Five years ago, that is, in the sixth year of Xianning, Sima Yan sent a large army to attack Eastern Wu. Shi Chong and Xiahoumen's father also participated in the battle against Wu. Shi Chong's son and Xiahoumen also came to the south with the army, but they came to the south to play, not to fight. After the pacification of Wu, Shi Gongzi and Xiahoumen returned with the army. The army was mighty and triumphant, and along the way, the people wanted to see the demeanor of the victorious army, and they all watched along the river and the road where the army passed, and the people of Shujiazhuang in Ruyin were the same, including Zhixin, who was just fifteen years old.

Shi Gongzi and Xiahoumen and others passed by Ruyin, and accidentally found Zhixin in a red dress in the crowd, fresh and refined, naturally beautiful, like a hibiscus out of the water. Fortunately, there was Xiahou Gate next to him, so he kept an eye on him and wrote down the address here. After going back, Shi Gongzi thought about Zhixin day and night, waiting for the opportunity to go south. It happened that in the second year, Sima Yan wanted to take Sun Hao's 5,000 concubines into Luoyang, and Shi Gongzi saw that the opportunity was coming, and took the initiative to ask to go to Jiangnan with someone to escort 5,000 beauties back to Luoyang. He planned in advance, and found a warlock in the rivers and lakes, that is, the person who claimed to be the grandson of the Zhuge Liang clan, and first went to the Shujiazhuang area to inquire about the news, and after confirming it, he robbed Zhixin when he returned in early March.

This Zhuge warlock came to Shujiazhuang, paid attention to the visit, and learned that Zhixin was the girl Shi Gongzi was looking for. He was thinking about how to find a breakthrough and get close to Zhixin, but Zhixin took the initiative to ask him to tell his fortune and drill into the fishing net by himself. He was overjoyed, and through observing words and feelings, and using clever words, he won the trust of Liu's and Zhixin's mother and daughter, and coaxed Zhixin to say that her wishful husband was in the north, and he should have a skin-to-skin kiss in March. This laid a good ladder for the appearance of Shi Gongzi in the future, so that Zhixin herself thought that meeting Shi Gongzi was arranged by God and destined. Then he listened to Liu's words about Han Ning, and he had a plan for the time being, saying that Zhixin's father Han Ning would not die, and now he was in Luoyang, and instigated Zhixin to go to Luoyang to find relatives. Because it is much more convenient to start halfway than at home, and you can also lie to create the illusion that Zhixin was drowned in water, which can make Zhixin's relatives die and stop looking for it. He was afraid that Shu Yan and other relatives would go with him, and it would be difficult to start, so he borrowed the hexagram in "Zhou Yi" "If you go to three people, you will lose one person, and if you go alone, you will gain your friend", and encouraged Zhixin to go alone. At the Shujiazhuang ferry, he dressed up as a shipowner and took the initiative to take Zhixin's sister to Luoyang. Later, seeing that Shu Yan and Zhixin were inseparable, I was afraid that Shu Yan couldn't help it, so he finally went with him, so he urged Zhixin to go quickly.

Although it was not Zhixin who went, but with Ruoxin's sister and brother, Ruoxin was just a child in her early tens, and she was very easy to deal with.

The two Zhuge Warlocks rowed a small boat carrying Sister Zhixin in front, and Shi Gongzi and Xiahoumen, who were sitting on the big boat, followed behind, and they bumped into it at the right time. At that time, the boat was knocked over, and four people on the boat fell into the water. Zhixin's sister couldn't swim, so she was in a coma at that time, Zhuge Warlock and the boatman knew the nature of the water, they quickly straightened the boat, Zhuge Warlock first rescued Zhixin on the big boat, and the boatman rescued Ruoxin on the boat, and then sent Ruoxin to Shujiazhuang, and lied that Zhixin was not rescued.

On the big ship, Shi Gongzi ordered more than a dozen maidservants to carry Zhixin into an inner cabin and serve her carefully. Zhixin slowly woke up, still frightened, and saw that she was lying alone on a soft bed, surrounded by more than a dozen women in brocade clothes, and a young man in white.

"Who are you? Where is this? What about my brother? ”

The young man in white said: "Don't panic, this little girl, we are an official ship to Luoyang, and you are now on the official ship, which is very safe." We've just crashed your boat due to a boat error, so we're sorry ......."

Zhixin didn't see Ruoxin, couldn't wait to hear what he said sorry, and hurriedly asked, "Where is my brother?" ”

"Our ship is going too fast, and it is very large, your ship has been broken, and all the people on board have fallen into the water, I immediately ordered the boatmen on my big ship to go into the water to search and rescue, but because this is a rapid, dangerous shoal, the current is very strong, only you can be rescued, and the rest are nowhere to be seen."

"I can't leave my brother alone, I'm going to save him." Zhixin said that she was about to get up and walk out.

