The Three Kingdoms Voyage

Chapter 282 Return of the Pirate Empire Tiger
"If I had known this, I might as well have stayed in Qiantang." Queen Xu sighed faintly, looking at the gloomy sky outside the window with dull eyes: "It's going to snow again, it's really cold today Evil door."

Mrs. Bu glanced out of the window, pursed her lips and said with a smile: "If it's snowing or not, it can still freeze you? When did you learn the sourness of those scribes and use the scenery to express your feelings?"

Queen Xu stared at Mrs. Bu with a sullen face, but she couldn't help laughing after a while: "I said trainer, you are really getting more and more bitter now. I just said that the weather is a bit cold, why are you so sour?" angry."

Mrs. Bu smiled, but said nothing.Queen Xu is in a bad mood, so why is she in a good mood.Sun Quan has just recruited a Mrs. Wang. Mrs. Wang is young and beautiful. She is from Langya. I don’t know how she got into the palace. Son, this is Sun Quan's third son, who hasn't been named yet.Sun Quan's face that had been gloomy for a year finally showed a smile. He ran to Mrs. Wang's palace after finishing his official duties these two days, saying that he was going to see his son. Mrs. Wang of Nanyang ate it up, and lost her temper for no reason in her own palace these days.

However, Queen Xu and Mrs. Bu had already lost all their tempers, and the other had never lost their tempers. They felt sorry for each other, and became the closest people in the palace.Queen Xu never had a child, and the crown prince, Sun Deng, was her adopted son. After Sun Deng became the crown prince, he went to Funan to stay for another year, fought a big victory, and returned triumphantly. Now he is serving as a supervisor on the western front with a promising future bright.Empress Xu also saw hope in her heart, even though there were thousands of complaints, they were just lip service, in her opinion, her good days would come eventually.

Mrs. Bu only gave birth to two daughters, and she has no hope of becoming a queen, but this also allows her to live in the palace with peace of mind, without having to be wary of others, but Duo first went to Qiantang, and then to Funan, in order to If she can fight and be a general, she simply won't come back.Mrs. Bu was very disappointed by this, and from time to time she complained about Duhu's cruelty.

The two gossiped one after another, killing the endless time in the palace, and sometimes they were silent when they had nothing to say, only the small golden clock in the corner of the room made a rattling sound.This clock was custom-made by Sun Luban in Qiantang, and it was specially sent back by someone. Mrs. Bu was very proud of it for a while, but now, she only wants to see her daughter, especially when she heard that Dahu is outside Xijuan City During the battle with the Funan people, she was so frightened that she didn't sleep well for several days, always waking up from her sleep.

"Trainer?"

"Ok?"

"Your Majesty is actually very annoying these days." Queen Xu turned her head, and the corners of her eyes, which were already covered with crow's feet, twitched. There was a little joy in her eyes, and the corners of her mouth also curled up.Although she is nearly thirty years old, she still has a charming charm, and there is still a bit of youthful charm in her expression.

"Really?" Mrs. Bu replied inadvertently.

"Well, the King of Yue wrote to the Son of Heaven that he would hold a meeting in the East China Sea and mediate disputes between Wu and Shu at the same time. The navy of the Yue Kingdom has gathered at Qiantangkou, and the cavalry of the Kingdom of Wei are also rushing to the Jianghuai area. If the Kingdom of Shu wants to come, it must pass through the Dajiang River. He handed over the letter of credence half a month ago, but the king has not yet made a decision. He is afraid that the king of Yue's mediation is false, and it is true that he took the opportunity to attack Wu. The country can't last half a year."

The corners of Mrs. Bu's eyes twitched, and she remained silent for a while before she said, "Do you think this will be the case?"

"How do I know." Mrs. Xu waved her hand lazily, and smiled indifferently: "I'm a woman, I don't know what these men are thinking. When they are strong, they want to grab other people's land, grab other people's It’s really exhausting to see other people getting stronger and start worrying about their land and women being robbed by others.”

