Third Sister Yang Complains

"Sanjie Yang Complains" tells the story of Yang Kangyuan of Shandong Fantai who took the responsibility for embezzling military pay. Before execution, he entrusted his wife and daughter to Gao Jingtang, the governor of Shandong. Gao Jingtang, who was dismissed from office, redeemed Yang's wife and daughters Yang Er'e and Yang San'e who had been sold into a brothel, and ordered his second son Gao Chengdong to marry Er'e. Lin Meichun, Gao Jingtang's house-filling wife, has an affair with Gao Chengdong. Lin Meichun was jealous when she saw Gao Chengdong getting married. Under the arrangement of Lin Meichun's uncle Wu Xianming, Er'e bumped into the disheveled Gao Chengdong in Lin Meichun's room. When San'e came to settle the score with Gao Chengdong, Er'e suppressed the matter. Gao Chengdong was worried that Er'e would tell the truth. Wu Xianming gave him a bag of arsenic. After Er'e drank the arsenic-laced decoction, she spoke her heartfelt words to Gao Chengdong... Drunk Lin Meichun ran into Er'e's bleeding corpse. Mr. Yin and Yang, who was bribed, said that Er'e died of a hemorrhage. When Yang's mother and San'e arrived at Gao's house, Er'e had already been laid to rest. San'e couldn't understand: How could Er'e die suddenly? San'e's request to open the coffin was rejected. Huang Quan, Yang Kangyuan's clerk, resigned and returned to his hometown to take care of Yang's mother and daughter. He helped San'e write a petition to sue the Gao family. Gao Jingtang asked Mother Yang to control San'e. Tao Yu, the county magistrate, took over San'e's crown prince. The drug store owner confessed that Wu Xianming bought arsenic, and Wu Xianming was sent to death row.