In the early years of the Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court abolished the imperial examinations, and there was no hope of reading, so they had to sit back and eat nothing, and their days got worse day by day. There lived a scholar in East Chu Prefecture named Dou Tianzhang. His wife died 4 years ago, leaving his daughter Duan Yun, who was also 7 years old, and the father and daughter depended on each other.

Dou Tianzhang borrowed 20 taels of silver from Granny Cai on the same street; he couldn't return it for a while, and it took a year. The cost and interest added up to 40 taels, and he couldn't pay the usury.

Granny Cai was not in a hurry to urge Dou Tianzhang to pay the debt, she had her own wishful thinking. Her son was already 8 years old, and seeing that Dou Tianzhang's daughter Duan Yun was smart and smart, and could already do housework, she wanted to ask Duan Yun to be a child bride. At this time, she heard that the imperial court was preparing to resume the imperial examination, so she found Dou Tianzhang to discuss with him. If Duan Yun was her daughter-in-law, the 40 taels of principal and interest owed would be written off, and another 10 taels of silver would be used to entangle the in-laws, so that he could go to Beijing to rush the exam, otherwise he would have to pay off the debt.

Dou Tianzhang was really unable to repay the debt, and he couldn't resist the temptation of going to Beijing to take the exam, so he gritted his teeth and agreed to Granny Cai. Before the exam, he asked his daughter to be filial to her mother-in-law, and Granny Cai was full of joy when she heard it, and promised to take good care of Duan Yun, but when Dou Tianzhang left Chuzhou, she moved to Shanyang County and changed Duan Yun's name to Dou'e.

In the blink of an eye, 13 years have passed, and these years Granny Cai has really treated Dou'e well.

When I was 17 years old, I was in a hurry to get married to my son. Unexpectedly, two years later, Dou E's husband fell ill and died.

Dou'e and her mother-in-law are both widows who share the same illness and pity each other, but they also rely on each other on blind dates, like a mother and daughter.

Bad luck always finds unlucky people. On this day, Granny Cai went outside the city to ask for a debt. The debt-owed nickname "Sailu Doctor" is actually a charlatan who runs a pharmacy and practices medicine. He owes Granny Cai 10 taels of silver, and the principal and interest should be paid back 20 taels. Sailu Doctor could not pay the debt, and saw Granny Cai alone, with the evil intention of murdering people and relying on debts. He deceived Granny Cai to go to the village to get money, but led Granny Cai to a remote forest, took out a rope and put it around Granny Cai's neck. At a very critical juncture, two men, old and small, suddenly appeared in the forest, shouting: "Tay! In the clear sky, which one is murdering people!" Sailu Doctor heard it, threw the rope and fled.

The father and son rescued Granny Cai, asked about the cause and effect, and found that Granny Cai had some money in her hands. There were only a pair of widows in the family, and she couldn't help but have bad thoughts. Zhang Donkey blinked at Lao Tzu and said to Granny Cai, "It's really fate to meet for thousands of miles. You have two widows in your family, and I have a pair of bachelors here, so you married my father. Well, I married your daughter-in-law, a family of four, He Meimei, what do you think?"

Granny Cai hurriedly said, "What is this? You two saved me, and I will definitely give you more money when I go back. How can it be done if there is no family!"

"Hmph!" Zhang Donkey showed a ferocious look, "You won't? Doctor Sailu's rope is still there, and he still strangled you to death. We will go to the official to report the case. Anyway, it was Doctor Sailu who killed the person, and the official will reward us."

Having been strangled to death just now, Granny Cai was terrified to death when she saw this pair of vicious gods making another move.

In desperation, Granny Cai had to promise to bring Zhang Donkey and his son home.

Along the way, Zhang Donkey'er was beautiful. He had money, and his family had it. His wife also had it, which was just like a mouse falling into a white rice hoard, which was extremely beautiful.

How could Dou E agree to recruit such a pair of thugs into the door? She really scolded her mother-in-law: "You are so confused, how are these father and son good people? You are leading wolves into the house, why don't you send them out quickly!"

Zhang Donkey talked to Dou'e in front of her face, but was pushed by Dou'e. Granny Cai couldn't get along, so she could only let Zhang Donkey's father and son live at home unknowingly.