Mrs. Bu moved her mouth, but she didn't speak, but she smiled after thinking about it.Mrs. Xu knew that Sun Deng and Sun Shao had a good relationship. This time in Rinan, Sun Shao sent Guan Feng to help Sun Deng, and Sun Deng didn't mention Zhou Yu's matter again, and let the Zhou family go to Yue without a word. Say nothing, as long as this incident did not happen, it is obvious that the two sides have a tacit understanding.Based on the current situation, I am afraid that Sun Shao will not be detrimental to the state of Wu. Even if it is detrimental to the state of Wu, it will be aimed at Sun Quan, not Sun Deng, so Xu is not worried, not to mention that her brothers are all in the state of Yue. Officer, even if the state of Wu dies, she will not suffer any loss.And Mrs. Bu has her own plans, Sun Shao has always been kind to her, and now Dahu is still serving as a general beside Sun Shao, and her son-in-law Zhou Xun is a general of Yue State, even if Wu State falls, she can live well in Yue State A comfortable life, perhaps, can be more at ease than now.The two had a good understanding, but neither of them said anything, they just glanced at each other, pursed their lips, and laughed knowingly.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside, and then, the warning bells and drums on the Northeast Tower rang suddenly, and the officials on duty outside panicked. Sima Linglie strode in and saluted with fists in the corridor: "Queen! Ma'am, someone trespassed in the palace, please sit down quietly with the queen and madam, and there will be no harm if the ministers are waiting."

Queen Xu put away her smile, nodded majestically, and waved her sleeves lightly.Ling Lie turned around and went, and stood at the front entrance. A dozen or so officials each held their weapons, and stood tightly at the gate of the palace.Mrs. Bu followed in surprise, and looked at Queen Xu suspiciously. Queen Xu knew what she wanted to ask, but she was also at a loss, and couldn't care less about what to say at this moment.

The noise outside was getting closer and louder, Queen Xu and Mrs. Bu became a little nervous.Ever since the sons of King Sun Shao of Yue and Sun Li were robbed from the palace, the protection in the palace has been very strict. What happened today? Someone broke into the palace?Reminiscent of Sun Quan being in a bad mood these days, Mrs. Bu couldn't help but feel worried.

"Array!" Ling Lie's nervous voice came from outside, it seemed that the people who broke into the palace were indeed coming this way.Mrs. Bu's complexion tightened, she pulled Queen Xu and walked back, planning to avoid it for the time being, so as to avoid accidental injury when the two sides fought.Queen Xu was about to follow her when she suddenly heard a cry from outside: "Princess!"

"Get out of the way!" A familiar voice yelled: "Little Zhuzi, I haven't beaten you for a year. How dare you stop me?"

Before the words finished, Mrs. Bu had already rushed out, without her usual gentle and virtuous appearance, she rushed to the door like a gust of wind, before she saw anyone, she yelled: "Dahu, is that you?"

"Mum, it's me." Sun Luban stretched out his hand to push Ling Lie and the officials who were stupefied, strode over, and jumped into Mrs. Bu's arms like a bird, hugged Mrs. Bu tightly, and did not speak , Tears welled up.

The mother and daughter cried together.

Sima Zhuyi rushed here with dozens of officials, and when he saw Ling Lie standing at the door, he stopped quickly and asked out of breath, "Lieutenant Ling, where did the thief go? Are you surprised?" lady?"

Ling Lie shook his head: "It's okay, the eldest princess is back, let the watch tower clear the alarm, or the king will be angry."

"Ah?" Zhu Yi was taken aback: "Is it the eldest princess?"

"It's indeed the eldest princess." Ling Lie asked with a frown while dispersing the crowd: "What's going on, why is the eldest princess so nervous when she returns to the palace?"

Zhu Yi was stunned, and then slapped his thigh in frustration.He is the eldest son of Zhu Huan, the Ruxu governor, and he has just entered the palace not long ago. Because of Zhu Huan, he was promoted very quickly and has already become Sima, but he has never met Sun Luban.Hearing from the man guarding the gate of the palace, someone beat the man guarding the palace and broke into the palace. He was so frightened that he didn't have time to inquire carefully, so he immediately ordered a warning, and chased after him with his men.Unexpectedly, this thief was very familiar with the situation in the palace, and he ran very fast. He chased after him all the way, but he still couldn't keep up.Now that he heard that it was the eldest princess Sun Luban, he was relieved.But when he thought that he had made such a big mistake, he couldn't help feeling a little uneasy, not knowing how to face Sun Quan's accusation in a while.

