If you are well-informed, have you ever seen the process of grinding? In the past, wealthy families used livestock to grind, while poor families required a lot of manpower.
After a long period of grinding, people tend to feel dizzy and bloated. However, people in the southwest of our country have invented a wooden "Ding" shaped tool, called the grinding hook.
With the help of this ingenious tool, the grinder only needs to stand in place and push the grinding hook, and the stone mill can be easily turned. The rest of the story will be closely linked to this magical grinding hook.
During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, there was a man named Yang Tiande in Yangjiaping, Chongqing, who started by opening a mill and became a well-known local rich man, and people called him Master Yang of the mill.
Although Master Yang has wealth, he has no children under his knees, and there is no successor. Master Yang's original wife, Li, is shrewd and capable, beautiful and moving, but she is infertile, so Master Yang plans to take a concubine.
Li was reluctant at first, but as time went on, she had no choice but to agree, but she demanded that the concubine accepted by the master must be personally selected by her. Not long after the Li family agreed to take a concubine to Master Yang, a rare heavy snowfall fell in Chongqing in winter.
Early in the morning, the servants of the Yang family got up to clear the snow and found a pair of ragged men and women leaning against the door, the man was in his forties, and the woman was about twenty years old, and the two were so cold that they couldn't speak.
Since the Li family had the habit of accumulating virtue and doing good deeds on weekdays, the servants decided to help them to the guest room, poured a few sips of hot water, and then came to report to the Li family. Li came to the guest room, and after understanding, he learned that the father and daughter were from a disaster-stricken place, and their names were Qian Yixin and Qian Hongxing.
They fled because of the disaster in their hometown. Seeing that their father and daughter were pitiful, Li took them in. Later, the Li family felt that they were helpless, so they matched Master Yang to take Qian Hongxing as a concubine.
Therefore, Qian Hongxing soon became the second wife of Master Yang, and Qian Yixin became the bookkeeper in the mill.
After Qian Hongxing and Master Yang got married, her belly gradually grew bigger, and seven months later, the child was born early. Although the child was born prematurely, the careful care of the Yang family made him look no different from a full-term child.
Master Yang named his son Yang Saihu, and when Saihu was three years old, Hongxing gave birth to another son, named Yang Saibao. Mr. Yang was extremely happy to have a middle-aged child, and he looked at his two sons every day, as if he had eaten honey.
He was bent on making more money and preparing a good life for his two sons, and at night he hugged the Qian Hongxing he picked up and called her "heart and liver baby". However, just when Saihu was four years old and Saibao was just able to walk, a sudden disaster befell the Yang family.
On this day, Master Yang came back from asking for accounts from outside, and as soon as he arrived at the door, he found many onlookers. It turned out that Master Yang's "second father-in-law" Qian Yixin suddenly died violently.
Master Yang was very shocked, and immediately rushed to Qian Yixin's room, only to see him naked, twisted and lying on the ground, bleeding from his mouth and nose, and his face was hideous.
The little woman was willing to confess ......It turns out that this Qian Hongxing is not Qian Yixin's biological daughter, but Qian Yixin abducted her, Qian Hongxing doesn't know her life experience, she only knows that she was abducted by Qian Yixin since she was a child, and she has been occupied by Qian Yixin since she was fourteen years old, but she has always been called a father-daughter relationship to the outside world.
Since Qian Hongxing went to the Yang family as a concubine, she really wanted to follow Master Yang with all her heart, but Master Yang was not only old, but also always went out to do business.
One night, Master Yang went out to run errands, and at the third watch, Qian Hongxing took the opportunity to enter Qian Yixin's room. Just as the two were about to spend the night together, Qian Yixin suddenly bled and fell on the bed and shouted for help, and died soon after.
Qian Hongxing was so frightened that her face was bloodless, and she hurriedly made her bed and fled the scene. In the lobby, Qian Hongxing kept kowtowing and confessing, claiming that she had not poisoned Qian Yixin, and if she had a lie, she was willing to accept the punishment of heaven and earth.
