There was a Yuanyang Building in Shaanxi Lane, Suzhou, and there was a girl named Liu Yingniang in the Yuanyang Building. This Liu Yingniang was talented and beautiful, and she only sold her art but not her body. No matter how big an official or rich she was, she would never make an exception.

One day, a beggar on the street walked into the mandarin duck building with an ingot of silver and asked Liu Yingniang by name. The old lady recognized money but not people, called the waiter to bring tea to the guest, and sent the beggar into Liu Yingniang's room.

In the time of a cup of tea, Liu Yingniang ran downstairs screaming: "Dead, beggar is dead!" The old lady was startled and went upstairs to see that beggar was indeed dead, bleeding from her seven orifices, and her facial features had shifted. Life is at stake, so the old lady hurriedly sent the waiter to report to the official.

The official arrived, conducted a post-mortem examination, and took the quickly inspected the scene. The beggar died of poisoning, the beggar said. The beggar had poison in her teacup, and Liu Yingniang had half a pack of poison under her bed. Needless to say, Liu Yingniang had serious suspicion, and the beggar took Liu Yingniang away with a shake of the chain. The old lady's body was like a sieve: "Master, this dead man..." The beggar waved his hand: "Dig a pit and bury it." The old lady hurriedly called the waiter and carried the dead body away.

Liu Yingniang was locked up in prison and awaiting trial. Liu Yingniang was wronged, and the beggar's death had nothing to do with her. The beggar entered the house, the waiter poured tea, and Liu Yingniang went to the window to dress up. When she turned around, the beggar had already fallen to the ground and died. She shouted at the head of the prison, and the head of the prison shook his head vigorously: "Girl, it's useless for you to shout at me. It's up to Lord Wang to have the final say whether you are wronged or not."

Lord Wang is the new Suzhou prefect Wang Lianju, who has just been in office for more than a month. The day after Liu Yingniang was imprisoned, Wang Lianju came to visit the prison. After retracting the head of the prison, Wang Lianju whispered to Liu Yingniang: "Miss Liu, your lawsuit is decided by this official. If you say you are guilty, you are guilty, and if you say you are innocent, you are innocent. Do you want to be guilty or innocent?" Liu Yingniang knelt and kowtowed: "My lord, the civilian girl is innocent, please check it out." Wang Lianju smiled, "If you want to be innocent, you have to promise me one thing. After you go out, you have to... ah, haha..." When Liu Yingniang heard that, she looked up at Wang Lianju and couldn't help but be surprised: "My lord, are you the Wang Daguan who went to the Yuanyang Building that day?" Wang Lianju nodded: "It's this official, now you should follow this official, right?" Liu Yingniang lowered her head and bit her lips tightly.

In fact, this Wang Lianju is not a good thing. As soon as I arrived in Suzhou, I drank with local businesspeople and celebrities. I heard Liu Yingniang of Yuanyang Building is as beautiful as a flower, but she is not a prostitute. No matter how big the official is, no matter how rich the person is, he can't even touch her. Wang Lianju is angry. I am a dignified prefect, can't I even be a prostitute? He came to Yuanyang Building in casual clothes, claiming to be a high official of Wang. After seeing Liu Yingniang, he paid a lot of money to share the joy of fish and water with Liu Yingniang. Liu Yingniang ignored him and only cared about playing and singing. Wang Lianju was going to be hard, but Liu Yingniang called the waiter and persuaded Wang Lianju to leave.

After going out, Wang Lianju saw the beggar. He was stunned for a moment. The beggar was a bit like a person he had seen before, and this person still posed a great threat to him, but he was not sure if the beggar was that person.

Wang Lianju returned to the yamen and found Wu San, the head of the police, saying that the beggar had a grudge against him and wanted the beggar to die in Liuying's room in the mandarin duck building. Wu San was a flattering higher, and when Wang Lianju said this, he understood everything, and slapped his chest: "My lord, it's easier to kill a beggar than to step on an ant, don't worry."

Wu San bribed a waiter in the Mandarin Duck Building, gave five ingots of silver and a bag of poison to the waiter, and asked him to poison the beggar in Liuying's room. The waiter gave the beggar two ingots of silver, and asked the beggar to see Liuying's mother, then poisoned the beggar's cup, and threw half a bag of poison under Liuying's bed while Liuying's window was dressing up. As soon as the waiter left, the beggar picked up the teacup, screamed, and fell to the ground, bleeding to death from seven orifices.

The beggar died in Liu Yingniang's room, and Liu Yingniang became a murder suspect, and her life was in the hands of Wang Lianju. Wang Lianju asked Liu Yingniang to obey him, otherwise it would be "business".

