Yishui County Li Yue family is poor, and his mother Wang is dependent on each other. On weekdays, planting a few acres of thin land, Li Yue went to the mountains to cut firewood to market to sell. Earn some silver to supplement the family.
One day, he came home at dusk because he was greedy for too much, and heard a woman crying. He hurriedly fled, but it was a beautiful woman sitting on the ground crying. He hurriedly asked her why she was crying in that deep mountain. The woman saw Li Hanhou's honesty and gentle attitude. Then she stopped crying and said her name was Manqiu. Her parents were greedy for money and wanted to marry her to an old rich man as a concubine. She didn't want to, so she ran out and walked a lot of ways alone. In panic, she strayed into the deep mountain. Seeing that it was getting late, she panicked and accidentally broke her foot.
Li Yue saw that the woman was very beautiful, and he liked her in his heart, so he couldn't help but summon up his courage and said, "It's getting late now, and there are many tigers, wolves, and poisonous insects in the mountains. It's really not safe. If the girl does not dislike the humble home of the villain, she can go to the villain's house to rest. When the woman heard this, she immediately broke into tears and laughed, then scratched her head at Li Yue. When Li Yue saw it, she panicked and turned crimson, lowered her head, and let the woman lean over and carry her home.
When Wang, the old mother of the family, saw him bring a woman to the house, she couldn't help but be surprised and happy. She asked the reason, and then happily arranged dinner. She also slaughtered the laying hens in the house to nourish Manqiu's body. For several days, the two women carefully served Manqiu. Li Yue sold firewood and bought some nourishment for Manqiu. A few months later, Manqiu was raised in a round and jade. Wang witnessed that she was very beautiful, and witnessed her son Li Yuechang secretly looking at Manqiu with dementia, so she deliberately arranged for them to become husband and wife.
Because his family was poor, Li Yue had not married for nearly 30 years. Unexpectedly, when Wang Shi tried Man Qiu, Man Qiu's face turned crimson and she agreed shyly. The mother and son were overjoyed. Then they found relatives to congratulate them. Inman Qiu said that he had run away from the marriage and was afraid that his parents would find out and find her again, so he asked Wang Shi to hide his background and say that he was an orphan. Wang Shi happily agreed.
After getting married, Li Yue was in a good mood and worked hard every day. Wang shi also raised a lot of chickens and ducks at home and fed them carefully every day, while Manqiu was very energetic every night, but drowsy during the day. She seemed very afraid of the animals in the courtyard. She circled the house every day, never approached those chickens and ducks, and liked meat very much.
In this way, a few months later, most of the chickens and ducks in the family were slaughtered. After getting married, Manqiu was very lazy and had never worked. Slowly, the Wang family became angry, so they stopped buying some chickens and ducks for maintenance. And Manqiu's face became more and more ugly! When Manqiu saw her mother-in-law like this, he couldn't help but cry to Li Yue on the pillow at night, saying that he was not in good health, and that he was a eldest lady who was served by servants at home, but now he was so poor and humiliated here, so he might as well go back to his mother's house! She said while packing the burden. Li Yue was shocked when he saw that he was so hard to marry, how could he let her go? Busy and comforting, saying that he would definitely convince his mother to stop disliking her so much!
But Li Yue did not expect that his mother was very cold at his persuasion. Dao Manqiu was really lazy and greedy, and he ate, drank, and had fun every day except sleeping. After the chickens and ducks were killed in those days, one night she got up to go to the hut and saw Manqiu go out to get back some cockroaches, green insects, grasshoppers, and earthworms. She looked at them with joy on her face. She was shocked and angry, trembling all over, and did not dare to come forward to reprimand her. When she came back from the hut, the animals had disappeared, and to her astonishment she saw a thick green juice flowing out of the corners of Manqiu's mouth.
She thought of Li Yue's chance encounter with her, all kinds of strange movements, and Li Yue was physically strong when she just got married, but now her body is getting thinner and thinner, her face is pale, and her body is weak. She suspected that she had been changed by a goblin. Li Yue heard this and hated her mother very much.
After that, Li Yue then bought some meat for Manqiu to eat. Wang Shi was even more angry and often reprimanded Manqiu. In the face of the reprimand, Manqiu had no words, but only cried and complained to Li Yue at night. At this time, Li Yue's health was getting worse and worse, and he could not even walk steadily.
Wang shi was very sad to be kicked out by them, and she cried on the side of the road with her burden. At this time, a monk passed by and asked the reason, he suspected that Manqiu was a goblin. Then he secretly returned with Wang Shi at night and saw that Li Yue was skinny and pale, lying on the bed, and next to him was a huge and terrifying scorpion.
Wang shi was so scared that she suddenly fainted. When she woke up, she saw that she was in the wild, and the monk sat silently with his solemn hands folded. Remembering that his son at home now didn't know how to live, he couldn't help crying. Seeing her wake up, the monk comforted her and told her a strange plan to get rid of the scorpion. Wang Shi nodded after listening.
The next morning, Wang Shi secretly witnessed Li Yue walking up the mountain while Manqiu was fast asleep. Then she quietly sprinkled lime powder around the house and pretended to laugh and wake Manqiu up, saying that she was wrong and would not reprimand and embarrass her in the future, saying that she had brought her meat. Manqiu was very excited to see this.
It was too late to say, but it was fast. The monk and Wang Shi, who were hiding in the dark, pushed her down from the tank with force, and quickly poured the boiling hot sesame oil into the tank, and then threw the turpentine torch into it. Only the sizzling sound inside was heard, accompanied by a shrill hiss. Not much, no movement. The two stepped forward to see that the big scorpion inside was burning black. When Li Yue arrived at home and witnessed this scene, he couldn't help but feel remorse and knelt down to kowtow to his mother and monk. After that, his body gradually improved.