He stood for a while, looking at Sun Luban's entourage who arrived just now carrying gifts, shook his head with a wry smile, and went back dejectedly.

Mrs. Bu and Sun Luban hugged each other and cried for a while, and finally stopped crying. Sun Luban wiped away his tears embarrassedly, touched the head of his younger sister Sun Luyu who had rushed over after hearing the sound, and ordered someone to bring the gift up.More than a dozen personal guards carried a few large boxes into the courtyard, and when they opened the lid, they were immediately covered with jewels, and a ray of sunlight shot out from the thick clouds, and it happened to shine on one of the boxes, which was immediately dazzling, Sun Luyu She screamed in surprise for a while, rushed over, took out a string of big and round pearl bracelets from the box, held them in her palm, and couldn't put it down and shouted: "Grandma, it's so beautiful, I want this..."

"Stupid child, I really have never seen the world!" Mrs. Bu smiled and gave Sun Luyu a look, and then gave Sun Luban another look: "Did you become a general or a pirate? How did you bring so much money back?"

Sun Luban chuckled: "Mum, I'm a general, but it's almost the same as being a pirate. You don't know, there are countless treasures in those wild places, and those wild children are like monkeys, they don't even wear clothes. , but maybe what they are playing with in their hands is a gem. I followed my eldest brother to the South China Sea and collected so many presents. When I come back this time, I will give them all to my mother and younger sister."

"Really?" Mrs. Bu couldn't believe it, but Sun Luban was not good at lying, and he was beaming at the moment, so she believed it a little bit.As she ordered the box to be put away, she sized up Sun Luban.Sun Luban has grown a lot taller, with a strong and strong body, full of strength, like a young female leopard. In the eyes of Mrs. Bu who has been in the palace all year round, Sun Luban has a unique personality all over his body. Different wildness.His originally fair skin had also turned barley-colored, his hands were almost the same as before, and his fingertips were covered with calluses.

"Hey, my princess is back." A voice sounded at the door, and then Sun Quan appeared at the door with a gloomy face.When Mrs. Bu and others saw it, they hurried forward to greet him.Sun Luban also saluted, but before Sun Quan asked her to get up, he rushed forward, took Sun Quan's hand, moved closer to Sun Quan and looked at her carefully for a while, and then said solemnly, "Father, you have lost weight." Then he nodded heavily, and said again: "I'm really thin."

Before the words fell, the tears that had just stopped poured out again uncontrollably.

Sun Quan couldn't laugh or cry.He was looking at his newborn son in Mrs. Wang's palace, when he suddenly heard the warning, he trembled in fright, and almost threw the son he was holding on the ground, and then became furious, rushed out of the palace to arrest someone, and rushed over all the way , Only then did I know that Sun Luban was back.I was about to get angry, but when I saw Sun Luban caring about him so much, my heart softened, I raised my hand, touched Sun Luban's head, and patted it lightly: "Silly girl, why don't you?" When you come back, you startled your father and king, I thought you came back with a large army, and you made such a big noise."

Sun Luban smiled through his tears, raised his hand and wiped it, and said with a smile: "Father, please forgive me. It is the daughter who was impatient and broke into the palace gate and disturbed the father. However, those officials were too slow to react. If the daughter If you want to kill them, I'm afraid they won't even have time to draw their knives."

"What? You still want to kill someone?" Sun Quan's face darkened, deliberately scorned.

"Where, how dare a daughter play wild in the royal palace of the father." Sun Luban smiled flatteringly, turned around and dragged Sun Quan to the box, and patted vigorously: "Father, look, this is the daughter who brought the father to the box." one's gift."

"For me?" Sun Quan smiled and said, "Why did I just hear that it was for your mother?"

"Isn't what I gave to my father the same as my mother?" Sun Luban said in surprise, "Could it be that what I gave to my father, my father will give to other wives?"

