Cao Rui, who temporarily placed Sima Yi in the mansion to treat him with a "cold treatment", was still worried about him. After all, he didn't know Sima Yi's every move in secret. Even if he was restricting him openly, Sima Yi now has no candidate to restrain him. Among the four ministers, Chen Qun was left.

The problem is that Chen Qun and Sima Yi are very close. At the beginning, they were the two of them who worked together to help them overcome difficulties. It is almost impossible to rely on him to help them weaken Sima Yi's status and power, but they may alert the enemy.

Huan Fan, who has always been trusted by Cao Rui, quickly realized his thoughts:

"It's too easy for Your Majesty to understand Sima Yi's every move..."

"oh?"

Seeing that Cao Rui could not get the answer that he could not get even if he thought hard, it was so simple in Huan Fan's eyes, and immediately became interested:

"Sir, since I guessed what I was worried about, I dare to ask for advice."

Huan Fan said: "Sima Yi has only two wives and concubines in his life, one is his first wife Zhang Chunhua, and the other is his concubine Fu Ruoxin. I heard that there was a huge conflict between his wife Zhang Chunhua and Sima Yi, so I have been away from home for more than ten years and have been temporarily living in the Marquis of Wuyang for many years. It can be seen that the relationship between them and their wife has been in name only. Your Majesty might as well find another marriage for Sima Yi?"

It was just a word that awakened the dreamer. After Cao Rui thought for a while, he immediately understood what Huan Fan meant...

When Huan Fan told Zhao Rui and Cao Shuang about this, Zhao Rui showed obvious displeasure on her face:

"I really don't know you when I look for a marriage for him at this time..."

However, Zhao Rui is also a very scheming person, and she quickly discovered Huan Fan’s true intention:

"Do you want it?"

Huan Fan smiled and said, "Didn't Sima Yi say that he was seriously ill? So how can we, as old friends, turn a blind eye to this? Of course, we have to give him a generous gift..."

At this time, Zhao Rui was also planning her plans in her mind. After all, she hated Sima Yi not only.

Since Sima Yi returned to Wuyang Hou Mansion, Sima Zhao has gone out early and returned late almost every day, and Sima Yi can't even see him.

He knew very well:

Sima Zhao is like this because he goes to visit Zhang Chunhua every day, and at the same time, he is also to not want to see himself...

He did not interfere with Sima Zhao's behavior at all and adopted an indifferent and laissez-faire attitude.

Although Sima Zhao in Wuyang Hou Mansion rarely speaks or shows up, even if he occasionally encounters Sima Yi, he always bows his head and walks around. The relationship between the two is extremely weak and distant.

But it was completely different in the Marquis of Wuyang. He seemed to have become another person, and was extremely respectful and filial to his mother Zhang Chunhua. He knew that Zhang Ning and Zhang Chunhua were in sorrow that they were in Zhang He's death, so he often told them interesting stories and experiences in Yizhou to make them happy. Although this could not completely erase the pain of losing relatives in their hearts, as time passed, it could also greatly soothe their hearts.

Today, he came to the Marquis of Wuyang as usual, but he ran into Wang Yuanji, who was already dressed in women's clothes at the gate.

Since Sima Zhao learned that he had a marriage relationship with Wang Yuanji, out of disgust with this kind of political use of marriage, he began to instinctively alienate her. Wang Yuanji also felt that the window paper was pierced, making the two people's shutdown more awkward, so he reduced the number of times he came to visit Zhang Chunhua and always avoided Sima Zhao.

In Sima Zhao's opinion, Wang Yuanji often came to visit Zhang Chunhua with some intentions. Perhaps Wang Su and his daughter also wanted to use Sima Yi's current status to consolidate their own power and reputation, so she came to please Zhang Chunhua.

For this reason, Sima Zhao became disgusted with Wang Yuanji again. He also knew that Zhang Chunhua liked her very much, so he took advantage of the opportunity when the two met outside the house today to express his position and attitude to Wang Yuanji:

"Our fathers are all people who are greedy for power. Maybe you are approaching my mother to help your father and help me. But today I can tell you clearly that I will never marry you, and you don't need to waste time with my mother."

