Ming Dynasty During the Jiajing period, there was a maid named Hu Guihua in the capital. When she was sixteen or seventeen years old, she was bought by an official named Luo and worked as a maid, who was specially used as a wife.
This Mr. Luo flattered the prime minister of the dynasty and was deeply trusted. He rose to prominence all the way. All officials of all big and small come to get close to each other. Knowing that he usually listens to his wife's words the most, he always follows his wife's path.
If you want to join the wife online, you have to bribe the people around her. Hu Guihua is by her side and learns how to flatter her and observe her words and expressions, and gets a lot of benefits.
Later, the prime minister fell, and Mr. Luo also got into trouble. His house was confiscated, and his servants and maids were all dismissed. The soldiers who searched the house searched for the property of the slaves and maids, and Hu Guihua was among them.
Hu Guihua was nearly forty years old at this time and was still alone. She didn't know where to go. At this time, one of her lovers introduced her to a family.
This master is surnamed Shen and named Toyota. He works in the Ministry of Personnel and has a wealth of wealth. He has several stores in the capital, running silk cloth and two medicinal materials shops. His wife wants to find a sophisticated maid, preferably in a wealthy family.
Shen Toyota's wife is surnamed Du. She comes from a famous family and has high requirements for the servants around her. She not only has to be fair and honest, but also has to be good at doing things and have eyesight. Hu Guihua developed a skill of observing words and flattering words, and quickly won the trust of Mrs. Du.
Shen Toyota has a wealth of thousands of dollars and is incredible. However, his three generations of single-handed family members are still without children over thirty years old. He wanted to take a concubine several times, but he gave up because Mrs. Du disagreed.
After the age of forty, Shen Toyota felt more urgent to want his son. He tried all kinds of ways to persuade him, but his wife still disagreed.
Shen Toyota had no choice but to persuade, "I think taking a concubine is also for our future consideration. If I have a few days, who will support our family business? Our family is not like another family. I don't have brothers. If I am gone one day, the Shen family members will just inherit it and will not be good to you in the future. What should I do then?"
Mrs. Du thought about it and reluctantly agreed, but the requirement should not be too good, it cannot be local, it cannot be a big deal, it is best to marry in secret.
As long as the wife agrees, Shen Toyota can accept all the conditions and immediately asked a matchmaker to help find it.
At this time, the shopkeeper of Shen Toyota's medicinal materials shop said that he had a fellow villager named Liu Wen who opened a small grocery store in Beijing. Because of poor management, he owed fifty or sixty taels of money to pay back.
His family has a daughter, who is seventeen or eighteen years old, looks a fair-looking person. He is short of money now and is just looking for a wealthy family who can agree to it with only a hundred and eighty taels of betrothal gift.
Shen Toyota immediately asked the shopkeeper to tell me that when the Liu family heard that it was Shen Daguan who was marrying a concubine, he immediately agreed.
In the end, Shen Toyota spent seventy taels of silver to marry Liu Wen's daughter Liu Xueer. According to the wife's wishes, she did not hold a banquet, and it was considered as if she was carried in a sedan chair.
Half a year later, Liu Xueer became pregnant, making Shen Toyota so happy that she couldn't stop and focused all her thoughts on her and her unborn child.
When Liu Xueer first entered the door, she was grateful to her wife for allowing her concubine. In order not to make her wife feel neglected, Shen Toyota often came to her room. However, since Liu Xueer became pregnant, she put all her thoughts on him. Mrs. Du began to regret asking him to take a concubine, and her resentment rose in her heart.
Seeing that the wife was frowning all day long and was irritable and she lost her temper at any time, Hu Guihua immediately understood the master's thoughts and often advised him: "Madam, don't be angry, even if she gives birth to a young son in the future, the wife will be the real wife after all."
Mrs. Du said: "The mother is noble because of her son. My husband is so fond of her now. I don't know what will happen in the future. "
Hu Guihua said: "If the lady is worried, when she gives birth to a child, the lady will take the child to raise her. Can her daughter, a grocery store, make a fortune? "
Mrs. Du said: "Oh, that's all. "
Shandong has severe drought. Someone reported that local officials embezzled disaster relief money and food. The superior ordered people to go for verification. Shen Toyota worked in the Ministry of Personnel and was also transferred to go this time.
