For some reason, since Wang Yuanji's frequent visits and company, Zhang Chunhua's condition seems to have improved quickly. Before, due to excessive sadness, she even needed the help of Zhang Ning and Sima Shi to turn over. But now she can walk down the ground with the help of Wang Yuanji for a while.

Although Wang Yuanji's age is not enough to support Zhang Chunhua, Zhang Chunhua is very happy that she can often come to accompany her. After walking to the courtyard, the two sat on the stone bench.

Wang Yuanji picked up the oranges in the fruit plate on the table and started peeling them, and said to Zhang Chunhua:

"Mrs. has recovered very quickly these days. It seems that she will recover as soon as she is in no time."

After saying that, she peeled off a piece of golden orange and handed it to Zhang Chunhua's palm: "This is the Huainan orange that the prefect Shouchun gave to His Majesty. His Majesty gave me some to my grandfather. I felt very sweet after eating it, so I brought some to my wife."

Looking at Wang Yuanji, who was so young but well-behaved and sensible, Zhang Chunhua seemed to see Sima Zhao sitting in front of her. For this reason, she couldn't help but reach out to touch Wang Yuanji's cheek:

"How great would it be if Zhaoer was by my side? It's a pity that you are not my daughter..."

Seeing that Zhang Chunhua was missing his son Sima Zhao again, Wang Yuanji put down the oranges in her hand, then used her small hands to hold Zhang Chunhua's hand and said:

"Although I have never met the second son of the Sima family, he must be a filial child. I think he will come back to you, Madam. If Madam wants to, he can also treat me as your daughter."

Zhang Chunhua, who had tears in his eyes, could no longer hold it back. She reached out and pulled Wang Yuanji into her arms and hugged her tightly:

"Miss Yuanji, thank you..."

"Why did you two hold me?"

Just as Zhang Chunhua and Wang Yuanji were hugging each other tightly, Sima Shi brought Xiahou Hui over from outside the door. After they saluted their mother Zhang Chunhua first, Sima Shi looked at Wang Yuanji again and couldn't help but look grateful:

"Miss Lao Yuanji has taken care of my mother on my behalf during this period. Sima Shi thanked me here."

Seeing that Sima Shi was so humble and polite to himself as a junior, Wang Yuanji couldn't help but smile:

"It's not entirely because I want to take care of my wife. I can listen to her and talk about the past, which is considered to be even."

At this time, Zhang Chunhua seemed to see a worried look on Sima Shi's face, and she noticed that there was a face-like girl beside him, so she asked:

"Shi'er, who is this girl?"

Sima Shi hesitated for a moment and introduced to Zhang Chunhua:

"Mother, this is Xiahou Hui, the daughter of General Xiahou Shang, Hou Changling Township."

Zhang Chunhua noticed that Xiahou Hui was about fifteen or sixteen years old, and was dignified and beautiful, and she was a full beauty. But what she didn't understand was why Xiahou Shang's daughter got so close to her son.

Moreover, Zhang Chunhua also noticed that Xiahou Hui looked at Sima Shi with unusual eyes, as if he was full of admiration.

"Xiahou Hui met his wife."

Xiahou Hui, who was shy, blushed and saluted Zhang Chunhua respectfully. Out of Xiahou Hui's identity, Zhang Chunhua stood up and made some polite confrontation with Xiahou Hui:

"It turns out that he is General Xiahou's daughter. Get up quickly, there is no need to be too polite."

After Xiahou Hui visited Zhang Chunhua, Sima Shi sent her back to Xiahou Shang's mansion. After he came back, he saw Zhang Chunhua who seemed to have many questions. Wang Yuanji, a small man and a big ghost, looked at Sima Shi's extremely awkward face and showed a playful smile to Zhang Chunhua:

"Hey? How could the daughter of the Xiahou family get so close to Brother Ziyuan? It seems that there is something to do with it..."

"What do you know about the little girl's movies? Don't talk nonsense."

Zhang Chunhua, who had been staring at Sima Shi's face, was silent for a while, then lowered his head and smiled and said to Wang Yuanji:

"Yuan Ji, I feel a little thirsty. Could you please come to the yard and bring the oranges in and give them to me?"

Wang Yuanji nodded and left the house.

After seeing Wang Yuanji walk away, Zhang Chunhua finally spoke:

"Tell me, what happened to you and that Xiahou Hui?"

Sima Shi didn't want to tell Zhang Chunhua about this, but no mother knew about the marriage. Thinking of this, Sima Shi had to tell Zhang Chunhua about the secret engagement between Sima Yi and Xiahou Shang a few years ago.

