In Tiantai County, Zhejiang Province, there is an old man named Guo Hong, who has a daughter named Hui Zhen. Hui Zhen is handsome in appearance, gentle and quiet, knowledgeable and dali, and Guo Laohan regards his daughter as a pearl in the palm of his hand. When Hui Zhen was eighteen years old, she married a young talent named Fan Chang in the township, and the love between the two was sweet after marriage, like glue.
Hui Zhen is born beautiful, beautiful as a heavenly immortal, there are many people in the village who covet her beauty, want to do something wrong, but suffer from Hui Zhen's infrequent out of the house can not start.
One day, Fan Chang suddenly fell ill and was bedridden, and Hui Zhen was so anxious that she asked several doctors to heal her husband and personally went to the temple to pray for her husband. There was a stupid boy named Li Qi in the village, who happened to be basking in the sun outside the temple, and when he saw Hui Zhen walking in, he quietly followed.
When Hui Zhen was on her knees burning incense, Li Qi deliberately fell down and grabbed Hui Zhen's feet, and said obscenely: "The girl is so beautiful, when I see her today, it really makes me fascinated." Better follow me, I will keep you happy for a lifetime. ”
Hui Zhen kicked Li Qi away in fright and hurried home. Later, Li Qi's boldness grew stronger, so he took advantage of Fan Chang's absence to go to his house to flirt with Hui Zhen.
Hui Zhen was cold to Li Qi and paid no attention to him, and Li Qi was just bored with himself. Hui Zhen once mentioned this matter to her husband, but Fan Chang was jealous of the Li family's great cause, and did not dare to provoke it, but blindly swallowed it.
One night, Li Qi was even more aggressive and sneaked into Hui Zhen's room to rape her, and Hui Zhen shouted in fright and forced her to die. It just so happens that Fan Chang returns from out and bumps into Li Qi, who wants to plot against his wife. Fan Chang was furious and took out a kitchen knife from the kitchen to kill Li Qi, but Li Qi was so frightened that he fled.
Who knew that The evil man of Li Qi filed a complaint first, and first sued the second county court, but said that Fan Chang wanted to kill people with a knife. Tiantai County Ling Shen Lin was a confused official, and without investigating clearly, he arrested Fan Chang and tortured him severely. Coupled with the fact that Li Qi paid some money to bribe Shen Lin, Shen Lin hurriedly convicted Fan Chang of the death penalty and waited for Qiu Hou to be beheaded and pressed into death row.
Since then, many people in the ten miles and eight townships have coveted Hui Zhen and competed to offer warmth to Hui Zhen. And Li Qi longed for Fan Chang to die early, so as to dominate Hui Zhen. Li Qi paid bribes to the jailers to let them abuse Fan Chang, hoping that Fan Chang would not be able to bear the torture and commit suicide in prison.
There was a jailer named Ye Bing, who also coveted Hui Zhen's beauty and hoped to get Hui Zhen. It just so happened that Li Qi paid a big price to buy Ye Bing to let him torture Fan Chang, Ye Bing was not a good person, he knew that Li Qi had framed Fan Chang. Ye Bing thought to himself: If I can avenge Li Qi and Hui Zhen for Fan Chang and repay my kindness, it will only be a matter of time before I marry me.
Hui Zhen and Fan Chang have a son and a daughter, since Fan Chang was imprisoned, the life of the mother and son three fell to the bottom, often hungry. While Ye Bing was taking Li Qi's money, he pretended to take good care of Fan Chang, even to the point of calling him a brother. Fan often thought that Ye Bing was kind, so he was unguarded against him.
Ye Bing said to Fan Chang, "My brother was wrongfully imprisoned and will die soon, but he only suffered your wife and children." As a brother, I am willing to help them tide over the difficulties, lest Hui Zhen not accept my alms, and ask my brother to write a letter to show his affection. ”
Fan Chang was greatly moved after hearing this, so he wrote a letter asking Ye Bing to hand it over to Hui Zhen and ask ye Bing to take care of Hui Zhen. Hui Zhen reluctantly accepted Ye Bing's handout in order to stop starving her child.
One day, Ye Bing said to Hui Zhen, "Li Qi's beast is not worthy of being a human, and I am willing to avenge my eldest brother's hatred." Hui Zhen already knew that Ye Bing had another plan, but she said thank you.
Back in prison, Ye Bing told Fan Chang that he was willing to help him avenge the elimination of Li Qi. Fan Chang was very grateful to Ye Bing, and couldn't help but cry bitterly, crying and saying, "After I die, my wife and children will be entrusted to your care." ”
Ye Bing secretly snickered, and Fan Chang finally put on the sleeve and said, "Little Brother He De He Neng, since the elder brother entrusts it, the younger brother is obligated." I just hope that my brother will explain to my sister-in-law. Fan Chang nodded in agreement.
Everything is ready, only Li Qi is dead. Ye Bing took the opportunity to invite Li Qi to drink, and bragged to him about how to torture Fan Chang to an inhuman appearance. Ye Bing drunk Li Qi and drew his knife to end his life.
Fan Chang was surprised to learn that Li Qi had died violently, so he asked Ye Bing to call his wife. Fan Chang cried and said, "The great vengeance is repaid, but it only hurts the woman and the child." My brother Ye Bing is a simple man and a loyal man. When I die you will marry him, and he will take care of you. ”
Hui Zhen just cried silently, and only nodded her head in agreement. Hui Zhen came home and cried and said to the children, "Your father was unjustly imprisoned for his mother's sake and will soon die." In order not to let you fall into the mouth of the tiger and the wolf, she had to find a good family for you to sell you, don't blame the mother. ”
So Hui Zhen took the child to the town all night and entrusted it to a good family, and then went straight home without looking back. After a few days, Ye Bing blatantly came to Hui Zhen's home to ask for pleasure with her, and Hui Zhen recognized the wolf ambition of the person in front of him. Hui Zhen vowed not to obey, and agreed with Ye Bing to come back tomorrow night, but Ye Bing had no choice but to leave in frustration.
The heavenly path was dim, and Hui Zhen listed the crimes of Li Qi and Ye Bing one by one, and then put them on her body with a bamboo tube, hoping that the sky would have eyes and be seen by the righteous people to clear her husband's grievances. Hui Zhen came to the river and committed suicide by throwing herself into the river, the water of the river was turbulent, and Hui Zhen's body went down the river. Everything Ye Bing had painstakingly planned had completely failed.
A day later, someone in Huangyan County, a hundred miles away, found Hui Zhen's body and reported it to the officials. When the county commander Xu Sheng learned about it, he rushed to check it and found the words in the bamboo tube. Xu Sheng lamented that the world was unfair, that good people were wronged to death, but evil people could get away with it. So Xu Sheng buried Hui Zhen and submitted the complaint to the state capital hoping to reopen Fan Chang's case.
Later, when the truth came out, Ye Bing betrayed the death penalty by killing Li Qi in order to dominate Hui Zhen. Tiantai County ordered corruption and perverted the law, and was deposed from the government and sent to be enslaved. Fan Chang was acquitted and was wronged. After Fan Chang was released from prison, Xu Sheng helped him redeem his children and his family was reunited. Fan often missed Hui Zhen and could not sleep at night, and has never married a relative since.