During the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, there was an old lang in Songzhou named Liu Gang, and six generations of the Liu family engaged in langzhong and were famous in the city.
When Liu Gang was 20 years old, he married the Song family, and the two lived a happy and loving life ever since. Who knew that when his daughter Liu Die was eight years old, Song Shi unfortunately died of illness, and since then Liu Gang has been both a father and a mother to pull his daughter up. At that time, Liu Gang was still young, and at that time, many matchmakers came to talk about media, but they were all rejected by Liu Gang.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Die was 18 years old, looking like a heavenly immortal. And he is proficient in everything, combining beauty and talent. Seeing that her daughter had reached the age of starting a family, Liu had just begun to handle her daughter's marriage affairs. The problem is that the Liu family is generally well-off, but Liu Die's own conditions are good, so Liu Gang is quite embarrassed. He wanted his daughter to marry a famous and prestigious family, but people did not look up to the Liu family; in ordinary families, Liu Gang hated it. Seeing that his daughter was getting bigger and bigger, Liu Gang was anxious like an ant on a hot pot.
One day Liu Di went shopping and walked to the middle of the road, when suddenly a handsome scholar came up to her and asked her about Liu Langzhong's residence. It turned out that Shusheng's mother suddenly fell seriously ill, and he wanted to ask Liu Langzhong to go to his home to treat his mother.
Liu Die looked up and down at Shusheng, and for a moment he had a good feeling for him; Shusheng saw that Liu Die was silent for half a day, looked up, and found that Liu Die was staring at himself, which made the two young people quite embarrassed.
Liu Die told Shusheng that the person he was looking for was his father, but his father had already changed his career, so Liu Die recommended another langzhong in the town with good medical skills to Shusheng.
Shusheng thanked liu again and again, then said goodbye to Liu Die and went to find the langzhong in the direction she indicated.
Liu Di watched shusheng slowly leave, and just as she turned to leave, she suddenly found that a jade pendant fell to the ground, which must have been accidentally dropped by the scholar just now.
Liu Die ran over to pick up the jade pendant, and by the time she was ready to return the jade pendant to its original owner, Shusheng had already disappeared into the crowd, and Liu Die had to temporarily keep the jade pendant.
On the way home, the widow Qiu Xiang called out to Liu Die. Speaking of Qiu Xiang, she was the same age as Liu Die, and her husband died unexpectedly three years after starting a family, and later she met Liu Die, and the two saw each other as they were, and soon became sisters. Usually, the two often get together and chat together, and the relationship is quite harmonious.
Just now Qiu Xiang saw Liu Die chatting with a handsome man, and Qiu Xiang guessed from Liu Die's expression that her sister was likely to like the young man, so she pulled Liu Die to chat.
Qiu Xiang told Liu Di that the young man's name was Wang Wen just now, and he was a good friend of her cousin Sun Qiang. If Liu Die really likes Wang Wen, she can ask her cousin to match the two.
Liu Di nodded, and then went home to wait for news from the good sisters. But three days passed, and there was no news at all. Liu Di was thinking: Is Qiu Xiang perfunctory? Or did she not go to the Wang family to talk about the media? Or is It that Wang Wen's parents do not agree to this family affair?
Liu Di had been thinking about this matter in her mind for those days, and finally on the fourth day, Qiu Xiang came, and she brought a good news, saying that Wang Wen would meet her tonight.
When Liu Die heard it, her heart was as sweet as eating honey. In order to meet this exciting moment, Liu Die dressed up in the room early.
In the middle of the night, Liu Di heard the knocking outside the door, and she thought that Wang Wen must have come. The two chatted through the window that day, and before leaving, Liu Di gave a handkerchief to Wang Wen, saying that it was a souvenir of future appointments.
After Wang Wen left, Liu Die had just laid down to rest, when suddenly she heard her father shouting: "Come on, the family has entered the thief, catch the thief."
