The Three Kingdoms of the Widow

In the second year of Chuping, April.

Sun Jian was ordered by Yuan Shu to conquer Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and defeated Liu Biao's subordinate Huang Zu in Fancheng.When he pursued to Mount Xian, Sun Jian was killed by an arrow from the back of Huang Zu's general.

When the news spread back to Lujiang, Wu cried and fainted several times, and later wrote to say that Sun Ce had managed to snatch back his father's body, and he was also seriously injured. Wu was sad and worried, and fell ill.

When Sun Ce returned with Dai Xiao's army, a mourning hall had been set up at home. Sun Ce went to see his mother on the sick bed, and explained in detail how to see his uncle Wu Jing and how to stop his father in Qu'a.While Wu was sad, she was also relieved, but Sun Ce looked around—he wondered why Zhou Yu wasn't there.

After talking with his mother about going to Qu'e with his family and burying his father, Sun Ce rushed to Zhou Mansion without even changing his mourning clothes.

The servants of the Zhou Mansion frowned when they saw Sun Ce barging in in sackcloth, but they let him in considering the relationship between the two families.When Mrs. Song saw Sun Ce, she tactfully comforted him and let him go to Zhou Yu.

When Sun Ce saw Zhou Yu in the courtyard, the latter didn't give him a good look.

But Sun Ce missed Zhou Yu very much, so he was so dull that he didn't notice Zhou Yu's expression. He grabbed Zhou Yu's arms with all his strength, and his eyes were red: "My father is dead!"

Zhou Yu looked at him without saying a word.

"Speak up!" Sun Ce felt that he was about to lose control of his tears again.

Zhou Yu still looked at him without speaking.

Sun Ce's patience was exhausted, and he pushed Zhou Yu away angrily: "Go away if you don't say anything!"

Zhou Yu staggered and supported the unnamed evergreen tree beside her to stand still. She finally spoke: "Are you still awake?"

This sentence can be regarded as calling back Sun Ce's clarity. He seemed to have just realized that he was venting his anger, and he rushed up to grab Zhou Yu's hand, but Zhou Yu threw him away.

"Just say what you want!" Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu, a little impatient, not knowing why Zhou Yu was so abnormal.

"General Sun is dead, I know about it. Are you here to ask me why I didn't stay by Mrs. Wu's side?"

Sun Ce was tongue-tied and could only nod his head.

"At this time, your three younger brothers are the ones who should be at the forefront. You let me appear to serve your wife because you want people to say that the Sun family are unfilial sons, and when your father died and your mother was sick, you let an outsider come over." Arranging housework? Also, what do you mean by breaking into my house in this suit! "

Sun Ce was choked by this question, and held it back for a long time before he forced himself to say, "Also...you are not an outsider." He saw that Zhou Yu was wearing a plain suit with a linen belt around his waist. The whole attire was a little weird.

Zhou Yu also choked, and it took him a long time to turn his head away angrily: "Look, what are you looking at! You didn't entrust me to take care of the family! Since you are not here, I think I will wear mourning for you for a few days! Now When you come back, I will naturally get rid of this body!"

Sun Ce's mood improved inexplicably after hearing these few words.

Zhou Yu continued: "I know you are sad now, but is this the time to be sad?"

This sentence woke up Sun Ce, no matter what face Zhou Yu gave him, there was nothing wrong with this sentence.Sun Ce had just died. Although he immediately inherited everything from his father, he was the only one after all. It was hard to say whether he could lead this team. Now that people's hearts are fluctuating and the battle is defeated, the situation is not optimistic.

Sun Ce simply sat on the next step, looked at Zhou Yu, and waited for her to continue.

Zhou Yu was silent for a few seconds, and sat next to him: "What I'm going to say next may offend you. But I still want to say it. As for whether you listen or not, that's your business."

Sun Ce nodded.

"General Sun fought everywhere and was extremely brave, but he was killed by Huang Zu's subordinates. This is because he underestimated the enemy and rushed forward. You have followed him for many years and have the most similar temperament to him. So I am very worried that you will make the same mistake. To be a general, being brave and courageous is secondary, commanding the army to control the overall situation is the main thing! You are now the backbone of this army, you can’t have an accident! If you have an accident, how many soldiers are left will be useless! You promise I, on the battlefield, will never advance alone and put myself in a dangerous situation!"

