During the Song Dynasty, there was a Langzhong named Du Wende in Mingzhou City, who was superb in medicine and humble. Sometimes when poor people look down on the sick, they only collect some drug principal to help poor people get through difficulties, so the front of the medical center is often crowded, and people in ten miles and villages respect him.
One year, Du Wende went to Lin'an City to meet his old friend He Cheng, and met a couple on a passenger ship, only to see that the woman was pale and unconscious after vomiting constantly.
The man was in a hurry, not knowing who to turn to for help. Du Wende hurriedly stepped forward to take the pulse, and after learning that it was a happy pulse, he let the woman take the pill in the medicine bag he carried, but after a while, the woman's face turned rosy.
After disembarking, unexpectedly, the three of them went on the same road, and the couple's family lived in Lin'an City, doing ceramics trading.
Unexpectedly, at the banquet of the meeting of old friends on the second day, Du Wende met the ceramics merchant again, and learned that his name was Yao Guangyi, He Cheng's friend, and the two talked very happily when they met for the second time, full of tacit understanding, and there was a tendency to hate each other.
"If it weren't for Brother Du's rescue yesterday, my family's humble Jing probably wouldn't have been able to get off the passenger ship."
"It is fate to know Guangyi, but the younger brother and sister Gong Han are weak, and now that you are pregnant, it is better for you to take more care." Duvinde said.
"Oh? Then congratulations to Brother Yao! I don't think it's better to be like this, Brother Du's family has a son and two years old, if Brother Yao gives birth to a daughter this time, I will come to Baomedia, how about the two families becoming in-laws? Haha, so we can come and go often! He Cheng said with a smile.
"Good, good!" The two agreed in unison. And make an appointment to meet again next year.
Nine months later, Yao Guangyi really gave birth to a daughter.
Yao Guangyi's wife died in childbirth and gave birth to a daughter named Sumei. Because Yao Guangyi was a talent, he was soon valued by Miss Qian, the daughter of a ceramic merchant, and had a daughter with Qian after marriage, named Meiyu.
A year before Meiyu was born, Qian's father died, because Qian was the only daughter in the family, so the ceramic business was run by Yao Guangyi, because he made his fortune on the Qian family, so everything in the family was Qian's decision.
Listening to her husband talk about the insurance media, and knowing that the other party was Lang Zhong who rescued him on the passenger ship that day, Qian did not say anything.
The next year, Du Wende kept his promise to come to Lin'an City again to meet Yao Guangyi, in order to show his sincerity, in front of He Cheng, this time Du Wende specially invited a craftsman to build his ancestral jade pei into a pair of jade pendants, one engraved with a phoenix shape to Yao Guangyi, and a dragon-shaped one left on his body as a token of future marriage.
In the following years, as Yao Guangyi was busy with business, there were fewer and fewer opportunities to get together.
The weather is unpredictable. In the year when Du Wende's son Du Youting tested for Xiucai, Du Wende couldn't afford to be sick, and he expected his son to inherit his mantle so that there would be successors in the medical hall, but his son had no interest in medical skills and only liked to read.
In his son's willful behavior, Du Wende closed his eyes forever with disappointment, and before dying, he told his wife Cao Shi not to forget the marriage contract.
From childhood to adulthood, Sumei was regarded as a nemesis. Because her mother died in childbirth, she was very unpopular at home, her father was on the run for many years, and he could not shelter him, and if she did not do things thoughtfully, she was insulted at light, and beaten at worst, and from the day she became sensible, she knew how to please her stepmother and sister in order to gain peace.
Yao Meiyu, as her name suggests, is naturally beautiful, her skin is like coagulation, and she always disdains Sumei in front of the plain-looking Sumei.
Although her family is wealthy, Sumei lives a life like a maid. And after Meiyu was born, she was spoiled by Qian's pampering, and developed a petite temper that said everything.
In this year, eighteen-year-old Du Youting came to raise his relatives with dragon-shaped jade pendants and bride price under the instructions of his mother, and Yao Guangyi was very sad when he learned the news of Du Wende's death. and promised to marry his daughter Meiyu into the Du family two months later.
Yao Meiyu was furious when she heard the news, "Mother, I don't want to marry into the Du family, now that Du Langzhong has died, and the family has no dependency, I don't want to live with that poor Xiucai, are you going to marry my daughter and suffer?" ”
"But your father has already agreed! Besides, Du Langzhong was kind to us back then, how could we break the contract? Qian said.
