During the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Yuelai Inn in Huji Town, the owner was called Hu Songde, the boss lady Zheng, and the nickname Cuilian. Hu Songde's parents died early, and he originally supported himself by short-term work. Later, he went to the Yuelai Inn as a young man and worked diligently. At that time, the owner of the Yuelai Inn was still Cuilian's father, Zheng Guanshan, with a face full of flesh and a pair of small eyes hiding treachery.
Yuelai Inn is located on a large river called Qingshui River, and from the guest room, you can overlook the river in the distance, and the view is good. However, compared with other inns, the business of Yuelai Inn is not much better, but Zheng Guanshan seems to have money. He never felt pain in spending money, there are a lot of valuable things at home, and he often visited the Qinglou and went to the gambling house, even so, Zheng Guanshan still has money, or a young man Hu Songde can't understand, just think that Zheng Guanshan is a capable person.
Zheng Guanshan only has one daughter, Cuilian, watching Cuilian grow up day by day, more and more out of the water spirit, but this mentality with Zheng Guanshan, can be described as charming on the outside, vicious on the inside. Zheng Guanshan wanted to recruit a son-in-law, and he saw that Hu Songde was a generous and honest person, so he wanted him to marry Cuilian. After Hu Songde listened, he was naturally full of joy, and it was a beautiful thing to be able to marry Cuilian and manage the Yuelai Inn in the future.
Therefore, Zheng Guanshan held a wedding for Hu Songde and Cuilian, and Hu Songde also changed from a young man to Zheng Guanshan's dragon-riding son-in-law. Not long after the marriage, Zheng Guanshan had a serious illness, and before he died, he seemed to be very frightened, and often said to the air: "Don't come to me, spare your life!" Soon, Zheng Guanshan died of panic. Cuilian didn't look very sad, and said in her mouth: "No poison, no husband, I didn't expect that my father's courage was still not big enough." ”
Hearing this, Hu Songde felt inexplicable, but he did not dare to ask more, he had no status in the family, and everything had to be listened to by his wife Cuilian. After burying his father-in-law Zheng Guanshan, Hu Songde became the nominal boss, but in fact it was still Cuilian who was in charge. One day, there was a rich merchant living alone in the hotel, Cuilian was very attentive to him, found him a good room on the easternmost side of the second floor, and also found out that the rich merchant came from Sichuan thousands of miles away, this time alone to do business.
Seeing Cuilian's attentive attitude towards merchants, and then thinking of her attitude of arrogance towards herself, Hu Songde's heart felt very unhappy. When Cuilian arranged for the rich merchants to live down and went downstairs, Hu Songde turned his head and "hummed". Seeing Hu Songde's appearance, Cuilian said angrily, "I'm not making more money for this inn!" Unenlightened guys! ”
Two days later, in the morning, Hu Songde came to the door of the rich merchant's room on the east side of the second floor to deliver food, but he knocked on the door for half a day and did not see anyone to open the door. He pushed open the door and found the room empty. At this time, Cuilian just came over and said lightly: "The guest left in the early hours of this morning." Hu Songde shook his head and continued to do other work.
Shortly after the rich merchant left, Hu Songde found that his wife Cui Lotus had a lot of money and bought some expensive jewelry. However, Hu Songde found that there was no extra money on the books, where did this money come from? Hu Songde was curious, and he asked Cuilian, who only said that it was the private money left by her father to her, and did not talk much more.
Half a year later, a rich businessman who lived alone in the hotel still stayed like the last time, staying for two days and saying goodbye, while his wife spent the money and was extravagant. In fact, Hu Songde did not see this kind of thing once or twice, it happened since the time when his father-in-law Zheng Guanshan was there. In the past, Hu Songde did not care, but this time, Hu Songde felt that something was wrong, because when Hu Songde went to the lower reaches of the Qingshui River to collect his debts, he found that someone was watching a corpse, and when he went to see the liveliness, he found that this corpse was the rich businessman who lived in the hotel.
The local county magistrate came over and found that the rich merchant had drowned, so he treated it as an ordinary drowning. After Hu Songde returned home, he mentioned this matter to his wife, cuilian's face changed color slightly, and then reprimanded in a bad mood: "The county government has been handled according to drowning, what are you doing with so much heart!" ”
A few months later, a single merchant came to stay at the Yuelai Inn. Two days later, in the early morning, the wind and rain were thick outside, and there was only one merchant in the inn, still living in the best room on the easternmost side of the second floor. Cuilian quietly got up and went straight to the room on the easternmost side of the first floor, that is, the room directly below the merchant. Hu Songde, who had been pretending to be asleep, hid in the crack of the door and looked out, only to hear a strange sound coming from the merchant's house on the second floor, and at the same time the sound of water on the first floor.
Not long after, Cuilian went to the second floor again, as if she was packing her things. Not long after, Hu Songde saw that Cuilian had returned, and hurried to bed and pretended to sleep. After Cuilian returned to the house, she found that the door had opened a slit, and she clearly remembered that when she left just now, the door was closed. She looked at Hu Songde's slightly trembling back, and a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth. The next day, Hu Songde went out on the pretext of the old place, and sure enough, he found the body of the merchant far downstream, which was still regarded as drowning.
After returning, Hu Songde's attitude towards Cuilian was very cold, but Cuilian was very courteous to Hu Songde, and Hu Songde wanted to go to the two rooms several times to check the situation, but was stopped by Cuilian with various excuses. That night, Cuilian made a good dish, took out a good wine, was charming, and persuaded Hu Songde to drink, saying that he had a bad attitude before and asking her husband for forgiveness.
