“Touching Heaven and Earth offense Dow E” Guan Hanqing in summary
Student Dou Tianzhang, who devoted himself to the teachings since childhood, overcame many books, nevertheless did not achieve any rank or fame. Already four years, as his wife has died and at it the juvenile daughter has remained on hands. And then poverty came. I had to borrow from the widow’s widow aunt Tsai twenty silver lanas. Now you need to return forty. No money, but my aunt started to send matchmakers, wants to marry her son. The student agrees – he will forgive his debt. In addition, he was sent to the capital to take the state exams for a bureaucratic position. I have to give my grieving daughter to my aunt Tsai’s house.
Thirteen years passed. During these years, the daughter of a student, now called Dow A, managed to get married and become widowed. Now she lives with her mother-in-law. Once, when Aunt Tsai went to collect debts, one of the debtors, the physician Syla, lured her into an abandoned village and tried to strangle her. Suddenly, the old
Healer Syla repents of the deed, but is afraid of a new appearance of a creditor. Then comes Oslenok and demands to sell him the poison, which he planned to poison Aunt Tsai, believing that then Dow E will become more compliant. The doctor refuses, but the intruder threatens to take him to the judge and accuse him of attempted murder. Frightened, Sylla sells poison and hurries away from the city.
Meanwhile, Auntie fell ill. At her request, Doe E is preparing a soup of lamb’s intestines for the patient. The foal stealthily pours poison into the soup. Suddenly, my aunt refuses to eat, and soup goes to the old peasant, Oslenko’s father. The old man is dying. Oslenok strongly accuses Dow E. of murder. According
The case itself is considered by the ruler of the region Tao U. He is known for his lyishness. At his command, despite Dow A’s truthful story, she is beaten with sticks, but she does not even make a foul. Then they are going to carve an old woman Tsai. And then Dow A takes the blame on himself. Now her fate is decided: the poisoner will be beheaded in the market square.
On the way to execution, Dow A begs the executioner to lead her around the backyard, so that she does not care about her mother in law. But we can not avoid meeting. Before his death, Dow A tells the old woman how everything was really. During the execution, confirming the words of the unfortunate person about her innocence, in the summer time it snows, blood does not spill onto the ground, and in the district for three years a drought is established.
After some time an important official arrives in the district, whose duties include interviewing prisoners, checking court cases, searching for embezzlers and bribe-takers. This is Dou Tianzhang, the father of the executed. The first case that he verifies is the Doe E affair, but the official believes that it is a question of a namesake. However, in a dream he is the spirit of his daughter, and the father learns about the circumstances of the innocent death of his own child. However, even a truthful story does not immediately convince Dow Tianzhan that an injustice has been committed: as an incorruptible official, he wants even to keep his impartiality in the daughter’s case. He demands to call the physician Syla, Zhang-Oslenko and old Tsai. Healers can not find anywhere.
The colt denies everything. The spirit of Daw E throws him in the face of an accusation of killing his father, but he insists on witnessing the doctor, hoping that they will never find him. But the doctor is brought, and he confirms the guilt of Oslenko. He is supported by the old woman Tsai. The offender is sentenced to a terrible execution: they beat him to the “wooden donkey”, and then they cut to one hundred and twenty pieces. Punished and former ruler Tao U, and his assistant. Dow E is completely obenen.
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