After hearing Sima Zhao's words, Wang Yuanji felt angry and funny. The impression that Sima Zhao had finally changed was gone because of his words. She had already walked to the door and turned around and returned to Sima Zhao, and retorted tit-for-tat:

"That's a coincidence. I don't want to marry you, but my wife regards me as her daughter. It's my freedom to respect her as my mother..."

Before Sima Zhao could respond, Wang Yuanji turned around and wanted to leave, but after she took two steps, she turned back again, raised her feet and kicked Sima Zhao's right calf, causing Sima Zhao to squat down and rub the kicked place due to severe pain. Her face was in pain and she looked up at Wang Yuanji:

"you..."

Wang Yuanji, who looked down at Sima Zhao, added without hesitation:

"Also, you are not qualified to insult my father!"

After watching Wang Yuanji leave, Sima Zhao's leg pain was slightly relieved, but he still felt numb.

He walked into Zhang Chunhua's house with disgrace:

"Mother, the child is here..."

Seeing Sima Zhao limping, Zhang Chunhua thought of Wang Yuanji and he had awkward way of getting along some time ago. He also guessed a little in his heart. She put a peach in her hand back into the bamboo basket and looked at Sima Zhao:

"You made Yuan Ji angry again?"

"I'll mess with her?"

Sima Zhao sat down by the bed where he walked to, still resenting the scene just now:

"I just kindly reminded her, who knows she is so rude..."

As he said that, Sima Zhao saw the bamboo basket full of peaches on the table, so he took one and put it in his mouth and took a bite. However, he found that the peaches in his hand were sweet and juicy, and he couldn't help but be surprised:

"Hmm? Where did this peach come from? Why is it so sweet?"

Zhang Chunhua did not answer him, but talked about his criticism of Wang Yuanji just now:

"You misunderstood Yuan Ji. She is a very sensible, filial and well-educated child, and she is also very good to me."

But in Sima Zhao's opinion, these are all ulterior motives. Zhang Chunhua sighed:

"You kid, you have too extreme views on her, right?"

She reached out to take out a white peach from the bamboo basket:

"It's rare that you still eat the peaches she sent, it tastes so delicious..."

When he heard Zhang Chunhua say that these peaches were sent by Wang Yuanji, Sima Zhao felt that the fragrance that was lingering in his mouth just now disappeared. At this time, he found that he was very embarrassed in front of his mother. When he was about to put down the peaches that had bitten half of them in his hand, Zhang Chunhua said meaningful words in his ear:

"In fact, sometimes people are like this peach. If you don't taste it in person, it is unwise to determine that it is not sweet. Moreover, the peach looks crystal clear, but it is also soft and fragile at the same time, and it cannot withstand the willful kneading of people..."

Sima Zhao echoed what he said to Wang Yuanji when he was at the door, and thought it was indeed very inappropriate.

Zhang Chunhua could see that Sima Zhao was already regretful, so he continued:

"No matter whether Yuan Ji wants to marry you or not, no matter how you say that because she has been filial to you for many years and she wants to save you despite danger, you should not hurt her heart. This is too unfair to her..."

Sima Zhao looked at the peach in his hand and finally realized that he might have known Wang Yuanji again...

Under Zhang Chunhua's enlightenment, Sima Zhao personally came to the door of Lanling Hou Mansion, hoping to apologize to her for her previous rude words, but Wang Yuanji sent a letter to him and replied:

I am not feeling well today and I am not allowed to see guests.

Just as Sima Zhao was about to turn around and leave, he met Wang Su, who had returned home after business.

The two of them didn't know each other at all in advance, but Sima Zhao saw his identity from his dress and demeanor, and saluted Wang Su respectfully: "Greetings to the Marquis..."

When Wang Su saw him wandering at the door of his mansion, he felt strange and asked:

"Who are you?"

Sima Zhao replied truthfully: "I am here in Sima Zhao, and I came to your mansion to meet Miss Yuanji."

