The story takes place during the Zhengde period of the Ming Dynasty, when a butcher actually wanted to kill the scalper who lived with him day and night in order to make up the dowry, at this time the scalper spat out words, and the butcher listened to it and fell to his knees and cried bitterly.
Twenty miles south of Nanyang Province, there is a small village called Daejeon Village, where most of the villagers are honest farmers who have never caused any trouble.
There was a butcher named Ma Chongyang in the village, who was skilled, fair-priced, fast and good at work, and people near and far liked to find him to work.
Ma Chongyang has a habit, no matter where he goes, he always has to take his scalper, one person and one cow are intimate and inseparable, and it is amazing to see others.
One morning, Ma Chongyang took the cattle to the town to work as usual, and suddenly saw a young woman dressed in white in the crowd, Ma Chongyang was shocked and stunned on the spot.
After finishing his work that day, Ma Chongyang immediately asked someone to inquire, and after learning that this was Zhao Yiyao, the daughter of Zhao Carpenter in the outer village, he immediately asked the matchmaker to go and propose to him.
Not long after the news came from the matchmaker, if you want to marry Zhao Yiyao, you can take thirty-two silver as a dowry, Ma Chongyang went home to see, his family savings are not more than twenty-two, he let the matchmaker to go to the news, give yourself a month, must take thirty-two to the door to propose.
From that day on, Ma Chongyang worked hard, the whole person was tired and thin, and when he managed to scrape together thirty-two pieces of silver to the Zhao family, he found that Zhao Yiyao's mother was chatting with a brother with a crown of jade.
Mother Zhao told Ma Chongyang that this was the prince of the city and was willing to give fifty taels of silver, and if Ma Chongyang was really sincere, he would prepare fifty taels.
Seeing that Mother Zhao was sitting on the ground at a price, Ma Chongyang hated it so much that his teeth itched, he asked Mother Zhao to give him another three months, he would definitely make up enough money, and Mother Zhao gladly agreed.
Three months later, when Ma Chongyang came to the Zhao family with fifty taels of silver, Zhao Mother's tone changed, saying that the prince was very fond of Zhao Yiyao and was willing to pay a hundred taels, Ma Chongyang was sad and indignant, and gritted his teeth and let Zhao Mother give him half a year.
Half a year later, when Ma Chongyang, who was not as thin as an adult, came to the Zhao Mansion for the third time, Mother Zhao offered a new price tag - two hundred and two.
Ma Chongyang returned home in despair, thinking about the suffering he had suffered in the past nine months, so sad that he could not help himself, at this time, the scalper behind him stretched out his head and rubbed on him, Ma Chongyang suddenly felt that he saw hope.
A year ago, the scalper suddenly had abdominal pain, Ma Chongyang asked the veterinarian to see it before he knew that there was a cow treasure in the belly of the scalper, once the news came out, the whole city was sensational, someone sent a hundred and two to buy the cattle treasure of the scalper, which was rejected by Ma Chongyang on the spot, and now in order to be able to marry Zhao Yiyao, he has not been able to take care of so much.
Ma Chongyang picked up the butcher knife and aimed it at his partner, and just as he was about to strike, Huang Niu spat out a word: "Wake up, Zhao Yiyao is already dead!" ”
Ma Chongyang was stunned at first, and then asked the scalper what was going on, and the scalper sighed and explained the reason to him.
Since Zhao Yiyao's mother successfully increased the price for the first time, Zhao Yiyao completely broke with her mother, and Zhao's mother saw that her daughter did not have a heart with herself, and while continuing to coax Ma Chongyang, she secretly rationed Zhao Yiyao to the prince. Zhao Yiyao resisted fruitlessly, so he went out alone to find Wang Chongyang, who knew that the people sent out by Mother Zhao were injured by mistake and cried out for their lives.
In order to continue to squeeze Ma Chongyang, Mother Zhao deliberately concealed this news, and now Ma Chongyang actually attacked himself in order to be able to marry his wife, and when he said this, the voice of the scalper was full of sighs.
Huang Niu said that he was originally a cow spirit on the mountain, in order to repay Ma Chongyang's father's kindness, and now Ma Chongyang showed his knife to it, the love has been exhausted, it is time to separate, Ma Chongyang heard the words and immediately knelt down and cried bitterly, begging the scalper not to leave, the scalper was not able to harden his heart after all, and continued to accompany Ma Chongyang.
Later, Ma Chongyang took more thoughtful care of the cattle, and by coincidence, he married a local talented woman like a flower and lived a happy life, while Mother Zhao became a beggar and died in a situation of poverty and illness.
Editor's note: As the saying goes, good has good to repay evil and evil, and the Zhao mother in this article actually disregarded her daughter's life for a high dowry, and finally fell into a poor and destitute fate.