After drinking the decoction, Chen Wan'er gradually woke up, and saw a strange man standing in the room in a daze, and couldn't help but feel nervous, sat up and hurriedly asked, "What is this place?" Who are you? The man turned his back to the side and said unhurriedly: "This is the Lanling Ferry, you are weak, it is better not to move." ”

Wan'er wanted to ask again, but the servant pushed the door in, holding a bowl of peach blossom soup in his hand, and said happily: "Oh, lady, you are awake, and you are about to scare the slave to death." Chen Wan'er knew her servant, finally calmed down, and hurriedly asked, "Why am I here?" The servant said, "Doesn't the lady remember the incident of falling into the water?" Chen Wan'er settled down and remembered carefully, she only remembered that she fell into the river, and she really couldn't remember what happened next.

The servant complained: "Lady, it was this son who saved you, if he hadn't come to the rescue, the slave would never have seen you again." Chen Wan'er raised her eyes and glanced away, motioned for the servant to step back, got up and thanked: "The little girl doesn't know how to repay the child's life-saving grace." ”

The man suddenly sneered and said, "If you really want to repay me, how about you make a promise with yourself?" Chen Wan'er seemed a little angry when she heard this, and said: "The son saved me, but if I am allowed to repay me with my innocence because of this, I will not lose my daughter's name, and the little woman must not be like this." ”

The man smiled slightly, then turned his head and said, "Under Zhao Bochen, the right person jokes, don't be careful." Chen Wan'er saw his face clearly, the man was dressed in white, he was born with a gentleman's talent, his eyebrows were like peaks, his handsome eyes were like the sea, his aura was extraordinary, and his body was full of heroic spirit.

Chen Wan'er was stunned, more surprised, she had never seen such a man, and she could feel the sudden heavy and heroic aura from a few steps away. He said: "What do you call a lady? Wan'er said: "Little woman Chen Wan'er." Zhao Bochen stared at her tightly for a long time, shook his head and sighed: "Shicai has thought hard, there is no one in Jiankang City who can compare with the lady." Wan'er paused: "It seems that Gongzi is also a romantic person." Zhao Bochen shook his head and did not refute.

After chatting, Zizhong hurried into the house, whispered to him in his ear, and then Zhao Bochen's brows sank, signaled him to retreat first, and said with a cold face: "Lanling is only a hundred miles away from Jiankang, so the lady might as well go with me, and there will be a good response on the way." Wan'er hesitated and agreed to him.

Xue Xin, Zizhong, Zhao Bochen's attendant, is also his right-hand man, right-hand man. Xue Xin had already prepared the carriage, but he didn't know why he was in such a hurry and urgent, so he didn't stay for a long time, and drove straight to Jiankang on horseback.

In the middle of the unitary hour, the sunset set and the west mountain, the carriage roared into Jiankang City, Chen Wan'er looked out the window, the traveler was sensen, the building Xuanxuan, the capital city was really extraordinary, she had never seen such a prosperous and noisy city when she grew so big. The carriage stopped in a restaurant, Zhao Bochen got off the horse to help her out of the curtain, his eyes were lonely, and he seemed to be displeased, and said: "I am entangled in important things, and it is inconvenient to accompany each other. ”

Chen Wan'er smiled: "Why should the son be so polite, save his life, and report it again when he meets in the future." Zhao Bochen stared at each other for a few moments, then crossed the horse and whipped away. The servants inquired again and again, and finally found Cai Shiwen's mansion, Chen Wan'er handed over the letter to her uncle and lived in Cai's mansion temporarily.

"Father." Zhao Bochen hurriedly stepped into the dormitory, the huge dormitory was deserted and lonely, he didn't see the slave maid, he saw the candle flame slightly, his father Zhao Jing was sick and bedridden, moaning and moaning, and saw the dog struggling and saying: "Zhong'er..." Why..."I want to say goodbye, and I am worried about my brows.

Zhao Jing breathed a sigh of relief and said: "My father is old, and my time is short, and you are the one who worries my father the most..." Zhao Jing shook his head slowly: "I want to be in all directions in my life, galloping across the field, and loving you, but now I have nothing else to ask for, I just hope that you can start a family and start a business, and you can go in peace for your father." Bochen wanted to speak and stopped, bowed his head and sighed to himself.

Zhao Jing, the leading general of the dynasty, learned a good martial arts when he was a teenager, and was determined to gallop across the field, serve the country and kill the enemy. At that time, the Tuoba Dynasty of the Northern Wei Dynasty was dominant in the northern territory and had a strong national strength, while the Song Dynasty of the Southern Dynasty was dead, and the internal strife and disputes of the Xiao Dynasty continued, so that the Northern Wei army often invaded the border states and counties, and the wars were raging, and the people were struggling to survive. Xiao Yan, who was the assassin of Yongzhou at the time, saw the decay and chaos of the government and knew that the Southern Qi Dynasty was destined to die, so he decided to replace it, so he recruited generals, secretly made equipment, cut down bamboo and wood, sank in Tanxi, and prepared the boat with secrets.

At that time, Zhao Jing happened to flee to Yongzhou for refuge, and when he heard it, he recommended himself, Xiao Yan saw that he was quite courageous, so he held a school competition, Zhao Jing's swords, bows and spears were omnipotent, and he won more than ten generals in a row, and the battle was still heroic, Xiao Yan was surprised and delighted, and then he was put in the account, Zhao Jing also admired Xiao Yan's ambition, and since then he has followed loyally, and his liver and gallbladder martial arts have finally been useful.