"Oh, it turns out that you are Sima Zhao, the eldest son of the General..."

Wang Su, who had become a relative of Sima Yi in a confused manner, thought afterwards that he had promised his precious daughter to him without even seeing Sima Zhao.

Now that his son-in-law is standing in front of him, Wang Su looked at him carefully, thinking that he could take this opportunity to observe him, so he stretched out his arm and pointed it in the direction of the gate and said:

"Since you're here, please come in and sit down. I just so happen that I want to talk to you too."

Faced with Wang Su's direct invitation, Sima Zhao felt a little embarrassed, but it was difficult to refuse, so he agreed.

After the two walked to the inner hall together, in order to avoid the conversation being known to Wang Yuanji, Wang Su said to Sima Zhao: "Please wait in the study first, I will go to change the court uniform."

Sima Zhao bowed and replied, "I'm going to receive the order."

After saying that, Wang Su ordered the veteran Sima Zhao to take it to Wang Su's study. The veteran knew that Sima Zhao was his future son-in-law, so he tried his best to please him and introduced the facilities and structure of his mansion. When he talked about the study, he did not forget to explain:

"This study was used by the Grand Master during his lifetime, and there were many precious documents and classics. Later, after the Grand Master passed away, the Grand Master moved the books in his study to this study for the convenience of convenience, and the previous study was no longer used..."

In fact, Sima Zhao was not interested in these details. Being invited by Wang Su to chat was an unplanned thing. His full description of the family's elder was just a left ear into the right ear, but he still expressed his gratitude to the family:

"I'm working hard to guide my family..."

The old man smiled and said, "Young Master, you are polite. After you get married with the eldest lady, the young man will change his words and call you a son-in-law. Please ask me to come here later. The master will come to see you after he finishes changing his clothes."

Sima Zhao was very unhappy about the fact that the family member privately changed his name to him, but after all, this place was the Lanling Marquis' Mansion, so he had to restrain his emotions.

After the family left, Sima Zhao waited for Wang Su in the house. At this time, he thought that the family had mentioned that Wang Lang had many precious books during his lifetime. So in order to pass the boring time, he swept to the bookshelf one by one. When he swept to a roll of bamboo slips on the far left of the third row, he found that the bookmark hanging from the rope was actually blank. This looked particularly strange compared to other bamboo slips with the titles of the book.

Out of curiosity, Sima Zhao reached out to take off the bamboo slips, removed the phoenix pattern brocade sheath and expanded it. He found that there were not many words inside. It was a five-character column with four short sentences in total:

"There is blood but no form, the appearance is not true, the reality is partial to promote life, and the fate is lost."

The person who signed the letters have the five words "Pingyuan Guan Gongming".

What surprised Sima Zhao the most was that at the bottom left corner of the bamboo slip, there were five words:

The first reader Wang...

Facing these four sentences, Sima Zhao did not understand the special meaning of what was written in it, and it seemed that there was nothing strange about it. But for some reason, he was deeply attracted by these four sentences, as if it had a great connection with him...

"I've been waiting for you for a long time..."

Just when he was inexplicably trapped in a state of dull expression and could not extricate himself, Wang Su suddenly appeared behind him and pulled him back from the illusion. However, due to excessive fright, the bamboo slip in his hand inadvertently slid from the ground.

After Wang Su saw the bamboo slips falling on the ground, Sima Zhao knew that it was very rude to have the book shelf without permission, so he quickly bent down and rolled the bamboo slips and stuffed them into the sheath:

"I'm so rude, so please don't blame me."

Sima Zhao, who thought Wang Su would be angry about this, was worried about this, but Wang Su did not seem to care too much about this matter. He glanced at the bamboo slips in Sima Zhao's hand and said:

"This is left by a friend of my father's life. In fact, there is another volume, but I can't find it anymore. He once told me not to disassemble and inspect it privately. Today, you accidentally saw it. It was God's will..."

In Sima Zhao's opinion, although he could not explain the deep reason, he always felt that the content on this bamboo slip was very evil. After reading it, he was still creepy and his back was shiny.
To be continued...