Liu Yingniang lowered her head for a while without saying a word, and when she raised her head, tears were already flowing down her face: "My lord, the folk girl is not a nasty generation, she is in a brothel, but she has to do it." Liu Yingniang cried word by word, telling her life experience.

Liu Yingniang was originally a lady, her real name was Liu Moxiang, and she could do everything in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. The matchmaker introduced her to countless children from rich families, but she didn't like any of them, so she fell in love with the poor scholar in the city. She and the poor scholar made a private appointment for life, but was discovered by her parents. Her parents broke off relations with her and expelled her from the house. She had no regrets. She was willing to accompany the poor scholar. The poor scholar made great progress in his studies, but had no money to go to Beijing to take the exams. For the future of the poor scholar, she quietly sold herself into a mandarin house and let the poor scholar take the money and go to Beijing. But as soon as the poor scholar went, there was no news, and she was trapped in the mandarin house.

Liu Yingniang cried and said, "My lord, I am waiting for my son to pick me up. I would rather die than obey my lord." Wang Lianju heard that, this person is really stubborn, since you want to die, don't blame me for being rude!

Wang Lianju was promoted to court to ask about the case. The police quickly laid out the evidence, and Wang Lianju tortured Liu Yingniang to extract a confession, and convicted Liu Yingniang of murder, and beheaded her seven days later. Wang Lianju's case was confirmed, and the master hurriedly said, "My lord, the prisoner cannot be beheaded, and the murder of a felon must be submitted to the Ministry of Punishment, and the autumn can only be beheaded." Wang Lianju's eyes glared: "Is there no beheading first and then playing? I have the final say here, retreat from the court!" When the master saw it, why did the master not even understand the law of the Great Qing? Let him go, anyway, it is not my business to blame the court.

Seven days later, a law field was set up in the bustling city, and Wang Lianju personally supervised the execution. Liuying Niang knelt on the ground with her hands tied behind her back, and three soul-chasing cannons rang out, and Liuying Niang wept on her back: "Young Master Wang, Mo Xiang can't wait for you, and was wronged. If there is a fate in the next life, you and I will meet again!" After Liuying Niang finished speaking, the executioner raised the ghost head knife. At this moment, a person rushed into the law field like crazy and shouted: "Leave someone under the knife!"

Wang Lianju looked and saw that it was the beggar who broke into the arena. Wang Lianju was stunned, wasn't this beggar dead? Why is he alive again? Just as he was thinking, he suddenly heard the sound of the gong outside the arena, and a fast horse came over the crowd: "Long live it!"

Wang Lianju hurriedly ran out of the execution platform and knelt down to greet the emperor. The emperor was visiting this place privately and was surprised to hear that the prisoners were being executed in the midst of the chaos. According to the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty, except for the emperor's royal approval, the execution of prisoners was in the autumn queen. At this time, it was Chunyue, and he had not personally approved it. How could Suzhou execute prisoners? The emperor immediately changed into dragon robes and ordered the guards to clear the way and go to the field to ask the truth.

The emperor was sitting on the execution platform, ordering everyone to get flat, and then asked Wang Lianju: "Are you from Suzhou?" Wang Lianju quickly said: "Ah, yes, Xiaguan is the prefect of Suzhou." The emperor was angry when he heard that, Xiaguan? Why can't this prefect speak? Talking to the emperor should be called "Wei Chen", he took me as a governor! The emperor ignored him and asked, "What crime did the person to be beheaded commit?" Wang Lianju said: "Ah, it's... murder." The emperor was angry again, what's wrong with this prefect, talking to the emperor "ah yes", this guy's score is bigger than mine! The emperor pressed the fire: "As the prefect, don't you know the laws of the Great Qing Dynasty?" Wang Lianju was gone: "This..."

At this time, the beggar ran to the beheading stage, knelt on the ground, and kowtowed: "Long live, that woman didn't kill, she was wronged!" The beggar told him how he "came back from the dead".

That day, the mandarin-duck waiter gave the beggar two ingots of silver and told him to go to see Liu Yingniang. The beggar thought there must be a reason for this, so he hid a ingot of silver and gave the old madame one ingot of silver, and went upstairs to see Liu Yingniang. The waiter poisoned the tea, but he didn't see it, but he knew that the waiter would not give him silver for good, so he took the "Extinction of Qi Pill" given to him by the old beggar. The old beggar knew him when he was begging, and the old beggar said that there are many unexpected people who beg. When they encounter danger, they can take the "Extinction of Qi Pill" and feign death. "Extinction of Qi Pill" is the magic medicine of the beggar gang. After taking it, they will bleed from seven orifices, and they will lose their qi and have no pulse. If they were poisoned after two hours, the beggar regained his qi and moved freely. After the beggar had faked his death, he was thrown into the wilderness by the two waiters, and when he heard the conversation between the waiters, he knew that someone in the government wanted to poison him and frame Liu Yingniang. After the power of medicine was over, the beggar wrote a paper and waited for the passing high-ranking officials on the official road, but unexpectedly bumped into the emperor. The beggar told the imperial court, and the emperor thought it strange that spring flowers were blooming to execute the prisoners, and there must be something tricky about it. The emperor asked the beggar to take a step first, and he and his group arrived later.

