The story behind the Qing Dynasty marriage fraud case and the matchmaker's conspiracy The gentry's greed
* Although there are endless tricks, there is only one word for the reason why people are deceived:"Greedy"As long as you have greed in your heart, you can easily be deceived. The story we are going to tell today is that in the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich son because"Greedy"And be deceived.
During the Qing Dynasty, there was a rich gentleman named Huang Daguan in Zhejiang, although he was not a rich country, but he could also be regarded as a small wealth, as the saying goes"Annoyed"Although this Huang Daguan has a wife and a concubine in his family, because his wife is old and the concubine is weak, he will win the favor of a beautiful concubine.
Thinking of it, Huang Daguan specially asked someone to inquire about the news for him and promised:"Who can provide me with a beautiful woman as a concubine, Huang is grateful. "There is a personal name"Dwarf woman"'s ugly woman, black as a ripe lotus root, thick as a winter melon, less than three meters tall, likes to say that the matchmaker deceives people, after hearing the news, she secretly agreed to Huang Daguan's idea.
More than ten days later, this woman came to Huang Daguan's house, saying that she had found a beautiful woman more than ten miles away from Huang Daguan's house and wanted to marry the daughter of the family to Huang Daguan as a concubine. After Huang Daguan found out, he took a short-haired woman to meet her. In a relatively poor family, Huang Daguan saw this woman, and when he saw that her appearance was really outstanding, he was very happy, so he asked the woman's father if his daughter was willing to be a concubine, and the father said that the family was poor, and it was not bad for his daughter to marry into a rich man's family, of course she was willing.
Back home, Huang Daguan couldn't wait to discuss the cost of buying a concubine with his wife. Huang Daguan said that he needed 1,000 taels, and his wife agreed to pay 500 taels first. As the saying goes"Marry a wife and buy a concubine", The status of concubines was very low in ancient times, and once the husband's family paid for a concubine, the concubine became the personal property of the husband's family and had nothing to do with the mother's family. Once an agreement is reached, both parties pay money and sign a contract that sets out the date of marriage.
Although taking a concubine is not as formal as marrying a wife, it also requires some preparation. Huang Daguan paid for the concubine, set a wedding date, and began to prepare. However, just three days before the wedding, the woman suddenly came to Huang Daguan's house and told him that she suddenly had malaria and could not get married on time, hoping that Huang Daguan could postpone the marriage for a few days. Who knew that a few days later, the woman came again, saying that the woman's malaria had not been cured, and hoped that he could postpone the wedding for a few days, so Huang Daguan had to agree again.
Huang Daguan was also a little angry, so he stepped forward to discuss with the short woman. When the woman heard this, she was angry and said, ""His daughter married a concubine, how could he have such a big attitude. Master Huang, don't worry, I'll go to their house and won't let them find excuses to delay again. "
Not long ago, when the short woman was about to come back, he said to Huang Daguanren:"I'm afraid things will change, get the boat ready immediately, and I'll bring you back the woman today with the person who went to rob your relatives. "
Huang Daguan became suspicious, and was afraid that the silver would be gone, so he immediately ordered two boats to be hired, and invited more than a dozen strong men to carry a short woman to her house overnight. The short woman asked Huang Daguan to take the boat guards to her village, and they took advantage of the night to rob relatives in the village.
At about three o'clock in the night, more than a dozen people came from the village in a hurry, and one of them jumped on Huang Daguan's boat, put a humanoid object wrapped in cloth on Huang Daguan's back, and then a short woman got on the boat and said to Huang Daguan:"The girl has malaria, don't be afraid of her, when the fever goes away, she will wake up. Send the girl back at once, and we'll escort her on the boat. "
Huang Daguan nodded, and immediately ordered the boat to sail, and the two boats returned home overnight. However, when the boat was about to arrive home, Huang Daguan felt more and more uncomfortable, if the woman was unconscious due to a malaria attack, it would not be, but under the bumps all the way, the woman was always motionless and never let out a painful moan, but Huang Daguan was very twisted.
