The story took place during the Song Dynasty period. There was a scholar named Zhan Hong in Chuzhou County. Zhan Hong's first wife, Fang, was as beautiful as a flower and very beautiful as a flower. The couple was very loving. After only two years of marriage, Fang died of illness. Zhan Hong held his wife's funeral and fainted from crying several times. People say that Zhan Hong is loyal to his affection and friendship.
However, Fang's family was buried for only three months, and Zhan Hong married Xuxian Zhang again. This move slapped the villagers in the face. This is not about affection and friendship, it is clearly Chen Shimei who is fond of the new and tired of the old. Zhang's is not beautiful. On the contrary, her face is covered with freckles and her skin is very dark, which is far inferior to Fang's. Therefore, Zhan Hong's parents were very dissatisfied with Zhang, but they could not resist their son's liking, so they could only frown and recognize this daughter-in-law.
In comparison with the former daughter-in-law Fang, the mother-in-law didn't like this ugly daughter-in-law from the bottom of her heart. But Zhan Hong loved his wife very much and cared for her, and even made her rouge powder for herself. Zhang was very happy to see her husband love her so much. Even if her parents-in-law didn't like her, Zhang endured her for the sake of her husband.
What made Zhang happy was that since she used rouge made by her husband, the skin on her face has gotten better and better, and the freckles have disappeared. His appearance is getting more beautiful day by day. Zhang was surprised and delighted when he saw her increasingly beautiful face. If you become beautiful, your husband will like you more and more, and your parents-in-law may also have a good face to you.
But Zhang sometimes doubts that the effect of the husband's rouge is so magical. She was determined to ask her husband, but Zhan Hong stammered and was unwilling to say more. Zhang thought it was a secret recipe from his family, so he was inconvenient to reveal it, so he stopped asking more questions. From then on, Zhang became obsessed with rouge, and even applied it to his face every night when he went to bed. Zhang became more and more beautiful, but when her mother-in-law Hu saw it, she frowned and wanted to say something, but shook her head and sighed.
On this day, Zhang greeted his mother-in-law. Hu looked at his increasingly beautiful daughter-in-law and finally couldn't help but say angrily: "You look like a dead person!" Zhang couldn't help but burst into tears when he heard his mother-in-law say this. She knew that her mother-in-law didn't like her and was very filial on weekdays, hoping that her mother-in-law could like her. But my mother-in-law actually said such mean words.
Hu looked at Zhang with tears, but frowned and said, "No matter how much you look like her, you are not her after all, so take care of yourself!" After that, he turned around and left. Zhang became suspicious of her mother-in-law's words. Who is she? She suddenly remembered the rouge made by her husband, and vaguely felt that the truth was on the rouge.
That night, Zhang deliberately pretended to accidentally knock over the rouge. After seeing this, her husband frowned and said, "You have to use it tomorrow. I'll make another box for you." As he said that, he walked into the study room. Zhang quietly followed her husband and found that he had entered a secret room in the study room. I thought there must be something strange, so I quietly walked into the secret room. Unexpectedly, the next scene made her heart very distressed.
The secret room was hung with a portrait of a woman, and the portrait was carrying small characters, beloved wife Fang Jinlian. She suddenly remembered looking in the mirror in the morning, and her face seemed to have changed. She turned out to be the deceased wife who was becoming more and more like her husband. She saw that the rouge made by her husband was actually made of Fang's blood, and then she then put the spell into the rouge. No wonder she became more and more like Fang Jinlian.
The more Zhang thought about it, the more afraid he became. He was about to leave quietly, but his husband found out. Zhan Hong said to her lightly, "Since you know everything, I won't hide it from you. I marry you just because your eyes are like her, and with my secret technique, you will completely become her, so that we can be together forever."
Zhang's heart was broken when he listened to her husband's words. It turns out that the affection in the past is fake, and I am just a substitute for others. No wonder my mother-in-law said she was like a dead person. Zhang wanted to escape from here, but Zhan Hong grabbed it tightly. While the two pushed each other, Zhang stabbed Zhan Hong in the heart with a hairpin. Seeing Zhan Hong fall to the ground, Zhang knew that he had made a big mistake, so he voluntarily surrendered.
After Zhan Hong passed away, her mother-in-law Hu was crying all day long. She regretted that she did not stop her son, and she ended up with her current fate. Everything is fate.
Message: Zhan Hong missed his deceased wife and became a demon. He did such a stupid thing, was too persistent in the past, hurting others and himself. My mother-in-law Hu knew her son’s behavior but did not stop it in time, which eventually led to the tragedy of ending. The most pitiful one belongs to Zhang. He loves her husband wholeheartedly, but is betrayed, and the infatuated woman is always hurt. The story tells us that people should not be too obsessed with the past, but should look forward. Being obsessed with it will only hurt others and yourself. The story is a folk legend and belongs to literary creation. The plots of the characters are all fictional. Please do not link them to feudal superstitions. It aims to enrich the readers' spare time.
