During the Yuanfeng period of the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a woman named Guang Yumei in Jiumao Village, Wutai County, and her husband was named Zhu Mingchuan, a mason. The couple has been married for three years, and their life is more or less better than below. The young

Northern Song Dynasty During the Yuanfeng period, there was a woman named Guang Yumei in Jiumao Village, Wutai County, and her husband was named Zhu Mingchuan, a mason. The couple has been married for three years, and their life is more or less better than below. The young couple had a deep relationship and great love. The only flaw was that Guang Yumei had not given birth to a son and a half daughter for Zhu Mingchuan. However, this did not affect the relationship between the couple.

However, there are unpredictable events in the sky, and misfortunes and misfortunes happen to people. Once, Zhu Mingchuan was invited by a large family to build a house. Unexpectedly, the beam suddenly fell and hit Zhu Mingchuan on the head. Zhu Mingchuan died on the spot.

This sudden blow completely destroyed the Zhu family. Zhu Mingchuan's father fell ill after learning about his son's death, and passed away soon after. His mother, Zhao, also cried blindly. Only Guang Yumei and her mother-in-law Zhao are left in the family to depend on each other. The wealthy family gave two hundred taels of silver to the Zhu family as compensation.

Guang Yumei became a widow overnight. She cried all day long and lived a very difficult life. After struggling for three years, Guang Yumei finally came out of the shadow of her husband's death.

At this time, although Guang Yumei was nearly thirty years old, she still retained her charm, graceful figure and tender face. Many single men in the village came to show their friendship, but they were all rejected by Guang Yumei.

Guang Yumei's mother-in-law is not a corrupt person. She knows very well how difficult it is for a single woman to live a life. She often persuaded Guang Yumei: "If you meet the right person, you should marry." After hearing this, Guang Yumei just smiled and did not answer.

Guang Yumei’s late husband Zhu Mingchuan had a good friend named Wu Junhui who was a carpenter. They live diagonally across from the Zhu family. They are similar in age and have often played together since childhood. When they grew up, they often went out to build houses for others. The two families walked around frequently in private. When they had nothing to do, they always liked to sit together and have a drink. Chat homely. Therefore, Guang Yumei is no stranger to Wu Junhui.

Wu Junhui has a handsome face and a burly figure. With his background as a carpenter, his family has good conditions and he is very popular with women in the village. But the strange thing is that Wu Junhui is almost thirty years old, but he is still not married.

After Zhu Mingchuan died, Wu Junhui often went to Guang Yumei's home, greeted Guang Yumei and helped her with some heavy work. Guang Yumei does not reject Wu Junhui, but rather has a certain fondness for him. Although Guang Yumei's mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, is blind, she seemed to be able to discern some knowledge from the words of the two of them.

Since the death of her husband, Guang Yumei has treated her mother-in-law Zhao like her own biological mother, taking care of everything from three meals a day to some trivial matters in life. And Zhao treated Guang Yumei like his own daughter, never hiding any selfishness.

One day, the chimney of Guangyu Meijia suddenly blocked, and the smoke flowed back, making the house full of smoke. Guang Yumei was standing in the yard with her mother-in-law worrying, when Wu Junhui happened to pass by the door, saw the scene in front of him, and hurried into the yard to help. After working on it for a long time, the blocked chimney was finally opened.

In order to thank Wu Junhui, Guang Yumei cooked a table of dishes and prepared a bottle of wine. The three of them sat around the table and ate, talking and laughing. Mrs. Zhao deliberately brought Guang Yumei and Wu Junhui together, ate a few bites in a hurry and said she was full, and then groped her way back to her bedroom.

After her mother-in-law left, Guang Yumei had a few drinks with Wu Junhui. At the wine table, the two were chatting and laughing, and Guang Yumei's fair and tender face began to turn slightly red. Unknowingly, the two couldn't help but hugged each other and rolled on the bed...

The next morning, Guang Yumei, who was withered and springing, pulled her affectionately. Wu Junhui's arms were reluctant to let him leave. Wu Junhui made a vow to Guang Yumei that he would not marry anyone other than her in this life. The two made an appointment and got married seven days later.

Guang Yumei told her mother-in-law Zhao about this, and she said with a smile: "As long as you like it, you can marry whomever you want!"

Ever since the two hugged each other, Guang Yumei has always been obsessed with what happened that night. I hope that time will pass quickly so that I can marry Wu Junhui sooner...