Liu Di quickly got dressed and chased out, in the backyard she saw her father and a masked man wrestling together, suddenly the man stabbed his father several times, and after a while, his father fell to the ground with his chest covered, and soon lost his breath.
Looking at his father's cold corpse, dragging a handkerchief that had been stained red with blood, Liu Di cried loudly.
The next morning, Liu Die went to Yamen to report the case, and Zhang Zhixian sent a servant to conduct an autopsy to confirm that Liu's father had been killed with a sharp weapon. As for the handkerchief left at the scene of the crime, Zhang Zhixian asked Liu Die, where did the handkerchief come from?
At first, Liu Di was very hesitant, after all, in ancient times, women who were not married, if they rushed to date men, it would affect their reputation. However, in order to avenge her father, Liu Di informed Ma Daren about her and Wang Wen's private meeting.
Ma Da immediately sent someone to arrest Wang Wen, and without investigation, he directly tortured Wang Wen and made him confess.
Since the Wang Wen incident, Qiu Xiang's cousin Sun Qiang went to Yamen to seek revenge on Wang Wen's behalf, believing that Wang Wen was not the murderer, but in order to close the case as soon as possible, Lord Ma stopped Wang Wen's grievances. It was not until a month later, when the new Zhixian Lord Liu arrived, that Wang Wen's case took a new turn.
Liu Zhixian believed that the case was suspicious and involved murder, so he decided to retry it. He kept wondering: How many handkerchiefs were handled at the scene? Was the person who went to Liu Mansion to date Liu Die that day really Wang Wen?
Liu Zhixian interrogated Wang Wen again and asked him if anyone else knew about his date with Liu Die?
Wang Wen thought that this was one of his few opportunities to seek revenge, so he told Liu Zhixian that the widow Qiu Xiang knew about it.
After getting this clue, Liu Zhixian passed on Qiu Xiang to the public court for questioning, and as a result, Qiu Xiang informed the adult that his cousin Sun Qiang knew about it.
Sun Qiang could not hide it, so he had to confess honestly, that day he learned from his cousin's mouth about Wang Wen and Liu Die's private meeting, because Sun Qiang knew that Wang Wen was silent and taciturn, in order to promote the brother's good deeds as soon as possible, so he pretended to be Wang Wen to attend the meeting and asked for a handkerchief as a souvenir for each other.
The next morning Sun Qiang went to his cousin's house to inquire about Liu Die's attitude. When he came to his cousin's house and knocked on the door, Qiu Xiang was at home with his lover Chen Liang. In order not to be discovered by her cousin, Qiu Xiang let Chen Liang hide under the bed.
On that day, all the conversations between Sun Qiang and Qiu Xiang were overheard by Chen Liang, and Chen Liang, who had a heart of flowers, had long known that Liu Die was beautiful and heavenly immortal, so he was brewing a dirty plan, just as Sun Qiang accidentally left the handkerchief in Qiu Xiang's home. After Chen Liang picked up the handkerchief, he sneaked into Liu Mansion that night, and when he came to Liu Die's boudoir, he was seen by Liu Father.
Father Liu thought there was a thief, so he called for someone to catch the thief, and finally Chen Liang was chased to the backyard. Seeing that Father Liu still did not give up, Chen Liang, who was ashamed and angry, stabbed Father Liu to death with a knife. Due to the rush of running, he accidentally left the handkerchief on the scene.
In the end, Chen Liang was sentenced to death, and Wang Wen was acquitted; Qiu Xiang did not observe the way of women, and was punished with twenty large boards.
In my opinion, the reason why Wang Wen was able to successfully file a grievance was thanks to his friend Sun Qiang, who, out of kindness, pretended to be Wang Wen and Liu Die's private meeting, and he did so purely to match Wang Wen and Liu Die as soon as possible. But sun qiang risked his life to seek revenge after Wang Wen's accident, and his eldest husband's behavior was admirable.