This time it may take more than half a year. Shen Toyota was worried about Liu Xueer and the child in his belly. Before leaving, he said to his wife: "The child in Xueer's belly is your and my hope. We must take good care of it and never make any mistakes. "
Mrs. Du said: "I know what I know, please rest assured, Master. "
After Shen Toyota left, Mrs. Du often went to see Liu Xueer. The more she looked, the more she became angry. The more she looked, the more she felt that she would definitely threaten herself in the future. Her heart was overwhelming and she thought that this child must not be allowed to be born.
She quietly instructed the maids around her to let them go to Liu Xueer often and find ways to get rid of her child. Maybe it was because the child was very lucky, and Mrs. Du had never found a suitable opportunity.
Seeing that Liu Xueer was about to give birth, Mrs. Du found Hu Guihua and quietly told: "I think that Liu Xueer is a fox. If she was asked to give birth to a child and half of her daughter, could she still take me seriously? She is about to give birth, so you can go and serve her well for me. When she gives birth to a child, whether it is a man or a woman, she will steal it out and throw it away immediately. "
Hu Guihua didn't expect her master to make such a vicious plan, and she couldn't help but feel a little scared. Mrs. Du said, "What, you dare not? Then I'll ask someone else to do it. "
Hu Guihua thought to herself that the wife told her about this. Even if she asked someone else to do it, she would definitely drive her out in order not to leak the news. It would be better to do it yourself. This kind of thing is common among wealthy families, and it is nothing.
More than ten days later, Liu Xueer gave birth to a baby boy. The woman was safe, and the Shen family was full of joy.
Mrs. Du came to visit happily, and asked the maids to serve him well, but secretly gave Hu Guihua a wink.
Mrs. Du said that the utensils in Liu Xueer's house were too ordinary and asked the servants to bring the utensils in their room. Hu Guihua secretly took the child away while the servants were busy.
After Hu Guihua stole the child, the child kept crying. He stuffed a handkerchief into the child's mouth, and the child's crying became much less. She handed the child to a servant named Ge Laoliu in the mansion and asked him to throw the child away.
Ge Laoliu knew that it was Mrs. Liu's child, and first, he didn't dare, and second, he couldn't bear it. Hu Guihua said, "This is all the instructions of the lady. What are you afraid of? Even if something happens, you won't blame you. If you don't do it, it depends on how your wife deals with you. "
Ge Laoliu carried the child out and looked left and right on the street. He didn't know where to throw it. Suddenly, he saw a donkey cart carrying coal passing by. He quietly put the child in the car.
The coal transporter did not hear the child's cry and continued to walk forward.
The young man who had just born The son disappeared, and the maids responsible for serving Liu Xueer came to report to Mrs. Du.
When Mrs. Du entered the door, she saw Liu Xueer crying to the death. She felt so happy. She pretended to be anxious and sad, constantly comforted Liu Xueer, and at the same time scolded the maids for not taking good care of her and asked the servants to teach her a lesson.
The maids shouted unjustly, saying that they had always been taking care of their hearts, and they dared not make any mistakes. Someone must have stolen the young master while they were unprepared.
Mrs. Du immediately scolded, "If you don't have any good care, you have to defend yourself. Where did the villain come from in the mansion?"
The maids immediately realized that they said the wrong thing, and suddenly seemed to understand something, looked at each other, and stopped defending.
Mrs. Du called all the maids around Liu Xueer away on the grounds of poor care, leaving only a maid in her thirties to take care of her.
Liu Xueer lost the child and was heartbroken. After slowly recovering, she quickly figured out that the Shen Mansion was strictly controlled. How could the child be lost without understanding? It must be Mrs. Du’s concern that she would threaten her status in the future and steal it.
Liu Xueer was not only worried about losing her newborn son, but also worried that Mrs. Du would attack her in order to cover up the facts, and she was so scared that she couldn't sleep all day and night.
It was not as unexpected as Liu Xueer, and Mrs. Du quickly took action.
Mrs. Du said that Liu Xueer had just given birth to a child and the child disappeared. She is a disaster star. She doesn't know how to implicate the Shen family in the future. She must send her away as soon as possible.
A month later, Mrs. Du made the decision and married Liu Xueer to a scholar as a concubine, and she didn't have any gifts.
Liu Xueer spent her life in the Shen family. When she learned that she had been married to a scholar, she was glad that she could escape from this terrible place alive. After she arrived at the scholar's house, she finally had a safe sleep.
In order to keep it a secret, Mrs. Du sold the three maids who served Liu Xueer to a prefect who was going to Jiangxi to take office.
