When he was eighteen years old, Li Chu was ordered by his father to go to Suzhou to visit his sick grandmother. In order to make walking easier, she put on men's clothes and assumed the pseudonym "Shen Mingzhu", becoming the "thin figure and delicate features" of her maternal grandfather's cousin.
While rescuing the siege on the street, she met Wu Xuchen, the eldest son of the Wu family in Gusu. He drank tea carefully, spoke slowly, and was strict about everything he did. He said, "I want some tea," and she drank it all in one gulp. He said, "Take your time," and she laughed at how tired he was. Under the lanterns on Shantang Street, he gave her a rabbit lantern with uneven ears; in the shower of Jingyue Lake, they crowded in the pavilion, shoulder to shoulder. Unknowingly, both of them were moved.
But he was a man—or at least she thought he was. When she had to return to the border, all that was left to him was the figure of her leaving in a hurry, and the words "I am a woman" that she didn't have time to say.
Two years later, border fighting broke out again. Wu Xuchen came to Huaiyuan City in the name of inspecting the border market and met her unexpectedly on the city wall. She was dressed in scarlet clothes, with the goldfish purse tied around her waist, and smiled at him: "Long time no see." He finally knew that the "Mr. Shen" he longed for was actually the female general Li Chu who killed countless enemies on the battlefield and protected the people of the city.
At this time, Beidi's 150,000 troops were pressing down on the territory, Huaiyuan City was lost, and Yuyang Pass was in danger. She went into battle wearing armor, and he walked with the army. She captured the enemy general alive in a bloody battle at Hufuling, and he helped the rebel army with one arrow. She attacked at night and burned the enemy's food and grass, and he waited for her return at the top of the city all night. He said: "My wife is guarding the mountains and rivers, and I am guarding my wife."
From Suzhou to the border, from misunderstanding to knowing each other.
