In the late Ming Dynasty, the world was in chaos, wars continued, and the people were suffering.
Yongzhou has a Xiaogang village. The small village is hidden among the green waters and green mountains. gurgling water, green shade like a cover, and flowers like brocade, making it a good place to hide from the world.
There is a family named Liu living at the east end of the village. The head of the family Liu Yin and his wife Peng only gave birth to a son in their 40s. They named Liu Pingsheng, which means that he can be safe in this life.
Liu Pingsheng is well-behaved and sensible, and is very fond of Liu Yin and his wife. However, he has been weak and sickly since childhood. In addition, his parents favor him in every way and prevent him from going to work. Although he was born with a handsome face, he looked weak and many young women were reluctant to marry into the Liu family.
For a moment, Liu Yin and his wife were so anxious that they asked the matchmaker for help.
There is a matchmaker named Zhao in the neighboring village. After receiving the deposit from the Liu family, she relied on her fair mouth to find a young woman.
The woman's name is Zhang Yu, with a pretty appearance. She was sold to Peng Dalang by her father who was addicted to gambling a year ago.
Peng Dalang is a gambler. Once he was lucky at the gambling table and lost Zhang's father to his bankruptcy.
Zhang's father was ruthless and saw that Peng Dalang was still single after thirty, so he married his daughter to him.
is not so much about marrying a daughter, but rather selling a daughter. Zhang’s father owed Peng Dalang a gambling debt. Not only that, Peng Dalang also gave Zhang’s father ten taels of silver .
Zhang Yu is docile and her mother died early, and her father pulled her up with her. She is usually extremely filial, and when her father wanted to marry her to Peng Dalang, she didn't make a noise, but just cried quietly all night.
After Zhang Yu married, Peng Dalang became more and more restrained when marrying his wife, and began to do farm work, which made Zhang Yu extremely happy.
However, the good times did not last long. Peng Dalang's nature remained unchanged. One night he secretly went to the casino, but lost all his money. He knew that he had no face to face his wife and hanged himself on a crooked tree.
is like this, and the young Zhang's became a widow.
Seeing that his daughter became more and more haggard, Zhang's father also regretted and decided not to go to the casino again. He vowed to find a son-in-law for his daughter who could live at home.
It just so happened that matchmaker Zhao heard about Zhang Yu’s misfortune. After a few words, Zhang’s father moved and kept asking about Liu Pingsheng’s character.
Zhao matchmaker said, "This Liu Pingsheng is a good son-in-law who is one of the ten. He is not only handsome, diligent in his work, but also extremely sensible, kind by nature and smart in mind. Your daughter will never suffer any loss after marrying..."
Hearing the matchmaker's spoiled flattery, Zhang Yu, who was hiding beside and eavesdropping, was also moved.
A few days later, Zhang's father ran to the Liu family and secretly inquired about Liu Pingsheng's character. The neighbors all said that this young man was very good. Zhang's father was overjoyed and quickly agreed to the marriage.
Of course, this is the method Liu Yin’s parents played, and they used money in advance to bribe the neighbors.
Not long after, Liu Pingsheng and Zhang Yu got married.
After marriage, Zhang Yu found that her husband was in poor health and often coughed in the middle of the night. He couldn't do farm work. However, he was very nice to herself, had a sweet mouth, and was very likable. She sighed and had to accept her fate.
Fortunately, Zhang Yin and his wife are in good health and can work in the fields, so they live a good life.
Half a year later, Zhang Yin accidentally fell while doing farm work. The doctor said that he had to lie at home to recuperate for at least half a year. Peng was too busy alone. His son Liu Pingsheng was a medicine jar, and his daughter-in-law Zhang Yu was pregnant. For a moment, the Liu family fell into trouble.
Zhang's father came to visit his daughter. When he saw the Liu family's father and son lying on the hospital bed, he was so angry that his face turned pale and hated the matchmaker so much that he was itchy.
In the past six months of coming to the Liu family, Zhang Yu has been doing well. Her husband takes care of her in every way, and her parents-in-law are also very considerate to her, so Zhang Yu advised her father, "Dad, your daughter is not wronged, don't be angry."
Liu's father couldn't help but sigh and left silently.
One day, Zhang Yu was washing clothes by the river and chatted with Aunt Liu in the village.
