Fang Ping was a scholar in Qingping Town, and his life was very hard. His father passed away very early, and he could only live with his mother. Fang Ping studied at home every morning, went up the mountain to cut firewood in the afternoon, and carried firewood to the market the next morning to sell it to subsidize some household expenses.

That afternoon, Fang Ping was chopping firewood on the mountain as usual, and on the road at the foot of the mountain, he saw a woman in white sitting on a stone by the roadside from a distance. When Fang Ping passed the woman, he could only hear the woman crying. Fang Ping hurriedly went up and asked, "Dare to ask what difficulties the girl has encountered? Is there any place where Xiaosheng can help?"

The woman looked up and saw a young scholar, wiped her tears and said, "I am a foreigner. My parents died early, and I followed my husband to do business here. But my husband died of an illness.

The scholar saw that the woman was pitiful and looked lovely, so he stepped forward and said, "It will be dark soon, and this barren mountain is not a place to stay for a long time. If the girl doesn't dislike it, she can stay at Xiaosheng's house temporarily. There are two tile houses in my house, and there is only one old mother in the house, so you can talk more." The woman got up to thank him and followed Fang Ping home.

Back home, Fang Ping's mother, Sun Shi, was surprised to see that Fang Ping had not only brought a basket of firewood, but also a young girl. Fang Ping told the story of the matter, and Sun Shi hurriedly took Orchid's hand and walked into the house, poured water for Orchid Tea, and said that Orchid was also a poor girl.

The Sun family persuaded Orchid to stay here for a few more days, and she was very bored with her wife, so she could just be a companion. Orchid had to agree, so she stayed for several days, and the Sun family loved Orchid even more. Orchid was not only diligent, but also ingenious, sewing clothes and making embroidered shoes.

Sun shi wanted to keep Orchid as her daughter-in-law, but she didn't know Orchid's intentions. That night, Sunshi bought some wine and vegetables on the street, and asked Orchid while eating: "Orchid, I don't know what you plan to do next?Orchid lowered her head and said, "There is no one in my family, and I will become a widow when my husband dies, and I have nowhere to go. If you think I 'm bored, I will leave tomorrow, and I will not disturb you." After saying that, she began to cry.

Sun Shi and Fang Ping both felt distressed, and Sun Shi smiled and said, "My silly daughter, it's too late to like you, how can I drive you away? To tell you the truth, I like you very much and deliberately want you to be my daughter-in-law, I don't know what you think." Orchid looked up at Fang Ping, and saw Fang Ping staring at her, and her face blushed with shame. Orchid said coquettishly, "As long as Young Master doesnot dislike it, I am willing to serve you and Young Master as a cow and a horse."

Sun Shi was happy because Sun Shi knew that according to her family background, which girl would be willing to marry Fang Ping, a poor scholar, and two dilapidated houses. Now that she has a daughter-in-law for nothing, she is still so beautiful and virtuous, so she is naturally very happy. " Sunshi said to Orchid and Fang Ping, "I will inform our relatives and friends tomorrow and hold a wedding for you the day after tomorrow."

The wedding was very lively, and the relatives and friends were also happy for Fang Ping to marry such a beautiful daughter-in-law, but they were relatively good. How could Fang Ping suddenly find such a beautiful daughter-in-law? Fang Ping just smiled and said nothing. The guests dispersed, the wedding room was full of flowers, and the husband and wife were like glue. The next day, Orchid Fang Ping said that he wanted to make a coat for his mother-in-law Sun, and asked Fang Ping to go to town to buy a cloth, and then took out a tael of silver from his pocket for Fang Ping.

Fang Ping was very touched. The first day he entered the door, he knew that he was filial to his mother-in-law, and he was spending his own money, so Fang Ping quickly went to the market to cut a piece of cloth back. With the orchid in his hand, while Fang Ping was not paying attention, he poked a big hole in the cloth, and then deliberately shouted, "Oh, why is there a hole in this cloth, this is the bad cloth given to you by the shopkeeper." Fang Ping turned his head and saw that there was indeed a big hole in the cloth. Fang Ping angrily asked the shopkeeper to change it.

The shopkeeper had never seen a problem with his own cloth, but thinking Fang Ping was a scholar, he shouldn't lie to himself. Maybe he didn't check the cloth well, so he took another one to Fang Ping and carefully checked it before giving it to Fang Ping. After Fang Ping got it home, he handed it to Orchid, who asked Fang Ping to go to the bedroom to get the wire box.

When Fang Ping came out of the bedroom, he saw Orchid with a sad face. Fang Ping didn't know what was going on and hurried up to ask what was wrong. Orchid said aggrieved: "This is clearly bullying the honest man. Look, this cloth is also broken, how can you make clothes with such a big opening? This shopkeeper is too deceiving!" Fang Ping is an honest man, and he will not doubt his wife. An honest man's anger is like a paper house on fire, once it is lit, it cannot be extinguished.

Fang Ping took the rag with the hole and went to the shopkeeper to argue. The shopkeeper was also very angry. He had clearly checked it, so the shopkeeper thought that Fang Ping was just looking for fault, so he called a few buddies to beat Fang Ping. Fang Ping came home with a bruised face, and Orchid and Sun Shi were very distressed after seeing it. Orchid took Fang Ping into the house and said, "You have a good rest first, we will go to the official government to sue him tomorrow!"

At midnight, Fang Ping was fast asleep. Orchid picked up the pillow and covered Fang Ping's face, then sat on the pillow, Fang Ping struggled a few times, and his legs straightened. After a good meeting, Orchid lifted the pillow and probed Fang Ping's breath and pulse to confirm that Fang Ping was indeed dead, before lying on the bed and sleeping. When it was just dawn, Orchid screamed on purpose, and then cried: "My Langjun, my poor husband, you died so miserably, it was the black-hearted shopkeeper who hurt you!"

The Sun family came to inquire, and when they saw that their son was dead, they also burst into tears. The neighbors heard the cries of the mother and daughter, and they all came to visit. Orchid threatened that Fang Ping, who was killed by the shopkeeper of the cloth shop, was going to fight a life lawsuit with the shopkeeper of the cloth shop. The shopkeeper of the cloth shop heard the news and hurriedly sent someone to ask for peace and asked for privacy. Orchid and Sun discussed that since the dead could not be revived, the living still had to survive, so they agreed to go private. Orchid asked the shopkeeper of the cloth shop for one thousand taels of silver, but the shopkeeper of the cloth shop did not have that much, and finally lost eight hundred taels of silver.

That day, Fang Ping's coffin was buried, and the white food was done. After a tiring day, Sun Shi and Lan Hua fell asleep early. The next day, when Sun Shi woke up again, the orchid was gone, and the 800 taels of silver hidden under Sun Shi's pillow were also gone.

At that time, the Sun family woke up like a dream. It turned out that all this was a scam designed by Orchid, first to win sympathy and become a family member, then to let her husband create conflicts with others, and finally to find an opportunity to kill her husband and frame others.