In the blink of an eye, seven days have passed. Guang Yumei is happy, but also a little nervous."You can marry Wu Junhui tomorrow!" This sentence kept repeating in Guang Yumei's heart.

Moo... Moo... Moo... several old cows' screams came from outside the gate into the house, followed by another wave of insults: "You disobedient beast, let's see how I deal with you when I get home!"

After hearing this, Guang Yumei, who was packing her clothes, hurried out of the gate and saw a butcher leading an old cow forward with difficulty on the road in front of her house. The old cow took three steps and took one step back. The butcher held the reins and pulled hard while cursing the old cow.

"Is this your cow?" Guang Yumei asked the butcher loudly. The butcher looked back at Guang Yumei and said disdainfully: "If it's not my cow, how can it be yours? I just bought it for twenty-five taels of silver. I will kill it tomorrow and sell it for meat!"

is here At this time, Lao Niu, who heard Guang Yumei's voice, turned to look at her, tears falling down! Then he turned around and knelt down in the direction of Guang Yumei!

has lived for more than thirty years and has never heard of an old cow crying or kneeling down. Guang Yumei felt pity for a moment, her heart ached, and she started crying along with Lao Niu. At this time, many passers-by came to watch and commented: "Look how pitiful this old cow is, he can cry and kneel down!"

After crying for a while, Guang Yumei choked and said to the butcher: "I'll give you twenty-five taels of silver. Sell ​​this cow to me!" The butcher rolled his eyes: "That's not possible. If you want to buy this cow, just bring me thirty taels of silver!" Guang Yumei hesitated for a moment and thought, "I'm in business, so I have to give in. Let me make some money." So he nodded in agreement, returned home, took thirty taels of silver and gave it to the butcher. The butcher let go of the reins, and the old cow seemed to have understood what was going on, and his tears stopped flowing. He stood up and followed Guang Yumei into the yard without asking Guang Yumei to pull the reins.

Early the next morning, Wu Junhui invited a sedan chair and led the wedding team to Guangyu Meijia. Guang Yumei happily got on the sedan chair, and the bearer arrived at Wu's house within a few steps. The two went to the church to get married and entered the bridal chamber. Everything went smoothly. Guang Yumei married Wu Junhui as she wished.

After getting married, the two became inseparable, sticking together all day long and never wanting to separate for a moment. Single men and women in the village were envious of them. However, the good times did not last long. Half a month later, Guang Yumei died mysteriously at Wu Junhui's house. Guang Yumei's ex-mother-in-law, Mrs. Zhao, cried so much that she fainted several times.

Guang Yumei's body was put into a coffin and parked in Wu's courtyard to be buried two days later. Many relatives and friends came to express their condolences. Listen to Wu Junhui say: "The night before, my wife and I drank and chatted until late at night before resting. When I woke up in the morning, I found that my wife lying next to me was no longer breathing."

As soon as Wu Junhui finished speaking, an old cow emerged from the Running into the yard outside the door, the old cow lowered his head and ran quickly towards Wu Junhui. Wu Junhui was stunned on the spot, and was hit in the stomach by the old cow and flew five or six meters away. He fainted immediately after landing. Everyone was stunned, and then Lao Niu pushed towards Guang Yumei's coffin.

The coffin was turned over by Lao Niu, and Guang Yumei's body rolled out of the coffin and fell to the ground. Everyone was shocked. At this moment, Guang Yumei, who had fallen to the ground, breathed a long sigh of relief and sat up. Seeing this scene in front of them, everyone was so frightened that they cried for their fathers and mothers and ran out the door.

Guang Yumei was sitting on the ground, breathing in the air. After a while, Guang Yumei stood up, ran out of the yard in her shroud and went straight to the county government office...

Above the court hall, the magistrate slapped the hall angrily and asked: "Whose girl in this hall is so ignorant of etiquette that she wears a Did the shroud go to the Yamen and make nonsense?" Guang Yumei hurriedly knelt down and said aggrievedly: "Sir, the daughter of the people was murdered by her husband last night and almost died. Make the decision!"

After hearing this, the magistrate seemed to have some interest in the case: "Please tell me in detail from the beginning." Then Guang Yumei told the magistrate the whole story.

Just last night, Wu Junhui prepared wine and food, adding cartilage powder to the wine in advance. After Guang Yumei drank the wine with cartilage powder, she couldn't control her hands and feet, and she lay on the table unable to move. Wu Junhui looked ferocious and prepared to kill Guang Yumei. In order to make Guang Yumei understand, Wu Junhui revealed the secret that had been hidden in his heart for more than ten years.

