During the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a carpenter surnamed Ma in Liuhe County, Ying Tianfu, who was born ugly and did not marry a daughter-in-law when he was over forty years old.
Later, the matchmaker could not bear him to end up alone, helped him to match the matchmaker, and married a woman from another village, Chen Shi. Chen Shi is honest and responsible, does not think of her husband's appearance, the two are very affectionate, and they have a son Ma Yu a year after marriage.
Speaking of Ma Yu's outstanding appearance, anyone who sees it can't help but praise, and the horse carpenter is happy in his heart and works harder. Unfortunately, when Ma Yu was ten years old, ma carpenter accidentally died unexpectedly when he was working, and at the funeral, Chen Shi cried into tears and said bitterly: "You are gone, you want me and my son to live." ”
After burying her husband, Chen and her son depended on each other for their lives, and she went out early and returned late all day to help people weave cloth to make money. Neighbors saw orphans and widows pitiful and no less helpful. Among them, the Xu family and the Liu family contributed the most.
Coincidentally, the Xu family is on the left side of the Ma family, the Liu family is on the right, and both families have daughters of the same age as Ma Yu, the Xu family's name is Xiang Qiao, and the Liu family's name is Ziqin. Both families like Ma Yu and want their daughter to betrothed to him. Chen Shi was embarrassed, and neither side said yes, so that ten years passed.
In the blink of an eye, the three children have grown up, Ma Yu is handsome and handsome, xiang Qiao is as beautiful as a flower, but Ziqin looks ordinary, not enough to be a beautiful woman. The two daughters are all interested in Ma Yu, but he has never shown his heart and is polite to everyone. In fact, it is not that Ma Yu is reluctant to express his position, he has always liked Ziqin, but Chen Shi wants Xiang Qiao to be his daughter-in-law, and the mother and son are deadlocked.
One day, Chen Shi found his son, displeased: "Son, you talk about it, xiang qiao is not good, you go out to work, she will come to talk with me to make me happy, such a woman with a lantern can not be found." ”
Ma Yu retorted, "Isn't the housework in that ordinary day also Done by Ziqin to help you, but I want to see that she has a good heart and is a person worth living a lifetime." Chen Shi scoffed, thinking that ziqin's appearance was not worthy of her son, and her mouth was still stupid, it was really difficult to climb the elegant hall, so she secretly found the Xu family to book this family affair.
Xiang Qiaowen heard chen clan come to propose to him, and he couldn't close his mouth happily, and immediately ran to Ziqin and said contemptuously: "Hmm, how have you been dedicated for many years?" Didn't Ma Yuge still choose the beautiful me? Zi Qin's heart was like a knife, and she smiled bitterly: "Then congratulations to my sister, and I will grow old with him in the future." "Say goodbye and run out the door crying."
Running and running, he bumped into Ma Yu, who had just returned, and Ziqin cried, "I heard that you are going to marry Xiang Qiao?" Congratulations. Ma Yu glared angrily at his eyes and wondered, "How is this possible?" My mother did it. He hurried home and asked what was going on.
After a while, Ma Yu came out crying and found Ziqin: "My mother is forced to die, it seems that she is destined to marry her in this life, but I can learn from your friendship, and I hope that we will be husband and wife in the next life." The two hugged each other tightly, and Na Cheng thought that this scene was looked at squarely by Xiang Qiao. She didn't say anything about it, but it became a thorn in her heart.
In the blink of an eye, the marriage date of the two of them has arrived, Ma Yu did not have a smiley face, and when he waited for the cave room, he pulled off the red hijab to Qiao Yi and asked: "You say, do you still have her in your heart?" Ma Yu said calmly, "Whether there is her or not, you are the wife I am marrying, you can rest assured, I will definitely live a good life with you." ”
After marriage, the couple could not talk about more love, and Ma Yu also fulfilled her husband's responsibilities. Ziqin couldn't stand her sweetheart becoming someone else's husband and moved to the countryside with her family. Ma Yu thought that the future days would be uneventful, but he knew that it was the beginning of the nightmare.
At first, Xiang Qiao was fine, treating her husband and mother-in-law with courtesy. As time went on, the nature was exposed. She is lazy and loves to make unreasonable trouble, and Chen Shi is not accustomed to many kind words of persuasion. Xiang Qiao not only did not answer but also spoke harshly, and several times scolded his mother-in-law to the point of bloodshed.
Chen Shi went to Ma Yu and cried: "Son, Xiang Qiao was very good before marriage, why did he become like this after marriage?" I regret it. Ma Yu said, "Mother, I said earlier that you would not listen, but now that the wood has become a boat, you have to admit your fate." ”
As the days passed, the contradictions in the family intensified day by day, and Ma Yu could not stand his wife's unreasonable troublemaking, leaving early and returning late all day, sometimes not returning for a few days. Xiang Qiao suspected that her husband and Ziqin had rekindled their old love, and suffering from the lack of evidence, they sprinkled their anger on their mother-in-law. And Chen Shi was afraid of causing trouble to his son, so he had to endure it silently.
