春秋时代，以战功起家的赵氏家族的权势不断膨胀，领王公贵族们都艳羡不已，将军屠岸贾心高气傲但是却一直受到赵氏的排挤。国王也认为赵氏超过自己的声望，控制不住了，于是在国王的默许下，屠岸贾诬陷赵氏谋逆，一日之内杀了赵氏满门，只有赵硕的妻子庄姬免除死罪，因为庄姬是晋灵公的姐姐。庄姬知道变故的消息惊吓早产一子，在危难之际把赵氏孤儿赵武交给了大夫程婴，程婴把赵武送到了家中妻子照料，前去找赵氏老友杵臼求救，杵臼打算自己的贵族身份送孩子出城。等程婴回家的时候发现屠岸贾已经来过，妻子为了保全自己的孩子交出了赵武，但是生性多疑的屠岸贾误把程婴的孩子程勃认成赵武

程婴按照计划去向屠岸贾告密，最后程勃被当成赵武被处死，程婴因为献计有功成为了屠岸贾的门客，赵武甚至成为了屠岸贾的义子。

In the Spring and Autumn Period, the power of the Zhao family, which started with military exploits, continued to expand. The princes and nobles were all envious, and the general Tu Anjia was proud. But it has been squeezed out by the Zhao family. The king also thought that the Zhao family had surpassed his prestige and could not control it anymore, so with the king's acquiescence, Tu Anjia framed the Zhao family for treason and killed the whole family of the Zhao family within one day. Only Zhao Shuo's wife Zhuang Ji was exonerated from the death penalty. , because Zhuang Ji is the elder sister of Duke Ling of Jin. Knowing the news of the misfortune, Zhuang Ji gave birth to a premature son and gave Zhao Wu, the orphan of the Zhao family, to the doctor Cheng Ying. He intends to send his children out of town as a nobleman. When Cheng Ying came home, he found that Tu Anjia had already come, and his wife handed over Zhao Wu in order to save her child, but Tu Anjia, who was suspicious by nature, mistook Cheng Ying's child Cheng Bo for Zhao Wu

Cheng Ying went to inform Tu Anjia as planned, and in the end Cheng Bo was executed as Zhao Wu. Tu Anjia's disciple, Zhao Wu even became Tu Anjia's adoptive son.