After a few days, Zhang Donkey was like a cat that stole a fish. He couldn't eat the smell, so he couldn't help but kill.

In the blink of an eye, he thought of the murderer, Doctor Sailu.

Doctor Sailu was not having a good time these days. When he saw Zhang Donkey coming to the door, he was already uneasy. When he heard that he wanted to ask for poison, he was even more frightened.

Zhang Donkey was holding the killer poison in his arms, and he planned how to let Granny Cai eat it all the way. When he returned to Cai's house, he only heard his father calling Dou'e one after another, asking her to make a bowl of lamb tripe soup for Granny Cai.

This Granny Cai was scared by Doctor Sailu, and Zhang Donkey forced her, and she was complained by Dou'e again, and she became sick. She couldn't eat, couldn't sleep well, and just wanted a bowl of lamb tripe soup.

Dou'e looked on coldly, and felt sorry for her mother-in-law. Although she also complained that her mother-in-law had done something wrong, her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, who had been like mother and daughter for many years, felt uncomfortable for her. She refueled and added ingredients to make a bowl of fragrant moat tripe soup and took it to her mother-in-law's room in person.

Zhang Donkey'er was waiting on the way and reached out to stop him: "Let me send it, I should also curry favor with this stepmother. Hee hee." "Bah!" Dou'e got angry when she saw Zhang Donkey'er, put the bowl on the table, turned around and left. "Wait," Zhang Donkey took a sip of soup, "Your soup lacks vinegar, how can you eat it? Get it quickly." As soon as Dou'e entered the stove, he was cruel and shook a bag of poison into the soup.

According to Zhang Donkey's calculations, as soon as this bowl of soup entered Granny Cai's stomach, his plan was more than half successful.

Who knew that Granny Cai was still making a fuss about eating the soup just now. As soon as the soup reached her mouth, her heart retched and she didn't want to eat it at all, so she let Old Zhang, who was sitting on the side, eat it. The old man's nose was already pulled long by the fragrance of the soup, and he took up the soup and snorted and drank it all.

The medicine was very heavy, and after a while Old Man Zhang only felt dizzy and dizzy, and his stomach hurt like a knife. After moaning a few times, he fell to the ground. Granny Cai struggled to get up from the bed, and when he got closer, he saw that the old man was bleeding from seven holes, whooping and wailing. Zhang Donkey heard the cry and ran into the room, but saw that Lao Tzu fell to the ground, Granny Cai was fine, how high he jumped up and shouted to Dou'e outside the door, "Okay, you Dou'e, you dare to poison my father to death! I'm not done with you!" Dou'e was startled at first, thought about it and replied calmly, "I poisoned your father to death! Where did I get the poison? Just now you sent me to get salt and vinegar, and you poisoned me to poison my mother-in-law to death.

Unexpectedly, poisoning my father is really karma! "

"You're talking nonsense!" Zhang Donkey was like a cat whose head had stepped on its tail, screaming and jumping, "He's my father, why should I poison him?" Then she ran to open the door and shouted out, "Neighbors and neighbors, the local security guards, look, Dou'e poisoned my father!" Granny Cai, who was stunned just now, hurriedly closed the door, begging Zhang Donkey not to shout loudly.

"Are you afraid?" Zhang Donkey raised his chin to Dou'e, "It's okay if I don't shout, as long as she recognizes me as a man, I also recognize you as a mother, and of course I don't shout as a family." Dou'e turned her head and pretended not to hear it.

Zhang Donkey shouted to Dou'e, "Dou'e, you poisoned my father, do you want an official rest or a private rest?" Dou'e snorted and did not look at him: "What is an official rest, what is a private rest?"

"You want an official rest?" Zhang Donkey gritted his teeth and said, "Sue you for poisoning my father-in-law, drag you to the lobby, push and ask, eighteen criminal laws, your delicate body can't stand it, I'm not afraid you won't recruit."

After a pause, Zhang Donkey's face drooled again, "It's easy to say, if you recognize me as your husband, I will take advantage of you." "Bah!" Dou'e didn't want to listen to him, "I can't kill your father, the world has its own justice, what are you afraid of? I will go to the official with you!"

The two of them shouted, followed by Granny Cai. Along the way, more and more people gathered, and they all rushed to the front of the grand hall of the Supreme Shou's Mansion.

