Meng Yang, the magistrate of Yongyang County, had a daughter named Meng Jiao, who was born as beautiful as a fairy. However, I don't know when Meng Jiao's body was covered with fish scales, and no one could cure her. People called her "Fish Girl."

In order to cure his daughter's strange illness, Meng Yang posted a notice saying that whoever could cure Meng Jiao's illness would betroth Meng Jiao to him and reward him with 500 silver taels! A month after the notice was posted, a young man named Long Baichuan came to the county yamen and said he wanted to treat Meng Jiao. Meng Yang was very happy, and according to the notice, he made a document with Long Baichuan on the spot.

After Long Baichuan looked at the scales on Meng Jiao's body, he brought two bowls of cold water, pierced his middle finger, dripped the blood into the bowl, and asked Meng Jiao to use one bowl to wipe her body and one bowl to drink.

The scales on Meng Jiao's body shed little by little, but Long Baichuan's face became as white as paper. Meng Jiao saw it in her eyes, and her heart ached: This Young Master Long doesn't even want his life for me. When my illness is cured, I must marry him and serve him well for the rest of my life.

That day, Long Baichuan found Meng Yang and said Meng Jiao's illness was getting better soon. Meng Yang was very happy, and was about to discuss with Long Baichuan when the marriage would be completed, so he didn't want to send someone to run in and say that Governor Zhang had arrived. When Meng Yang heard this, he quickly greeted him, thinking to himself, Governor Zhang never came to Yongyang, why did he suddenly come today?

When he met Lord Zhang, Meng Yang was dumbfounded. Lord Zhang was here to ask his teacher for guilt. Lord Zhang said that this year, the court allocated 10 million two silver to dredge the canal, but Meng Yang only spent 5 million and asked where the other two 5 million went. Meng Yang said the other two 5 million were not seen at all. When Lord Zhang heard it, he was anxious and said, "Meng Yang, don't pretend anymore, this official has investigated clearly, the 5 million two silver has been stolen by you, I have witnesses here, you still don't admit it?" When Meng Yang heard it, he knelt down and said, "Lord Zhang, I am wronged, please check it clearly." Lord Zhang smiled and said, "You can let me check again, but you have to give me your daughter as my little wife. I heard that your daughter is handsome and used to be a'strange girl ', but now she has been cured." Meng Yang was embarrassed, he had already promised Meng Jiao to Long Baichuan, but if he did not agree to Lord Zhang, he would definitely give himself a book in front of the emperor, saying that he had swallowed river silver privately, and at that time, his head would not be safe. Finally, Meng Yang gritted his teeth and promised Lord Zhang that Lord Zhang would come to marry Meng Jiao tomorrow.

After sending Lord Zhang away, Meng Yang found Long Baichuan and said that he would withdraw from the marriage, but Long Baichuan refused to agree. Meng Yang was a tyrant, and he was not a husband, so he just wanted to be a little ruthless.

That night, Meng Yang set up a table of wine in the study, saying it was an engagement banquet. In fact, he poisoned the wine and wanted to poison Long Baichuan to death. How could Long Baichuan know Meng Yang drank toast, and after two glasses, he spat out blood and fell to the ground. Meng Yang took a look, found the note he wrote from Long Baichuan, took out a "letter of repentance" written in advance, grabbed Long Baichuan's hand and pressed the handprint, and then asked someone to throw Long Baichuan into the field.

The next day, Lord Zhang sent someone to marry Meng Yang's family. Meng Jiao was about to wipe her body with Long Baichuan's blood, but when she heard that her father wanted to marry her to Lord Zhang, she stopped wiping her body and cried on the bed. Meng Yang did not care about this, and asked the maid to force Meng Jiao to dress up and put her in a sedan chair.

Meng Jiao was still crying when she got into the sedan chair. She said in her heart that she had sworn to serve Long Baichuan for the rest of her life, and now her father wants to marry her to the governor, even if she dies. Meng Jiao thought, just as she was about to run out of the sedan chair to seek death, her body suddenly itched again, she lifted her clothes and saw that the fish scales were born again. Meng Jiao saw it and burst into tears and laughed, thinking, God has eyes, and she has become a "strange girl" again. Let's see if his surname Zhang still dares to marry me!

After a while, the sedan chair stopped at the inn where Lord Zhang was staying. As soon as the maid helped Meng Jiao down from the sedan chair, Lord Zhang, who was full of spring breeze, came to welcome her. As soon as the sedan chair curtain was lifted, Lord Zhang was startled, and he quickly called Meng Yang over, pointed at Meng Jiao and said, "Why does your daughter still have fish scales?" Meng Yang didn't believe it. Meng Yang hurriedly shook his head: "Lord Zhang, I really don't know what happened, just now she was..." Before Meng Yang finished speaking, Lord Zhang stared at him: "Meng Yang, you don't want your daughter to marry me, why did you mess with your daughter? I think you are trying to embarrass this old man! Come on, take Meng Yang down and immediately take him to the capital to be punished!" When Meng Yang heard that, he was so frightened that he knelt on the ground: "Lord, please forgive me, I didn't corrupt River Silver, and I didn't mess with her!" How could Lord Zhang listen to Meng Yang's words, as soon as he waved his hand, two guards jumped over and wanted to put a yoke on Meng Yang, and suddenly there was a break: "Wait a minute!"

