Schemes of the Noble Households Chapter 110

In late March of the fifth year of Taihe, the memorials of Maxwell and Adrian Huan were delivered to Jiankang one after another.

At that time, Empress Yu was extremely ill. She was bedridden and could not take medicine. She gradually became unconscious and was hanging on by her last breath. The doctors tried every possible means but could not wake her up.

Sima Yi became more and more outrageous and presumptuous. He did not attend the morning court for several days in a row. When he heard that Empress Yu was seriously ill and might not live long, he did not show any sorrow at all and even wanted to beat a basin and sing, saying that he was imitating the ancient sages.

Zhuangzi sang while beating a basin, which showed his optimistic attitude towards life and death and his sincere mourning for his deceased wife.

Sima Yi's move was nonsense no matter how you looked at it.