It is said that on this day, Ma Yu was entrusted by a family in a neighboring village to work, and only then did he know that it was the Ziqin family. When they finished their work, the two came to a secluded place to reminisce.
Ziqin asked, "Is it okay after marriage?" Ma Yu smiled bitterly, "You know Xiang Qiao as a person, what can I do?" Ziqin comforted: "She is not bad in nature, but she cares too much about you." Ma Yu nodded, "I know, but I..." He said and grabbed her hand tightly. Zi Qin was so frightened that she withdrew her hand and said, "Live a good life." Ma Yu cried and nodded.
After saying goodbye to Ziqin, Ma Yu went home, and before entering the door, Xiang Qiao's cries spread throughout the house, and when he entered the house, he couldn't stop crying, and it turned out that Chen Shi had fallen into a pool of blood and had already died of exhaustion.
Explain to Qiao that just now when she went to the hut, she heard a "bang", and when she came back, she saw that Chen Shi had fallen, and her head happened to hit the corner of the table and the person died at that time.
Ma Yu looked at the back of his mother's wound and thought that the old man was definitely killed by Xiang Qiao, but he had no evidence, so he had to cry and shout: "Mother, you died unjustly." After saying that, he stared at his wife fiercely, and Xiang Qiao continued to cry like no one else.
When Chen Shi buried Ma Yu to talk to his wife about peace and separation, he said angrily to Qiao, "You are going to leave me just after your mother died?" Ma Yu said coldly, "You know better than anyone how your mother died, if you don't separate, your fate will only be a hundred times worse than it is now." Xiang Qiao took a few steps back and said coldly, "Well, after three days we will be reconciled and left, I only hope you don't regret it." ”
Ma Yugang wanted to ask why it was three days later? Thinking that she had promised and didn't care to wait a few more days, she turned and left. For the next two days, the two of them lived as usual, just like no one else. Until the third day, When Ma Yu came home, he saw a terrible scene.
On weekdays, Ma Yu went home at night, and on this day he happened to be unwell, so he came back at noon. As soon as she entered the house, she saw her wife lighting a circle of candles around her, and there were two pieces of paper on the ground, on which were written the birthdays of him and Ziqin. There were words in Xiang Qiao's mouth, and not long after, a big grimace slowly appeared and "whizzed" into her body.
Ma Yu was so frightened that she sneaked a cigarette to Ziqin's house, saw her and shouted, "Where is the kitchen?" Take me to steamed buns. Ziqin did not dare to hesitate and immediately took him to the kitchen.
When the steamed buns were cooked, Ziqin asked what was going on? Ma Yu said, "Xiang Qiao is crazy and has even summoned ghosts to harm us, and at night there may be more evil and fewer evils, whether we can survive depends only on which ghost immortal can be invited to help." ”
Unconsciously, it was nearly midnight, Ma Yu placed the steamed bun and fell to his knees, praying: "All the ghosts and immortals, please quickly appear to help, please quickly appear to help." However, before he could invite the ghost immortal, a gust of wind suddenly blew through, and Xiang Qiao, dressed in a red wedding dress, jumped on the wall and scolded with a smile: "Haha, I didn't think my husband was really here, I really didn't read it wrong that day." ”
It turned out that on the day that Ma Yu and Ziqin were reunited, Xiang Qiao followed behind, and when he saw her husband holding Ziqin's hand, he was furious, and when he went home, he took his mother-in-law to be angry.
During the two pushing and shoving, Chen's head hit the foot of the table and he died. Then Ma Yu proposed to leave and xiang Qiao, and now only the fish dead net was broken, so he used the trick of tricking ghosts and waited until the night to find revenge on the two.
A few faces, Xiang Qiao beat Ma Yu to vomit blood, and then came to Ziqin, grabbed her neck, and said: "You are not as beautiful as me, not as rich as my family, but you have the heart of my beloved man, and only if you die can I be willing." ”
Just at this moment, a thunder cracked on Xiang Qiao's body, and then a figure slowly emerged, and Ma Yu fixed his eyes on it to see that it was Lord Zhong Kui.
Zhong Kui said, "Hmm, if the evil obstacle dares to ask a ghost to harm someone, I will accept you." Then he screamed a few times and fell to the ground and died. Zhong Kui turned to Ma Yu and said, "Boy, the offerings are delicious, so I have come to help you, if you can, every first fifteen days to provide me, it is indispensable to your benefits." Ma Yu thanked Zhong Kui for saving his life and promised to do it.
Later, Ma Yuhou buried Xiang Qiao and guarded his funeral for a year. When the mourning period expires, he and Ziqin have a lover and eventually become a family. He also did not forget to promise Zhong Kui, so his life was safe, and he and his wife lived until eighty before they died without illness.