind of good horse. For a while, in addition to Sun Dengren's name, he added the advantages of being able to fight and command Ruo Ding. The battle of Meng Liangjin described by the Han Gong Pao became Sun Deng's maiden war - only a limited number of people such as Zhuge Ke knew that this battle did not fight at all. .

During this period, Sun Quan kept watching quietly. Whether Mrs. Wang complained or cried in front of him, he did not make any statement. He looked at Sun Deng like a bystander. After a noise, Jian Ye slowly calmed down.

At this time, Sun Shao sent Sun Song to Jianye to inform Sun Quan of a piece of good news. God bless his son A Yiguo really turned bad luck into good luck. Guan Feng took people to search the mountains and seas, and finally found traces of robbers on an unknown island. After a life-long fight, Guan Feng killed the robbers and recaptured the children. Fortunately, he was safe and sound.

Sun Song brought a thousand war horses and said to Sun Quan that Sun Shao was very embarrassed about this. Because of his son's impulsive affairs, he turned against the king of Wu and forced Huiji County and Nanhai County. These two places can't be returned now. A thousand war horses can be regarded as a crime of accompanying him. I hope to relieve the past and restore friendship with the king of Wu. Cooperative relationship. In addition, he also specially prepared a generous gift for Wu Fan, praising Wu Fan for being really amazing.

Hearing the news, Sun Quan was so stunned that he didn't even know how Sun Song went out. He is now 100% sure that this is Sun Shao's trick. He sent the two robbers. Otherwise, how could it be such a coincidence that the child has been robbed for three months, and he is still safe? Is that a robber or a nanny?

Looking at the thousand war horses, Sun Quan finally couldn't help it, and a mouthful of blood gushed out. This time he was really sick.

Sun Shao once wanted to exchange 2,000 war horses for the bridge and A Li. Sun Quan did not agree. Now it's better that the bridge and A Li were still picked up by Sun Shao. Two thousand war horses became a thousand. In addition, Sun Quan also paid for the substitute counties of two counties, along with the position of queen.

This mute has suffered a lot, which is worse than the last time Su's thick leg killed Jiang Qin - by the way, this Su's thick leg is now the governor of the East China Sea and the first heavy general under Sun Shao, which can already show that this matter can't be separated from Sun Shao.

Sun Quan understands it, but what can he do if he understands it? Can you cry to others? Others will only say that you don't know how to praise. At that time, it was over when you took 2,000 war horses and sent them back to the hostages. You had to do it like this. You were fooled and suffered a big loss.

The more he thought about it, the more angry Sun Quan was, and he couldn't afford to get sick. The matter of Wu was naturally represented by Sun Deng. Although Sun Deng was only 14 years old, after a year of training, he behaved very calmly. First, he congratulated Sun Shao, and then accepted Sun Shao's good intentions, and then wrote to the emperor in the name of Sun Quan, condemning Cao Qian and Liu Bei for not mediating when Wu Yue misunderstanding, but were ready to take advantage of the fire. Despite the hard-won peace situation, he tried to expand the situation and once again pushed the Han into the abyss of war.

Everything seems to be orderly and well-founded.

After this accident, Sun Deng's position as the crown prince was indestructible. Then a minister wrote that Sun Quan was seriously ill and established the position of crown prince as soon as possible to appease the people. Sun Quan knew that this was a conspiracy planned by Sun Shao, but there was no room for bargaining, so he had to obey the will of the public and make Sun Deng the crown prince.

Sun Shao, the king of Yue, who got the news, sent someone to congratulate him. At the same time, he visited Sun Quan's illness. He sent a valuable gift, an exquisite clock. This clock is the latest product of Yueguo. It is more accurate and more beautiful than the hourglasses and leaking pots used in the past. The bell body is the incense wood of the South China Sea, and the clock surface is made of fine glass. The whole body is decorated with gold and all kinds of jade from the Western Regions. It is magnificent and beautiful. Sun Shao said that this new clock took more than a year to develop. There were only two of this specification, one was dedicated to the emperor at the beginning of the year and the other to the king of Wu to express condolences.

Sun Quan looked at the golden and ticking clock, looking at the clock swinging back and forth, and there were bursts of black in front of him. Send the clock, send the clock, this vertical is not to send the clock, he is to send me to the end, he is to curse me to die. What's your bad name, but it's called Zhong? Does the clock have something like this? Is the clock a musical instrument?