Aunt Liu couldn't help staring at Zhang Yu, and sighed from time to time, "What a great girl, it's a pity."
Zhang Yu smiled, "Auntie, there is nothing to be a pity. As the saying goes, marry a chicken and follow the dog and follow the dog. "
Aunt Liu disagreed, "After that being said, you can't give up when you encounter a good opportunity. I have a distant nephew named Wang Chong. He is tall and burly and diligent in doing things. After seeing the situation in your family a few days ago, he said he is very willing to be a helper. "
The so-called "helping husband" is commonly known as the "helping husband".
The "helping husband" is usually caused by the husband's serious illness and is unable to take on the burden of the family. After obtaining the husband's consent, the wife also looked for a reliable man to take on the family life. After the husband passed away, he became a formal couple with the man to continue his life.
Zhang Yu heard this and strongly opposed it at the beginning. Aunt Liu was calm when she saw it and patiently explained to her that this was for the Liu family.
also said that the child in her belly only had the surname Liu and would not change his surname.
Hearing this, Zhang Yu hesitated. It was soon the rice harvest season that her mother-in-law Peng was too busy alone. It would be impossible to have no helper. This is related to The family's food rations for the next year.
In addition to harvesting rice, there is also a lot of farm work at home, and the in-laws are older, and the burden of life will fall on the weak and sick husband.
Thinking of this, Zhang Yu told Aunt Liu to go home and discuss with her husband.
Aunt Liu was happy when she heard this and said that this matter was not urgent.
Zhang Yu returned home and whispered to her husband about raising a gang. She thought her husband would strongly oppose it. After all, how can a man tolerate his wife and other men to eat and live with him?
Who knew that after her husband Liu Pingsheng was silent, he nodded and agreed and comforted his wife, "Don't worry about this matter, as long as the other party is reliable, go and talk to his parents for his husband, and I believe they will agree. "
I don't know what Liu Pingsheng used. Liu Yin and his wife, who have always been obsessed with the old-fashioned, actually agreed to the son's request and agreed to the gang trap.
However, Liu Yin has always emphasized that the child in his daughter-in-law's belly is always surnamed Liu. Aunt Liu made it from the beginning, and Liu Pingsheng and his wife naturally have no objection.
a few days later, Wang Chong officially came to Liu's house to move in.
Liu Yin and his wife saw that Wang Chong was tall and burly, with thick arms, and he looked like a good worker. He finally had a smile on his face.
However, the couple still refused to let go Heart, please ask the village chief to come over and make a document.
document reads: When the child in Zhang Yu's belly grows up and becomes a family, Wang Chong will leave automatically, and the children born with Zhang Yu will all be surnamed Liu. If Liu unfortunately dies during this period, Wang Chong and Zhang Yu will become formal couples, and treat children and the elderly as usual.
To put it bluntly, Wang Chong is a job in the Liu family, and the child born must also be surnamed Liu.
Aunt Liu said that Wang Chong is honest and stupid, and can live with the beautiful Zhang family day and night, which is also his blessing.
Therefore, this matter is considered a great thing in the eyes of the villagers.
The house of the Liu family is small, Zhang Yu and Wang Chong moved into a side house, and Liu Pingsheng slept alone in the bedroom.
The wife and a strange man lived in his home. Liu Pingsheng felt full of sorrow, but there was nothing he could do, after all, he had to rely on him to support the family.
When Wang Chong moved here, he did not disappoint the Liu family. He was a good person in his work and loved Zhang Yu very much.
Not long after, Zhang Yu gave birth to a fat boy, and Zhang Yin and his wife were very happy.
Liu Pingsheng was also very excited. After the Liu family had, he had completed his mission.
A year later Liu Yin finally recovered, but his body was much worse. During that time, Peng was busy with farm work and had to take care of the family. He couldn't bear it and became haggard.
plus the couple was older, and all the work in the field was handed over to Wang Chong.
Wang Chong worked hard, like a ox that could not be used to work hard, working in the field on the ground.
The next year, Zhang Yu became pregnant, Liu Yin and his wife couldn't be happy, and Liu Pingsheng sighed. The villagers also talked about it and felt that it was a pity for Wang Chong. The child would have to be surnamed Liu, and he was not from the Liu family's blood in the future.
