In ancient times, there was a family surnamed Liu in Huai'an County, and the head of the family, Mr. Liu, gave birth to a son and a daughter. The son's name is Liu Wen, the daughter's name is Liu Mei, and the family of four lives a plain and happy life.
In the blink of an eye, Liu Wen grew up, he loved to study since he was a child, he took part in the scientific examination at the age of 23, and the results played well, and he entered the high school in one fell swoop, and later the imperial court ordered him to go to Yizhou Renzhi County.
It is said that the new official took office with three fires, Liu Wengang took office in Zhixian County less than a month, he encountered a murder case, a young and beautiful widow in the city tragically died in the family, the widow's family sued the rich man Chen Jun as the murderer. The former Zhixian took advantage of the Chen family, and instead of arresting Chen Jun, he sentenced the widow's family to the crime of framing.
Later, when Liu Wen took office, the widow's family heard that he was a clean official, so they came to Yamen again to cry out for injustice.
After Liu Wen re-examined, he found that the case was full of doubts, and all the evidence pointed to Chen Jun. Just as he was preparing to arrest Chen Jun, Old Master Chen and his predecessor Zhixian simultaneously found Liu Wen and prepared to give liu wen three thousand taels of silver to let Liu Wen uphold the original sentence.
Liu Wengang was not angry and turned the two away. Who knew that the two jointly framed Liu Wen for accepting bribes and opened up the relationship between inspectors, and finally Liu Wenhan was unjustly imprisoned, and soon fell ill and died in prison.
Watching her brother die unjustly, Liu Mei cried bitterly.
At this time, Liu Wen's wife Song Shi had been giving Liu Wen a grievance, and even though he ran into walls everywhere, the desperate Song Clan chose to hang himself.
At that time, her niece Liu Zhen was only eight years old, and since the death of her sister-in-law, Liu Mei brought Liu Zhen back to Huai'an and took care of her niece as her own daughter.
That time Liu Mei married Zhao Gang for many years and gave birth to two sons. Since her niece came, the family expenses have been much larger, but Liu Mei has never complained, and she vowed to cultivate her niece well, only in this way can her brother and sister-in-law walk at ease.
In the blink of an eye, more than ten years have passed, Liu Zhen has grown like a flower and jade, delicate and moving.
Seeing that her niece had reached the age of starting a family, Liu Mei began to worry about her niece's marriage, and she wanted to find a man with excellent moral character for her niece, but she knew that the accident had come.
It is said that Liu Mei's husband Zhao Gang, on the surface of Sven Wen, in fact, he has a bad stomach. Especially after seeing Liu Zhen's appearance as a heavenly immortal, he had a non-divided thought.
One night, Liu Zhen just lay down to prepare for rest, at this time Zhao Gang came home from drinking outside. He saw that the lights were still on in Liu Zhen's room, so he broke into Liu Zhen's room under the guise of being drunk.
Just when Zhao Gang wanted to plot against him, Liu Mei arrived in time.
Liu Mei quickly dragged Zhao Gang back to the room, and later the two had a big fight. Because Liu Mei knew that Zhao Gang was pretending to be drunk, she did not expect her husband to covet the beauty of her niece.
For the happiness of her niece, but also to break her husband's evil thoughts, Liu Mei stepped up to find an object for her niece.
There is a rich businessman Yang Wen in East Street, although this person is personable and has a solid family, but Yang Wen does not do his job and is merciful everywhere. When he learned that Liu Zhen looked like a heavenly immortal, he kept beating her up. However, Liu Zhen rarely went out, resulting in Yang Wen not having a chance to get close.
When he heard that Liu Mei was looking for a husband for Liu Zhen, he quickly asked the matchmaker to go and propose to him. Liu Mei knew that Yang Wen's character was extremely poor, so she did not agree to give her niece Xu to him, which would ruin her niece's happiness for a lifetime.
Yang Wen was not dead-hearted, in order to get Liu Zhen, he took pains to find Zhao Gang around Liu Mei. Zhao Gang was a man who saw money in his eyes, and Yang Wen promised that as long as Zhao Gang could match his good deeds with Liu Zhen, he would offer three thousand taels of silver afterwards.
After saying that, Yang Wen took out a hundred taels of silver and expressed his sincerity to Zhao Gang.
Zhao Gang took the silver and said that he would try his best to accomplish this matter and reassure Yang Wen.
