It is said that in Jinling City during the Northern Song Dynasty, there lived a Liu Yuanwai. This Liu Yuanwai was rich and powerful, and he was very arrogant in the local area. However, although Liu Yuanwai was arrogant and domineering, there was also someone he was afraid of, and that person was his wife. Because he was afraid of his wife, Liu Yuanwai's wish to marry a younger wife never came true.

Because his wife really dared to beat him! She often picked Liu Yuanwai's ears and twisted them!

Therefore, Liu Yuanwai no longer dared to open his mouth about marrying his wife.

He did not dare to marry a concubine. This did not mean that Liu Yuanwai did not dare to cheat.

There was a small village next to Jinling City. There was a mute widow in the village. Her husband left her early because of a strange illness a few years ago. But the mute widow did not return to her mother's house, and stayed at her husband's house to serve her in-laws.

The mute widow has a unique skill, embroidery. The flowers, birds, fish and insects embroidered by her are so vivid! Villagers often come to her to embroider some flowers and birds, and the mute embroider never shirks it, nor does she accept money.

The villagers said that this mute embroider was kind-hearted.

One day, this embroidery girl went shopping in the town, and on the way back, she happened to be bumped into by Liu Yuanwai who was wandering around. Liu Yuanwai had also asked her to do embroidery work before, and knew that she lived in a nearby village.

Today, when he saw that the little girl looked beautiful and had a slim figure. When he saw that there was no one around, the little girl was a widow again, so he quickly chased after her. While the mute embroider was not paying attention, he hugged her from behind in his arms.

Then he groped the embroidered girl.

The embroidered lady was taken aback by this sudden situation! Subconsciously, she began to struggle hard, but how could a weak woman defeat a man's arms?

This embroidered girl was quick and wise, and bit down on Liu Yuanwai's arm with force.

As soon as Liu Yuanwai felt the pain, he quickly loosened his hands, and the mute embroidery girl pointed at Liu Yuanwai and "babbled" without knowing what to say. Liu Yuanwai saw that the little girl was so chaste, and the lust in his heart became even stronger, so he rushed to the embroidery girl again.

The embroidered lady could not dodge and was thrown to the ground. When Liu Yuanwai was about to do something unpleasant, he was seen by a passing scholar who hurried forward to stop him. Liu Yuanwai did not succeed.

But two days later, for some reason, Liu Yuanwai's wife knew about it. So, he twisted his ears again.

Liu Yuanwai was really scared!

The wife shouted fiercely, "What little goblin has hooked you? Shameless little girl, see how I deal with her! Tell me! Who is that little goblin!"

Helpless! Liu Yuanwai had no choice but to tell the truth.

Just after noon, the mother-in-law brought a group of servants to the embroidery lady's house, and couldn't help but say that seeing the embroidery lady was a big mouth! After that, there was another verbal abuse.

Those who wronged this embroidery girl shed tears on the spot.

But a mute man could not speak, so he could only let her beat and scold. But this woman did not know how to restrain herself, and the more she scolded, the more angry she became, so she ordered everyone to punch and kick the embroidery girl before leaving.

The embroidery girl lay on the ground, the more she thought about it, the more aggrieved she became, and tears flowed down in pairs. That night, an embroidery girl hung at home in the red wedding dress she wore when she got married.

On the afternoon of the second day, someone came to get embroidery, and only then did they find body of the embroidery lady. By that time, her body was already stiff. The parents looked at the body of their daughter with great pain. Finally, with the help of the villagers, she and her husband were buried together.

I thought that this was the end of the matter, but one morning three days later the maid came to call the master and wife to get up. After calling many times, no one answered. The maid pushed the door and saw that she was scared to death!

I saw Liu Yuanwai and his wife hanging from the beam! The red clothes they were wearing looked particularly scary at this time.

When everyone put the two down, the two had already died and their bodies were stiff.

No one knew how these two died. The county magistrate had sent people to the scene many times, but no clues had been found. So the case was closed as "suicide."

Later, according to Li San, who was working as a busboy at Liu Yuanwai's house, the night before Liu Yuanwai died, he came out and vaguely saw a young woman in a red wedding dress flash into Liu Yuanwai's bedroom. He thought he was dazzled, so he didn't care. Unexpectedly, the woman in red was the mute embroidery girl who hanged herself two days ago.

Alas! Liu Yuanwai and his wife were blamed for doing too much, forcing the poor embroidery girl to die. But the embroidery girl had resentment in her heart, so she became a resentful ghost, and finally took revenge.

This is also true of the old saying that "evil has evil consequences."