The story took place during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of the Northern Song Dynasty. There was a family named Qin in Chenliu County. The Qin family has been doing business for generations and accumulated countless wealth, but for some reason, the Qin family was not very prosperous. In the second year of Zhenzong, the rich man Qin died of illness, and his wealth fell into the hands of his daughter Qin Yuniang.
Qin Yuniang was only eighteen or nineteen years old at the time and was tall. If she looked from the back, she could give people endless imagination. But if you look at Qin Yuniang's face, it's not the case. Qin Yuniang is born with dark skin and has a lot of pockmarks on her face. When she speaks, her two big front teeth look particularly conspicuous.
Although Qin Yuniang is not good-looking, there are many people who are willing to marry her. Because the Qin family has broken roots, these men can only marry into the Qin family. If they give birth to a son, they must have the surname Qin. Qin Yuniang's first husband was named Fan Jin. Fan Jin was a distant cousin of Qin Yuniang. His family was extremely down and out. When Qiang Tan was alive, he often came to visit relatives during festivals.
After the death of the rich man Qin, Qin Yuniang recruited Fan Jin to her home, and the two officially became husband and wife. Moreover, shortly after the marriage, Qin Yuniang became pregnant with a bulge in her lower abdomen. Everyone thought they could live a harmonious life, but one night two months after their marriage, Fan Jin suddenly died in the bed, and the guy under his crotch disappeared.
Qin Yuniang's statement was that she slept soundly that night. In the middle of the night, she heard a scream and saw a big rat bit off Fan Jin's three-inch diarrhea. As a result, Fan Jin bleed continuously and died on the spot. People sighed, could it be a witch? Such a big rat has never been seen before. Some people also say that maybe it’s an ordinary mouse, or maybe Fan Jin’s object is too small.
There are many different opinions. As for the truth, everyone is unknown. Qin Yuniang buried Fan Jin and became a widow because of this. Perhaps because of excessive sadness, Qin Yuniang's fetus was not saved. In the fourth month, Qin Yuniang invited , Wenpo, to induce stillbirth, and she has returned to singleness.
Qin Yuniang's second husband was the chef of the Qin family, but after Qin Yuniang induced labor, she was extremely weak. In order to help Qin Yuniang recover as soon as possible, the chef changed her tricks for Qin Yuniang to make delicious food for her.
Once, Qin Yuniang wanted to drink fish soup, but it was cold and there was no fish sold in the market. The chef took the iron chisel and chiseled an ice hole on the river. He fished in the cold wind for a morning and finally caught a carp. When the chef returned to the mansion, his legs were so cold that he was covered in cold.
Qin Yuniang was very moved when she learned about it. As the saying goes, marrying a man, dressing and eating, she felt that the chef was a person worth entrusting his life, so she recruited him as her husband, and the chef became a rich man. However, unfortunately came again. On the Qingming Festival the following year, Qin Yuniang wanted to prepare some offerings to worship her ancestors and ask her husband to prepare some fish. As a result, the chef accidentally planted the oil pan while frying the fish and died on the spot.
Qin Yuniang's third husband is the accountant of the Qin Mansion. The accountant's surname is Chen and his name is ordinary. This person is not only handsome, but also smart. He has never made any mistakes in the account, so Qin Yuniang trusts him very much. Chen Tuxi originally had a wife, but his wife unfortunately died of illness. At that time, Qin Yuniang's second husband passed away. The two pitiful people appreciate each other and got together like this.
Chen Tushi's good days didn't take long, and he couldn't escape the tragic death in the end. After that, Qin Yuniang kept changing her husbands as if she was changing clothes, but all of her husbands died without exception. People say that Qin Yuniang is not just a reincarnation of the broom star, but it is simply a King of Hell who has come to the world to expand his enrollment. After two or three years, she died in total nine husbands since Qin Yuniang's first husband Fan Jin.
Qin Yuniang's reputation has spread far and farther, but it did not stop her from recruiting her husband. In order to recruit people to marry into a wife, she even offered a high price to ask for a husband. If she was willing to take the initiative to recruit a wife, she would not be able to get a wife, and she would be willing to pay a betrothal gift of 500 taels of silver. At that time, five hundred taels of silver were a huge sum of money, almost enough to buy a house in Chenliu County. Even so, people are still unwilling to sacrifice their lives for these money. If a person dies, what's the use of asking for these money?
