During the reign of Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty, in Xiangfu County under Kaifeng Prefecture, there were two families with good friends from generation to generation. One was surnamed Bai and had little land. It was a well-off family. The other was surnamed Lu and his family was named Lu. He was a career in studying. The male master passed the Jinshi exam and was quite powerful.
The Bai family gave birth to a son, named Yutang, and the Lu family gave birth to a daughter, with the nickname Qinglian. When they were still young, the adults of the two families made marriages for them and exchanged dragon and phoenix posts with each other.
Yutang has been talented since childhood. His parents loved him and did not want him to engage in agricultural production and other things. He sent him to study. He passed the scholar exam at the age of 16 and was well-known in the village.
It’s a pity that the Bai family’s parents died of illness this year and encountered two years of drought. The crops were very poor. Yutang had no ability to operate, and his family gradually became poor, so he later sold his family’s property and often couldn’t find rice to cook in the stove.
Lu Juren saw that the Bai family was so ugly that he felt like he was disengaged. He was embarrassed to speak up. Yutang went to the Lu family to propose marriage. Lu Juren did not agree or refused. Only by having the six rituals can he be willing to get married. Yutang could only temporarily suppress his intention to get married.
Qinglian is gentle and virtuous. She often reads "Biography of the Wild Girls" and admires those women who are loyal to the chastity. Seeing that her father is quite despised by the poor and loves the rich, she is very distressed. She complained to her mother Wang: "The child is already an adult. Since my father betrothed me to Bailang, he should keep his promise and I will never remarry others."
Wang felt sorry for her daughter, and happened to be sad that Juren Lu went out for a few days because of the incident, so she asked someone to send a letter to Yutang, asking him to come to his house immediately, give him silver as a betrothal gift, and marry his daughter on a date.
Yutang was very happy after receiving the news. He was about to go to the Lu family. He looked down and saw that the clothes on his body were patches stacked with patches, and the holes were next to the holes. Isn’t it a joke to just go like this?
As soon as I thought of this, Yutang ran to his aunt's house for help and said, "My mother-in-law admitted that she would send me a letter, saying that she wanted me to go to her house and give me gold and silver as a betrothal gift, and then she could get married. I think such a solemn thing, I can't go there has to be a hasty thing. Do my cousin have any new clothes to borrow me to wear for a day, so I can't lose face."
The aunt was also happy for it and hurriedly called her son Hu Wei, explained the matter to him, and asked him to get a new set of clothes and handed it to Yutang. Hu Wei was ignorant and was a rogue on the street. He heard this and had the malicious intention to replace him.
pretended to push and said, "I'm going to go to the banquet today. It's rare for me to come to my house to make one. Let's stay for one day. When I come back tomorrow morning, I will give you new clothes."
Yutang did not doubt that he was there, so he lived in his aunt's house. Hu came to the Lu family to pay a visit on the grounds of attending the banquet. Wang saw Hu Wei's rude words and poor etiquette, and he was a little displeased, and said, "I have heard for a long time that my aunt is well-read and well-reasoned. Why is she so reckless when she meets her today?"
Hu Wei hurriedly replied, "My mother-in-law, please forgive me. As the saying goes, 'wealth is strong and courageous, and the clothes are made of people'. My son-in-law was tired for a long time and was depressed. He suddenly came to the mansion and felt panic in his heart, so he was like this."
Wang felt a little sympathetic to him when he heard this, and asked someone to prepare wine and food for him to enjoy, and then kept him to stay. With Wang's acquiesce, he released Qinglian and had an affair with Hu Wei. The next morning, he took out -patterned silver , 120 taels, and gold and silver jewelry, worth about 100 taels. He handed it to Hu Wei together and asked him to come and propose marriage as soon as possible.
Hu Wei not only got a woman, but also made a fortune. He felt so proud. After going out, he went home and took his clothes to Yutang. Yutang changed into clothes and was about to visit the Lv Mansion.
Hu Wei stopped him and said, "It's not easy for me to come here. I went to visit my friend for my brother last night, but I couldn't entertain you well. Today I said I can't leave. Let's talk about the past."
Yutang delayed another day, and it was not until the third day that he went to the Lv Mansion as his son-in-law. Wang thought it was Hu Wei, so he hurriedly asked someone to invite him in. When he saw that it was Yutang, he was not the same person as the son-in-law who had originally arrived, and his heart suddenly skipped a beat.
Yutang greeted Wang with the etiquette of his son-in-law. He spoke elegantly, thoughtful etiquette, graceful temperament, and outstanding characters. Wang asked about Yutang's family affairs, and Yutang explained it one by one, and it was exactly the same. Wang realized that the son-in-law was real. He was originally fake, shocked and angry, but he was a mute and ate Coptis chinensis, and could not say anything.
