Ximen Leopard, an outstanding politician of Wei in the early Warring States period, one of his legends is that Hebo married a wife. Sima Qian did not include this incident in the "Historical Records", but Chu Shaosun later depicted it in the "Historical Records: Funny Biography". The burlesque of the time was not today's humor, but the meaning of the strange.
In the Wei State, Ximen Leopard went to Yecheng. He asked the people about their living conditions and learned about a problem that was bothering the local population. It turned out that a group of people, including old witches, local ** and magnates, were ready to marry Hebo in order to raise millions of expenses. In order to escape this catastrophe, many families with daughters have married off their daughters.
Simon Leopard was determined to cut off these forces, but he chose ingenious and unusual means. When the day of Hebo's wife came, he went to ** in person. He asked to see if the bride he gave to Hebo was beautiful and moving. These people did not dare to stop him, so they could only let him go.
Simon Leopard lifted the curtain of the sedan chair, only to see the bride with tears on her face, desperately waiting for death. It turned out that the girl came from a poor family, and they brought her for a small amount of money. Simon Leopard looked at it and blamed everyone: "How can Uncle Hebo find such an ugly girl?"Send her back and find a better one. Then he proposed to postpone Hebo's wife so that the grand wedding could take place. He said to the old witch, "Go and tell Hebo." Before the old witch could reply, she was thrown into the river. Subsequently, Simon Leopard threw down several witches brought by the old witch. Again, he threatened to send someone to urge the old witch, and then threw the three old officials down.
Simon Leopard said to them, "Return the looted money and promise not to do evil again." The locals no longer blindly worship the river god, and Ximen Leopard led people to dig 12 ditches and actively control the water, so that the local floods were reduced and benefited future generations for a hundred years.