However, the case has not been solved, and Wang Zhixian is deeply puzzled by this. He firmly believes that Qian Hongxing is innocent, but who is **? Three days have passed on the case and there has been no progress.
So, Wang Zhixian once again led his subordinates to search Qian Yixin's room, but did not find any clues. Then, they came to Qian Hongxing's room and found a three-inch-long grinding hook.
When Wang Zhixian was playing with this grinding hook, some gravel suddenly fell onto his palm. He immediately took the grit in his hand to the window to examine it carefully, and his face changed instantly.
It turned out that the hook part of the grinding hook was hollow, and the grit fell from it. This grit is a deadly poison "crane top red"!
Wang Zhixian hurried back to the county office to retry the case. He brought the grinding hook to Qian Hongxing and asked sternly, "Qian Hongxing, do you recognize what this is?" Qian Hongxing looked at the grinding hook and replied confusedly: "This is what my eldest son Saihu has played, I don't know what this object has to do with this case." ”
Wang Zhixian immediately ordered someone to bring Saihu to the lobby. Seeing her son, Qian Hongxing hugged him in her arms and cried silently. Wang Zhixian gave Saihu a few pieces of rice candy to relieve his panic.
Then, he picked up the grinding hook and asked Saihu with a smile: "Saihu, tell me, who gave you this grinding hook?" Saihu pinched the rice candy, looked at his mother and the others, and replied timidly: "My grandfather gave it to me." ”
Wang Zhixian asked softly: "Good boy, tell me, what is the use of your grandfather giving you this grinding hook?" Saihu replied while gesturing: "Grandpa said that when my mother sleeps, I will grind it on my mother's grandmother, and when it is polished, my grandfather will buy me delicious food." ”
Wang Zhixian saw that Saihu was not afraid, and continued to ask: "Grandpa is letting you grind noodles?" Saihu replied, "Grandpa said to grind on my mother's grandmother." ”
Wang Zhixian first let people send the child away, and then turned to Qian Hongxing and asked: "This child was not born to you and Master Yang, but to you and Qian Yixin, right?" ”
Qian Hongxing nodded guiltily. The magistrate immediately summoned the maid and whispered a few words in her ear. The maid then stepped forward, surrounded Qian Hongxing with a screen in the hall, wiped her breasts repeatedly with a wet towel, and then beat the egg on the wet towel and brought a yellow dog to lick the towel.
In the blink of an eye, the yellow dog fell to the ground and died. At this point, the truth of the case was finally revealed. It turned out that Qian Hongxing's so-called "premature baby" Saihu was not the son of Master Yang, but the son of Qian Yixin.
In order to avoid suspicion, Qian Hongxing and Qian Yixin deliberately called the full-term Saihu "premature". Although Qian Yixin lost his wife Qian Hongxing, he had a son, Saihu, which gave him hope in life.
Because he thinks that in the future, Saihu will inherit the Yang family's family property. However, he did not expect that Qian Hongxing would later have a child with Master Yang, named Saibao. This made him worried, because the child might grow up and take half of Saihu's property.
Qian Yixin was malicious and tried to frame Saibao and let his son Saihu monopolize the family property. He cleverly devised a plan to induce Saihu to smear poison on Qian Hongxing's chest with a grinding hook, in an attempt to poison the leopard who was **.
However, Saibao contracted diarrhea, and Lang Zhong recommended fasting for three days and replacing it with rice batter. After Saihu got the grinding hook, he grinded noodles on Qian Hongxing's grandmother (breast), but Qian Hongxing did not stop him.
Qian Yixin thought that Saibao was dead, and mistakenly thought that Saihu had not applied poison, so he accidentally ate Hedinghong when he was close to Qian Hongxing, and finally died in Huangquan. As a result, Xiao Saihu actually killed his fake grandfather and real father, Qian Yixin"**
This case became a strange case in Chongqing at that time, and it made people deeply realize that evil has evil retribution. Qian Yixin's self-proclaimed cleverness and viciousness ended up hurting himself.