This Taoshou Taozao is a guy who loves money and doesn't talk about the law. When he heard that someone was in litigation, he immediately rose to court. Looking down, the plaintiff was a man and the defendant was a woman. This case must knock the plaintiff for a sum of money.

After a few careless interrogations, Taotao immediately tortured Dou'e. Dou'e fainted three times in a row, but still refused to plead guilty. Seeing that the little one refused to confess, Taotao said, "This Granny Cai is with Dou'e, beat this old woman!"

Dou E was beaten to death and just woke up when she heard that she was going to beat her mother-in-law again. She thought to herself that her mother-in-law was so old that she would die if she was beaten.

There was a ghost in Taotao's heart, so he immediately sent Dou'e to death row and beheaded him the next day. He turned around and asked Zhang Donkey'er and Granny Cai to pay the bail, and then he was willing to let them out of the house.

The next day, near noon, Shanyang County prison went to the street of the courtroom and stood with many people to watch the fun. It was June, and the weather was surprisingly hot. The soldiers guarding the streets kept pulling up their clothes and wiping their sweat.

Suddenly, there was a "thump thump" of drums, and then a big gong was knocked. The prison door "squeaked" opened, and the decapitation officer rode in front, surrounded by tolerance. Behind, the executioner held the ghost head knife and escorted Dou'e, who was wearing a red crime dress, out.

Dou'e was staggered by the crowd, and her heart was like a churning wave. She couldn't figure it out: Didn't he say that good is rewarded by good, and evil is rewarded by evil? However, Zhang Donkey committed murder with impunity, and I, Dou'e, a weak woman, had no reason to suffer such grievances. Didn't you say that the royal law is not based on personal feelings? How can the officials of Shanyang County be so indiscriminate and risk human life? Isn't it the ghosts and gods of heaven and earth who uphold justice in the dark? But this day, this place, this ghost, this god, all of them are blind, shut their mouths, how can there be any justice?

Dou'e shouted from the bottom of her heart, and her shout moved many onlookers, and there was a lot of discussion in the crowd. Those who knew, told others that Zhang Donkey was not right; those who didn't know asked the people next to him. Everyone felt that Taotao Taishou was in a hurry to try the case and was busy killing people. This case was really a little strange.

The executioner urged Dou'e to leave quickly, and Dou'e said, "Take me from the back street. If I see my mother-in-law on the front street, she will feel so uncomfortable!" At this moment, Granny Cai came crying. Dou'e said to her mother-in-law, "Zhang Donkey wants to poison you, but I am afraid of hurting my mother-in-law, so I confessed. After I die, you can come to my grave for the festival. You are the only relative here." The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law hugged their heads and cried bitterly, and the onlookers were also sad.

Seeing this situation, the beheading officer couldn't help it. He was in a hurry to ask if it was three o'clock in the afternoon. He turned around and asked Dou'e what else he had to explain, and he was about to open the knife and ask for the beheading.

Dou said, "I have three vows, and if all three are fulfilled, I will die unjustly."

"Quick, what's the first one?" The beheading officer urged her.

"I want to hang a white silk in front of this reed mat. When I die, all my blood will be sprayed on the silk, and not a drop will be spilled on the reed mat." "What's that, hurry up and prepare it for her." The beheading officer readily agreed.

"My second vow is to make the world snow heavily this June," Dou'e shouted to the sky, "God, you will snow heavily for a day to cover my body that died of injustice!"

"Hehe," the beheading officer smiled, "It's so hot that people are sweating, how can it snow? This death row prisoner is dizzy." Dou E continued to raise her throat and shouted, "In the past, a filial woman was unjustly killed in Donghai County, and there was a severe drought for three years.

Today, I, Dou'e, also died unjustly. After my death, Shanyang County will not rain for three years. This is the scourge caused by the officials who do not act according to the law! "

"Beat!" The beheading officer shouted, "He was still talking nonsense before he died, so it can be seen that he was a damn shrew! When the time is up, the execution will be carried out! Saying that, he ordered the signature.

The executioner picked up the warrant and walked towards the field. At this time, a cold wind suddenly blew, and the people on the field couldn't help but fight a cold war. Looking up at the sky, dark clouds were swarming in from all directions.

Dou'e shouted, "This cold wind is blowing, my fellow villagers, watch the three vows come true!"

