In the spring and March of 167 AD, the sound of Lang Lang's reading came from the Caofu compound on the west street of Luoyang City, the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty, which broke the tranquility of the early morning in this courtyard.

The owner of this courtyard was Cao Song, the captain of the school during the time of Emperor Huan of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Cao Song's surname is Xiahou, the original name is Xiahou Song, the ancestor is a native of Maozhou, to the generation of Xiahou Song's father, because Xiahou Song's father settled in Luoyang because of his business development in Luoyang, and the relationship with Cao Teng, who is often in the middle of the long autumn, Cao Teng has no children, Cao Teng accepted Xiahou Song as an adopted son, named Cao Song, and later Cao Song became a family and gave birth to Cao Cao, and then Cao Song served as the lieutenant of the division through Cao Teng's relationship in the court, this year, Cao Cao was thirteen years old.

Cao Song because of the perennial court as an official, rarely idle to teach his son, so Cao Song will be his brother Xiahou Jun to come, as his son's teacher, Xiahou Jun felt that teaching Cao Cao alone is very monotonous, it is recommended that Cao Cao's friends in Luoyang City are recruited to teach, on the one hand, Cao Cao has a playmate will not be lonely, on the other hand, Xiahou Jun no longer feels monotonous, but also has additional income, Cao Song readily agreed, in this way, Cao Cao's good partners in the capital came to Cao Song's house to accompany Cao Cao to study, including Cao Hong, Yuan Shao, Xu You and others, However, Yuan Shao is also a child of an official eunuch, and he has a special teacher to teach, and he comes to Cao's Mansion intermittently to listen to the lectures, which is purely to play with Cao Cao.

Xiahou Jun originally lived in Maozhou, rarely had contact with Cao Cao, after being invited by his brother Cao Song to Luoyang, the capital of the capital and Cao Cao for a period of time, only to find that Cao Cao was particularly playful, like to play with birds, walk dogs, and find an excuse to skip class with his friends at every turn, which made Xiahou Jun very headache, many times in front of Cao Song, Cao Song was perfunctory, Cao Song's doting attitude made Xiahou Jun also feel speechless, this is really the son of the official eunuch.

On this day, Xiahou Jun was teaching the children to read the "Analects", outside the carved wooden lattice window, Yuan Shao ran to poke his head into the house again, he raised his hand and waved at Cao Cao, Cao Cao understood, while his uncle Xiahou Jun was studying, the cat waist walked out of the door, Yuan Shao took Cao Cao's hand and ran to a corner of the garden, Cao Cao asked impatiently, "Why did you call me out?" Is there anything to do? Yuan Shao said, "Of course, I'll tell you ......" and then lowered his voice, "Someone in the town outside the city is marrying a bride today...... Cao Cao was a little disappointed, "What's so curious about this, what is it to marry a bride." Yuan Shao said, "The question is, I heard that this bride is very beautiful, with the beauty of sinking fish and geese, and the color of shy flowers and closing the moon, don't you want to go and see it?" When Cao Cao heard this, he suddenly came to his senses, "Really? "Of course it's true, I can still lie to you."

Cao Cao suddenly thought of Xu You and wanted to go back, "I'll call Xu You." Yuan Shao grabbed him, "Why are you calling that nerd, there are many people and many things, it's better for the two of us to go." Cao Cao nodded, "Wait for me, I'll go to the room to get the sword." ”

Cao Cao took a sword and hung it on his waist, and Yuan Shao went out of the mansion, and the two ran out of the city hand in hand.

Yuan Shao and Cao Cao out of Luoyang City walked five or six miles away to a town, just arrived at the head of the village, then saw a welcoming team blowing and blowing from a distance, colorful flags fluttering, gongs and drums noisy, sedan chair leisurely, so lively, see the lively people with the team, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao also crowded in the crowd, squeezed to the sedan chair, but unfortunately, the bride in the sedan chair, never showed a face.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao came to the courtyard of the master's house with the sedan chair, and saw the groom and the bride worship the heaven and earth, and watched the groom uncover the bride's red turban, wow! Cao Cao couldn't help but exclaim, "It's really beautiful!" Cao Cao watched the groom carry the bride into the cave room, and his feet involuntarily followed forward, but Yuan Shao pulled him back, "Aman, why are you going......?" "Go...... Go see the bride! "Everyone is in the cave room, let's go, let's go." Yuan Shao dragged Cao Cao out with him, Cao Cao looked at Yuan Shao and was very unhappy, "You said you pulled me out to see the bride, I haven't looked at it twice and you pulled me away, what kind of fame are you doing, it's really disappointing." ”

