During the Song Dynasty, there was a mother and daughter living in Nangou Village. Her mother Bai Yuzhi, who was in her fifties, was a widow. She has married three husbands in this life, and each husband will die of illness if he lives with her for no more than five years. Bai Yu

html years in the Song Dynasty, there was a mother and daughter living in Nangou Village. Her mother Bai Yuzhi, who was in her fifties, was a widow. She has married three husbands in this life, and each husband will die of illness if he lives with her for no more than five years. Bai Yuzhi was also very distressed because of this. After her third husband left, she did not marry again.

She and her daughter Hu Meiqian live in the house left by her first husband Hu Jingan. Hu Meiqian is twenty-eight years old and is also a widow. Like her mother, she has three husbands died within ten years. She didn't dare to remarry and chose to stay by her mother's side, and the two depended on each other for their own lives.

Nangou Village believes that Bai Yuzhi and Hu Meiqian are born to be destined to be victorious. Therefore, the mother and daughter will be close and far away. Bai Yuzhi and his daughter also think that they are an unknown person and rarely contact outsiders. They close the door and live quietly at home.

For the sake of life, the mother and daughter raised more than 100 old hens in their backyard. I usually sell some eggs to maintain my family life. Although I am not rich, I can live a good life. But every day, the mother and daughter stare at each other, and life is dull and boring.

Hu Meiqian has a simple and kind-hearted personality. Although she is nearly thirty years old, she looks beautiful and slender. But she defeated her three husbands in a row, and no man in the village dared to approach her. All the big and small things at home have to do their own things, and they have to do the heavy and tiring work by themselves.

One day, Hu Meiqian said to her mother, "Mom, the trough of the chicken feeding is too dirty, and it attracts a lot of flies and mosquitoes. I'll take it to the river to brush it." Bai Yuzhi said, "Go, be careful on the way."

After saying that, Hu Meiqian pulled five wooden troughs with a wheelbarrow to the river, lowered her head and started brushing it. When she finished brushing the five troughs, she was so tired that her back and back were sore, so she straightened up and twisted her waist. Suddenly, Hu Meiqian discovered that a white dress floated down from the river in the distance.

When the white clothes floated in front of her, Hu Meiqian was so scared that she shivered and almost sat on the ground. Where is a piece of clothing, it is a person. Hu Meiqian was scared and a little at a loss. She hurriedly put the food trough in the car to prepare to go home.

But she thought again: "I don't know whether this person is dead or alive. If he doesn't die, wouldn't it be a pity for me to leave!" Thinking of this, Hu Meiqian took advantage of her courage to roll up her trousers and went downstairs. The river water here is only half a meter deep. She walked a few steps and came to the side of the person who fell into the water, grabbed one of his arms and pulled it to the shore desperately.

pulled to the shore and saw that it was a young man, probably twenty-five or twenty-six years old. There was an egg-sized wound on his forehead, as if it was injured by a hard object. After a closer look, the man had clear eyebrows, beautiful eyes, and his facial features were straight, but his skin was soaked pale, which looked a little scary.

Hu Meiqian put the man's head downwards, placed him on a stone, and hit him hard on the back. Soon, the man coughed, and then spit out the river water in big mouthfuls. "So it's not dead yet, but fortunately I pulled him up!" Hu Meiqian thought to herself.

I don’t know how long it took, but the man was a little awake and stood up staggeringly. Seeing this, Hu Meiqian hurried forward to support the man. The man looked at Hu Meiqian and said weakly, "Thank you for saving your life!" Hu Meiqian smiled and said nothing.

The two sat on the grass by the river for two hours, and the man's body finally returned to normal. I heard from the man that his name is Zhao Yunliang and he lives in Hehua Village, the upper reaches of the river. His father Zhao Youcai owes huge debts for gambling, but no one is seen. The creditor came to the door, but did not see Zhao Youcai, so he found his son Zhao Yunliang for money. Zhao Yunliang couldn't afford the money, so he was beaten by the creditor and threw it into the river.

