The Dowager's burial

Persuaders are useful for more than just political advice.

stuff:
-Dowager Queen Xuan, the wife of the (now dead) previous king of Qin
-Qin, a country of tigers and wolves
-Wei Choufu, aka Weizi, the queen's, um, "special friend." His name means something like "little ugly."
-Yong Rui, a persuader

Dowager Queen Xuan of Qin loved Wei Choufu. The Dowager Queen was sick and would soon die. She sent forth an order saying, "For my tomb, have Weizi buried alive with me." Weizi was distressed by this. Yong Rui persuaded the Queen on Weizi's behalf, saying, "Do you think the dead have awareness?" The Queen said, "No." "If your majesty's divine spirit clearly knows that the dead have no awareness, then why meaninglessly take what you loved in life and entomb it with an unaware dead person? If the dead do have awareness, then the days our former king has been amassing anger are long. Your majesty will not be able to save yourself from your transgressions, so what free time will you have to be intimate with Wei Choufu?" The Dowager Queen said, "Very well" and then stopped her plan.


And on a totally unrelated note, today is my birthday!