It turns out that Zhu Mingchuan, Guang Yumei’s late husband, had a pipe pot at home. This pipe pot was made of brass and was about one meter long. It was very heavy in the hand. It was said to be passed down from the ancestors and was a thing of the previous dynasty. I don’t know how many generations it has been passed down. When he was a child, Zhu Mingchuan often took this pipe pot out to play when his parents were not at home.

Once, Zhu Mingchuan went to Wu Junhui's house to play with a pipe pot, and Wu Junhui's father saw it. Wu Junhui's father had the skills of a carpenter, a blacksmith, and many other craftsmen. He recognized at a glance that this pipe pot was not an ordinary thing.

This pipe pot looks like it is made of brass, but it is not. Although brass and gold are similar in color, their weights are very different. Wu Junhui's father took the pipe pot and weighed it in his hand and knew that it must be made of gold. It's just that when the craftsmen were building this cigarette pot, in order to conceal it from others and avoid being noticed by thieves, the surface of the pure gold cigarette pot was plated with a layer of copper.

Regardless of the historical value of this pipe pot, just destroying the pipe pot into gold can also be exchanged for five thousand taels of silver. If the historical value is added, it is worth at least eight thousand taels of silver. The Zhu family knew nothing about this and only regarded the pipe pot as something left by their ancestors and hung it on the wall.

Wu Junhui's father did not tell the Zhu family about this, and kept it in his heart. It wasn't until Wu Junhui was eighteen years old that his father told Wu Junhui the secret of the Zhu family's pipe pot. When Wu Junhui grew up, he had been planning for more than ten years to get the ancestral pipe pot of Zhu Mingchuan's family. Unfortunately, he never had the chance.

Until one day three years ago, a large family invited Zhu Mingchuan to build a house. Zhu Mingchuan recommended Wu Junhui to the family to do carpentry work. Wu Junhui, however, had tampered with the beam, causing it to accidentally fall and kill Zhu Mingchuan on the spot.

Three years later, Wu Junhui saw that the opportunity had matured and secretly blocked the chimney of Guang Yumei's house with straw at night. Then, on the pretext of repairing the chimney, he got closer to Guang Yumei and successfully married Guang Yumei. Home door. Just a few days after Guang Yumei entered the house, Wu Junhui begged Guang Yumei many times to take the tobacco pot and let his father use it for a while on the grounds that his father liked the Zhu family's tobacco pot.

Guang Yumei was blinded by false love. With Wu Junhui's pleading, she took the Zhu family's ancestral tobacco pot to the Wu family. That night Wu Junhui drugged him with cartilage powder in his wine.

After Wu Junhui explained the reasons for killing Guang Yumei, he pulled Guang Yumei to the bed, put the pillow on her face, and pressed it hard until Guang Yumei stopped breathing. The next day, the scene of Guang Yumei's mysterious death in Wu's house was staged.

Unexpectedly, Guang Yumei did not really die, she just fainted temporarily. The old cow she bought the day before her wedding pushed her coffin over, and she fell to the ground and woke up. After she recovered, she put on her shroud. He ran to the county government office.

After hearing this, the magistrate's eyes were filled with sympathy for Guang Yumei. Then he became furious and ordered people to quickly arrest Wu Junhui and his son. In less than a cup of tea, Wu Junhui and his son were tied up and taken to the court by several government officials.

Wu Junhui fainted after being gored by the old cow. Not long after he woke up, he came to the Yamen, still in a trance. The magistrate didn't even ask. He just ordered the officials to hit twenty big boards each.

Twenty minutes later, Wu Junhui and his son were beaten to pieces and confessed on the spot. The county magistrate then announced the result of the trial. Wu Junhui and his son were seeking wealth and murder. The evidence was conclusive and they were sentenced!

Afterwards, Guang Yumei took back the ancestral tobacco pot of the Zhu family and left Jiumao Village with her mother-in-law and Lao Niu.Later, I heard someone say that Guang Yumei married a poor scholar who was three years younger than herself. Under Guang Yumei's encouragement, the poor scholar worked hard and became the number one scholar. He was left by the imperial court to serve as an official in the capital, and his family moved into a big house. Lived a life of fine clothing and fine food. Guang Yumei gave birth to three boys and three girls to the scholar, and she had a full family of children and grandchildren. She lived to be over eighty years old and died without any illness.