The clever Zhang Chunhua naturally guessed the purpose of Sima Yi doing this, but at this time what she was thinking about was her son's lifelong happiness. She looked at Sima Shi's eyes and asked him:

"Then you are about Xiahou Hui..."

What surprised Zhang Chunhua was that Sima Shi smiled calmly, as if this matter had nothing to do with him:

"Mother, the child understands very well that since I was Sima Yi's son, what I have carried is no longer my simple destiny and responsibility. Marrying Xiahou Hui is indeed beneficial to the father and the entire Sima family. Since this is the case, why not do it?"

Seeing that his son, who was less than nineteen years old, could say such heavy words, Zhang Chunhua felt extremely distressed, but he also understood that he could not change anything at all. She raised her hand and held Sima Shi's hand, her eyes full of care and helplessness:

"Child, you haven't met a woman who can make you worry about it yet, so you can say that when that day comes, you will experience the pain and torture of not being able to stay with your beloved. Would you really not regret it?"

At this time, Sima Shi was thinking almost the same as Sima Yi. As long as he could get the Sima family out of the predicament and stand at the top of Cao Wei, he would use any means, including marrying someone he didn't love at all.

Of course, even if he doesn't want to, as Sima Yi's eldest son, he has no right to choose...

According to the previous agreement between Sima Yi and Xiahou Shang, Xiahou Huiyuan would marry into the Sima family after the birth of the family.

Now, the ignorant little girl in the past has also grown into a graceful girl. When she learned from her mother Cao that her father Xiahou Shang had betrothed to Sima Shi, the love bean that Xiahou Hui had buried as Sima Shi since childhood and had completely sprouted, and she had bloomed the most gorgeous flower of the girlish life as a woman.

But just when I was happily preparing to marry Sima Shi, I never thought that I would encounter the biggest variable in my life...

In 225 AD (the sixth year of Huangchu of Wei), Xiahou Shang, who was preparing to follow Cao Pi to attack Wu for the third time, suddenly suffered from a serious illness. When he reached Shouchun, he couldn't get sick and had no way to continue commanding the battle. Cao Pi had no choice but to let him return to Luoyang to recuperate, but the long-distance travel accelerated the deterioration of Xiahou Shang's condition.

By 226 AD (the seventh year of Huangchu of Wei), Xiahou Shang's condition did not improve at all. This incident affected the court, so that Cao Pi, who was not optimistic, came to the mansion to visit his illness in person with Xiahou Shang's elder brother-in-law Cao Zhen.

Xiahou Shang, who was seriously ill, saw Cao Pi coming, so he wanted to get up and salute him, but Cao Pi held his body down:

"Lying down quickly, there are no outsiders here, so if you are in poor health, you don't need to salute."

Xiahou, who had dry lips, said to Cao Pi weakly:

"Your Majesty's dragon body is not good, so you should go back to the palace to cultivate."

With Cao Zhen's support, Cao Pi sat next to Xiahou Shang. Seeing the famous generals who were promoted by him ending like this, Cao Pi couldn't help but think that he might become like this in the near future. He was sad for a moment and held his hand and cried:

"Bo Ren, you can't fall down. My country depends on you and Zidan. Wen Lie will guard it for me..."

Cao Pi's words moved Xiahou Shang, which made him cry. He knew that his life was not long before, and he said to Cao Zhen and Cao Pi in emotion: "I am afraid that I can't last much time. I will do my best to do my best for Your Majesty and stop until my death is my duty as a minister. But the only thing I care about is the children under my knees. I also ask Your Majesty and your brother to take care of me in the future..."

Speaking of the issue of taking care of Xiahou Shang's children, Cao Pi started to think about Xiahou Hui, so he said to Xiahou Shang:

"Bo Ren, please rest assured to recuperate. The lifelong affairs of Huier and Xuan'er are covered by me, especially Huier is lively, cute, dignified and beautiful. The queen likes her very much and keeps mentioning me that she will take her to live in the palace. At that time, I will definitely help them find a marriage that is of equal status. As for the others, you don't have to worry."

Although Xiahou was in a terminal illness at this time, his mind was still very clear, so he naturally could not hear the intention of Cao Pi's intention to abolish the engagement between Xiahou Hui and Sima Shi.

After Cao Pi left Xiahou Shang's house and returned to the palace, Cao Zhen returned to Xiahou Shang's room and mentioned the matter again:

"You have heard what Your Majesty said just now. Sima Shi and Hui'er are definitely not good matches. You made a wrong decision back then. Now you don't have to worry about this matter. Your Majesty will make a decision. Your Majesty will arrange for Hui'er to enter the palace in a while."