At that time, there was an old man named Dong Angong in Chenliu County. Old man Dong was a bachelor all his life and lived a very poor life. He made a living by chopping wood and picking up manure. One winter, Dong Angong went up the mountain to chop firewood, but he picked up an abandoned baby on the side of the road. Dong Angong was worried that the baby would be frozen to death, so he returned home to raise him and named him Dong Yong.
Since Dong Yong, Old Man Dong has had a bright future. He hopes to raise Dong Yong as soon as possible. But when Dong Yong was seven years old, he suddenly fell seriously ill, and it took a lot of money to see a doctor, so Old Man Dong couldn't afford so much money. When he saw the notice posted by Qin Yuniang, he took the initiative to marry into the house. In fact, he had already made up his mind to die at that time. As long as he could use the five hundred taels of silver to cure Dong Yong, it would be worth it even if he died.
Old man Dong handed the money to his clan members and asked them to take good care of Dong Yong. If he died, he would buy a coffin and buried it at that time.
On the night of the bridal chamber, Old Man Dong was drunk. When he was urinating in the middle of the night, he was about to urinate in the yard, he suddenly saw his wife, Qin Yuniang, holding a sword in the yard, muttering some spell, and there were ten tablets in front of Qin Yuniang, nine of which were from her ex-husband, and the last one was from Dong Angong.
Qin Yuniang lit a stick of incense, and then said, "The Ghost King is above. Now I am willing to use the souls of ten unfaithful men as a transaction. I hope Ghost King can help me change my appearance and give me a peerless face." Old Man Dong was shocked. He didn't know what Qin Yuniang did, but he could hear that her nine ex-husbands should have been hurt by her, and I'm afraid she would be in danger.
Old Man Dong was so scared that he lost his mind and jumped into the back window to escape. At that time, he happened to meet the officers and soldiers patrolling the night. Old Man Dong told his experience. The officers and soldiers rushed into Qin's mansion and captured Qin Yuniang. They also found nine soul-catching bottles under Qin Yuniang's bed, with the names of her nine ex-husbands on it, and one bottle was empty, which should have been prepared for Dong Angong.
It turns out that Qin Yuniang's first nine husbands did not die in an accident, they all died in her hands. When Qin Yuniang got married with her cousin Fan Jin, she originally thought that she could be a woman who cared for her husband and children, but who knew that Fan Jin was eating in the bowl and watching the pot, and she was stumbling with the maid in the mansion every day. Later, when Qin Yuniang discovered that, he even beat Qin Yuniang. Qin Yuniang couldn't bear it anymore, so she got Fan Jin drunk one night, then cut off Fan Jin's filth with scissors, and then publicized that it was bitten off by a mouse.
The next cook and accountant were basically the same as Fan Jin. He was unfaithful to Qin Yuniang, often stealing food outside, and sometimes punching and kicking Qin Yuniang at every turn. Qin Yuniang spent his time designing unexpected illusions and killing them one after another. After that, Qin Yuniang began to reflect, was it because she was ugly? So he was betrayed by a man. So she asked about the evil technique from somewhere, saying that she could use the souls of ten unfaithful men to change her appearance.
So since then, Qin Yuniang began to recruit her husband crazily, and then killed these men one after another. It was not until Old Man Dong got up at night in the bridal chamber that he discovered Qin Yuniang's secret. Qin Yuniang confessed to her crimes and was finally executed by Lingchi. Because Old Man Dong was Qin Yuniang's legal husband, all the Qin family's property was in the hands of Old Man Dong.
Old man Dong took out money to cure Dong Yong's illness, and the remaining money was taken out to help the poor people nearby. People were very grateful to Old Man Dong.Later, Dong Yong grew up and married a woman from a neighboring town, Weaver Girl, who gave birth to two sons for Dong Yong. Dong Yong asked his two sons to be surnamed Qin and the other surnamed Dong, thus continuing the incense of the two families.
[Soul Statement]
This story is a folk story, purely literary creation, the plot and characters are all fictional, aiming to enrich readers' spare time, please do not match feudal superstitions.