In fact, Liu Pingsheng was not only worried about the child’s surname, but more about other things. He didn’t expect that what happened later really fulfilled what he thought.
One day, Wang Chong went to the field to work, and Liu Yin and his wife took Zhang Yu to the neighboring village for wedding banquet. Liu Pingsheng became weaker and weaker and could not stand the cold, so he had to stay at home alone.
Halfway through the way, Liu Yin and his wife looked a little weird, and suddenly said to their daughter-in-law Zhang, "Yu'er, you've been alone at home all your life, and your mother and I are always worried. It's still early now, why don't you go home and have a look."
Zhang Yu also made some sense after hearing this, so he handed over the two sons to his mother-in-law and prepared to rush home.
Inadvertently, she saw a smile on her mother-in-law Peng’s lips. She didn’t think much about it at the time, just thinking about going home quickly.
After returning home, her husband Liu Pingsheng lay on the bed and kept saying he was thirsty, so Zhang Yu hurried to get the water. But strangely, the water in the tank was bottoming out for some reason.
When she went out, she clearly remembered that she carried two loads of water before leaving.
Seeing that her husband was extremely thirsty, Zhang Yu calmed down and told her husband to wait first and would come back soon.
Just stepped out of the room. I don’t know if it was a trance or it was true, but she actually saw someone slipping into her door.
Worrying that a thief would enter the house and that her husband was unsafe at home alone, so she put down her burden and quietly lay on the window.
When I looked closely, I found that the person in the house turned out to be my mother-in-law.
I saw my mother-in-law behaved strangely and looked a little panicked. She secretly took out a pack of medicine powder from the cabinet and put it in the kettle quietly.
Seeing this scene, Zhang Yu almost fell into a fright. The pack of
is exactly the rat poison she bought a few days ago. Unexpectedly, her mother-in-law put it in a kettle.
As the saying goes, "A tiger poisons but doesn't eat her son." The mother-in-law wants to poison her biological son.
Soon, my mother-in-law quietly slipped away from the backyard.
Zhang Yu was so angry that he immediately went into the house and broke the kettle. When the husband saw it, he was puzzled and asked his wife why this was.
Zhang Yu sighed, "Husband, my mother-in-law is back just now. She is trying to harm you and me."
Liu Pingsheng was shocked when he heard this and asked him what was going on.
Zhang Yu hesitated for a while, but decided to tell her about her mother-in-law's poisoning.
Liu Pingsheng immediately understood after hearing this. He was so angry that he trembled all over and muttered to himself: "I didn't expect this to happen. My confused mother, you are going to be retribution."
"Yu'er, it's our Liu family that we can't help you." Liu Pingsheng's face was full of tears, and his eyes were full of apology.
Zhang Yu sighed and comforted her husband: "Mother-in-law is worried that after you leave, both children will be surnamed Wang, so she does this. Their approach is understandable, but it shouldn't poison you."
Chapter 0 Liu Yin and his wife, seeing that their daughter-in-law has not returned for a long time, the couple's eyes were full of smiles. They thought the plan was done, so they rushed toward their homes.
Unexpectedly, his son Liu Pingsheng stood at the door with an angry look on his face, scaring the couple to the ground.
"Dad, what's the face for you two to go home!" After saying that, Liu Pingsheng wrote a suicide note and asked his parents to sign and seal it.
The couple was so scared that they agreed if they didn't know what they wrote in their suicide note.
The next day, Liu Pingsheng passed away. He wrote in his suicide note that his wife remarried to Wang Chong and the child was with Wang Chong's surname.
Seeing the contents of the suicide note, Zhang Yu and Wang Chong were both crying, while Liu Yin and his wife couldn't help but curse their son in their hearts, and at the same time they regretted that they should have signed the letter so hasty.
But they didn't expect that although the kind-hearted Zhang Yu and Wang Chong followed Liu Pingsheng's will and both sons were surnamed Wang, they were still very filial to their parents-in-law and gave them their old age and sent them to their death.
Liu Yin and his wife were ashamed. After this disaster, they became ill and died one after another a year later, and did not enjoy their old age.
Perhaps it is exactly what Liu Pingsheng said, that if you do evil things, you will be punished.