Sun Quan was immediately embarrassed.This tiger-like daughter is really helpless.He had no choice but to pretend to be excited and looked at the contents of the box for a while. Slowly, the smirk on his face turned into confusion: "Dahu, did you really get this in the South China Sea?"

Sun Luban glanced at him, and couldn't help but burst out laughing: "Could it be possible to lie to my father?"

Sun Quan stroked his beard, his eyes flickered, he didn't speak, he turned to Mrs. Bu who was a little at a loss and said, "Trainer, don't you invite me to sit in?"

Only then did Mrs. Bu come to her senses, suppressed her excitement, and hurriedly ordered someone to clean up, and then personally invited Sun Quan to enter the room, and invited Queen Xu who was also at a loss to sit with Sun Quan.Sun Quan hadn't come to her place for a long time, and Sun Luban caused such a big incident again, she thought that Sun Quan was going to take the opportunity to get angry, so she forgot to ask Sun Quan to sit in.

Mrs. Bu asked someone to serve tea, and while talking to Sun Quan, Sun Luban asked someone to brew the new tea he had just brought back, and said to Sun Quan with a smile: "Father, this is the tea I specially brought for you. It tastes very good. It’s not easy to get it even in Temucheng.”

Sun Quan nodded with great interest: "Then I'd like to taste it. My Dumb knows how to be filial, and has traveled all the way to bring me tea."

"That's right, I can be included in the biography of a filial daughter." Sun Luban said carelessly, patting his chest.

"Pfft!" Sun Quan just took a sip of tea, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but spit out all the tea in his mouth, and coughed a few times due to choking.Mrs. Bu quickly handed a handkerchief to Queen Xu. Queen Xu gave her a grateful glance, then handed the handkerchief to Sun Quan.Sun Quan didn't even look at her. He took the handkerchief and wiped his beard that was stained with tea, and said with a smile, "Dahu, you can still enter the biography of a filial daughter? You don't even want to go back to the country of Wu in order to be a general. What kind of filial piety is that?"

"Hey hey..." Sun Luban smiled awkwardly: "Father, Wuyue is a family, how can we separate? The country of Wu is safe and sound, and the daughter will go to the country of Yue for a few days. When will the father need the daughter?" , the daughter will definitely come back to help the father, no matter what."

"Then what if Wu Yue goes to war?" Sun Quan took another sip of tea and said half-jokingly, "Who are you helping?"

"Wu Yue is going to war?" Sun Luban was taken aback, and the smile on her face suddenly became a little stiff. She looked at Sun Quan with a strange look, and said hesitantly, "Father, have you ever thought about fighting big brother?"

"This..." Sun Quan also hesitated, rolled his eyes, and then smiled: "I just said in case, I have no such plan. Besides, Wu Yue's strength is so different now, how could I want to fight with your elder brother?" Let's go to war."

"Then what if you have the strength?" Sun Luban asked persistently, "Will you start a war with Eldest Brother?"

Sun Quan was at a loss for words.

Seeing Sun Quan's embarrassment, Mrs. Bu stared at Sun Luban with a gloomy face, and shouted, "Da Hu, what nonsense, Wu and Yue have the same roots, your father treats your elder brother as if he has already been born, how could he start a war with him?"

"Yes, yes, I regard him as my son, how could I start a war with him." Sun Quanyan echoed insincerely.

Sun Luban looked at Mrs. Bu, then at Sun Quan, the suspicion on his face gradually faded, he smiled again, clapped his hands and said with a happy smile: "As expected, father and brother are the same, never I thought about being an enemy."

Sun Quan nodded again and again, but smiled unnaturally: "Yes, yes, it should be so. By the way, Dahu, did he say the same? Let me listen to what he said."