Ghost Head Blade's cold light flashed, and Dou E's head fell to the ground. A gust of wind swept up, fluttering, and it really snowed heavily. In the howling of the wind, only the executioner shouted in surprise: "Ah, this blood has really sprayed on the silk, and there was not a drop on the mat, strange!"

Three years have passed, Shanyang County is a hundred miles of red land, and there is no harvest of particles, so the common people have to flee the famine everywhere. The drought alarmed the imperial court, so a clean visitor was sent to Shanyang to visit the people and try the backlog of cases.

The visiting envoy was Dou Tianzhang who went to Beijing to take the exams 15 years ago. When he became famous in the imperial examinations, he also went back to Chuzhou to find Duanyun, but the neighbors said that Granny Cai did not know where she had moved, so he could only bury his thoughts for his daughter deep in his heart.

When he came to Shanyang, Dou Tianzhang checked the case files of several years one by one that night.

Dou Tianzhang looked at the words on the cover for a long time, shook his head, and thought: What bad luck, the first case is a heinous case, and the criminal's surname is Dou… So he put the case file at the bottom.

Just as he was about to read the second case, a cold wind blew from somewhere, and the candlelight swayed and was about to go out. Dou Tianzhang hurriedly reached out to cover the candlelight. When the flame was straight, he went to get the case file again. "Hey!" He looked around, "Why is it still the case file of poisoning my father-in-law, I put it under just now. Cough, old man." He shook his head, put the case file at the bottom, pressed it with both hands, and looked at the second case file.

A gust of wind blew open the window, and the candlelight fell to one side. Dou Tianzhang stood up, closed the window, and went back to the table to sit down. "Oh!" He was so frightened that he stood up again, "Why is it still a case of poisoning the public?" An ominous premonition rose from the bottom of his heart, and Dou Tianzhang immediately read the dossier carefully.

The criminal, Dou'e, is 19 years old and as old as Duan Yun: there is a mother-in-law named Cai with the same surname as Duan Yun's mother-in-law; the plaintiff is Zhang Donkey'er, and Dou'e looks like his wife.

The more Dou Tianzhang looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong. Why did Dou E poison his father-in-law to death? Where did her poison come from?

Looking at it, Dou Tianzhang fell asleep on the table. In his dream, he clearly saw his daughter Duan Yun come to see him, saying that Granny Cai changed her name to Dou'e. This case of poisoning her father-in-law was a confession, and three vows were issued before death, and the three-year drought was the third one. "Father, you have to avenge your daughter!"

Hearing his daughter's cry, Dou Tianzhang couldn't help but burst into tears. He rushed to hold his daughter's hand, but her daughter disappeared like a faint shadow. He woke up crying and was sad for a long time.

The next day, Dou Tianzhang ordered the relevant personnel to be detained. After meeting, he recognized that Granny Cai was indeed his former creditor. After a round of interrogation, he had found out that Granny Cai had never married Zhang Laoer, and Dou'e had never married Zhang Donkey.

A few days later, Dr. Sailu was again arrested by Zhuozhou. Zhang Donkey and Doctor Sailu began to think that there was no proof of death and refused to confess anything. At this time, the two suddenly stared nervously at the dark place on the right side of the courtroom and kowtowed there again and again.

"I didn't do it, Zhang Donkey forced me to ask for poison." Doctor Sailu said while kowtowing.

"Dou'e, spare your life!" Zhang Donkey slapped himself in fright while confessing everything that had happened.

In the shadows, everyone saw a woman in a crime dress standing in the dark, and her angry eyes shot at Zhang Donkey and Doctor Sailu.

Granny Cai cried sadly, "Daughter-in-law, you died unjustly for me!"

The case was soon made clear, and Dou Tianzhang handled the case according to the law. The Taochou prefect was corrupt and perverted the law, and reported it to the Ministry of Rites, and sent it to the Criminal Department for dismissal and investigation. Zhang Donkey'er killed and paid for his life, and was sentenced to a crime. Doctor Sailu should not have had a murderous intent in the first place, but sent poison in the back, beat 50 big boards, and sent them to the remote area to be sent to the army. Zhang Lao'er is dead, and his crimes will no longer be pursued.

Dou'e's injustice was finally revealed.