Sun Ce held Zhou Yu's hand tightly: "I promise you."

Later, Sun Ce did prove his promise with practical actions. He did not advance alone on the battlefield. As for other places, it is hard to say.

"The situation is critical now, and the morale of the army is unstable. Your first task is to stabilize the army. You can snatch General Sun back from the tens of thousands of troops, which can establish a high prestige for you; when you come back, you will also avoid seeking war along the way. , This is all right! Withdraw first, let the army recuperate, improve morale, and then go to fight, we can't afford to lose now! However, you still have one thing to do: you have to go to Yuan Shu! Tell him you don't want to lose! Done, get rid of his control completely, otherwise, he is the leader, you still have to listen to his orders, if he wants you to fight, it is very difficult for you to refuse. If you take the initiative to find him to quit the alliance, use Ding You as an excuse! He won't say no!"

Sun Ce looked distressed: "I thought about it... But Yuan Shu might order me to continue attacking Liu Biao, because my father died at the hands of this old thief! If he ordered me to 'revenge my father', what should I do?"

Zhou Yu's expression turned ugly again: "Are you still reluctant?"

"What?" Sun Ce was puzzled.

"Do you want me to explain a little more clearly? Emperor Yuxi!" Zhou Yu stood up abruptly, with a bit of sullenness in her words.

Sun Ce was taken aback: "That's not..."

"You don't need to explain to me. I know that is in your hands, and Yuan Shu knows it. There are not many people in this world who don't know about it. I'm not interested in how that thing appeared. I'll just ask you, is that thing still there? in your hands."

Sun Ce looked at Zhou Yu: "...here."

"Well, take it out and give it to Yuan Shu as a pledge to withdraw from the alliance. At the same time, borrow troops, borrow food, and ask for everything you can think of."

Sun Ce stopped talking, Zhou Yu understood what was going on, he couldn't blame Sun Ce, and it wasn't meanness.But Zhou Yu also understands that he must persuade the other party, otherwise...

Zhou Yu sat next to Sun Ce again, trying to soften his voice: "Listen, this thing is useless to us now. Not only is it useless, it is also a scourge. Everyone knows that things are here, and they will all have the heart to snatch them. That way we will make too many enemies. We can’t be enemies with everyone now. So, why don’t we exchange them for what we need, since it’s a dead thing anyway! At worst, we’ll get it back in the future. Things are dead, but people are alive Yes!"

Sun Ce still did not speak, Zhou Yu could see from his eyes that there was a war between heaven and man in his heart.Zhou Yu couldn't bear it very much, and asked himself if he was too serious. Just now he said he was an outsider, why is he so concerned about other people's affairs now?

Zhou Yu felt that he was going to be entangled to death.

Sun Ce thought for 5 minutes, and finally made up his mind. He stood up and took Zhou Yu's hand: "I'm going to find Yuan Shu right now, and you can come with me."

Zhou Yu breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this is indeed the talented and bold Sun Bofu...but his heart tightened again, the lifespan of the talented and bold Sun Bofu in history is only... quickly shook his head and put these thoughts aside.

Zhou Yu put a smile on his face: "I can't go with you. You go to do what you want to do first, and I have to live for a while. Don't worry, I will go to Qu'a to find you."

Sun Ce asked puzzledly, "Why can't you go with me? You don't want to?"

Zhou Yu waved his hands again and again: "You still need more soldiers, food, weapons and equipment. What Yuan Shu can give you is far from enough. The Zhou family has a certain prestige in Lujiang. I will help you recruit an army and recruit some food and grass soldiers. Weapons and military pay, and then I will go to you."

"Don't forget." Sun Ce worried.

"No," Zhou Yu said with a smile, "I still have to train a navy for you. 'Your' navy."

Soon after, Sun Ce took his people away from Lujiang, and did not say goodbye to Zhou Yu before leaving.Zhou Yu was busy fulfilling his promise, the army is easy to pull, and even the navy is not difficult to build. Jiangdong people are familiar with water, and with the newly defeated Liu Biao's subordinates, people are never a problem, let alone this year of chaos. In March, countless hungry people joined the army in order to have a meal.

But food and money are big troubles.The former is more troublesome than the latter.Zhou Yu comforted himself that at least these years, hard currency has not depreciated.