Huang Daguan was suspicious, watching the woman become more and more wrong, thinking about it, and finally touched the hand, who knew that the hand was actually a cold and hard face, not like a real person. Huang Daguan was shocked in his heart, and immediately ordered someone to bring a torch, put aside the veil and take a closer look, but saw that it was a woman, obviously a white wooden statue of Guanyin.
Realizing that he had been deceived, Huang Daguan hurriedly ordered the boat to be stopped and tied up, waiting for the arrival of the short woman's boat, and asked to see her again. However, when there was no sign of the boat at dawn, it was known that the short woman must have fled.
Officer Huang did not allow the boatman to park his car in the middle of nowhere, and after paying a very generous rental fee, he went to look for the petite woman.
For more than ten days, Huang Daguan sent people to inquire about the whereabouts of the Guanyin statue, but this short woman, single and childless, homeless, was very easy to find. In desperation, Huang Daguan had no choice but to send someone to a nearby temple to inquire about the whereabouts of the Guanyin statue, and secretly put the Guanyin statue back first.
After some investigation, Huang Daguan found that a statue of Guanyin was originally enshrined in Shiguan Temple in Dongcun, but due to the poor guarding of the temple gate, the statue was stolen one night. However, when Huang Daguan prepared to secretly return the statue, he found that the disappearance of the statue and the measures strengthened by the temple made it difficult for the temple to secretly return the statue.
Huang Daguan was helpless, so he had to honestly explain the situation to the master, knowing that the master was very unhappy when he heard it, Huang Daguan immediately summoned the nobles from all over the world to theorize with him, Huang Daguan was soon blocked, they secretly received ten taels of silver to each other, and wanted to solve the matter privately, the master said that the matter could not be thirty-two, Huang Daguan had to pay this number, and they decided to wait until the dead of night to go to Guanyin.
When Huang Daguan ordered the statue of Guanyin to be sent for trial, it was unexpectedly discovered by two drunks who returned from the banquet. Huang Daguan was caught red-handed and confronted him after going to the monastery to ask the reason. After explaining the reason for the incident, the two said:"We don't care if you are deceived or not, blasphemy is always a sin, are you sent to the official or punished? "
Huang Daguan had no choice but to accept the punishment, and the drunkard immediately asked his wife to invite the Quartet dignitaries, and after some public discussion, it was finally decided that Huang Daguan deserved it, fined him one hundred taels of silver, and rebuilt Huang Daguan according to the statue, and the matter was over.
A few months later, Huang Daguan visited friends in a neighboring area and met a short woman on the way. In fact, in order to find someone, this short woman pretended to be Huang Daguan, and shared the spoils with those strong men with the silver that Huang Daguan took, anyway, she had nothing to do with those strong men, she just took the silver and fled to the neighboring area to live, of course Huang Daguan couldn't find her.
Huang Daguanren noticed the short woman at that time and knew her theory, but he said:"If you take a concubine for nothing, it will harm your fortune, just like offering to the Bodhisattva and asking you to pray for blessings, I am here to make you wake up. "
Huang Daguan saw through his nonsense and was willing to listen to him, he only asked for the money back.
The short woman said"I'm telling you, this woman is actually a good woman, I gave her money to lie to you, her father is a **, I gave her money. I've already spent the money, and I can't afford to pay it back anyway, so I'll go to the state court with you, and I'll say:'Look at this woman, she is very beautiful, and you want me to say that she is an adulterer and adulteress, so what, when you have a sales contract, it is not set by her biological parents anyway, and people say that you have set a fake contract, how can you object? Now you just lost some money and went to court, not to mention the ruin of your family, at least you will throw her in prison, anyway, it doesn't matter, the most important thing is that she goes to prison. What are you going to do? "
When Huang Daguan saw her say this, he thought that he couldn't do anything, so he had to insultingly let go of the short woman and walked away.