On the way back, Zhao Gang kept thinking, how can he help Yang Gongzi accomplish this? After thinking about it, he finally came up with a plan. In his view, Liu Mei is the key to the success or failure of this matter, and she must be dealt with first.
The next afternoon, Zhao Gang personally cooked and made a good table. After Liu Mei came to the table, Zhao Gang threw himself on his knees and prayed that Liu Mei could forgive him.
Zhao Gang confessed that last night's move was too absurd, hoping that Liu Mei would give him a chance.
Liu Mei took the initiative to admit her husband's mistake after seeing her wrong consciousness, so she forgave him.
Subsequently, Zhao Gang frequently toasted with Liu Mei, you have a cup of me, and liu Mei was drunk in less than an hour.
Zhao Gang helped Liu Mei into the house, and it was just dark at this time. After settling Liu Mei, Zhao Gang went straight to the Yang family and led Yang Wen to come.
In the middle of the night, Yang Wen sneaked into Liu Zhen's room masked, and when he was about to defile Liu Zhen, Liu Zhen suddenly woke up.
Liu Zhen found a strange man breaking into the room, she desperately resisted, and shouted for help.
Yang Wen was afraid of attracting neighbors and quickly jumped out of the window to escape.
Seeing that her niece was bullied by bad people, Liu Mei planned to report the case, but Liu Zhen said that she did not see the appearance of the person, and finally Liu Mei dismissed the idea of reporting the case.
Liu Zhen originally thought that this matter had passed, but he knew that there was a fire in his aunt's room in the second half of the night, and finally only Zhao Gang escaped safely, and Liu Mei was burned beyond recognition.
After Liu Mei's death, Zhao Gang hastily handled the aftermath for her.
Since the fire, Liu Zhen vaguely felt that her aunt's death was full of doubts.
In order to find out the truth about her aunt's death, Liu Zhen asked Zhao Gang to report the case, but Zhao Gang refused, he repeatedly said that the fire was an accident, and advised Liu Zhen to live well and not to think wildly.
Zhao Gang's abnormal behavior made Liu Zhen think that her aunt died by him, so she went to Yamen alone to report the case, and it happened that Chen Zhixian and Liu Zhen's father were friends forgetting the year.
After Liu Wen was imprisoned that year, Chen Zhi County worked hard to unblock relations and has been filing grievances for Liu Wen, but unfortunately Chen Zhi County was weak at that time. Originally, he planned to raise Liu Wen's daughter, but Liu Mei took her back to her hometown, and Chen Zhixian lost contact with Liu Zhen.
Seeing Liu Zhen shouting injustice, Chen Zhixian attached great importance to it, thinking that liu mei had been raising Liu Zhen all these years, and he must give Liu Zhen an explanation.
Subsequently, Chen Zhixian ordered the servants to open the coffin for autopsy, and finally found that Liu Mei had traces of being beaten by a hard object. It is reasonable to say that if anyone is killed by fire, there must be a soot substance in the throat, but the work is not found. It can be seen that Liu Mei was set on fire and thrown away after his death.
Chen Zhixian ordered someone to arrest Zhao Gang, but Zhao Gang insisted that his wife died in an accident.
Seeing Zhao Gang's cunning argument, Chen Zhixian ordered people to punish thirty large boards with a staff. Under the majesty of Chen Zhi County, Zhao Gang truthfully confessed his crimes.
It turned out that on that day, Zhao Gang had received one hundred taels of silver from Yang Wen, and after returning home, he persuaded Liu Mei to agree to ration Liu Zhenxu to Yang Wen, but Liu Mei strongly opposed it.
Thinking that his wife did not agree to it, for three thousand taels of silver, he first drunk his wife, and then let Yang Wen sneak into the house; after Liu Zhen fell asleep in the middle of the night, Yang Wen forcibly occupied Liu Zhen. As long as you get Liu Zhen, don't be afraid that Liu Mei will not agree, who knows the plan fails.
That night, Liu Mei returned to the room after comforting her niece, and she suspected that this matter was related to Zhao Gang, and asked him to confess honestly, otherwise she would sue him to the yamen.
Zhao Gang was furious and pushed Liu Mei down hard, even though Liu Mei was killed on the spot after the back of his head landed. In order to cover up the crime of killing his wife, Zhao Gang created the illusion of accidental fire, who knew that Liu Zhen saw the clues.
In the end, Zhao Gang was sentenced to death, Yang Wen was sent to the frontier, and Chen Zhixian adopted Liu Zhen as a righteous daughter, and Liu Zhen lived a happy life ever since.