Wang didn't know what to do, so he could only invite his daughter out to meet. Qinglian knew that she had lost her holiday and refused to come out. She asked through the curtain: "My mother asked you to meet three days ago, why did you come yet?"
Yutang replied: "Although I felt a little uncomfortable two days ago, I delayed for two days. Please forgive me."
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Qinglian sighed quietly: "If you came three days ago, I would be your wife, and I have gold and silver. Unfortunately, after three days, we are destined to be together. This is probably your and my destiny."
Yutang was not sure, so he thought he was being tricked, and said angrily: "Lingtang sent someone to ask me to come and said that he wanted to give me gold and silver, so I dared to come and visit me. It would be okay if there was any gift to you. Why bother with yesterday and today. Yan me, if I don’t agree to break off the engagement, even in thirty years, you will still be my wife. Even if your father is powerful and powerful, he will not dare to marry you to someone else! "
Yutang finished speaking, and immediately prepared to leave. Qinglian hurriedly called him: "Don’t get angry, what I said has a reason. You will naturally understand until tomorrow that I still have a pair of golden hairpins, which will give you the expense of studying. You will have a good wife to marry in the future. I will have no fate with you in this life. I hope to wait for the next life to make a good marriage again."
Yutang said angrily, "Miss is so rude, are you going to use this pair of golden hairpins as financial resources for resigning? "
qinglian said, "This is not a gift for resigning. The husband takes him with him and leaves quickly. If you walk slowly, you may cause trouble." Qinglian left after saying that, Yutang took the golden hairpins and was unclear, so it was not right to leave, nor was it right to stay.
After a while, news suddenly came from the inner hall that Qinglian had hanged herself. Yutang didn't believe it at first, but when he walked in, he saw that Qinglian's body had just been lifted down and had no breath. Wang hugged her and cried bitterly, and Yutang also shed tears in sadness.
Mr. Wang turned her head and saw that Yu Tang was still there, and said with tears in her eyes, "This matter has nothing to do with you. You should leave quickly and don't stay here."
Yu Tang had no choice but to retreat, return to her aunt's house, took off her clothes, and told the matter again. Her aunt knew her son's nature, and she knew that her son pretended to be Yu Tang and defiled Qinglian. Unexpectedly, Qinglian was tough and hanged herself. She was frightened and became sick. She died not long after.
Hu Wei's wife Yang is also a person with a temperament. Knowing that her husband had done such a bad thing, he quarreled: "Since you have received the money, you shouldn't have tainted other people's bodies. I am ashamed to be your wife like you. Please divorce me immediately."
Hu Wei's temper also came to his senses: "I have so much gold and silver, are you still worried that I can't find a wife? You are born without a happy life, go back to your parents' home." After that, he waved his hand and wrote the letter of divorce, Yang took the letter of divorce and and left.
Lu Juren heard that his children were dead outside, so he ran home quickly and asked about the cause of his daughter's death. Wang was not good at telling the story of his daughter's death, so he could only say: "A few days ago, Bai Yutang came to propose marriage. My daughter was deeply ashamed to see him in rags and difficult to meet, so she hanged herself to death. This was because she couldn't think about it for a while and it had nothing to do with her son-in-law."
Lu Juren gritted her teeth and said: "I said I had retired from him earlier. You taught my daughter to insist on not being willing to do so."
Lu Juren gritted her teeth in hatred and said: "I said I had retired from him earlier. You told my daughter to insist on refusing to refuse." Now he is here to defile my family and cheat my daughter to death. You said it has nothing to do with him, but I insisted that he will pay his life." After saying that, Juren Lu wrote a lawsuit paper and falsely accused Yutang of trying to force his daughter to have sex. His daughter hanged herself in order to preserve her reputation. Juren Lu had a wealth and power, and had no chance to defend himself. He had no chance to defend himself. He was directly imprisoned. The county magistrate sentenced Yutang to death and presented the case to Bao Zheng.
Lu Juren had an old friend with Bao Zheng, so he wrote to him, requesting that Yutang be executed immediately. Wang also quickly sent someone to report to Bao Zheng, asking for the life of his son-in-law.
Bao Zheng was amazed: "All of them are son-in-laws. My father-in-law wants to kill him quickly, but my mother-in-law asks not to kill him. There must be something strange about this."
So Bao Zheng decided to try the case himself and mentioned Yu Tang to his mansion for interrogation: "That day, the lady blamed you for being three days late before you came to the appointment. What did you delay?"
Yu Tang said honestly: "My family is too poor and I can't even find a decent piece of clothing, so I ran to my aunt's house to borrow it. My cousin is my cousin. One night said that he was going to the banquet, and the next day he tried to keep me as a guest, and on the third day he was able to get out and visit. "
After listening to the narrative, Bao Zheng felt like a mirror in his heart. He shut up the crescent moon on his forehead, disguised himself as a cloth merchant, and came to Hu Wei's house to sell cloth. Hu Wei was about to buy two to please the widow next door, so he asked, "I want you two silk cloth, how much silver is it?"