Hu Songde could not resist persuasion, and he was actually drunk and drunk. In the confusion, he heard Cuilian say, "Husband, don't look for me as a husband and wife in the next life." The next day, Hu Songde's body was found in the lower reaches of the Qingshui River, apparently drowning. When others informed Cuilian, Cuilian rushed over and pounced on Hu Songde and cried.
When the county magistrate inquired, Cuilian cried and cried: "Last night our husband and wife drank late, and in the morning he was hangover and did not wake up, so he had to go out to collect the bill." He said that outside the horsemen of Majiazhuang in the lower reaches of the Qingshui River, it took a lot of money to invite guests at our inn last time, and the road had to leave early, who wanted to be separated by yin and yang. "Later, the catcher quickly found the horseman outside, and sure enough, there was such a thing. When encountering such a thing, others have no other good way but to be kind and consoling.
Cuilian became a widow at a young age, and everyone regretted that some people wanted to tell her about the family affair, but she refused. She said: "My husband and I are very affectionate and have a deep affection, and I will be widowed for him!" Seeing that the widow with outstanding appearance was no longer married, the crowd admired Cuilian's loyalty more and more.
A period of two years has passed, Cuilian not only did not become haggard because of the loss of her husband, but was more watery, wearing high-quality goods, dressed up in flowers, and there were more rumors about Cuilian, but no one saw it with her own eyes, and Cuilian did not care.
On this day, the wind and snow outside, Cuilian thought that there was no business, and was preparing to close the door, when suddenly an old man from outside broke in. Looking at the old man's dress is very ordinary, Cuilian does not pay attention to it, and even wants to shake him away. So he said, "I'm sorry officer, we're closing!" The old man took out a bag of silver from his arms and put it on the table, took out a yuan treasure from inside and threw it to Cuilian, and said breathlessly: "Are you still afraid that I can't afford to live in the store?" ”
Seeing the money, Cuilian smiled and giggled, took him to the best guest room on the easternmost side of the second floor, and arranged for the guy to boil water to cook and send it to the room for the old man. In the small talk, Cuilian learned that the old man had come from the northwest to do business, alone, and did not say much else. Cuilian thought to herself, people can't look, since they came to do business, they must not bring less money, just the package just now, let alone five hundred taels of silver.
In the early morning of the next day, the guys all went back to the house to sleep, and Cuilian quietly walked to the easternmost room on the first floor, which was the room downstairs of the old man. Cuilian skillfully walked to the edge of the bed, reached out and pressed the mechanism, only to see the bed below split apart to the sides, revealing a pool of water. Then, Cuilian looked at the roof, and a sneer appeared at the corner of her mouth. She activated a mechanism, only to see a large opening separated from it, Cuilian was waiting for the person above to fall down, suddenly the door was kicked open, and the old man stood in the doorway looking at Cuilian coldly.
Cuilian screamed, turned around and was about to run out of the window, the old man rushed forward with an arrow step, kicked Cuilian over, at this time, the ambushed catchers rushed up and tied Cuilian up. Cuilian asked in a trembling voice, "Who the hell are you?" There was a golden catcher in the hunt, and he said to Cuilian, "Let me tell you!" With that, the golden catcher recounted the process.
Jin Yutou was the head catcher of the local county court, he had noticed the Yuelai Inn very early, he secretly observed, and found that it was a black shop, but there was no evidence. Coincidentally, his brother Zhao Houtou was on an errand in another place, and there was a missing merchant who was Zhao Houtou's brother, and when he found the clue to the Yuelai Inn, he happened to run into the brother Jin Houtou.
Therefore, the two people will plan, Zhao Yutou dressed as an old man, deliberately leaked money, let Cuilian do it. From the night he moved in, Zhao Yutou found the secret of Cuilian's widow under the bed, and it turned out that there was a hidden mechanism under the bed. When Cuilian activated the mechanism, the merchant fell from the second floor to the pool on the first floor, and Cuilian then closed the mechanism on the first floor, allowing the merchant to drown in the pool. The pool is connected to the big river, and after the people drown, Cuilian pulls out the fence where the pool and the big river are connected, and people flow down the undercurrent to the Qingshui River, some people directly feed the fish, and some are found, but they are generally considered to be drowning. However, this time, Zhao Yutou had already made preparations, so when Cuilian went to the first floor, he was already ambushed at the door of the first floor.
In fact, Zheng Guanshan and Cuilian had been secretly doing this kind of work, and the merchants' property naturally became their father's and daughter's. Before Zheng Guanshan died, he once told Cuilian to wash her hands in a few large potty pots and live a good life with Hu Songde. However, Cuilian was greedy enough for the snake to swallow the elephant, and she never gave up, and even harmed Hu Songde, who knew the truth. Who would have thought that the fox could not escape the hunter's palm after all, and was jointly found out by the golden catcher and the Zhao catcher, and finally Cuilian Fufa.
He Xu said
The organs calculated too cleverly, but they mistook Qingqing's life. Zheng Guanshan and Cuilian father and daughter have always wanted to get rich by relying on crooked doors and evil ways, and indeed they have made a fortune, but this kind of black money is not easy to earn, and eventually Zheng Guanshan died of a violent illness, and Cuilian was finally captured. As for Hu Songde, after discovering the truth, he was not resolute enough, and as a result, he died of indecision. Therefore, people cannot be too greedy, and a life without disasters and difficulties and peace and security is better than anything else.