Cao Shuang, who was anxious to wait for the result, paced back and forth in the main hall of Changling Hou Mansion. Xiahou Xuan, who was so irritable, was much calmer, but Cao Shuang kept walking back and forth, which somewhat disrupted his interest in reading. Sitting on the collapse, he put down the bamboo slips and couldn't help but say:

"Okay, OK, I asked you to sit quietly for a while. You keep wandering in front of me, which made me feel upset."

At this moment, the Deyang Township Lord, who looked like a morose face, walked in from the gate. When Cao Shuang saw her coming back, he immediately ran to her and asked, "Auntie, what's going on? Did Wang Su agree?"

The Lord of Deyang Township gave Cao Shuang a blank look and replied unhappily:

"Brother Zhao, can you find out the matter before telling me that I have thrown my face out of the house this time."

After saying that, she ignored Cao Shuang and swayed her sleeves and walked directly across the steps into the main hall.

Her words not only made Cao Shuang confused, but also made Xiahou Xuan, who was bystander, confused:

"What does my mother mean? Could it be that Wang Su rejected you?"

After angrily leaning down, the Deyang Township Lord said:

"The daughter of Zhao Bo's family whom Wang Bo was betrothed to Sima Yi's second son Sima Zhao as early as when Wang Lang was alive. You asked me to be a matchmaker for you. Where did I put my face?"

When Xiahou Xuan heard this sentence, his first reaction was three words:

impossible...

I have been in and out of Lanling Marquis' Mansion for many years and have never heard of this.

When Sima Zhao was taken to Yongzhou by Zhang He, Wang Yuanji was still a girl less than ten years old. At that time, Sima Yi and Wang Lang had not had much interaction. Even if the two parties had made a marriage contract, how could Sima Yi choose to let his son go to Yongzhou at that time?

Although there were a lot of suspicions in his heart, Xiahou Xuan still did not express his thoughts.

Cao Shuang, who was also shocked, seemed very excited and cursed fiercely:

"It's from the Sima family again. Didn't that Sima Zhao have already fallen off the cliff and die? Wang Yuanji would rather guard a dead person than marry me! It seems that my father and Aunt Zhao are right. The Sima family members are loyal to the emperor and patriotic in public, but secretly keep colluding with forces. They must be ill-hearted and have ulterior motives!"

At this time, Xiahou Xuan said coldly:

"Didn't you want to marry Wang Yuanji because you want to fight for power?"

In the end, Cao Shuang left Changling Hou Mansion in anger, and the idea of ​​marrying Wang Yuanji was interrupted...

Later, when he told Zhao Rui about this, Zhao Rui thought that there might be a fraud in this matter, so that Cao Shuang should not give up easily and observe the situation temporarily:

"Even if this really exists, Sima Zhao's life and death are uncertain. Is their marriage publicly announced? Assuming he is dead, then Wang Yuanji's engagement with him has no meaning. You can still mention the marriage to Wang Su again, right?"

"But..."

Cao Shuang felt very unhappy when she thought of her noble status as a relative of the Cao clan and wanted to marry a woman who had already engaged Sima Zhao. However, when Zhao Rui reminded him that the overall situation should be put first, he had to wait patiently.

I thought I finally used Sima Zhao as a shield to get rid of Cao Shuang's entanglement, but Wang Yuanji felt guilty for Sima Zhao who had never met. However, she felt relieved too early because just after she refused the Lord of Deyang Township after having a engagement with Sima Zhao, the next day, the incident of Wang Yuanji and Sima Zhaoding having an engagement spread throughout Luoyang City...

Many ministers were talking about this in the court. Seeing Wang Su and Sima Yi bowed and congratulated each other, Wang Su was extremely caught off guard. Even Sima Yi was quite embarrassed. When he met Wang Su's eyes, he seemed to be asking him:

What's going on?

This incident spread so quickly, which made Wang Yuanji unexpected. At this time, she had already noticed some strangeness...

Three days later, General Sima Yi and his eldest son Sima Shi came to visit Wang Su.

As soon as we met Sima Yi, we couldn't wait to ask Wang Su:

"Dare to ask the marquis when will the daughter of the daughter enter into a marriage contract with her son Sima Zhao? Now there are many discussions in the entire Luoyang city, and you and I are important ministers in the court. This matter has a great impact on us. How should we end?"

Wang Su expressed great apology for this. He explained to Sima Yi that the Deyang Township Lord proposed to Cao Shuang for marriage, but Wang Yuanji was not willing to marry him, so he was forced to do so, so he came up with this bad plan. Unexpectedly, things would leak out and cause such a big fluctuation.

Sima Yi immediately put a stern face on Wang Su and his daughter when he actually used his son's marriage as a cover:

"Master Marquis knows that my relationship with Grand Marshal Cao is very delicate at this time, and your actions undoubtedly caused a greater misunderstanding between me and him, and further deepened the rift between us!"

How could Wang Su, who is well versed in the court, not understand this truth? Now he feels like he is unable to get rid of the tiger:

"What the general said is very true, but now the big mistake has been made, and the officials really have no choice..."

At this time, Sima Yi sighed, slowed down his tone and said to Wang Su:

"Well, now the situation is complete, and it is related to the marriage reputation of your and my children. Since that's the case, I have to do a real show..."

After hearing Sima Yi say this, Wang Su's face suddenly changed, because he knew that Sima Zhao had been missing for many years and now he doesn't know whether he is dead or alive. If Wang Yuanji and him are confirmed, wouldn't it be equivalent to letting her stay a widow?

