During the Qing Dynasty, there was a merchant named Yuan Liu in Daizhou, who wandered all the year round and ran for a living. The beautiful wife Liu was left at home, and she was left alone. After a long-distance sales trip, Yuan Liu eagerly embarked on the journey home, hoping to reunite with his wife as soon as possible.
As night fell, Yuan Liu arrived at the river near the village, and exhausted, he decided to rest for the night in a ruined temple nearby. The moonlight was like water, and he noticed a woman on the bank of the river not far away, she was lying on the bank, the river had submerged her calves, and her body was slowly sliding into the river. Yuan Liu hurriedly stepped forward and rescued her ashore. The woman has a dignified appearance, but she has no breath of life.
Yuan Liu couldn't bear to see the woman's body exposed in the wilderness, so he dug a pit by the river and buried her body. After doing all this, he went to rest in the ruined temple. Unexpectedly, in his sleep, he dreamed of the woman who had just been buried.
Benefactor, run, take the path! The woman's voice was anxious and clear. Yuan Liu woke up, and there was silence all around, only the wind blew, bringing some vague conversations. His heart tightened, and he vaguely heard "him......There is money ......Kill ......Take away the ......". Realizing that there might be robbers, he immediately followed the instructions of the woman in his dream, climbed out of the courtyard wall, and hurried home along the path.
When I got home, it was just dawn. Yuan Liu greeted the elders of the village warmly when he saw them, but they looked at him with strange eyes, and their eyes revealed sympathy and ridicule. Wondering, he walked into the house, intending to ask his wife what had happened. However, when his wife Liu saw him, she did not show a happy expression, but seemed a little weak-hearted.
Xianggong, why did you come back so soon? You wait, I'll cook for you. After Liu finished speaking, he hurriedly ran into the kitchen. Yuan Liu looked at her back, and a sense of unease swelled in her heart. He noticed that there were some changes in the home, and his wife had a lot of rouge gouache and beaded jewelry on her dresser, and there were many brightly colored clothes in her wardrobe. He rummaged through the wardrobe and found a strange man's shirt, and his heart sank.
Xianggong, let's eat. Liu entered the house with the food, saw Yuan Liu's gloomy face, and saw the man's shirt in his hand, he was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "You found it?" I went to the town a few days ago to buy a lot of fabrics, made some clothes for myself, and made you a coat, and compared your previous clothes, I don't know if it fits. ”
Hearing his wife's words, Yuan Liu's face softened, and he talked to his wife gently, secretly spitting in his heart that he suspected his wife of being unfaithful. He didn't notice that when Liu Shi turned his back to him, he wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
However, since Yuan Liu returned home, he found that Liu often ran to the town, and stayed for a day. The eyes of the villagers looked at him more and more strangely. Finally one day, Yuan Liu's friend Wang Hu came to visit.
We are brothers, and I can't watch you being kept in the dark. Wang Hu sighed and said, "Your wife took advantage of your absence to hook up with Wenfu, a wealthy family in the town." She goes to town every day to have a private meeting with Wenfu. The others were afraid of offending Wenfu and didn't dare to tell you about it. ”
Listening to Wang Hu's words, Yuan Liu had an expression of disbelief on his face. Seeing this, Wang Hu gave him an idea: "If you don't believe it, the next time your wife goes out, you will follow her and see where she went, who she saw, and what she said." ”
Yuan Liu sent Wang Hu away in despair, and that night, he decided to follow Wang Hu's idea. Early the next morning, he followed Liu to Wenfu's house. Seeing that the Liu family entered the house in a familiar way, Yuan Liu's heart tingled, and he still didn't want to believe it, so he sneaked over the wall and sneaked into Liu's house, hiding outside the door and eavesdropping on the conversation between Liu and Wenfu.
Your husband has returned, and it will be inconvenient for us to meet, so we still have to find a way to get rid of him. "My wife got in the way, so I pushed her into the river, and it was all for you." You don't have to worry too much. ”
He's my husband after all. Liu sighed, "Last time you said that you sent someone to find him and asked those two to pretend to be robbers and kill him, I panicked when I heard it, and thanks to you telling me that the plan was not successful, I stabilized my mind." We still want to find other ways to deal with it, not to kill him. ”
After listening to their conversation, Yuan Liu felt like a knife. He thought of his wife, whom he had once loved, and his heart was filled with pain and disappointment. He decided not to dwell on it anymore, and when he returned home, he wrote a letter of resignation. When Liu returned, he handed her the letter of resignation.
Liu was taken aback, but her expression quickly calmed down. She put forward the condition that Yuan Liu should leave the house and all the money in the family belonged to her. Looking at his once beloved wife, Yuan Liu agreed to her request. He packed up a few clothes and left the once warm home.
The moment he left home, Yuan Liu's heart was full of pain and helplessness. He thought of the woman he had rescued, perhaps her presence was meant to remind him of the twist of fate. And now, he can only face the challenges of the future and the unknown life alone.