During the Ming Dynasty, there was a scholar named Duan Lang in Jinling. When he was married, he met a girl named Cui Yile under the introduction of a matchmaker. After the two had been together for a while, they decided to get married. After the marriage, Duan Lang married into the Cui family and lived with Cui Yile and Cui's mother.
In order to welcome the wedding, the Cui family renovated the house before the wedding and built several new houses in the yard. Duan Lang and Cui Yile lived in the new house. On the evening of that day, Duan Lang was lying on the bed to rest, and was suddenly awakened by a pungent smell of blood. He found the source of the blood in the room, which turned out to be a wall in the room.
The wall was covered with blood, and the blood flowed along the corner of the wall to the ground, gathering into a pool on the ground. Duan Lang felt that this matter was a bit strange, so he told his wife about it. Both the couple wanted to know the truth, so they found the shovel used by the house to weed and slowly opened the wall to check it out. A man full of blood was found in the wall.
Duan Lang put the man on the ground and found a rag to wipe the blood on the man's face. Cui Yile burst into tears after seeing the man's face. This person was Cui Chengyang, her father who had been missing for two months.
The next morning, Duan Lang reported this matter to the government. After the coroner's autopsy, he confirmed that Cui Chengyang died of homicide. The government launched a series of investigations on everyone who had a relationship with Cui Chengyang, and finally locked the real murderer behind the scenes on Cui Yile, determined that Cui Yile was the murderer, and tied up Cui Yile and escorted it to the government.
Duan Lang suddenly felt a little regretful. He actually sent his wife in this report. How could Cui Yile, a person who didn't even dare to kill a chicken, kill someone? Duan Lang wanted to rescue Cui Yile, but he was at a loss when facing the majestic government. Just when Duan Lang was worried about this, the government again heard from him that the real murderer behind the scenes came to surrender.
Duan Lang hurriedly went to the county government office and saw the real murderer who came from the front. It turned out to be Cui's mother, who both the couple respected very much.
The reason why Cui's mother married Cui Chengyang twenty years ago was completely due to her parents' orders. Her life with Cui Chengyang after marriage was not satisfactory. She was making noise all day long, and she even talked to each other. Cui's mother was a woman after all, and Cui Chengyang was a strong man seven feet tall. She was no match for Cui Chengyang at all. She wanted to divorce Cui Chengyang, but she was pregnant at this critical moment. She didn't want to find a stepfather for her child, worried that the child would be abused in the future and discriminated against by people. So she barely made up for living with Cui Chengyang for so many years.
Since Choi Yile was born, she has been the only bond that maintains the marriage between Choi's mother and Choi Seung-yang. However, Choi Yile's arrival did not make Choi Seung-yang change anything. He still beat or scolded Choi's mother all day long, and even became addicted to alcohol and gambling, squandering all the money at home.
Later, as Cui Yile grew up and became a graceful girl, Cui Chengyang actually put his mind on Cui Yile. He discussed with an old rich man in the town that he would marry Cui Yile to an old rich man over 50 years old as his twelfth concubine. At that time, the old rich man would give Cui Chengyang fifty taels of silver as a betrothal gift.
Cui's mother asked privately that the old rich man and Cui Chengyang are of the same virtue. If his concubine dared not listen to him, he would beat and scold the concubine. Cui's mother did not want her daughter to suffer such pain like her, and refused to agree to the marriage.
However, Cui's mother's words didn't work at all. Cui Chengyang collected fifty taels of silver and gave the marriage between Cui Yile and the rich man. At the last moment, Cui's mother and Cui Chengyang had a conflict over this matter. Cui Chengyang slapped Cui's mother several times. In order to resist, Cui's mother picked up a vase on the table and slammed it on Cui Chengyang's head.
Cui Chengyang passed away. Afterwards, Cui's mother felt scared. She was worried that the matter would be discovered, so she used tools to seal Cui Chengyang's body into the wall, lying to the outside world that Cui Chengyang was missing. She also quickly helped her daughter find a marriage, and Duan Lang married Cui Yile as his wife.
What Cui's mother didn't expect was that she completely oozed out of the wall in the middle of the night and was dug open by Duan Lang.
In fact, the county magistrate had long discovered the strangeness of Cui's mother, but could not find evidence of the crime, so he captured Cui's mother's weakness of her beloved daughter and arrested Cui Yile. Cui's mother really came to the county government and explained the truth clearly.
Cui's mother confessed to her crimes. Because she had a good attitude, the county government finally sentenced her to life imprisonment and was exempted from the death penalty. Duan Lang took Cui Yile back home and lived a stable life together. He occasionally went to the prison to visit her mother-in-law.
