During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a strange thing happened in Hewan. Shortly after the death of a man named He Dabiao, his wife suddenly dreamed that he had come back, and then the two of them had a good time in the dream. What his wife didn't expect was that she was pregnant. What was the reason? The matter has to start from the beginning.

It turned out that He Dabiao made a living by being a porter. His wife, Qu Xiaomei, was not only beautiful, but also gentle and lovely, and the couple was very loving. He didn't want one day, He Dabiao would deliver salt to others, and he didn't come back until late at night. Qu Xiaomei was thinking of her husband in her heart, and it was difficult to fall asleep in bed alone. At that moment, there was a sudden knock on the door from outside. She opened the door and saw that it was Wang Er was a porter with her husband. Wang Er's clothes were messy and his face was covered in blood. He had not yet opened his mouth, and his face was already full of tears. He told Qu Xiaomei that when they passed through the Qingshan Pass, they encountered a robbery, and He Dabiao was hacked to death on the spot. When he heard that her husband was dead, Qu Xiaomei's eyes darkened. She fainted and was woken up by Wang Er, so she couldn't help crying. After that, Qu Xiaomei missed her husband and burst into tears all day long.

One night, Qu Xiaomei was suddenly awakened by a man's cry. When she went to the window to look, she was taken aback and saw a black shadow hanging in the middle of the yard, with shaggy hair and a body very similar to her husband's. Could it be that her husband's soul has returned? She immediately felt creepy and could no longer sleep, so she sat in bed all night.

The next night, she had to call her neighbor's daughter, Zhou Xiuxiu, to be her companion. But in the middle of the night, the crying started again, and it was even more miserable than last night. The shadow was crying and walking towards this side, and the two were so frightened that they hugged each other. Seeing that this place was haunted by ghosts, Zhou Xiuxiu never dared to come to be her companion again. Hearing that Daoist Zhang of Sanqing Temple was quite powerful, Qu Xiaomei invited Daoist Zhang to help hunt ghosts. Daoist Zhang circled around the front and back of the house a few times, saying that the ghost was none other than her husband He Dabiao. Because he couldn't bear to part with her, the ghost lingered, and he came back. In order to exorcise the ghost, Daoist Zhang chanted a mantra in the yard for a while, and when he left, he gave her a few more talismans to stick on the doors, windows and bedside Perhaps due to the effect of the talisman, after playing this game, it was finally safe for a few nights.

One night, Qu Xiaomei suddenly dreamed that her husband had come back from the outside and brought her a lot of jewels and gifts. She didn't feel afraid, so she threw herself into his arms and had fun with the fish and the water. When she woke up, Qu Xiaomei found herself naked. Thinking back to the situation in the dream, she couldn't help but be startled: Did her husband really come back last night? What made her feel strange was that after this, she dreamed of being with her husband for several nights. Not long after, she still had nausea, anorexia, and other reactions. At first, she thought she was suffering from something. Looking for Lang Zhong's pulse, she knew that she was happy. This is strange, can you get pregnant by having sex with a ghost in a dream? What's more important is that her husband has been dead for so long, and she is pregnant alone. How will people outside think of her? Thinking of this, Qu Xiaomei felt afraid.

Just when Qu Xiaomei felt helpless, matchmaker Wu suddenly came to her as a matchmaker. The man was a business family in the city, and his wife had just died not long ago, and was about to marry a house. To be fair, Qu Xiaomei didn't want to marry again, because she still couldn't let go of He Dabiao. But this unsatisfactory belly grew bigger day by day, and if anyone really saw the flaw, she was afraid that one person could drown her with a mouthful of saliva… Qu Xiaomei couldn't think of a better way, and matchmaker Wu came to the house every three days to persuade her. Qu Xiaomei had no choice but to agree to this marriage.