Xiahou Shangji was helpless and powerless in this regard. He sighed and said to Cao Zhen:

"Brother, in this way, I, Xiahou Shang, will break my trust in Sima Yi. How do you let me face him in the future?"

Cao Zhen said with a gloomy face:

"It is better to lose the country of Cao Wei..."

At this time, Cao Zhen did not expect that Xiahou Huiben, who heard his uncle, wanted to come to pay a visit, but he never thought that he would hear their conversation as soon as he arrived outside the door. This was a big blow to her...

She knew that since Cao Pi intended to make his father regret the marriage, even if his father was unwilling to do so, he would not have the right to choose at all. Even if he asked him to cry and make trouble, it would be useless.

When she was shocked and at a loss, she thought of Sima Shi, so Xiahou Hui ran out of the mansion overnight and headed straight to the village mansion to look for him. However, when she ran to the gate of Sima's house panting, she was told by the family that Sima Shi had gone to the suburbs to hunt an hour ago. It would take at least an hour to ride a horse from here to the suburbs' hunting ground, which made Xiahou Hui angry and anxious: "When will this Sima Shi go hunting for me!"

Suddenly, a horse neighed from behind her. She turned her head and found that Cheng Wu was walking towards the gate with his horse.

Cheng Wu was surprised when he saw Xiahou Hui: "Miss Xiahou?"

Buchengwu quickly understood the purpose of her coming:

"Oh, you are here to find Ziyuan, right? Then you came here unfortunately, because he should be in the suburb hunting ground now."

But Xiahou Hui noticed the horse being held in Cheng Wu's hand, so she stepped forward and begged Cheng Wu and said:

"Mr. Cheng, please lend me this horse. I have something urgent to do when I contact Sima Shi."

As she said that, she pushed Cheng Wu away and stepped onto the horse's back, whipped her whip and galloped towards the city gate.

"Hey! I said...you can ride a horse?"

But Cheng Wu's words were soon drowned by the sound of horse hooves...

After Xiahou Hui rode a horse to the hunting ground, he found that she was not very skilled in horse racing. In a hurry, she couldn't even stop the horse, so she was carried by the horse and ran wildly in the hunting ground. The frightened horse wanted to shake her off from the horse's back. Xiahou Hui, who was only fifteen years old, could not withstand it, and was overturned to the ground by the horse soon.

However, the danger did not stop there. The frightened horse neighed, and at the same time turned around, raised his front hooves high towards Xiahou Hui who was lying on the ground. The situation was at a critical moment...

At the critical moment, Sima Shi appeared in time and reached out to hold the reins, subdued the frightened horse, causing Xiahou Hui to escape from danger of his life.

"Hui'er? Why are you here?"

Sima Shi stepped off the horse and walked quickly to Xiahou Hui's side, but soon he noticed that Xiahou Hui's face looked painful, and his right ankle was tightly held with both hands. It seemed that he had been sprained when he was dropped, so he threw away the reins in his hand. Without thinking so much, he took off Xiahou Hui's shoes and socks, and then carefully observed her injuries.

He gently twisted Xiahou Hui's right foot and asked her if it felt painful. He did not notice that Xiahou Hui's cheeks had already flushed with shyness. Seeing the man in front of him care about him so much, Xiahou Hui knew that his heart belonged to Sima Shi, but when she thought that Cao Pi and Cao Zhen were already coercing her father to regret the marriage, and the happiness she longed for would be broken, and all the happy expressions on her face were instantly wiped out...

Seeing that Xiahou Hui's foot injury could no longer walk independently, Sima Shi had to support her and walk.

After walking a few steps, she was knocked down by a stone because she was not used to walking on one foot. Sima Shi fell down together in order to hold her back, and his whole body was pressed on Xiahou Hui...

The distance between the bridges of the nose made Xiahou Hui, who was young and in love, accelerated his heart sharply. For a moment, she didn't know what to do. Just when she didn't know how to get along, Sima Shi, who stared at Xiahou Hui's eyes, put her lips on her lips...

At this time, her brain was blank, and Xiahou Hui, whose limbs were stiff, was mixed with reason and emotion and was at a loss.

At this moment, Sima Shi reached out to her belt...

She was mixed with reason and emotion, and finally surrendered to the emotions. Her hand holding the weeds tightly gradually loosened, then reached to Sima Shi's waist and hugged his waist tightly...

That's right, in Xiahou Hui's opinion, this may be the only way to keep himself with Sima Shi.
To be continued...