At this time, Su Mei happened to pass through the cloister with tea, and the eyes of the mother and daughter were fixed on Su Mei's body at the same time, and the two looked at each other and smiled.
"The sister of the Yao family has not yet been married, how can there be any reason to marry a sister? Besides, before the children were set up, as long as it is the daughter of the Yao family, it is not called breaking the contract! "Yao Meiyu is naturally agile.
In fact, the reason why Meiyu does not want to marry Du Youting is firstly because the Du family is in the middle of the road, and she does not want to marry since she was a child, and secondly, because she has long had a heart in her heart, and has been fooling around with a rich son named Ge Gui in the city for many days.
Two months later, Du Youting rode a white horse and took the palanquin, leading the group all the way to the door of the Yao family, but just before the bride was about to get on the sedan car, the Yao family suddenly found that Yao Meiyu was missing.
The Yao family searched all over the palace and outside the house, but they couldn't find Meiyu's shadow. This is a bad thing for the Yao family, and they can't let the Du family's palanquin go back empty, in a hurry, only let Su Meidai marry.
Su Mei felt that this was a family affair that her sister had ordered since she was a child, and a hundred were unwilling, but unexpectedly, her father actually wanted to kneel for her, in order not to embarrass her father, she had to dress up and wear a red wedding dress on the sedan car.
When Su Mei's palanquin was far away, Yao Meiyu jumped and ran back.
Yao Guangyi stepped forward and "snapped" and gave her a slap in the face, "Where are you going to mess around?" See what your mother used you to be? If it weren't for your sister unwrapping you on the sedan car, our Yao family would be embarrassed today!" Yao Guangyi roared.
Yao Meiyu threw herself in Qian's arms and cried, "I just don't want to, what's wrong?" Why are you still hitting me? ”
"This is the end of the matter, don't blame Meiyu!" Qian Shi stroked Meiyu's cheek distressedly and said.
Candlelight night in the cave room.
Du Youting unveiled the bride's red hood, saw that the bride lowered her head tactfully and shyly, and gently called Meiyu, but Sumei gave a cold snort, raised her head, and looked at the groom official with teary eyes.
"Madam, you, what's wrong with you?"
"I'm not Miyu. I am Miyu's half-sister Sumei. Du Gongzi don't be angry, if you don't want to, you can send me back tomorrow." Su Mei looked at Du Youting aggrievedly.
Du Youting is a reader, and when he heard it, he understood that it turned out that Yao Meiyu disliked his father's death and ran away from marriage.
When I saw Su Mei today, I had a sense of déjà vu. Although Su Mei is not Chu Chu moving, she has a dignified and elegant temperament.
He then sat down next to Sumei, gently hugged Sumei, and said, "Since she doesn't want to marry me, just as I want, how can I bear to send you back?" So what do you do in the future? Since the two of us have become married, it means that we have a fate in a past life, from now on, you will be my Du Youting's wife, and we will live a good life together. ”
After hearing this, Su Mei nodded gratefully and gently leaned into Du Youting's arms.
It's just that Du Youting told Sumei not to tell his mother Cao Shi about this, and her mother was already depressed because of her father's death, and she was afraid that knowing that the Yao family's prejudice against her own family would be more hit.
Su Mei reassured Du Youting, saying that he would honor his mother-in-law well.
In the year that Sumei got married, it happened that Yao Guangyi encountered robbers on the way to the west to buy and sell ceramics, and his money was looted, and he died after lying down for half a month after returning home!
Although Su Mei was sad, she thought that her father was gone, and her mother's family had nothing to worry about from now on.
Since Sumei got married, Du Youting studied harder, and finally in the second year, he was admitted to the juren and jumped to become the county commander of Zhenhai County.
Hearing this news, Yao Meiyu's intestines were repentant. Qian suffered from heart disease because of this incident, regretted that everything depended on his daughter to lead to such an ending, and died not long after Yao Guangyi's death.
Yao Meiyu was extremely sad. So she sold her family business and wanted to join Ge Gui, but after getting along with Ge Gui for a long time, she knew that in addition to being rich, Ge Gui knew all day long that spending time drinking and land was not a person who could be trusted for life.
"Changli" gambling house is the largest gambling house in Mingzhou City. People who come here often need a lot of courage. People who enter this gambling house have a good chance of an identity replacement, it may be a beggar becoming rich, but it may also be a rich man becoming a beggar.
That night, a thin but shrewd-looking man came to the gambling house, this person was named Guo Qi, the butler of Du Mansion.