The maidservants hurriedly pressed her, and the man in white persuaded: "Little girl, you don't know water, how can you save people?" Didn't you take your own life in vain? I advise you not to rush yet, take care of yourself. I've sent quite a few people to salvage it, and I'll let you know as soon as there's news. ”

Although Zhixin said that she wanted to save people, but after this toss, her body and mind suffered a huge blow, and she didn't even have the slightest strength, and she couldn't get out of bed, how could she still save people? had to let him go, and she also knew that she hadn't been saved for so long, and her chances of survival were not great. She asked to stop the boat and go back to Shujiazhuang, but where was the family? At this moment, she truly experienced a kind of helplessness that was resigned to fate.

What else can I do? My brother is gone, and I go back alone, how can I face my mother? How could she withstand the blow? Maybe what the Zhuge Warlock said was true, maybe he could really find his father, because he said "three people lose one", although we are two people, but we do lose one. If God has eyes and my father is really alive, it is better to continue to go to Luoyang, find him, and then we will go home together!

She was too naïve, could she go back, how could she be responsible?

Water and land parallel, for several days, arrived at a huge city gate, Zhixin knew that this was Luoyang. What made her strange was that after entering the city gate, after walking for a while, her carriage did not follow the large group of carriages and horses along the road, but turned a corner and got off in front of a big mansion, Zhixin asked the maidservant next to her: "Where is this?" How did you bring me here? ”

The little maidservant replied, "This is Shifu. ”

"Why did you bring me here?"

The maidservants did not answer. Zhixin was ushered into a room of great delicacy and luxury, and everything in the room was something she had never seen before. The rest of them went out, leaving only two little maidservants of their own age.

At this time, the white-clothed boy walked in, and Zhixin learned from the maidservants that he was the son of the mansion, so she stepped forward and asked, "Shi Gongzi, is there any news of my brother?" ”

"Not yet."

"In that case, I won't bother, I'll come back in a few days to find out the news." Zhixin said that she was about to leave, she really thought that she had met some great good person and was looking for her younger brother for herself.

Shi Gongzi hurriedly stopped: "Where are you going?" ”

"Our sisters and brothers came to Luoyang to look for my father, although it was your boat that knocked my brother into the water, forgive you and didn't mean it, and you also saved me, took me to Luoyang, and took care of me for several days, we don't owe each other. There was a lot of inconvenience in the Childe's Mansion, so I first went outside to find an inn to live in, and then slowly looked for my father. ”

Shi Gongzi laughed and said: "Then what's the matter, your brother's disappearance was caused by me, I must compensate you well, you left like this, I am uneasy, and there is nowhere to atone for my sins." Besides, there are hundreds of servants in my house, and it is better for you to give an account of your father's condition, and I to send them to their respective ears and to pay attention, than for you to search for them blindly? And you're a girl's house, and it's not safe to stay alone in a hotel. ”

Zhixin has never been far away, let alone lived in a hotel, Luoyang City is so big, she is not familiar with life, she really doesn't know what to do. Away from home, the world is full of unknowns and dangers. When she is at home, Shu Yan can always give her a sense of security, whether it is dealing with arrogant and frivolous Shide, or encountering fierce and cunning wolves, or even when facing the heavy pressure of life such as sick mothers and young brothers. But now...... Let's stay here for a few days, and if there is no news, I will go back to Ruyin.

After a few days of recuperation on the road, her body has recovered. In Shifu, these maidservants took care of Zhixin ten times better than on the road. Zhixin has never lived this kind of life of waiting for food and clothing, she is very unaccustomed to it, and wants to do it herself, but she doesn't know where to start.

Early the next morning, Zhixin saw the maidservants leading in a noble lady, who was gorgeously dressed and kind-eyed. Zhixin stood up, not knowing what to call it. The little maid next to her said, "This is the old lady of the master's mother." ”

Zhixin saluted. Old Madam Shi looked her up and down carefully, nodding her head incessantly. Although they are both women, they still make Zhixin bow her head in shame. Soon after the old lady left, she heard a commotion outside the room, and then saw someone bring a few red silks, measure herself, and say that she would make a wedding dress for herself. A few more maidservants removed all the bed tents and curtains from the room and replaced them with bright red.

Zhixin was strange and felt that something was wrong, so she asked, "What are you doing here?" ”

The little maid smiled but didn't answer, Zhixin asked again and again, and the other maid said, "I'm going to get married tonight, and I should tell you." You have been favored by our eldest son, and I want to accept you as a concubine, and in the future, wow, you will be the master. ”

I see, it's that kid who has a bad heart, don't look at his personable demeanor, it turns out that the human face is beastly hearted, you really missee me, I already have a heart, how can I let you succeed?

The tailors in Shifu are all first-class, and when they eat at the morning time, they have already made a big red wedding dress, and brought it to Zhixin with a box. Zhixin ignored it, and took advantage of the tailor's unpreparedness to hide a pair of scissors in her sleeve.

At night, the red candles flickered in the room. The two maidservants who were close to her were dressed in new clothes, one was wearing red and the other was wearing blue, and the person wearing blue persuaded Zhixin: "Young lady, you can change into a wedding dress, the person that the eldest prince likes can't run." ”

The maid in red also said: "Marrying into a wealthy family is the dream of many women, although it is a concubine, but it is also rich in clothes and food, so that the slave calls the maid, it is better than suffering in the cold door." Many people want to get married, but they don't fall into the eyes of their sons. ”