Speaking of this, Zhao Yunliang's eyes were red and tears were almost falling. Hu Meiqian sympathized with Zhao Yunliang and asked with pity, "Do you have a place to go now?" "I am homeless now and can't go back to Hehua Village. If they are caught, they will be beaten to death!" Zhao Yunliang replied aggrievedly.

Hu Meiqian pondered for a moment and said, "Then you go home with me first." Zhao Yunliang looked at Hu Meiqian and nodded with gratitude in his eyes. Afterwards, he helped Hu Meiqian push the wheelbarrow, and the two went home while walking.

After arriving at home, Hu Meiqian told her mother about saving Zhao Yunliang by the river. After hearing this, Bai Yuzhi frowned and said, "Daughter, you and I are both widows. There is an extra man in the family. If you spread it, you will be gossiped by the villagers!"

"He is homeless now, and we can't watch him sleep on the side of the road. He will leave after a few days." Hu Meiqian hurriedly spoke for Zhao Yunliang.

Bai Yuzhi looked at Hu Meiqian and Zhao Yunliang, and did not speak anymore. She slowly shook her head, wanted to speak but stopped, and turned back to the room. "There are only two rooms at home. You can live in the woodshed first." Hu Meiqian said to Zhao Yunliang. Zhao Yunliang clasped his fists and said, "Thank you, Miss Meiqian, for providing a place to stay!" Hu Meiqian glanced at Zhao Yunliang and went to cook with a shy look on her face.

Zhao Yunliang is very good at observing his expressions and helps Hu Meiqian to keep flattering the mother and daughter in nice words. I stayed for three months, and I didn’t mean to leave at all. From time to time, he also looked for opportunities to secretly send misses to Hu Meiqian.

Hu Meiqian has been widowed for several years. Looking at this handsome Zhao Yunliang, she was calm on the surface, but in fact she was in a turbulent heart. Bai Yuzhi is a veteran, and she has long seen what the two of them are thinking. She is a widow and knows that it is not easy to be a widow. Therefore, Bai Yuzhi doesn't want her daughter to be as widowed as she does.

One day, Bai Yuzhi called Zhao Yunliang to the backyard alone and said to him, "I know you and my daughter have a love and I have a lot of intentions, but my daughter has been fighting for three husbands in a row. Aren't you afraid of being with her?" Zhao Yunliang hesitated after hearing this, but he thought for a moment and said, "No, my life was saved by Meiqian. Even if I die, I will be with her!" Hearing this, Bai Yuzhi nodded with relief.

Half a month later, Hu Meiqian married Zhao Yunliang. After marriage, the couple was inseparable and stuck together all day long. Bai Yuzhi saw a happy smile on her daughter's face, and the couple was so loving that they were happy for her.

After getting married, Zhao Yunliang no longer helped Hu Meiqian work. Every day I go out for fun or sleep at home. Hu Meiqian was immersed in love and ignored Zhao Yunliang's behavior. However, Bai Yuzhi was getting more and more unable to bear it.

One day, Hu Meiqian came back from selling eggs at the market. As soon as she entered the house, she felt something was wrong, so she hurriedly put down her things and ran into the house. When he entered the room, he saw his mother lying stiffly on the bed. Zhao Yunliang stood beside the bed and kept shaking her mother: "Mother-in-law, what's wrong with you? Wake up!"

Hu Meiqian ran to the bed a few steps. At this time, Bai Yuzhi's face was bloodless, and she looked like a dead person. She hurriedly sent Zhao Yunliang to invite a doctor. After the doctor tried to breathe, he shook his head and said, "The person is dead." When the doctor heard that his mother was dead, Hu Meiqian hugged her mother and cried loudly and almost fainted.

After the sadness, the two set up a spirit shed for Bai Yuzhi in the yard. Since they do not interact with outsiders and no one comes to pay their respects, the couple takes turns to guard Bai Yuzhi. However, on the second night of the wake, something strange happened, which made Hu Meiqian puzzled.

