Cheng Baby learned the news that his wife was going to give birth and quickly ran back home. When he saw that there was a boy in the swaddling, he first laughed loudly: "God will not destroy the Zhao family." Then he burst into tears. The wife smiled and said, "Look, you are happy, have you forgotten your last name?" ”
Cheng Baby wiped away her tears and decided to discuss something with her wife.
The great general Tu'an Jia killed 300 members of the Zhao family, and Zhao Shuo's wife, Princess Zhuang Ji, quietly entered the palace and hid beforehand, only to survive.
Since Princess Zhuang Ji was the aunt of the Marquis of Jin, the Duke of Jinjing could not bear to kill, and Princess Zhuang Ji was pregnant at that time. Tu Anjia decided to wait until the princess gave birth before killing Zhao Shuo's widow to cut the grass and remove the roots.
Cheng Bao was a good friend of Zhao Shuo, and after he heard about it, he quietly found Zhao Shuo's guest Gongsun Pestle.
Gongsun Pestle asked Cheng Bao, "Why are you still stubborn and secretly giving birth?" ”
Cheng Nian said: "Zhao Shuo's wife is already pregnant with the flesh and bones of the Zhao family, if the birth is a boy, I will raise him to adulthood and let him avenge the snow and hatred; if it is a girl who is born, then I will be completely disappointed, and then I will repay the kindness of zhao's acquaintance with death." ”
It turned out that the two had the same heart.
Later, Princess Zhuang Ji gave birth to the child, which was a boy. After Tu Anjia heard about it, he personally went to the palace to look for it. The princess hurriedly hid the baby in her pants and prayed to heaven: God bless, the baby will not cry.
Maybe Zhao's life should not be extinguished, and the baby luckily escaped the disaster. Cheng Bao sent a trusted person to pretend to be Lang Zhong, hide the baby in the medicine box and take it out of the palace.
Tu Anjia guessed that the baby had been taken out of the palace, so he immediately offered a reward for arrest.
Cheng Infant asked Gongsun Pestle: "Tu Anjia did not find the child, I am afraid that he will not give up, what do you say we should do?" ”
Gongsun Pestle did not answer, but asked Cheng Bao, "Which one is easier to raise a baby or to die?" ”
Cheng Infant replied, "Of course, it is easy to die, but it is difficult to raise orphans." ”
Gongsun Pestle said, "Zhao Jun was the best for you before he was born, I am not as good as you, so I have to ask you to do difficult things, I can only do easy things." ”
The two agreed to find a baby boy to reconcile with the orphans of the Zhao clan, and then Gongsun Pestle and the fake Zhao baby fled to the Shouyang Mountains. Cheng Bao went to inform and deliberately let Tu Anjia find the fake Zhao orphan, so that he would stop the search and arrest and Zhao's bloodline could be preserved.
Cheng Bao returned to his home and saw that his wife was giving birth to a boy, and he laughed and cried at first. Cheng Baby knew in his heart that if he handed over his child, he would undoubtedly die. However, he still persuaded his wife, and then tearfully carried his child and Gongsun Pestle to flee to the mountain, while Cheng Bao's wife fled in another direction with the Zhao orphans.
After the arrangements were made, Cheng Nian said to Tu Anjia: "Cheng Baby is not Xiao, and he cannot save the lives of the Orphans of the Zhao Family." Anyway, the child will inevitably die, if Tu Anjia pays me thousands of dollars, I will tell you where the child is hiding. ”
Tu Anjia was bent on knowing the whereabouts of the Zhao orphans, so he agreed to Cheng Bao's request.
Under the leadership of Cheng Bao, Tu Anjia and the others finally found a small thatched hut hidden in the mountains, where Gongsun Pestle lived. Tu Anjia found a baby boy wrapped in brocade from the hut, thinking that it was an orphan of the Zhao family.
Gongsun Pestle scolded Cheng Baobao for his treachery in front of everyone, and did not forget to beg Tu Anjia: "Kill me, the child is innocent, please let him live." ”
The fierce-hearted Tu'an Jia wanted to cut the grass and remove the roots, but of course he would not agree. So he threw the baby to death on the spot, and then killed Gongsun Pestle.
Cheng Baby watched his son and friends die tragically on the spot, but he could only endure the sadness and anger in his heart and pretend to be indifferent.
Since then, Cheng Bao has been saddled with the "curse" of being ungrateful and betraying his friends, endured the scorn of the world, and fled to live in seclusion with the orphans of the Zhao family, raised him, and taught him a skill.
Fifteen years later, the Orphan of Zhao finally grew up, and he was Zhao Wu. After Zhao Wu learned of his origins, he vowed to take revenge on Tu Anjia and recover this blood debt for the Zhao family.
Later, Zhao Wu, with the help of the chancellor Han Yue, joined forces with the outside world and killed the traitor tu anjia. And the name of Gongsun Pestle's loyalty and the spirit of Cheng Bao's loyalty were finally revealed to the world.
When Cheng Infant saw that the Zhao clan's great revenge had been repaid, he refused to enjoy the wealth alone, so he drew his sword and killed himself to fulfill his promise. Zhao Wu served Cheng Bao for three years. And Cheng Bao was buried with Gongsun Pestle and Mortar in one place. They were called "Eryi" by later generations, and their names of loyalty and heroism have been passed down through the ages.
The story of "Orphans of Zhao" is recorded in Sima Qian's "History of Zhao Shijia", which was written by Sima Qian based on the legends of the time, and the story is not completely true. However, the promises, retribution, humiliation, revenge and other contents in the story are more touching, sima Qian recorded it, and when the reader read it himself, "letter to letter, doubt to spread doubt, so two words." ”
On this basis, Ji Junxiang of the Yuan Dynasty created the miscellaneous drama "The Orphan of Zhao", which gave the positive characters the noble character of seeing righteousness and courage and seeing death as a homecoming, which was listed as one of the four major tragedies of yuan miscellaneous drama.
Now that we think about it, who gives his own flesh and blood to others for the sake of a promise, and can still look at ease when he is killed by others?
The ancients believed that "a promise of a thousand gold", but also a reward for gratitude, the promise and love of the more important than life, it seems that we modern people are not doing so well, is this progress or regression?
