The administrative center of Shu Prefecture was Chuzhou City.
A funeral procession, with a clamor of music and mourning, was preparing to leave the city.
Unexpectedly, one of the poles supporting the coffin snapped just as they were about to pass through the city gate. Two pallbearers were injured, and another was crushed to death on the spot.
The funeral procession was thus brought to a halt at the city gate.
Prince Fu's son, the chief mourner and successor to the title of Prince Fu, knelt sobbing loudly beside the coffin. The Princess Consort, accompanied by the female members of the household, also wailed inconsolably.
They were not weeping for the pallbearer who had been killed; they were grieving because Old Prince Fu's passing was so unpeaceful.
Outside the city gate, the group that had already exited could only wait by the roadside.