The first night, Hu Meiqian kept her mind for her mother. Although the weather was a little cold, she was fine that night. On the second night, it was Zhao Yunliang's turn to keep his soul guarding Bai Yuzhi. At night, Hu Meiqian was afraid that her husband would be frozen, so she took a coat to deliver it to him.

However, when Hu Meiqian came to the spirit shed, she did not see her husband Zhao Yunliang, and she also found that one of the steamed buns in the tribute was missing. Hu Meiqian searched everywhere, and finally saw an old man over 70 years old and with white hair and skinny bones next to her mother's coffin. After a closer look, the old man looked very similar to Zhao Yunliang.

The old man was lying on the ground, breathing faintly and unconscious. Hu Meiqian hurriedly dragged him into the house.The next morning, the old man woke up and found that Hu Meiqian was looking at him with a strange look. He said weakly, "Madam, I am Zhao Yunliang. Don't you know me anymore?"

Hearing this, Hu Meiqian was shocked and asked hurriedly, "What? Are you my husband? What did you do? How could he become an old man in his seventies overnight?" The old man said with tears in his eyes: "A cool breeze blew at night, and I suddenly fainted and lost consciousness. When I woke up, I lay on the bed!"

A handsome man turned into an old man overnight, which was unprecedented in Hu Meiqian. "Is it the dead mother who is causing trouble?" Hu Meiqian thought to herself. While Zhao Yunliang was asleep and Hu Meiqian was full of doubts, she invited the fortune teller from the village.

The fortune teller looked at Bai Yuzhi's spirit shed and then, and counted his fingers, came to Zhao Yunliang's bed, pointed at Zhao Yunliang with one hand, but said angrily to Hu Meiqian: "He deserves it!" Hu Meiqian felt inexplicably when he heard the fortune teller say this. Then, the fortune teller told the cause and consequence of the matter.

It turned out that Zhao Yunliang was very romantic and had an affair with Liu Qianzhu's concubine Chunlei in Hehua Village. After being discovered by the rich man, he knocked him unconscious and threw him into the river. Hu Meiqian saved Zhao Yunliang and took him home. Zhao Yunliang was obsessed with Chunlei, and after his life was stable, he began to contact Chunlei again.

took Chunlei home while Hu Meiqian and Bai Yuzhi were not at home. The two were about to untidy clothes and do something miserable, but they were accidentally caught by Bai Yuzhi who had just returned. Bai Yuzhi was furious and wanted to drive Zhao Yunliang out of the house. Zhao Yunliang did not want to lose his current stable life, so he knelt down and prayed to Bai Yuzhi. The white jade-grass face is like steel, unmoved at all. In a hurry, Zhao Yunliang pulled Bai Yuzhi to the bed, pressed her pillow on her face, suffocating her to death.

On the night Zhao Yunliang was keeping his soul for Bai Yuzhi, he saw Hu Meiqian go into the house to rest. He stood up, picked up a steamed bun from the table and took a bite. While chewing, he walked to the coffin and said, "You dead old woman, you bad things, go there and stay there. After a while, I will kill your daughter again, and I can be free and comfortable here with my spring buds!"

This happened to be heard by the ghost officer who came to ask for Bai Yuzhi's soul. The ghost officer was furious. Why did this kind of person who was inferior to beasts exist in the world? He sued Zhao Yunliang in front of King of Hell . The King of Hell was so angry after hearing about this incident, which minus Zhao Yunliang's life span. Therefore, Zhao Yunliangcai became a gray-haired old man overnight.

At this time, Zhao Yunliang's trick was discovered by the fortune teller. He got out of bed and knelt on the ground, begging Hu Meiqian to forgive him. Hu Meiqian was very worthy of his words and sued him to the county government.

In the court, Zhao Yunliang, who was in his seventies, had lost the courage to survive and confessed to the facts of the crime. The county magistrate sent him to death and waited for the death to beheaded in the autumn. Unfortunately, the elderly Zhao Yunliang died in prison within a few days.

After that, Hu Meiqian was discouraged and saw through the world and became a nun. In the nunnery, she lived a quiet life away from the world.