In the winter of the second year of Yongyuan (501), Xiao Yan raised troops in Xiangyang, named Zhao Jing as a general, all the way into Jiankang, beheaded Xiao Baojuan, the Marquis of Dongdu, and renamed Xiao Baorong as the emperor.

In the sixth year of Tianjian (507), Liang sent troops to the Northern Expedition, Xiao Yan's younger brother Xiao Hong, the king of Linchuan, and Zhao Jing was the vanguard general, and he was stationed in Luokou in a big way. In March, the level of the Huaihai Sea soared more than ten feet, Zhao Jing led the army to drive a warship to attack Wei, and made the plan to burn the Wei camp, the Wei army was defeated, lost the armor, and the soldiers who died in the water reached more than 100,000 people, Liang Wei Zhongli battled, and finally ended with the complete victory of the Liang army. In the more than ten years after this battle, the Northern Wei Dynasty no longer dared to easily crusade against the Southern Liang, and the border affairs were finally much more stable.

Zhao Jing spent most of his life fighting in all directions, blood-stained territory, and made great contributions to the Xiao Dynasty, Xiao Yan, Emperor Wu of Liang, felt his hard work and high achievements, and canonized him as the general of Zhenbei, holding military power, and then added more than ten cities, stationed in a large area of Huaizhou on the north-south border. Who would have thought that the traitors in the DPRK and China have repeatedly admonished and slandered, often using Zhao Jing's training of elite soldiers as the reason to tell the truth of right and wrong, Xiao Yan thinks that now that the country is prosperous and the people are safe, there are few wars in the territory, Zhao Jing's behavior is really strange, and he is gradually suspicious and suspicious.

Later, Xiao Yan recalled him to Jiankang on the grounds of comforting the frontier soldiers, and Zhao Jing had already noticed Xiao Yan's worries during the wine conversation, looked up to the sky and laughed, and then knelt down to return the talisman. Xiao Yan took back all the fiefs he had given, and Xiao Yan, who was unhappy, set up a general's mansion for him in Jiankang, sealed the hussar general, pardoned the government, gave a thousand quintals of gold, thousands of good land, and countless good slaves. Since then, although Zhao Jing has lived a leisurely life without worrying about food and clothing, he cares about the frontier soldiers and the safety of the country.

It is precisely because Zhao Jing has fought in the north and south for many years, and has little love for the child Zhao Bochen, and his mother Yang also died in childbirth when he was born, Zhao Bochen has been silent and silent since he was a child, and his temperament is withdrawn, but he has never complained about his father Zhao Jing, but is determined to gallop on the battlefield like his father, serve the country and kill the enemy, and has studied and practiced martial arts diligently since he was a child, and now he has grown into a burly man with iron bones. It's just that now the Southern Liang country is peaceful and peaceful, and the territory is peaceful, and there is no liver and gallbladder, but there is no place for it. Zhao Jing is old, he has been riddled with illness in recent years, and this year he seems to be terminally ill and his life is in danger.

"Zhong'er, yesterday the Liang Mansion sent someone to give gifts, while my father still has a breath of air, let's do this marriage as soon as possible." Zhao Jing couldn't breathe well, and coughed and gasped as he spoke. Bochen hurriedly helped him sit up, brought a bowl of water, Zhao Jing drank a long sigh of relief, and said: "Zhong'er, Liang Qi, the secretary of the ministry, is an important official of the imperial court, and I, a hussar general, now have a vain name, if you can marry the Liang family this time, it will be good for your career and future, and your father can rest in peace under Jiuquan." ”

Liang Qisheng, the secretary of the ministry, has a daughter, named Liang Wenji, who looks quite good, but this girl is insidious and cunning, vicious and cruel, and once strangled her to death because of the personal maid who stole rouge gouache, and no one dared to come to the door to propose marriage since then. Liang Wenji is a very coquettish and lascivious woman, it is rumored that she had an adulterous affair with the male servant in the house, but then the male servant disappeared unconsciously, and the people in the house never dared to talk about it again, if it were not for the prestige of her father Liang Qi, such a woman was afraid that she would be drowned by the spittle of the people.

Zhao Bochen had seen Liang Wenji in Shangshu Mansion, he didn't want to look at this kind of woman at all, but Liang Wenji took a fancy to him, and then begged his father Liang Qi to send someone to the mansion to give gifts five times, at first Liang Qi felt that this move was a loss of face, and strongly objected, but who expected Liang Wenji to make Liang Mansion restless, people panicked, and finally forced each other to die, Liang Qi had no choice but to follow her wishes. But the gift was given several times, but there was no response, Liang Wenji seemed to be a little annoyed and hateful, if she didn't see anyone from the General's Mansion again this time, the ghost expected that she would do something ridiculous.

"Father, I can't help it, that Liang Wenji is a person..."Bochen wanted to defend, Zhao Jing shook his hand and interjected: "My father has long known what this woman's temperament is, but now only in this way can I keep the only remaining foundation of my Zhao family." There are many people in the DPRK who are planning to build my Zhao family's foundation, if it weren't for the fear of the name of the general conferred by the saint, my Zhao family would have already been handed over. After I leave, you will be left alone in the huge general's mansion, how to deal with traitors and villains. If you marry the Liang family, with Liang Qi's authority in the court, those traitorous villains will not dare to act recklessly, and if you make contributions in the future, what does it matter if you throw her as a chess piece, don't regret it for a while. ”

General Zhao Jing, the wise one, said such a thing before parting, I don't know if he became sophisticated, or if the sophistication changed his temperament, he had to do so.