During the period when Sun Quan was seriously ill, Sun Deng served Sun Quan in addition to dealing with state affairs. He did not leave a step and did not understand. Sun Quan had to taste the medicine he took before feeding it to Sun Quan. Sun Quan wanted a small solution. He took the tiger with his own hands (the drowning device of the Han Dynasty), and Sun Quan wanted to spit. He took the spit pot with his own hands. Anyway, you can't find a star. The problem. Mrs. Xu was also always on the sidelines, asking for warmth and full care.

Sun Deng's filial piety has been verified once again. Everyone said that the State of Wu has a loyal, filial and benevolent prince, and he is blessed.

Then Sun Quan's body became heavier and heavier. The more Sun Deng was filial, and the more angry he was, the more he was. With that knot in his heart, Sun Deng's performance changed. Everything became hypocrisy, and everything became scheming. Just like that clock, no matter how beautiful and expensive the decoration is, it is just a curse in the final analysis.

At this time, someone suggested that Sun Quan's illness was so serious, should he be happy? The marriage between Sun Deng and Zhou Yu has been fixed for several years. Now that Sun Deng is 14 years old, he has established a prince and began to take care of national affairs. Zhou Yu is also 19 years old. In the family of powerful people, this 19-year-old woman is old. In case Sun Quan has no taboo, Sun Deng can't marry within three years, won't he drag Zhou Yu to more than 20 years? Question mark

Sun Quan was actually very reluctant at this time. He had a very good opinion on Zhou Xun. As a partial general in charge of Wu Wangfu, he actually let the robbers break into the palace, robbed two children, and directly pushed him into a desperate situation. Now that he is sick like this, Zhou Xun has an inescapable responsibility. However, considering the surging domestic situation in the State of Wu, Sun Quan thought about it and decided to accept this suggestion. Anyway, Sun Deng's succession to the throne is irreparable. The Zhou family and Sun Shao have a very close relationship. Sun Deng can get married to Zhou Yu, which can more or less help him to get Sun Shao's support in the future.

Since we are going to do it, let's do it together. Sun Quan issued an edict to marry Zhou Yu for his grandson Deng, and at the same time marry the princess Sun Lu's class to Zhou Xun.

The imperial edict was issued to Zhou's house. Zhou Xun, who had thought about it behind closed doors, took the imperial edict and Xiaoqiao and Zhou Yu to sit down. Zhou Yu was obviously thin, so thin that her chin was sharp, and her eyes looked bigger. Xiaoqiao also lost a lot of weight. The bridge left Jianye and went to Qiantang, and when she left, she was dying. I don't know what's going on now. She is both regretful and guilty, and she is under too much psychological pressure.

"Sister, don't worry. I'll go to Qian Tang to find my eldest brother." Zhou Yin jumped up and turned around to go out.

"What are you going to do?" Xiaoqiao stopped him. Zhou Yin stood at the door unconvinced and turned his head to look at Zhou Yu. His eyes were full of pity: "I can't let my sister marry Sun Deng like this. She doesn't like him at all."

" Shut up!" Zhou Yu, who had been biting her lips and didn't say anything, suddenly became angry, and her pale face turned red: "Whether it's the man or the woman of my Zhou family, when did marriage put the relationship in the first step? Rights! Do you understand the rights? Sun Deng is already the prince, and Sun Luban is the princess. What else are you dissatisfied with? You think they are all like you. You know how to fool around all day long, and you don't know how to think about your family.

Zhou Yin was stunned. He was confused by Zhou Yu's criticism. Did his sister really cut off her love with Sun Shao for the sake of power and profit? He curled his lips and was a little disdainful. At the beginning, Sun Shao was made the king of Yue. She and her mother thought that Sun Shao was dead this time. Who would have thought that Sun Shao not only broke through the siege, but also broke through Liaodong within a year, and took away the whole Huiji and the South China Sea from Sun Quan. Sun Quan was disgraced by Sun Shao, and even Zhou Xun was implicated. Although Sun Quan did not dismiss him, he let him think about it at home, which was equivalent to depriving the Zhou family of all the rights. For the sake of rights, if they don't agree to the marriage, there is only one way to escape, but where can they escape? They abandoned Sun Shao when he needed help the most. Will Sun Shao help them again?

"Well, I don't care about your business." Zhou Yin shook his hand and strode out of the door: "I don't want your rights. I'm leaving."