Bao Zheng deliberately wanted to anger Hu Wei, so the lion spoke up and said, "Two silk cloths, then collect them." You have ten taels of silver."
At that time, the market price of a piece of silk cloth was around two taels of silver. Hu Wei was furious when he heard this: "You are a profiteer, you are deliberately trying to cheat me. A piece of cloth costs five taels of silver, but you can say it too much!"
Bao Zheng deliberately pretended to be contemptuous and said, "You don't look like a rich man. I have 150 pieces of silk cloth, worth three hundred taels. If you can ask for it, I will sell you eighty taels, two hundred taels of silver to you."
Hu In order to say, "I am not a seller, why do you want so much silk cloth?"
Bao Zheng laughed and said, "I knew that you are so poor, you can't compare to me. If you can't afford it, leave quickly and don't delay my business here."
Hu Wei was also aroused by anger, and then thought: I have 120 taels of silver in stock, plus gold and silver jewelry, and I have only collected enough 220 taels of silver. I bought it at a low price and then sold it. I can earn at least fifty taels of silver.
After making up his mind, Hu Wei said, "A hawker selling cloth, don't be too arrogant. I will pay for the 220 taels of silver and buy all your cloth, but I lent out all my silver. If you want me to pay for it with jewelry, we will make a deal in this business. If you don't agree, sell it wherever you like."
Bao Zheng was secretly happy in his heart, pretending to be reluctant, reluctantly agreed, took out 120 taels of silver, and took out all the jewelry for a price of 100 taels. The two of them handed in one hand and delivered the goods in the other.
After Bao Zheng returned to the government office, he immediately called Lu Juren and handed him the jewelry to him to identify. Lu Juren looked carefully and then, and said in surprise: "These things are all from my family, how could they be in the hands of the adults?"
Bao Zheng sent someone to arrest Hu Wei in the hall. As soon as Hu Wei saw Bao Zheng's face, he knew that he was a pretender of a cloth merchant and could not deny it, so he could only confess: "My cousin came to borrow clothes before. He had to borrow clothes. The villain pretended to be him and went to the Lu family. The lady came out to meet at night and was able to make an affair. Later, the lady hanged herself and her cousin was wrongly imprisoned. The adult had found out the truth. The villain was willing to admit his guilt. However, the lady was not killed by me. Please spare my life. "
Bao Zheng's eyes were so bitter: "Although you did not kill Miss Lu's family with your own hands, she died of shame and anger because of your loss of integrity. Do you still want to survive now?" He ordered the man to blame Hu for the sixty-year-old board and beat him to death.
After Juren Lu returned home. The resentment was hard to go away, so he spoke to the outside world: "It's nothing to be cheated of money. It's a pity that my daughter was defiled by Hu Wei. My son-in-law almost died unjustly in prison. Fortunately, Bao Gong made it clear. Otherwise, how would I meet my daughter in the nine springs? Now I must let Hu Wei's wife die in prison to vent my hatred."
After hearing the news, Yang hurried to the Lu family and explained: "I am Yang, and I have been married to the Hu family for less than a month. Because I was dissatisfied with my husband's defrauding the gold and silver of your mansion, I defiled the lady, so I requested to divorce Hu Wei. The current divorce letter is here, please ask the master and wife to observe it clearly."
Juren Lu took the divorce letter, and after reading it, he asked in detail the reason, sighed: "You are not defiled with ill-gotten wealth, and you are not a vicious family. You are so reasonable, even a lady from a famous family is just like this. "
Wang also liked her Zhenyi and said, "I have always regarded my beloved daughter as the pearl in my hand. I feel sorry for my life and soul. I want to recognize you as my adopted daughter to comfort my heart that lost my beloved daughter. What do you think? "
Hearing this, Yang immediately bowed: "I am fortunate to be favored by the master and his wife, just like a reborn parents. "
Juren Lu suggested: "It's so good. Since Yang has become our adopted daughter, now you have no husband and Yutang don't have a wife. I'll be the matchmaker. How about letting you get married? "
Yang's face turned red, saying that it was all based on the words of his parents. Wang also applauded. Juren Lu invited Yutang, married Yang, and married into his own home, and lived a happy life from then on.
Hu Wei tried to plot against someone's wife, but his wife became someone else's wife, seeking other people's ill-gotten wealth. In the end, not only did she lose money, but she even lost her life. This is the reward for doing evil. Later people cannot help but take it as a warning.
This story is part of the plot from "Bao Gong Case", and the infringement is immediately deleted.
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