Chapter 54
— The Dowager Marchioness Sees Her Son-In-Law; The Imperial Uncle Takes A Worthy Consort.
The State Patriarch Qiao, father-in-law of Sun Ce and Zhou Yu: Zhao Zilong's first silken bag sends Liu Bei to him with sheep and wine, and he does the rest - carries the 'news' to the Dowager, argues the trap into a real wedding ('you will be a shameful laughing stock'), and intercedes for the condemned ambush commander.