As soon as Meng Yang turned around, he saw that the person shouting was actually Long Baichuan! I thought to myself, why is this guy alive again? The poison I poisoned was eight steps of broken intestines, and the immortals would die if they drank it, why didn't he die? Meng Yang was thinking, Long Baichuan came to Lord Zhang and "snapped" his waist card: "Lord Zhang, I am Duan Shuang, the first-rank guard with a sword in the imperial court." Lord Zhang looked at Duan Shuang's waist card and quickly saluted: "Lord Duan is polite." Duan Shuang ignored him and shouted: "Receive the order!" When Lord Zhang heard it, he quickly knelt down. Duan Shuang read: "After investigation, Inspector Zhang Haihe secretly swallowed the river silver 5 million two, in order to escape the crime, bribed Meng County Magistrate's men to give false evidence, and wanted to take Meng County Magistrate as the crime, witnesses and material evidence are all there, and immediately escorted to Beijing, thank you!" When Lord Zhang heard this, he sat on the ground. Duan Shuang waved his hand and immediately ran to two guards and escorted Lord Zhang to the already parked prison car.

Duan Shuang looked at Meng Yang: "Lord Meng, Long Baichuan is my pseudonym, my real name is Duan Shuang, pretending to be a doctor to treat Miss, in fact, according to the holy will to handle two cases, one case is that the envoy of Fuso Kingdom who paid tribute to the court disappeared while passing through Yongyang, the tribute'Panlong Cold Pearl 'disappeared, and the other case is that the 5 million two silver for dredging the canal was swallowed by someone. I concealed my identity and made an unannounced visit at the county government office, and learned that 5 million Two Rivers Silver was swallowed by Lord Zhang, and the'Panlong Cold Pearl' was hidden in the dark room under the lady's boudoir." When Meng Yang heard that, he broke out in a cold sweat: "Dragon, no, Lord Duan, how do you know?" Duan Shuang said: "Because of the'fish scale disease 'that Miss has, the'fish scale disease' can only be obtained when she is exposed to the poisonous energy, and your mansion will never have this poisonous energy for no reason. I guess there may be a'Coiling Dragon Cold Pearl 'in your mansion. That'Coiling Dragon Cold Pearl' is the national treasure of Fuso Country, and it is extremely cold, and there is a golden chain snake inlaid on the bead, which is extremely poisonous. Miss can only get'fish scale disease 'if she is exposed to the cold and poisonous gas of the snake bead. Later, I pretended to be a doctor and went to the mansion to treat the young lady while making unannounced and unannounced visits. Sure enough, the'Panlong Cold Pearl 'was hidden in the dark room under the young lady's boudoir. As for why my blood can cure the young lady's illness, and why you poisoned me, why I didn't die, that's because I ate a golden chain snake by mistake when I was a child. My father used traditional Chinese medicine to dissolve the snake venom, and the medicinal properties were integrated into my body, making me invulnerable to all poisons. The young lady's strange illness recurred today, because she didn't drink my blood when she went out, and she didn't use my blood to wipe her body and caught a cold outside. "Duan Shuang said, taking out a brocade box from her backpack:" Lord Meng, this is the'Panlong Cold Pearl' found in the dark room, are you still not guilty? "

When Meng Yang saw it, he knelt on the ground with a "plop" sound, and was so scared that his whole body was sifted with chaff. Duan Shuang continued: "I found out that when the Fuso emissary passed through Yongyang, he lived in the inn. When you went to visit, you saw that the emissary had a treasure in his hand, so you became evil, poisoned the emissary, and took away the Panlong Cold Pearl and hid it at home." When Meng Yang heard this, he had to bow his head and confess.

At this time, Meng Jiao ran over crying and knelt down in front of Duan Shuang, "Young Master, please, spare my father!" Duan Shuang helped Meng Jiao up and said, "Young Miss, your father has violated the law of the country, so I have no right to forgive him, but I will plead in front of Long Live. I think Long Live will look at my success in solving the case and spare your father's life." Meng Jiao nodded with tears in her eyes, "Young Master, thank you, but now that I have fish scales, will you still take me away?" Duan Shuang hugged Meng Jiao: "Silly Miss, it doesn't matter how many fish scales you have, I have blood on my body!" When Meng Jiao heard that, she threw her head into Duan Shuang's arms and burst into tears.

At that moment, Meng Yang was stupid and thought to himself, because he was greedy for a treasure, he caused his daughter to get a strange disease, which was a blessing in disguise, and achieved a marriage. He also became a prisoner because of his daughter's illness. It seems that good and evil are really rewarded.