Northwest Strange Tales

Chen Tiezhu, a rural young man whose parents had just died, thought that once he married a wife and went down the mine to dig coal, life would finally hold some hope. On the very first night of their marriage, his wife Liu Qiaoyun cooked him two poached eggs and gently saw him off to work in the mine. He had barely left when an uncle and nephew pair came after him with sheep-horn hammers—this marriage had been a setup to profit from death from beginning to end. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Northwest Strange Tales — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