"Cop, where are you going?" Xiaoqiao trembled with anger and rushed out to scold loudly.

"I rely on my ability to earn my fame and wealth." Zhou Yin shouted, "I will do what my father did back then."

Xiaoqiao is still waiting to chase. Zhou Yu came out and grabbed her: "Let your brother go. There is one more way, and there is always one more guarantee." With that, her tears couldn't help falling down. "We have chosen the wrong one. We can't let him choose the wrong one anymore."

"How can that work?" Xiaoqiao said anxiously, "If he goes to Qian Tang, what will you do?"

Zhou Yuqiang smiled, wiped away his tears with a handkerchief, and choked and said, "It doesn't matter. Gu Yu and Gu Tan are officials in Qian Tang. Isn't the Gu family still as stable? Lu Ji is a doctor of imperial history in Vietnam, and the Lu family is fine. If Sun Deng wants to stabilize his position, he also needs his help. With his brother in Qian Tang, we may have a better life.

"It's just..." Xiaoqiao regretted Mo Die. If he had known that Sun Shao had such an unpredictable means, why would he have made that choice at the beginning? She put her arms around Zhou Yu's shoulder and was silent for a long time: "Mother missed you."

Zhou Yu couldn't help crying loudly on the shoulder of the small bridge.

On the same day, Zhou Yin simply packed up his clothes and rushed to Qian Tang with a few family.

Qian Tang has changed its appearance, but the city is not bad. It has only been simply repaired, but the population has increased a lot. The arrival of dignitaries has made Qian Tangcheng, which did not have a large population, become dense. In the crowd coming and going at the gate of the city, there were many Shanyue people. They picked up picks or baskets and hurriedly went in and out of the gate. The gate, which originally had only one doorway, has now become three doorway, one of which is tightly closed. The doorway on the left goes out of the city, and the doorway on the right enters the city in an orderly manner. The soldier in charge of the inspection was also released after a little inspection, and his attitude was also very good. Common things such as beating and scolding could hardly be seen here.

The appearance of Zhou Xun's dusty servant attracted the attention of the city gate Sima.

"Are you from another place?" Sima of the city gate stood in front of Zhou Xun's horse with a knife. More than a dozen soldiers surrounded Zhou Xun and others. The strong crossbow at the head of the city also adjusted its direction and quietly aimed at Zhou Xun, but the people who entered and exited the city gate next to them were not surprised. They just cast a curious look and continued to drive their way.

"Why do you say I'm out of town?" Zhou Xun motioned his men to lie on the horse's back and grinned.

"Although your accent is not much worse, you don't have the right way to look at people." Sima, the gate, smiled faintly, "The people within a hundred miles of Qiantang will not be as curious as you, and they will not stay at the gate like you. Whether they enter or leave the city, they will pass by."

Zhou Xun looked at the pedestrians next to him. Indeed, as Sima of the city gate said, they were all in a hurry, and none of them stopped to watch.

"My surname is Zhou. I'm here to meet His Royal Highness the King of Yue." Zhou Xun said with a smile.

"See Your Highness the King of Yue?" Sima, the gate of the city, looked at him and smiled, "Are you from the old governor's house?"

"Do you know me?" Zhou Xun was curious and looked at him up and down for a long time: "I don't seem to have seen you."

"I'm in the money Tang Dingyu." Ding Chen smiled, arched his hand, and let Zhou Xun into the city: "When I was in Wu County, I had seen the next side, but after a long time, I didn't remember it clearly. When you said your surname was Zhou, I remembered it. It's really offending.

"Qian Tangding and Ding Wenda?" Zhou Xun suddenly shouted and patted his head. He remembered. Ding Chen turned out to be a servant. Later, he was promoted by Gu Shao and entered Shilin. However, when Gu Shao died later, he could not be further promoted. Unexpectedly, he was now a city gate Sima in Qiantang. He was a little strange. According to him, Ding Chen and Sun Shao were also related. How could he become a city gate Sima? Even if Qian Tang was the capital of the country, the city gate Sima was just a small official with 600 stones. In terms of practical benefits, it was not like a county magistrate at the level.

"I don't follow the qualifications, it's all based on the assessment." Ding Chen smiled, introduced Zhou Xun to the city, pointed out the direction, and said goodbye: "Zhou Jun stayed in Qian Tang for a while and knew that I still have official business, so I won't accompany him more. I'll talk to Zhou Jun when I have time."

(to be continued)