Yuan Shao smiled, "Aman, what do you think of everyone entering the cave room?" Could it be that you still have to be a groom! Cao Cao felt that his words and deeds were wrong, nodded and said, "What I said at the beginning was right, hey, this bride is still the most beautiful one I've ever seen, I really want to take a few more looks." "It's a pity that everyone has entered the cave room," Yuan Shao said, "Aman, let's go." ”

Cao Cao was a little reluctant, walked a few steps and looked back, and when he reached the head of the village, he suddenly stopped. "Aman, let's go, what's wrong?"

Cao Cao said, "I have a way, we will do this and this tonight, we will definitely be able to be with the bride." Cao Cao whispered his thoughts to Yuan Shao, and Yuan Shao said happily, "It's a good way, Aman has a lot of ghost ideas, so let's do it." ”

So, in the evening of the same day, just after people had dinner, Cao Cao and Yuan Shao came to the groom's house again, the groom's door was hidden, Yuan Shao hugged a handful of firewood and grass and put it at the groom's door, and when he saw that no one was around, he lit it with flint, and when the smoke rose, the fire was shining, Cao Cao took the opportunity to shout in the courtyard, "Catch the thief!" A thief has entered the hospital! A thief has entered the hospital! ”

The people in the courtyard heard Cao Cao's shout, and saw a fire rising at the door, and immediately messed up, ran out of the house to check the movement, Cao Cao took advantage of the chaos to run into the groom's house, and saw the bride under the oil lamp was stunned, and couldn't help but say, he ran out on his back, and Yuan Shao followed behind, and hurriedly ran out of the village in the hazy moonlight. After running a short distance, I saw a group of people chasing after me with torches, Cao Cao ran desperately with his bride on his back, and he was out of breath before he ran far.

Cao Cao and Yuan Shao are both children of official eunuchs, they live a worry-free life, they eat well, both of them are very fat, don't say that they are running, they usually walk a thousand children and eight hundred meters, both of them are tired, but today is stealing someone's bride, Cao Cao Huer has a kind of explosiveness, but just ran out of the village, still tired, Yuan Shao hurriedly said, "Aman, let me carry it for a while." "I'm not tired, no." "Oh, everyone is about to catch up, so I'll carry it!" Cao Cao looked back, the torches were getting closer and closer, and there were bursts of shouting, Cao Cao had no choice but to hand over the bride to Yuan Shao, who ran away on his back, panicked, and ran into a patch of weeds.

The weeds were high and dense, Yuan Shao couldn't run fast, the weeds mixed his feet, he didn't run far, the people behind him caught up, Cao Cao was anxious, and shouted that Yuan Shao should put down the bride and run away, but Yuan Shao didn't seem to have a good time, and still ran forward with the bride on his back, the light of the torch had already shone on his body, Cao Cao had an idea, pointed at Yuan Shao with his hand, and shouted at the people who were chasing, "The thief is here, come and catch it!" When Yuan Shao heard this, he was shocked, hurriedly left the bride, jumped out of the weeds, and Cao Cao pulled him and ran away.

The two of them looked back to see that there were no chasing people, and there were no torches, so they stopped, and Cao Cao sat on the ground, panting. Yuan Shao also sat down, he couldn't wait to punch Cao Cao at the moment, "You stinky Aman, why did you call them to arrest me!" ”

Cao Cao looked at him, smiled, and said, "If I don't shout like that, you can put down the bride, I'm afraid you will be arrested by someone at this moment." Yuan Shao really regretted taking Cao Cao to see the bride at the moment, although he was too addicted, he almost caused an accident, and what worried Yuan Shao even more was that the family must have turned the sky upside down at this moment, and he had to be reprimanded when he went back. Cao Cao didn't have these worries, he was thinking about how to respond to his father's reprimand, thinking about it, he couldn't help but purse his lips and laugh......