The year 1929 was a turbulent time in China, with a complex political situation under the Nationalist government, and wars between warlords that brought great suffering and disaster to the people. In this historical context, ordinary people are faced with the problem of survival every day, and they are already very content if they can eat enough, and in stark contrast is the luxurious life of the landlord class.
As the so-called Zhumen wine and meat stink, there are frozen bones on the road.
At this time, there was such a worry-free landowner Ma Baocai in Zhaojia Village, Jinghai County, Tianjin, who originally lived a life that was envied by ordinary people, with a lot of land and money, but such a landowner who had a stable life, but because of the continuation of the 21-year-old wife to inherit the lineage, he finally died in a different place and his family was ruined.
So what's going on here?
Succession
Ma Baocai, a wealthy landlord with hundreds of acres of fertile land and a lot of money, recently encountered a difficult situation, his ex-wife Ma Yushi died of illness, and there was only a 14-year-old daughter between the two, so Ma Baocai wanted to continue to have a son in order to inherit his Wanguan family wealth. Soon the news that the big landlord Ma Bao was going to continue the string spread all over the area, and all the families who were waiting to marry the girl in the family were all gearing up, wanting to take this opportunity to climb the high branches, and from then on soared to the sky.
In October of the following year, Ma Bao took a fancy to the young and beautiful daughter of the He family and soon married her. Trapped in Gentle Township, Ma Baocai, who wanted to pass on the ancestry, did not know that the daughter of the He family had already promised to marry someone before marrying into the Ma family, and the other party was Zhang Haisheng from the same village, and the two had already made a marriage, and in July 1929, they gave a dowry and waited to get married.
But just when the two of them were about to do a good thing, there was news that Ma Baocai was about to continue, and the He family couldn't help but withdraw from the marriage with Zhang Haisheng after hearing about it, and then went around to take Ma Baocai, and his beautiful daughter was also caught by Ma Baocai at a glance and turned into Ma He's family.
In fact, Ma He is not willing to marry into the Ma family, she and Zhang Haisheng not only have a marriage contract, but also have a deep relationship since childhood, but they were forced to marry into the Ma family because of their father's obscenity, and in the meantime she also has her own plans ~ to seize his family property.
继母
After Ma He married into the Ma family, he changed his previous well-behaved and obedient, not only messing around, but also fighting with Ma Baocai's girl Ma Chunhong, Ma Chunhong has been pampered since childhood, and is not a master to be messed with, the two often scuffle together, but Ma Chunhong is only 14 years old after all, and he is not Ma He's opponent at all, at this time Ma Chunhong pinned his hopes on his father Ma Baocai, who loved him since he was a child, but Ma Baocai is a cowardly character, and when he met the pungent Ma He, he had nothing to do.
Although Ma Baocai mediated in the middle, the relationship between the two daughters became worse and worse.
After Ma He married into the Ma family, he often used excuses to return to his parents' house, in fact, it was to secretly have a tryst with Zhang Haisheng, and Ma Baocai did not dare to ask more although he was suspicious, he was afraid that this young wife would cry with him, in addition to having a tryst with Zhang Haisheng, Ma He also secretly took the family's money to Zhang Haisheng, telling him to save it and wait for the two to get married in the future.
The continuous loss of money in the family attracted Ma Baocai's attention, and he began to interrogate the subordinates of the family, and Ma He was ready to splash dirty water directly on his stepdaughter Ma Chunhong.
It turns out that Ma Chunhong has a cheerful personality since she was a child, likes to make friends, and has a kind of heroine style, almost all the children in the village have accepted her help, although they are all small money, but for those poor families who can't open the pot, it is also a great favor, and Ma Baocai, as the head of the family, naturally didn't take it to heart, one is because he loves his daughter, and the other is because he doesn't care about the money at all. But now there are frequent thefts in the house, and the amount is huge, which ignites the anger in Ma Baocai's heart.
bury alive
After Ma Baocai called his daughter, he gave his daughter two slaps without asking, and Ma Chunhong, who was beaten, knew in her heart that her stepmother must be making trouble in the middle, so she didn't cry or make trouble, just spit at Ma He's, turned around and ran out of the house. Seeing this, Ma He was very angry, and hurriedly chased out of the door, until he chased the embroidery workshop at the west end of the village.
This embroidery workshop was opened by a man from Tianjin, named Baiyuntai, 25 years old, his parents died when he was a child, and he was better with the righteous Ma Chunhong.
In this way, Baiyuntai blocked Ma He's from the door.
After Ma He left, Bai Yuntai grabbed Ma Chunhong and said: "Your stepmother is a watery poplar woman, one night I bumped into her cheating with a man behind the haystack in Chunxitou, and the two hugged each other naked, which is really shameless."
On July 31, 1930, in order to prove what Baiyuntai said, Ma Chunhong followed Baiyuntai to the dirt field in the west of the village to catch the rapist in person. Ma Chunhong was so angry that she immediately rushed out and scolded: "Adulterer and adulteress! ”。
Ma He and Zhang Haisheng never expected to be caught and raped on the spot, and they were embarrassed without even putting on their clothes.
After Ma He returned home, she knew that she was bumped into by Ma Chunhong and had an adultery, and she must not be good, so it was better to strike first and get rid of Ma Chunhong than to sit still, so she weaved to Ma Baocai: "Ma Chunhong has not gone home these days, and has been living in Baiyuntai's house, and the two of them have long been fooling together."
Ma He's family is naturally lying, in fact, Ma Chunhong has been living in a relative's house in Baiyuntai these days, and the two of them have nothing unseemly.
After Ma He's addition, Ma Chunhong at this time has already become a daughter of immorality in the eyes of her father, especially in that traditional era, unmarried cohabitation is to go to the pig cage, but even so, Ma Chunhong is also Ma Baocai's daughter, how can he bear to kill his daughter?
Ma Baocai was hesitating, but Ma He's couldn't wait, under the guise of maintaining the family's honor and maintaining the façade of the Ma family, she took the initiative to lead people to arrest Ma Chunhong and Baiyuntai.
During the feudal period, it was common for big families to lynch their children who did not follow the rules of the family, and this bad habit still existed until the Republic of China, especially the "adulterers and adulteresses" like Ma Chunhong and Baiyuntai were punished by everyone in the village. After the two were arrested, Baiyuntai was tied to a stone and sank to the bottom of the river, and Ma Chunhong was buried alive by Ma He's shovel and a shovel, and no one was stopped by anyone present, including his father Ma Baocai.
After dealing with the rival, Ma He finally breathed a sigh of relief, now she not only concealed her personal affairs, but also inherited all his family property after Ma Baocai was a hundred years later, and she and Zhang Haisheng began to look forward to their bright future and happy life. But how can there be an impermeable wall in the world, I don't know who leaked the news, Ma He's burial of his daughter alive was reported to the Tianjin Municipal Police Department, and soon the police began to investigate with major and important cases, and then arrested Zhang Haisheng, Ma Baocai, and Ma He.
In court, Ma He not only admitted that she had cheated, but also admitted that she had stolen the family's money, and then planted the blame on Ma Chunhong, and in order to get rid of Ma Chunhong, she weaved the fake news that Baiyuntai and Ma Chunhong slept in the same room to Ma Baocai, and finally buried Ma Chunhong alive.
Hearing all this, Ma Baocai cried bitterly and regretted, but at this time, remorse was useless, and finally passed the verdict: Ma He was sentenced to death, Ma Baocai was sentenced to life imprisonment, and Zhang Haisheng was acquitted because he did not participate in the murder of Ma Chunhong.
The ancients said: Since ancient times, adultery has led to murders, and honesty does not deceive me.