In addition to being a bit gambling by nature, this person usually does things in the mansion dutifully, so he has won the trust of the Cao family over the years.
A few years ago, I ran more than a dozen small gambling houses, saved some money on my body, and felt that I had mastered some winning and losing skills, so I wanted to dare to try it tonight and make a lot of money.
And this night was a disaster for Guo Qi.
In one night, he lost all the silver taels in his body, even the two acres of land in his family, and also lost eighty taels of silver.
"Just your belongings still want to come here to play, haha," Ge Gui, a regular customer of the casino, said with a smile, "I expect that your kid will not be able to pay these eighty taels of silver within three days, so let Lao Tzu teach you a lesson today, so that you can remember it for a long time in the future!" ”
"What do you want?" Guo Qi shivered a little.
"Eighty taels of silver don't have to be returned, but let me break your tendons, so that you can never roll the dice!" Haha," Ge Gui laughed maniacally.
Guo Qi quickly covered his arm, "No, no, no, I will pay it back!" Please uncle let me go! ”
"If you are willing to gamble and lose, then you press a handprint, you can't pay back the silver within three days, and the interest will be doubled!" Ge Gui temporarily wrote an agreement, and Guo Qi helplessly pressed his handprint on it.
Ge Gui took the agreement and looked at Yao Meiyu on the second floor of the gambling house.
Guo Qi seemed to have scattered the shelves, and he didn't know how he got out of the casino. Thinking about how he couldn't make up these eighty taels in three days, if he let Du Youting know about this, he wouldn't even be able to keep his position as a housekeeper.
But the subsequent encounter with Yao Meiyu at the intersection rekindled his hope for life.
The next day, he happily went to the gambling house to pay off his 80 taels of gambling debt.
Yao Sumei's life after marriage is very happy, and the important thing is to marry a wishful Langjun. Du Youting's new official took office, and the imperial court arranged for him to go to a neighboring county for disaster relief, naturally not caring about his family. Cao saw that his son had achieved fame, and his only hope now was to hold his grandson as soon as possible.
It's just that Su Mei has been married for so long, and her stomach has not moved, which makes the Cao family a little distressed.
On this day, Guo Qi hurriedly returned from outside and ran to the Cao family, "Old lady, I just took the birthday eight characters of the lady you gave to Mr. Big to calculate it, Mr. Big said, Madame's life is tough, since she was a child, she killed her own mother, and now she has killed her father, if it goes on like this, I'm afraid it will be bad for adults!" ”
"Ah! How is it good to go on like this? "The Cao family did know about Yao Guangyi's death, and felt that it was not false.
As soon as the words fell, the maid outside the door came in to report: "Old lady, there is a girl outside the door who asks to see the young lady, and I have already brought her in." ”
"What girl?"
"Said to be the sister of the young lady." Yahuan replied.
When Yao Meiyu saw Yao Sumei, she cried in the dark, "Sister, my life is so miserable, since my sister got married, my parents in the family have all gone, and my sister is now lonely and helpless, so I can only come to my sister!" I ask my sister for forgiveness for the bad things my sister did before! My sister will only treat my sister sincerely in the future, if not, the sky will strike thunder! ”
After all, Yao Sumei is kind-hearted, and when she saw the dusty servant and exhausted Meiyu, she suddenly felt pity, and couldn't help but think of her father, who had died.
When she heard Miyu's oath, the suffering and torture she had suffered at home before was left behind, so she stepped forward to comfort Miyu and said, "You live here with your sister first, and you will talk about it later!" So he arranged for Meiyu to rest in the western bedroom.
On the second day, Yao Sumei came to the west bedroom early to arrange Meiyu's food and clothing, and told Meiyu to see the old lady later, as for the details before the marriage, don't mention it again, Meiyu also agreed one by one.
"Sister, this is what my father left you before he died. One for each of us. After that, Meiyu took out a delicate intarsia bracelet from the baggage, and that bracelet happened to be exactly the same as the one on Miyu's hand, and Meiyu quickly put it on Sumei.
After a night's rest, plus a freshening up, Meiyu is particularly beautiful. She carefully followed her sister to the Cao family.
"Old lady, this is my sister, I came from my mother's house yesterday, but now my father and mother are gone, and my sister has no place to go." Su Mei said.
"Excuse the old lady! Meiyu's parents are now dead, only my sister is a relative, I hope the old lady can take me in, and Meiyu is willing to serve the old lady! "I didn't expect Miyu to be so sharp-tongued.