Sun Luban let go of his voice and laughed haha. The bold laughter echoed in the hall, and the somewhat dead hall was suddenly full of life.Mrs. Bu looked at her daughter with a smile at the corner of her mouth, and then at Sun Quan, but Sun Luyu's pretty eyes kept falling on her sister's face, as if she couldn't believe the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar heroic woman in front of her. It was her sister.Although in the past when Sun Luban was in the palace, he often carried knives and swords, took a group of children who were about the same age to play wars, and beat a group of boys to death, but Sun Luban in front of him was not only so rough and arrogant, but also showed great gestures. The belt was even more menacing, which made her feel a little nervous, as if she was facing a dangerous person.

Sun Luban happily talked about Sun Shao's interesting stories, and then he couldn't hold back. He started talking about Zhou Xun and Wei Ping's recovery of Lin Yiguo, and continued talking about this inspection of the South China Sea. Eldest brother is very worried. Although with the heroism of the father, he will not be defeated by Shu, but the two countries are in-laws, and it is not a good thing to start a war over a trivial matter. Even if the father wins and goes straight to Wushan, he is afraid of losing Not too small. If both Wu and Shu are hurt, Wei Guo will definitely take advantage of the gap, so he tried his best to persuade him to make peace. He was afraid that his father would lose face, so he specially asked the emperor to come forward and order Wu and Shu to negotiate. The place of the alliance is in the state of Wu, which will turn both the states of Shu and Wei into guest troops, and then Wu and Yue will work together to show the majesty of my grandson's family in front of the emperor, so that even Wei and Shu dare not underestimate us."

Sun Quan smiled lightly, of course he didn't believe Sun Luban's words.Sun Shao, through the hands of the emperor, issued an edict to meet at the mouth of the Yangtze River. Wei Wang Cao Cao excused that he was not in good health. Liu Bei has not yet expressed his position. He just reasoned that Wu would not declare a truce. He is willing to come, but he has no reason, the emperor has arrived on his territory, if he does not come out to greet him, he is afraid that he will give others a slap in the face, if Sun Shao wants to make a fuss, it will be troublesome.With the strength of the Wu Kingdom, it can't stop the cooperation of the three kingdoms of Yue, Shu and Wei.

Then Sun Luban came back, was it Sun Shao's order?Are these words Sun Shao's truth, or Sun Shao's lies?While listening to Sun Luban with a smile, Sun Quan was thinking nervously in his mind.The more he thought about it, the more sad he felt. His living environment has always been bad. 20 years ago, Sun Ce passed away suddenly. Moreover, he conquered Jiangxia, killed Huang Zu, avenged his father, and gained a little capital for himself. Unexpectedly, Cao Cao pacified Jingzhou with lightning speed, and 80 troops swung eastward. Sun Quan thought he was doomed, and even important officials like Zhang Zhao persuaded him to surrender. It was he who withstood the pressure and used Lu Su and Zhou Yu to defeat Cao Cao and defeat Cao Cao's delusion of unifying the world. Unexpectedly, Liu Bei was another The ungrateful guy not only broke his promise and took Yizhou privately, but also fought against him for Jingzhou and became his enemy.Dealing between the two enemies, Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Sun Quan tried his best and endured humiliation. He asked Cao Cao to surrender many times, and finally resolved the crisis again and again.When Cao Cao invaded Hanzhong for the second time, Sun Quan thought optimistically that since then, the three-point situation in the world had been determined, and he could finally breathe a sigh of relief. It was the General Assembly to Eliminate Soldiers, and the situation in the world immediately became out of hand.In the past three or four years, Sun Shao has grown from the least powerful of the four kings to a big country that can compete with Wei, while Wu has become the most dangerous one.

The situation is more dangerous than 20 years ago, but Sun Quan obviously feels that he lacks energy. Facing the same predicament, he cannot be as high-spirited as he was 20 years ago.he is old.

Maybe his body is okay, but his heart is old. No matter how hard he struggles, he can't find the direction to break the situation.

Sun Quan bowed his waist, squinted his eyes, looked out the window at the sky that was bright and gloomy at times, with a dazed expression, Sun Luban's loud voice gradually faded away, and Queen Xu and Mrs. Bu were like shadows, slowly becoming more and more Dan, at some point, Sun Quan suddenly discovered that the changing clouds in the sky had turned into a face, a smiling face, a smile that made him angry when he saw it.

(End of this chapter)