During the reign of Emperor Xianzong of the Tang Dynasty, the poor man Zhao Yaozi was over forty years old and had not yet married his daughter-in-law, because he was poor and ugly, had sores on his head, could not give a dowry, and no woman was willing to marry him to live a hard life. He lived in a grass hut by the Qinghe Bridge, and worked odd jobs every day to make ends meet. The days were really poor and meaningless, and he laughed at himself for eating and waiting to die.
On this day, when he returned in the evening, he saw a woman about to jump into the river and commit suicide, so he rushed forward to save the woman, but the woman fell into his arms and cried bitterly, saying: "Big brother, what is the use of you saving me?" I was homeless and had no way to live. ”
It turned out that this woman was a prostitute in the Yanchun Building, named Jin Xi, who was pregnant because of her old age and decline, and was driven out of the door by the old bustard.
Zhao Zi pitied this woman as much as himself, so he took her in. The two bitter men married again.
A few months later, Jin Xi gave birth to a baby girl, who looked delicate and cute, and named xiao xi. Zhao Yuzi regards Xiaoxi as his own and loves him very much. He wanted to come to his own situation, he should have no wife and children in his life, but suddenly he had a wife and daughter, and he was lucky, even if his daughter was not his own child.
Since then, Zhao Yuzi has worked harder and harder, worked with vigor, earned more and more money every day, and the family's life has become better and better, her daughter Xiaoxi has reached the age of ten, Zhao Yaozi rented two tile houses on a small street, and the family no longer lives in the grass house.
Xiao Xi grew up to twelve years old is a outstanding little beauty, the face is like a delicate flower blowing water, the waist is like a weak willow wind, very beautiful, her mother and the learning in the Qinglou to play and sing with her, she is born smart and clever, a teaching will, from a young age can sing and dance, color and art.
Zhao Yuzi thought that her daughter had such good material, she could not marry a poor person and bury it, but must marry a rich person to enjoy happiness. But where did he, a poor man, find a nobleman to marry his daughter?
There are a lot of mediators in the neighborhood to Xiao Xi, Zhang Yuanwai of the silk shop in the alley wants to marry Xiao Xi as a concubine, promising a hundred and two silver, Zhao Zizi is hesitating, is it too sorry for such a beautiful daughter to marry an old member as a concubine?
On this day, the festival made the return of the conquest, the people on the street all went to see the liveliness, competing to admire the style of the festival ambassador, and the fifteen-year-old Xiaoxi also followed her mother out to see the liveliness. Jiedushi made him look at Xiao Xi in the crowd at a glance, and although Xiao Xi was in a jingchao cloth skirt, she was as beautiful as a peach and plum, and Gu Pansheng was radiant.
The next day, the emissaries of Jiedu sent someone to ask for relatives to marry Xiao Xi as a concubine, and Zhao Zizi was flattered and quickly agreed. Jiedushi sent someone to take Xiao Xi and give Zhao Zi a thousand taels of silver, and Zhao Yuzi became a rich man, bought a two-story house facing the street, and no longer had to do odd jobs, and the husband and wife lived a rich life.
The festival made Xiao Xi very fond of Xiao Xi, and Xiao Xi was dressed in fine clothes and food from then on, and wanted the wind to get the wind, and the rain to get the rain. However, the good times did not last long, and jiedushi was killed for rebellion, and the male members of the whole family were beheaded, and all the female dependents were not enslaved in the palace. Xiao Xi was also escorted into the palace as a slave.
Zhao Yuzi and his wife regretted it too much, jin Xi complained that Zhao Yuzi was greedy for a while and rich, selling his daughter for glory, but today he caused his daughter to suffer, it was better to marry a young offspring with enough food and clothing, which was the happiness of her daughter. Zhao Yuzi bowed his head and sighed.
Unexpectedly, the delicate and feminine Xiaoxi entered the palace but got the emperor's favor, just entered the palace to get the attention of the emperor, after the bedchamber, from a palace maid to a low-level concubine to pick a daughter, a year later gave birth to a son, within four years, from the picker all the way to the noble concubine, spoiled the sixth palace. Zhao Yuzi and his wife were admitted to the capital to enjoy happiness, and Zhao Yuzi was also crowned as an official because of his status as the head of state.
Of course, Zhao Fuzi was no longer called Zhao Fuzi, and he gave himself a name called Zhao Fugui.
The poor man Zhao Yuzi only had a good heart for a while, saved a desperate old and decaying Qinglou woman, raised a daughter who was not his own, and as a result, became the abbot of the country in his later years and became rich and noble.