"Hurry up! I like this girl, you can stay here in peace! "Cao Shi was very happy to see Mei Yusheng's beauty like a flower, and her voice as good as a silver bell.
Since Meiyu came to Du Mansion, she has been around the Cao family all day to help each other relieve her boredom.
Because Du Youting was busy with official business and could not go home, Su Mei asked the old lady to send some clothes to Du Youting, and Cao agreed, "Take care of your father-in-law!" With Meiyu and me at home, you can go with confidence! ”
"Yes, old lady." Su Mei listened to her heart a little unpleasantly, but there was no way.
After Su Mei left, Meiyu changed her tricks every day to make the Cao family happy, telling what interesting folk jokes, what good food and drink in the streets and alleys were bought back for the Cao family to taste, and accompanied the Cao family to burn incense in the temple, because she was lively and cheerful by nature, so that the originally quiet Du Mansion was filled with laughter all day.
Accustomed to having Meiyu's company, this day when he didn't see Meiyu early, Cao felt that something was missing.
She came to the west wing room where Miyu lived alone, and saw Meiyu sitting in front of the bed and caressing something in her hand, and when she heard footsteps, Miyu immediately hid the object behind her.
"Old lady, why are you here?"
"What's hidden behind you?"
"Nothing, I" Miyu was a little stubborn.
"Take it out and let me see! Didn't you steal my family's treasure? "The Cao clan used the method of agitation.
"Sister knows that I will drive me away if I say it, old lady, you have to promise me, even if I show you, you must not tell my sister!"
"Good!" Cao promised.
What appeared in front of Cao Shi's eyes was the phoenix-shaped jade pendant that his husband Du Wende asked craftsmen to make before his death, and this Cao Clan recognized it at a glance.
"How is it in your hands? This should be the promise that your sister carries with her! ”
"Woo-woo" Meiyu suddenly cried pear blossoms with rain, "That day, the Du family's palanquin arrived in front of my house, and my sister forced me to lock me in the cellar behind the firewood room, and then my father and mother couldn't find me everywhere, so I had to let my sister put the palanquin for me." ”
"Well, I'm the one who suffers! But Yupei's father gave it to me since he was a child, saying that it was a promise with the Du family's son. ”
"Then why did your sister want to marry into my Du family?" Cao asked.
"There were many people who gave kisses to my sister before, but knowing that my sister's biological mother died due to difficult childbirth due to my sister, I thought that my sister's life was hard, so no one came to ask for a kiss. Therefore, my sister wanted to seize this only opportunity to marry off. My mother later found me in the cellar, but my sister's palanquin was far away, and my mother died depressed because of this. ”
"So it is! I don't want her to be so vicious! I can't spare her! Cao said angrily.
Unexpectedly, Meiyu cried and knelt down towards her, "Old lady, I beg you, now things have changed, my sister is also very happy now, I have nothing to be wronged with, I have sworn with my sister to keep secrets, if you publicize this matter, I will not be able to stay in the house!" Please also ask the old lady to keep me! ”
Cao Shi thought about it, after all, his son is now in an official position, and if he publicizes this matter, it will also damage his face, only then it will be wrong.
If you keep Meiyu in the house, maybe one day you can take her into a side room, and it is also a beautiful thing for the two sisters to serve the same husband.
"Poor child, hurry up!" Cao Shi picked up Meiyu with distress.
After listening to Meiyu's statement, and remembering the words of the housekeeper Guo Qi, he began to prejudice Sumei.
Du Youting's neighboring county for disaster relief was flooded with eye diseases, and this time he was accidentally infected, so Sumei hurriedly took Du Youting back to the house together.
"Ting'er! Do your eyes hurt? When can Lang Zhong say that it will be good? Mother Du saw that her son's eyes were surrounded by brocades, and her eyes were full of distress.
"Mother, it's not in the way, just stick to the medicine and it will be fine after a while." It's just that the son is not around these days, I don't know how the mother is doing? Du Youting asked while holding his mother's hands.
"Well, Xin has Meiyu to accompany me, she is clever!" After hearing this, Du Youting said lightly: "Hard work sister!" ”
"My brother-in-law really treats me as an outsider, and it is a blessing for Meiyu to be able to serve the old lady!"
Although Su Mei did not speak on the side, Du Youting felt Su Mei's unspeakable pain.
On the second day when Du Youting returned home, Cao Shi contracted wind chill for some reason.
