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During the Tang dynasty, the world was peaceful.

In Haizhou, there was a scholar named Chen Guangrui.

He wanted to serve the country, so he left his mother and went to the capital to take the imperial examination.

Chen Guangrui's essays were written very well, and he passed the examination with the top score.

Emperor Tang Taizong was very pleased, awarded him official robes, and also had him ride a horse through the streets for three days, so everyone could see this new top scholar.

Coincidentally, the daughter of Prime Minister Yin Kaishan, Wen Jiao, set up a decorated tower in the street.

She was going to throw an embroidered ball to choose a husband.

The embroidered ball was thrown down and happened to hit Chen Guangrui, who was passing by on horseback.

Wen Jiao chose Chen Guangrui, and they got married soon after.

Not long after the marriage, the emperor issued an order, sending Chen Guangrui to Jiangzhou to serve as an official.

Chen Guangrui took his wife Wen Jiao, and together they boarded a boat to Jiangzhou.

There were two boatmen on the boat, one named Liu Hong and the other named Li Biao.

Liu Hong saw that Wen Jiao was very beautiful, and also saw that Chen Guangrui's luggage contained official documents, so he developed evil intentions.

When the boat reached the middle of the river, Liu Hong and Li Biao suddenly acted, killing Chen Guangrui and his attendants, and throwing their bodies into the river.

Then, Liu Hong forced Wen Jiao to obey him.

Wen Jiao was already pregnant at that time, and in order to protect the child in her womb, she had no choice but to agree temporarily.

Liu Hong put on Chen Guangrui's official robe, took the official documents, pretended to be Chen Guangrui, and went to Jiangzhou to assume office.

One day, Liu Hong went out on official business.

Wen Jiao was alone at home, suddenly felt severe abdominal pain, fell to the ground, and gave birth to a boy.

In a daze, she heard someone speaking to her by her ear.

That person said he was the South Pole Star Lord, and it was Guanyin Bodhisattva who sent him to tell Wen Jiao some things.

The Star Lord said, this child will be very remarkable in the future, Liu Hong will definitely come back and harm him to death, so the child must be carefully hidden away to save his life.

After finishing speaking, the Star Lord disappeared.

Wen Jiao woke up and remembered the immortal's words.

She bit her own finger, wrote a letter with blood, clearly stating the child's background.

Then, she tore off a piece of cloth from her own clothes, wrapped the child well, and put it into a wooden basin together with the blood letter.

Before dawn, she secretly walked to the riverbank, put the wooden basin into the water, and let it drift away with the river current.

The wooden basin kept drifting downstream and drifted near Jinshan Temple.

Faming Elder in the temple was sitting by the riverbank, he saw a wooden basin drifting over, so he had someone fish it up and discovered the baby and blood letter inside.

The elder was very kind-hearted, so he raised the baby in the temple.

The child slowly grew up, very clever, so the elder had him become a monk and gave him a name called Xuanzang.

When Xuanzang was eighteen years old, Elder Faming handed over the blood letter that had been hidden back then to him and told him his true identity.

Xuanzang learned of his parents' injustice and was very sad.

Following the elder's guidance, he went to the government office in Jiangzhou to beg for alms and managed to meet his mother Wenjiao.

Xuanzang quietly gave the blood letter to his mother, and Wenjiao recognized her own handwriting; the mother and son hugged each other and cried loudly.

Wenjiao worried that Liu Hong would find out and told Xuanzang to quickly go to the capital to seek help from his maternal grandfather, Prime Minister Yin Kaishan.

She wrote a handwritten letter and gave Xuanzang a jade incense ring as proof.

Xuanzang hurried to the capital, found the prime minister's residence, and handed over the letter and incense ring to his grandfather.

Yin Kaishan saw his daughter's belongings, finished reading the letter, and only then realized how much suffering his daughter had endured over these years.

He immediately reported to Emperor Taizong of Tang.

Emperor Taizong became very angry upon hearing this and ordered sixty thousand soldiers, led personally by Yin Kaishan, to go to Jiangzhou to capture Liu Hong.

As soon as the army arrived in Jiangzhou, they immediately captured Liu Hong and his accomplice Li Biao.

Yin Kaishan rescued his daughter Wen Jiao, and the family was finally reunited.

Wen Jiao brought Xuanzang to the riverside where Chen Guangrui was killed years ago, preparing to mourn her deceased husband.

However, Chen Guangrui had not actually died.

It turned out that he had once bought a golden carp and released it, and this carp was the Hongjiang Dragon King of this place.

After Chen Guangrui was killed, his corpse sank to the bottom of the river; the Hongjiang Dragon King recognized his benefactor and used a Dingyan Pearl to preserve his corpse, preventing it from decaying, while Chen Guangrui's soul remained in the dragon palace.

On this day, the Dragon King calculated that Chen Guangrui's family was mourning by the riverside, so he had Chen Guangrui's soul return to his corpse and sent him back to the shore.

Thus, while Wen Jiao and Xuanzang were mourning sorrowfully, Chen Guangrui's corpse suddenly floated up from the water, his complexion looking as if he were alive.

After a while, he actually opened his eyes and came back to life.

The family reunited by the river, feeling both sad and happy.

Yin Kaishan escorted Liu Hong and Li Biao to the execution ground, executed them according to the law, and avenged the wrongs.

Chen Guangrui's family went through disaster and finally reunited.

Later, Emperor Taizong of Tang heard about this matter and reappointed Chen Guangrui as an official.

Xuanzang then returned to Jinshan Temple and continued to focus on cultivation.