However, there is no food without growing it.Compared with money and food, people can live without money, but they cannot live without food.Food is not created out of thin air.

At this time, Zhou Yi also passed away.

Zhou Yu felt a sense of impermanence at this specific time period. Sun Jian's death seemed to be yesterday, and it was his turn in the blink of an eye.

Although he was not particularly sad, Zhou Yu still kept in mind the ambition he had made at the beginning: to live in place of that unfortunate child named Zhou Yu, to make him the meritorious service that should belong to him, and to shine in the annals of history.Naturally, the substitution here also includes performing filial piety for him.So Zhou Yu conscientiously guarded the spirit and mourned, and meticulously completed the task of a filial son.

On the second day of Zhou Yi's burial, Mrs. Song brought Zhou Yu to her, and told Zhou Yu straight to the point that she was an out-and-out woman who only knew that she relied on her father when she was at home, and obeyed her husband after marriage. Now that her husband is dead, Her son is the only one she can rely on, and she can only rely on Zhou Yu. No matter what Zhou Yu wants to do, she will support her.Hearing that Zhou Yu is recruiting troops, it seems that he is planning to do something in troubled times, so Zhou Yu can do whatever he wants!If she is short of money, she can use everything in the house, as well as land and real estate, as long as she and Zhou Yu's underage half-brothers can live on.Zhou Yu can go out boldly without worry, and don't miss her too much.

Zhou Yu was moved to tears. Even in modern society, such mothers are rare.She solemnly gave a big gift to her mother, then sold most of her family property, and left her mother with a team of people in tears.

But the problem of food is still not solved.

Money is not everything, although without money is absolutely impossible.Again, if you don’t grow food, there will be no food, and no amount of money can buy it.Jiangdong is rich and prosperous, but agriculture is not particularly developed. What is really developed is finance and commerce. Zhou Yu has read papers on capital and commerce more than once when she was studying in modern times. She knows that the prosperity of pure finance and commerce is a This false prosperity cannot conceal the truth.

You see, now the truth is running naked.

In fact, this is the true meaning of Yuan Shu's order to Sun Jian to attack Jingzhou.There are basically only two granaries in the world. One is in Sichuan and the middle of Sichuan. The roads in that place are rugged, easy to defend and difficult to attack. They are hard bones and generally no one eats them. The other is Jingzhou, which is neither drought nor flood, even if other places starve to death. Still celebrating the harvest every year, you said that this kind of behavior of eating meat in front of hungry people is so hateful.

In short, after Zhou Yu reluctantly bought some grain at a high price, he learned from the pain and strengthened his determination to take Jingzhou back in the future.Of course, this is all for the future, what should we do now?

After much deliberation, Zhou Yu gritted her teeth and decided to kill him. She took some capable soldiers and went to the house of her old friend Lu Su.

Knocking on the door of Lu Su's house in the middle of the night, Zhou Yu was just about to say the declaration of food borrowing that had been carefully edited on the way, but Lu Su stopped him with his hand: Gong Jin, you're welcome, I know what you're here for. Come with me.

When I arrived at the backyard, I saw two large granaries built at a glance. Zhou Yu didn't need to turn his head to think of the green eyes of the people behind him when they saw the granary.

Lu Su stretched out his hand and pointed: I only have two bags of food, and they are full. You can take this one and use it as you like.

Refers to each other as a gift.

Zhou Yu was moved again. In this troubled world, there are good people who are bad, and good people who are ugly. Needless to say, human nature is forced, no matter how bad human nature is, it can't stop the shining light of integrity.Zhou Yu thought excitedly: This is an era full of killing and death that you can hardly find, but this era also has generosity and tolerance that you can't imagine.

But Zhou Yu is still too young, in fact, she has not seen real killing and death yet.

Don't worry, it will be soon.

The author has something to say:

The time for giving finger to hand has been advanced... Don't ask how Zhou Yu and Lu Su know each other. The author didn't write it, but actually wrote it. Do you remember the "Zhang family, Lu family" written earlier?In addition to the Zhou family where Zhou Yu lives, everyone is in the trenches.

The last sentence of this section announces that the next section will start to abuse—the author is keen to abuse King Xuan, but is habitually abused by Dudu.

Even in history, Dudu's life was indeed quite abusive.