Qingshui County's Xitang Village is famous for its beauties. If they had to rank them, Du Tao of the Du family would unquestionably take first place. But who could have foreseen the disaster that struck? Du Tao's father broke his leg while out hunting and could no longer walk. The Du family, which had relied on its eldest son, suddenly had no one to hold it together. Misfortune piled on misfortune: Du Tao's engagement was also called off. To pay for her father's treatment, she took the betrothal money and married a fierce, taciturn butcher from out of town. The villagers sighed that she was an unlucky girl. Who could have guessed that the butcher would one day become a renowned general? She wasn't unlucky at all. She was a little lady blessed with good fortune.
