Daughter Xu Ruoyun looks average, has no inherited her mother's genes, and looks like her father Xu Changfu. Xu Changfu has an ugly face and a short stature, but his family is rich and he has all his money. That is why we can marry a great beauty like Zou Xiangqiu.
Xu Changfu is a businessman who travels all the way around the country all year round. Once when I went out to discuss business, I met a group of thieves while crossing the river, and robbed him of money, and finally pushed him into the river and drowned. The wealth of thousands of yuan was born under Zou Xiangqiu's name.
Zou Xiangqiu and his daughter Xu Ruoyun, live a worry-free life and are rich. However, in recent years, there has been one thing that has troubled Zou Xiangqiu very much, which is the marriage of his daughter Xu Ruoyun. Speaking of Xu Ruoyun, he is already at the age of marriage, but he has not met his wishful husband for a long time.
The reason is that after Zou Xiangqiu's husband passed away, she always wanted to recruit a son-in-law. However, after seeing it, I didn’t see it for 100 or 80, so I didn’t meet a person Xu Ruoyun liked. Troubled with this issue, Xu Ruoyun has not been able to get married yet. Zou Xiangqiu racked his brains and finally came up with a solution: "Sitting on the mountain to recruit husbands"
notice, the Xu family compound was in full swing. All kinds of men came and went to the Xu family every day, and the threshold was almost flattened. After three days of choosing, the mother and daughter did not meet a satisfied one. On the fourth night, just as the Xu family was about to close the door, a man came in, which made the mother and daughter lit up.
I saw the person coming, a boy in his twenties, holding a folding fan in his hand, and he was tall and handsome. Xu Ruoyun just glanced at him and was moved on the spot. He kept touching his mother shyly with his elbow to express his likeness.
Zou Xiangqiu understood his daughter's feelings. After looking up and down the young man, he began to ask about his life experience. I heard from the young man that his name is Wu Tingnan, 20 years old, lives in Shuanghe Town, and his parents died. He passed by here and saw the notice, and then came in to give it a try.
Zou Xiangqiu After hearing about the boy's life experience, he thought to himself: "Although his life experience is not very good, it is just right to be a son-in-law, and his daughter likes him." So Zou Xiangqiu nodded in agreement. Xu Ruoyun's face showed a happy and shy expression.
A few days later, Zou Xiangqiu arranged a marriage for two young people at home. After marriage, the couple was very loving and got tired of being together all day long. Zou Xiangqiu felt a little envious of her heart, and was also happy for her daughter.
This Wu Tingnan is very sensible. After joining the Xu family, he not only coaxed Xu Ruoyun around him, but also poured tea and water for Zou Xiangqiu every day. Zou Xiangqiu was very satisfied with this son-in-law.
One day after half a year, Xu Ruoyun went to the store left by her father to collect the accounts. Before she could get to the place, the housekeeper chased after her. He hurriedly told her that her mother died in the bedroom.
Xu Ruoyun couldn't believe his ears. His mother was fine before leaving the house, but why did she die in a blink of an eye! He hurriedly followed the butler and trotted home.
After arriving at home, Zou Xiangqiu was lying stiffly on the ground of the bedroom. Xu Ruoyun knelt down and cried bitterly when she saw it. Soon, Wu Tingnan ran in from outside, held Zou Xiangqiu's head with one hand, and shouted in a crying voice: "My mother-in-law, what's wrong with you? wake up quickly!" At this time, the doctor also came. After trying to breathe, he confirmed that Zou Xiangqiu had no breathing.
Zou Xiangqiu usually doesn’t even have a headache or a fever, but she died at home without any warning. I asked the doctor, but he couldn't tell the cause of death. Xu Ruoyun was extremely sad and kept crying while holding his mother's body. She cried for more than an hour, and finally fell asleep in her arms drowsy.
In the evening, everyone retreated, and Wu Tingnan and Xu Ruoyun knelt in front of their mother's shed to keep a spirit for her.In the middle of the night, a cool breeze came, and Wu Tingnan said, "Madam, it's late at night. You go into the room to rest. Don't catch a cold. I'll guard it here."
Xu Ruoyun cried for a day, and she didn't eat dinner, so she really couldn't stand it. He said, "That's thank you for your hard work." After that, he turned around and went into the house to rest.
Xu Ruoyun just lay down when she suddenly thought: "The weather outside is so cold, I have to send a piece of clothes to my husband." She got up and ran out with a thick dress.
When she came to her mother's monastery, she was shocked. The husband who was kneeling here just now disappeared, and Xu Ruoyun hurriedly searched everywhere. Suddenly, she heard a sound in her mother's coffin. The hair on her back was so scared that she stood up.
Xu Ruoyun took advantage of his courage to walk to the coffin, opened the lid and saw that his husband was actually in the coffin and had fainted on his mother's body. Xu Ruoyun was shocked and hurriedly woke up the servants and dragged Wu Tingnan out of the coffin. Looking at Zou Xiangqiu's body, he was dressed in disheveled, as if someone had touched him.
Wu heard the man wake up and said that he only remembered that a cool breeze blew, and he lost consciousness and was in bed when he woke up. When everyone heard this, they were all scared. The housekeeper said: "Madam may be the unjust soul that has not yet dispersed. I should invite a Taoist priest to ."
The next day, the housekeeper invited an old Taoist priest in his fifties. This Taoist priest looks like a living god. After doing the ritual, the Taoist priest quietly said to Xu Ruoyun: "You stay in the room tonight and don't come out. It will be clear whether you are a human or a ghost tonight." After that, the Taoist priest pretended to leave the Xu family.
At the third update, the Taoist priest climbed over the wall and gently knocked on Xu Ruoyun's door. Xu Ruoyun put on her coat and followed the Taoist priest, and quietly came to her mother's mourning shed. What surprised him was that Wu Tingnan, who agreed to continue to keep his mother's guarding, disappeared.
Taoist priest quietly approached the coffin and lifted the lid of the coffin with his first hand. The scene in front of him completely shocked Xu Ruoyun. I saw Wu Tingnan riding on his mother's body, his hands constantly wandering on the body, as if he was looking for something.
Taoist yelled: "You despicable and shameless villain, it is fake to marry into your house, but it is true to kill money. Come and catch him and send him to the yamen!" Wu Tingnan sat in the coffin, shocked. At this time, the housekeeper and several servants tied him up and sent him to the county government overnight.
Under severe torture, Wu Tingnan confessed all his criminal facts. It turned out that Wu Tingnan relied on his good-looking facial features and was cheating everywhere, specifically deceiving some wealthy women.
This time I joined the Xu family, but I actually fell in love with the legacy left by Xu Changfu. After half a year of getting along, Wu Tingnan learned that all Xu Changfu’s valuable things were hidden in a secret room in the bedroom. The key to the secret room is always on Zou Xiangqiu.
After half a year of careful consideration, Wu Tingnan did not get the key. In the end, he had to come up with this bad strategy, and poisoned Zou Xiangqiu's tea while she was not paying attention. Unfortunately, after Zou Xiangqiu's death, Wu Tingnan never had the chance to find the key on her. So I used the excuse of keeping my mind and drilled into the coffin again and again just to find the key to the secret room.
County Master hated such a man who likes to eat soft food, and Wu Tingnan was sentenced to death after being sentenced to the prison.
After this lesson, Xu Ruoyun dared not get married easily again. She took out her keys, opened the secret room, and donated most of her property to the temple and the poor. Three years later, she married a poor scholar, and the two lived a happy life.