The beggar didn't die, and Liu Yingniang was naturally innocent. Just as Wang Lianju was about to let him go, the beggar kowtowed again: "Long live, the student still has grievances, the student was originally in the palace last year to visit Wang Lianju, and long live to appoint Suzhou Prefect." The Emperor was stunned, How did two Suzhou prefects come out at this moment?

When Wang Lianju, who was wearing official clothes, heard this, he quickly said, "Long live, no, the lower official is Wang Lianju, this beggar is talking nonsense!" The emperor looked at Wang Lianju, who was wearing official clothes, and his mind was a little confused. He knew that Wang Lianju had won Tanhua, but after such a long time, he also forgot what Wang Lianju looked like. He couldn't figure out who was real and who was fake in these two Wang Lianju.

The beggar knelt and crawled two steps and said, "Long live, the student is the real Wang Lianju. After Long live appointed the student to the Suzhou mansion, the student left Beijing and his backpack was stolen in the hotel. The entanglement and official documents for the appointment were all gone. When the student came to Suzhou begging along the street, he found that this person had already pretended to be the prefect for the student." The emperor nodded: "So, you are real?" Wang Lianju, who was wearing an official uniform, quickly knelt down: "Long live Mingcha, the lower official is the real one."

The emperor walked up to the two men and said, "Do you remember the title of the palace examination?" Wang Lianju said, "It's'Dao also has Dao '." The beggar nodded: "It's'Dao also has Dao'." The emperor added: "I once said a sentence when I commented on Wang Lianju's article, do you know?" The beggar Wang Lianju said: "Long live the language is incisive and allusive." Wang Lianju, who was wearing an official uniform, nodded quickly: "Yes, yes, it is exactly this sentence." The beggar said to the emperor: "Long live, it can be proved that he is fake. At that time, when Long live commented on the student article, it was not this sentence, but'moving clouds and flowing water, falling characters have sound '."

The emperor turned to the back of the table and waved his hand at the guard: "Come on, take down the thief who pretended to be the official of the imperial court, and rectify the law on the spot!" The fake king Lianju heard it and quickly kowtowed: "The emperor spares his life, the emperor spares his life!" The guard stepped forward and pushed Wang Lianju, who was wearing an official uniform, to the open space, and chopped his head with a knife. It turned out that the fake Wang Lianju was a river and lake thief. Seeing that Wang Lianju's official documents for his office were among the stolen bags, he pretended to be the prefect of Suzhou. When he walked out of the mandarin house, he found that the beggar was a bit like Wang Lianju, so he came up with a plan to kill two birds with one stone, poison Wang Lianju, and frame Liuying Niang. Unexpectedly, Wang Lianju did not die, and he even sued the imperial court to expose his false prefect.

Wang Lianju put on his official uniform and officially took office, kneeling and kowtowing to thank the emperor. Liu Moxiang was also released, walked to the emperor and knelt down, kowtowing to thank the emperor, Liu Moxiang looked at Wang Lianju with tears in her eyes: "Young Master, I am Mo Xiang, don't you recognize me?" It turned out that Wang Lianju was a poor scholar whom Liu Moxiang had promised. Because Wang Lianju did not report his name when he went to Yuanyang Building, and he had ragged clothes, Liu Moxiang did not recognize him. I heard him say his name was Wang Lianju just now, and after taking a closer look, I recognized it.

Wang Lianju looked at Liu Moxiang and couldn't help but shed tears. In fact, when he saw Liu Yingniang in the Yuanyang Building, he already felt that Liu Yingniang and Liu Moxiang were very similar, but he didn't dare to recognize each other. First, he did not believe that Liu Moxiang would end up in such a place, and second, he was afraid that Liu Yingniang would cooperate with the waiter to plot against him, so he took medicine and feigned death to protect himself first.

Liu Moxiang told her about selling herself to raise money and sending Wang Lianju to Beijing to take the exam. Wang Lianju took Liu Moxiang's hand in touch: "Moxiang, I made you suffer."

The emperor looked at it and nodded again and again: "Okay, what a pair of lovers, I will be a matchmaker for you, so that the lovers will eventually get married!" Wang Lianju and Liu Moxiang both knelt down and kowtowed in gratitude.