"The old lady took Lang Zhong's medicine and never got better." Miyu said anxiously on the side.
"My sister was infected with wind chill last time, I don't know what medicine I drank?" Yao Meiyu turned her gaze to Sumei.
"Tomorrow I will go to buy medicine for the old lady, last time I was infected with wind chill, and I took that medicine and it improved."
"Then there is Mrs. Law." Seeing Du Youting holding Su Mei's hand tightly, Meiyu felt secretly uncomfortable in her heart.
On the second day, Su Mei grabbed a few pieces of medicine and came back and personally cooked them for the old lady. But after a few pills, Cao Shi coughed more seriously than before, and even coughed up blood.
Du Youting's eyes were blindfolded by the brocade and could not see clearly, naturally he was even more anxious, he called Guo Qi and asked him to invite the most famous Langzhong in the city.
After Lang Zhong took a pulse, he pricked the old lady a few times, and after a lot of dirty blood, Cao Shi sobered up a lot. After looking at the medicine Sumei bought back, he asked, "I wonder who captured this medicine?" ”
"What's wrong?" Du Youting asked.
"I don't know if I should talk about it."
"Sir, please."
"IMHO. Fortunately, the old lady only drank two, otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable. This medicine has a red ascending pill that should not be added. Lang Zhong said and left.
Du Youting heard his father mention the Red Shengdan when he was a child, and knew that it was a poison.
Cao Shi on the bed heard that the medicine was poisonous, and quickly shouted: "Ting'er, quickly throw out that broom star for me, it seems that he wants to poison me!" She is not happy to see that I prefer her sister, she is a vicious person! ”
Miyu shouted from the side; "Old lady, sister can't hurt you, she must be mistaken!"
As soon as Su Mei heard that there was a problem with the medicine she personally fried, it was difficult to distinguish between a hundred mouthfuls, and she could only swallow her anger, seeing that Du Youting was silent there, she turned around and ran out of the house crying.
That night, Du Youting untied the brocade on his eyes and quietly came to the housekeeper Guo Qi's residence to squat.
In the middle of the night, I saw a petite voice shadow creeping into Guo Qi's residence.
I only heard Yao Meiyu's voice sounding inside, "The red ascending pill you gave to the old lady just made her indistinguishable, I see that she can't wash it even if she jumped into the Yellow River." ”
"I did a good job, but when will you return my gambling debt agreement to me?"
"It's still early! The next step is to strangle her as soon as possible and then pretend to hang herself. I want to get back everything that belongs to me! When I become the county lady, you will have a good day ahead! Yao Meiyu said softly.
"I see your good days are over!" Du Youting couldn't help but be indignant, kicked open the door and rushed in!
Seeing Du Youting rushing in in the middle of the night, his eyes were shining, Yao Meiyu and Guo Qi were dumbfounded, "Lord, your eyes, spare your life!" It was Yao Meiyu who framed me for losing money in the casino, and then forced me to do these things that hurt heaven and reason! ”
Yao Meiyu saw that her original form was exposed, knowing that it was difficult to harvest the water, and did not ask for mercy.
It turned out that this time Sumei went to visit Du Youting, the two Xiaobie Sheng was newly married, and when the bed hangings were fighting, the intarsia bracelet that Meiyu gave to Sumei was accidentally scattered, and two small red pills actually rolled out of it.
When I got to Langzhong, I didn't expect the ingredient to be musk, so Du Youting knew Yao Meiyu's true intention this time.
So pretending to spread that he was infected with an eye disease, let the other party let go of his vigilance against himself, but Yao Meiyu was too anxious, just before he could catch his breath, just in time for Cao Shi to get sick, deliberately instructed Su Mei to grab the medicine, and quietly added the poison to the soup medicine that Su Mei gave to the old lady, harmed Su Mei, and expelled Su Mei from the house. And also wanted Guo Qi to poison Sumei.
And after Su Mei left the house on the same day, he found an inn to stay safely, waiting for her husband to come and turn the case over for him at any time.
As a result, reading Sumei's intercession, Du Youting did not cure Yao Meiyu, but expelled her from Mingzhou City, and Yao Sumei cut her off and no sisters again.
As for Guo Qi, of course, he destroyed his future and became a beggar in Mingzhou City penniless.
Since the bracelet was thrown away, Yao Sumei soon became pregnant, and a year later, two sons were born, which made the Cao family unhappy, and Du Fu resumed its previous joy and laughter.