High half a year later, Shen Toyota came back from office, thinking that he would see his child immediately, so he ran in the door excitedly, but saw that only Mrs. Du came to greet him.
Shen Toyota asked Liu Xueer where she was. Mrs. Du said that Liu Xueer's child was in poor condition and died less than two days after birth. Liu Xueer knew that she had no shame to see her husband, so she ran back to her parents' home. She heard that her father married her to a scholar as a concubine.
When Shen Toyota heard this news, he felt as if he was hit by five thunder. He couldn't breathe and fainted.
After he woke up, he refused to believe his wife's statement and called his servant to ask, but the wife had already arranged everything, and the statement was the same as the wife said.
Shen Toyota still didn't believe it, so he called a slave from his hometown whom his father trusted very much when he was alive to ask. The slave from his hometown couldn't bear to see the young master being deceived and told the truth.
Unexpectedly, Shen Toyota learned the truth and was angry and anxious. His anger hit his heart, his blood surged, and he fainted again.
Mrs. Du quickly invited a famous doctor to treat it. After seeing it, the famous doctor said that Mr. Shen was so angry that he caused blood to surge and blood congestion in his brain. He was not good at medical skills and was really powerless to make things happen. Please ask Mrs. to ask for another clever one.
Mrs. Du hired several doctors, and they all said that medical skills are limited and cannot be cured. A famous doctor who had been with the Shen family for generations told the truth that Mr. Shen was no longer saved and asked her to prepare for her funeral.
Mrs. Du never expected that things would evolve to this point and she cried to death.
Two days later, Shen Toyota passed away and did not wake up again after he was about to finish, leaving no words behind.
As Shen Toyota said, the Shen clan members had long coveted his family's property. When Shen Toyota had just been buried, they came to the door, and the patriarch took charge of it, and selected one of the grandchildren of Shen Toyota's grandfather's brothers and adopted it to Mrs. Du.
This stepson pretended to be filial at the beginning. After a few years, he gradually grasped the financial power of the family and replaced all the servants at home with his own confidants. Seeing that Mrs. Du was old and weak, she no longer gave her a good face, and she didn't even serve three meals a day.
Mrs. Du threatened to go to the patriarch to sue him for his unfilial piety, but the stepson said, "I heard that my father has a son, and you secretly threw him away. You can't even tolerate your husband's biological son. How can you blame me for giving you like a mother?"
Mrs. Du sued his stepson in anger. The tribe members only care about his family's property and took the benefits of the stepson. They didn't care about her life or death, and ignored her at all.
Mrs. Du regretted it at this time and quietly asked someone to find the child he threw away back then, but after so many years, how could he find it?
Stepson was afraid that she would go to the yamen to sue again, so he wrapped her in a small courtyard and sent someone to watch it, not to step out of the yard.
Mrs. Du was over fifty years old and was encircled in a small house and could not go anywhere. She could not even cry from the deep courtyard and high courtyard wall of the Shen family. She died of depression soon.
After Liu Xueer married the scholar, her family saw that she was pitiful and did not make things difficult for her. She lived a pretty good life, but she could never forget the child who was thrown away.
When the coal transporter returned to the coal yard, he found that the child in the car had no idea when the child was thrown into the car by whom.
The coal transporter saw that the child looked pretty and the clothes wrapped in the child were all of the best materials, and he felt that he must be the child of a wealthy family.
It just so happens that the owner of the coal mine has never had a son or a daughter. I heard that the coal transporter brought back a child, but he was still a boy. He thought it was given to them by God, so he immediately took him home.
The couple of coal mine owner treats the child as their biological child and teaches him carefully. Seeing that he is smart and smart, he is a piece of material for studying, he invited his husband to come to his home for education, and passed the exam for scholar in his twenties.
Liu Xueer heard the news from somewhere and immediately went to find the coal yard that year. The coal transporter found it, but the owner of the coal mine had long stopped working. It is said that he took the child back to his hometown.
Liu Xueer finally learned about her son's whereabouts, but she couldn't find her son. She cried heartily, but after hearing from the coal-carrying person, her son should have lived a good life, she felt a little more at ease.
Help Mrs. Du throw away the child's Hu Guihua. When she was almost sixty, she fell ill. Her feet slowly eroded and gradually spread to her legs. Her knees were all ulcerated and died in extreme pain.
People say that Hu Guihua is retribution.