The family who married her was none other than Chen Yunchang, the boss of Jingling Salt Shop. Within half a year of marrying into the Chen family, Qu Xiaomei gave birth to a son, but Chen Yunchang didn't mind and regarded the son as his own. This made Qu Xiaomei feel a little embarrassed. However, it didn't take long for his son to die, and Qu Xiaomei was very sad. Fortunately, Chen Yunchang loved her very much. Over time, Qu Xiaomei gradually let go of these things.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival, Chen Yunchang and Qu Xiaomei drank osmanthus wine and watched the moon in the back garden. Qu Xiaomei felt a little cold on his body, went in to get dressed, and left Chen Yunchang alone in the back garden. Just then, he heard a strange cry. Chen Yunchang turned his head to look, but he was not aware of his surprise. He saw a beheaded man appear on the wall at some point, his head hanging upside down in front of his chest, and his neck was still bleeding. When the man held the two ears on his head with his hands and pressed on his neck, Chen Yunchang finally realized that the man was He Dabiao, his hair was covered, his face was like dead ash, and his seven holes were bleeding, and his shape was abnormal and terrifying. The man shouted, "Chen Yunchang, you wolf-hearted thing, hurry up and kill me!" After saying that, he loosened his hands and hung his head on his chest. Chen Yunchang was so scared that his legs went soft and he knelt on the ground. He Dabiao jumped in front of him, stuck his neck with his cold hands and shouted, "Emperor, tell me the truth about what you have done, otherwise you will be killed now!" Chen Yunchang said tremblingly, "Brother Dabiao, spare your life, I said... I said..." So he had to tell what he had done. It turned out that on the day He Dabiao and Qu Xiaomei got married, he had gone to their wedding party, and when he came back, he actually caused Acacia, and he slept and ate restlessly all day long. How can I get Qu Xiaomei? Chen Yunchang thought about it for a long time, and the only way was to get rid of He Dabiao. It just so happened that a batch of salt bars from the salt shop was going to be shipped to Yichang, so Chen Yunchang had a plan. He bribed a few ruffians to pretend to be robbers and robbed the salt team, killing He Dabiao on the spot. After getting rid of the big trouble, Chen Yunchang began to attack Qu Xiaomei's idea. First, in the middle of the night, he hung a paper figure from a bamboo pole and hung it into the yard, pretending to be He Dabiao's ghost and crying. Then he bribed Daoist Zhang of Sanqing Temple and borrowed his mouth to say that He Dabiao's soul had returned, so that Qu Xiaomei did not suspect that someone was playing tricks. Then he sneaked into the courtyard and sprayed incense into the room. When Qu Xiaomei was half asleep, he used a knife to open the door bolt and went in to rape. Due to the effect of incense, Qu Xiaomei thought it was a dream and did not mind. After a long time, Qu Xiaomei was pregnant with her child. When Chen Yunchang saw that the time was ripe, he poisoned his wife with arsenic, and then asked Wu Matchmaker to marry Qu Xiaomei. After Chen Yunchang finished speaking, he kowtowed to He Dabiao like garlic and begged for his life. When he looked up, how could there be any shadow of He Dabiao? But she saw Qu Xiaomei came to him at an unknown time, holding a pair of scissors in her hand, and staring at him with a pair of angry eyes. It turned out that when He Dabiao's soul interrogated Chen Yunchang, Qu Xiaomei heard the words that Chen Yunchang confessed clearly. She grabbed Chen Yunchang's clothes and shouted, "You wolf-hearted thing, you pretend to be a gentleman on the surface, but your belly is full of bad water. You killed my husband and made me disrespectful, I want to kill you!" Saying that, a pair of scissors stabbed Chen Yunchang. Chen Yunchang quickly grabbed her hand and begged, "Mother, I really like you, I'm not doing this for you."

The next morning, Chen Yunchang was still asleep when he was suddenly awakened by a sudden knock on the door. He opened the door and saw that it was Jingling County Yamen's arrest. It turned out that Qu Xiaomei was angry and hated, so he went to the county yamen to bang the drum overnight. When Chen Yunchang was brought to the yamen, he refused to admit Qu Xiaomei's accusation. At that moment, the yamen took out the ruffians who played robbers and robbed the salt squad. The evidence was conclusive, so Chen Yunchang had to bow his head and confess. The county magistrate of Jingling immediately sentenced Chen Yunchang to death, and after autumn, he was beheaded, and the rest were sentenced to be sent to the army and punished as hard labor.

Finally, Qu Xiaomei no longer cared about her husband, so she came to the riverside alone. Thinking that Da Biao was gone, what was the point of living? It was better to die so that we could be with him. So she closed her eyes and jumped into the billowing river.

When Qu Xiaomei woke up, she found that he was lying in the arms of a man. She looked at him and was shocked. When she saw that the man was her ex-husband, He Dabiao, she said tearfully, "Husband, are you a human or a ghost? I'm not dreaming, am I?" He Dabiao grabbed her hand and choked up: "This is not a dream, I'm still alive..." Then he told the whole story. It turned out that when Chen Yunchang ordered the gang to pretend to be robbers and assassinate He Dabiao, they couldn't hack him to death. By dawn the next day, a juggling class had beaten him there and saved him. After recovering from his injuries, the juggling class saw that he had a thick waist and round arms, and it just so happened that there was a program in the juggling class called "Kuafu Baoshan." The actor who played Kuafu suddenly left the juggling class due to something, so the class asked him to replace the actor as Kuafu, not wanting him to play very well, so he stayed in the juggling class. Not long ago, the juggling class came to Jingling, and He Dabiao took the time to go back to see his wife. He Dabiao didn't want to meet the ruffian who was playing the robber and robbing the salt squad halfway through. He Dabiao followed him to a secluded place and rushed up to the man's neck with a knife and dagger. The man was so scared that he had to tell Chen Yunchang how Chen Yunchang hired him and a few others to pretend to be robbers to murder He Dabiao, and then pretend to be a ghost to marry Qu Xiaomei. He Dabiao was angry and hated, and immediately took him to see the official, and the county magistrate captured all the people who robbed the salt team according to the clues provided by the man. Because Chen Yunchang did a very covert job, Qu Xiaomei was still in the dark, so He Dabiao came to Chen's mansion overnight and used the skills he learned in the juggling class to act as a ghost to see Chen Yunchang. Chen Yunchang had a guilty conscience, thinking that it was really He Dabiao's ghost. He was so scared that he had to tell him how he killed He Dabiao and how he pretended to play tricks to get Qu Xiaomei… Chen Yunchang was severely punished, and Qu Xiaomei didn't know that He Dabiao was still alive and planned to jump into the river to die for love, just as He Dabiao came to save him. He Dabiao said, "Wife, why are you so stupid?"

Qu Xiaomei said, "I'm sorry for you, why don't you let me die?" He Dabiao said, "It should be Chen Yunchang, the dog thief, who should be sorry for us! Besides, our good days have just begun, why should we die?" From then on, the couple traveled south and north with the juggling class and never came back. And the people here didn't know that He Dabiao was still alive, thinking that He Dabiao's ghost took Qu Xiaomei away.