During the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty (1796-1820 AD), there was a butcher named Zhao Huan in Pengze County, Jiujiang Province, Jiangxi Province, and his wife Liu Shi was white and beautiful, quite a bit of posture. It is said that this Liu clan was originally the wife of Zhao Huan's best friend Xu Xin, more than ten years ago, Xu Xin accidentally fell off a cliff and died, Zhao Huan saw that Liu Huan was alone and lonely, helpless, so he married her, and in the following ten years, Liu Clan gave birth to two sons for Zhao Huan.
One year in the morning, Zhao Huan brought Liu Shi to the grave of his friend Xu Xin as usual, and after some condolences, the two returned home, Zhao Huan let Liu Prepare some wine and dishes, and drank together to reminisce about the past, Liu Shi remembered her ex-husband and was sad. After three rounds of drinking, Zhao Huan was half drunk, and looked at his beautiful wife in his arms and couldn't help but smile: "Why have so many years passed, and you still miss that short-lived ghost?" ”
Liu Shi was stunned, not knowing why her husband would talk like this today, Zhao Huan saw that Liu Shi did not say a word and said: "In fact, I have always had a secret in my heart that I have not told you, but it has been more than ten years, you have given birth to a second son for me, is it not that my status in your heart is not as good as that dead ghost?" To tell you the truth, it was I who killed Xu Xin more than ten years ago, blame only you for being so beautiful, in order to get you I can only make this decision, after so long you should not hate me now. After saying that, Zhao Huan fell to the ground drunk.
After listening to it, Liu's heart was like a knife, and he did not expect that he not only lost his life to kill his husband and enemies but also gave birth to his second son for him, and Liu Shi's heart was flustered and took advantage of Zhao Huan's drunkenness to escape back to his mother's house overnight. The mother's brother Liu Li saw that Liu Clan suddenly returned and asked why, and Liu Clan Ju informed. Liu Li was horrified, Liu Li was always a decent person, and after consulting with Liu Li, Liu Li filed a letter of complaint against Zhao Huan in court.
Zhixian was very surprised after receiving the complaint paper, and ordered Zhao Huan to be detained. Zhao Huan was very panicked when he saw that his wife had accused him of killing her ex-husband Xu Xin. Zhixian saw that Zhao Huan's face was different and asked him to be sentenced to a big punishment, and Zhao Huan could not bear the pain and quickly made a specific explanation of this old case.
It turned out that more than ten years ago, Zhao Huan and Xu Xin were good friends, and Xu Xin later married his wife Liu Shi, who was beautiful and virtuous. One day Xu Xin feasted on Zhao Huan, Liu Huan was beside the reception, Zhao Huan was fascinated by her beauty as soon as he saw Liu, but because Xu Xin was on the side, Zhao Huan did not dare to have any wrongdoing.
Zhao Huan couldn't sleep at night after arriving home, his mind was full of Liu's voice and smile, Zhao Huan was determined to snatch Liu from Xu Xin, and Zhao Huan thought hard and finally came up with a poisonous plan.
Early the next morning, Zhao Huan came to Xu Xin's house, saying that he did not have enough silver on him, and asked Xu Xin to go to the mountains with a group to collect a few big fat pigs, and then he earned silver and shared it between the two. Xu Xin was overjoyed and greeted Liu Shi and followed Zhao Huan into the mountain. When they reached the mountain, Zhao Huan lured Xu Xin to the edge of a cliff that had been inspected in advance, and when he was not ready to push him off the cliff, Xu Xin was killed on the spot, Zhao Huan pretended to cry bitterly to the nearby village to ask the villagers to help find someone, and then personally went back to report the bad news to Liu Shi, saying that the road slippery Xu Xin fell off the cliff without paying attention.
Liu's grief was devastated, it just so happened that her brother Liu Li was in the field again, she was a female Taoist family who couldn't make up her mind, she could only entrust Zhao Huan with full authority to take care of Xu Xin's aftermath, Zhao Huan cried bitterly, her acting skills were in place, and xu Xin's aftermath was arranged steadily, and Liu's gratitude to Zhao Huan was zero.
Since then, Zhao Huan has often come to ask for warmth, send some chai rice oil and salt, and care for Liu's family. Half a year later, Zhao Huan said that he would marry Liu Shi, and his words were quite righteous, saying that his friend was not there, and he had the obligation to take good care of Liu Shi to comfort Xu Xin's spirit in heaven. Liu Shi was grateful to Zhao Huan for taking care of her and gladly agreed. Zhao Huan got his wish, and the cave house flower candle night was exhausted that day, and in the following years, liu gave birth to two sons to Zhao Huan. Zhao Huan was overwhelmed and self-conscious before he told the truth of that year after drinking.
Zhixian was furious and scolded: "You vile little man, your friends and wives cannot be deceived, you have maimed your friends who have known each other for many years in order to get the Liu clan, the crime is extremely evil, and heaven cannot tolerate it." Zhao Huan was sentenced to beheading to correct the social atmosphere.
This case warns future generations: a friend's wife must not be deceived, let alone harm the life of a friend, if people do not know unless they do nothing, there will be retribution. Zhao Huan is Xu Xin's old friend for many years, only to covet the beauty of the Liu clan and even disregard the years of brotherhood to kill his friends, it is really a pig and a dog, and finally he was sentenced to be beheaded, and only poor Liu Clan also gave birth to a second son for this villain, which is lamentable.