But at this time he had no way out. If he rejected Sima Yi's proposal, then it would be very difficult for Wang Yuanji to get married again when the court knew everything about it, which would bring her great pain and criticism.

Wang Su's ears echoed in his ears what Wang Lang said before his death:

In the future, Wang Yuanji's marriage will definitely not escape the scope of the Cao family and the Sima family...

Now it seems that Wang Lang's words have come true, and Wang Su can only agree helplessly.

When Sima Yi and Sima Shi walked to the main entrance of the Lanling Marquis’ Mansion to leave, Wang Yuanji suddenly ran over from behind and shouted to Sima Shi: "Brother Ziyuan!"

Sima Yi saw that Wang Yuanji seemed to have something to say to Sima Shi, so he whispered a few words in his ear and left alone. Sima Shi also saw from Wang Yuanji's angry expression that she was looking for her purpose...

He turned around and walked to Wang Yuanji:

"It seems you've guessed..."

Wang Yuanji's face looked very bad, full of resentment:

"From the beginning, you have been setting up a trap for me, pretending to give me some advice to let me take the initiative to admit my engagement with Sima Zhao, and then spread the news everywhere, making it known to everyone, and finally force my father to agree to marry you, right?"

Although Sima Shi felt guilty about using Wang Yuanji, Wang Yuanji could not hear any remorse in his tone: "Isn't this good? You should know very well what kind of person Cao Shuang is. If you didn't use this method at the beginning, how could Cao Shuang give up?"

"But..."

Despite this, Wang Yuanji was still worried about the fact that she was being used, and this matter was related to her reputation after all:

"Even so, brother, you can't spread this matter everywhere, and he doesn't know where your brother is now, and I haven't even seen him. What if he is a worse person than Cao Shuang, what if?"

Sima Shi looked into Wang Yuanji's eyes and said:

"Then you can witness it with your own eyes and then make a decision..."

Wang Yuanji did not give in at all to this and answered firmly:

"Of course, if he was not the person I liked, even if he was the son of his wife, I would never marry him."

After reaching an agreement with Wang Yuanji, Sima Shi returned home, and on the way home he was thinking about a question:

Although his father has successfully used Cao Shuang to achieve the purpose of marrying Wang Su, Zhaodi has not yet been in any way. If he is really not alive at that time, wouldn’t that ruin Wang Yuanji’s lifelong happiness?

Before this question was answered, he had already walked to the door of his house. However, when he had just walked to the door, he found a strange man walking in before him. Sima Shi felt strange in his heart, so he followed him to observe, until this strange man in ordinary clothes actually walked directly towards Sima Yi's study. Sima Shi shouted:

"Stop! Who are you!"

Considering that Sima Yi often discussed some confidential matters in the study, and this person was sneaky and had unclear intentions, in order to make the father in the study notice, Sima Shi would loudly want to attract his attention.

While shouting, Sima Shi also waved his fists and moved his hands towards the strange man, but the strange man was agile and avoided his fists. The two of them hit the corridor and went all the way to the courtyard.

At this time, Sima Yi, Cheng Wu and Zhong Yu, who were alarmed in the study, also walked out of the house. Seeing Sima Shi fighting with someone, Cheng Wu wanted to stop him, but was stopped by Sima Yi:

"Look first and then talk about it..."

The two fought for dozens of rounds without a chance of winning or losing. Until he was quite tired, Sima Yi clapped his hands to stop them:

“So far!”

The panting Sima Master had never encountered such a powerful opponent, and he had not yet fallen behind when he fought with him for so long. Zhong Yu, who was standing next to Sima Yi, couldn't help but smile:

"Ziyuan, it seems that you have met an opponent too..."

When the strange man saw Sima Yi, he immediately bowed respectfully:

"Diannong Gongcao Deng Ai, pay homage to the General!"

Sima Yi walked up and helped him up:

"I haven't seen you for so many years, Shi Zai has changed a lot."

Deng Ai was the cowherd kid who passed by Shangcai on the way back to Xudu. Deng Ai has never forgotten Sima Yi's love for the gift of books back then:

"If it weren't for the books that the General had granted Deng Ai many military strategies, he would probably be like a frog in a well now."

Sima Shi didn't expect that this man named Deng Ai was the person whose father Sima Yi asked Cheng Wu to go to Runan to secretly search, so he immediately apologized to Deng Ai for his rudeness just now:

"Ziyuan is so reckless just now, please don't be surprised by sir."

Deng Ai also gave a very respectful gift and said:

"Where is there, the young master and I have never met, so it is the right thing to do with caution. It has been long since the news that the eldest son, the civil and military talents are all talented. Deng Ai has learned about it today."

After a brief introduction, Sima Kui led three other people to everyone, and Sima Yi said to everyone:

"Okay, now that everyone is here, we should talk about the serious business..."

At this time, Sima Shi noticed that among the three people Sima Kui brought, one was Fu Yu, who he was familiar with. He was now a clerk of Chen Qun, and although he was not very familiar with the other two, he could also be named:

One of them is Zhuge Dan, a native of Yangdu of Langya, and the other is Wang Ji, a native of Qucheng City, Donglai.

These two people are talents that their father Sima Yi secretly cultivated, but they have not been employed openly, so most people don’t know about it.

Just when Sima Shi was surprised by why his father summoned them to him, Sima Yi told four people, including Deng Ai, in the study:

"Today we have gathered you four, with only one purpose, that is, to secretly go to Hanzhong to save my son..."

Next, Sima Yi said the name that shocked Sima Shi:
Chapter completed!